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Pride and Prejudice (1940)
Directed by Robert Z. Leonard
influenced Becoming Jane (2007)
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And in the movie's sly construction, she also discovers a great deal of the plot of Pride and Prejudice, beginning with Mr. Lefroy as the original for Mr. Darcy.
Before becoming the famous author of "Pride and Prejudice" and "Emma," Jane Austen (Anne Hathaway, "The Devil Wears Prada") was torn between her passion for rebellious metropolitan law student Tom Lefroy (James McAvoy, "The Last King of Scotland") and her family's preferred suitor, the wealthy Mr. Wisley (Laurence Fox, "Gosford Park").
I had never before considered her as a cricketer, for instance, and I am fairly sure that she never sought to elope, but I enjoyed both inventions—the one bucolic and triumphant, the other sodden and frustrated, and presumably meant as a precursor to Lydia’s running away with Wickham in “Pride and Prejudice.”
But the filmmakers seemed to want to cast a story better suited to the melancholy mood of "Persuasion" in the effervescent tone of "Pride and Prejudice," giving it much the same sassy makeover Fanny Price got in Patricia Rozema's adaptation of "Mansfield Park."
Smith's character, for example, is awfully similar to Lady Catherine du Bourgh in "Pride and Prejudice."
“Becoming Jane” is a film that purports to tell the true story of the early days of beloved authoress Jane Austen by focusing on the events that allegedly inspired her to write her best-known book, “Pride and Prejudice.”
Before becoming the famous author of "Pride and Prejudice" and "Emma," Jane Austen (Anne Hathaway, "The Devil Wears Prada") was torn between her passion for rebellious metropolitan law student Tom Lefroy (James McAvoy, "The Last King of Scotland") and her family's preferred suitor, the wealthy Mr. Wisley (Laurence Fox, "Gosford Park").
Visually, "Becoming Jane" falls somewhere between "Emma" and "Persuasion" in terms of its faithfulness to Regency-era hygiene and lifestyle, though it edges nearer to "Clueless" when it comes to sex.
Yet, ultimately, the unique magic of Austen so beautifully caught in 1996's "Emma" is missing.
Throughout "Becoming Jane," in fact, director Julian Jarrold and screenwriters Sarah Williams and Kevin Hood draw thematic parallels with not only "Pride and Prejudice" but "Emma," "Sense and Sensibility," and "Northanger Abbey."
“Saltburn” seems inspired by “Brideshead Revisited” and “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” with a touch of “Absolutely Fabulous.
Fennell is also keen to make sure Evelyn Waugh gets a name drop, just to make sure you get audience members will go home and be led to Googling Brideshead Revisited to see the similarity.
Whose character seems to stand in for Anthony Blanche in Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited .
But those who are expecting a crossover between The Talented Mr. Ripley and Brideshead Revisited will be disappointed, as there is no satisfaction to be gained from watching evil geniuses do their magic, just like there are no hidden motivations to uncover that would justify their actions and make us understand them.
Comparisons will certainly be made to Brideshead Revisited , The Talented Mr. Ripley , and even the works of Donna Tartt.
As a result, Saltburn feels like Game of Thrones meets Brideshead Revisited as the chess game that starts at Oxford and continues at Saltburn reaches its delightfully dark and wicked climax.
The King's Speech (2010)
Directed by Tom Hooper
influenced A Royal Night Out (2015)
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A young, pre-queen Elizabeth (Sarah Gadon) and her sister Margaret (Bel Powley) share a princess’ night on the town in this frothy, forgettable comedy from director Julian Jarrold (“Kinky Boots”), which plays as a sort of footnote to 2010’s “The King’s Speech.”
Rupert Everett is the King, aka Bertie the stuttering monarch we saw in The King's Speech.
Although their father relies on them to be with him when he speaks on the radio, still a very difficult challenge for the man whose stutter was the theme of “The King’s Speech,” they persuade their parents to let them out just once, so they can mingle among the “ordinary people.”
He considers this proposition and one minute later he's bought the idea, because he hasn't entirely conquered his stammer, despite all the work he put into this task in The King's Speech.
A fanciful, fictional imagination of what might have happened on the night of May 8, 1945, when Winston Churchill announced the end of World War II, if England’s cherished royal teenage princesses—ladylike Elizabeth and her feisty sister Margaret—had joined thousands of ordinary revelers on an incognito excursion into Central London, A Royal Night Out is not another revelation on the historic order of The King’s Speech, but it’s hearty, good-natured fun anyway.
As their parents, Rupert Everett (Justin and the Knights of Valour) and Emily Watson (Testament of Youth) rely more heavily on impersonation as a crutch, and invite unfavourable (and inevitable) comparisons to The King’s Speech.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
Directed by Jim Sharman
influenced Kinky Boots (2005)
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Nevertheless, Chiwetel Ejiofor is commanding in his performance, much like Tim Curry’s famed cross-dressing singer role in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."
Edgerton, whom keen-eyed audiences might recognize as Uncle Owen from the "Star Wars" prequels, is likable as the straight man (literally and comedically), though his being Conan O'Brien's doppelganger can be a bit distracting, especially when pop culture worlds collide and he has a Brad from "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" moment on a Milan runway.
Eigil Bryld ("Kinky Boots," "Becoming Jane") often shoots with angles to match his subjects with Bruges's architecture and his night lighting cannily replicates the out of focus blue and gold spots of distributor Focus Features' logo.
Pride & Prejudice (2005)
Directed by Joe Wright
influenced Becoming Jane (2007)
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I wonder what the Austen acolytes troubled by Joe Wright's 2005 adaptation of "Pride & Prejudice" (which I loved) will think of this weird effort to remake Austen's life -- about which we actually know very little -- into a genteel, tasteful Harlequin romance.
Some ardent Austen scholars--who believe the real Austen was much more subdued in her demeanor--may scoff at how Hathaway plays Jane much like the author's most famous heroine, Pride & Prejudice’s Elizabeth Bennet, but it works for the movie.
And it even, in a way, does Austen one better: it’s laden with all of the angst and heartbreak and tears we’ve come to expect from a Sense & Sensibility or a Pride & Prejudice, but because it is adhering to the spirit of Austen’s life -- she never married, never enjoyed any kind of long-term romantic entanglements that posterity is aware of -- it doesn’t indulge in a happy ending.
Because of this, it's hard not to think that we've already seen it before, most recently in the far superior adaptation of Austen's "Pride & Prejudice."
My Policeman (2022)
Directed by Michael Grandage
influenced by Brideshead Revisited (2008)
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Harry Styles as Tom Burgess, the 1950s British copper who gives the film its title, has snuck off for a few days’ romantic idyll in Venice with his secret lover, urbane museum curator Patrick Hazelwood, played by David Dawson like he’s just stepped out of Brideshead Revisited .
Old folkies will recognize variations on denizens of the early-’60 coffee-house milieu, including the Clancys and Ritchie, whom Llewyn dismisses as “four micks and Grandma Moses”; the Jewish faux-cowboy Ramblin’ Jack Elliott (Adam Driver, from Girls); and singer-songwriter Tom Paxton (with Sands, now starring in Broadway’s Kinky Boots, performing Paxton’s “The Last Thing on My Mind”).
Visually, Ponsoldt and cinematographer, Jess Hall (Hot Fuzz, Brideshead Revisited), give the film a low-contrast and sombre look.
…trilled Princess Anna in Disney’s 2013 smash “Frozen,” voicing the social (and perhaps sexual) yearnings of any number of repressed, restless princesses in the fairy-tale universe — as well as, if the delightful “ A Royal Night Out ” is to be believed, the young Queen Elizabeth II herself.
I felt reminded of The Dreamers, which was more interesting not so much because of the love triangle and raunchy scenes but rather the strong backdrop in which it was set.
Best known in GLBT circles for his turn as statuesque drag queen Lola in the original Kinky Boots movie, Ejiofor employs here a powerful combination of stunned resignation, abject humility, righteous indignation and graceful dignity, with more than a few nuances for good measure.
Chiwetel Ejiofor , a British actor of Nigerian background (seen in things as varied as Children of Men and Kinky Boots), plays Northup, drugged, chained, renamed, and put through a wringer of endless degradations.
In other movies, he has managed to act past ridiculousness (he originated the drag queen in the movie that became the musical Kinky Boots) or rivet you with righteousness.
The expression on Northup’s face conveys what would take reams of dialogue — capping a tour de force by Ejiofor, a British actor best known in this country for the film version of “Kinky Boots.’’
Ejiofor (“Kinky Boots”) has long been an actor on the cusp, and here he gets his breakout role.
He’s a riveting actor, chalking up stunning performances as diverse as the African immigrant selling illegal body parts out of a London hotel in Stephen Frears’s Dirty Pretty Things and the original Lola, the flamboyant drag queen who saves a hapless shoe factory from bankruptcy in Kinky Boots.