My Jane Austen Obsession

With From Prada to Nada viewable on YouTube for a time with no greater a price than a few ads, I decided that it was about time that I watched it. Costumes: I loved all of the costumes. Since it is a modern adaptation there isn't much to say about accuracy, but I think that they did a good job using costumes to convey character. "Updating" to modern day: I think that they did a very good job of updating everything. the way that they translated class and economic divides was very well done in my opinion. As I am not Mexican I am afraid that I do not know how accurately they portrayed that culture. They handled the inheritance situation very well, it is after all a difficult thing to translate entailment into modern day. they managed to most keep the plot the same while still including some fun new bits. While they did make some changes to the whole Edward Lucy and Edward Elinor, (or in this adaptation Nora,) plots I can see that some changes had to be made because fortunat...

I recently got to watch the newest Emma first with my Mom and then with the rest of my family. Set: the sets were beautiful and colorful. Music: the music was fitting and very nice. Dancing: six person and three person stars? are those even a thing? and if Mrs. Elton was opening the ball she would be at the head of all the dancers, not in the middle. Costumes: the costumes where as far as I can tell with my limited knowledge, historically correct. Mrs. Elton's hair was from a little bit later of a time, but I can see her trying to dress in the next big fashion. Character interpretation/casting: Emma Woodhouse: I think it was very well cast. I didn't like how much they exaggerated Emma's rudeness to Jane Fairfax though, in the book Emma does try to make conversation with her at first but retreats when she gets nothing but short reserved answers from Jane. Mr Knightly: When I first heard that they where going to make him "more human" rather than the always self ass...