The New Jane Austen

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The New Jane Austen might seem strange to you since Jane Austen died almost 200 years ago, but every couple of years more movies, books using her characters and web shows come out. 1. The Lizzie Bennet Dairies (youtube) came out in 2012. 2. In 2013 the movie version of Austenland was released. 3. Coming soon to PBS station near you Death Comes to Pemberley. If you live across the pond, it has already been released on DVD. I debated if I should buy it or not, however the DVD is very pricy and I decided to wait until November until it is released in the US. Yes I have a region free player. 4. A modern persuasion is also supposed to come to theaters this year.

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I can only review wait I have seen and what has been released. Austenland is about a girl named Jane. She spends all of her money on a Jane Austen vacation, this a romantic vacation filled with actors who pretend to fall in love with you. It is a cute movie, somewhat predicable to me, because I can also pick out the Wickham like character. From what I hear it is not as good as the book, but it is still worth renting. It stars Keri Russell and JJ Fields. If you are a huge Jane Austen fan you might remember him from the 2007 version of Northanger Abbey. He was adorable in that movie.

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The Lizzie Bennet Dairies is about a 24 year grad student who is working on a degree in Communications and technology and her personal video blog is part of her Thesis. All of the younger characters are there, including Mr. Collins and Fitzwilliam, Mr. Darcy's Cousin. The older characters Darcy's aunt Catherine and Lizzie's parents are only in the story through Lizzie's eyes, as she mocks them in costume. The story is very modern, it is also funny, engaging, compelling and very hard to stop watching. I went to bed at 6am the first day I started watching these videos. There are 100 videos ranging from 2 min to 6min and a few extra videos from the point of view of a few other characters. If you don't mind it being modern, you will love this new version.

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I would love to know your thoughts and what you thought of these movies and videos if you have seen them.