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(e)Book – Love and friendship

  (e) Book –  Love and friendship Full title :  Love and friendship and other early works Author : Jane Austen Score : /10 Year : 1790 (original) ; 2012 (this edition) Publisher : Duke Classics   ISBN  978-1-62012-155-9  // 9781620121559  (ebook)  Pages :  Language: English Jane Austen is best known for her 6 novels, which all have been adapted into tv movies - but after having read Virginia Woolf's short fiction in chronological order, I decided to apply the same for Austen's publications, to better appreciate her growth and evolution in narrative style. So, before reading her novels which were released from 1811 to 1817, in the following order :  Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma,  Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, I decided to go back to her teenage years, reading Love and Friendships, and other early works.
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Movie – Rear Window (1998 remake)




Movie – Rear Window
Score : 2/10 (yeah I watched it fully, good for the idea, but not in execution)
Year : 1998
Director: Jeff Bleckner
Country : USA
Language : English
Duration:1h29
Writers : Cornell Woolrich (shortstory) ; Eric Overmyer  & Larry Gross (teleplay)  


 Hitchcock's Rear Window didn't need remaking... yet, someone did, and failed at it, oh so miserably.
The entire thing feels like a pity project, let's pay Christopher Reeve... with all due respect to the man, he didn't really manage to get the job done, maybe due to poor writing, poor directing, poor everything, even the music was sappy and stupid. 
 
Contrary to James Stewart's perdormance, there was no emotional attachement to the character. Here, Christpher plays an architect, but his obsession with spying and intrigue just doesn't flow as naturally as with a photographer...

I couldn't suspend my disbelief with all the functions his gizmo wheelchair connected to a computer could offer.... really, one mouth to control EVERYTHING using a straw ?!

Daryl Hannah vs Grace Kelly... Daryl really doesn't cut it as ''the one''...

The evil man really didn't scare ya'll, I was like ''really ?!'', ok, he did something awful, but I wasn't suspended like the one from Hitchcok's...

Jeff Bleckner's Rear Window just fails at everything, 1 star for the will to do well, but that's all... thumbs down.
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