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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 – Pleasantville



Movie – Pleasantville 
Score : 7/10 
Year : 1998 
Director: Gary Ross 
Photography: John Lindley
Country: USA 
Language: English 
Duration: 2h04 
Writer: Gary Ross 

 As David and his sister Jennifer fight over a strange remote control, they end up trapped in Pleasentville - a 1950's sitcom imagined for this movie, as a metaphor for american lifestyle and society. 


The movie starts in color, but when David & Jennifer get trapped in Pleasentville, they are just like said sitcom, in black & white. As they break more and more 1950's societal rules and taboos, colors start to re-appear ; the special effects for this part are quite good and stand the test of time (thus far at least). 

 The scenes have both black & white, and color portions ; they look natural.

 The metaphors deal with american prude society, with taboos around sexuality ; some dialogues and scenes deal with these topics which gave Pleasentville its PG13 rating.
Additional metaphors deal with american-centric geography and educational system, as well as relationships, parenthood, idealism, and misogyny (that one isn't hidden, it's in plain sight)... 
The movie also discusses personal potentials and growth, and characters may evolve (or stagnate). 

 The acting is overall good, though I would've wished for more dramatic delivery of the dialogues (it is, but not enough). 

 Pleasantville is a pleasant movie, mostly. I don't really care for the music, though it's evidently appropriate to the era. 

 It was odd to see that after nearly 2 hours of tremendous attention to details, the director and editor both missed a massive goof at the end, with someone's makeup swapping 3 times in a row in the same scene... 

 Cast : 
• Tobey Maguire as David/Bud 
• Reese Witherspoon as Jennifer/Mary Sue 
•Jeff Daniels as Bill Johnson 
• Joan Allen as Betty Parker 
• William H. Macy as George Parker 
• J. T. Walsh as Big Bob • Paul Walker as Skip Martin 
• Marley Shelton as Margaret Henderson 
• Giuseppe Andrews as Howard 
• Jenny Lewis and Marissa Ribisi as Christin and Kimmy 
• Jane Kaczmarek as David and Jennifer's mother 
• Don Knotts as a TV repairman 
• Kevin Connors and Natalie Ramsey as the real Bud and Mary Sue Parker 
• David Tom as Whitey
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