Jane Austenland Research Paper

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TOPIC SENTENCE. Austenland is the story of Jane Hayes. A thirty year old with an obsession for Jane Austen’s stories, specifically Pride and Prejudice and Colin Firth’s portrayal of Mr. Darcy. Jane is very unlucky in love her whole life and believes that good men can only be found in books, so she finds herself headed to England and, more importantly, Austenland. For the “True Austen Aficionado” it is a place to experience their very own Jane Austen story. Each woman who goes to Austenland is matched up with an actor and thrown into a Victorian age romance for a week. Jane meets a wide variety of interesting people while staying at the Austenland Manor and finds romance of a sort with several of them. *wink.* Throughout the movie, Jane and …show more content…

Although it is known for being more of a chick flick, lacking in any substantial action, its actors appeal to a broad spectrum of people. For example, Keri Russel who plays the part of Jane, is probably most well known for her part in the newest Planet of the Apes movie. A movie that is anything but a chick flick. Another character at odds with his reputation is Ricky Whittle. Ricky (Captain East) plays one of the most frivolous characters in Austenland. His character in The 100, however, is the kind that would stab you with zero questions asked. A lot of the actors like Bret McKenzie from Flight of the Conchords and Jennifer Coolidge are well known for their comedic roles, and some of them aren’t known at all. One of the funniest roles of the whole movie is a non-speaking maid who was actually just one of the actors’ sister, visiting for the day, who just happened to end up on screen. That being said, much of the movie was improvised. Bret McKenzie was called only ten days beforehand and was asked if he wanted to be in a movie. Most of the lines were not scripted and even with the small amount of script they got, improvisation was encouraged. Knowing this and then watching the movie makes it that much more funny. The entire movie is a joke about the “Classic Jane Austen Story” but mostly the entire movie is just a joke in

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