We got our monthly PBS Home Video catalog a day or two ago. It's got Jane Austen all over it, since PBS is showing all the various Jane Austen movies/miniseries this month. On the cover is a truly creepy picture from the cover of the Persuasion DVD:
(Source.)
It's a little less obvious in this digital picture, but the catalog cover version makes the woman (presumably Anne Elliot) look like a vampire from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV show. It's fairly spooky.
Now, let's see, where was the Slayer while Jane Austen was writing? A Buffy/Jane Austen mashup sounds like it'd be fun...but clearly I am not the only one with this idea, as this google search nets 63,000 hits.
4 comments:
oh swoonies. i've been waiting months for this persuasion to be on, and now it's a matter of DAYS.
*happy*
We watched the Jane Eyre adaptation. It wasn't very good, and in fact we fast-forwarded through a lot of it.
oh, but bronte is entirely different. i'm looking forward to the four new austens because of the smashing good quality of the two old ones (P&P and emma).
True. But a good Wuthering Heights is always a good thing. :-)
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