🍿 2022-07-18 13:00:28 – Paris/France.
There is a scene in persuasionon Netflix since last Friday, which contains both the spirit and the problematic of this last born of adaptations of Jane Austen. On a country walk (one of those that served as a social ritual in Regency England), Mary Musgrove tells her sister Anne (Dakota Johnson)after reciting a verse about the weather may, stop poetry and metaphors, she is bored.
From the start of the film, we understand that the creators (Ron Bass and Alice Victoria Winslow) intend to carry out an exercise in Narrative Nudity, where they refuse to show what happens in the novel with actions, descriptions or character constructions and limit themselves to leaving everything in the mouth of the central character, the narrator. One of the defining features of this adaptation, directed by Carrie Cracknell, is that its protagonist breaks the fourth wall and addresses the audience, in which viewers have found grounds for comparison with the acclaimed series flea bag.
No solo en eso: Anne Elliott, según se nos cuenta al principio, es una mujer frustrada que se dedica a beber vino ya matar el tiempo mientras mientra superar la ruptura con el capitán Wentworth, un hombre con el que estuvo a punto de casarse ocho years ago. We understand: persuasion wants to replace romanticism so usual in the novels of the time and genre films by irony and frontality, but why does he also want to get rid of all his symbolic potential and the power of images?
If there is a relevant comparison speaking of persuasion (instead of flea baga series full of layers and discourses) is The Bridgertons. Shonda Rhimes' Romantic Fantasy is a modern take on the period genre (one set in an era close to the Regency and Victorian eras, or the Gilded Age in the United States) that is essentially all about lightening a certain intensity in themes, characters and dialogues, add sex scenes and current songs.
Needless to say, there's nothing wrong with these approaches (in fact, remember the Converse of the Marie-Antoinette by Sophia Coppolawhich has preceded some current reflections by several years), but they fall into the simplisms that these types of novels, films and series have faced for decades: only if they are boring, inaccessible, too romantic and poetic, too traditionalist. .. It seems that when we approach Jane Austen, such an iconic and recognizable author of classic literature, many of these prejudices multiply.
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The Problem of Period Genre and Jane Austen Adaptations
And the truth is that the conflicts that Jane Austen talks about are not so difficult to adapt, to transfer to our time. In fact, let's think pride and prejudice, one of the most influential novels in history in general and the romance genre in particular, with a way of understanding relationships that we continue to see in film and television today. In reality, Series Fire Islandavailable for a few weeks on Disney +, approaches the masterpiece of Jane Austen to talk about the romance between two homosexual boys.
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