Film Reading!!!!! Becoming Jane

The book that I have read during this term and the film that I watched over break have 2 VERY different plots. The novel that I read was about Jane having a love interest with a man named Frederick Ashford. However, the film was about Jane's first love at age 20 with Irishman Thomas Lefory.


Plot of the Film 
The plot of the film is that Jane Austen, the youngest daughter of Reverend George Austen, needs to find a husband. However, her dream is to be a famous writer, but her mother does not like that idea, but her father supports it. So, the parents are being matchmakers and search for a husband for their daughter. They thought a man named Mr. Wisley would be suitable. Jane thinks the opposite. When Jane met Irishman Thomas Lefroy, a lawyer, she thought he was "insolent, arrogant, impudent, insufferable, and impertinent of men" (Jane Austen, Becoming Jane). But once Jane got to know Tom a little better, their romance blossoms.
* If you want to know how this movie ends, see the film.
Favorite Parts

• When Tom and his uncle were trying out guns inside of a shed, Tom's cousin Lucy was spying on him. When she called his name from outside, Tom was startled, pulled the trigger inside the house. He could have killed someone, but no one got killed. That was funny but startling at the same time. 
• When Jane, Henry, and Eliza visited Tom and his Uncle, at one point they were having dinner and when Eliza was speaking about her husband  and her "portable wealth", Jane joked about happiness in a pocketbook. Tom's Uncle thought that Jane was being ironic for he thinks that irony is an "insult with a smiling face" (Judge Langlois, Becoming Jane). Jane corrects him by explaining that irony is "bringing together contradictory truths to bring out a new truth" (Jane Austen, Becoming Jane). There was silence and that was what made it funny.
• The cricket (a game, looks kind of like baseball) scene where Jane wanted to play with a group of men. She showed that women can also play cricket as well. 

Shots and Angles 

There were long shots like:

• Weather shots, background shots; to know the environment.
•  The woods scene where Tom and Jane didn't know that they were both in the woods because they were taking different paths. 

There was also 2 shots with Jane and Tom in the same frame. One scene that I remember that the 2 shot was used with Jane and Tom was the kissing scene while they were at the ball. The scene was outside, at night. The director used low-key lighting to detect that it is nighttime and maybe to show that what Tom and Jane did was secretive. 

Overall, I liked the film.