Lacking History, Becoming Jane Still Charms

At the very onset of the movie, there was a scene of an older couple in their bed. They made some sexual comments to one another, and then he proceeded to go under the covers! This was not appropriate for my children to watch . . .I thought the movie would be okay based on the review and the prior comments. Wish I had had warning to jump past this scene!

I emphatically agree with Hobbit and was just as dissappointed. Why, if Jane Austen was an intelligent, principled woman who valued propriety and disdained vulgarity, would she fall for the movie's depiction of Thomas Lefroy? James McAvoy's character was rude, a drunkard whose acquaintances include gamblers and women whose appearance implies they belong in brothels. Later details regarding Lefroy's generosity with his family do little to rectify the character's shortcomings. After the movie I immediately read several brief biographies and found no such description of Thomas Lefroy.

The ufortunate underlying message to the audience is that proper gentlemen were unable to capture the heart of a woman of Jane's stature and it took an insolent and indecorous man to do it.

I disagree wholeheartedly with the reviewer. "Becoming Jane" leaves an incredibly sour taste in the mouth of anyone who reads Austen's novels. This film has Jane falling for every anti-hero she ever wrote in addition to reading slanderously vulgar fiction. I held such high hopes for this movie, so the disappointment is acute. Surely Jane was intelligent and creative enough to create her own tales rather than spinning them from the web of her own life as this movie implies.

I LOVED this movie!!
I agreed with the article in that the movie did take a while to really get going. But I didn't really mind - I was enjoying the wonderful cinematography. I love to see this time period portrayed, and it was excellently done here!
It was different from the movies made from Austin's novels. I would like to know if it was actually filmed in the area where Jane Austin lived.
All in all, it was a beautifully filmed, wonderfully acted movie, and everyone with whom I saw it, loved it!