i love this movie, i like the fact that when she ever reads the book she so absorb that she feels that she is a part of the book for example when she imagines it in head
I enjoy this middle aged woman who wants to play mother to a young girl. Both people have such a big heart.It would be interesting to know how this 15 year old got this scandelous book. Children didn't have allowences in those days so it would have had to be a friend who loaned the book. Just the thing for a hormonal girl to read over and over again. I'm trying to remember what I read at that age. Nancy Drew for one. A girl whose father was a lawyer. She had her own car and went everywhere.
i wish i could experience what this society was like for myself. it just seems so much more civilised than today. obviously not life in general, but the way people socialize, and the way that people fell in love, and the way there was a structure to it and it was just the way it worked.
I love this move :) I mean she may be naive and prone to seem stupid, but every Austen heroine has faults, and every Austen hero lessens or cure these faults. How boring would it be if she was perfect?
Its funny how all the characters in the beginning are like - "oh she actually looks almost pretty today!" and I'm like...well you've got high expectations that girl is very pretty in my opinion!
I agree with the others, hollywood is just trailer park trash, all foul language and sex and nudity and big big explosions, no plots. BBC isnt far behind with trashy sex and they have to now throw a token gay into every thing, why must any of it be sexual?
I love Jane Austin and period drama's, but you couldn't pay me enuf to live without toilet paper, plumbing, toothpaste, deoderant and clean soap that didn't blind you if it got in your eyes, lol. During this period, men were a bunch of cheaters, who thought they had the right.
@jfree1998 They had many excellent substitutes for toilet paper in Victorian England , I assure you. Delicacy restricts further elaboration. Necessity has always been the mother of invention. And remember that future generations will laugh at our primitive use of tissue paper for.....that !
@mickigoe lol, probably right about the tp. But they didn't have any tampax and no a wod of cloth is not a good substitute, hehehe. I just wanted to point out the dangers, like death in child birth common while birth control was uncommon, lemons were only available seasonally and sponges are dirty and gross, and no dentist or proper toothbrushes and toothpaste and dentists, smelly people unwashed and bad breath, what a stench, I'd never leave the country.
I prefer BBC mini series to U.S. movies. It's such a drag what's happening to the movie industry in the U.S. All flash and sex with no decent characters or plots. Just awful.
@Sanjiska@EvilerBanana Actually, she isn't reading Udolpho because later in the movie Catherine asks about Udolpho. "Is it really very horrid?" she says to Isabella. If she was reading it, she would know. Later she does read it, but only after talking with Isabella. She is reading "The Romance of the Forest," another Ann Radcliffe book which is actually mentioned in Emma as well :)
Of this particular adaptation I can safely say that this is the best! I have seen all others, compared them, and found this one superior by far! Especially the bits with special effects to convey how infatuated Catherine is with the Gothic
I'm in my third year of university, and I'm fortunate enough to be taking an English Lit class called "Jane Austen". I'm a science student who's read all of Austen's novels (with the exception of Persuasion), but I LOVE the class so far...I have a feeling we'll be watching this adaptation after our discussion of Northanger Abbey. I've seen this film 3 times already, and I'm never bored lol
@bookiee8 I really liked the prof but I dropped the class because my course load is heavy and I need a bird class :S Im now taking "the fairy tale" :D It is pretty crazy though, finding someone from your class on youtube lol.
@jethro035181 You're an idiot. I'm Canadian and McMaster is a good university. It's not the best university in Canada (UofT and McGill are Canada's "Ivy League" schools), but it's well-recognized and its students receive a great education. I go to UofT, but I would be very pleased to go to McMaster for graduate school.
@birinak ...thanks for the idiot remark....i had to go up to canada once and deal with a canadian banker who was a graduate of mcmaster ..he had his degree on the wall and it had a little plaid ribbon attached to the university seal ..i had a hard time keeping my face straight ..i visited U of T once to hear a massey lecture (convocation hall)
@bookiee8 I'm taking a class of the same name, though it's my fourth year and I'm a Lit major. I've read all of her novels except Mansfield Park and Sense and Sensibility. The class is very interesting for me as well. Let me know how it goes...cheers! :)
Reading all these comments here and on other related sites---seems to me like there is a whole other secret-like society that is totally enraptured with this long ago lifestyle...I like that
@MysitcRiver29 wouldn't it be a trip to be able to time travel and get plunked down in that period....like for a month...to live in those posh castles----wear those clothes---eat their food---maids butlers stable boys (olden time cabana boys)--horses ---those partys !!---those bizarre dances--- can you imagine rollin like that
@ScaryMara LOL, very true. But then, that would probably spoil the fantasy a bit. As would thinking of untreatable and uncurable diseases, dying in childbirth, complete dependence on family fortune for your income, utter lack of women's rights and the many other downsides to living in any century before the twentieth :-)
I didn't understand this movie when I first saw it because I hadn't read the book, now that I have, I truly love it. The movie perfectly, yet comically illustrates Catherine's overactive imagination :)
So ... I've watched all of Jane Austen based movies (both versions of most.) && Little Dorrit. Now what? anybody have suggestions? As long as it's not too goth. Jane Eyre (believe it or not) is a bit overly goth for me. :p yes. i know complicated.
@ReemKhurshid :D I've been trying to sit down and watch N&S and I will, soon. (I confess I did something horrendously terrible though. I watched the ending! I knoow I knoow! I shouldn't have but, but but. .. ) lol, thanks for the suggestion! :)
@Larii2cute4u Have you watched the mini serieses made from Elizabeth Gaskell's novels? The hilarious, light hearted Cranford, the politically and socially conscious North And South and, in my opinion, her masterpiece, the deeply touching Wives And Daughters. All very romantic, very clever, very funny - and brilliant performances by the actors too! You will not be disappointed ;)!
Oh my gosh, love Jane Austen now!! And Catherine is so cute and pretty! Ahhh, I wish I lived back then. . . Everything was so very much more elegant and beautiful! (Swoons) lol! ;D
Catherine's parents sound like my parents xD My mum: "She shouldn't be reading novels all day. She's always in another world." My dad: "Oh well, let her read if she wants to." Thankfully my kind of novels were different to Catherine's =P
@luna4ever36 ... Have you watched the 2009 version of EMMA... it is fabulous... Johnny Lee Miller and Romola Garai are fantastic... It also has Michael Gambon (Dumbledore) in it too... I'm sure as an Austen fan like myself you will enjoy it as much as I have... Best regards from Wales UK :0)x
@wenglishsal I sure have, its really good isn't it!? I watched it right after reading the book for the first time, I"m still discovering the rest of the books and movies. But this version of Northanger Abbey is what actually hooked me to Jane Austen.=D
go to a search engine and type in "Period films" "Period era romantic films" or the same on wikipedia search "Period era books', "Victorian Era books". If there is a book written by a woman author,it'll probably have at least one or two films by the same name.That's what I did and found much.Even YouTube has under "Period films" a lot.(Not just for women,they have been my favourite films for 40 years.)
@jminto88 Totally agree. I get so annoyed by Hollywood movies that are always glamorous, always in a big city, with people who have great jobs & apartments, where everyone down to the last extra is gorgeous, every hair in place and every outfit expensive. it's so fake!! I can't relate to it at all, and I'm sure most of America can't either! If they do make movies that are more like real life, they're usually ultra depressing and vulgar. I rarely watch movies anymore unless they're British.
i dare say pride and prejudice is still one my best read among austen's novels and among other novels, in fact. But i enjoy her books and the reference of other works in the olden times. :)
ermm, you could try The Forsyte saga (its romance and drama) there is an old black and white version, and a modern one, starring Damien Lewis both on youtube. The turn of the screw (ghost story), adaptions of anything by Catherine Cookson (all romance and drama), Little Dorritt maybe? Can't think of anything else I'm afraid.
I actaully like the movie more than the book. But Northanger Abbey is my least fav Austen book! The movie pretty good-Felicity Jones has a very expressive face and she's beautiful, and JJ Fields is quite handsome!!!
Northanger abbey is my fave Austen novel. I had studied Gothic literature for a year, and reading Austens send up of the genre was hilarious. I prefer it over all the others. ^^
this novel is quite a work of art, however as far as a plot goes it does absolutely nothing. It's not gripping at all, she simply highlights social and intellectual context of her time era.
@QueXseraXsera Lol, your comment is so old but I had to say, I feel the same way. Jane Austen has an excellent sense and her commentary throughout the book is some of the funniest I've read in my life.
I just do not like it. I find it doesnt have the complexity of Sense and Sensibilty or Pride and Prejudice or Mansfield Park. It doesnt compare to Persuasion which is my favorite. The plot is weak and it just isnt her best work.
Casting leaves something to be desired, aesthetically, for many of Austin's movies... I think that a lot of the characters should have warning captions precede their onscreen appearance to protect the faint-hearted & easily disturbed. what's more, the ugliest ones seem to be the first to comment on someone else's lack of beauty. LOL
lol i would not say any of the men r Hot in this film But a very good show Well mr tilney is sorta handsome but the other guys are so dam ugly okay Richard Armitage is what u call HAWTTiE LOL
There is another version of Northanger Abbey (1986) which is also very good. It is very gothic with weird music and Mr. Tilney is more imposing rather than cute. Unfortunately, the dresses and hairstyles are all wrong, but the acting is quite good. I think it is available on youtube. It is worth watching.
No, baseball is definitely in the book, and it's supposedly an earlier version of the modern game. But yes, she didn't go to Bath until she was 17. :)
Over many years I realize that British films are like classic art oil paintings in a gilt frame,while many "Hollywood" films are akin to color tinted postcards of "Chicken Charlie's"in Kalamazoo,Michigan.
@RasMajnouni Couldn't agree more. The BBC version of P&P (1995) proves that without a shade of doubt. Understated, classic and universal - that's what British productions are.
in addition to my other comment, has this thought ever occurred to anyone?? or is it just me that this movie is perhaps, may i attempt to say, better than the book itself [in my opinion that is] because of such a beautiful cast that they got there n the 2 main charaters, Mr Tilney n Miss Morland, were portrayed so well?? LOL plus they also wear very pretty clothes =)
I ve thought the same thing, that the cast have brought out the characters so very well, especially Mr.Tilney. Just perfect.. and the book was funny but did not give an impression of such absolute light heartedness.
why is it that the wives always address their husbands as Mr. this and that??! I mean, Im just curious why..LOL its like all this kind of movies that i've seen so far..=)
In the youtube search box, type in: Northanger Abbey BBC 1986. The full movie is uploaded by animegirlUK. Although I'm just now playing it again, and don't recognize it. Oops. Oh, well, that is a different version. Enjoy. :)
absolutely adore 2:35 !!! So silly and funny. One of my favorites, especially since there is an excerpt from this Jane Austen in the book Atonement, a priceless one. I adore English Literature!
i love this movie, i like the fact that when she ever reads the book she so absorb that she feels that she is a part of the book for example when she imagines it in head
Bisho161718 3 weeks ago
poor baby was just drown!
lavenderparfume1 1 month ago
well. this chick's a schizophrenic...
theKayEA 1 month ago
I enjoy this middle aged woman who wants to play mother to a young girl. Both people have such a big heart.It would be interesting to know how this 15 year old got this scandelous book. Children didn't have allowences in those days so it would have had to be a friend who loaned the book. Just the thing for a hormonal girl to read over and over again. I'm trying to remember what I read at that age. Nancy Drew for one. A girl whose father was a lawyer. She had her own car and went everywhere.
Songsmirth 1 month ago
I LIKE THIS GIRLS CHARACTER SHE SEEMS MORE FRISKY THEN THE REST NOT SHY
JAshogbon 2 months ago
I JUST LOVE THIS DRAMA, I DON'T LIKE TO PLAY FAVORITES BECAUSE THERE'S SO MANY GOOD PERIOD MOVIES AND DRAMAS OUT THERE BUT I CAN'T HELP IT.
THE BRITS REALLY KNOW HOW TO ENTERTAIN
JAshogbon 2 months ago
I'm wondering why she doesn't write a book herself if she's got such a lively imagination
Kadda1234 3 months ago
i wish i could experience what this society was like for myself. it just seems so much more civilised than today. obviously not life in general, but the way people socialize, and the way that people fell in love, and the way there was a structure to it and it was just the way it worked.
juhhnaynay 3 months ago
ya emma, pride and prejudice and sense and sensibility are still my favorite jane austin movies
dolphinrider22 3 months ago
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PoetryETrain 4 months ago
I love this move :) I mean she may be naive and prone to seem stupid, but every Austen heroine has faults, and every Austen hero lessens or cure these faults. How boring would it be if she was perfect?
pinkjenna96 4 months ago
I think I might be the luckiest woman in the world. My husband never
lets a week pass without bringing me flowers, and he kisses my hand so
frequently I could indeed imagine I have a husband straight out of Jane Austen´s
time. I think that is why so many women wish themselves back into a time where
JA describes such manners.
agora1955 5 months ago 10
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Kimmie47943 5 months ago
D: Screw the lack of toilet paper and cheating men, I don't care, take me there NOW! D: <3333
NilAdimari 5 months ago 3
Just finished the book...It was very good and this adaption is very close to it in my opinion : )
lovintouchinsqweazin 5 months ago
Its funny how all the characters in the beginning are like - "oh she actually looks almost pretty today!" and I'm like...well you've got high expectations that girl is very pretty in my opinion!
materialgrl47 5 months ago
Help lotsssssss with my summer homework :D! Thanks!
hoahongtim142 5 months ago
I agree with the others, hollywood is just trailer park trash, all foul language and sex and nudity and big big explosions, no plots. BBC isnt far behind with trashy sex and they have to now throw a token gay into every thing, why must any of it be sexual?
jfree1998 5 months ago
I love Jane Austin and period drama's, but you couldn't pay me enuf to live without toilet paper, plumbing, toothpaste, deoderant and clean soap that didn't blind you if it got in your eyes, lol. During this period, men were a bunch of cheaters, who thought they had the right.
jfree1998 5 months ago 2
@jfree1998 They had many excellent substitutes for toilet paper in Victorian England , I assure you. Delicacy restricts further elaboration. Necessity has always been the mother of invention. And remember that future generations will laugh at our primitive use of tissue paper for.....that !
mickigoe 4 months ago
@mickigoe lol, probably right about the tp. But they didn't have any tampax and no a wod of cloth is not a good substitute, hehehe. I just wanted to point out the dangers, like death in child birth common while birth control was uncommon, lemons were only available seasonally and sponges are dirty and gross, and no dentist or proper toothbrushes and toothpaste and dentists, smelly people unwashed and bad breath, what a stench, I'd never leave the country.
jfree1998 3 months ago
Do they call it stage fright: L.O.L.
DigiScrap34 5 months ago
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galinkame 5 months ago
thank you!!! I love all of Jane Austen's movies!!!
Jessicaohyeah1 6 months ago
i'm reading the book right now..so far i like it very much. :)
noming00 6 months ago
I prefer BBC mini series to U.S. movies. It's such a drag what's happening to the movie industry in the U.S. All flash and sex with no decent characters or plots. Just awful.
luadams56 6 months ago 54
@luadams56 could of not said it better myself
GalOnHunt 1 month ago
lol the opening scared me a bit XD
TheBluecharcoal 7 months ago
@TheBluecharcoal lol, same here!! xD
CharlyElijahRose 7 months ago
@CharlyElijahRose haha nice XD
TheBluecharcoal 7 months ago
I know right mine don't appreciate it either such a shame they don't see the beauty of it
missyoca5 7 months ago
lol @ the baby's reaction to getting baptized.
Kasmir145 7 months ago
I like mrs allens red earrings with her black hat and coat. It's a nice touch.
elenore88 8 months ago
i love jane austen's stories! or should i say; i absolutely adore them!
:)
ThePrice0 8 months ago 3
I wanna know what book Katherine is reading.
EvilerBanana 9 months ago
@EvilerBanana Udolfio :)
Sanjiska 8 months ago
@Sanjiska @EvilerBanana Actually, she isn't reading Udolpho because later in the movie Catherine asks about Udolpho. "Is it really very horrid?" she says to Isabella. If she was reading it, she would know. Later she does read it, but only after talking with Isabella. She is reading "The Romance of the Forest," another Ann Radcliffe book which is actually mentioned in Emma as well :)
LivingintheShire 6 months ago
Of this particular adaptation I can safely say that this is the best! I have seen all others, compared them, and found this one superior by far! Especially the bits with special effects to convey how infatuated Catherine is with the Gothic
RushTheSilver 10 months ago
The scenes were edited for american tv, this must be from when it was shown on British TV.
SJA95 10 months ago
Hey, I love this movie but everytime I rent it, it has scenes cut. Where did you find this seemingly extended edition?
snapefangirl 10 months ago
nunca vi um padre jogar agua benta na cara do bebe...
robertamagacho 10 months ago
I love it hahahahaha
takes you beyond
very wild imagination she has! =)
blackmnmpink 1 year ago
I'm in my third year of university, and I'm fortunate enough to be taking an English Lit class called "Jane Austen". I'm a science student who's read all of Austen's novels (with the exception of Persuasion), but I LOVE the class so far...I have a feeling we'll be watching this adaptation after our discussion of Northanger Abbey. I've seen this film 3 times already, and I'm never bored lol
bookiee8 1 year ago
@bookiee8 Read Persuasion! It's one of my favorites :)
wordcreatement 1 year ago 2
@bookiee8 I'm also in 3rd yr science taking Jane Austen as an elective.....by chance do u go to mcmaster?
RayanneJD 1 year ago
@RayanneJD Yes, I do!!! This is so crazy!!! I usually sit closer to the back of the room:)
How do you like the class so far???
bookiee8 1 year ago
@bookiee8 I really liked the prof but I dropped the class because my course load is heavy and I need a bird class :S Im now taking "the fairy tale" :D It is pretty crazy though, finding someone from your class on youtube lol.
RayanneJD 1 year ago
@bookiee8 I didn't know there was such thing! That's awesome! Which university do you go to, if you don't mind me asking?
MsAngel2103 1 year ago
@MsAngel2103 McMaster University in Canada
bookiee8 1 year ago
@bookiee8 ...is this where you get the mcdegree with the little tartan ribbon attached ?
jethro035181 11 months ago
@jethro035181 excuse me?
bookiee8 11 months ago
@jethro035181 You're an idiot. I'm Canadian and McMaster is a good university. It's not the best university in Canada (UofT and McGill are Canada's "Ivy League" schools), but it's well-recognized and its students receive a great education. I go to UofT, but I would be very pleased to go to McMaster for graduate school.
birinak 10 months ago
@birinak ...thanks for the idiot remark....i had to go up to canada once and deal with a canadian banker who was a graduate of mcmaster ..he had his degree on the wall and it had a little plaid ribbon attached to the university seal ..i had a hard time keeping my face straight ..i visited U of T once to hear a massey lecture (convocation hall)
jethro035181 10 months ago
@bookiee8 I'm taking a class of the same name, though it's my fourth year and I'm a Lit major. I've read all of her novels except Mansfield Park and Sense and Sensibility. The class is very interesting for me as well. Let me know how it goes...cheers! :)
behbiichibal 11 months ago
@bookiee8 and yes, you really should read persuasion. one of my favorites as well.
behbiichibal 11 months ago
This is my go-to feel good movie. Weird, but true.
christinahhh 1 year ago 3
@christinahhh It's not weird to have this as a feel-good movie!! It's so well done!
trilingual28 11 months ago
is it just me or does Mr Bath's head actually resemble Donald Trump's head?
aaydrian 1 year ago
what a wild imagination...
yk00 1 year ago
Reading all these comments here and on other related sites---seems to me like there is a whole other secret-like society that is totally enraptured with this long ago lifestyle...I like that
thegawel1 1 year ago 184
@thegawel1 As long as they don't have corsets, I'm in! lol
Songsmirth 11 months ago
@thegawel1 And we meet at midnight on the moors.....
vivaloriflamme 8 months ago
@thegawel1 same!! my friends dont apreciate 19th century romance movies/books but i love them!!!
MysitcRiver29 7 months ago 5
@MysitcRiver29 wouldn't it be a trip to be able to time travel and get plunked down in that period....like for a month...to live in those posh castles----wear those clothes---eat their food---maids butlers stable boys (olden time cabana boys)--horses ---those partys !!---those bizarre dances--- can you imagine rollin like that
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thegawel1 7 months ago
@thegawel1 agreeeeed!
MysitcRiver29 7 months ago
@thegawel1
Funny, nobody ever seems to think that they would have been the maid or the butler or the stable boy....
ScaryMara 6 months ago 5
@ScaryMara LOL, very true. But then, that would probably spoil the fantasy a bit. As would thinking of untreatable and uncurable diseases, dying in childbirth, complete dependence on family fortune for your income, utter lack of women's rights and the many other downsides to living in any century before the twentieth :-)
3299392 6 months ago
@thegawel1 True. Some few people have yet to be conned by the myth of progress and the chronological snobbery it produces.
Jitpring 7 months ago
@thegawel1
ha yes secret society of the period drama affecionados...count me in! love it.
dobritza65 6 months ago 2
Pq nao tem esse filme legendado?
Nattbono1 1 year ago
wonderful; thank you.
lasinlo 1 year ago
4:30 or so- See that would be my imagination as well. :P
frodobaggins115 1 year ago
I didn't understand this movie when I first saw it because I hadn't read the book, now that I have, I truly love it. The movie perfectly, yet comically illustrates Catherine's overactive imagination :)
urbanr0cker 1 year ago
I love Jane Austen and all her books <333
bellatrixLima 1 year ago 5
Does anyone know where I can get the music?!?!
jsnugglesbb390 1 year ago
french and english movies are the best .I love Jane Austen books
lolitagohome1 1 year ago
:S brtt roba o. O
MERI9MA 1 year ago
@MERI9MA What is that supposed to mean, exactly? Could you comment in English on an Austen adaptation please?
eleanor27x 1 year ago
She reminds me of Gemma Arterton so much
transfoby 1 year ago
why is there no part nine?
SongBird4Jesus27 1 year ago
Who is speaking in the beginning? Sounds almost like Jennifer Saunders
lafiglia100 1 year ago
This was one of my least favorite Austen novels but one of my top favorite Austen adaptations. Austen's quirkiness translates so well in this film.
sorsaria 1 year ago 4
So ... I've watched all of Jane Austen based movies (both versions of most.) && Little Dorrit. Now what? anybody have suggestions? As long as it's not too goth. Jane Eyre (believe it or not) is a bit overly goth for me. :p yes. i know complicated.
Larii2cute4u 1 year ago
@Larii2cute4u I just did the same and then recently discovered North & South. Highly recommend it!
ReemKhurshid 1 year ago
@ReemKhurshid :D I've been trying to sit down and watch N&S and I will, soon. (I confess I did something horrendously terrible though. I watched the ending! I knoow I knoow! I shouldn't have but, but but. .. ) lol, thanks for the suggestion! :)
Larii2cute4u 1 year ago
@Larii2cute4u I just did the same and then discovered North & South. Highly recommend it!
ReemKhurshid 1 year ago
@Larii2cute4u Have you watched the mini serieses made from Elizabeth Gaskell's novels? The hilarious, light hearted Cranford, the politically and socially conscious North And South and, in my opinion, her masterpiece, the deeply touching Wives And Daughters. All very romantic, very clever, very funny - and brilliant performances by the actors too! You will not be disappointed ;)!
jalojalka 1 year ago
@jalojalka No I haven't, Cranford is a name of one of her mini series? Thanks so much!
Larii2cute4u 1 year ago
Oh my gosh, love Jane Austen now!! And Catherine is so cute and pretty! Ahhh, I wish I lived back then. . . Everything was so very much more elegant and beautiful! (Swoons) lol! ;D
VivaRiaAme 1 year ago
You can tell who's British, when the put an extra "u" in words like color and favorite. I think its so cute! ^_^
oreo995 1 year ago
Catherine's parents sound like my parents xD My mum: "She shouldn't be reading novels all day. She's always in another world." My dad: "Oh well, let her read if she wants to." Thankfully my kind of novels were different to Catherine's =P
Minty210 1 year ago 4
For when a young lady is to be a heroine, something must and will happen to throw adventure in her way. :)
cijju87 1 year ago 5
My, don't you just love Jane Austen!!!!=D Northanger Abbey is awesome! Though Pride and Prejudice is my favourite
luna4ever36 1 year ago 3
@luna4ever36 ... Have you watched the 2009 version of EMMA... it is fabulous... Johnny Lee Miller and Romola Garai are fantastic... It also has Michael Gambon (Dumbledore) in it too... I'm sure as an Austen fan like myself you will enjoy it as much as I have... Best regards from Wales UK :0)x
wenglishsal 1 year ago
@wenglishsal I sure have, its really good isn't it!? I watched it right after reading the book for the first time, I"m still discovering the rest of the books and movies. But this version of Northanger Abbey is what actually hooked me to Jane Austen.=D
luna4ever36 1 year ago
go to a search engine and type in "Period films" "Period era romantic films" or the same on wikipedia search "Period era books', "Victorian Era books". If there is a book written by a woman author,it'll probably have at least one or two films by the same name.That's what I did and found much.Even YouTube has under "Period films" a lot.(Not just for women,they have been my favourite films for 40 years.)
RasMajnouni 1 year ago
Wow, this catches the nature of Catherine so well. Love...
MordiaPender 1 year ago
well said i always found hollywood gaudy and brash,and just love british films,,canada
jminto88 1 year ago 27
@jminto88 Totally agree. I get so annoyed by Hollywood movies that are always glamorous, always in a big city, with people who have great jobs & apartments, where everyone down to the last extra is gorgeous, every hair in place and every outfit expensive. it's so fake!! I can't relate to it at all, and I'm sure most of America can't either! If they do make movies that are more like real life, they're usually ultra depressing and vulgar. I rarely watch movies anymore unless they're British.
BlankCanvas88 6 months ago 2
i dare say pride and prejudice is still one my best read among austen's novels and among other novels, in fact. But i enjoy her books and the reference of other works in the olden times. :)
muradori 1 year ago 2
"I wonder if all that reading can be good for her" hah hah Love it!! Thanks
jennmooney 1 year ago 4
i loved the novel, it was funny and sweet. i really liked catherine, her very least perfect heroine.
i was really really cute.
bchan89 1 year ago 2
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frivoller 1 year ago
you could try a movie called "A Room With A View" i thought it was in the same genre
AVarela623 1 year ago
ermm, you could try The Forsyte saga (its romance and drama) there is an old black and white version, and a modern one, starring Damien Lewis both on youtube. The turn of the screw (ghost story), adaptions of anything by Catherine Cookson (all romance and drama), Little Dorritt maybe? Can't think of anything else I'm afraid.
MoonPhase94 1 year ago
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frivoller 1 year ago
@frivoller Try "Emma"
Susana1027 1 year ago
Thank you for posting n sharing. enjoy....linking ~ connecting ~~~
sparklesparkling 1 year ago
2:18 hee hee what could be the harm indeed - a few harmless novels - if her father only knew! (:o)
suelizjohnson 1 year ago
I actaully like the movie more than the book. But Northanger Abbey is my least fav Austen book! The movie pretty good-Felicity Jones has a very expressive face and she's beautiful, and JJ Fields is quite handsome!!!
manicoco18 1 year ago
really it is your least fave novel? Its one of my faves, just because it is one of her edgy novels.
Sarcastic07 1 year ago 2
I felt it was a very long read and not as exciting as the movie, but I still like it! Just not as much as Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Persuasion.
manicoco18 1 year ago
hahaha okay I totally feel you. It def does take you awhile to get into it compared to her other novels
Sarcastic07 1 year ago
i finished the novel in about 48 hours.
best read ever.
bellathebeasty 1 year ago
@bellathebeasty really? Northanger abbey is your favorite Austen novel?
manicoco18 1 year ago
Northanger abbey is my fave Austen novel. I had studied Gothic literature for a year, and reading Austens send up of the genre was hilarious. I prefer it over all the others. ^^
MoonPhase94 1 year ago
the main actress is really very sweet. overall its ok but not as awesome as P&P, S&S or P.
azurixa 1 year ago
I liked it but it must have been JJ Fields that made this story more watchable. You had to have decent stars to make this watchable.
mpjrdldn 1 year ago 2
the man who plays her father is one of the worst actors ever!
HannaForTheWin 1 year ago
omjeez, srsly? "she is almost pretty today!"
I would DIE.
Freakforphotos 2 years ago 15
omg i would too
cjgood90 2 years ago
@Freakforphotos have you read the book?
MhairiLarry 1 year ago
I adore this novel.
xxxbeccaxrxxx 2 years ago
What?! This is my favorite Jane Austen novel! It is a laughable parody of a gothic novel. Jane Austen's comments on gothic novels are hilarious.
QueXseraXsera 2 years ago 128
this novel is quite a work of art, however as far as a plot goes it does absolutely nothing. It's not gripping at all, she simply highlights social and intellectual context of her time era.
bleep111 1 year ago
Agreed. The novel wasn't much fun to read. Austin beat her point into the ground and the plot really suffered.
westerneyes 1 year ago
@QueXseraXsera Lol, your comment is so old but I had to say, I feel the same way. Jane Austen has an excellent sense and her commentary throughout the book is some of the funniest I've read in my life.
urbanr0cker 1 year ago 4
@QueXseraXsera and it's filled with such charm! ^_^
lijluvr356 1 year ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
This is my least fav of the Jane Austen novels or movies.
lizardshade 2 years ago
*Gasp* Everyone is entitled to there opinions but you must tell me why you dislike this one!
MIRANDAlegheadsmack 2 years ago
I just do not like it. I find it doesnt have the complexity of Sense and Sensibilty or Pride and Prejudice or Mansfield Park. It doesnt compare to Persuasion which is my favorite. The plot is weak and it just isnt her best work.
lizardshade 1 year ago
is this the whole film on youtube?
pescilinirosso 2 years ago
love this book!!!! i'm glad they made this =]
timenchips 2 years ago
In the book her imagination was never i guess played out so as in this and its so funny
DIGS179 2 years ago 3
She doesn´t even look 17 here...
bucicuci 2 years ago
HEHE "My God Mrs Allen!" Catherine's fantasies make me laugh!!:P
Sibzlipz 2 years ago 5
Casting leaves something to be desired, aesthetically, for many of Austin's movies... I think that a lot of the characters should have warning captions precede their onscreen appearance to protect the faint-hearted & easily disturbed. what's more, the ugliest ones seem to be the first to comment on someone else's lack of beauty. LOL
pearlgirl121 2 years ago 4
haha Cathy is like me, always fantasizing about things!
Countess777 2 years ago 11
3:58 catherine reminds me of taylor swift
geengengena 2 years ago
lol i would not say any of the men r Hot in this film But a very good show Well mr tilney is sorta handsome but the other guys are so dam ugly okay Richard Armitage is what u call HAWTTiE LOL
stubornbutterflygrl 2 years ago
Oh this is the version where she has weird daydreams with sexual undertones
carjpie 2 years ago 8
It's a little weird to me, in the book she always seemed very genuinely frightened by things in Udolpho, not turned on...
MIRANDAlegheadsmack 2 years ago 4
Who does the music for this film?
valerysgirl 2 years ago
There is another version of Northanger Abbey (1986) which is also very good. It is very gothic with weird music and Mr. Tilney is more imposing rather than cute. Unfortunately, the dresses and hairstyles are all wrong, but the acting is quite good. I think it is available on youtube. It is worth watching.
injaley 2 years ago
Danny Elfman.... :D Adooooore....
EnnaSilme 2 years ago 5
Why did they mention baseball? was that added for an american audience? And i thought Catherine went to Bath when she was 17
457hatlovin 2 years ago
No, baseball is definitely in the book, and it's supposedly an earlier version of the modern game. But yes, she didn't go to Bath until she was 17. :)
oboestavs 2 years ago 4
cast is absolutely great!
lovely introducing:D
dziobaczka18 2 years ago 3
Over many years I realize that British films are like classic art oil paintings in a gilt frame,while many "Hollywood" films are akin to color tinted postcards of "Chicken Charlie's"in Kalamazoo,Michigan.
RasMajnouni 2 years ago 219
I approve of this comment.
Melusine0989 2 years ago
@RasMajnouni Couldn't agree more. The BBC version of P&P (1995) proves that without a shade of doubt. Understated, classic and universal - that's what British productions are.
2009ashokb 1 year ago 2
@RasMajnouni couldn't agree with you more. i love period peices, i love jane austen, and i love england.....i sincerely plan to live there one day
shorty1804 1 year ago 5
@RasMajnouni well, that's true - but with a few exceptions...
Claronium780 1 year ago
@RasMajnouni haha made me laugh out loud!!!
akarichara 1 year ago
@RasMajnouni Ummmm.....don't knock Kalamazoo, MI. It's a pretty town :) Such a great movie, though!
cberg112 1 year ago
in addition to my other comment, has this thought ever occurred to anyone?? or is it just me that this movie is perhaps, may i attempt to say, better than the book itself [in my opinion that is] because of such a beautiful cast that they got there n the 2 main charaters, Mr Tilney n Miss Morland, were portrayed so well?? LOL plus they also wear very pretty clothes =)
mariarochester 2 years ago 5
I ve thought the same thing, that the cast have brought out the characters so very well, especially Mr.Tilney. Just perfect.. and the book was funny but did not give an impression of such absolute light heartedness.
madaithiranthu 2 years ago 3
hahhaah yeaa absolutely "just perfect" :)
mariarochester 2 years ago
i think u r totatly right. the cast is well chosen and there is a smooth mood in this film i really liked it.
doaasamy1 2 years ago 3
why is it that the wives always address their husbands as Mr. this and that??! I mean, Im just curious why..LOL its like all this kind of movies that i've seen so far..=)
waione03 2 years ago
my fav JA movie <3 i just adore it lol
loveeee Henry Tilney n Catherine Morland
mariarochester 2 years ago 2
i have almost every line memorized now i've seen this movie so many times!
love jane austen and this movie:)
devonelizabeth101 2 years ago
i love these old movies
Crusty0005 2 years ago 2
I am seeing this film for the 7th time... I can not get enough!!!
Love the book! I read it in english( I'm german) and it was not quit easy to understand the old english language..but i did it and finished =)
I like this story very much and also other from jane austen great stories!
dolceXmelita 2 years ago 3
Just finished reading the book for the second time and now I'm watching the movie for the second time.
tiffers1912 2 years ago 2
i am reading the book :x
methmallow 2 years ago 2
i am also reading the book...
nichyyisfreknawesumm 2 years ago 2
Did cricket exist in early 19th century?
anisete46 2 years ago
Oh yes, cricket goes back to 1598, and it was very popular during Regency times.
j0andc0 2 years ago 2
Yes, the sixteenth century.
ElleAgnes 2 years ago
I too, saw a different adaption of this and was unimpressed. Thank you so much for uploading this wonderful version. It's really wonderful!!
gnarlywrinkledwench 2 years ago
what was the other adaptation please?
anisete46 2 years ago
In the youtube search box, type in: Northanger Abbey BBC 1986. The full movie is uploaded by animegirlUK. Although I'm just now playing it again, and don't recognize it. Oops. Oh, well, that is a different version. Enjoy. :)
gnarlywrinkledwench 2 years ago
Was it the 1986 version? It is very odd. And not that good. Love this one!
shaybean54 2 years ago 2
this movie is so cute...it must of been fun to film the scenes where she's daydreaming! LOL...and Catherine is really pretty! :)
MidnightSparkles17 2 years ago 7
absolutely adore 2:35 !!! So silly and funny. One of my favorites, especially since there is an excerpt from this Jane Austen in the book Atonement, a priceless one. I adore English Literature!
studygirl15 2 years ago 12
This adaptation portrays the overall feel of the book really well I think. Such a cute film.
fishi05 2 years ago 14