Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Moratorium, please.

I would like it if no characters were called "Mr. Darcy" ever again. Or likened to Mr. Darcy. Or described with Mr. Darcy-like qualities. I would like to see all Jane Austen-related books and/or movies shelved indefinitely. Literally and figuratively.

This well is dry, ya'll, and I have been sent over the edge by a trailer for The Jane Austen Book Club. Enough!

But: more Jake Ryan. More Nick Carraway. More Jake Barnes. More Joseph Fiennes in Shakespeare in Love. What ever happened to Joseph Fiennes? Let's bring him back.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

From what I can tell, Mr. Fiennes' Darcy-like qualities got him slapped with the "difficult" label, and he's been making tiny-budget direct-to-video movies for the past decade.