Jane Austen’s Fight Club
August 27, 2010
by Karen
|5 Comments
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I just love this video, and I have to keep watching it over and over again. At first, I wondered if it were a commercial or preview for an actual movie. However, after looking through www.imdb.com and finding nothing, I think this is a video a bunch of women created just for fun. And it certainly is a lot of fun.
This is a nifty yet anachronistic take on 1800s women who are bored into depression and need some adrenaline and excitement in their lives. Thus, they obtain stronger self-confidence and a different perspective. Instead of just waiting for men to notice them, they actively go out and get the men of their dream.
Considering the original movie Fight Club was all about how stifling suburban life is for men, it’s nice to see one about how women aren’t satisfied with a dull consumer existence either. You might say this glamorizes violence, but remember the Fight Club in the original didn’t solve anything in the end. I could see this being a full-length movie where the women break out of the stereotypical female role (good Jane Austen girls) and try the stereotypical male role (the fight club) only to find that both are horribly confining ways to live, and they go off to find their own individual paths in life. Is there anyplace we can send encouragement/money to make a full-length movie happen?
I think this video is cute – except that it perpetuates a sick idea that women like or need to be punched in the face. This isn’t equality.
It looks like it was fun to make. That’s about it for my comments.
If it were made into a movie, I definitely want it to feature everyone who acted in this video. I imagine a movie as a women’s version of “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthor’s Court” in which Lizzie is a modern woman who finds herself inexplicably in the 1800s and begins to modernize it. It could easily follow Anna’s ending.
The problem is this was made by women having fun. You take this concept and run it through a male writer, male casting agent, male director, male editor and male producers and you’ll wind up with a bunch of plastic women in stilletos and branded product placement lingerie wrestling in mud and having pillow fights. while the women who aren’t fighting stand around in unwearable sexualized product placement fashion. I am pretty sure it only takes one man on a production to ruin a concept and the odds are you would have many more men. They don’t get it and they aren’t going to ever get it. They don’t even realize they make the same lame movies over and over even though it isn’t profitable.
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