Northanger Abbey

I sat and eagerly awaited Northanger Abbey yesterday evening. I had a smile on my face through the whole movie. It is completely wonderful! I even think my darling would have liked it if he had dared stayed. It is making fun of the gothic novel from those days and Catherine, our heroine, has a lot of trouble of separating fantasy from reality after reading too many scandalous novels as The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe. Which also reminds me that I have had that novel at home for like to months without reading it. But it is in two THICK volumes and it feels invincible at the moment.

The only negative I have to say about this adaptation is that the male actors could have been more handsome. In the novel they are portrayed as to dashing young men, but here, nope. JJ Fields who plays Henry Tilny, however, has something of Jude Law over him. It must be his charming smile that does it. But William Beck who takes on the role as John Thorpe has nothing what so ever. He looks almost grotesque (I am sorry if there are any fans out there, but I do not like his appearance one bit!). What do you think? Check him out here. But one cannot get everything here in the world. Not everybody can be as dashing as James McAvoy! ;)