so wrong for each other! How did they ever get together? I can't imagine them ever having been in love - they're hideously ill-matched.
That's a back story I wouldn't mind having explained.
Otherwise, this movie was really cute and quaint. I love Austen and appreciated the parallel storylines in this film.
I've got an appetite for destruction but I scrape the plate.
I think part of their story was (like in Persuasion) they used to love each other and are trying to find a way to love each other again. As time passed she or he or both changed and they are struggling to find each other again.
shareIts been awhile since I've read the book but their backstory is explained there. They met a bar while Prudie was in college. Prudie says how she could tell that Dean was popular in highschool (Prudie wasn't popular) and how he was good looking and kind. She felt lucky that someone like him would like her. He had a love-at-first-sight kinda feeling when he saw her and asked her to dance at the bar. He thought he was lucky to have someone like her like him back.
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I agree...they seemed completely ill-suited to each other, just on looks alone, let alone interests and mannerisms.
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I think opposite personalities attract, but not people with different interets. What's there to talk about? How do you connect? ect...
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"There are plenty of things to talk about. Just because they don't share the same favorite leisure activities doesn't mean they wouldn't have anything to talk about. They would talk about their jobs, the environment, politics, religion, current events -- lots of things."
Hmm, well I suppose I sort of included stuff like politics/religion in my description of 'interests'. I think two people need to have similar views on the world and life to connect and I also think other interests, such as movies, music, ect... also play a huge role in how sucessful a relationship is. I know I'm going way off on a tangent here, but I know from personal experience that unless two people share similar views and likes/dislikes, the relationship always ends up somewhat superficial. I don't know. Maybe that's just my experience. But if two people are really passionate about something (i.e music, politics) they're more likely to connect. Then, when you go even deeper, you have two people connecting based on similar issues, backgrounds, wants, fears, ect...But I can't see that being the case with Prudie and Dean, until the end of Jane Austen Book Club.
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I thought Dean got a bit of a rough ride really. He was insensitive about the Paris trip, but after all, it wasn't his fault that they couldn't go (although I did understand her disappointment). In the book, he's actually a much nicer, more sensitive character still.
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I agree. In the movie, I got the feeling that he had suspicions about what his wife was up to. It's bad enough that she contemplated having an affair; even to the point of showing up at the motel. The fact that it was with a much younger guy and a student of hers no less was even more disturbing. I wished he had called her on his suspicions. I felt that he deserved better than her. That would never happen though in a "chick flick".
Yes, that Prudie was even considering such a reckless act clearly illustrates how mixed up she is. I agree that Dean got a bad rap. And I’m not convinced that they’re opposites or that they are mismatched.
A lot of couples have different interests from each other. Lots of men enjoy sports, hunting, poker, fishing, watching horror flicks and other things while their wives have zero interest in those things. Their wives have interests that the husbands do not share, but in most cases, they also have interests in common with their spouses.
Having unlike interests is very different from having unlike principles.
Sooooo mismatched. The "opposites attract" thing can't realistically work for very long in real terms; if you are such different people things just can't work. I didn't buy it at ALL when their marriage actually worked out and they stayed together and happy in the end. I call a big BS on that.
It happens all the time. People don't really know what's good for them until later in life. You can go all the way back to Austen. Plainly Mr. and Mrs. Bennet are not a good match either.
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