There's another trailer up on Yahoo movies. It doesn't show AR as often though...

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I've missed my daily Alan Rickman fix!! I'm sorry for having been a part of this poor club's miserable neglection. As you might know, I've been too busy over the past couple of months to post much (if anything on A-U). But what I have done is to have seen a lot to Mr Rickman. Love Actually, Sense & Sensibility and Harry Potter and the Chanber of Secrets, god, I love the duelling scene with Gilderoy Lockhart - Kenneth Brannagh is so perfectly annoying throughout that movie!!

I love and adore S&S, even more than Pride & Prejudice. But how come poor Rickman ends up with a teenage-Kate... he would have been better off with Emma Thompson... ohh.. but of course, if we're talking about the characters in that movie, it was a happy ending and everyone ended up happy!! (But still... how can they be fighting and swooning over a Hugh Grant when Alan Rickman is in their immediate presence and makes a most eligble single...???)

I loved Love Actually - who doesn't, such a feel good movie - but why does it have to be so long? I almost fell asleep a couple of times!! Blame it on my semester project!!

(I promise I'm gonna post in the Snape club soon, but for now I need to go, my hearties)

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Squee! 'Tis wonderful to see this club up and running again. I've been missing it quite a lot, I have.

Oo, isn't S&S the best? I thought it tremendously better than P&P [not just for the reason that AR is in it]. Actually, I liked it that the young, beautiful girl sort of falls for the man whom nobody seems to notice. The story has almost a fairytale quality to it. Besides, too often AR's character doesn't get the girl, so this made me quite happy.

By the way, has anyone here seen Sweeney Todd yet? I promise I won't get too spoilery, but I must say that Alan's singing was amazing [despite the fact that he's had no singing experience]. His acting was, of course, as well done as can be expected. He was smooth and dangerously sinister through the entire thing. *shivers*

My favourite few lines from him [though not entirely appropriate] sent shivers down my spine -



Gah! *dies*

Aww... when I saw you had posted in the Snape club and here I couldn't help smile wide. It's good to see the two clubs back on page 1 again! And I just now realised how much I have missed posting here and discussing our beloved AR.

I am slowly becoming a romantic... I've been watching too many Jane Austen movies over the last half year (do we have a Jane Austen club?), I can't help it... Love Actually was the best, such great actors and sweet story. But I probably shouldn't have seen it before S&S, after having seen Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman together in Love Actually, it feels all wrong to see them not getting each other in S&S.. Well, I haven't read S&S but did they have the same age difference in the book? But you're right, it does have some fairy tale- air, how it all fits in the end and everyone lives happily ever after... Anyway, the scene where he carries Kate (what's her character name?) home in the rain and then almost collapses on the floor.. aww.. what a gentleman... (oh dear me I am really becoming a romatic.. perhaps even hopeless!!).

So you've seen Sweeney Todd... not fair, you're cheating!! It isn't out here yet, I think we'll have to wait until mid-January or something... but I'm glad you liked it!

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I heartily agree. I knew there was something missing from my AU life, and now I've found it again.

Muahaha! Hopeless romantics are taking over the fandom! It doesn't quite help that so many romance novels and books are becoming popular again, does it? Personally, I think it's a good thing. We all need a bit more love and happily-ever-afters in our lives. [I believe the Jane Austen club is about 4 or 5 pages back...]

Ya know, I haven't actually watched all of Love Actually. I've heard it's fantastic, and I do own it, yet I've never gotten around to watching it, as silly as that sounds. Maybe I should since it's gotten such a good review from a most reliable reviewer.

In the book Colonel Brandon [AR's character] is said to be 35-ish, Elinor [Emma's character] is 25-ish, possibly older, and Marianne [Kate's character] is barely 18. And gah! That's my favourite scene. It's so much more different than when what-his-face, Mr. Pompous Willoughby carries her in because Brandon does it out of love. *fangirly squee*

Ah, just like the UK, then. See, I knew going to the US for the holidays would have its benefits.

I certainly feel all warm and squishy and giggly. But that may be because I'm a die-hard romantic and I just can't help it.

Hey now! 'Tis not my fault the US gets movies faster than we do. You know if I could change the order of it all I would. I think it's silly of them to get such movies before us. It's set in England for goodness sake! I think that alone should give us rights to seeing it first.

[Though, in all seriousness, I have no right to complain. ]

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NO!

No... Eä is not a fan of romantic films...

Eä might... possibly - possibly being the key word here... possibly have become a hopeless romantic... hopeless being second key word, due to her loss of faith in real love, she is slowly entering the world of deep and true love in movies.

Omg, I don't know what is happening to me, but all of a sudden I feel the urge to dress in flowing dresses and spice up my everyday vocabulary with words like 'agreeable' when talking about eligible bachelors and play on my pianoforte while I speak truths like: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

And yes, dear Gimli, I did feel all warm and giggly even when reading your post about Alan Rickman's most delightful appearance in S&S.

Perhaps it is worth an attempt to revive the Jane Austen club... I shall try to dig it up sometime in the new year... would you two ladies want to accompany me there if I find the thread?

Do you really think that's what it's all about Larael? That the new wave of romantic-ness is washing over our cold modern world?

Love Actually is not a fantastic movie, but it is impossible not to love it because of the loving theme and the amazing actors. You should watch it some day; a rainy Sunday curled up on the couch with a cup of tea and some sweets would make the perfect background set up.

Hmm.. I know age doesn't matter.. but still...Elinor was so girlish... and Ar is so... AR'ish..

Well, what torments me the most is that they never show Galaxy Quest on TV... I still need to see it.
But soon.. soon I can watch ST

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Quite sorry dearest. I should've thought about that option as well. It would have been quite lovely to have you along.

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@ Eä: *sigh* If I answered yes to your question then I would only come out looking naïve and stupid. Sadly, I don't think romantic movies and such are doing anything for our modern world, however, they are doing something for me, and that's what makes me happy.

Hmm I understand what you are referring to, Gimli, but I do not entirely agree. It's true that the world is getting bigger and with this comes the possibility that people may become distant from each other, however, although this is happening, we are also forming our own small clusters around ourselves. Like the A-U community is one little group of people, close friends online and offline make up another, school friends/work collegues and even the people in your street or the sales clerks in the shop you frequent might become a part of your little world.
It's true that the world has also become a 'colder' perhaps even more indifferent place to be. But I believe it has also a lot to do with the perceiving the glass as half full or half empty.

Larael, I read over my last post and realised it might have come out in a bitter-sounding way when I asked you why we are witnessing a rebirth of romanticism. It was rather meant to be a wondering. Because I am wondering whether more people are turning to romance and whether this is expressed in movies like Becoming Jane and even our discussions here on romanticism.
I think romanticism can be 'trendy' the way fantasy has been for some years now and perhaps it is a tendency, a reaction from society like JF talks about towards modernity. It definitely does something to me, much the same as fantasy; it provides me a haven some place to delve into, perhaps even a short break from reality. So I completely acknowledge the way you feel about romantic movies... I think it's much the same as I feel.

Personally, I have never been a fangirl before but I have become one now (Who can't with people like AR around!) And yes, sometimes I need to throw myself into a world where true love prevails and Alan Rickman shows the best of himself.

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This post will be utterly long and deal an awful lot with me and my own tedious experiences, so ye be warned.

I love those old TV shows! I always get so emotional, melancholic, nostalgic etc when I watch the reruns of Little House on the Prairie and Dr Quinn Medicine Woman (oh darn, now I admitted to another romantic foible of mine... my reputation is truly falling apart...!) Other times I get drawn into magical worlds in fantasy movies or historical periods, and I want to visit there. Life seemed easier, less complicated, and even though it sounds so simple and perhaps naive, as Larael put it, I'm honestly trying my best to express this without irony, because this is really what I believe when I sit and watch it. However, I usually realise that I wouldn't want to live in any other time or place than my own. I wouldn't fit, and another world wouldn't fit to me. There are good things and bad things about the postmodern world, but so are there about any other time. A hundred years ago the world was smaller and people were closer, things might have been easier, but there were other things to worry about, social class, strict and limiting norms, a huge difference in wealth and economy. Couples who loved each other might not have been able to get married if their families deemed it wasn't an eligible match etc etc. Those are some of the downsides to it.

I come from a small town. Everybody knows me - at least by looks or name because my mom works in the bank where they all go to get their paychecks. I know our neighbours well and I greet everyone in the street even if I don't know them, because they might know my mom or be visiting our neighbours.
I live and study in the city and I don't know many people in my street and greet very few. But I don't feel lonely or uneasy here. I pick my own cluster of friends and the people I associate with and stay close with them, whether it be by my own choice or because of school or work.
What I might be missing - and what I think I read out of your post - is guidelines, the formal way of life you are referring to. I have not deeply devoted myself to a religion, I'm quietly indignant towards politics and I live very loose social norms set by society, though they may vary. Sometimes I feel I need something more, something to guide my life, sort of knowing my place in the world and in my life. Which might as well be 'a formal way of life', as e.g. seen in Jane Austen's novels.

I'm not trying to burst any bubbles or wanting to put anyone's dreams down - my own would surely be the first to burst! I'm trying to explain, however, how I perceive the world, and even though I want to believe 'the good old days' were better, I am not sure I can agree to it - but then again I wasn't there, and I can only speak for myself.

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I think it's interesting to hear other peoples' views on issues such as this. Personally, having grown up in a rural area, I don't really know any of my neighbours, as many of them don't live very close by. I have my own pocket of friends at church and school, but other than that I've found I don't reach out to my community much. It amazes me that people in say, Jane Austen's time, who lived miles and miles from eachother were willing to walk or ride that distance just to socialise. I think it'd be wonderful if people today could do that. I mean, I know reaching out and accepting other people in the other countries is a good thing, however, sometimes we overlook those who are just down the road.

The point I'm trying to make is that with all our technology we tend to overlook those who are closest to us. We over compensate and try to reach too far.