Manic Monday: Big Screen Philosophers Award Announcement

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This Monday we are leaving the manic behind for once and are trying us on some #MondayMotivation. There's a new project coming your way - our very own, very serious contribution to award season:

BIG SCREEN PHILOSOPHERS AWARDS

Look forward to some fun categories and the big award revelation next week after the Oscar buzz has died down. We kindly invite you to check in with us on social media or on our new and so far underused YouTube channel during this week. We'll be revealing new categories and nominees every day :)

Manic Monday: Jane Austen's Fight Club: Pride and Prejudice and Punching

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Jane Austen is known for her prim and chaste heroines. Witty – yes, but nonetheless subdued by the 19th century standards of propriety and female modesty. Not exactly the stuff that strikes a chord with the majority of us 21st-century people. And Austen's girls are finally fed up with that.

Jane Austen’s Fight Club (2010) is a fanmade short film that takes up the idea of Palahniuk’s and Fincher’s Fight Club (1999) and inserts Austen’s female characters into that setting. 

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Bored with their monotonous everyday routines, Elizabeth Bennet, Emma and Co., all dressed up in frilly 19th century style dresses, begin to fight each other in secret. Subsequently, they become more confidant and lively and quickly discard society’s expectations of adequate behaviour for women.

Do I need to say more? Just check out the video and enjoy watching Austen’s heroines give vent to all the pent up hostility they had to repress in their respective novels, and beat the crap out of each other.