Emma

[funmummy48]

I saw this afternoon and thought it was lovely. I’ve seen other adaptations so was a bit ambivalent about going but it was raining & horrid outside so it seemed a good way to fill an afternoon. So pleased I went as I thoroughly enjoyed it.

[funmummy48]

I saw this film this afternoon......is what I meant to say! 😳

[Sewingbea]

I saw it yesterday too and also really enjoyed it. Took teenage DD and met her best friend and best friends mum there and they all loved it too. Would certainly recommend, it's very much played for the laughs and is great fun.

[madeyemoodysmum]

I love the storey Emma can't wait to see it.

[funmummy48]

Yes, @Sewingbea it was very funny & there was also a moment where the whole cinema audience did a sharp intake of breath, simultaneously. In the interest of spoilers, I won’t say when but I’m sure you’ll know where I mean. 😉

[AuntieMarys]

I dislike Jane Austen adaptations but this does look fun.

[hammeringinmyhead]

I enjoyed this. Perhaps not as funny/witty/modern as the trailer makes it appear.

[LizziesTwin]

Went to see this earlier this evening & really enjoyed it. Loved the wardrobe & settings. We found the change in heights of the characters confusing, they seemed to keep growing & shrinking.

[bruffin]

Loved it, gorgeous film ,

[Babybel90]

Not as good as some other adaptations, I thought the Emma character was obnoxious when she should have been oblivious, and not enough was made of Miss Fairfax and Miss Bates. And the scene that made everyone take a sharp intake of breath was just plain odd, some very bold choices were made by the director, and I’m not sure they should have been.

[Dowser]

Costumes were fabulous
I think bill nighy, the old trout, was a bit underused
Not as funny as the trailer would have us believe
Didn’t know the story, found it a bit hard to settle into..but enjoyed it over all..wouldnt rush to watch it again..so 5/10
Knocked the spots off the favourite which I hated

[Aridane]

Just came here to see if anyone had started a thread on Emma to see what they thought as I found it disappointing in a number of ways, including

• the pretty Harriet being very plain
  

• there not being the marked age difference between Mr Knightley and Emma
  

• the distracting corkscrew ringlets on Emma
  

• the strong breeze at the Box Hill picnic when in the book it was a sultry, stagnant and airless day - all building up to the toxicity an Emma’s unkind remarks
  

• Mr Knightley being physically unprepossessing, and, oh
  

• the flashes on bare flesh when Mr Knightley was getting dressed. Also Emma suddenly hoiking up her dress to her bum when standing by a fire
  

I did very much like the piano playing scene With Jane Fairfax when Emma plodded through her piece and then Jane blows everyone out of the water with her virtuoso piece

[MrsPelligrinoPetrichor]

Miranda stole the whole thing,she was great 😊

I loved everyone except Emma, thought she was really badly miscast,has she had lots of Botox as she had the same expression on her face throughout the whole thing?

Knightly ...phwoar.

[NewModelArmyMayhem18]

I enjoyed it but thought

Mr Eltham and Frank Churchill almost looked like the same person!

Mr Knightly was younger than I always imagined him to be.

The actress playing Emma wasn't dissimilar looking to Gwynnie and didn't really bring anything new to the role.

Miranda Hart nailed Miss Bates I thought.

The subtle hints of the relationship twixt Frank and Jane were all but lost in this dramatisation.

Agree that Harriet was very plain and couldn't really imagine her appeal.

Other than that the costumes were gorgeous and the locations.

[Delatron]

Yep I got confused between Mr Eltham and Frank Churchill.

Mr Knightly is supposed to be older (40?) in the book. I was listening to Simon Mayo (and Kermode) review and Simon claimed Mr Knightly wasn’t very fanciable in the film. I though yeah right, he was lovely!

Didn’t like the ridiculous tight ringlets (I guess it must have been the fashion?).

I just wanted to put some mascara on Harriet!

[NewModelArmyMayhem18]

And because we were introduced to Mr Eltham first, I found it hard to see the appeal of Frank Churchill.

I thought those tight ringlets were more of a thing in the 1830s/40s?

I did Emma for A Level - I don't recall ever thinking she was blonde.

[MrsPelligrinoPetrichor]

When she warmed her bum wouldn't she have had long knickers/pantaloons on as she's just been dressed? What was the point of that scene?

[MrsPelligrinoPetrichor]

I wanted to mascara Harriet up too

[Aridane]

@MrsPellegrine - to se. It up, I assume

[Aridane]

SeX it up

[MrsPelligrinoPetrichor]

Weird, she wasn't sexy at all, she was like an expressionless gold fish

[LizziesTwin]

I thought women didn’t wear pants until later and to begin they were crotchless (happy to be corrected).

[LizziesTwin]

Googling brought me this. So underwear would have been possible but only just starting. Emma was published in 1815 with Jane Austen dying 2 years later.

[Davespecifico]

I may be wrong, but I thought Jane Austen had intended Emma to be entirely unlikeable. It’s been a long time since I read the book, but I have no memory of Emma becoming more likeable by the end.
I know the Americans like ‘learning’ in films and stories and wondered if they’d made her seem more pleasant after getting her comeuppance, to appeal to the USA market.

[MrsPelligrinoPetrichor]

Interesting about the underwear!

[fourquenelles]

I thought it was a treat for my eyes! I want to see it again so I can concentrate even more on the costumes and room sets. Mr Woodhouse's (Bill Nye) clothes were particularly gorgeous.

The most incongruous thing was seeing two holes in Harriet's earlobes early on. Surely the make up crew could have used some filler to hide one?