I’m watching Sense and Sensibility

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Isn’t Alan Rickman so bloody lovely?

Great film.

Alison Steadman nails Mrs Bennnet. I adore her in the role. Again, the 2005 version is a pale imitation in that respect.

She's meant to be wonderfully awful - if you've read the book, you know.

I loved all of the actors in P+P although I did get bloody irritated by Julia Sawalha but Lydia is supposed to be immature and annoying isn’t she?

Mr Collins was hilarious and I loved Alison Steadman, ooh I really want to re watch it now

That was another thing I liked about the 2005 film: the casting of the younger sisters. Julia Sawalha was 27 when she played the 15 year old Lydia whereas Jena Malone was 21 and Carey Mulligan was 20, so a bit closer to the ages of Lydia and Kitty...

Not fair to bitch about this when i’ve said how much I love ET as Elinor regardless of her age, but I think it’s important that we get a sense of how very young Kitty was to be running around with the militia...

I wish people would stop going on about how old everyone is/isn’t. I remember watching the film S&S the first time (before I’d read the book) and I had no idea how old people were supposed to be in it and IT DIDN’T MATTER.

This thread made me see if I could get the Amanda Root version of Persuasion last night but doesn't seem to be around anywhere to download. I think I've got the dvd somewhere but no DVD player at the moment 😔

I saw Amanda Root on the tube about ten years ago. I was so star struck but I don't think anyone else noticed her ( clearly not as obsessive over Jane Austen adaptions as me!)

Totally totally L❤VE this film.

Yes the ages are a bit asked, but each actor does a brilliant job in their character.

Emma's ugly crying scene was brilliant.

But for me, Mr Rickman steals the show 😁

Askew

I still have the book that came out with Emma Thompson's script and diary. She hadn't intended to play Elinor but needed to get the film made. I didn't care as I adored her and all the other ages are random too.

This one: Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility Screenplay: The Screenplay & Diaries https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0747524084/ref=cmswwrcppapi_sCz3BbVKAHGAJ

Marianne always gets on my nerves,
I think Marianne is very irritating

I think Kate Winslett is irritating so it’s a double whammy. Her whole ‘Im working class because we only went on holiday to Cornwall and the car was always breaking down’ thing. Kate - that wasn’t being working class. That was being a kid in the seventies

Emma Thompson is amazing in that film and I think it works that she’s older. The real fear of being an old maid - having no money and no status and life being incredibly fragile - would have been realistic for an unmarried young woman then. Less so for a 19 year old now. The fear of being left on the shelf still makes sense though - and is particularly live at 35. I think she captures the ‘what will become of me’ dread brilliantly.

Also just want to plug a really old school BBC adaptation - Mansfield Park - with the brilliantly named Sylvestra Le Touzel as Fanny. Fab.

Managing to ignore the Donald Sutherland info earlier

Yes the S&S ages were wrong but i don't think it mattered, though i couldn't really tell what age Elinor was actually supposed to be and mrs dashwood must have had the longest period of fertility known to womankind. I didn't much go for the Margaret extras, and hate the way people now put Margaret in because they've seen the film. But I think Ang Lee is a genius, thingy who played Lucy is perfect (tjough sad not to have her elder sister, who was brilliant in the KK version) and in fact it is really good to have Elinor and Colonel B looking so much closer in age, they make a plausible couple to us which helps the plot along.

What was so wrong with Susannah Harker as Jane in P&P?

This thread made me see if I could get the Amanda Root version of Persuasion last night but doesn't seem to be around anywhere to download.

I found it on YouTube some time back; don't know if it's still there.

Marianne is supposed to be irritating, isn't she?

I think I read somewhere that the makers of P&P considered a younger actress for Lydia, but decided they needed someone more experienced as it was such a key role.

Jane is meant to be the conventionally beautiful, more so than Lizzie. The Jane BBC was attractive but didn’t fit Austen’s description.

S&S isn't on Netflix. I'm bereft. 😩 Think I have to have an indoor day today due to illness and thought it'd be just the thing.

Looks like I have a choice of P&P (both bbc and KK) or Emma (bbc).

Alan Rickman is the love of my life

I absolutely detest Alison Steadman as Mrs B. She makes a tragi-comic character into an appallingly unsubtle cartoon. Dreadful.

Remus
I liked Mrs Bennet in the new P&P film (Brenda Blethyn, I had to google it!) and it made me see Alison Steadman’s Mrs Bennet in a different light - I agree it was too much.

The 1995 p&p is often criticized over the actors ages too, but I don't mind if actors are older than the characters they portray, as long as they capture a sense of their character. I think it would be difficult for a 19 year old to portray Elinor well, she is young but she as an old soul I think.

@OliviaStabler Or what? You’ll hit me with that ffffffffish?

Matthew Macfadyen Is my favourite Darcy, there is something about that man that gets me all of a dither. I loved him in Little Dorrit

I am watching 1995 p&p now and i think Jane is beautiful. Her features are very classic i think, and her skin and colouring are lovely. I loved Matthew in little Doritt but he wouldn't be my favourite Darcy, he has a sort of sadness and vulnerability about him that doesn't work for the arrogant Darcy imo.

Deadringer
Agree about Elinor being an old soul and McFayden not being quite right as Darcy

@TeaStory Or what? You’ll hit me with that ffffffffish?

Tell a person that you're the Metatron and they stare at you blankly. Mention something out of a Charlton Heston movie and suddenly everybody is a theology scholar.

Love MM as Darcy - really beautiful and intense.