I’m watching Sense and Sensibility

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Isn’t Alan Rickman so bloody lovely?

Great film.

No one can play Darcy expect Colin Firth! Bangs gavel

Late to the party but Rickman played Valmont (John Malkovitch part) in a stage production of Dangerous Liaisons. Apparently there was real swooning in the audience.

Conventionally i didn't think much of MM as Darcy - too much vulnerable staring. Kk's endless gazing into mirrors was bloody annoying too. I doubt she'd have been given expensive candles in her bedroom to stare at the mirror. People were together in the best lit rooms and sulking in your room was not ok unless ill. You were supposed to talk.

I know this is a sense and sensibility thread but as mentioned upthread I am watching p&p and I am struck by how kitty and Lydia are treated by the officers. They are dancing with them yes but also pushing them on a swing and generally treating them as they would treat a little sister. Denny in particular speaks to Lydia in a playful tone that makes it clear she is too young for serious flirtation. It shows how truly wicked Wickham was to run off with Lydia, knowing how young and silly she was.

Catpyjama it is one of my lasting regrets that I did not see that production. He would have been so fucking sexy in that part.

infinite I think I saw that on a top 5 regrets of the dying meme. Nobody every does thinking 'I wish I'd spent more time at work', but they might pass thinking 'God I wish I'd seen Alan Rickman seducing a chaste society wife in full 18th Century costume'

I'm going down have to watch the 'new' P&P, aren't I. I actually like Keira Knightley, and I hear the scenery is good, I just....the 1995 version is stamped thorough my heart.

The film of S&S blurs with Howard's End for me, which is why I always think of Anthony Hopkins whenever people mention Brandon. It's a better film though.

Sorry about the typos

I loved David Rintoul as Darcy.

He was my first Darcy. I loved him too.

Well, look what you lot made me do...

She certainly doesn't end it at 35.

No one has yet mentioned my favourite scene in the film, the deliciously toe curling moment when Edward calls on Elinor when they are in town and doesn't realize that Lucy Steele is also there - who he is secretly engaged to and he hadn't yet called on. He doesn't know that Elinor knows, then Marianne bursts in and is pushing Edward to compliment Elinor - it's just so awkward and the sort of scene Hugh Grant does beautifully.

Austen liked to watch her male characters squirm didn't she

There is a tiny, tiny snippet of Alan Rickman in Les Liaison Dangereuses on YouTube, from the 1987 Tony Awards. I was disappointed, he was a bit hammy in it for me, and I absolutely adore him.

He came into the classical department of the big HMV on Oxford Street around the time he was filming S&S, I think every female member of staff in the shop suddenly gravitated down there! Even better, he was browsing Mahler, which was in my section at the time, so I got to go and grab my pile of stock to go out and lurk next to him. Didn't know you could blush all over your body before then... [embarrassed]

Loving this thread so much, I adore that film. Kevintheyucca, I once had the pleasure of standing next to Willoughby (Greg Wise - lucky lucky ET!), about two years after S&S came out, and felt as giddy as Marianne. Sublime!

In a bar. I didn’t just randomly stand next to him in the middle of the road or anything.

I was at an event once that Emma Thompson was attending but I was too embarrassed to go and speak to her.

One of my favourite films.....I cry every time! 

I'd like to say I've spoken to Alan Rickman, but I actually just stood next to him and shook for a while, whilst he gave me his autograph.

Kevin and Remus I am so jealous that you’ve both been in such close proximity to him

I will forever regret that I never saw him on stage

I’m jealous of RomCom standing next to Greg Wise!

I don’t see the big appeal of Alan Rickman, wonderful actor but I don’t find him attractive. Too camp for me.

Emma I think he’s very charismatic and that mesmerising voice....... , not conventionally handsome like Greg Wise but there’s something very very appealing when he’s on the screen.

I have:
met Emma Thompson
met Greg Wise
met Kenneth Branagh (I know, you didn't ask)
been in the same theatre bar as Alan Rickman
spoken to Jennifer Ehle
spoken to Alison Steadman

Not bad going for Austen-adaptaption-encounters.

Everyone has to read Jane Austen: The secret radical, by Helena Kelly.

I second this. It put a lot of Austen in a different light for me.

As for S&S, yes, ET and AR are too old but so were the actors who played Mr & Mrs Bennett in both the 2005 & 1995 versions of P&P (although Alison Steadman and Benjamin Whitrow we're superb).

Marianne in S&S has to be my top love to hate character. She's so annoying. And like Jane Bennett, is one of those tedious characters who nearly dies from having a cold.

I think it was probably pneumonia, rather than a cold - at least in Marianne's case.