I’m watching Sense and Sensibility

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Isn’t Alan Rickman so bloody lovely?

Great film.

It's his voice Another

Confession. I don't like Jane Austen's books. I love a film or tv adaptation of them but to actually read, no thank you. I had to study her at uni and write essays and everything so I have tried. Can't get enough of a bbc series though so it's a bit puzzling.

Feel better for admitting that.

For the Alan fans. YOU'RE WELCOME.
(No time? Skip to 2m 14s)

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^^Nothing dodgy, just the Texas video for In Demand. 😊 💃🏻🕺🏻

OrdinaryGirl I LOVE that video

I can almost imagine how his neck smells. 😍 A lovely expensive woody cologne. And the way he puts his arm around her in the car. His confidence. His inscrutable face. WE DIE.

I watched the Jennifer/Colin P&P at an impressionable age so it’s the one for me. I do love S&S. agree with those who say the ages being off doesn’t matter for me as the acting is amazing. LOVE the feathers/nose pinching scene too. And all th awkward HG moments.

Have we mentioned the 2008 version with Hattie Morahan as Elinor and David Morrissey as Brandon? I thought the casting was good (although sorry David you're not as sexy as Alan!) I loved Charity Wakefield's dreamy Marianne. Her and Dominic Cooper absolutely fizzed with sexual tension on screen, much more than Greg Wise & Kate Winslet. Sadly Dan Stevens was a bit forgettable as EF but isn't Edward a bit of a dreary character anyway?

I think this thread is the reason I had a dream about Hugh Grant the other night.

Just watched it, need a feel good film.
Other moments I enjoyed:

• when Lucy Steel gets smacked around the head after admitting her engagement to Edward 😁
• after Marianne recovers "thank you Colonel Brandon" and he visibly grows taller
• also I'm certain Colonel B offered the parish in part because he thought it might change Miss Steel's mind. Total hero all round.

OMG OrdinaryGirl that is Hot!!!!!

Watching because of this thread

Got a bit misty at the theme tune and thought "this is one of the best films ever made!"

😂

Just started on The drama channel x

If you love him in that, do watch Truly, Madly, Deeply if you haven't seen it.
But stock up with tissues first!

Also stars the brilliant Juliet Stevenson.

Thanks Frogsdinner for the heads up!

It’s on Amazon prime ❤️❤️

I do think that AR is wonderful in S & S but he is too old for Marianne (at least to modern eyes). I think he was 48 in that role whereas KW was about 20? There is something a little creepy in a nearly 50 year old man lusting after an innocent young woman. The scene where he passes Marianne a knife to cut the rushes makes me cringe... beautiful acting, so underplayed, it is obvious he admires her in a romantic sense but this is never explicitly stated, rather Marianne senses it and looks ill at ease. He seems almost vampire like to me, like he needs fresh young blood to stay alive He’s very desirable though... to 45 year old me but not I imagine to 20 year old Marianne.

The character of Marianne is 16, whereas Colonel Brandon is 35. More than double her age.

Obviously neither actor looks that age (they both look considerably older), but either way, it's a considerable age gap - unremarkable then, but somewhat uncomfortable for a modern audience, given she wouldn't even be considered an adult nowadays.

I was genuinely a bit distressed when I watched it in German while I was staying with a friend once - there should be LAWS about dubbing Alan Rickman’s dulcet tones... also, I’d not realised until then how many times people talked about things being “an/my honour” (or variations on that theme): it comes up a lot - well, certainly there’s a concentrated enough run for me to have registered it!

Agree, Yemen.

And what the Alan fans forget is that Emma Thompson completely rewrote significant elements of the novel in the screenplay to make both male leads more attractive to a modern audience, and a lot was done with clever casting.

Brandon in the novel is depicted as very much of Mrs Dashwood’s generation (35 to her 40), an old bachelor who wears flannel waistcoats and complains of the rheumatics. Edward Ferrars is a shy, dull, decent, rather prosaic man in the novel — the screenplay and casting Hugh Grant make him funny, sensitive to others’ feelings, self-deprecating and charming in a way he never was in Austen’s version, and makes Elinor’s attraction to him more understandable.

Likewise casting Alan ‘Silent Smoulder’ Rickman and having him be quietly Byronic and tormented — the novel presents him very much as a safe consolation prize for a teenager who’s been hurt and publicly humiliated by her first love.