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Watched Sense and Sensibility again last night. Please explain ....

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PuddleglumtheMarshWiggle · 23/02/2019 13:28

..why would anyone prefer Willoughby over Colonel Brandon?
And yes, I've read the book a dozen times and understand Marianne's romantic heart. But this is Alan Rickman!
The look in his eyes when he sees her would melt butter! And his voice is as smooth as honey.
The only thing that beats this is seeing Darcy five into the lake.
Pity Jane Austen never knew the great pleasure she brought to do many.

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TinselAngel · 23/02/2019 18:40

Does Georgiana live at the seaside for her health? Isn't she sickly?

Pishogue · 23/02/2019 18:43

The sickly one in P and P is poor whiny Lady Anne de Bourgh (though wouldn't you take to your bed, too, if you had Lady Catherine as your mother?) but maybe you're right and we're intended to think that Georgiana is having a few months in the sea air for her health after leaving school and before making her home with her brother.

TinselAngel · 23/02/2019 18:59

My lapse of memory means I clearly need to read the book and/ or watch the film again! Hurrah! (I might do it later tonight) Smile

Quintella · 23/02/2019 19:09

Lady Anne de B probably just had a touch of asthma. I hope that once dear Mama passed on and she inherited Rosings (she wouldn't be usurped by some dreary male relative) she tore down all the dusty tapestries and went for a more dust unfriendly Scandi interior style. And got up to all sort of scandalous activities with all sorts of men she had no intention of marrying.

Quintella · 23/02/2019 19:11

She had made a right cake of herself in front of everyone and they would want to hide her away.

'a right cake' Grin

BartonHollow · 23/02/2019 19:11

Even though in the awful Death Comes To Pemberley Col. Fitzwilliam throws himself at Georgiana and it's all hugely Hmm

I thought it was an obvious shout for him to paper marriage Anne De Bourgh, await her death and then marry for love

HorseDoorBolted · 23/02/2019 19:11

Grin me too Quintella!

BartonHollow · 23/02/2019 19:14

Marianne was a huge embarrassment though

Her conduct would still have been gossip when Margaret "came out"

"The sister of the one who threw herself down a hill in the rain over a man she was never engaged to, Brandon's delicate wife"

Quintella · 23/02/2019 19:19

I hope Margaret Dashwood married a naval man and travelled the high seas with him, like Mrs Croft in Persuasion.

Pishogue · 23/02/2019 19:23

I thought it was an obvious shout for him to paper marriage Anne De Bourgh, await her death and then marry for love

I like your matrimonial scheming, Barton. I've always felt Colonel Fitzwilliam telling Lizzie that earls' younger sons very often can't marry where they please i.e. 'Don't be expecting a proposal from me, pretty-but-impecunious lady!' was more than a bit pointed.

Possibly Anne would have held on for decades out of sheer cussedness, though, giving an occasional death rattle to get his hopes up. Grin

NotANotMan · 23/02/2019 20:09

Georgiana went to pemberley later didn't she? She was staying there when Lizzie turns up there.

BMW6 · 23/02/2019 20:22

Surely in the film Brandon wins Marianne's heart when he reads poetry to her with a depth of feeling that she berated the Ferrers chap (Hugh Grant)for lacking?

BartonHollow · 23/02/2019 20:26

Yes but Georgiana was visiting because Darcy was hosting what the housekeeper called "a large party of friends"

Aka

Bingley
Miss Bingley
Mr and Mrs Hurst

Grin
TheZeppo · 23/02/2019 20:33

Does anyone else mix and match?

I’d like Marianne to have met a remorseful, mature Wickham and have married him.

Let’s put poor Kitty Bennett with Willoughby. Imagine the dinner party (if Lydia stays with Wickham).

I want Charlotte Lucas with Colonel Brandon! What a lovely couple!

Is it just me?

BartonHollow · 23/02/2019 20:45

I can see Brandon and Lucas

I can see Kitty and Fitzwilliam actually

What about Poor old Mary

Eminently suitable for Collins poor girl

millythepink · 23/02/2019 21:19

Georgiana was 'taking the air' at Ramsgate which was the fashionable way to spend your summer in Georgian times.

The Ang Lee interpretation of Col. Brandon bears little resemblance to the Austen character. Austen's Brandon was 20 years older than Marianne, already complaining about rheumatism and always wore a flannel vest to keep out the cold. Hardly the stuff of a young girl's dreams. But Marianne had so compromised her reputation that it was a clear case of beggars can't be choosers and she was lucky and grateful to get Brandon.

BartonHollow · 23/02/2019 21:22

Particularly like Charlotte Lucas if Marianne was really fortunate she'd provide him with a male heir, be widowed after a short while, perhaps by her late twenties, then be independently wealthy and free to decide who or if she would remarry.

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