to absolutely love the film Sense and Sensibility

[emkana]

[sighs]

[wipes tear from eye]

Am watching it on +1 atm.

Good innit? If you overlook the fact that Emma Thompson is faaaaar too old to play Elinor.

Me too - Alan Rickman is wonderful ...

See, all the way through it I was internally yelling "Elinor is NINETEEN, fgs, NINETEEN!!!"

But I kept it all inside!

I love the BBC version.

Dot, I was totally put off Alan Rickman when he wouldn't sign an autograph for some little boy who was a HP fan.

I like the Andrew Davies BBC version too, I think it's v well cast, emphasises the villainy of Willoughby better, and I love David Morrisey.

Must watch it again!

Also love it...swoon... Also find it so romantic that Emma Thompson and Greg Wise met doing this film and have been a real life couple for yonks!

Also madly love the BBC version of Pride & Prejudice with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle. Has this adaptation ever been bettered? The ultimate period drama IMO...

YANBU, Alan Rickman - HELLO.

Oh it's lovely. Casting Alan Rickman saves it from the big flaw of the book, which is that it seems a bit harsh to fob a teenaged Marianne off with an old bloke who happens to have a crush on her. If the old bloke is actually Alan Rickman, then suddenly I stop feeling sorry for Marianne.

Off topic, is anyone else looking forward to Snape's big scenes in the last Harry Potter film rather too much?

yes.

Love ,love , love this adaptation too . Alan Rickman fabulous and oh , everyone else also wonderful . Hugh Laurie's few lines make me smile ,and the brilliant actress ( forget name )who plays his wife.

Beautiful scenery.

I'm looking forward to Snape's costumes - all that buttoned-up swishy black....[thrill]

It's Imelda Staunton, the wife.
The whole film is glorious from beginning to end.
It's the only film where Hugh Grant is actually ok, as well.

I've forgotten what Snape does in the last book...

Am going to have to reread

Quite agree that making Rickman Brandon scores big time for the original script. Yes ET is way, way too old for Elinor but you're not going to write that script and then go "oh good lord, there's no decent part for me". You would rip it out of Ang Lee's hands and do laps with it round Wembley.

"Then - you are not married" - a classic film moment. Loved loved loved it.

OOh yes to swishy black...

Glorious sums it up . Good word ,yes .

Dinah - Snape seems to be the worst of all baddies but has a redemption.

Oh yes. All those little gasps and shy sly looks as they look up from their needlepoint.

It's the perfect rainy day film.

Hugely enjoyable also is the Keira Knightley Pride and Prejudice.
I am not a huge fan of her but that film makes me clap my hands with delight.

Noooo, the KK adaptation is very irritating in it's wrongness.

it's its

Nooooooooo it's fantastic apart from the horrid, horrid modern reimagining of some of the best lines.
But the costumes, oh my god.
And the cinematography.
And some of the scenes are breathtaking.

(Others, I admit, are not)

Love the KK film.

Love S&S too, although ET way too old. I think Kate W is gorgeous as Marianne.

I have met Alan Rickman and have his autograph - oooh that voice.)

Agree with Dinah, Keira Knightley the most wooden actress ever IMO, terrible Lizzy. The rest of the film and acting is ok I guess. But BBC is a masterclass, perfect in every way.