Is anyone else watching the new Sense and Sensebility atm?

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It is good but quite odd as the casting is strangely similar to the film version, ie they all look and sound very alike.

Not actually seen it? flashback to p.o.r.n. thread? Am I detecting a pattern here?

Almost certainly

Look, I have too many opinions to actually watch stuff, OK?

Although I do watch Austen adaptations.

erm, who's in Basic Instinct 2, sorry? And shame on you for lowering the tone, PW. We were all highbrow n stuff.

quite right Sue. Now, back to Col Brandon's round.. face.

policywonk re your earlier v g point about profligacy of gesture, over-expansiveness and general loudness of modern actresses.

Totally agree - but did find Emma Thompson (whom I used to loathe with a passion certainly inflamed by her association with whatsisname the ginger one) utterly mesmerising when she gives her big 'if you prick us do we not bleed' speech.

Tears actually spurt from my eyes every time I see it, I am so (genuinely) moved.

Whilst we are temporarily low-brow, men with round faces don't promise good sex, do they? I can't really say as I wouldn't go near a man with a round face in real life, obviously.

Cheekbones, that's what's needed.

And Mr Bat has v big head. Does that ameliorate matters or just make things worse?

Mind you, even Alan can have his off days.

Aaah, that's better.

you see JackieNo, that's weird, bcs altho the first was a definite NOO!, the second didn't .. move me. I think it really was his acting rather than his arse, iyswim, in S and S 1. And the fact that my adult sexuality was probably forged somewhere between reading P/P at 9 and and S/S at 13...

NOW speak to me about Georgette Heyer..

My BIL has a round face. He's not sexy at all. Bit more like Mr Collins than Mr Darcy. Ick.

You, see, exactly - Rickman is blardy marvellous as, say, Sheriff of Nottingham, but 'tis not always so.

I never really got too over-excited by him saying 'where are ze denonatorz?' 30 times in Die Hard...

oh dear, I appear, to, have, an overactive, comma.

could be worse, Sue.

OBM, can't remember that bit but do want to see it again so will look out for it. I actually rather love Emma T as an actor (and as a hooman bean actually - did you see she was raising a stink about trafficking and the sex trade recently?)

So who is your favourite Heyer hero then Onebatmother? The Duke of Sale? Or the Duke of Avon?

yes, pol, have entirely revised my opinion in the last 10 years or so. Just used to find her so.. Oxon.

Rosa! Swoon at Duke of Avon!
Nearly called DD Leonie with acute accent!
NOW I understand my strange Russell Brand thing! Cruel Campness!
Can't remember Sale though - is he son of Avon?

or am I muddling them?
Which is the one with the cruelly clever violet eyes and fiery red hair (only latterly revealed bcs he's always wearing powdered wig) who seems about to seduce his 'ward' Leonie just before she's revealed to be his bastard duaghter!

Y'all are soo missing out ladies! Austen shmausten.

That was a trick question OBM. Glad you said Avon, it was the right answer. The Duke of Sale was the wimpy hero of The Foundling who befriends a naughty runaway called Belinda and tries to keep her out of the clutches of less scrupulous types.
Sad to say, I'm afraid Avon formed my teenage vision of the perfect man. Swoon again.

yikes. retroactive spoiler alert. sorry.

Ha! as if any of you will go out and buy These Old Shades by Georgette Heyer...

Yes Avon was Leonie's 'protector' not her dad. He turns up again in Devil's Cub when his son (not a patch on his dad) runs off with a respectable young lady who is attempting to save her sister from a fate worse than death.
(Should I be ashamed of my profound knowledge of Regency romance btw?)

Devil's Cub! I nearly named DS Devil's Cub!

Yes you're quite right, he isn't actually her father, it's my Eng Lit Feminist Crit Theory Module reasserting itself. ie. he may as well have been, and that was the sub-fantasy, don't you think? in loco parentis and all.

And yes you should be very much ashamed esp as they are faux regency.
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