Best Jane Austen adaptations?

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What are your favourite Jane Austen adaptations?

Mine are the BBC Emma series and the BBC Pride and Prejudice.

I am not very well at the moment and just watching the 1940 Pride and Prejudice on iplayer.

I'm very happy to get the opportunity to see it, but can't say it's going to knock my favourite version off its perch.

Any other gemsI may have missed?

For follow on books, The Other Bennet Sister follows Mary Bennet's story both during and after P&P and I really enjoyed it

The best three are:

Persuasion with Amanda Root
S&S with Emma Thompson
Emma with Kate Beckinsale

Anyone who has picked a different Emma cannot possibly have seen that one.

The R P-J Persuasion is fine, but the ending is feeble.

I'll add that to my list. I always feel rotten for Mary.

Page 293 "she was more disturbed by Mr. Knightley's not dancing, than by anything else...... There he was, among the standers-by, where he ought not to be; he ought to be dancing, ..................................................so young as he looked!

Agree on both of those. The Mr Knightly in the Kate Beckinsale Emma is wonderful - smouldering but looks the right age.

Mark Strong was an excellent Knightley. His was the best "Badly done, Emma. Badly done."

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Mark Strong was an excellent Knightley. His was the best "Badly done, Emma. Badly done." it’s such a Powerful line when Mark Strong says it.

My favourite Austen hero though has to be Ciaran Hinds Wentworth. I’d marry him here, right now on this spot. If one I wasn’t married & two he wasn’t a fictional character written 150+ years ago.

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It’s absolutely beautiful. Shame it’s a few million out of my budget.

Agreed!

Seconded. Brilliantly cast all round. Far better imho than the Paltrow version, released at around the same time.

And the portrayal of Mr woodhouse wAs good as well.

Yes. I think that portrayal of Mr Woodhouse was the closest to how I imagined him. Bill Nighy's was far too sprightly for me!

Prunella Scales' Miss Bates was excellent too. Miranda Hart didnt do it for me at all.

Persuasion with Amanda Root, perfect! Also the BBC P&P with Colin Firth

Samantha Morton was exactly how I'd imagined Harriet.

Just watched some of the Root/Hinds version today and enjoyed it. They're both very well cast.

Now, no-one panic BUT...I also watched the Dakota Johnson one and...it was enjoyable, tbh 😳 not everyone was brilliantly cast (Mr Elliott the younger, Mrs Clay, Charles...meh...) but I thought Wentworth was very good (and very hot) and warmed to Dakota Johnson quite a bit. I liked the look of it too although it's very 2022, if you know what I mean. Mary was funny, although younger than I'd imagined, and I quite liked Louisa and Henrietta as normal young women rather than simpering mean girls. It made Wentworth/Louisa more believable.

The Dakota Johnson Persuasion is a good film but bad Austen.

The Dakota Johnson version was completely and utterly awful. A crime against Jane Austen.

I thought Mr Elliot was fabulously cast and I wanted to ditch Wentworth and run away with him, he was so attractive.