I sit here in the thunder, the green on the grey

[sovay]

Me: I should rewatch Sense and Sensibility (1995). It might pair illuminatingly with Persuasion (1995); I haven't seen it in nine years and I've never written about it; I saw it for the first time in 1996 with someone who didn't like it. That was a point in my life when I saw very few movies and did not think critically about them if I did. Those can be interesting to revisit.

*half an hour of movie later*

My critical faculties: FUCK, Alan Rickman is BEAUTIFUL.

Ladies and gentlepeople, that may be the review.

Comments

[lemon_badgeress]

XD XD XD XD XD

[sovay]

XD XD XD XD XD

I am delighted you approve and/or concur.

[movingfinger]

Yes!

Is it time for an Alan Rickman film festival?

[sovay]

Is it time for an Alan Rickman film festival?

I mean, I did just watch six Harry Potter movies in a row and I'm not sure I'll ever be able to watch Truly, Madly, Deeply (1990) again, but I'll take suggestions.

[drinkingcocoa]

Sense and Sensibility is the one movie adaptation I've seen that I think is better than the book. Wow, Emma Thompson.

[rmc28]

I think my favourite part is when everyone but her stomps into their respective bedrooms slamming the door, while she is bringing tea for one of them (her mother?) and she kind of sighs and sits on the stairs to drink it. "Yes, life is shit, but wasting this tea or throwing a fourth tantrum isn't going to help, so I guess I'll drink the tea and see if I can cope with things when I'm done".

Also the way she finally finally breaks down into tears at the end.

When I first saw it, I wasn't quite 20, and I very much *aspired* to respond to personal tragedy like Elinor (minor as the personal tragedies of my life were then!), but had the lowering suspicion I was actually a Marianne.

[sovay]

Sense and Sensibility is the one movie adaptation I've seen that I think is better than the book. Wow, Emma Thompson.

I have a couple of movies I like better than their books, but this is a very good one. And her first try, to boot!

[kore]

....yeah, it pains me, but I gotta agree. I first had to read S&S for college and really disliked it, but liked it much better on a reread decades (haha) later. But the movie is gold, yeah.

[asakiyume]

LOL, I see a theme in your entries and your music ;-)

[sovay]

LOL, I see a theme in your entries and your music

Don't forget the ongoing Austen! I do this right, it's like a Scrabble triple score.

[staranise]

I preferred the 2008 S&S adaptation to the 1995 one, actually. ^_^

[sovay]

I preferred the 2008 S&S adaptation to the 1995 one, actually.

May I ask? I've only ever seen the 1995 version.

[isis]

I can't disagree with your assessment!

[sovay]

I can't disagree with your assessment!

I feel it's one of those truths universally acknowledged.

[batdina]

yes he is, isn't he? (never seen either movie. must catch up with film at some point. then again I need to catch up on reading as well.)

[sovay]

yes he is, isn't he? (never seen either movie. must catch up with film at some point. then again I need to catch up on reading as well.)

It is my hope to write about Sense and Sensibility tomorrow or the day after depending on work schedule, which if so will contain plenty of further appreciation.

I wish you luck on catching up on reading and film.

[thisbluespirit]

lol, Fair enough!

(The first time I saw the 1995 S&S, it was with someone who was busy worshipping Alan Rickman's boots, so your response is way more coherent!)

[sovay]

(The first time I saw the 1995 S&S, it was with someone who was busy worshipping Alan Rickman's boots, so your response is way more coherent!)

Like actually his boots, or is that metonymy?

[kenjari]

Oh yes on Alan Rickman. I totally swooned over him in the movie.

[sovay]

Oh yes on Alan Rickman. I totally swooned over him in the movie.

He's pretty swoonworthy. It was my introduction to him as an actor, too, so I had to catch up to the idea of him as a saturnine villain rather than a deeply romantic and slightly, touchingly awkward leading man with a voice like a cynical cello.

[sartorias]

Oh, a rewatch of that would be just the ticket. Alan Rickman stole that entire movie, though I did enjoy it.

[sovay]

Oh, a rewatch of that would be just the ticket. Alan Rickman stole that entire movie, though I did enjoy it.

I am hope to write about it, although I may mostly write about Rickman.

[ashlyme]

Yeah, I back this.

*That was a point in my life when I saw very few movies and did not think critically about them if I did.*

That's the part I do find hard to believe!

[sovay]

Yeah, I back this.

I think it's hard to disagree with, although I've met people who have.

That's the part I do find hard to believe!
I really didn't watch many movies growing up! I can date precisely when I started going to see movies in theaters because I wanted to see them, not because my family was going or my friends were going, to my senior year of high school in 1999. I didn't start writing about movies until sometime in the middle of grad school and I didn't start watching movies at my current frequency until afterward. I have probably still read more books than I've seen movies just because I read so much, more than I did anything else. Movies just weren't a thing that interested me more than reading or singing or archery or writing.

[larryhammer]

A statement that's both necessary and sufficient review.

[sovay]

A statement that's both necessary and sufficient review.

Thank you.

[desireearmfeldt]

So...ages ago, I was complaining that Alan Rickman only ever gets cast in roles where he's gloomy and never gets to smile,a and there should be more movies where he gets to smile!

The friend I was talking to googled "alan rickman smile" and we discovered that (unsurprisingly) I was not the first to think of this -- or, at least, there were a couple of YouTube videos that were montages of Alan RIckman smiling. A quick check shows they're still there.

(Punchline: this trick does not work for finding montages of Paul Gross acting with his tongue, though goodness knows someone must have made some.)

[sovay]

The friend I was talking to googled "alan rickman smile" and we discovered that (unsurprisingly) I was not the first to think of this -- or, at least, there were a couple of YouTube videos that were montages of Alan RIckman smiling. A quick check shows they're still there.

I am charmed to hear that. He has a very nice smile when you get to see it.

(Punchline: this trick does not work for finding montages of Paul Gross acting with his tongue, though goodness knows someone must have made some.)

Okay, I am actually surprised about that. It seems like the sort of thing YouTube was made for!

[kore]

ALAN RICKMAN READING EDMUND SPENSER.

(really everyone is gorgeous in that movie. But only Alan Rickman gets to breathe "The air is full of spices")

[sovay]

(really everyone is gorgeous in that movie. But only Alan Rickman gets to breathe "The air is full of spices")

I love the context of that line as well as its delivery, but I have in fact remembered the delivery for twenty-two years.

[selkie]

Ohhh that entire film is an aesthetic for me. Like the our-age version of a pinterest board.

*swoons slightly*

[sovay]

Ohhh that entire film is an aesthetic for me. Like the our-age version of a pinterest board.

I do not think I loved it as much as Persuasion, but it is beautiful. Even the parts that are not Alan Rickman.

[kindkit]

That is an excellent review. Brief, but you cover the most important thing.

[sovay]

That is an excellent review. Brief, but you cover the most important thing.

Thank you.

[hamletta]

Brief answer: I concur.

Slightly longer answer: I went to a screening of S&S in 2015, followed by Q&A with Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson, who shared stories about the film, the filming and their lives. Emma met her husband there (the guy who played Willeby), and they got together while filming. Alan was still beautiful, even though he was likely already ill then. He spoke about writing and his respect for writers--and he was so inspiring he made something break inside me. The very next day I started writing again, and that was the beginning of a new phase for me. He made a difference, for me, personally, right then.

[sovay]

He spoke about writing and his respect for writers--and he was so inspiring he made something break inside me. The very next day I started writing again, and that was the beginning of a new phase for me. He made a difference, for me, personally, right then.

Thank you for telling me. That's lovely. I am glad he did that for you.

I never heard him extempore. I saw him in Private Lives on Broadway in 2002. It's one of the stage productions I am happiest to have seen.