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

[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.

[kore]

Aww, Marianne is my girl (I actually had an icon that said "Marianne Dashwood is my homegirl" at one point, LOL).

[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!

[moon_custafer]

There’s a book out somewhere of her diary entries from the time of filming it. This is the excerpt I always see (describing an inn they stayed at during location shooting, I think):

“Very nice lady served us drinks in hotel and was followed in by a cat. We all crooned at it. Alan to cat (very low and meaning it): 'Fuck off.' The nice lady didn't turn a hair. The cat looked slightly embarrassed but stayed.”

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/406259-very-nice-lady-served-us-drinks-in-hotel-and-was

[kore]

Oh, that book is great. It has her diary entries while writing/filming/awarding plus the script. It also has great photos and fun stuff, like the winner of the IC letters they were all assigned to write (Lucy Sharpe won).

https://www.amazon.com/Sense-Sensibility-Screenplay-Newmarket-Shooting/dp/1557047820/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=01EVB9GNAMG4EZ108N7E

[sovay]

There’s a book out somewhere of her diary entries from the time of filming it.

I have a copy! It is incredibly delightful.

Greg very energetic this morning.
Morag: "Nothing that a syringe of horse sedative won't cure."
Overheard later:
Kate: "Oh God, my knickers have gone up my arse."
Alan: "Ah. Feminine mystique strikes again."

I also like Thompson's story of the time her computer died and did its best to take almost the entire screenplay with it. The '90's equivalent of the Genius Bar could do nothing, but Stephen Fry saved the day.

[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.