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

[sovay]

Did I miss your watching the Ehle/Firth Pride and Prejudice? It could be a Thematically Appropriate Triptych.

I've never seen it, although thisbluespirit made a strong case for it on sheer grounds of Mr. Bennet. I knew a lot of people in high school who were obsessed with Colin Firth and his wet Regency T-shirt contest. (Is this why you're pushing Sherbourne into a brook?)

I almost certainly saw Firth first in Shakespeare in Love (1998) but didn't pay much attention to him, saw him in Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) but didn't pay much attention to him, saw him in A Single Man (2009) and have been paying attention to him ever since. Look, you could see me getting better at thinking about movies.

[selkie]

Nah, Sherbourne gets pushed into a brook by the valet he sacked because one shouldn’t dally with one’s employees. He meant to explain it better. He really fails. He gets wet.

[sovay]

Nah, Sherbourne gets pushed into a brook by the valet he sacked because one shouldn’t dally with one’s employees. He meant to explain it better. He really fails. He gets wet.

. . . That sounds like Sherbourne.

Congratulations on writing a novel with multiple instances of Disaster Bi.

[selkie]

I mean, y'all were due.
Does Rose count as a disaster though really?

[kore]

Oh, that's a must-see, altho for me not so much for Firth -- altho he's great -- but Jennifer Ehle is just about my perfect Elizabeth, and Crispin Bonham-Carter and Susannah Harker are the perfect Bingley and Jane. I've heard criticism it was a little too modernized, but people say that about the S&S movie too -- and I don't think of it so much as modernization, but maybe the kind of restoration of old paintings where you strip off all the dust and candle smoke and varnish and cleaning agents that were meant to "preserve" them.

[rmc28]

Ehle/Firth P&P is how I discovered Austen, having managed to dodge being forced to read her at school. There was a lot of fuss about Colin Firth in a wet shirt, but what actually drew me in was the dance at the Netherfield ball, which I literally found by accident while channel-hopping one evening. I was so drawn in by that scene that I watched the rest of the episode, caught up on the previous episode thanks to a helpful repeat on the BBC and watched+recorded the rest of the series.

I didn't get to see the first episode until my parents bought me the videos (actual VHS!) that Christmas, but in the meantime I'd read the book and started on the rest.

[sovay]

the dance at the Netherfield ball, which I literally found by accident while channel-hopping one evening. I was so drawn in by that scene that I watched the rest of the episode, caught up on the previous episode thanks to a helpful repeat on the BBC and watched+recorded the rest of the series.

That is a wonderful recommendation.