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

[movingfinger]

Yes!

Is it time for an Alan Rickman film festival?

[drinkingcocoa]

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

[asakiyume]

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

[staranise]

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

[isis]

I can't disagree with your assessment!

[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.)

[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!)

[kenjari]

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

[sartorias]

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

[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!

[larryhammer]

A statement that's both necessary and sufficient review.

[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.)

[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")

[selkie]

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

*swoons slightly*

[kindkit]

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

[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.