While in the novel we might spend most of the time laughing at Marianne’s melodrama, the script manages to turn the tables and make us laugh at Marianne’s wittiness instead. Palmer (Hugh Laurie) take on a new kind of drollery. Jennings (Elizabeth Spriggs) and the disgruntled Mr. In Thompson’s hands, characters like the talkative Mrs. She succeeds in emphasizing the beloved characteristics of the humorous characters, in addition to bringing life to the novel’s most heartbreaking moments. The result is still marvelous all these years later: she manages to boil down the novel to its essential elements. Not only does Emma Thompson play Elinor Dashwood, but she also took on the challenge of writing the screenplay, for which she won an Academy Award. The girls and the rest of their family find their station in life changed considerable and any future romances compromised by their humble means. Egged on by his cruel wife Fanny (Harriet Walter), John does shockingly little to help his sisters financially, even removing them from their home. The inheritance instead passes entirely to their elder half-brother John (James Fleet). Dashwood’s second marriage, are prevented from inheriting their father’s estate because they are women. Like the 1811 novel of the same name, the film follows two sisters, the reserved Elinor (Emma Thomson) and romantic Marianne Dashwood (Kate Winslet), after the death of their wealthy father.
“Sense and Sensibility” remains a classic for many reasons, including its careful balance of creative liberties and authenticity.
At the height of ’90s Austen-mania, Lee brought a compelling cast together to make one of the sweetest, most humorous adaptations of an Austen novel. I suggest that this can come in the form of Ang Lee’s 1995 masterpiece “Sense and Sensibility,” which celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary this year. While our present circumstances are in no way the same, we are all still dealing with a stressful, frustrating period in which we could use the comfort that her work provides. In real life, Austen’s novels were actually prescribed to WWI soldiers suffering from shell shock. Readers of Rudyard Kipling’s “The Janeites,” a short story centered around a group of Jane Austen-reading WWI soldiers, will be entirely familiar with the link between Austen and distressing times.
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