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Genre: Drama, Romance
Director/Producer: Ang Lee
Audio/Visual: sound, Color
Trailer:
Major Characters:
- Marianne Dashwood (Kate Winslet):the second eldest Dashwood daughter. She is driven by emotion and makes it known.
- Elinor Dashwood (Emma Thompson): the eldest Dashwood. She is reserved and customary. She also takes on 'head of the household' responsibilities in her home while her mother remains in mourning
- Edward Ferrars (Hugh Grant): the brother-in-law of the Dashwood sisters' older half-brother
- Col. Christopher Brandon (♥Alan Rickman♥): a mature family friend of the Middletons, the cousins of the Dashwood women. He has been in love before, but because the woman he fell in love with was not of appropriate status they were separated.
Plot: Sense and Sensibility is an adaptation of the novel by the same name written by Jane Austen. Mr. Dashwood, the patriarch of the family dies, leaving his son from his first marriage his entire estate. This leaves his second wife and his three daughters from that marriage with no home and £500 a year to live off of. Elinor, before leaving to their new home, falls in love with her half-brother's wife's brother, but is to reserved to say so. Upon moving, Marianne catches the affections of Colonel Christopher Brandon, but later falls for John Willoughby. Marianne is all feelings and has no problem with letting them be known, while Elinor is much more in tune with the manners of courting. This story is one of love and heartbreak, but fortunately it ends with love.
k10's Take: This is my second time watching this movie, the first time was on day 5 of quasi-solitary confinement. I wanted to do a blog on it then but had not the energy, so I decided (that since I was fiending for some Rickman) that I would watch it again, today. I of course love Alan Rickman's character, Colonel Brandon, he is quite debonair and the quintessential 'knight in shining armor'. However I can mostly identify with Elinor, she is the eldest and most reserved. She "hides" masks her feelings, while her sister Marianne is the complete opposite. Marianne makes her affections for Willoughby known to all and when he proves to be not as respectable as she thought she is heartbroken. All in all, I give it an 8 out of ten. I love Austen works and the love and lack thereof storyline is not too sappy yet romantic enough to be a Romance Drama. Most importantly, it ends well.
Trivia:
- There are many anachronisms and factual errors in this movie, to read them all, click here.
- Emma Thompson, ♥Alan Rickman♥, Robert Hardy, and Imelda Staunton (who may very well be the cutest person ever) were also in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, together.
- Many of the costumes worn in this movie were worn in other Jane Austen and British films.
- While writing the screenplay, Thompson had the Richardson sisters, Joely and the late Natasha, in mind for the roles.
- Thompson's first draft of this screenplay consisted of 350 handwritten pages.
