Sense and Sensibility: Diaries and Screenplay
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780747524083 (0747524084)
Publish date: December 7th 1995
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Reference,
Literature,
Media Tie In,
Movies,
Romance,
Plays,
Culture,
Film
When Emma Thompson was approached with the suggestion to write a screenplay based on Jane Austen's first novel Sense and Sensibility (1811), she was somewhat doubtful because, as she explains on the DVD's commentary track, she felt that other Austen works, like the more expressive Emma and Persuasio...
All things Austen for me, thanks! I haven't read many re-do's or sequels that I've enjoyed as much as the originals, though. And Emma Thompson did a phenomenal job adapting this book to the screen!
This is the shooting script by Emma Thompson for the Ang Lee film of Sense and Sensibility as well as her diaries recounting the making of the film. Five stars for "amazing" as Goodreads would have it? For me yes. Of course, it helps if you are 1) A Jane Austen fan check 2) A fan of this film adapta...
Because Emma Thompson is even more clever and delightful than you think she could possibly be.
Thompson brings the charm to her adaptation, and includes little amusing asides.
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