Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay and Diaries
by:
Emma Thompson (author)
Bringing Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility to the screen was a labor of love for writer/actress Emma Thompson. Featuring the complete award-winning script, Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay & Diaries also showcases Thompson’s unreserved, often hilarious diaries that capture the unique...
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Bringing Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility to the screen was a labor of love for writer/actress Emma Thompson. Featuring the complete award-winning script, Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay & Diaries also showcases Thompson’s unreserved, often hilarious diaries that capture the unique experience of making this film. Her rare and personal perspective makes this an irresistible book for students of film and Austen devotees, as well as for everyone who loved this extraordinary movie.This Newmarket Shooting Script® Book includes: The complete screenplay Emma Thompson’s diaries written during the film’s productionIntroduction by producer Lindsay Doran More than 50 photos, including stills, cast photos, and behind-the-scenes shots Full cast and crew credits
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781557047823 (1557047820)
Publish date: July 10th 2007
Publisher: Newmarket Press
Pages no: 288
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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