Theatreworks: Sense and Sensibility

Sep 11, 2011 23:18

Sense and Sensibility
(The Stage Show)

I was rather underwhelmed by Sense and Sensibility when I read the novel two years ago. All the characters annoyed me for one reason or another: Elinor was too cold, Marianne was too emo, etc. I think that, too, I was mentally comparing it to Pride and Prejudice, which is a much more energetic book. Sense and ( Read more... )

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chidorichan September 18 2011, 16:46:26 UTC
I always hated Marianne (I wrote a whole paper about how she was really Austen's parody of over-the-top romanticism XD), but I liked Elinor... I guess I'm pretty cold and unemotional, too, but like her I can explode with emotion after holding it in for a while. ^^;

And the movie version with Alan Rickman made me love the story so much! XD 'Cause I felt bad for Colonel Brandon.

Hmm, sounds like some interesting changes... Not sure if I'd like it or not. I've seen BBC versions (old ones) without their younger sister. I suppose she barely has any point, other than showing Edward is good with kids.

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k00kaburra September 19 2011, 00:05:49 UTC
Y'know, I've never seen the movie version.
But now that I know Alan Rickman is in it, that's gonna go to the top of the Netflix queue!!

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chidorichan September 20 2011, 16:20:46 UTC
My first exposure to Austen (although I knew my sister liked the movie/TV adaptations--she never read the books, though) was a play at my college of P&P and I liked it so much, my sister showed me S&S with Emma Thompson the next day and I fell in love and read all her books and watched tons of versions. Emma Thompson's S&S is my favorite of all of the S&S versions I've seen. Alan Rickman is awesomely cute in it~

LoL And Willoughby is played by Emma Thompson's IRL husband, but she's in love with Hugh Grant's Edward (Kate Winslet is Marianne). I thought for some reason it was weird how Emma Thompson is in love with Hugh Grant and is just good friends with Alan Rickman in one movie and then in Love Actually she's siblings with Hugh Grant and married to Alan Rickman. It's called acting, me... XD

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