Persuasion
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smokingbootA cooler day, necessary after all that heat. I'll go shopping for Malta today.
My cousin's delighted with the package I sent. She says she's going to have a Jane Austen marathon, so in honour of that I sat down and properly watched Persuasion, both the 1995 version and the one I sent, the 2007 version.
It's been years since I saw either, and now I'm wondering if I sent the wrong one. They both have their flaws, but P2007's end is the opposite of what JA wrote. The book displays her admiration of the navy, no surprise given close family connection and the war. Her heroine actively turns away from the bucolic joys of the Green and Pleasant Land; Pemberley may be Heaven, and Home may lie between Donwell Abbey and Hartfield House, but Anne Elliot chooses the sea. I feel for that.
It's lost in the 2007 version. The novel has touches of subversion; its idiots and villains are all among the landed gentry. In the book there's no mention of Wentworth buying Kellynch Hall back for Anne, far from it, but here they are, dancing on the lawn at the end. It's annoying. Plus, this adaptation has tears and sprinting enough to make it utterly ridiculous. But with Rupert Blondly-Brooding working his baby blues like a maniac, plus Bath in the rain, it might be refreshing to watch in the blistering heat of Granada.
Meanwhile, continuing in the vein of persuasive villains, Cummings continues to shop up entirely believable stuff about BJ, and the country continues to blink at him, stupefied.
If we're looking for 19th century parallels, Shelley's the author who springs to mind.
My cousin's delighted with the package I sent. She says she's going to have a Jane Austen marathon, so in honour of that I sat down and properly watched Persuasion, both the 1995 version and the one I sent, the 2007 version.
It's been years since I saw either, and now I'm wondering if I sent the wrong one. They both have their flaws, but P2007's end is the opposite of what JA wrote. The book displays her admiration of the navy, no surprise given close family connection and the war. Her heroine actively turns away from the bucolic joys of the Green and Pleasant Land; Pemberley may be Heaven, and Home may lie between Donwell Abbey and Hartfield House, but Anne Elliot chooses the sea. I feel for that.
It's lost in the 2007 version. The novel has touches of subversion; its idiots and villains are all among the landed gentry. In the book there's no mention of Wentworth buying Kellynch Hall back for Anne, far from it, but here they are, dancing on the lawn at the end. It's annoying. Plus, this adaptation has tears and sprinting enough to make it utterly ridiculous. But with Rupert Blondly-Brooding working his baby blues like a maniac, plus Bath in the rain, it might be refreshing to watch in the blistering heat of Granada.
Meanwhile, continuing in the vein of persuasive villains, Cummings continues to shop up entirely believable stuff about BJ, and the country continues to blink at him, stupefied.
If we're looking for 19th century parallels, Shelley's the author who springs to mind.
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