Today’s story is Persuasion,written by Jane Austen and adapted into many movies…1971,1995,2007 are only the better known adaptations,but the theme and main plot appears in many movies.
I’d have to chose between the 1995 version and the 2007 version to have a personal favorite,but I can’t say I found what you’d expect to find in either of them.They’re pale compared to the book,or so I think now.
It’s a great love story.
Frekerick Wentworth loves Anne Elliot and she loves him back.They want to get married but he has no prospects and,under the advice of friends and family,she breaks the engagement.They are both broken hearted but both manage to rally.Eight years later they meet again;they’re different,pain and regret altered her looks while he’s a successful captain in the navy,an eligible rich and handsome young man.After so many years they still love each other very much but they don’t know how the other feels.The rest is a beautiful austen like story about profound attachment, understanding, friendship, true values and snobbism.
The 1995 version tells the story better and it is very much to the book.Everything is where Austen meant it to be and the actors are very well chosen except for the one playing Anne Elliot.
Tommy says the thumbs down go to whoever chose Amanda Root to play Anne.
Amanda Root is a great actress and Persuasion 1995 is considered to be the best adaptation ever(not by me),but she was just too old to be Anne.She was turning 40 at the time of the shooting and her looks did not improve much by the end of the movie as they should have.
Another thumb down goes to the lightning.There’s not enough light,the sets were lighted exclusively by candels.I guess that was supposed to make everything realistic but I think that being in a semi-obscure room is not the same with watching people in a semi-obscure room on the tele.
They should’ve been realistic about other things and not candels.
Apart from the aspect of the movie,it was a good adaptation,true to the book and we enjoyed it indeed.We could give it 4 out of 5 stars.
The 2007 Sally Hawkins version was much more entertaining and modern.We liked the image and particularly the lights very much.We also liked the settings and costumes and we thought we had a better insight at Anne and Wentworth’s feelings because Anne had a diary and Wentworth talked to his friends about his concerns.The two main actors were brilliant I thought(and Tommy thought so too),but most of the other actors were mediocre.So… HAD we had the 2007 main actors,lighting and Anne’s solo scenes put in the 1995 version we would’ve had a brilliant movie.
But we don’t.The 2007 ending is a blast.Some annoying proud and conceited someone,chose to completely change the circumstances in which Anne finds out that Wentworth still loves her.In an attempt to find him and confess her love to him,she starts running after him as soon as he walks out of the house(I will never understand how nobody understood how idiotic this is).He just walked out of the house.He doesn’t have wings and still Anne runs and runs and can’t catch him.The only explanation is that she was running in the wrong direction.So Anne is running like an Olympic winner in the wrong direction and as if that’s not enough,her invalid friend,the one who couldn’t use her legs,mrs. Smith starts running alongside her while telling her of mr.Elliot’s bad deeds.
So the 2007 is done with.If only we could erase the last 20 minutes and replace them with the actual story….if only…then we would give it 4/5 stars but as it is we’re only willing to give 3 stars.
Best is to watch them both and in a short interval of time.
Well,Tommy said buh-bye!
The period drama addict:Persuasion
iulie 14, 2009 de Maria
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