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“Persuasion” is tied with “Pride & Prejudice” as my top well-liked Jane Austen fresh. I was looking forward to this version, after being a puny disappointed with the 1995 adaptation (actors were a bit too veteran for their roles, I opinion, but that’s another review) .
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While “Northanger Abbey” is a tale of young worship, “Persuasion” is a narrative of cherish lost. Anne Eliott was once engaged to Frederick Wentworth but has had to give up the engagement due to the persuasion of her friend Lady Russell. Anne is the daughter of a baronet and Frederick is a young lieutenant with tiny prospects and was deemed by her friends and family as not superb enough to marry Anne. Expeditiously forward to 7 or so years later, and Anne’s family is in dire circumstances. Her family has to disappear from their colossal country estate to Bath in an peril to retrench and avoid further debt. Frederick returns to England as a wealthy and highly eligible naval captain and his and Anne’s paths meet again. Frederick is pursued by 2 of Anne’s younger sisters-in-law while Anne is left to wonder what might have been. After a stressful visit to Lyme, Frederick and Anne’s paths briefly separate. Anne moves to Bath where she is pursued by her cousin William Eliott and she crosses paths with Frederick again. Will care for triumph the second time around?
Whether you agree or disagree with my assessment of the 1995 version starring Amanda Root and Ciaran Hinds, I contemplate you will catch that Rupert Penry-Jones and Sally Hawkins are extraordinary in their roles as Frederick Wentworth and Anne Eliott. Sally Hawkins – unknown to me until now – gives a soul-stirring and endearing performance as Jane Austen’s long suffering heroine. Rupert Penry-Jones is aptly dashing and fine, though perhaps a diminutive bland, as Frederick (I’d select him over Ciaran Hinds any day) . The supporting cast is solid – with a few exceptions – and the screenplay, up until the last 10 minutes, stays legal to the tone and spirit of the book. The production values, costumes and locations are gracious. This scores points for actually filming in Bath and Lyme (dependable locations from the book) . Another high heed is Martin Phipps (who also unexcited the astounding gain of BBC’s “North & South) who delivers yet another stirring secure.
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The reasons for the 4 stars are as follows (warning, spoilers!) :
a) Casting – I absolutely despise Amanda Hale as Mary Musgrove. She is annoying and stands out in a unpleasant scheme from the rest of the cast. Julia Davis is also off as Elizabeth Eliott and looks more like Anne’s contaminated stepmom than her older (by 2 years) sister. Elizabeth is supposed to be resplendent and aesthetic, and Julia Davis is nowhere reach this. Surely there are more than enough talented British actresses who could have played these roles.
b) Changes – Some long-time fans will be a diminutive irritated with the changes made to famed scenes from the book. This is where the 1995 version triumphs over this version. While the Amanda Root version remained faithful to the book, this version strayed in some of the well-known scenes such as the dialogue between Captain Harville and Anne on woman’s constancy; and the scene where Frederick writes a letter to Anne.
c) The last 10 minutes – where Anne runs around Bath like a headless turkey – almost completely ruined it for me. Whoever plan of sending a docile, lovely, poised, upper-class lady like Anne to accelerate around town like a servant girl is beyond me. The adaptation would have been outstanding except for this miscalculation. I am not a purist, but there is unprejudiced so powerful a long-time Jane Austen fan can retract and this one crossed the line for me.
All in all, however, I give it 4 stars for Sally, Rupert, most of the supporting cast, Bath, the procure and the first 80 minutes. It goes along swimmingly up until the climax, at which point I have to hasty forward to skip the allotment I abominate. A advantageous and solid adaptation, but “Northanger Abbey” starring JJ Feild and Felicity Jones gets my vote as my celebrated of the unique Jane Austen adaptations.
Ok, unprejudiced to let you know, I’m fair finishing a whole semester focusing on this book, so I feel like a bit of an authority! Anyway, the big thing about this movie, besides Wentworth being so smoking HOT (sorry Ciaran), is its appeal to Austen newbies: it simplifies and reorganizes the narrative so it makes sense in a screenplay. That said, if you’re an Austen purist, this movie is going to waste you!
From the open, the details are rearranged, making me cringe at the lost subtleties from the current. The very climax of the book, the all notable conversation between Anne and Harville and Wentworth’s subsequent letter, are broken into separate sections of the movie and completely out of order. Determined it works, but its not correct! I felt I was denied one of the greatest scenes of the book! Ugh!
As for the actors, besides Wentworth being hot (I feel I must reiterate this) he wasn’t necessarily better or worse than Ciaran, unprejudiced a different purchase. Anne was mixed: one microscopic I hated her, the next I loved her. She also brought a recent aspect to the character and I appreciated it. Everybody else, though, was insignificant. I really felt like the 95 version made even the miniature characters round and dynamic, and in this movie, if you weren’t the hero or heroine you were blah. And whoa…blueprint too great over-emoting.
And what was said before was true: the destroy stinks. Its like Bustle Lola Speed all over Bath, and hey stare, Mrs. Smith isn’t crippled, so she can hasten alongside and interpret all the junk about Mr. Elliott. Nice one guys. Yeah, so my last notion of the movie was that maybe I would at least derive to gaze a satisfying kiss between Anne and Wentworth, and after the insensible inching toward each other’s face with Anne chomping (literally!) at the bit, it was finally there. So that was nice.
Ok, in summation, the 95 version is classic and timeless, but if you don’t know the legend beforehand you’re going to pick up lost. This version is Persuasion for Dummies but it does have a few merits. Its worth watching, whatever your experience, but think yourselves forewarned!
P.S. If you’re hoping the current Mansfield Park is going to be better than the 99 version I assume you will be disappointed. I could only stomach a few minutes before I HAD to turn it off. But then again, I kinda liked the 99 version, so who knows.
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