![]() ![]() I “faced up” to this personal response a while back: I feel an intense joy in the adaptations and irrational pleasure in the analogues (just because they are analogues). I don’t feel this strong surge of emotion when they are transpositions (e.g., Clueless, Metropolitan). Ann Firbank was Anne Elliot, Bryan Marshall Captain Wentworth (he played in serious dramatic roles in 1970s TV).īy its end I was almost filled with that intense happiness I have felt during the closing scenes of just about every one of these Austen films, when they are faithful (close) or interpretative adaptations (farther off, with some or striking changes). ![]() I began with the one film available that I had not thus far watched in order to make my viewing complete: the 1971 BBC Persuasion, directed by Howard Baker, screenplay Julian Mitchell (who also wrote the screenplays for the Inspector Morse episodes, film adaptations of The Good Soldier, Staying On, a play, Another Country). ![]() Here I am again watching film adaptations of Jane Austen’s novels. ![]()
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