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"If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate; and though I know it is all very right and necessary, I have often wondered at the person's courage that could sit down on purpose to do it." (In other words: rambling analyses, opinions, ideas, views, and comments from an English major, Essay/paper-writing enthusiastic, Austen-loving Master Librarian on, well, Jane Austen...and a whole lot of other things, too.)

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Thursday, May 14, 2009

Best Persuasion Film Adaptation

6 votes

2007 – PBS (Rupert Penry-Jones!) 4 (66%)
1995 – BBC (Ciaran Hinds & Amanda Root) 2 (33%)
1971 – BBC 0 (0%)
Other 0 (0%)
Never Seen Any 0 (0%)

My Say:
Well, I already said it. Rupert is amazing. But to rush the best part of the entire book, I just can't do it. Plus, I love Amanda Root. And I love how absolutely natural the '95 adaptation is. I think I may have to post my paper that I wrote on that version. Then you would see why I'm so partial to it. But other than that, I thought '07 was done quite well and it was a good contestant.

3 comments:

Brittany Marie said...

I love how rumpled and realistic Amanda Root is. But I also like to look at RPJ. :p What a quandary.

ldsjaneite said...

Yes to both comments!

Sara Lyn said...

Yes, post the paper!