#and they wrote out mrs smith and nurse rooke!
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Nearly everyone involved with Netflix's Persuasion should be slapped in the face with a glove. They have insulted us with drivel on screen, and I, for one, demand satisfaction.
#elizabeth and mary were okay#henrietta and louisa were bearable#richard e grant as sir walter was great but that's because richard e grant is great#lady russell was terribly written - honestly the writers did her so dirty#henry golding was hot because well hes hot but his mr elliot was also written terribly and they fucked up that storyline#dakota johnson played slapstick wisecracking anne and i hated it - some of that's how it was written - and she played it up#this anne is an affront to the real anne in the book#and what the fuck was the point of the letter is anne and went worth had several chats early on#the whole fucking point is they don't express stuff because they think they've moved past each other and they repress the feelings#we got more time in scree with kids screaming about marie antoinette than we got real time to observe anne's character#no she was too BUSY GIVING MONOLOGUES IN ASIDES#and they wrote out mrs smith and nurse rooke!#i HATE the way they sewed up mrs clay and mr elliot#i don't mind cosmo jarvis's emotion - i don't mind that they wanted to play up his longing - that's a more modern take i can see#maybe a more feminist reinterp of wentworth - and it's not a gross change of character in my mind- if he ket it under wraps before#but the letter- the letter is SO DEBASED by this script and the asides and sassy quips#you can't have the bit before the title card and then the letter with all the crap in bbetween and think itwill work#also the point is he's supposed to leave the letter surreptitiously - not i the middle of a table with her name n it that she rus to radoml#i just - i hate this#so much good stuff got written out only to have crap put inn its place#just - ugh#i need to watch the amanda root & ciaran hinds version- that will take the bad taste out of my mouth#but first i want to slap the production team with a glove - and thus challenge them to duels#am i i scared of duelling them all? if you've seen the movie you know i'm not. they clearly can't hit the broad side of a barn.#tht's how ff the mark this movie was#jane austen#austen related#persuasion 2022#netflix persuasion#austen film
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Scrolling back through five years of comments on that Persuasion/Capt. Wentworth analysis post
Which is here...
I found this reply from @emilyshka, and I’m replying on a fresh post because some of my ideas are rather tangential:
Yes to ALL OF THIS. The reason Persuasion is my favorite Austen is because you can tell that she was dying when she wrote it, it’s so real and full of regret and then RIGHT AT THE END we get a kind of rushed happy ending but it almost feels more earned in a weird way, because everything leading up to it was so hopeless.
The first time I read it, it felt like the happy ending was kind of rushed, too. But each time I go back and reread it (or re-listen, if I’ve got a good audio book version), especially if it hasn’t been too long between readings, I discover details in Austen’s writing that show that the happy ending isn’t rushed at all -- she’s been laying clues all along about how Wentworth still loves Anne almost from the time he rolls into Upper Cross, and certainly since he shows up in Bath.
The problem is that Anne is an unreliable narrator, and she’s her own audience. She’s so terrified of “false” hope that she talks herself out of interpreting Wentworth’s behavior as warm or forgiving in any way.
Even though there’s no murder or theft or other crime to be solved, the novel really is structured like a mystery, and so resolving the emotional tension in the last chapter doesn’t feel any more out of place than saving the reveal of a murderer until the last chapter.
The only thing that’s really rushed, imnsho, is how Mister Elliot’s villainy toward her family is revealed, very conveniently, through a random letter that just happened to be saved in a box, and easily found an retrieved at the moment it is most needed.
(But I still want a spin-off fic of the adventures of Mrs. Smith and Nurse Rooke, they could be a fantastic duo of amateur detectives)
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