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Sense and Sensibility 1995 ‧ Dir. Ang Lee
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greengableslover · 1 year
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Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?    What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering? For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hopes. I have endured her exultations again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (1995) dir. Ang Lee
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bethanydelleman · 2 months
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Poor Edward muttered something, but what it was, nobody knew, not even himself.
-Sense & Sensibility, Jane Austen
The best line. Just perfect. 10/10 no notes.
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Propaganda...
Edward Ferrars (1995) :
Edward gets a bad rap because he's quiet and the whole lucy steele situation but he doesn't get enough credit for how honourable he is! It's easy to have honour when it costs you nothing he knows he'll be miserable with lucy but he knows it's the right thing and to do so he sticks to his guns and does it anyway despite the opposition from his family and to me that is hot! Also yes he makes mistakes but his family are vile - he grew up with Fanny and Robert and is still a good man! Also he looks like hugh grant and plays fun games with Margaret and he understands Elinor in a way no one else does - Hot!Hot!Hot!
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Mr Darcy (1995) :
Colin Firth (1995) is book Darcy brought to life. He uses tiny gestures and looks to communicate with us and Elizabeth… his struggle is so subtle but so palpable. A beautiful asshole with a creamy nougat center. Just perfect.
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Those heart-eyes right up above☝️? Hot!
Passive-agressively drinking tea? Hot!
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The way he rushes over to see Elizabeth at Pemberley on those delicious long legs of his with that slutty wet curl hanging over his forehead? Hot!
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Fencing? Hot!
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The way he is so concerned about Elizabeth crying and takes her hand even though he shouldn't? Hot!
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This dimple-y smile of pure joy because he knows he's married to Elizabeth freaking Bennet? Hot!
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Colin Firth Darcy is simultaneously immaculately put together and entirely falling apart internally. The wet shirt scene is so iconic not (only) because ‘oooh almost-shirtless sexy man’, but because it’s a metaphor for how he’s absolutely falling apart!!! This is a private moment, when he doesn’t think anyone can see him. And then he bumps. into. Lizzie. At his house!! And the entire sequence that follows with him rushing out still doing his jacket up to catch her before he leaves. They are both on the back foot and it’s THAT moment of confusion that opens a more honest dialogue between them.
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Without Firth in a lake you wouldn’t get Macfadyen in a downpour!
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There's a reason why Colin Firth is forever known as Mr. Darcy above all other roles he's had and will have! Even ignoring the wet white shirt, which has become A Thing now, he is so hot with his curly hair and his little half smiles and his intense looks of longing and his legs that go on for milessss.
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This cannot be real. My fellow Jane Austen people. Without Colin Firth’s Darcy we wouldn’t have 90% of modern JA content. He opened a door and there was no turning back for modern culture. There would be no MacFadyen standing half undressed in a field at dawn without Firth jumping into a lake first. There would be no hand flex if there hadn’t been Firth doing his best impression of a man undressing Elizabeth Bennet with his eyes and hating himself for liking it. There would be no Bridgerton without Bridget Jones. Let’s face it people. We wouldn’t be here having these arguments if Colin Firth had not been Mr Darcy.
Colin Firth understood Mr. Darcy in a way no other actor ever has. He is awkward as fuck in a way that comes across as snooty and judgmental on a first watch-through, then can be read as awkward and longing on a second time. His performance had such depth while looking extremely shallow at first glance. This man WAS Mr. Darcy. (I love 2005, as well, and I love Matthew McFayden, but he was awkward for awkward sake.) Colin Firth made Darcy's awkward look snooty and aloof.
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THE socially awkward Darcy is the 1995 Darcy - look at him coming and sitting in awkward silence with Elizabeth pointedly asking her if she wants to live a long way from her family (to obvious relief) and then abruptly leaving - vote for him please 😭😭😭😭
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Colin Firth served so much as Darcy that when they did Bridget Jone's diary, they brought him back.... AS DARCY. The smoulder. The angst. The man is the quintessential Darcy.
“Firthing” is an actual term that is used now to describe someone yearning intensely. It is named after Colin Firth’s Mr Darcy performance.
Colin Firth all the way. He's known in our household as Owl Eyes because in every frame he's mooning over Elizabeth Bennet. Unsurpassable, unmatched, golden television (and some of the worst dancing you've ever seen).
Colin has beautiful, touchable curls.
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My high school English teacher was very into using movies to teach alongside literature, which was a great teaching tool. When we read Pride and Prejudice, he used both 2005 and 1995 for various scenes. What stands out to me all these years later was when it got to the part when Lizzy went to help Georgiana after Caroline dropped Mr. Wickham's name and Darcy gives Lizzy this look:
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My teacher stopped the film and pointed at Darcy's face and said, "See that? That is THE look. If someone ever looks at you like that, you know they're in love." And what is hotter than that?
Also this teacher had two cats named Lizzy and Darcy. Not relevant to the poll but I wanted you all to know about them.
The best thing about the Colin Firth wet shirt scene is actually the scene that follows where him and Lizzie are both just dyinggg of embarrassment but Darcy pulls himself together refuses to lose his advantage and runs to get dressed and chase her down before she leaves - just the mix of cringe and hopefulness at seeing her again is so well done and so attractive!!! (this is just the bit where he's running after her but I love it all!)
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I think my computer will explode if I try to make gifs with it in its current state, so have the screencap compilation of Edward's sassy moments in the Hallmark Sense and Sensibility, because the movie might have its defects but it understands the glimpses of Edward's ironic sense of humor.
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watchinghallmark · 25 days
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didanagy · 17 days
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SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (1995)
dir. ang lee
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blackinperiodfilms · 1 month
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Marianne (Bethany Antonia) is torn between two potential suitors (Victor Hugo as John Willoughby & Akil Largie as Colonel Brandon), and Elinor's (Deborah Ayorinde), one true love, keeps quite the secret.
Catch the premiere of Sense And Sensibility this Saturday on February 24 at 8pm/7c on the Hallmark Channel.
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theladyeowyn · 2 years
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- The unkindness of your family makes you astonished to find friendship elsewhere.
- No. Not to find it in you.
Elinor and Edward in Sense and Sensibility (1995)
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taciturn-nerd · 11 months
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Spoilers for Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility
(I know it’s 200+ years old but still)
Edward Ferrar's proposal to Elinor is hilarious in the book.
He shows up all nervous and pale. Mrs. Dashwood, Elinor, Marianne and Margaret all think he's already married to Lucy Steele and offer congratulations. He's confused.
He breaks the news that his brother ROBERT is actually married to Lucy while, all the while, absentmindedly picking up a pair of scissors and ruining it by cutting up the sheath that holds it! Elinor runs to the next room and bursts into tears of joy, probably unleashing all the emotions she's been holding in for the entire novel.
Edward is now in a daze, not hearing whatever Mrs. Dashwood and Marianne are saying to him, and he leaves without a word to wander around the village because even with all this he still needs to psych himself up to propose.
Jane Austen doesn't even describe the rest. She just says all you need to know is that by the end of a three hour window, everything was resolved. Elinor and Edward were engaged and the family was sitting down to dine joyfully together.
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firawren · 1 year
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Darcy is not a grump
Darcy gets a bad rap as being glum and cranky, and while he does certainly have those moments, and he has a serious personality overall, he actually smiles a lot in the book, and all but one of those times are before his "transformation" from a dick to a nice guy!
So who is actually the most glum Austen hero? I searched the online texts of each of the six novels to find out, then made this chart:
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Things I found interesting in my research:
Darcy is actually more cheerful than most Austen heroes!
Darcy is described as expressing cheer twice as much as Bingley. In fact, Bingley is described as explicitly smiling zero times!
Knightley, who I always think of as being pretty serious, is actually the second most cheerful guy out of the whole lot
Edmund, who deserves to be sad because he sucks, is far and away the happiest hero, damn it
Only Bingley, Henry, Knightley, and Edmund laugh
Now obviously, the length of each book and the amount of time each character appears greatly affects this. For instance, Bingley gets far less page-time than Darcy, so it makes sense that we hear about his emotions far less—of course I am not suggesting that Bingley's temperament is actually more serious than Darcy's. I'm also certain that Henry Tilney would have won out over Edmund as the most cheerful hero if Northanger Abbey was as long as Mansfield Park is; NA is only about 77k words, while MP is twice as long at 159k words. Plus, MP spends a lot more time in the man's POV than most of the novels do. If I was a statistician, I would find a way to adjust for these factors, but even I am not that nerdy.
My full notes are under the cut, if you're a complete Janeite nerd like me and want to dig into my non-scientific data.
Edward: 1 smile, 1 description of surroundings that "exceedingly pleased him", 1 "heard with pleasure", 2 cheerful; total 5
Bingley: 0 smiles!!!, 1 "expression of half-laughing alarm," 1 laugh, 1 pleased, 1 "expressed great pleasure" but might be polite figure of speech, 1 "looking both pleased and embarrassed," 1 "ease and cheerfulness", 1 "was all grateful pleasure" but not sure if accurate/sincere; total 6
Wentworth: 2 smiles, 1 "little smile," 1 "half smiling," 1 "almost a smile," 1 "artificial" smile, 1 "smiles reined in" which I think applies to both W and Anne, 1 assumed laughing as part of a group, 1 joined a walk with pleasure; total 7
Brandon: 1 "faint smile," 1 "tried to smile", part of 1 "every body laugh", 1 pleased, 1 received civilities with pleasure, 1 pleasure "will be very great", 1 "his open pleasure in meeting her", 1 "engaged with pleasure", 2 cheerful; total 8
Darcy: 8 smiles, 1 "a sort of smile," 1 "smile of affected incredulity" when E's talking about Wickham during the proposal, 1 "expression of heartfelt delight", 1 "delighted with their engagement", 1 meditating with pleasure on fine eyes, 1 thinking cheerfully; total 13
Henry: 8 smiles, 1 "endeavouring not to smile," 1 "set smile" but he's trying to be funny, part of 1 "everybody smiled", 1 laugh, 1 "you are laughing" said by C directed at H but the narrator doesn't say he's laughing or smiling but he certainly is teasing, part of 1 group laugh, 2 times being amused, 2 delighted with C, 1 "pleasure of finding nothing to detain me" but unsure if polite figure of speech: total 19
Knightley: 14 smiles, 1 "reproachful smile," 1 "trying not to smile and succeeded without difficulty," 1 "she forced him to smile," 1 "trying not to smile," 1 laugh, 2 pleased, 1 amused, 1 feeling of "delightful assurance", 1 pleasure, 1 "pleasure always" re: being with Jane, 1 "chat of pleasure", 1 cheerful: total 23
Edmund: 10 smiles, 1 "you may smile" said by Mary directed at E, 1 "serious smile," 1 smile by "the three others" but I can't tell if E is one of those three, 1 "smile that did not sit easy," 1 smile that seems to be from E but might be from F, part of 1 group laugh but F thinks E is struggling to be cheerful but is successful, part of 1 group laugh off-page, 1 laugh, 1 pleased, 1 amused, 2 delighted, 1 "delightful happiness", 4 pleasure, part of 2 group pleasure, part of 3 cheerful groups, 3 cheerful: total 32
I counted every mention of a smile, laugh, or looking amused or pleased, or having delight or pleasure, or being cheerful. If there was a mention of everybody or a group smiling or laughing, and the guy was part of the group, I counted it. "Faint smiles" and the like are counted, as are instances where the guy is trying to not smile, but I did not count any time the narrator said the guy tried to smile, forced a smile, laughed bitterly, etc.—only genuine cheer, however small, counts! I also did not count any instance of the guy expressing "his pleasure" when it was clear it was just a polite figure of speech.
Searched for: smile/ing, laugh, amuse, pleased, pleasure, delight, cheerful, happy countenance, happy face, happy look, happy expression, look of happiness, expression of happiness
Did not search: gay, gaiety, joy, felicity, merry, merriment, or happy/happiness without modifiers, because this already took way too many hours (yes, hours) as it was!
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zacksnydered · 13 days
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Sense and Sensibility 1995 ‧ Dir. Ang Lee
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thirdactkerfuffle · 1 year
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As a teenager reading Sense & Sensibility, I was swept away by the gallant romance of Colonel Brandon - tragic backstory, unwavering honor, wants Marianne to be happy even if she's not with him. I swooned.
But now, I can kind of see the appeal of Edward Ferrars's awkward charm. Like, his proposal scene is great - he goes over to the Dashwood residence to announce that his former engagement is over. And obviously he's nervous, and fidget cubes aren't a thing yet, so he just. Grabs a random pair of scissors lying around and starts chopping away at the scissor sheath while talking? Totally ruins both items.
And then when Elinor goes to another room to compose herself he just totally blanks out. Error 404ing hard. Won't talk to anyone, abruptly walks out of the house without the typical social graces so he can go walk out the nerves.
The whole thing is awkward, it's cute, it's comedically written, and I am here for it.
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bethanydelleman · 2 months
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Sense & Sensibility should be called, Men with Secret Pasts. Edward can't marry Elinor because he has long been engaged to Lucy, Colonel Brandon hasn't been around because he has a ward from his former love who has gone missing, and Willoughby left Marianne because he seduced and impregnated that very ward!
More than any other Jane Austen book, the past actions of men, specifically Edward and Willoughby, are getting in the way of the future happiness of women. There is nothing Elinor or Marianne could have done better, they were loving men that had already made mistakes.
Or maybe this should be called, Men Ruining the Lives of Women. John Dashwood doesn't help his sisters (sure, Fanny talked him into it but he held the purse), Willoughby has ruined one woman completely and devestated Marianne, Colonel Brandon's brother destroyed Eliza the 1st, Uncle Dashwood decided against giving the girls a proper inheritance, and Edward's foolish decision to propose to Lucy has hurt Elinor.
There is nothing that any of the Dashwoods could have done better. No, not even Marianne, in my humble opinion.
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Propaganda...
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Edward Ferrars (2008):
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thisbluespirit · 3 months
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Edward (Robin Ellis) proposes to Elinor (Joanna David) in the 1971 BBC adaptation of Sense and Sensibility.
"I have longed for this moment from the instant of our first meeting. Dear, dear Elinor. Would you - could you possibly -?" "No, Edward, no!" "But why?" "Well, the gravel is much too damp. We had a shower earlier this morning. There - if you must be so foolish, take that." "Oh, prudent, practical Elinor! How could anyone fail to love you?"
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