#film: persuasion.

[zacksnydered]

PERSUASION (2022) | Part 5 of Favorite Quotes   requested by @safarigirlsp .      

[boltlightning]

persuasion (1995) dir. roger michell

[stellaluna33]

I don't think a lot of filmmakers understand that a lot of the people who enjoy period dramas enjoy watching them for the same reason people enjoy watching foreign films. They LIKE seeing the differences in culture- it's something new and different and interesting. And if you take away those differences, what's the point? You take away one of the major aspects of what makes the experience appealing in the first place. For me, modernizing a period piece to make it more "palatable to a modern audience" is like the equivalent of American tourists who go to another country and insist on eating at the nearest McDonald's. What was even the point?

[swearphil]

You pierce my soul

[tooquirkytolose]

Like I dunno, if you REALLY wanted to make a more "modern" interpretation of Persuasion it wouldn't even be hard if you gave it more than a 2 second thought. All you have to do is plop the characters in a different time period, say the late 60's jumping to the early 80's, make Frederick black and have Anne's godmother persuade her not to marry him because an interracial marriage in, what, 1968? or something would just be too difficult for the both of them. You want him to stay in the navy or whatever have him enlist in Vietnam boom jump cut to the early 80s he's a decorated war hero or something we can have a laugh at her father and sister because now they're the walking talking embodiment of Reagan era consumerism, they're stupid empty headed rich yuppies, like it's not hard :/

[molinaesque]

Yes; he had done it. She was in the carriage, and felt that he had placed her there, that his will and his hands had done it, that she owed it to his perception of her fatigue, and his resolution to give her rest. She was very much affected by the view of his disposition towards her, which all these things made apparent. This little circumstance seemed the completion of all that had gone before. She understood him. He could not forgive her, but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high and unjust resentment, though perfectly careless of her, and though becoming attached to another, still he could not see her suffer, without the desire of giving her relief. It was a remainder of former sentiment; it was an impulse of pure, though unacknowledged friendship; it was a proof of his own warm and amiable heart, which she could not contemplate without emotions so compounded of pleasure and pain, that she knew not which prevailed.

- Chapter 10, Persuasion (Jane Austen)

- Persuasion (1995, Roger Michell)

[leche-flandom]

Hey! Do you enjoy watching Regency romance and marathon training? Boy oh boy is the ending of ITV's 2007 "Persuasion" for you!

[freshmoviequotes]

Persuasion (2022)

[segretecose]

persuasion (2022) you're not emma (2020) you were never emma (2020) even if you wanted to be emma (2020) you could not be emma (2020) because you are not that kind of girl.

[my-little-random-world]

🎶𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒍 𝑩𝒐𝒚 𝑻𝒐 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒂𝒓 𝑯𝒂𝒔 𝑮𝒐𝒏𝒆🎶 | Persuasion 1995

[zacksnydered]

PERSUASION (2022) | Part 1 of Favorite Quotes requested by @safarigirlsp .

[boltlightning]

Anne was tenderness itself, and she had the full worth of it in Captain Wentworth’s affection. His profession was all that could ever make her friends wish that tenderness less, the dread of a future war all that could dim her sunshine. She gloried in being a sailor’s wife, but she must pay the tax of quick alarm for belonging to that profession which is, if possible, more distinguished in its domestic virtues than in its national importance.

[oldshrewsburyian]

Your Persuasion tags are are perfect. I am too tired to Screenshot them. Help.

Here for all your chewing-glass-over-19th-century-literature needs.

[fake-elizabeth-bennet]

After watching Persuasion, I came to this conclusion. The writers think the best bet to make a period movie successful is to make the audience believe that the main character is someone who is very different and no one is quite like them. Make the heroine not feminine (because people are used to the sophisticated and accomplished feminine women) and let her speak freely.

Writers need to understand that everyone loves Lizzy's and Emma's character because their personality was not so common during the Regency Era. There were very few women in those time who spoke their mind, were free-spirited and used their wit to their advantage. In short, they were different and didn't fit into the norms of normal and this is why their charcaters are celebrated. They were a kind of rebel.

However, Anne's character might not be the kind of "different" we are used to but it certainly is different. We respect her being different. She is kind, selfless and calm but she is strongest in the face of adversity and always knows the right thing to speak. Normal norms don't expect a woman to take decisions in critical situations and say right things at right time always. But here is our Anne suggesting every right thing while trying to help her father cut down on his expenses and then getting Louisa treated after the fall and never offending anyone with the things she says even unintentionally. She is a intelligent and empathetic woman who gets along with Mary and her in-laws simultaneously. This is not everyone's cup of tea and this woman is very strong and different from the conception of a typical woman.

Dear writers, making a woman witty, sarcastic and clever is not the only way to portray women who don't fit into the standard definition of woman. A woman with absolute presence of mind, no interest in gossips, devotion to others is also considered to be different.

You can't lure the audience eveytime making them believe that the main heroine breaks the norms of society and present only one kind of difference. Respect the different kind of DIFFERENT.

Thank you for coming to my half-witTED TALK.

[molinaesque]

The parallels and differences between these intimate moments of two separate parties speak volumes about the relationship (and timing) of Elizabeth/Anne and Darcy/Wentworth. Darcy and Elizabeth hold each other’s gaze for one brief, electrifying moment, while Anne and Wentworth can’t even bear the agony of looking each other in the eye. One holds the promise of a beginning between two strangers, while the other is amidst a sea of torment and repressed longing between estranged lovers.

Persuasion (1995) | Pride & Prejudice (2005)

[ladyofglencairn]

Wow. I watched Netflix's Persuasion and in short, it's a hot mess. The obsession with 'modernising' Anne completely strips her character of all the things that make her so beloved. Strong women come in all forms.

Anne is not Emma or Lizzie. She's Anne. Ffs. Let her be Anne.