The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay & Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film (Newmarket Pictorial Moviebooks (Paperback))
by Emma Thompson
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Read in October, 2007
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Ladies who like 19th century romance novels.
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Sense and Sensibility is a romance novel written by Jane Austen. It is the story of two sisters, Marianne and Elinor Dashwood, who could not be more different in personality. Marianne is the emotional sister who allows her feelings to be known. On the other hand, Elinor is a very practical thinker, who rarely over reacts. To tie the story together, both sisters go through a similar experience. Throughout the story, we see how each sister is able to learn and grow from the others ...more
Sense and Sensibility is a romance novel written by Jane Austen. It is the story of two sisters, Marianne and Elinor Dashwood, who could not be more different in personality. Marianne is the emotional sister who allows her feelings to be known. On the other hand, Elinor is a very practical thinker, who rarely over reacts. To tie the story together, both sisters go through a similar experience. Throughout the story, we see how each sister is able to learn and grow from the others ...more
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Read in May, 2008
Just love Jane Austen. She is the queen of poking fun at class distinction, at wealth, at prejudice, at love, at everything. Her tongue-in-cheek descriptions of characters and their actions is amazing. It is all told with wide-eyed innocence, yet underneath a passion flows. I love this book because it tells the story of "opposites", sisters Marianne and Elinor. They love each other, but have no clue where the other is coming from. I could easily feel each emotion that Elinor was tr...more
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Read in June, 2008
I adore this movie, so I was thrilled to find this book at a library book sale (For fifty cents, no less!). I then surprised myself by sitting down and reading the entire shooting script - it mostly made me want to watch the movie again, but I enjoyed it.
What I really enjoyed, however, were Emma Thompson's shooting diaries. She's witty, she's honest, she's endearing, and she gives us those behind-the-scenes bits of gossip that we all love. (She even discusses Hugh Grant's arrest, which appa...more
What I really enjoyed, however, were Emma Thompson's shooting diaries. She's witty, she's honest, she's endearing, and she gives us those behind-the-scenes bits of gossip that we all love. (She even discusses Hugh Grant's arrest, which appa...more
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I think this is my favorite Austen novel, the characters are so fresh and alive in the book. They are so falliable and interesting, not perfect at all, yet you care so much about the two sisters. So funny too. I think the film version is the only exception of the movie being better than the book and screenplay adpation by Emma Thompson might be the tightest, best screenplay around.
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fans of the movie with Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet
Emma Thompson is one of my favorite actors and this is a great read about one of my favorite movies. It includes the complete screenplay, lots of behind-the-scene stories and pictures, and the speech Emma Thompson gave when she won the Golden Globe for Best Screenplay (hilarious- from the point of view of Jane Austen).
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Read in February, 2008
I had originally got this book with the intentions of only reading the diary section of the book, however I was quickly swept in to the screenplay and read that as well. I highly reccomend this for the lovers of both the movie and the novel - and people that liked Bridget Jones. Emma's wit is very similar to hers!
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Read in February, 2008
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Angela, Cassie
I finally got a copy of this book. It's the screenplay to Sense and Sensibility (my favorite movie). I'm really enjoying reading Emma Thompson's diary from shooting. She's so witty. It's also nice to read something that requires little to no brain power. I love Emma Thompson. Great book if you're a fan.
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The screenplay for the best of the 1990s Austen adaptations (only PERSUASION can compete), accompanied by a funny, self-deprecating, wonderfully human and enlightening diary from the amazing Emma Thompson. (She has self-doubt, pimples, and bad hair days! Who knew?!)
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Read in September, 2007
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Austen fans and fans of this particular movie
Emma Thompson's diaries about the making of this movie--quite fun. Makes me glad that I'm a writer, not an actor... Enjoyed an inside look at the making of a film, especially from the witty point of view of the lead actress/screenplay writer.
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Read in October, 2007
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eveyone esp yg minat citer2 lame!!
the more i nkow of the world..the more i am convinced that i .....ermm...read the novel..then u'll noe y i said this book is soooooooooooooo inte3resting!!! jane austen...ure tha best!!then baruler cecilia ahern...
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Austen lovers & movie lovers
Emma Thompson is brilliant! The inner-workings of adapting and filming Jane Austen's "Sense & Sensibility" are brought to life by Ms. Thompson's witty and smart journal entries during her experiences.
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Read in August, 1999
Her diaries are great. My favorite part was the stories about the period-appropriate unshorn sheep, who kept fainting in the summer heat and ruining shots.
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I quite liked this book. Watch out for a little language in the diaries, though! There were a few f-words (!) I censored out for myself in my copy.
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I love this movie and Emma Thompson's screenplay and really like behind-the-scenes kind of stuff--especially from a writer, as I aspire to be one.
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Can't believe I haven't read this yet. It's a little hard to get through but I'm enjoying it! I think it helps that I know the story line.
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Read in January, 2005
I was interested to see how Emma Thompson adapted the novel for the screen. Her diaries of the filming are fascinating and hilarious.
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Read in January, 2002
I loved this film, and Emma Thompson's notes and behind the scenes observations were classic. Beautiful photos of the film.
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Read in September, 2006
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all females
This is a very cool book, it takes about the screenplay to the movie (which I loved). So check it out!
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Read in September, 2005
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anyone who loves Jane Austen or Emma Thompson
This book is amazing! Emma Thompson is incredible, and her diaries are hilarious.
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Read in February, 2008
Love Emma Thompson's diaries. I truly admire her. Oscar winning and fabulous.
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trivia question
When Emma Thompson adapted Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility for the screen, Thompson commented that she was quite proud of a particular scene that she completely invented because a friend mistook it as being written by Austen. Which of these scenes does not occur in Jane Austen's novel?
a. Bit by bit, John Dashwood's wife Fanny manages to convince him to reduce the amount of money he intendes to give his bereaved sisters so as to discharge a deathbed promise to his father.
b. Elinor Dashwood and Edward Ferras coax her younger sister Margaret out of hiding by misattributing geographical locations so she will come out and correct them.
c. While at dinner with the Middletons, Mrs. Jennings tries to wheedle information out of the Dashwood sisters about any potential beaux, so Margaret supplies them with the letter F so they might tease Elinor.
d. When questioned by Marianne as to why he has not come to visit them sooner, Edward Ferras has to explain that he was "engaged elsewhere" while awkwardly in the company of both of his love interests, Elinor Dashwood and Lucy Steele.
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a. Bit by bit, John Dashwood's wife Fanny manages to convince him to reduce the amount of money he intendes to give his bereaved sisters so as to discharge a deathbed promise to his father.
b. Elinor Dashwood and Edward Ferras coax her younger sister Margaret out of hiding by misattributing geographical locations so she will come out and correct them.
c. While at dinner with the Middletons, Mrs. Jennings tries to wheedle information out of the Dashwood sisters about any potential beaux, so Margaret supplies them with the letter F so they might tease Elinor.
d. When questioned by Marianne as to why he has not come to visit them sooner, Edward Ferras has to explain that he was "engaged elsewhere" while awkwardly in the company of both of his love interests, Elinor Dashwood and Lucy Steele.
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