November 20 movie: Sense and Sensibility. What the heck was this movie doing on TCM? Whatever the reason, I enjoyed watching it again. They did a pretty good job of adapting a lengthy Austen book, although the movie was in some ways very different from the book. For instance, Elinor was 18 when the book began, prime marriage age. But Emma Thompson was 37 when she made this movie, so they had to make Elinor an old maid in the movie. Which is why the Dashwoods sneer that Marianne will lose her looks and end up a spinster like Elinor, when she wasn't really a spinster at all. I suppose if you were a pedantic Austen fan that would annoy you, but if would have annoyed me more if Thompson had tried to play an 18 year old.
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