S&S was actually the first Jane Austen book I read as a teenager - I picked it off my GRanny's bookshelf when I was sleeping there and had nothing to read and had to take it home with me, so I still have this memory of picking up this old, badly made paperback that had pages too heavy for itself and had fallen in half and then finding it was about three sisters. (I am the oldest of three sisters. I projected a lot onto Elinor, lol.)
Btw, as well as the film - which is still wonderful - there's also a really lovely BBC mini-series from 2008 with Hattie Morahan and Charity Wakefield. They both draw out different things and I'm very fond of them both. The film is excellent, and has more of the heightened/comedic stuff, which is of course, very much there, while the BBC series is more naturalistic and with actors more of an age with their characters (which isn't important, but it does, I think add something to this adaptation, especially when it was made in the shadow of the film - I think so much so, it's an adaptation that gets unfairly overlooked - it came after a whole string of excellent adaptations, and not quite long enough after Ang Lee's film to stand without comparison.)
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S&S was actually the first Jane Austen book I read as a teenager - I picked it off my GRanny's bookshelf when I was sleeping there and had nothing to read and had to take it home with me, so I still have this memory of picking up this old, badly made paperback that had pages too heavy for itself and had fallen in half and then finding it was about three sisters. (I am the oldest of three sisters. I projected a lot onto Elinor, lol.)
Btw, as well as the film - which is still wonderful - there's also a really lovely BBC mini-series from 2008 with Hattie Morahan and Charity Wakefield. They both draw out different things and I'm very fond of them both. The film is excellent, and has more of the heightened/comedic stuff, which is of course, very much there, while the BBC series is more naturalistic and with actors more of an age with their characters (which isn't important, but it does, I think add something to this adaptation, especially when it was made in the shadow of the film - I think so much so, it's an adaptation that gets unfairly overlooked - it came after a whole string of excellent adaptations, and not quite long enough after Ang Lee's film to stand without comparison.)