So, what then of Carrie Cracknell’s fizzy “ Persuasion,” which attempts to modernize one of Austen’s sadder stories through casting, scripting, even hair and makeup, but does all that while also still being set in Regency-era England? Tonally similar to Autumn de Wilde’s sprightly (and critically lauded) “Emma,” the first-time filmmaker’s cheeky and original debut seems to have been the victim of some messy marketing. Austen’s books incisively depict a specific time in British life (mostly the life lived by the rich, the white, the privileged), but her keen understanding of human interactions and desires can happily be transplanted to a range of stories.ĭakota Johnson Details ‘Psychotic’ Experience Making ‘Fifty Shades’: I Signed Up for a ‘Very Different’ Movie
These stories are both beholden to their time and place and undeniably universal in their concerns and charms.Īusten’s books have inspired all manner of adaptations on both stage and screen, from the faithful (Ang Lee’s luminous “Sense and Sensibility”) to the lightly loosened ( hello, iconic BBC series version of “Pride and Prejudice,” infamous for its depiction of Mark Darcy as a naughty swimmer) and even the straight-up free-wheeling (“Bridget Jones’s Diary”) to the mostly inane (“Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”). The author’s iconic bibliography - from “Pride and Prejudice” and “Emma” to “Sense and Sensibility,” and those are the just the English class curriculum bangers - has always hinged on indelible heroines and their Regency-era attempts to get their lives in order. Jane Austen knew a thing or two about complicated women and the way they move through the world.
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