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Screen Two: Persuasion (1995)
I thought that this was most enjoyable.
I really have liked Persuasion since watching this film for the first time. I wanted to see the movie at the cinemas, but by the time I could it was no longer showing. Thank goodness for television. I watched it, and now have a copy of it to watch any time I feel like it. My mum, also, whenever she and I are alone and want to watch a movie, it is always one of the ones that we consider. She has never read the book, but she enjoys the movie every time.
I read the book after watching the movie, and I think that, after that, Persuasion turned into one of my all time favourite Austen novels. I think that she portrays her characters beautifully in it, and I believe that the movie picks up on the important parts that the characters play/reveal to the audience. The movie keeps to the book well enough for any class, if it is necessary to study the book, to be able to watch the movie and understand the characters and interactions.
I hope that other people watch the movie and enjoy it as much as I did, and I hope that they will take the time to read the novel, and not be disheartened that the book and the novel are not quite alike. It is at least
better than some adaptions from book to novel.
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1999)
They call this 'The Scarlet Pimpernel'?
I don't know why they even kept the name. How they could call the series 'The Scarlet Pimpernel' after they deviated from the novels so much, I wouldn't have a clue. The character names are the only things they kept, and even then they changed a few of those, and mixed them up, and changed Percy's relationships with them. Admittedly, I only watched about two hours at the most of it, but that was enough for me to realize that the series was nothing like Baroness Orzcy had portrayed her characters, and probably would have been rolling around in her grave when it was filming and airing. Poor lady. I hope that when the next person wants to make a movie/series of the book they don't ruin it as completely as this series did.