Remake time!!!!
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shareDidn't the BBC do a recent miniseries?
shareBetter on the big screen.
And hopefully kept out of Alfonso Cabron’s hands so he doesn’t butcher it like “Great Expectations”.
I don't know. I prefer the BBC miniseries better than any of the movies based on Austin's work.
shareHope it’s on Netflix. I’ll give it a watch.
shareI know it used to be on Netflix UK, not sure about now. The cast is much more age appropriate in it. I like Thompson and Rickman, but they were just a little too old.
shareAs much as I liked Rickman...pairing him with a teenage Winslet was gross.
shareColonel Brandon is described as being on 'the wrong side of 35', in the book, so he is considerably older than Marianne. Alan Rickman was 49 when he acted the role. Such age differences were not unusual at the time in which the story is set. In fact, Sir John Middleton, a widower, who was Mrs. Jennings' son-in-law, is more her contemporary. so her daughter must have been considerably younger than he. Our modern notions of attraction and marriage do not apply in Austen's novels, as they did not in her time among the middle and upper classes.
Colonel Brandon had served in the military (and may have made his fortune) in India, so his being unmarried is not surprising. Young women were encouraged to marry as soon as possible to an eligible (meaning as well-off as possible), suitor. Age did not matter, and usually, neither did love, as is exemplified in the marriage of Thomas Palmer and Mrs. Jennings' daughter Charlotte. She is a constant irritation to him, and they are obviously mismatched. (Loved Hugh Laurie's snide rejoinders to his wife, as well as his kindness to Eleanor when Marianne falls ill.) If he had been able to choose, (I don't think it was told whether he needed to marry Charlotte for her fortune or if it was the other way around), he might have married someone like Eleanor.
Marianne is fortunate to finally fall in love (she would probably have preferred spinsterhood to marriage without it) with the calm, centered older Colonel Brandon who had been in love with her long since. I have never thought of Alan Rickman as handsome, but he was attractive and had a lovely, mellifluous voice.