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Here are the best Jane Austen film and TV adaptations and the books they're based on, including Emma, Persuasion and Pride and Prejudice.
Oct 18, 2024 · Jane Austen's works of literature have been adapted to the screen time and time again - these are the top 10 classics.
- “Pride & Prejudice” (1995) This 6-part BBC miniseries, with Jennifer Ehle as the perfect Lizzie Bennet and Colin Firth as the definitive Mr. Darcy, remains the gold standard for all Austen adaptations.
- “Sense & Sensibility” (1995) Emma Thompson deservedly won a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for her delightful and heartbreaking script which sees sisters Elinor Dashwood (Thompson) and Marianne (Kate Winslet) meeting with crushing disappointment in their search for love, followed by a triumphant happy ending for everyone.
- “Pride & Prejudice” (2005) Joe Wright’s version offers more longing looks and romantic tension and less outright enmity than previous versions, and who can forget that swoon-worthy scene where Mr. Darcy (Matthew McFadyen) strides across a misty meadow at dawn to declare his love to Elizabeth Bennet (Keira Knightley)?
- “Clueless” (1995) In our favorite modern version of “Emma,” Alicia Silverstone’s high school matchmaker Cher meddles in everyone’s love lives, sometimes successfully, sometimes disastrously, before realizing her own true love was there the whole time.
Jun 21, 2024 · The top 16 Jane Austen adaptations, from Pride and Prejudice to Persuasion. Some of the best costume dramas on the big and small screen were adapted from an Austen classic, including the...
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- Pride and Prejudice (2005) While the 1995 version of "Pride and Prejudice" leaves some pretty big shoes to fill, the 2005 film is more than up to the task.
- Pride and Prejudice (1995) Yes, the scene that everyone remembers from this version of "Pride and Prejudice" is Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy taking a very uncharacteristic swim in his pond at Pemberley, emerging from the water prepared for a Regency-era wet t-shirt contest.
- Clueless. "Clueless" is the gold standard when it comes to modernizing Jane Austen. Amy Heckerling's teen classic uproots Austen's "Emma" and moves it from a quiet village in southern England to '90s America, where Emma is Cher (Alicia Silverstone), a well-meaning but spoiled teen girl, Mr. Knightley is her estranged ex-stepbrother (Paul Rudd), and Mr. Elton (Jeremy Sisto) is a brooding, entitled classmate who is perpetually misplacing his Cranberries CD.
- Emma (2020) Autumn de Wilde's adaptation of "Emma" is all about aesthetics. Every piece of wallpaper, every floral arrangement, every over-decorated hat is just so.
4 days ago · Pride has been adapted the most out of Austen’s books, including as the Bollywood-style Bride & Prejudice, and most recently in 2005 with Keira Knightley. Sense & Sensibility, Mansfield Park, and...
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Jun 30, 2022 · Claim to fame (or infamy): Andrew Davies's script leads the wave of Austen-inspired adaptions that sweep through the decade like a muslin skirt. Starring Jennifer Ehle as Elizabeth Bennet and...
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