Sense and Sensibility (film)

Sense and Sensibility is a feature film by Taiwanese director Ang Lee from the year 1995., The novel, the English literary classic "Sense and Sensibility " ( " Sense and Sensibility " ) by Jane Austen, had previously been filmed already for two television versions before it for the movie was adapted. Based on the plot of the novel the story takes place in the period around 1800.

Action

When her father dies, the sisters Elinor and Marianne days of Dashwood are counted on her grand estate Norland Park in the southern English county of Sussex. New master of the house is her half-brother from the first marriage of her father. Meanwhile haughty wife Fanny wants to share the property with anyone. Elinor and Marianne soon move with her mother and youngest sister Margaret in another county where made ​​available to them Sir John Middleton, a well-meaning cousin of the mother, a cottage on his estate Barton Park. Your funds are now very limited. Elinor has been adopted with the move with a heavy heart by Edward Ferrars, the eldest brother of her sister in law: The newly burgeoning affection between the two is ill-fated, as Edward's mother only accept an equally rich daughter of the rich heir of a distinguished family would - as the suspicious Fanny Elinor can only too happy to know.

In the manor of Barton Park, the Dashwood ladies are always welcome; and Mrs. Jennings, Sir John 's mother- there is often a guest. After giving birth to her own daughters under the hood, they would prefer to do this with the other young women of her surroundings. Colonel Christopher Brandon, an urbane, but slightly melancholy that have become by blows his mid-thirties, seems just the right match for Elinor to be. The colonel, however, falls in love with the seventeen -year-old Marianne. The effort to hide his feelings because of the large age difference, is not always successful. Elinor noticed his misfortune soon. The impulsive Marianne but met the Colonel with the unflattering consideration of a harmless elderly gentleman; she even flirts heavily with the young John Willoughby and falls so much that she believes is secretly engaged to him. The harder it hits them when Willoughby retires suddenly without any explanation.

For spells Mrs. Jennings Elinor and Marianne invites in her town house in London, to spend the winter ball season. But the longed-for reunion with Willougby ends almost with a scandal: Marianne meets him at a big company, accompanied by his bride, a very rich heiress. Marianne's health is now very unstable. Elinor has to coddle her sister again, even though she has to fight, even with bad news in matters of love. With Lucy Steele an entirely unsuspected rival has entered the scene: it is neither rich and posh, yet formed or really friendly, but all the more determined to become Mrs. Edward Ferrars. And she has the morals on their side, since a very young Edward without meaningful employment has a few years before secretly engaged to her - and fixed his marriage vows in a letter. The sensible Elinor jump over their own shadows and allows the couple's marriage by making an offer of help Colonel Brandon's sent to them: a small parish with private house on his estate Delaware Ford. Edward, who can disinherit his mother better than to break his promise of marriage, accepts the offer.

Given the poor health Marianne to Elinor to leave London with her sister decides. When you return to the country, the company will keep for several days on the estate of Cleveland Palmer family; the local landlady is Mrs. Jennings ' second daughter. Immediately after arrival at the Palmer 's estate runs Marianne in rainy weather on a panoramic hill from there they can see the country residence of the faithless Willoughby. The common cold they eingefängt this is growing rapidly from a life-threatening disease. The worried Colonel Brandon brings Marianne in Barton Park retarded mother to Cleveland. After a few days, all can return to Barton Cottage in. And with surviving the physical crisis seems Marianne now matured mentally.

After some time, says Thomas, the servant of Dashwood, by the marriage of the young Mr. Ferrars, and one day this unexpectedly appears even there. During the very halting conversation turns out that there does not exist a Mrs. Edward Ferrars: Lucy Steele found the disinherited heirs no longer desirable and has just decided Edwards younger brother Robert is caught. As Elinor then bursts into tears, Edward confesses his love.

A few months later the wedding party of Colonel Brandon and Marianne takes place, which is where the newly married couple Edward and Elinor Ferrars is present.

Genesis

Producer Lindsay Doran, who was attentive during their college studies on Jane Austen's novel "Sense and Sensibility " from 1811, was convinced after the first reading of it, that the story would be predestined for a film version. Over a period of ten years, she read in search of a suitable Authors countless script drafts. The submitted proposals she kept all to be unfit either they were " too polite or too melodramatic, too modern or too obscure. The comic was not romantic enough, the romantic were not funny. "

While shooting for the film Shadow of the Past (1991 ) then Doran found in the actress Emma Thompson finally the scriptwriter for the project. Thompson, who had already proved her talent as a writer to write short skits for their own TV show Thompson was just as fired up about the film, because Jane Austen was one of their favorite authors. Their first design consisted of 300 handwritten pages - only four years later took the creative "process" after fourteen drafts its completion. Thompson gave up several peripheral characters, instead invented some new scenes to better capture the circumstances of the time and the character of the figures; e.g. the scene, trying together in the Edward and Elinor, elicit little sister Margaret having a conversation about geography from its hiding place under the table.

On 19 April 1995, the filming began. Producer Lindsay Dorin had assembled an illustrious selection of his time best British actors around: In addition to the screenwriter Emma Thompson for the part of Elinor Dashwood and the still unknown Kate Winslet in the role of Marianne Dashwood, these were Alan Rickman, Hugh Grant, Harriet Walter, Hugh Laurie, Imelda Staunton and Robert Hardy. The nearly three months of filming took place in London and in various stately homes in the West of England, for example in Saltram House in Plympton near Plymouth instead.

Background

  • The sonnet by William Shakespeare, quoted throughout the film, is the " Sonnet 116 ". Other poems that find mention in the film are "The Castaway " by William Cowper, a sonnet by Hartley Coleridge, and a little bit of "Book V canto ii verse 39" by Edmund Spenser's " The Faerie Queene ".
  • Colonel Brandon's first name is never mentioned in Jane Austen's novel. The name " Christopher", with which he signs the cover letter for his gift to Marianne, a piano, is an invention for the film, as well as the gift itself; because in the novel is Marianne's piano next to china and silverware, the most valuable household item that bring the Dashwood of Norland to Barton. It would give her so nobody a new instrument.
  • Before the film studio Columbia Pictures Emma Thompson sent him the script, director Ang Lee Jane Austen's novel had never read.
  • Originally, the British actor and director Kenneth Branagh should participate in the project (but the pair Thompson / Branagh broke up just at the time ).
  • Only the nineteen year old during the filming of Kate Winslet corresponded to about the age of seventeen years, according to Roman Marianne. The rest of the cast exceeded the age of their role characters in part by several decades: the alleged nineteen year old Elinor was played by the thirty-four Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman was already held in mid- thirty, forty-nine, and the seventy- year-old Robert Hardy presented a Sir John Middleton represents the according novel forty years, and thus as old as Elinor's mother (represented in the film by the dreiundfünfzigjährigen Gemma Jones).

Criticism

" Brilliant and amusing. A beautiful, romantic treat for all lovers. "

" A aufwartender with grandiose landscapes and brilliant acting performances movie."

" Humorous drama about two sisters who want to break out the English snobbery in the 19th century. "

" Director Ang Lee, The Wedding Banquet won the Western audiences by storm with the elegant satire proves in Sense and Sensibility as a master of characterization that reveals the hidden emotions of his protagonists with a lot of humor. Emma Thompson ( Carrington ), who also wrote the script, convinced as rational stressed Elinor, while the beautiful Kate Winslet as a born romantic woman anmutet. A delicious costume drama for fans of fine entertainment. "

" A delicate, visually impressive trip to the infirmary James Ivory, who easily matching his best work is. "

Awards

1996 was Sense and Sensibility with seven nominations as one of the big favorites for the Oscars after the work before. A Golden Globe Award and the British Academy Film Award was named best drama or movie of the year At the Academy Awards but lost Ang Lee's drama in the major categories Mel Gibson's historical epic Braveheart, which won five Oscars, including the Best Picture and Best Director. Only Emma Thompson won an Academy Award for their screenplay adaptation of the Jane Austen novel.

Oscar 1996

  • Best Adapted Screenplay

In addition, nominated in the categories

  • Best Picture
  • Best Actress (Emma Thompson)
  • Best Supporting Actress ( Kate Winslet )
  • Best Camera
  • Best Original Score
  • Best Costumes

British Academy Film Awards 1996

  • Best Picture
  • Best Actress (Emma Thompson)
  • Best Supporting Actress ( Kate Winslet )

Nominated in the categories

  • Best Director
  • Best Supporting Actor ( Alan Rickman )
  • Best Supporting Actress ( Elizabeth Spriggs )
  • Best Adapted Screenplay
  • Best Music
  • Best Camera
  • Best equipment
  • Best Costumes
  • Best Make-Up/Haarstyling

Golden Globe 1996

  • Best Motion Picture - Drama
  • Best Adapted Screenplay

Nominated in the categories

  • Best Director
  • Best Actress - Drama (Emma Thompson)
  • Best Supporting Actress ( Kate Winslet )
  • Best Original Score

More

Berlinale 1996

1995 in film Film score Patrick Doyle Michael Coulter Tim Squyres Fictional film Eat Drink Man Woman The Ice Storm (film) Hulk (Film) Brokeback Mountain Lust, Caution (film) Taking Woodstock
732028
de