![]() ![]() ![]() Austen’s novels are stuffed with fashionable expressions. The fact that all this happens in the film doesn’t amount to an “ almost total disregard” for the film’s source material. Anne Elliot might refer to her handsome cousin, the nefarious Mr Elliot, as a “10”. ![]() Captain Wentworth might tell Louisa Musgrove that being seated next to her at dinner is “quite the upgrade”. Mary Musgrove, Anne’s youngest sister, might, like the film’s iteration of the character, anachronistically declare she’s an “empath”. Just as she drew on the popularity of Georgian-period tropes like sending letters between characters, writing today she would be making full use of contemporary stylistic tics – including knowing asides wryly delivered straight to camera. If Jane Austen were writing today, she wouldn’t be producing “classic” Austen novels. ![]()
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