[ SECRET POST #5916 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5916 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

Friend, you are the MOST RELATABLE. Also how about that weird all-around kissing shot at the very end??? 1995 is best Persuasion, end of story.

[(Anonymous)]

Not only that, it's the best JA adaptation. There are a couple of seconds that aren't perfection. The rest just is.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

I mean, I appreciate the enthusiasm, but the 1995 Pride and Prejudice exists...

[(Anonymous)]

100% agreed. The 2007 version just made some odd choices...

[(Anonymous)]

90s Persuasion gets me every time. The others? Not so much.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't remember using the 2000s version, but 1995 is excellent.

Couldn't get past the first few scenes of the 2022 version, even with Richard E Grant. Ugh.

Modern Persuasion (as you might guess) is a modern retelling on Netflix that was both surprisingly faithful to the book and surprisingly good. Like, it's no Clueless, but I enjoyed what they did with it. Much better than the 2022 version at least.

I would love if there were as many Petsuasion adaptations as there were P&P. Comparing them is fucking fun.

[(Anonymous)]

Bridget Jones version?

[(Anonymous)]

If you're talking P&P adaptations, off the top of my head there's:

- A Laurence Olivier movie
- an 80s tv series
- the forever perfect 1995 tv series
- the Kiera Knightly 2006 (?) movie which is also, obviously, pretty good
- the first Bridget Jones (as you mentioned)
- Bride and Prejudice (Bollywood version, which has the best Mr Collins imho)
- aaaaand a modern Mormon version which is also weirdly pretty good.

I'm pretty sure there are a few others though. And this is also not counting Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, the Lizzie Diaries web series/ Jane Austen Book Club/ Lost in Austen and similar more transformative/expansive adaptations, and the countless movies you can say have drawn more or less heavily from P&P.

[(Anonymous)]

Bride and Prejudice is 100% my second fave P&P adaptation after 1995 version. I will die on this hill lol.

[(Anonymous)]

DA but I will die on this hill with you, let's go.

[(Anonymous)]

SA as the one who listed the P&P adaptations

Oh shit I know what you're saying now. Yes it would be great if there was a modern version as fun as Bridget Jones 1 (and ironically a Bridget Jones like character would work well in an adapted Anne role).

Honestly, 2022 Persuasion should have been trying for this - the Fleabag-esque 4th wall breaking and hot messiness of Anne would have worked much better in a modern version. It still likely would have been a total trainwreck but at least it wouldn't have been as insulting as what we actually got.

Personally Clueless is my favourite modern JA adaptation. Obviously a highschool setting wouldn't exactly work for Persuasion (maybe late college at the earliest?), but if someone could write a script as excellent as that (see also Easy A) for it we could be in business. The challenge would of course be balancing the poignant pining romance with humour...

[(Anonymous)]

The 1995 is by far the best. Not cool comments about Mrs Smith though.

[(Anonymous)]

/shrug I just thought it was an amusing resemblance.

[greghousesgf]

LOL at the Terry Jones bit