The only shirt is the wet shirt on Colin Firth.

My childhood crush on Alan Rickman starting from Sense and Sensibility is profound. And maybe a little weird considering he was almost 40 and I was in elementary school? But whatever. I miss him so much.

I have to say that Donald Sutherland’s performance of Mr. Bennett is probably my favorite of all the Mr. Bennetts. Two of my favorite scenes in the movie are when he goes to comfort a crying Mary at the ball and when he smiles at Mrs. Bennett (the wonderful Brenda Blethyn) as she says she knew Jane couldn’t be so…

I, too, love that someone granted Mrs. Bennett that retort. The 2005 film did better than other versions of depicting Lizzy’s immaturity. It’s pointed out that she has little experience with men, and it’s also clear she was attracted to Darcy from first sight but was biased against him when she overheard him say she…

I adore that movie, and Thompson’s “choke-up” scene during the proposal is an absolute master class.

I should also add that Willoughy did get the girl in the end. He and Emma Thompson have been together since S&S. And, if you’ve watched The Crown, you’ve seen him. He plays Mountbatten.

I’m excited for you to discover all that Jane Austen has to offer! Pride and Prejudice probably is the best book to read first. There is a reason that it has the most adaptations, it is a fast, funny, read with great characters and a compelling romance. I can almost guarantee if there was a line in the play that you…

There’s a line in the introduction I read for uni where it says “it takes a mature reader to see that Mr Bennett is an egregiously poor husband and provider”.

But if Lydia doesn’t marry Wickham her future chances of marriage are ruined because word will get around that she ran off with another man. That’s the whole sad thing about it. She ends up tied to a man who is a moral vacuum because she was 15 and impetuous.

as much as Mrs. Bennett is clearly intended as comic relief, she’s also right to constantly worry about her and her daughters’ future

they still had a servant - which baffles me.

My entryway to Jane Austen was the 1995 Pride and Prejudice miniseries. I had heard her works were boring, stuffy English melodramas, and believed it, even though I had never actually read anything she had written. Oh, how wrong the detractors were.

It amazes me to reflect that there was a time, before this movie, when we did not realize how amazingly awesome Emma Thompson is, though this movie obviously removed all doubt.

Yeah, it is depressing how in the book (and most adaptations), Lydia is ridiculed and condemned (even if she doesn’t realize it) just for being thoughtless and reckless as a 16 year old...but Austen couldn’t exactly have done anything else given the context. There’s even an easy-to-miss line on the book implying the…

The blindspot the shows and movies have with respect to Mr. Bennett has always surprised me. Especially since the book is so explicit about his poor parenting and clearly sets up Darcy as his foil. Mr. Bennett neglects and ignores his vulnerable daughter, who thus falls victim to a predatory adult man and end up…

You’re not wrong. While I think that the Mr Bennett in Lost in Austen is a bit too jovial and nice seeming, I feel like that’s the one ‘adaptation’ that has a grasp on why Mrs Bennett acts the way that she does and knows that Mr Bennett is not that good at being a parent, like when Amanda shows up and says that she’s…

I think part of that is the tv/movie adaptations which really soften up Mr. Bennett. In the book, his disrespect to his wife swings uncomfortably between funny and cruel and his neglect of his younger daughters is explicitly addressed. If you consider Lydia, who is vivacious and humorous, she really could have been a…

The former gave us Colin Firth emerging from a lake

TOTAL agreement - this has to be one of my favorite movies of all time, and along with Truly, Madly, Deeply - caused me to fall deeply in crush with Rickman. What an actor. The acting in this film is stellar from everyone involved.

Thompson also won a Golden Globe for her writing, which in this case is actually notable due to her fantastic acceptance speech where she imagined what Jane Austen would write in her diary about the film.