I think she is pretty...to be fair in the novel she was described as pretty but not like...absolutely gorgeous and in the beginning she is different she gradually changes later on as she gets happier I think.
@JasmineRAWWR I've noticed that in the book; what it is that shes SOO unhappy that shes ugly/pretty. Then; when she starts hanging around Federick; she starts smiling and the way she looks goes up.
@jo536 :( that sucks.. like i wasnt trying to be mean but it says in the book that she's supposed to be pretty and stuff.. i dont like it when they pick actors that dont represent the characters properly
@ttumbledore actually in the beginning she was supoosed to not look good. but she should have changed later on...which she didn´t do in neither version unfortunately..^^
Persuasion will always be the Heart of Jane Austen. P&P, NA and Emma have her sense of humor, S&S has her sense of justice, but persuasion has her heart, and will always be my favourite.
Its more about the way people used to talk, to walk the way they fight for their love..we dont care about these things anymore and take everything for granted! Its about enjoying the little things in life, for one day we may look back and realize how precious life is, but it may be too late.
Really guys this is a beautiful story and honestly people like to enjoy it as such we have enough reality everyday. Lets just enjoy his for what it is.
I think it's more of wanting a love like Jane Austens novels during that time. Not all of us are analyzing the whole life situation of dying and disease back then.
I love the Jane Austen movie put wouldn't want to live then. Just think, no indoor plumming or electric anything. Lots of BO, bad teeth and dirty hair. No thanks
@karuwanchi Yeah, the novel describes her as stunningly beautiful, but adaptations rarely portray that correctly. I don't know if they want to make her more pathetic like her father, or less likeable but you're totally right.
As much as i hate to say it I kind of understand lady Russels aprehension, not in the whole class thing, but in that if they had married and he didn't have any fortune, and had left her widowed during the war, she would have been one of many penniless widows with no one to help her circumstances, and it was hard I imagine for women of that age to remarry, especially if poor.
@ALDERMANOFFOUNTALL Yes i understood what you meant, do not worry, i know that you were not referring to people who have no control over their situations. I just wantyed to point out that not everone is that one who doesn't want work. those people are simply a disgrace in my opinion. I wish we had the same sense as poeple did back then with money and their sense of sitiuation in life. It was a much simpilar time. :) You knew what your goals were in life, and did your best to achieve them.
@ALDERMANOFFOUNTALL ...and have seen many people devaststed by their situations in life. And i di indeed think that these subjects are separate. But as for the marriage state, as long as the couple is as you say devoted to each toher and intend to live the rest of their lives together, then i wish them all the joy in their marriage, and wish them happy in their lives. :)
@ALDERMANOFFOUNTALL ... but i don't think anyone would. Those who do, and i think are very rare, have some things to learn in life, btu i guess as long as love is int heir marriages, then they will work hard to provide for each other. Even if that means having to live of of the state as well. Sooner or later, they will have to learn to provode for themselves. They can only lve off of the state for so long. I'm sorry, but this is a touchy subject for me. I live in an area where this is common...
@ALDERMANOFFOUNTALL yes, i agree with that a man shouldn't get married unless able to provide for his wife, and future children. But i don't think that some people living off of the state's help really has anything to do with it. Some poeple had every intention of being able to provide, and say lost their job because it moved elswhre, and now only have that as their option of survival. I don't think that really has anything to do wiht it. But it is someitmes confusing when they intend that...
@ALDERMANOFFOUNTALL ...choices, they are mistaken. you have a very valed point in that they did have their own choices back then. And I wonder the same, about why so many poeple have so much to say about the regency period marriage state as well, and say nothing of marriages in our time. Divorce is so common now, that marriage doesn't even seem to mean the same thing. Although i will say that marriage now is usually for love, rather than a buisiness contract as it once seemed.
@ALDERMANOFFOUNTALL Yes you are right, they did have choices, i am simply saying that those who did have the choice, usually had a very limited choice in their hisbands, I am not saying it was impossible for their be love in a marriage, or that their lives were horrible. i am saying that like say charlotte lucas in Pride and Prejudice, most only wished for comfort in their lives. So I agree with you, for everyone who says their lives back then were unbearable and horrible in their rights and...
people were so obsessed with marrying a guy with fortune, rank and so called reputation, shouldn't a person's character and personality be the thing that matter the most
@Mandinko23 We all wish it would have been that way, but the truth is that was their only chance, was to get a husband with as high of a rank and or wealth as possible, because that's pretty much all they could hope for. Women couldn't really do much else besides... that's why we should all be thankful we live in our times now, where we have the privieldge of taking those things for granted. :) what do you think?
@ALDERMANOFFOUNTALL yes but it still took a while to for people to believe a woman could write a novel like Frankenstien. I wasnt comparing the purda aspects of the arab world. Its the lack of womens rights in law that I think are similiar. If the women in the books could inherit, or had the same chance to make their own way in the world - the material necessity/pressure to get themselves a rich husband wouldnt be there. Thank god things have mostly changed from those good old days!!.
@ALDERMANOFFOUNTALL You see it in Austin Films. Not sure what you've been reading. They all walk and enter rooms in precedent of status, the man first as head of the family. This is fact. .... boy!!! I presume thats the equivlant of you calling me woman, which I find very rude. Its easy to be taken in by all the chocolate box stuff. It joke that you think women than any kind of equal status! Mary Wollenscroft wrote Right of the Vindication of Woman just after this era.
@ALDERMANOFFOUNTALL yes that why the houses of parliment were full of male politicians only, doctors, lawyers, clergymen, business men, were all men and writers were all men then. (Jane Austin wrote in secret, the Brontes had to publish as men remember) In the armed forces it was all men.And only men could inherit money or own property. Only men went to univeristy.
@ALDERMANOFFOUNTALL Lol!!!! ok it wasnt quite that bad! But they did have to walk behind their husband actualy, they coudnt own anything, and for adultery, well men could have mistresses, but they got thrown out with no money and often ended up dying in poor houses. Educational opportunties, were few and limited and confined to the wealthy and only for the marriage market. Proffessional opportunties non exsistent.
Persuasion is my favourite! So much going on under the surface and a more mature real love affair. But its Austens writing that so good..not so much the era.? Give me my jeans, and AC/DC records anyday.! A lot of feminist writers started up in protest of what was going on and laws were changed. If they had money then, it all went to their husband. The status of women then, is more like it is in the arab world..
I have a hard time looking at Sir Walter and not seeing Giles from Buffy.... lol I'm waiting for him to pull out a demon book and explain some complicated curse. lol :)
@GrizzlyBohemian She became wise by the end of the story, that was the whole point! She lived a sheltered life, so what do you expect? Her naivety was not her fault, but rather her upbringing, and she was still enormously clever as Jane Austen herself wrote!
Sad that the English themselves must over dramatize these things. They do not yet appear to be using the same tests as Hollywood for excluding anyone with reading comprehension from the industry, but it won't be long now.
I can agree that while yes it would be great to have a character worthy of an Austen heroine, I have to take issue with the140 or more of you who think you should have been born in this era. Anne, has no status as a spinster, and even once she is happily married, she cannot vote, is very likely to die in childbirth and will never have rights for her daughters you take for granted for yours. Austen did not have this happy ending and likely neither would you have. Life sucked for women then.
@marshhen There were cases of women in misery just as there were cases of men in misery, but you'll find the vast majority of married men would go out to work and earn the money and buy food and maintain shelter for the family and would love and cherish them, if they didnt the human race wouldnt of endured the way it did.
As for voting it doesnt feed a childs belly nor your own, so its inane even thinking of it.
And Austin chose an unhappy ending, she wasnt given one from birth.
@barnabyfraser The human race wouldn't have endured without the financial support of married men?
Note the chambermaids scrubbing tables, holding ink bowls and doing various work that, most likely, financially supported their families. Are these women, as well as many others across vast generations and cultures, to be dismissed for, what I presume is, the altruistic duty of married men? Sorry but I don't think so.
@marshhen i agree that it isn't very practical for 140 people to wish to have been born in the 18th century instead of this one, but because Austen's era stood for romance i am sure that some people thought that it would be nice to experience this magic..........it doesn't hurt to dream!
@khadra20 in the time Jane Austen lived, romance had very little place in every day life: girls dreamed of it, but marriages, expecially in the middle and upper classes were made only based upon wealth. It wasn't magical at all. Jane austen wrote what she wished, not what was reality
@msinvincible2000 when i described Austen's era as magic i believe that you didn't quite understand my meaning, i am not saying that woman's roles were anything to be proud of, if anything it was exactly the reverse because women in Austen's day didn't enjoy certain rights that woman today do! Austen lived in that reality you described she felt all the oppression a woman of her sensibility ought to feel but that didn't stop her from giving all her heroine's a happy ending, the woman is a genius!
@marshhen while i agree completely with your statement, I have to add that perhaps it is for the more simple lifestyle some desire to live in the past. To not have life speed by as it does in todays society. Technology is a wonderful thing, but it does make us more blind to the beauty that is life.
@marshhen I strongly agree. I'd rather live in this time and watch these movies now... at least now one can be a spinster and not get judged as bad (although one being a spinster still does get judged). And women are so much more independent now... I like this era much better, although it's nice to have a little historic fiction here and there. :)
@marshhen I totally agree with you. While it's lovely to watch the passion and the resolve Austen's heroines display I would have hated to live in a society where "respectable" women couldn't earn a living, and your safe and secure future depended your father's or your husband's wealth, and standing in society.
I agree, would not want to live during this era. However, that's why it's romantic, because despite having all the disadvantages of being a woman back then, we love watching them find love and happiness. :)
@marshhen I agree entirely what your saying here. The reason why the Jane Austen characters are ideal is because they are so highly romanticized. In era where so much strife was ripe and women so badly neglected , the appeal of such fairy tail happenings and endings were sought after , catapulting Miss Austen's work to stardom. Suffice to say all of us who at one time wished to be borne in this era (I'm guilty too) , love these kind of romances. We wish we could have one just like it.
@marshhen Yes, however most people are going for the eyes and ears of the era, the beautiful clothing, the style of expression, upperclass manners, and nobility of feeling rather than the inequality of politics and deficiency in technology. But you're right, we are blessed to live in a time of opportunity and we should probably focus more on living our lives than in living others'. :)
I don't think Jane, in Pride & Prejudice is a flirty, unintelligent blonde. She's actually very reserved. And Emma, while popular and flirty, IS intelligent, just maybe a bit naive.
@aquafrost7 OMGOSH, that's it!!! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! i've been searching for this movie forever!!! U rock...if i'm not subscribed to your page already, I am going 2 now!!
@JesusLovinFallGirl17 Thomas Hardy's Mayor of Casterbridge is where the wife is sold by the husband. And Hazards of the Heart is where the girl is won.
Crikey, suggesting that Wentworth's feelings for Anne were less than sincere because he hadn't contact her when his circumstances had changed, (aka. when he had money), is simply ... ridiculous.
If I was rejected by the woman I loved, simply for pecuniary reasons and my lack of social status, then she would never see me again, however fortuitous my "circumstances" may become.
Anne's father really has some nerve being upset that a "non-gentleman" will be occupying his property. It is he that is uprooting his family due to his frivolous spending habits in an effort to keep up with the 19th century Joneses. Now let me calm myself....it's just a movie. Whew!
at 53 seconds you see her adding more ink to her quill from a maid who is just standing there in the hall. LMAO If there's packing and cleaning to be done, I'd want the job of just standing there with a bowl in my hands. ;-p
i love the way jane austen's books-turned-movies are directed; they're so accurate in comparison to real life yet with a bit of 'fairytale magic' thrown in. unless its just the fact that all these movies take place in the era which simply gives off the feeling of magic. but anyways, these movies are my favourite. (:
Although the 1995 version is more faithful to the book, I prefer watching this 2007 version. I love the music, the scenes in Lyme, the final scenes in Bath and the moments when Anne writes down her inner thoughts and stares at the camera. Everything blends perfectly well together to create a very intimate atmosphere in which the viewer has an important role: Anne's confidante. I think Sally Hawkins did a great job. It's one of those rare cases where the film perhaps is even better than the book!
I like this film version of Persuation rather than the 1995. I believe that this one has more heart and emotion than the other. I haven't read the book but after watching this version, I can't wait to!
@Aphroditeuf16 I disagree. I liked the casting in the 1995 version, and the actors were very good. I also think they had quite a bit of emotion, only subtly. That's what makes Austen great I reckon, the small glances and careful way of saying things.. The 1995 version is packed with emotion, although I haven't watched this, I'm hoping to find the same here. :D
I like how Jane Austen and BBC always make the heriones of the story wise, quiet girls who are pretty in such a reclusive and sensintive way. The blondes in the stories are often flirtatious and popular, but not very clever. The truly admirable women are the ones who give everything and expect nothing. They are so tragic and beautiful...
@LeOceanLia But that doesn't mean being blonde makes you stupid. Emma was blonde and very clever (she was naive, but still clever) and I felt she was an admirable woman. Austen may have written more brunette heroines (probably because she was a brunette), but that doesn't mean that blondes can't be amazing heroines. It's just a gene, not a part of someone's personality!
Thanks for this! I've been wanting to catch this version for a while. I enjoyed watching it, though I will say that I thought the parts of Mary and Charles were miscast (especially Mary) - hammy overacting.
my sister and i have this, and north and south on dvd but she jacked when she moved out! thanks for uploading because thanks to my sister i can't watch them on dvd (well, she did pay for them so i guess it's only fair, still pissed though).
giles and king uther, he always plays the part of high born british gentleman or noble, but he does it so well.
MegaLoveless1 1 day ago
I love this so much!
olga4tw 1 week ago
Giles!
FandubSinger 1 week ago
I cabt watch a show with black bars on top and black on the sides why cant it be full screen its too distracting
GingerRootable 1 week ago
Sally Hawkins is such a brilliant actress.
Greene269 1 week ago 2
lady who standing in the corner creepy
greenbookout 2 weeks ago
please where can i faind subtaitl with english
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I think she is pretty...to be fair in the novel she was described as pretty but not like...absolutely gorgeous and in the beginning she is different she gradually changes later on as she gets happier I think.
JasmineRAWWR 3 weeks ago 2
@JasmineRAWWR I've noticed that in the book; what it is that shes SOO unhappy that shes ugly/pretty. Then; when she starts hanging around Federick; she starts smiling and the way she looks goes up.
SelenaMulan 2 weeks ago
whats happening, are they losing their home?
lavenderparfume1 4 weeks ago
Just saw this last night on PBS, but some scenes were edited out due to time. It was an 1 hour 30 mins. The movie flew by really quick.
compnetworks 1 month ago
GILES !!!
gronostaj20 1 month ago 5
i love how sally hawkins can just look at the camera and you can tell what she is feeling she has eyes that can see someones soul...
ILOVEMYHORSECHESS 1 month ago 5
the woman from silent hill...,weird...
HHHPlovexx 1 month ago
whew...i saw buffy and this film way before Merlin...but somehow Mr. Walter will always be Uther to me now^^: ...
Lilithly 1 month ago
OMG it's Elizabeth Leeford from Oliver Twist 1999!!! Just a hell of a lot nicer!
Charlotte2791 2 months ago
you go P&P for the funnies and went for Persuasion for the angst....God I love Jane Austen. she has both my heart and my brain
mustlovehagu 2 months ago 2
Anne isnt as pretty as she's supposed to be..
ttumbledore 2 months ago
@ttumbledore Have you seen the 1995 version? I hate to say it but that Anne makes this one look positively gorgeous.
jo536 2 months ago
@jo536 :( that sucks.. like i wasnt trying to be mean but it says in the book that she's supposed to be pretty and stuff.. i dont like it when they pick actors that dont represent the characters properly
ttumbledore 2 months ago 3
@ttumbledore actually in the beginning she was supoosed to not look good. but she should have changed later on...which she didn´t do in neither version unfortunately..^^
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galinkame 2 months ago 3
OH. MY. GODDD!!! Giles playing Sir Walter Elliot, it's too perfect to be borne!
Sei1863 2 months ago 6
Persuasion will always be the Heart of Jane Austen. P&P, NA and Emma have her sense of humor, S&S has her sense of justice, but persuasion has her heart, and will always be my favourite.
tdiggs45 3 months ago 50
@tdiggs45 totally agree. such a wonderful description of this novel and what it means to ms. austen!
annieemanniee 2 months ago
Thank you for posting! Love this movie and novel.
armslengthaway 3 months ago
when its ment to be its ment to be
23sophielove 3 months ago
I thought Elizabeth was supposed to be the most beautiful??
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galinkame 3 months ago
Persuasion is my favourite Jane Austen book, followed by Pride and Prejudice. Her books are timeless.
Morgana0x 3 months ago
Its more about the way people used to talk, to walk the way they fight for their love..we dont care about these things anymore and take everything for granted! Its about enjoying the little things in life, for one day we may look back and realize how precious life is, but it may be too late.
ninalima755 3 months ago 3
@marshhen Well put!
mrspopp123 3 months ago
Really guys this is a beautiful story and honestly people like to enjoy it as such we have enough reality everyday. Lets just enjoy his for what it is.
zerowolfkid 4 months ago
@marsheen I stand corrected. I then would like to live as a heroine in a Jane Austen novel lol :)
MsLizeth26 4 months ago
I think The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a more accurate depiction of marriage in the early 19th century to be honest :3
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I think it's more of wanting a love like Jane Austens novels during that time. Not all of us are analyzing the whole life situation of dying and disease back then.
nenecupcake 4 months ago 2
I remember watching this movie, the acting was amazing:) I do so love Jane Austen's books and movies:)
Die1Bitch 4 months ago
I love the Jane Austen movie put wouldn't want to live then. Just think, no indoor plumming or electric anything. Lots of BO, bad teeth and dirty hair. No thanks
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XxBellagio19xX 4 months ago
simply great....
elisa02s 5 months ago
The way they filmed this is rather annoying >.<
Ellabelleb 5 months ago 3
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Why is that?
75uscan 5 months ago
@Ellabelleb Yeah...really not a fan. It's distracting.
TheAzionist 4 months ago
im bothered with her hair. i think it was pulled up so tightly...
dts2011able 5 months ago 4
I expected Elizabeth to be much prettier
karuwanchi 5 months ago
@karuwanchi Yeah, the novel describes her as stunningly beautiful, but adaptations rarely portray that correctly. I don't know if they want to make her more pathetic like her father, or less likeable but you're totally right.
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ihopveggan 5 months ago
As much as i hate to say it I kind of understand lady Russels aprehension, not in the whole class thing, but in that if they had married and he didn't have any fortune, and had left her widowed during the war, she would have been one of many penniless widows with no one to help her circumstances, and it was hard I imagine for women of that age to remarry, especially if poor.
rosemsmunoz 5 months ago 6
@rosemsmunoz very good point :)
pecky143 5 months ago
i dunno how many times I have watched this but I have always held my breath every time Anne and Frederick have the slightest encounter.
ornaskin 5 months ago 65
This is my favorite of Jane Austin's work. AND yes Marshhen she didn't!!
SelenaMulan 5 months ago
@ALDERMANOFFOUNTALL Yes i understood what you meant, do not worry, i know that you were not referring to people who have no control over their situations. I just wantyed to point out that not everone is that one who doesn't want work. those people are simply a disgrace in my opinion. I wish we had the same sense as poeple did back then with money and their sense of sitiuation in life. It was a much simpilar time. :) You knew what your goals were in life, and did your best to achieve them.
hopelessromantic131 5 months ago
@ALDERMANOFFOUNTALL ...and have seen many people devaststed by their situations in life. And i di indeed think that these subjects are separate. But as for the marriage state, as long as the couple is as you say devoted to each toher and intend to live the rest of their lives together, then i wish them all the joy in their marriage, and wish them happy in their lives. :)
hopelessromantic131 5 months ago
@ALDERMANOFFOUNTALL ... but i don't think anyone would. Those who do, and i think are very rare, have some things to learn in life, btu i guess as long as love is int heir marriages, then they will work hard to provide for each other. Even if that means having to live of of the state as well. Sooner or later, they will have to learn to provode for themselves. They can only lve off of the state for so long. I'm sorry, but this is a touchy subject for me. I live in an area where this is common...
hopelessromantic131 5 months ago
@ALDERMANOFFOUNTALL yes, i agree with that a man shouldn't get married unless able to provide for his wife, and future children. But i don't think that some people living off of the state's help really has anything to do with it. Some poeple had every intention of being able to provide, and say lost their job because it moved elswhre, and now only have that as their option of survival. I don't think that really has anything to do wiht it. But it is someitmes confusing when they intend that...
hopelessromantic131 5 months ago
@ALDERMANOFFOUNTALL ...choices, they are mistaken. you have a very valed point in that they did have their own choices back then. And I wonder the same, about why so many poeple have so much to say about the regency period marriage state as well, and say nothing of marriages in our time. Divorce is so common now, that marriage doesn't even seem to mean the same thing. Although i will say that marriage now is usually for love, rather than a buisiness contract as it once seemed.
hopelessromantic131 5 months ago
@ALDERMANOFFOUNTALL Yes you are right, they did have choices, i am simply saying that those who did have the choice, usually had a very limited choice in their hisbands, I am not saying it was impossible for their be love in a marriage, or that their lives were horrible. i am saying that like say charlotte lucas in Pride and Prejudice, most only wished for comfort in their lives. So I agree with you, for everyone who says their lives back then were unbearable and horrible in their rights and...
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galinkame 6 months ago
people were so obsessed with marrying a guy with fortune, rank and so called reputation, shouldn't a person's character and personality be the thing that matter the most
Mandinko23 6 months ago 2
@Mandinko23 We all wish it would have been that way, but the truth is that was their only chance, was to get a husband with as high of a rank and or wealth as possible, because that's pretty much all they could hope for. Women couldn't really do much else besides... that's why we should all be thankful we live in our times now, where we have the privieldge of taking those things for granted. :) what do you think?
hopelessromantic131 6 months ago
@ALDERMANOFFOUNTALL yes but it still took a while to for people to believe a woman could write a novel like Frankenstien. I wasnt comparing the purda aspects of the arab world. Its the lack of womens rights in law that I think are similiar. If the women in the books could inherit, or had the same chance to make their own way in the world - the material necessity/pressure to get themselves a rich husband wouldnt be there. Thank god things have mostly changed from those good old days!!.
squashedtomato 6 months ago
@ALDERMANOFFOUNTALL You see it in Austin Films. Not sure what you've been reading. They all walk and enter rooms in precedent of status, the man first as head of the family. This is fact. .... boy!!! I presume thats the equivlant of you calling me woman, which I find very rude. Its easy to be taken in by all the chocolate box stuff. It joke that you think women than any kind of equal status! Mary Wollenscroft wrote Right of the Vindication of Woman just after this era.
squashedtomato 6 months ago
@ALDERMANOFFOUNTALL yes that why the houses of parliment were full of male politicians only, doctors, lawyers, clergymen, business men, were all men and writers were all men then. (Jane Austin wrote in secret, the Brontes had to publish as men remember) In the armed forces it was all men.And only men could inherit money or own property. Only men went to univeristy.
squashedtomato 6 months ago
@ALDERMANOFFOUNTALL Lol!!!! ok it wasnt quite that bad! But they did have to walk behind their husband actualy, they coudnt own anything, and for adultery, well men could have mistresses, but they got thrown out with no money and often ended up dying in poor houses. Educational opportunties, were few and limited and confined to the wealthy and only for the marriage market. Proffessional opportunties non exsistent.
squashedtomato 6 months ago
Persuasion is my favourite! So much going on under the surface and a more mature real love affair. But its Austens writing that so good..not so much the era.? Give me my jeans, and AC/DC records anyday.! A lot of feminist writers started up in protest of what was going on and laws were changed. If they had money then, it all went to their husband. The status of women then, is more like it is in the arab world..
squashedtomato 6 months ago
Couldn't they find anyone else to play Anne's character ??
kalthoumaced 6 months ago
thank you so much for uploading this, the video has amazing quality :)
Aoi28lover 6 months ago
@bluemonkey105561 omg! So happy you noticed I thought I was the only 1!
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I blame Mr Knighley and Cap. Wentworth for my unrealistically high expectations of men!
shany1619 6 months ago
Sir Walter, is from buffy as well....cool
TurtleChristine 6 months ago
I have a hard time looking at Sir Walter and not seeing Giles from Buffy.... lol I'm waiting for him to pull out a demon book and explain some complicated curse. lol :)
drkangl6 6 months ago
i am the huge fan of jane, but after saw the persuasion i am loving it ,this story contain so much love, pain , stability and at last satisfication .
noshi154 6 months ago
@muffinlove001 mine as well. it isn't as flighty or silly as her other works.
lorrainewands 7 months ago
Woah!! It's uther pendragon from Merlin!!!
bluemonkey105561 7 months ago 2
@GrizzlyBohemian She became wise by the end of the story, that was the whole point! She lived a sheltered life, so what do you expect? Her naivety was not her fault, but rather her upbringing, and she was still enormously clever as Jane Austen herself wrote!
LivingintheShire 7 months ago
@GrizzlyBohemian This true.
akeelah94 7 months ago in playlist my favorite movies 1
I love watching movies based on Jane Austen's novels!!!!
Mhicc831 8 months ago 65
Sad that the English themselves must over dramatize these things. They do not yet appear to be using the same tests as Hollywood for excluding anyone with reading comprehension from the industry, but it won't be long now.
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MrOdsplut 8 months ago
@marshhen Have you seen "Becoming Jane"?
kejzawn1 8 months ago
I can agree that while yes it would be great to have a character worthy of an Austen heroine, I have to take issue with the140 or more of you who think you should have been born in this era. Anne, has no status as a spinster, and even once she is happily married, she cannot vote, is very likely to die in childbirth and will never have rights for her daughters you take for granted for yours. Austen did not have this happy ending and likely neither would you have. Life sucked for women then.
marshhen 8 months ago 105
@marshhen I'm sure the person who wrote that comment is now staring dumbfounded at the computer screen lol I agree with you though.
jojolee04 8 months ago
@marshhen There were cases of women in misery just as there were cases of men in misery, but you'll find the vast majority of married men would go out to work and earn the money and buy food and maintain shelter for the family and would love and cherish them, if they didnt the human race wouldnt of endured the way it did.
As for voting it doesnt feed a childs belly nor your own, so its inane even thinking of it.
And Austin chose an unhappy ending, she wasnt given one from birth.
barnabyfraser 8 months ago
@barnabyfraser The human race wouldn't have endured without the financial support of married men?
Note the chambermaids scrubbing tables, holding ink bowls and doing various work that, most likely, financially supported their families. Are these women, as well as many others across vast generations and cultures, to be dismissed for, what I presume is, the altruistic duty of married men? Sorry but I don't think so.
ducky8abug 8 months ago
@marshhen i agree that it isn't very practical for 140 people to wish to have been born in the 18th century instead of this one, but because Austen's era stood for romance i am sure that some people thought that it would be nice to experience this magic..........it doesn't hurt to dream!
khadra20 6 months ago
@khadra20 in the time Jane Austen lived, romance had very little place in every day life: girls dreamed of it, but marriages, expecially in the middle and upper classes were made only based upon wealth. It wasn't magical at all. Jane austen wrote what she wished, not what was reality
msinvincible2000 6 months ago
@msinvincible2000 when i described Austen's era as magic i believe that you didn't quite understand my meaning, i am not saying that woman's roles were anything to be proud of, if anything it was exactly the reverse because women in Austen's day didn't enjoy certain rights that woman today do! Austen lived in that reality you described she felt all the oppression a woman of her sensibility ought to feel but that didn't stop her from giving all her heroine's a happy ending, the woman is a genius!
khadra20 6 months ago
@marshhen while i agree completely with your statement, I have to add that perhaps it is for the more simple lifestyle some desire to live in the past. To not have life speed by as it does in todays society. Technology is a wonderful thing, but it does make us more blind to the beauty that is life.
drkangl6 6 months ago
@marshhen I strongly agree. I'd rather live in this time and watch these movies now... at least now one can be a spinster and not get judged as bad (although one being a spinster still does get judged). And women are so much more independent now... I like this era much better, although it's nice to have a little historic fiction here and there. :)
blubryfields4evr 6 months ago
@marshhen I totally agree with you. While it's lovely to watch the passion and the resolve Austen's heroines display I would have hated to live in a society where "respectable" women couldn't earn a living, and your safe and secure future depended your father's or your husband's wealth, and standing in society.
Suegirl3 6 months ago
I agree, would not want to live during this era. However, that's why it's romantic, because despite having all the disadvantages of being a woman back then, we love watching them find love and happiness. :)
hattie1114 4 months ago
@marshhen Not only all that, but no painless dentistry. Did they even have toothbrushes? The practice of medicine was barbaric. Ugh!
bocatsmom 4 months ago
@marshhen I agree entirely what your saying here. The reason why the Jane Austen characters are ideal is because they are so highly romanticized. In era where so much strife was ripe and women so badly neglected , the appeal of such fairy tail happenings and endings were sought after , catapulting Miss Austen's work to stardom. Suffice to say all of us who at one time wished to be borne in this era (I'm guilty too) , love these kind of romances. We wish we could have one just like it.
RentandWicked 3 months ago
@marshhen Yes, however most people are going for the eyes and ears of the era, the beautiful clothing, the style of expression, upperclass manners, and nobility of feeling rather than the inequality of politics and deficiency in technology. But you're right, we are blessed to live in a time of opportunity and we should probably focus more on living our lives than in living others'. :)
aDieuSeul 2 months ago
this is my mom's favorite. im beginning to understand why... :)
ThePrice0 8 months ago
What is it with food and the older sister? Talk about annoying. She's incessantly scoffing and guzzling, must have intestine problems.
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mumbleteddy 8 months ago
I LOVE this movie sooo much.
mumbleteddy 8 months ago
oh god. can't believe i want to watch this again for the nth time.
JeaneMac18 8 months ago
it's strange to see Alice Cringe in the role of Lady Russel, she who played the Borg Queen in Star Trek
msinvincible2000 9 months ago
UTHER! :O Thanks for uploading!
xNightshadex 9 months ago 2
Its GILES!!! lol
theColouringPage 9 months ago 2
where can I find the music that is playing in the begining of this movie, please if you know the answer please let me know
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Michelinej78 9 months ago
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b27141 7 months ago
watch this again... hahahahha
can't stop to watch this again and again...
^_^
ippoyo1 9 months ago 2
love all of the Jane Austen book and movie...
how she created the passion and love inside the story is such a good one...
A really good master piece I've ever seen....
Really want to live in that era so I can see it by myself....
Collect all the books and movies
ippoyo1 9 months ago 3
Anthony Head makes everything better. Everything. XD
Gaeilgeoircorcaioch 9 months ago 2
I adore Jane Austen's works! Thanks so much for sharing =)
free0pheonix 9 months ago
"Admiral Croft's wife is...is..." - "Mrs. Croft."
well observed ;D
ecLipSe31109 9 months ago 5
I don't think Jane, in Pride & Prejudice is a flirty, unintelligent blonde. She's actually very reserved. And Emma, while popular and flirty, IS intelligent, just maybe a bit naive.
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BabioJimmyia300 10 months ago
Hey, I'm looking for a British film set in historical times about a man who wins a young woman in a bet, and i can't recall the name. Can u help me?
JesusLovinFallGirl17 10 months ago
@JesusLovinFallGirl17 if it has helena bonham carter in it, it's "A Hazard of Hearts"
aquafrost7 10 months ago
@aquafrost7 OMGOSH, that's it!!! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! i've been searching for this movie forever!!! U rock...if i'm not subscribed to your page already, I am going 2 now!!
JesusLovinFallGirl17 9 months ago
@JesusLovinFallGirl17 I believe the film you are looking for is A Hazard of Hearts
aquafrost7 10 months ago
@JesusLovinFallGirl17 Thomas Hardy's Mayor of Casterbridge is where the wife is sold by the husband. And Hazards of the Heart is where the girl is won.
Maisha2006 8 months ago
@Maisha2006 I've never heard of Mayor Casterbridge, but thanks for the info :-)
JesusLovinFallGirl17 8 months ago
Crikey, suggesting that Wentworth's feelings for Anne were less than sincere because he hadn't contact her when his circumstances had changed, (aka. when he had money), is simply ... ridiculous.
If I was rejected by the woman I loved, simply for pecuniary reasons and my lack of social status, then she would never see me again, however fortuitous my "circumstances" may become.
policemanaaron 10 months ago
AHHHHH lol not how i imagined the elliots or anne from reading the book......lol
Nikolaika77 10 months ago
is that maid real.ı think they put her to confuse us.
deniznafi 10 months ago
AHHHH!!!! Giles!!!! I really didn't expect Rupert Giles from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to be in this movie:)))
pinkperel 10 months ago
Anne's father really has some nerve being upset that a "non-gentleman" will be occupying his property. It is he that is uprooting his family due to his frivolous spending habits in an effort to keep up with the 19th century Joneses. Now let me calm myself....it's just a movie. Whew!
NoelleHarmony 10 months ago
her family pi**es me off ! >:O GRRRRR!! She is lovely, though :")
nsb5Q322 10 months ago
finally, my last Austen book adapted movie I have to watch on my list, so EXCITED!
abcedric 10 months ago
at 53 seconds you see her adding more ink to her quill from a maid who is just standing there in the hall. LMAO If there's packing and cleaning to be done, I'd want the job of just standing there with a bowl in my hands. ;-p
tarasensei 10 months ago
Annes father is Ruperd from Buffy the vampire slayer
linakerkyra7 11 months ago
This is my favorite version of "Persuasion." I really liked Sally Hawkins' portrayal of Anne Elliot
CranfordFan 11 months ago 6
this is my favorite version!!!! so well-done! absolutely perfect!
amyleighm 11 months ago
No one would want Anne in Bath? How cruel. D=
Esty2326 11 months ago
i love the way jane austen's books-turned-movies are directed; they're so accurate in comparison to real life yet with a bit of 'fairytale magic' thrown in. unless its just the fact that all these movies take place in the era which simply gives off the feeling of magic. but anyways, these movies are my favourite. (:
erinrawrwolf 11 months ago 2
@erinrawrwolf Same here. They are so elegant and beautiful, so pure and innocent compared to the garbage thrown out today. :)
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nadavjeraljubav 11 months ago
does anyone else not like lady russell..gosh i hate her!! she always has to screw things up!!!
osiyukm29 11 months ago
If I was in that era in England... I would have been the most improper young lady around.... lol but I love these movies so much!
blubryfields4evr 11 months ago 2
Although the 1995 version is more faithful to the book, I prefer watching this 2007 version. I love the music, the scenes in Lyme, the final scenes in Bath and the moments when Anne writes down her inner thoughts and stares at the camera. Everything blends perfectly well together to create a very intimate atmosphere in which the viewer has an important role: Anne's confidante. I think Sally Hawkins did a great job. It's one of those rare cases where the film perhaps is even better than the book!
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arima4ever 1 year ago
I don't know how many times I've watched this.. I lost count
Jane Austen's stories are timeless and immortal <3
I've seen every single Jane Austen adaptation..
OneHindo 1 year ago 64
this isnt the 2007 one, this is the 1995 one
Ballet4Everz 1 year ago
@Ballet4Everz this is the 2007 one :)
OneHindo 1 year ago 2
@OneHindo - yes, it is and I prefer this one cause of rupert henry jones, what a hunk!!
tandiwe36 11 months ago
@OneHindo - yes, it is and I prefer this one cause of rupert penry jones, what a hunk!!
tandiwe36 11 months ago
@tandiwe36 Persuasion is my favorite too.. and I like this particular adaptation because of Rupert too <3
OneHindo 11 months ago
I like this film version of Persuation rather than the 1995. I believe that this one has more heart and emotion than the other. I haven't read the book but after watching this version, I can't wait to!
Aphroditeuf16 1 year ago 2
@Aphroditeuf16 I disagree. I liked the casting in the 1995 version, and the actors were very good. I also think they had quite a bit of emotion, only subtly. That's what makes Austen great I reckon, the small glances and careful way of saying things.. The 1995 version is packed with emotion, although I haven't watched this, I'm hoping to find the same here. :D
bhanshee75 1 year ago 3
Pffh! Its Uther! xx
totallypeaceandlove 1 year ago 2
what a beautiful story!
Aphroditeuf16 1 year ago
It's Giles from Buffy the vampire slayer!
Ballet4Everz 1 year ago 4
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I screamed Giles when he came on :D
dramadork884 1 year ago 4
@dramadork884 haha, same
Ballet4Everz 1 year ago
@dramadork884 And Borg! when Lady Russell came on... :D
framedingreen 1 year ago
Watching Anne going through the house, in my mind at the time: I WANT THAT HOUSE!
LilianaCroush 1 year ago 3
I like how Jane Austen and BBC always make the heriones of the story wise, quiet girls who are pretty in such a reclusive and sensintive way. The blondes in the stories are often flirtatious and popular, but not very clever. The truly admirable women are the ones who give everything and expect nothing. They are so tragic and beautiful...
LeOceanLia 1 year ago 125
@LeOceanLia Giving everything and expecting nothing is NOT admirable.
gmaureen 1 year ago
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But taking everything and expecting more IS!
RavingDissension 1 year ago
@LeOceanLia yes, i agree!! well said!
r2d2pwns 1 year ago
@LeOceanLia ya but jane austen didn´t even describe the haircolours^^ that was just BBC/ ITV
Lilithly 11 months ago 2
@LeOceanLia have you seen "emma"? well, shes not a quiet girl...
and in "mainsfield park", fanny is a blonde, not populare or flirtatious, and she IS clever!
ThePrice0 8 months ago
@LeOceanLia I love her heroines too but Emma is not really reclusive, nor is Lizze. Jane from P&P is. Even so - they are awesome characters :)
doodles3688 8 months ago in playlist Persuasion
@LeOceanLia But that doesn't mean being blonde makes you stupid. Emma was blonde and very clever (she was naive, but still clever) and I felt she was an admirable woman. Austen may have written more brunette heroines (probably because she was a brunette), but that doesn't mean that blondes can't be amazing heroines. It's just a gene, not a part of someone's personality!
LivingintheShire 7 months ago 3
isn't that the same house used in the sense and sensibility movie with kate winslet? or maybe, the recent bbc s&s adaptation.
roxyqueen2 1 year ago
Ahh, I love this version SO much :)
tennnnnnnnnnant 1 year ago
Thanks for this! I've been wanting to catch this version for a while. I enjoyed watching it, though I will say that I thought the parts of Mary and Charles were miscast (especially Mary) - hammy overacting.
rmcbrair 1 year ago
7:43 Over acting by breathing/panting. Weird. 7:43
BreeAnneAh 1 year ago 2
@BreeAnneAh when people are overwhelmed they often breath heavily..certainly not over acting in the least.
austenfan1160 1 year ago
Thank you so much!
lbredikhin5 1 year ago
my sister and i have this, and north and south on dvd but she jacked when she moved out! thanks for uploading because thanks to my sister i can't watch them on dvd (well, she did pay for them so i guess it's only fair, still pissed though).
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BentonCahill 1 year ago
This is my favorite Jane Austen ever. Thankyouthankyouthankyou for posting!
masqueplaysoboe 1 year ago 2
this is my favorite adaptation of the book :) love the way it begins
aulae 1 year ago