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  • If nursing does not belong to a man, why are so many doctors male? ;)

  • So part 2 gets removed because of copyright issues but others are allowed to remain? I just don't get it.

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  • This wentworth isent as handsome as Rupert Penry - Jones xxx

  • Actress who plays Herietta is also in Lark Rise to Candleford :)!!!!! Extremely good drama by the BBC

  • Bloody Mary..

  • so far I want to smack EVERYBODY except anne and the admiral and his wife :P

  • So far I find this Anne really adorable. She does portray the Anne I imagined from the book well. I watched the 2007 version first, so I can't say I don't like Hawkins portrayal. It kinda marked me hehe.

  • i like the little boy's glasses he looks so cute :3

  • "You haven't a mother's feelings" most ironic!

  • omg they're all selfish in their own ways especially mary

  • Flattering in a way, for everyone to erm, confide in Anne. But miserable too. SHE has her own troubles.

  • poor anne has to hear everyone's troubles

  • I agree, the beginning of this part is jus so hilarious and fitting. And Charle's sigh of "Oh Anne..." at the end as if he had something else to complain to her about... I love that part! xD

  • So clever at the start with the tea and cake thing!

  • The Bitch Session to Anne is simply superb. All the carping, so understandable and human and real. I can't remember if it was in the book or not but it is masterfully done here. There's nothing like a fresh ear to prompt us to redredge all our complaints. It's refreshing to refresh them! Who's the girl who comlains of precidence? She recently did an american movie, and she's actually Australian, I trhink!

  • @marginallymental

    It is in the book.

  • MirrenCawdor- I do agree that Anne is a good listener whom everyone seems to trust with their complaints. She neither chides nor adds fuel to any fire . Even the apothecary trusts her with the care of the injured toddler. We all want to have a friend/sister like Anne. It is sad but every family has a whiner like Mary .

  • gosh wht a lousy mother mary is

  • I really love this version so far! I'm torn between it or the 1971 being my favorite...we'll see!

  • ...if you have a problem...go see Anne at the big red couch/chair...

  • anne needs to work on hiding her emotions more

  • Mary is always complaining about how "ill" she is. One can see why. She eats like a damn horse!!!

  • it's the cake she cares about! its all about the cake dear, lol! Brilliant adaption;) I love everyone in this film, it's so well cast.

  • Nice tea cups.

  • I wish they could make a movie of how Anne and Wentworth met and the romance they had eight years back.

  • @kotik122, that would be something, wouldn't it?! A real tearjerker.

  • Anne is an interesting character. She is so caring and sacrificing. Even with Mary abusing Anne's good nature and her felicitous feelings, Anne remains calm and self posessed. While Anne's demeanor and attitude are the most old-fashioned of the other young ladies in Persuasion, she is the most accomplished in literature and music as well as in the more mundane duties of nursemaid and house chores and in this regard seems the forerunner of the modern woman, competent at work and at home.

  • The definition of irony: "...and you haven't a mother's feelings, have you?"

  • anne is sweet and kind and patient and sensible. no wonder everyone likes pouring out their woes to her...i would! and i'm sure the good captain wentworth does too, once they are married.

  • She's from mansfield park!

  • my god i feel for anne! wt a horrible woman, so selfish, i think i would hav told her 2 take a hike!

  • is ann some kind of family therapist?? 

  • Although I am not a big fan of hunting, I understand it was a very popular sport in Austin's time. In the scene with the ground beaters and the birds, I keep laughing at the lovelorn Musgrove sisters applauding each time Wentworth shoots his gun.

  • Mary is a sham, plain as day, to call her a hypochondriac is wrong, what she needs is a good arse skelping followed by a shag, every day at 7 A.M., sort her out in no time, just a man's opinion.

  • @locheelad2 Too funny!!

  • Mary is a problem for everyone! The whole Musgrove family gripes about her hypochondria and passive-aggressive manipulative behavior, played to hilarious perfection by the great Sophie Thompson. Mary’s self absorption even eclipses even her children: her young son just suffered a serious spinal injury but she is more upset about missing a dinner party!

  • Poor Anne almost has a heart attack here when Lady Croft tells Anne that her brother has married! Anne thinks she is speaking of Frederick, the love of her life, and she struggles to keep her face from falling in agony. But then Lady Croft mentions the couple have settled in the parish in Sharpshire, and she realizes she is talking about Frederick´s brother, Edward, and she her body slowly deflates in relief!

  • I wish a genealogy chart were supplied with every JA story...

  • I cannot think of a more handsome and attractive man than Hinds!!!

    he made an excellent Captain!!!

  • i'd put this at the best of all the jane austen adaptions.

  • @bri7102 yes!! i wish the other ones were as good!

  • For someone who is supposed to be so ill, Mary eats like a pig!!!

  • Hail Caesar !

  • Poor Ann. She has to listen to all these people gossip about each other.

  • 1:35 This scene pretty well says it all!

  • Hey its Fiona Shaw! lol Petunia Dursley =)

  • "you haven't a mother's feelings, have you?" what a cold and nasty woman Mary is.

  • argghh, Mary is a self centred creature. To leave a child is horrible. May well be a work of Fiction, but there are women like it.

  • @ islandsylph

    Yes, unfortunately (and men too). That's why Austen is good, she touches something sad but true and makes us see it for what it is.

  • Fiona Shaw is a brilliant actress. She's a chameleon with her characters.

  • Mary is such a whining hypochondriac! I could just shake her and say "Enough already!!"

  • 00.21: I just found out that Sophie Thompson is the sister of Emma Thompson.

  • Apparently Ann is the family counsler. XD Poor Ann.

  • Henrietta also plays Maria in the Johnny Lee Miller version of Mansfield Park, right?

  • I love the bells tolling when Henrietta mentions Captain Wentworth. I think it represents Anne's inner turmoil perfectly!

  • anne is definitly the best caracter in the novel. she cares and provides for everyone

  • The look on Anne's face when Mrs Croft told her abt Wentworth's marriage was very well captured...the shock, the pain, the hope...all in one....very well done indeed...

  • And then the look on her afce when she realises it's the curate Wentworth not Sailor Wentworth who got wed...so touching! :) I love Amanda Root in anything she plays!

  • Thanks for loading this! I was curious about this adaptation, after seeing the 2007 version first but this was sublime. Ciaran has since grown on me as a well-rounded Wentworth. Nice and tall--that's how I like my men! ;)

  • I just watched the 07 version and was not really feeling it. The 07 Anne was just so depressing.

  • @TVwriter23

    You are so right! The scene coming up soon when they are all walking together in the mud and Capt,Wentworth insists on placing Anne in the carriage - just so touching.

  • Is Mary actually saying: you are the best person to sit with the child, because you don´t have the feelings of a mother???? what a terrible selfish coldhearted person.

  • I so feel for Anne in that first part! People do that with me all the time...it's frustrating!

  • I know, and you sit there thinking to yourself, "Er...well, this is awkward." xD

  • The Admiral is so sweet! He's like grandpa LOL!

  • Aunt PETUNIA!

    Sorry.

    Had to get that out.

  • lol! I could not stop laughing after the first 45 seconds...it's like Anne is the family therapist, haha. And Anne's signature pensive face...quite fitting considering how everyone was talking like that, hehe.

  • Totally agree, this is a great sequence. Establishes so many characters in so little time too.

  • @raynebeauty

    I know! She's just sitting there going...okay...NEXT!

  • Love the way this section starts, with them all complaining to Anne, especially about the cake. Mary is a great whiner and hypochondriac. I found Amanda Root more sympathetic as Anne - she looks so downtrodden and weary. But as the film goes on, she brightens and blooms. Hinds is great as Wentworth. He has a particularly attractive voice - not unlike Alan Rickman who played Colonel Brandon in Sense and Sensibility.

  • @MirrenCawdor I believe lighting (and subtle make-up, of course) go a great length towards Amanda Root's appearance. If you take notice, many of her early scenes show her face in shadow, which contributes to her dowdy, wan appearance. Also, you're quite right about Hinds's voice and your comparison to Rickman's role in "Sense and Sensibility" is very apropos. Looking at the YouTube comments for "S&S", many adore Rickman because of that very role.

  • @MirrenCawdor I was about to give up on this...Mary's whining is doing my head in, don't ya just want to smack her!!! But I'll keep watching thanks to your post

  • @MirrenCawdor OMG yeah ew Alan Rickman! THAT never works cus hes SNAPE!

  • @MirrenCawdor :: Well, Alan Rickman was also very good for his character on S&S.. Watching him on that movie, you would think if he's really the prof snape on HP. peace.

  • mary is soooooo annoying. just as much of a pain that i imagined her to be

  • I like the 2007 version better because of the characters are cast more as I imagined them. Everyone in this is so much older than I like. The only things I dont like in the new one are the letter/running part and how Anne doesnt seem to get prettier towards the end like she is supposed to. But Wentworth makes up for all that and more!!! I LOVE Rupert Penry Jones.!!!!! And he puts a lot of subtle emotion into Wentworth. He is Awesome.

  • i wish Anne didnt make her sadness and surprise that obvious. i expected her to be more restrained, despite the sudden news

  • I agree - it's painfully obvious. Elinor Dashwood was the best heroine for covering up her sadness, and Emma Thompson played the part perfectly. This actress could learn something from her.

  • OK this is my FAVORITE part the first time the Captain sees her again that cool camera technique where you can see how it would feel to be her all faint and dizzy. So awesome!

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  • it sounds like baroque..maybe sthing bach

  • Does anyone know what the name of the harp piece is that Musgrove daughter plays at 1:38?

  • haha - its aunt petunia!

  • I totally love the actress who played Mary! she's perfect! she's how i imagined her to be. although the actors look older for their roles, their acting gives so much justice to their characters!

    im enjoying this more than the 2007 version which i watched first.

    oh and aunt petunia i see her! lol!

  • Amanda Root is an excellent Anne Elliott, the character who is supposed to be age 27 . Amanda is very authentic - no obvious makeup, no affectation whatsoever and shows with subtlety her sadness followed by relief 3:02 to 3:38 .

    Throughout the movie, the camera catches her emotions ,

  • she was 40 when they made this

  • She was born in 1963 and the movie was made in 1995.

  • The actress is only 32 yrs old here. In the book she was 27 and said to have lost her bloom. She is just what I imagined her to look like. I think it quite nice that the women look as if they are not wearing makeup. Gives one an idea of what might be normal in the 1800's. Did they have any forms of makeup in the early 1800's?

  • Yes :) They had make up, but it was more often used in the 18th century rather than 19th... I suppose it must have gone out of fashion or something! I don't know... But they did have make up =] Like white lead for their skin, mouse skin for their eyebrows... Not really very nice haha.

  • I'm so disappointed in their choice of actress for Anne! She looks like she's in her 40s!

  • She does look older but you have to consider she lost her beauty and she has lived a not so quite happy life, on top of that, she regrets not marrying the man she loves. Things like that will make you appear much older than you look. Not telling you that your opinion is wrong, but do consider what she's been through and going through at the moment that can affect her physical appearance.

  • also people aged faster in that time period. There was no make up, no sun block, and they spent a lot more time outdoors.

  • Very true~!

  • I agree, the newer version of Persuasion somehow the actress playing Anne I don't find nearly as convincing as Amanda Root.

  • Aaah, this is the best version of Persuasion by far!

    I love it and I`m glad I found it here. Thank you for uploading.

    Got it only on VHS in poor quality. 1995 - good old days...? LOL

  • Isn't the actress who plays Anne the same girl in Harry Potter? I think she's Myrtle.

  • No, Moaning Myrtle=Shirley Henderson!

    The actress who`s palying Anne is called Amanda Root (right!?).

    But here we have Harry Potters aunt! (sister of Cpt. Wentworth) She`s so much nicer here, isn`t she?

  • Oops, thanks for info.

    I thought I was going to like the 2007 version for the simple reason that it is a newer version and so it must be good. However, I like this more. LOL!

  • no she's not. you can definately tell because the voice is in no way the same. the voice she uses in HP is in fact her real voice. you can see her in both Bridget Jones films though!

  • im not sure

    but thats the mother isnt it ? petunia

  • When he walked in she looked like all the air was sucked out of her lungs and the room. I think she forgot how to breathe. She could not utter a word lost all her senses. This actress did a good job.

  • Jene Austyn jej ksiązki odmieniły moje życie. Warto je przeczytać i zrozumiec

    Pozdrawiam wszystkich miłośników Jene Austen

  • i think the new one has much better looking people no offense to these actors/actresses

  • i very juch agree with you, the newly adapted cast is far better in looks than three actors combined in this version

  • Sucks for Mary, she has to listen to everyone's crap!

  • from :01 to 1:40 is what I feel like around my friends lol I never tell anyone but I always get everyones problems haha

  • I agree totally. they treat me like a ragdoll. They can tell me anything and it won't leave, but if I try to tell them then they shut me up.

  • yeah we're kinda victims....whatever friendship sacrifices.....it;s really funny though

  • Yes again I agree, but complaining on my part does not help. At least they know they can confide in me.

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  • Mary is such a hater!!

  • deplored her for the way she left her child in the exact same manner she accused her husband of doing...and how she says to anne 'you can stay you don't harbor a mother's feelings' grrrrr...

  • Lord help poor Charles, being married

    to a woman like Mary. !!!

  • yes, poor poor man!!

  • i disagree the 2007 version was horrible adaption. not true to the book at all. It was a good movie stand alone but did not do the book justice, and sometimes just weird aka the running scenes. I believe people perfer it only because the actors in it are more "attractive" but as far as acting goes based on talent this one wins as well. Anne in this verison is stronger and much more the anne in the book, the 2007 anne was horribly played...

  • I do believe this version is truer to the book but I don't think the 2007 one was horrible.

    They did an okay job and except for the running scenes, all the other scenes weren't that bothering. Plus I thought the Anne was quite good.

  • sally hawkins is a good actress don't get me wrong it is just that she made anne seem so weak and pathetic, i always thought ann to be more inwardly strong, but EVERYONE invisions a character differently lol that is what make reading fun you get to play the casting agent and the director

  • Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that the whole point? Anne isn't inwardly strong (because she's was so easily persuaded) until 8 years later when she realizes that she has a chance to fix the worst mistake of her life?

  • Actually, no. In the book one gets the impression that she made what could reasonably be called a prudent choice, and that really, if Wentworth had come back 2 years later when he'd begun to accrue his fortune and re-applied for her hand, she would have accepted him right there, regardless. It was his stubbornness that kept them apart for 8 years more than any weakness on Anne's part.

  • except for that current mistake with wentworth everybody can see that anne has given up to all her hopes in life for an escape from her family because she considers herself "old" at the age of 27...those were the bases at that time...and thus she has turned herself to somekind of "servant" to her family and acquaintance...until frederick shows up again!one of the few intelligent men that respected anne's mind and character...(sorry for my enlish:P)

  • yeah that mistake costed her a "lifetime"....I think the difference between these versions is that this one is much more realistic according to the english society of that time. It's a full film by all means. And you can say that's more authentic because it came first as a release to 2007 persuasion...I mean that the actors,director and all the crew of 2007 version trying not to "copy" this version may have done some differencies on purpose...I don;t know...

  • The 2007 version is so much better, especially there is no comparison between Rupert Penry Jones and this Ciaran H. actor, who can't hold a candle to Rupert! lol I'm really sorry to those who like him, but I can't stand him for some reason. ..Sry! :/

  • Mary is completly hysterical, u need some nerve to stay with a woman like that.

  • These people are so wretched and miserable

  • Gotta love the hypochondriacs.

  • What a 'nice' and 'full of care' kind of mother Mary is! Leaving behind an unwell son to go to a party! Well done!

  • The father as well.

  • He's probably trying to escape scary Mary!

  • You know I think that's why she's taking it out on her sister. Her husband doesn't really spend time with her because she wasn't his first choice anyway. This just make JA all the more relevant than most fiction writers even today.

  • How entertaining, Anne is listening to all their problems and worries, I like this part of the movie, a fav.

  • mary is hilarious: egocentric and hypochondriac

    it shows how vexing women can be, a real pain in the ass!

  • 2007 version is so much better...in that one Wentworth is at least good looking!

    OK actually RPJ is gorgeous, but that's beside the point

    I like an in 2007's more too

  • Lol same, but this one has originality etc..

  • I completely agree with you! The cast in the 2007 version is better looking...especially RPJ :P :P

  • LOL, i was afraid to say that and people would give me negative ratings :P

    But its very true...

  • the 2007 fredrick is much more yummy but this version is gd

  • Hey @3:00 isn't that Elspeth from "Three Men and a little Lady?" It looks just like her.

  • 'You haven't a mother's feelings!' - superb irony.

  • i like the mary in this version. the 2007 one is too dramatic.

  • yeah but Mary is just a dramatic annoying character

  • Poor Anne first encounter she's paralysed

  • Yeah her face was set in stone lmao!!

  • Poor Anne she has to listen to these people complain about their lives and how bad it is and the way that Anne is treated like she as not feelings and that in some way she as to be the servant of those two I would had slap her for the comment but in that time it would have been inproper do to so. I would in private LOL.

  • Yeah I was thinking, she should have a show, The Anne Elliot Show. To talk about their problems. And she has to find a way on how to overcome it

  • And then at the end of the show, everyone in the audience gets a new carriage!

  • lol, i LOVE her portrayal of Mary, it's perfect! SO annoying!

  • Poor Anne, having to listen to everyone complain.

  • haha, Mary is so selfish!

  • 'always fancing herself ill, LOL!! thats sucha a good way to put it!

  • Look at those eyes! LOL!

  • strangely enough, those eyes keep making me think of helena bonham carter

  • Hadn't noticed berofe but Mrs. Musgrove is Daisy from "Keeping up Appearances!

  • Oh my gosh, you are right!

  • Does anyone know the name of the piece Henrietta is playing on the harp in this clip (around 1:42)? I've been searching everywhere!

  • I do agree that Amanda Root is fantastic as Anne Elliot, but I have never liked Ciaran Hinds as captain Wentworth. Rupert Penry-Jones is defintely definetly better!

  • Yes, he is beautiful. I think I would rather picture him when I next read the novel again, for the hundredth time lol.

  • Really?? I do think RPJ is very handsome, and I liked him in Spooks, but compared to Ciaran Hinds, his portrayal was a bit mediocre. It's not his fault though, had he given a good script and more screen time, he would've made a very good Captain Wentworth.

  • it's very true that RPJ just wasn't on screen enough, not enough lines either. I mean even in the kiss we only saw her face.

  • I love tbe way they do the first scene :)

  • The actress who plays Mary is very talented.

    Ciaran Hinds is a fantastic Captain Wentworth, very manly. :-)

  • the actres who plays Mary is the sister of Emma Thomson... They are talented in their family.

  • I love how Mary says, "...you must persuade him that I am very, very ill." ...and then eats the cake!

    Just like in the last part how Mary was saying she was so ill and later we see her eating a good portion of meat! She is sooo very ill, indeed! LOL

  • This is the best Jane Austen adaptation there is! It is imbued with a claustrophobic sense, a sense of being trapped whereas other adaptations merely hint at such and get on with the froth. Amanda Root is superb as Anne and Ciaran Hinds stands peerless as Wentworth. Thank you for posting it indeed.

  • i prefer rupert penry jones as wentworth

  • i love when anne played with her nephews!

  • I do too!!! And that dopey Mary told her she doesn't have a mother's instinct or care.

  • This "consulting Anne" sequence is my second-favorite scene in the movie. Love it.

  • im a huuuuge fe shaw fan - loving you loads for posting these!

  • I love how close the lines are to the lines in the book.

  • "Mama doesn't care about etiquette. It's the cake she cares about!"

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