Another remake, gurls.
The cinematography looks delicious and it is a great trailer.
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Another remake, gurls.
The cinematography looks delicious and it is a great trailer.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | November 6, 2020 1:31 AM |
Emma is one of those heroines who is impossible to cast satisfactorily--everyone has their own image of and voice for her.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | November 27, 2019 2:25 AM |
Emma was one of Goop’s best roles. She’s absolutely charming in it. The new trailer barely even hints at the story, but I see a beautiful young girl doing a lot of acting in the short clips. I hope she can pull off the playful cluelessness.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | November 27, 2019 2:28 AM |
I like Anya Taylor-Joy, but she seems like a strange choice for Emma. In a costume of that era, she looks like Dracula's bride, not the charming, but clueless, conventionally beautiful woman who all the men she meets falls head over heels for.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | November 27, 2019 4:23 AM |
R4 I totally agree. They should have cast me.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | November 27, 2019 4:49 AM |
Mine is R2's, R1. An absolutely brilliant interpretation.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | November 27, 2019 5:47 AM |
i preferred the bbc 2009 version with romola garai, cause i wanted to do mr knightly nightly
by Anonymous | reply 7 | November 27, 2019 5:58 AM |
Boring novel gets another boring adaptation. How refreshing.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | November 27, 2019 7:01 AM |
Isn't Knightley supposed to be much older than Emma?
by Anonymous | reply 9 | November 27, 2019 8:10 AM |
R9
He's 17 years older. The actor who plays him is 13 years older.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | November 27, 2019 8:23 AM |
Didn't the filmmakers know that the Jane Austen film/TV adaptations craze died out at the turn of the century?
by Anonymous | reply 11 | November 27, 2019 8:39 AM |
Says you, r11.
Some of us are very excited for it and love these adaptations!
by Anonymous | reply 12 | November 27, 2019 8:49 AM |
That's EMMA with a period, I.e. "EMMA."
Very perfunctory version. The actress playing the title character has all the charm and the facial appeal of a praying mantis. And really ugly hairdos. Do not understand why anyone would consider her beautiful or charming. She's Emma as a shallow, clueless bitch.
Harriett Smith is completely unattractive and stupid. Did not deserve the cute Mr. Martin. As a matter of fact, the men were much more attractive in this than the women. Emma's married sister is an ugly shrew married to a cute husband, and the former governess married off to the neighboring squire is plain as well. The only woman that might be considered handsome is Miss Jane Fairfax.
I've liked Johnny Flynn who plays Mr. Knightely in other things but he's out of his depth here. He's styled like a '70s hippie with long sideburns and shaggy hair and he gets a gratuitous rear nude scene that's wildly out of character with the rest of the movie. Doesn't seem appreciably older than Emma, either, which is an important part of the plot.
It's too bad Bill Nighy doesn't have more to do. Josh O'Connor as Mr. Elton is definitely doable.
The sets and scenery are beautiful, but the soundtrack has some jarring music that seems completely inappropriate.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | February 29, 2020 1:38 AM |
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!!!! @#$% @#$ *%@ !!
by Anonymous | reply 14 | February 29, 2020 1:43 AM |
I would watch this just for Bill Nighy. Hopefully, he gets more scenes...... (fell in love with him after watching Pirate Radio.....}
by Anonymous | reply 15 | February 29, 2020 2:14 AM |
I saw this at the movies yesterday and while it was a bit slow at times it was overall pretty entertaining. I thought the two leads, Anya Taylor-Joy and Johnny Flynn, were very good in their roles.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | March 4, 2020 2:59 AM |
I thought Emma was supposed to be pretty, as well as generally good-natured if a little full of herself. Not the ugly cunt as portrayed in EMMA.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | March 4, 2020 4:23 AM |
I like Anya Taylor-Joy and find her uniquely pretty, but ick, that blonde hair does her NO favors. She looks like a fucking space alien.
Out of all the early 20s blonde actresses to choose from (Chloe Moretz, the Fanning sisters, Johnny Depp's daughter, a bunch of others I don't know the name of) they had to cast the one completely unable to pull the particular hair color off?
by Anonymous | reply 18 | March 4, 2020 7:53 AM |
Beyond boring- I actually fell asleep. The "comedy" and the approach to the material does not work at all. I fail to see it s a screwball comedy which apparently the director was going for.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | March 4, 2020 1:48 PM |
Sounds missable. I was planning to go with friends because of Josh O'Connor, Callum Turner, and Rupert Graves, and now you're telling the male lead is being played by Johnny Flynn. I think I'll skip it.
I'm still sick, anyway (though I'm hoping for weekend betterness).
by Anonymous | reply 20 | March 4, 2020 1:54 PM |
Bill Nighy is completely wasted. And I don't mean that in a good way.
Johnny Flynn, with his facial scarring, shaggy hair and unkempt sideburns, looks and acts nothing like a gentleman of leisure.
Harriet Smith is so ugly and charmless that it's impossible to believe that anyone would think her a suitable match for any of the male characters. Even Mr. Martin could have done a lot better.
There's a weird, loud chorus that is part of the soundtrack that is completely incongruous and jolting.
The sets and scenery, however, are beautiful.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | March 4, 2020 2:16 PM |
Meh. I found the actress playing Emma ugly. Or not pretty. Otherwise it was fine.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | March 4, 2020 4:25 PM |
It's weird, Anya JT just doesn't look like she belongs, she looks slavic
by Anonymous | reply 23 | August 20, 2020 7:00 PM |
It's gorgeous in a candybox way (with more than a few nods to Wes Anderson's directorial style). The costumes are especially good (Mr. Knightly had a long coat that I covet). As usual (not counting Clueless), I wish the movie was about any of the characters *except* Emma. But even Jane Austen didn't expect anyone to like Emma but Austen herself. I thought Miranda Hart and Bill Nighy as Miss Bates and Mr. Woodhouse walked away with the movie, helped not inconsiderably by the two actors who played the silent, put-upon footmen.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | August 20, 2020 7:18 PM |
Emma’s 50-Load Weekend
by Anonymous | reply 25 | August 20, 2020 8:11 PM |
Very pretty movie but too acidic and many times really dull. I very much prefer the Paltrow version.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | August 20, 2020 8:42 PM |
I just watched this yesterday for the first time. I enjoyed it enough, I thought it looked great (I am SO happy we are moving out of that horrid, constant blue/grey tone that has been the palette for movies for the past decade). There were heaps of good looking men in it, which I normally wouldn't be fussed over, except I just happened to be in a really horny mood yesterday (I literally was having one of those 'could-stay-in-bed-and-jack-all-day' type days and made myself go and do something else, turned on this movie and of course in the first couple of minutes we get Knightley's gorgeous bum and my mind was back in the gutter).
I don't really know the story outside of Clueless though, and I don't know if anyone else agrees, but I found it a bit confusing knowing who was who and how they were related and some of what was going on and the back story. It felt like they didn't perhaps do a great job of explaining stuff. Maybe they expected everyone watching this would know the story already? Anyway, I really want to read the novel now, I think I will like it. Austen really does seem to have a knack of creating a wild range of interesting and unique characters in her work.
Is Emma meant to be as... well she seemed sort of mean-spirited in this, and I was surprised. Is that her real nature as in the novel? I guess I was expecting lovably, well, 'clueless' haha.
I like Mia Goth, because I think her voice is so cute, and I enjoyed her in this role a lot. Also enjoyed Miranda a great deal.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | October 3, 2020 10:51 PM |
I thought Emma in the novel was kind of a cloying, annoying cunt, but I'd watch the movie.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | October 3, 2020 11:01 PM |
I loved the scene where Knightley goes and asks Harriet to dance, the poor girl! That was lovely. And the picnic scene was great too. Not knowing the story beforehand, I was actually shocked when Emma said what she said to Miss Bates. I did feel a slight lag in the film in the scenes before that, so I did appreciate this scene picking up the pace again. I do really like the idea of an unlikeable main character, but it is a very hard thing to do right. It's an intriguing idea though, to make a heroine who no one will like except the author.
Josh O'Connor was really excellent in this. I first saw him in The Crown, and he's a very impressive actor.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | October 27, 2020 11:09 PM |
I agree, R3. I dislike GOOP intensely.....but liked her in that. And the supporting cast was fantastic!! Jeremy Northam , Toni Collette, Ewan MacGregor. Great movie. The rest of the cast is so great, there is no reason to remake it.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | October 27, 2020 11:23 PM |
[quote] Anya JT just doesn't look like she belongs, she looks slavic
I adore her but I have to agree on her looks not fitting in to early 19th century England. She looks more Argentine or dare I say Brazilian than English.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | October 27, 2020 11:25 PM |
Last movie I saw before the lockdown in March.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | October 27, 2020 11:28 PM |
She is part Argentine, isn't she? I think I read somewhere that her father is Scottish-Argentine?
I think I prefer the look of this remake than the 1996 one. It seems more fun. It's more of a comedy than something like Pride and Prejudice or Sense and Sensibility, so I am completely fine with them going for a more comedic rather than romantic look to the film.
I was also readying something interesting, that historically this period was actually pretty bright and colourful, so it's not actually inaccurate to show it as it was in this remake.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | October 27, 2020 11:31 PM |
"Readying"? Jeez, "reading" more like it! Sorry!
by Anonymous | reply 34 | October 27, 2020 11:32 PM |
I finished reading Emma tonight. Enjoyed the movie enough that I thought I'd check the novel out too. Am glad I did, it was mostly enjoyable and explained some of the things that I missed in the movie; especially with regards to who was related to whom. Can understand why Emma was so unlikable in the film too, as that is how she is written, and for the most part I was able to enjoy laughing at her, but even so by the end I was like, "god dammit, you're annoying!" I think it was the moment after Knightley's proposal where she suddenly didn't care about Harriet or her nephew Henry's future, and I was thinking: "but you've grown so much through the book and you're still a selfish cow" (not that I mean she should've turned down the proposal, more to do with her "oh well, fuck 'em!" attitude). I also thought it sad that the book ends saying she and Harriet would drift apart naturally, in a very classist sort of way. I've only seen the 2020 version in full but since then have watched clips on YouTube from other versions and it seems to me they all make a point that Emma will become less snobbish by allowing that she will have Robert Martin at the house, so I guess no adaptations could bear to have them drift apart. It ended the novel on a bit of a sour note, I thought.
There are quite a few slow passages in the book too, so it doesn't surprise me that any film of this may lag at any point. It was enjoyable to be amongst the characters and their lives though, so I didn't mind too much. They sure did take a long time to get to the point in their conversations and the level of politeness was out of this world. I assumed that was done as part of the comedy and found it funny, but if it were realistic it would be damn annoying to live in those times, haha! I could also see, due to the way it was written, how there could be a number of adaptations with their own spin on it, because the source material allows that. I think a faithful Emma on screen would be kinda dull in that medium, to be honest. It works as a novel, though.
Interesting experience reading the old fashioned language and how as you keep at it, it becomes more and more understandable, rather like my experience in reading books in foreign languages that becomes easier to read as you get immersed in it.
I've enjoyed both Pride and Prejudice and Emma now; might try Northanger Abbey after a bit, I believe that one is quite amusing too.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | November 5, 2020 10:54 AM |
There's such a weird part at the end of the book where Mr Knightley keeps talking about Emma at 13 years old, like that's when he fell in love with her... unless I misunderstood that. That was... different.
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