History Film / SenseAndSensibility

* AgeLift: Emma Thompson is thirty-six, playing a character who was nineteen in the novel. It is implied that the character is perhaps in her mid to late 20's due to the ValuesDissonance of a 19-year-old worrying about becoming a spinster. ''Because'' it's Emma Thompson, nobody cares. Emma objected to playing Elinor because of her age, but director {{Ang Lee}} insisted that she be cast. However he also raised the age of Elinor to 27 because he felt that a modern audience wouldn't sympathize with a 19-year-old girl who saw herself as an OldMaid.

* DawsonCasting: Emma Thompson, who was in her mid-30s playing a character who is 19 in the novel. Some attempt is made to address this by saying that Elinor is 25 in the screenplay. Actually somewhat averted by Kate Winslet, who was 19 playing a 17-year-old.

* DirectedByCastMember: Emma Thompson was the head screenwriter for the film, for which she won an Academy Award.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Edward insists on staying in the room the Dashwoods originally intended for him, rather than one with a better view that would inconvenience them like his sister had pushed them into.
** The carriage ride at the start of the film establishes Fanny's character as unwilling to help her inlaws very succinctly.

* IllGirl: Marianne, after some time moping about in a damp garden. The movie makes it more believable by turning this into a long walk in a torrential downpour, to the point that some people remember that having happened in the ''book'' -- Emma Thompson on the DVD mentions having been very flattered when a fan told her that scene (Marianne walking to see Willoughby's house in the rain) was her favourite one in the book, since it meant Thompson had captured Austen's style perfectly.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Colonel Brandon.

* LoveAtFirstNote: Colonel Brandon first sees Marianne while she's playing a harpsichord and singing. He visibly falls in love with her in an instant.
* MeetCute: Marianne meets Willoughby when she slips and falls in the rain and hurts her ankle. He rescues her, brings her back to her home on his horse and carries her inside, like something right out of one of Marianne's stories.

* DidYouThinkICantFeel : Said almost word-to-word by Elinor to Marianne. Subverted when Marianne bursts into tears after the speech and Elinor has to comfort her.

* AgeLift: Emma Thompson is thirty-six, playing a character who was nineteen in the novel. It is implied that the character is perhaps in her mid to late 20's due to the ValuesDissonance of a 19-year-old worrying about becoming a spinster. ''Because'' it's Emma Thompson, nobody cares.
** Emma objected to playing Elinor because of her age, but director {{Ang Lee}} insisted that she be cast. However he also raised the age of Elinor to 27 because he felt that a modern audience wouldn't sympathize with a 19-year-old girl who saw herself as an OldMaid.

* LastNameBasis: Colonel Brandon's first name is never used in dialogue, though the letter that accompanies the piano he buys for Marianne reveals that it's Christopher. (In the original novel, it was not given at all.)

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Lady Middleton was written out of the screenplay; Sir John is introduced to the audience as being a widower.

* LeaveTheLovebirdsAlone: When Elinor (usually TheStoic) finds out that Edward is not actually married, she bursts into tears, and her mother and sisters nearly race out of the room.

In 1995, Ang Lee directed a film adaptation of ''Literature/SenseAndSensibility''. It starred EmmaThompson (also the head screenwriter) as Elinor, Hugh Grant as Edward, KateWinslet as Marianne, and AlanRickman as Colonel Brandon.

!!The movie provides examples of:

* ValuesDissonance: In the movie, Colonel Brandon was forbidden from marrying his cousin Elizabeth because she had no money. In the book, she was forced to marry his brother specifically because she ''did'' have money - and it had to stay with the oldest son to keep it in the family.

* DidYouThinkICantFeel : said almost word-to-word by Elinor to Marianne. Subverted when Marianne bursts into tears after the speech and Elinor has to comfort her.

* LeaveTheLovebirdsAlone: when Elinor (usually TheStoic) finds out that Edward is not actually married, she bursts into tears, and her mother and sisters nearly race out of the room.

* MeetCute: Marianne meets Willoughby when she slips and falls in the rain. He rescues her, rides her back to her home and carries her inside, like something right out of one of Marianne's stories.

* LastNameBasis: Colonel Brandon's first name is never revealed in the novel, but he is given one — Christopher — which is mentioned only in the letter that accompanies the piano he buys for Marianne.

* LastNameBasis: Colonel Brandon's first name is never revealed in the novel, but he is given one — Christopher — which is mentioned only in the letter that accompanies the piano he buys for Marianne.)

* DirectedByCastMember: Emma Thompson was the head screenwriter for the film.

* AdaptationExpansion: The movie adds scenes where Edward interacts with Elinor in ways not shown in the book, such as helping her to coax youngest sister Margaret out of hiding and discussing their respective future prospects. Not only [[CrowningMomentOfFunny are many of the scenes hilarious]] ("What is swabbing, anyway?"), they help give a reason for Elinor falling for Edward where the book never did. The film also gives Margaret some personality traits, notably being a tomboy. She has almost no characterization in the book. The 2008 miniseries takes its cue from this adaptation, and is much the better for it.

* AdaptationExpansion: The movie adds scenes where Edward interacts with Elinor in ways not shown in the book, such as helping her to coax youngest sister Margaret out of hiding and discussing their respective future prospects. Not only [[CrowningMomentOfFunny are many of the scenes hilarious]] ("What is swabbing, anyway?"), they help give a reason for Elinor falling for Edward where the book never did. The film also gives Margaret some personality traits, notably being a tomboy. She has almost no characterization in the book. The 2008 miniseries takes many cues from this adaptation, and is much the better for it.

In 1995, Ang Lee directed a film adaptation of ''Literature/SenseAndSensibility''. It starred Emma Thompson (also the head screenwriter) as Elinor, Hugh Grant as Edward, Kate Winslet as Marianne, and Alan Rickman as Colonel Brandon.

* AdaptationExpansion: The movie adds scenes where Edward interacts with Elinor in ways not shown in the book, such as helping her to coax youngest sister Margaret out of hiding and discussing their respective future prospects. Not only [[CrowningMomentOfFunny are many of the scenes hilarious]] ("What is swabbing, anyway?"), they help give a reason for Elinor falling for Edward where the book never did. The film also gives Margaret some personality traits, notably being a tomboy. She has almost no characterization in the book.

* LoveAtFirstNote: Colonel Brandon first sees Marianne while she's playing a harpsicord and singing. He visibly falls in love with her in an instant.

* TrueLovesKiss: Elinor and Edward get theirs in a deleted scene.

In 1995, Ang Lee directed a film adaptation of ''SenseAndSensibility''. It starred Emma Thompson (also the head screenwriter) as Elinor, Hugh Grant as Edward, Kate Winslet as Marianne, and Alan Rickman as Colonel Brandon.

* [[EverythingsBetterWithCows Everything's Better With Sheep]]: Ang Lee likes his sheep. No, seriously. Ang Lee ''really'' likes his sheep.
* TheGhost: Unlike in the novel, Mrs. Ferrars never actually appears onscreen, though she gets mentioned frequently by other characters.

* PragmaticAdaptation: The Ang Lee film depicts events only reported on in the book, which makes it easier to follow. Also, Marianne and Elinor are implied to be older than the 17 and 19 they are stated to be in the book.
** As noted above, in the novel, youngest Dashwood sibling Margaret was practically invisible. The movie gave her more to do, adding to some of the humor of the story.

* [[DirectedByCastMember Written By Cast Member]]: Emma Thompson was the head screenwriter for the film.

* [=~Hey, It's That Guy!~=]: [[HouseMD Dr. House]] is the long-suffering husband of [[HarryPotter Dolores Umbridge]]?!
** And [[{{Titanic}} Rose De Witt Bukater]] is the sister to [=Nanny McPhee=]? Or was she [[HarryPotter Professor Sybil Trelawney]]? Ah no, she's [[MuchAdoAboutNothing Beatrice]]!
*** Don't forget that she hooks up with [[AlanRickman Severus Snape]], while her sister falls for Charles from ''FourWeddingsAndAFuneral''.
*** And their mother is Madam Pomfrey, and the nice old lady who takes them to London is the (original) Fat Lady from Gryffindor Tower, who lives with Cornelius Fudge. The HarryPotter movie sets were practically a reunion party for the cast of this film.
*** Also, their bitchy sister-in-law is [[TheYoungVictoria Queen Adelaide]]. Or [[LordPeterWimsey Harriet Vane.]] And their half-brother is [[TheVicarOfDibley Hugo Horton]].

* AdaptationExpansion: The movie adds scenes where Edward interacts with Elinor in ways not shown in the book, such as helping her to coax youngest sister Margaret out of hiding and discussing their respective future prospects. Not only [[CrowningMomentOfFunny are many of the scenes hilarious]] ("What is swabbing, anyway?"), they help give a reason for Elinor falling for Edward where the book never did.

* TearJerker: When Elinor has her DidYouThinkICantFeel moment, Marianne seems to be having something along the lines of a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment, complete with remorseful tears.

* AudioErotica: For Alan Rickman fans, the scene where Colonel Brandon reads poetry to a recuperating Marianne.

* PlayingHamlet: Emma Thompson is thirty-six, playing a character who was nineteen in the novel. It is implied that the character is perhaps in her mid to late 20's due to the ValuesDissonance of a 19-year-old worrying about becoming a spinster. ''Because'' it's Emma Thompson, nobody cares.