History Film / SenseAndSensibility

In 1995, Creator/AngLee directed a film adaptation of ''Literature/SenseAndSensibility'' written by Creator/EmmaThompson, [[WrittenByCastMember who also starred as Elinor]]. It also starred Hugh Grant as Edward, Creator/KateWinslet as Marianne, and Creator/AlanRickman as Colonel Brandon.

* {{Fainting}}: Marianne very nearly does when she sees Willoughby with his fiancee at the ball; Elinor and Mrs. Jennings catch her and keep her walking.

** When Marianne falls and twists her ankle, she's carried back to the house by Willoughby. Later, when she goes out walking despondently and collapses, she's rescued and carried back by Colonel Brandon. Bonus points for both scenes happening in the rain.

** In addition, when Marianne and Brandon get married at the end, Willoughby is seen forlornly watching their wedding from a distant hill, before he rides away.

* CompositeCharacter: Lucy Steele is a combination of the novel's Lucy and her older sister Anne. Anne would fit under AdaptedOut, except that Lucy picks up her IdiotBall task of confiding her secret engagement to Mrs. Dashwood.

* 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 ''again''.

** The carriage ride at the start of the film establishes Fanny's character as unwilling to help her in-laws very succinctly. It also shows just how easily guided John is by his wife's opinions. In one sequence she turns John from giving them a generous allowance to such a pittance that "they'll be much more able to give ''you'' something!"
** When Edward's arrival is expected, his sister Fanny all but forces the Dashwoods to let him sleep in Margaret's room rather than the guest room, as it offered a better view. When he arrives, however, he insists on taking the guest room and letting Margaret keep her own room. However, he does so in a modest, polite fashion in which he passes off the obvious power-playing snub as a mistake that he's merely corrected in an attempt to let his sister save some face, indicating that he has a lot more class than most of his rather awful family.

* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Elinor is levelheaded, manages the family finances, and maintains a calm, composed attitude when confronted with setbacks or heartbreak. Marianne finds fault in the very idea of reserve, flaunts her romance with Willoughby, and then when he leaves her, neglects eat and sleep.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Fanny swears that Lucy will be welcomed by the family of any lover as soon as they meet her, regardless of her financial situation. Cue Lucy letting her in on her secret romance with Edward...

** When Marianne falls and twists her ankle, she's carried back to the house by Willoughby. Later on, when she goes out walking despondently and collapses, she's rescued and carried back by Colonel Brandon. Bonus points for both scenes happening in the rain.

--> "Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove. Oh no! It is an ever fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken..."

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Mr. Palmer [[DeadpanSnarker is not shy with a snarky comment for every situation]], which makes his sincere offer to stay by Elinor's side and offer any and all help he can when her sister may be dying all the more heartwarming. He also gives Marianne a very sympathetic look in the party scene when she runs out horrified that the man she loves is involved with another woman.

* SceneryPorn: This isn't a "women talking in drawing rooms" adaptation. The landscape of England is displayed magnificently and is often used to highlight the mood. The interior shots don't disappoint either, since facial closeups are rarely used. In some cases, Lee would wait for just the right weather conditions before filming.

* {{Tomboy}}: Margaret. She likes to swordfight, play in treehouses, and poke around in the mud.

* WidowsWeeds: Mrs. Dashwood wears them for most of the film. The progress of her clothing from the initial all-black to the next colors down the line is a useful marker for how much time has passed.
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* DeadpanSnarker:
** Elinor, especially when playing off Marianne.
** Mr. Palmer is a stoic curmudgeon who often makes cutting and sarcastic remarks.

** Emma Thompson was 36 at the time the film was released, playing a character who was 19 in the novel. ''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 due to the ValuesDissonance of a 19-year-old worrying about becoming an OldMaid.

* AscendedExtra: The youngest Dashwood sister Margaret, who is barely present for most of the novel, is given a considerably larger role in the film, as well as a more fleshed-out personality (she's a tomboy and something of a geography whiz). The commentary includes a great amount of thanks for Margaret's presence, as a child could move conversations forward with her lack of concern for politeness and protocol.

** When Edward's arrival is expected, his sister Fanny all but forces the Dashwoods to let him sleep in Margaret's room rather than the guest room, as it offered a better view. When he arrives, however, he insists on taking the guest room and letting Margaret keep her own room.

* NotSoStoic:
** Left alone with her delirious, fevered sister, Elinor breaks down in sobbing and pleading.

** Willoughby starts a sentence by saying that he should be allowed to dislike Colonel Brandon as much as he loves... HeldGaze... [[LastSecondWordSwap Barton Cottage.]]

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Mr. Palmer [[DeadpanSnarker is not shy with a snarky comment for every situation]], which makes his sincere offer to stay by Elinor's side and offer any and all help he can when her sister may be dying all the more heartwarming.

** Lady Middleton and the four Middleton children are likewise not present; see DeathByAdaptation, below.

* DeadpanSnarker: Elinor, especially when playing off Marianne.

* DeathGlare: Marianne gives a pretty hilarious one to Margaret when Margaret happily gives the initials of Elinor's beau.

* AdaptedOut: Lucy's older sister Anne doesn't appear in this film, so Lucy herself miscalculates on the safety of revealing her secret engagement to Edward.

* DeathGlare: Marianne gives a pretty hilarious one to Margaret when Margaret happily gives the initials of Elinor's beaux.

In 1995, Creator/AngLee directed a film adaptation of ''Literature/SenseAndSensibility'' written by Creator/EmmaThompson, who also starred as Elinor. It also starred Hugh Grant as Edward, Creator/KateWinslet as Marianne, and Creator/AlanRickman as Colonel Brandon.

* DrivesLikeCrazy: Willoughby and Marianne pelt recklessly down the village lane in his open carriage, to the consternation and shock of everyon trying not to get run over. (Helped by the fact that Greg Wise [[EnforcedMethodActing wasn't experienced]] in driving a carriage and almost overset the camera.)

* FauxSymbolism: On the commentary, Emma Thompson praises the symbolism of Brandon giving Marianne a knife when she's gathering reeds. She cheerfully goes on that she doesn't know ''what'' it symbolizes, but it's just good symbolism.

In 1995, Creator/AngLee directed a film adaptation of ''Literature/SenseAndSensibility''. It starred Creator/EmmaThompson (who also wrote the film) as Elinor, Hugh Grant as Edward, Creator/KateWinslet as Marianne, and Creator/AlanRickman as Colonel Brandon.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: We see the doctor taking a bowl of blood from Marianne's bedside during her fever. Modern 18th-century medicine, everyone.

** Marianne herself became a few years older as portrayed by 19-year-old Kate Winslet (the character started at 16 in the book and was only seventeen by the end).

* DeathByAdaptation: Lady Middleton, Sir John's wife, is adapted out in this fashion as she's not an essential element to the plot. (By extension, their children also don't appear.)

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: We see the doctor taking a bowl of blood from Marianne's bedside during her fever. Modern 19th-century medicine, everyone.

** The carriage ride at the start of the film establishes Fanny's character as unwilling to help her in-laws very succinctly. It also shows just how easily guided John is by his wife's opinions. In one sequence she turns John from giving them a generous allowance to such a pittance that "they'll be much more able to give ''you'' something!"
** While Sir John Middleton responds succinctly to Margaret's question about what the West Indies are like, Brandon whispers "the air is full of spices" in her ear, foreshadowing his romantic sensibilities that mesh well with Marianne's.
* {{Fainting}}: Marianne very nearly does when she sees Willougby with his fiancee at the ball; Elinor and Mrs. Jennings catch her and keep her walking.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Lucy and Robert meet and dance at the ball, evidently quite agreeable to each other. This makes it a little less surprising when she becomes Mrs. ''Robert'' Ferrars at the end.

** At the ball, Lucy Steele is heard gossiping with the Ferrars about Marianne's attempts to attract Willoughby's attention and they happily gawk at her emotional distress.

* TheLadysFavour: Gender-flipped with Edward and Elinor; he gives her his handkerchief when she cries while listening to Marianne play their late father's favorite song, and tells her to keep it. Later, after she knows about his engagement to Lucy, she's seen holding and staring at the token--Lucy herself has one, which she passive-aggressively shows off to Elinor while "weeping" over her separation from Edward.

* LeaveTheTwoLovebirdsAlone: 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.

* StayInTheKitchen: When Edward laments that he's been made IdleRich by his family, Elinor points out that as a man, he still ''could'' conceivably find a useful employment for himself--she would also like to be useful, but she has basically no options.
* TrueLovesKiss: Elinor and Edward get theirs in a deleted scene (which was written entirely because Emma Thompson [[RealLifeWritesThePlot wanted to snog Hugh Grant]] - and who can blame her? It's ''Hugh Grant!'').