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* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: The title is all about the conflict between hardheaded common sense (e.g., marrying someone you don't love just for the sake of financial security) and letting yourself be ruled by your emotions (e.g., being willing to endure lifelong penury to be with someone you do love). Elinor is reckoned to have a little too much of the former, and Marianne a little too much of the latter, leading to them sometimes clashing. Which leads to:
* SillyRabbitCynicismIsForLosers: When Elinor wishes aloud that Marianne was a little more worldly and a little less inclined to lead with her heart, Brandon - speaking from deep, painful experience - shuts her down gently but firmly:
-->'''Brandon''': I knew a lady very like your sister - the same impulsive sweetness of temper - who was forced into, as you put it, a better acquaintance with the world. The result was only ruination and despair. Do not desire it, Miss Dashwood.
* SillyRabbitCynicismIsForLosers: When Elinor wishes aloud that Marianne was a little more worldly and a little less inclined to lead with her heart, Brandon - speaking from deep, painful experience - shuts her down gently but firmly:
-->'''Brandon''': I knew a lady very like your sister - the same impulsive sweetness of temper - who was forced into, as you put it, a better acquaintance with the world. The result was only ruination and despair. Do not desire it, Miss Dashwood.
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* {{Irony}}: When Brandon has to call off the picnic at Delaford since he needs to head to London right away, Marianne and Willoughby in particular are very disappointed and Willoughby has several choice things to say about Brandon. Later, Brandon reveals to Elinor that the reason he had to dash off so quickly was because he'd finally received news of his missing ward, Beth -- whom Willoughby had seduced and abandoned some months prior.
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** The cause of Marianne's sickness is upgraded for dramatic purposes; instead of catching a heavy cold by walking around a garden still damp from heavy rainfall and sitting for a while in her wet stockings and shoes, she goes on a long trek in a torrential rain to see Willoughby's estate and gets utterly drenched, making her subsequent illness more understandable.
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* 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 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. In the commentary the creators express profound gratitude that Margaret existed in the book, as they could have her make the "impertinent" remarks that were necessary to move the plot along. (The 2008 miniseries did this as well.)
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* AdaptationExpansion: 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 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. In the commentary the creators express profound gratitude that Margaret existed in the book, as they could have her make the "impertinent" remarks that were necessary to move the plot along. (The 2008 miniseries did this as well.))
** A scene of Colonel Brandon visiting with Marianne and reading her poetry while she recovers from her fever is added, to provide more of a bridge between her being jilted by Willoughby and their marriage.
** 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 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. In the commentary the creators express profound gratitude that Margaret existed in the book, as they could have her make the "impertinent" remarks that were necessary to move the plot along. (The 2008 miniseries did this as well.
** A scene of Colonel Brandon visiting with Marianne and reading her poetry while she recovers from her fever is added, to provide more of a bridge between her being jilted by Willoughby and their marriage.
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* AdaptationalDumbass: See above; the book version of Lucy would never have trusted Fanny with the knowledge of her engagement, but without Anne around, making that mistake falls to her.
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* IllGirl: Marianne, after taking a long walk in a torrential downpour (more believable than the book's version, where she falls deathly ill from wet socks after moping in a damp garden). It's much more effective, 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.
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* SpotOfTea: Elinor, to an even more ridiculous extent than in the novel. At one point, Mr. and Mrs. Palmer offer her two successive cups of tea within a period of three minutes. In another scene, Elinor drinks the tea she had ordered for Marianne (without Marianne's ever asking for it).
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** Willoughby starts a sentence by saying that he should be allowed to dislike Colonel Brandon as much as he loves[[HeldGaze ...]][[LastSecondWordSwap Barton Cottage.]]
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** Willoughby starts a sentence by saying that he should be allowed to dislike Colonel Brandon as much as he loves[[HeldGaze ...]][[LastSecondWordSwap ]] [[LastSecondWordSwap Barton Cottage.]]
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The story begins with Mr. Dashwood, on his deathbed, entreating his son to "take care of" his second wife and three daughters. John most sincerely promises to do so, and then in the space of one carriage ride, is convinced by his wife Fanny that the degree of caretaking mustn't mean any kind of monetary settlement or annuity. Then they take over Norland estate, forcing Mrs. Dashwood and the three daughters--levelheaded Elinor, romantic Marianne, and thirteen-year-old Margaret--to be visitors in their own home, and unwelcome ones at that.
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The story begins with Mr. Dashwood, on his deathbed, entreating his son to "take care of" his second wife and three daughters. John most sincerely promises to do so, and then in the space of one carriage ride, is convinced by his wife Fanny that the degree of caretaking mustn't mean any kind of monetary settlement or annuity. Then they take over Norland estate, forcing Mrs. Dashwood and the three daughters--levelheaded daughters -- levelheaded Elinor, romantic Marianne, and thirteen-year-old Margaret--to Margaret -- to be visitors in their own home, and unwelcome ones at that.
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** While Sir John Middleton responds succinctly to Margaret's question about what the West Indies are like, Brandon whispers in her ear that "The air is full of spices," foreshadowing his romantic sensibilities that mesh well with Marianne's.
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** While Sir John Middleton responds succinctly to Margaret's question about what the West East Indies are like, Brandon whispers in her ear that "The air is full of spices," foreshadowing his romantic sensibilities that mesh well with Marianne's.
