Favourite Jane Austen Screen Adaptations #janeaustenjuly

right so hello and welcome back to books and things and welcome back to Jane Austen July today I thought I would make a video telling you about some of my favorite Jane Austen screen adaptations [Music] so these are going to be a mix of direct screen annotations and modern retellings I have 10 favorites and one like honorable mention that I really wanted to mention here anyway I had a lot of the DVDs for these that a lot of them remain at my parents house and I don't have them with me so not many DVDs to show you today but the honorable mention before i begin is lost in austen lost in austen is a kind of modern retelling though with a bit of a twist it was an ITV miniseries back in 2008 and I really really enjoyed it it was also very nice to see a very different adaptation of Pride and Prejudice lost in austen looks at a woman in the modern world who is obsessed with Jane Austen and one day just finds like a portal in her bathroom into Pride and Prejudice so she goes into Pride and Prejudice where she meets all of the characters and when she goes into Pride and Prejudice Lizzie Bennet comes into the modern world and then our central heroine proceeds to wreck the whole plot of Pride and Prejudice in the world of Pride and Prejudice it is very very good fun and very silly there are some issues I have with this I've mentioned before how I find the idea that Lizzie Bennet is a thoroughly modern woman a bit ridiculous because she is not but I also think there are some really interesting interpretations of some of the characters in here mr. Collins a man lost in austen is not silly he's creepy and actually if you go back to Pride and Prejudice and read him a slightly different way I do think you can kind of see that and so that's quite fun and also like Caroline Bingley is not jealous of Lizzie and Darcy because she's in love with Darcy but maybe because she is gay and this is like lots of twists on pride and prejudice which I think are done very nicely and also addresses some of the very kind of different social behaviors and expectations all the time in a really great way it's very different and good fun and I would highly recommend it so into my top ten at number 10 I have clueless clueless is another modern adaptation this is from 1995 and it is their adaptation of Emma set in an American high school following various rich kids and their relationships and it is very entertaining and very very funny and so thoroughly 90s but I love that through this is that actually is a really good adaptation of Emma and it does the plotline of really really well they set up it kind of similar tonight between the Emma character and the mr. knightley character and in the high school scenario they kind of replace to a certain extent social class with popularity except that in the high school that they're in popularity and wealth and class actually kind of come hand in hand it's really really well done and really really interesting I also quite like what they do with the Frank Churchill plotline I think mr. Elton is done that just right and in general it is good fun and a really interesting interpretation of Emma next a direct adaptation and that is the 1995 persuasion there was a more modern persuasion for I think about 2007 but I didn't love that nearly as much but 1995 persuasion the BBC TV film is absolutely brilliant and really really really nicely done the acting is very very good Ciaran Hinds is great as Frederick Wentworth and and arute fan really feels to me like and ours in the book and it's a lovely adaptation also really really nicely filmed the bulb scenes are all great because bath is so beautiful an adaptation in bath is always brilliant and yet it's just it's so like sweetly and tenderly and quietly done and absolutely brilliant then you have to watch at number 8 another modern screen retelling of a Jane Austen novel and that is the Lizzie Bennet diaries this is a YouTube miniseries it's ran from 2012 to 2013 and I loved it so so much it's very very entertaining a bit of silly I think it's worth like giving it a few episodes to get into the style of it because it is very stylized but it's very very good fun and really really well acted and really nicely done and I think the way they update the books were incredibly well the updating of the Lydia plotline is very very very effective because I feel like it can be quite hard to update that plotline into the Monday and still make it work but I think they make it work brilliantly Jane and Lizzie's characters are very very good the updated Darcy is great and I also really like the way they updated Charlotte's plotline I think that's another plot line like Lydia's which you need to change to make it work in the mom Bay and the way they made it work and the way they changed it was very reflective of a particular interpretation of Jean storyline in the book if that makes sense so it was great and it was really really well done it's very very fun and very engaging and I just remember absolutely loving it like I just remember that being at university and getting like really excited like I knew at the time that those videos went up twice a week and I was there to watch them because I love them so much it's such great series and one I would highly recommend and number seven I actually have a DVD for this one it is love and friendship this is an adaptation of Jane Austen's novella lady Susan why does called love and friendship which is the name of one of her juvenilia short stories I do not know but that is beside the point this is an excellent adaptation and I feel like my love for it is just increased because I love Lady Susan so much and I was so so so excited when they made an adaptation of this C years ago in 2016 because Lady Susan is so underrated and I hope that this gonna put lady season on more people's radar there possibly it would have done it more if it was called Lady Susan but that is beside the point Lady Susan is brilliant brilliant novella and this is a great adaptation it's very very true to the novella while kind of adding things and embellishing because Lady Susan is written in letters so this does have to work differently but I think it's very very effective because I think it can be hard to adapt to screen something like that that is written in that particular form but they do it really well it's also very very stylized like cinematically this is really really interesting I don't know enough about film to explain the ways in which this is different but there is something I still exactly modern but it's just it's very very stylized in comparison to other adaptations of Jane Austen but you need to watch it to find out what I mean but it's just it's really lovely it's really really well done and I'm so excited that I get every watch this soon because yeah highly highly recommend this one you should definitely read maybe season you should definitely watch this and number six I have the Pride and Prejudice adaptation from 1995 this is a lot of people's favorite adaptation of Jane Austen and I do love it a lot it is absolutely brilliant it is six hours long BBC miniseries thoroughly detailed very very true to the book and very nicely done Jennifer Ehle is wonderful as Lizzie Bennet Colin Firth is excellent as mr. Darcy and it's just a really really strong adaptation and very true to the book true to the time excellent like costume and music and really really great if you want a long Jane Austen adaptation to really really sink your teeth into I would highly highly recommend it but I'm number five potentially also tied for potentially slightly above is the 2005 film of Pride and Prejudice I have made a whole video before talking about these two adaptations of Pride and Prejudice the different things I think about those them I'll link that down below I love both of them a lot I know that this one is less true to the book and I do have some issues with it for example the fact that lizzie bennet frequently walks outdoors outside of her own grounds not wearing a bonnet which lizzie bennet would not do it sort of like social and historical things in this which i think i'm not quite right but the music it's beautiful and the cinematography is incredible and I think Matthew McFadden is my preferred mr. Darcy because I think he gets the social awkwardness so very very well as well as the pride and I think Colin first was surprised very well but for me he doesn't be the social awkwardness quite as well I love this adaptation a lot and while it is not perfect it is amazing and also the audiobook of Pride and Prejudice that I have is 12 hours long it would probably take me about 10 hours to read Pride and Prejudice the BBC miniseries of Pride and Prejudice is 6 hours long so really like if I'm going to watch that I could just read prejudice whereas this is like 2 hours long so like I can get all the Pride and Prejudice condensed into two hours in this whereas in the maybe even see miniseries yes it gets more Pride and Prejudice in but it's so long ago that I almost could read the book so I feel like this would be a more like a regular comfort watch to me much as I love the 1995 miniseries as well I've done before we have the ITV TV film from 2007 or Northanger Abbey which is excellent I don't think you will notice is that my top four favorite Jane Austen screen out tations or of my three least favourite Jane Austen novels and while mouska Park is my second favorite Jane Austen novel there is not a single man so Park adaptation on this list that's partly because often for me the Jane Austen novels I think are not entirely perfect a screen adaptation of can do certain things to like develop plot lines I think is slightly less developed or iron out little things in the plot and obviously because for the Jane Austen books I love the most I would almost like rather read a book much screen adaptation whereas for the ones that I love slightly less and where sometimes the story is stronger to me than the execution they're the ones that I really really love the screen app tations off if that makes sense and also I've never seen an adaptation bounce capacitors it right they either change Fanny's character beyond recognition and make her Lizzie Bennet which she is utterly not or it just becomes really really boring because it's a more entire novel so yes anyway anyway number four Northanger Abbey ITV film from 2007 this is really really brilliant and does such justice Northanger Abbey and it's thoroughly enjoyable Felicity Jones as Catherine Morland is a magnificent and Carey Mulligan as Isabella Thorpe is amazing I mean I love Carey Mulligan like a lot she is so so good I'm sexy perfect and it's a really really good allocation I also think a dust like Catherine's interest in gothic and gothic this show really really well and also like makes the climax of the plot a little bit more dramatic just by twisting things very very slightly just like switching things up together in a way that makes it more dramatic which I do really enjoy at number three I have my favorite modern screen adaptation of a Jane Austen book and that is Emma approved which is another YouTube mini-series made by the same people who made the Lizzie Bennet diaries in 2014 and it is incredible I love it as an adaptation of Emma I think it's perfect I think it updates it so well I think the way they update Emma who is literally a matchmaker like her job she matches people she runs like a bespoke matchmaking service for really rich people it's mad but it makes sense I love the way they update Miss Bates I love what they do with Harriet I love what they do with mr. Elton and with Robert Martin and the mr. Knightley character is really really brilliant like they do it so so thoroughly well I think it's a really really really Breana tation and definitely one I would recommend it's really really enjoyable and just to my mind like modernized Jane Austen done well it's wonderful and one that I would absolutely recommend a second favorite Jane Austen annotation is another adaptation and that is a direct adaptation and that is the miniseries from 2009 with Romola Garai and Johnny Miller which is incredible heimo it's not my favorite Jane Austen novel but I love the plot it's just sometimes it drives me and it feels a bit long and also Miss Bates her long long dialogue is amazing and hilarious but also kind of exhausting to read whereas when it's on screen like it's just brilliant entirely there were so many amazing things about this adaptation it's so well acted I think Romola Garai as mo is just just perfect and a jolly Mela is a wonderful one for mr. Knightley it is a brilliant habitation so enjoyable it's a good four hours to sink your teeth into which I think really gets in more of Emma because I've seen films of Emma before and they don't seem to quite do a justice to me especially if some of the more minor characters like mistakes I would really really strongly recommend that you watch this adaptation I think it is absolutely wonderful for my favorite Jane Austen adaptation is this sense of sensibility from 2008 which I adore hugely and could watch like on repeat for a lot of time it is brilliant it's just so brilliant it has Hattie Morahan it has charity Wakefield it has david morrissey it has Dominic Cooper it's just such a good cast and so brilliantly executed I mentioned in another video recently that sense accessibility is my least favorite Jane Austen novel this isn't because I don't love the story it's just cuz I don't think the execution of the story is as good as it is in sort of Pride and Prejudice and many of our other books but for me because I do really love the story they really do a screen adaptation of Sense and Sensibility is a real joy one of the things I struggle with sense sensibility as book is that I feel like Eleanor and Edwards relationship you don't really get to see very much of it you don't get to see much their dialogue it doesn't feel that developed in this it's perfect awesome Margaret the younger sister who is kind of an irrelevance in the book in some ways I'm not really explored it is really really strongly characterized in this it does take one of nods from the earlier sense Sensibility adaptation especially in the characterization of Margaret I really like the film of sensibility - I just don't love it as much as all the ones I'm talking about today this adaptation for me is just absolutely incredible and perfect it's a good length as well not too long not too sure and yeah I love it very much I would HIGHLY highly highly recommend it there we have it those are my favorite screen adaptations of Jane Austen novels I loved all of these very very much please let me know down the comments what your favorite screen adaptation of a Jane Austen book is and I will try and check it out if I haven't seen it before though I have seen all of the direct screen adaptations from the last 25 years excepting the Gwyneth Paltrow Emma which why the time this goes up I may have seen so I've seen a lot of them but I'm sure there are more to discover of older adaptations and indirect and modern retellings and so on so yes thank you very much for watching and I'll be back very soon with another bookish video

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Published: Fri Jul 20 2018