Sense and Sensibility (1995)
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| German title | Sense and sensuality |
| Original title | Sense and Sensibility |
| Country of production | USA , UK |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1995 |
| length | 136 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ang Lee |
| script |
Emma Thompson Jane Austen (novel) |
| production | Lindsay Doran |
| music | Patrick Doyle |
| camera | Michael Coulter |
| cut | Tim Squyres |
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Sense and Sensibility is a feature of the Taiwanese director Ang Lee in 1995. The novel, the English literary classic "Sense and Sensibility" ( " Sense and Sensibility ") by Jane Austen , had previously filmed already for two television versions before it for the cinema was adapted. Based on the plot of the novel, the story takes place around 1800.
action
When their father dies, the days of the sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood on their stately Norland Park estate in the southern English county of Sussex are numbered. Her half-brother from her father's first marriage becomes the new owner. His haughty wife Fanny does not want to share the property with anyone. Elinor and Marianne soon move to another county with their mother and youngest sister Margaret, where Sir John Middleton, a well-meaning cousin of their mother, provides them with a cottage on his Barton Park estate. Your financial resources are now very limited. With the move, Elinor said goodbye to Edward Ferrars, her sister-in-law's eldest brother, with a heavy heart: The affection that has just budged between the two is not a good star, as Edward's mother will only accept an equally rich daughter-in-law for the rich heir of a noble family would - as the suspicious Fanny Elinor would like to know.
The Dashwood Ladies are always welcome to the Barton Park Mansion; Mrs. Jennings, Sir John's mother-in-law, is also a frequent guest there. After she has brought her own daughters under the hood, she would like to do the same with the other young women around her. Colonel Christopher Brandon, an urbane man in his mid-thirties who has become somewhat melancholy due to strokes of fate, seems to be exactly the right role for Elinor. The Colonel, meanwhile, immediately falls in love with the seventeen-year-old Marianne. The effort to hide one's feelings because of the large age difference is not always successful. Elinor soon realizes his misfortune. The impulsive Marianne, however, only treats the Colonel with unflattering consideration for a harmless elderly gentleman; she herself flirts violently with the young John Willoughby and falls so deeply in love that she secretly believes she is engaged to him. It hits her all the harder when Willoughby suddenly withdraws without any explanation.
To cheer up, Mrs. Jennings invites Elinor and Marianne to her townhouse in London to spend the winter ball season there. The longed-for reunion with Willoughby almost ends with a scandal: Marianne meets him at a large party accompanied by his bride, a very wealthy heiress. Marianne's health is now very unstable. Elinor has to nurse her sister back up, although she herself has to struggle with bad news in love matters. With Lucy Steele, a completely unexpected rival has come on the scene: She is neither rich and elegant, nor educated or really friendly, but all the more determined to become Mrs. Edward Ferrars. And she has morals on her side, because a very young Edward with no meaningful occupation had secretly betrothed to her a few years earlier - and his marriage promise was written down in a letter. The sensible Elinor jumps over her own shadow and enables the couple to marry by sending them an offer of help from Colonel Brandon: a small pastoral office with its own house on his country estate Delaford. Edward, who would rather be disinherited from his mother than break his marriage promise, accepts the offer.
In view of Marianne's poor health, Elinor decides to leave London with her sister. When they return to the country, the company stays for a few days at the Cleveland estate of the Palmer family; the landlady there is Mrs. Jennings' second daughter. Immediately after arriving at Palmer's country estate, Marianne walks up to a viewing hill in rainy weather, from where she can see the country home of the unfaithful Willoughby. The cold that she catches quickly grows into a life-threatening disease. Concerned Colonel Brandon brings Marianne's mother who was left behind in Barton Park to Cleveland. After a few days everyone can return to the Barton cottage. And with the physical crisis overcome, Marianne now also seems to have matured emotionally.
After a while Thomas, the servant of the Dashwoods, reports on the marriage of young Mr. Ferrars, and one day the latter unexpectedly appears there himself. During the very halting conversation it turns out that there is no Mrs. Edward Ferrars at all: Lucy Steele found the disinherited heir no longer desirable and spontaneously caught Edward's younger brother Robert. When Elinor bursts into tears, Edward confesses his love to her.
A few months later the wedding party of Colonel Brandon and Marianne takes place, at which the newly wed couple Edward and Elinor Ferrars are also present.
History of origin
Producer Lindsay Doran , who became aware of Jane Austen's novel “Sense and Sensibility” from 1811 during her college studies, was convinced after reading it for the first time that the story would be predestined for a cinematic implementation. Over a period of ten years, she read countless drafts of scripts in search of a suitable writer. She considered the proposals submitted to be unsuitable, either they were “too polite or too melodramatic, too modern or too obscure. The weird ones weren't romantic enough, the romantic ones weren't funny. "
During the shooting of the film Shadows of the Past (1991) Doran finally found the scriptwriter for the project in the leading actress Emma Thompson . Thompson, who had already proven her talent as a writer by writing short skits for her own TV show Thompson , was also enthusiastic about the film, as Jane Austen was one of her favorite authors. Your first draft consisted of 300 handwritten pages - it was only four years later that the creative “process” found its completion after fourteen drafts. Thompson did without several marginal characters, instead reinventing some scenes to better capture the circumstances of the time and the characters of the characters; z. E.g. the scene in which Edward and Elinor try together to lure little sister Margaret out of her hiding place under the table with a conversation about geography.
Shooting began on April 19, 1995. Producer Lindsay Doran had gathered an illustrious selection of the best British actors of the time: In addition to the screenwriter Emma Thompson for the part of Elinor Dashwood and the still unknown Kate Winslet in the role of Marianne Dashwood, there were Alan Rickman , Hugh Grant , Harriet Walter , Hugh Laurie , Imelda Staunton and Robert Hardy . The shooting, which lasted almost three months, took place in London and in various mansions in the west of England, for example at Saltram House in Plympton near Plymouth .
background
- The sonnet by William Shakespeare cited throughout the film is "Sonnet No. 116". Other poems that are mentioned in the film are “The Castaway” by William Cowper , a sonnet by Hartley Coleridge and a little bit of “Book V canto ii verse 39” from Edmund Spenser's “The Faerie Queene”.
- Colonel Brandon's first name is never mentioned in Jane Austen's novel. The name "Christopher" with which he signs the cover letter for his present to Marianne, a pianoforte, is an invention for the film, just like the present itself; because in the novel Marianne's piano is the most valuable household item that the Dashwoods bring from Norland to Barton, along with china and silverware. So nobody would have to give her a new instrument.
- Before him the film studio Columbia Pictures Emma Thompson's screenplay sent, director Ang Lee Jane Austen's novel had never read.
- Originally, the British actor and director Kenneth Branagh was supposed to work on the project (the Thompson / Branagh couple separated just then).
- Only the nineteen-year-old Kate Winslet was about the same age as Marianne, according to the novel, was seventeen. Some of the other actors exceeded the age of the corresponding fictional characters by several decades: The actually nineteen-year-old Elinor was played by thirty-four-year-old Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman was already forty-nine instead of his mid-thirties, and the seventy-year-old Robert Hardy portrayed a Sir John Middleton who loudly Roman is forty years old and therefore as old as Elinor's mother (portrayed in the film by fifty-three year old Gemma Jones). Imogen Stubbs and Imelda Staunton embodied characters in their mid and late thirties who, according to the novel, are only in their early twenties.
criticism
“Brilliant and amusing. A wonderful, romantic treat for all lovers. "
"A film that comes with grandiose landscape shots and brilliant acting performances."
"Humorous drama about two sisters who want to break out of the English sense of class in the 19th century."
“Director Ang Lee, who won the western audience by storm with the elegant satire The Wedding Banquet , proves to be a master of character drawing in terms of sense and sensuality , who reveals the hidden feelings of his protagonists with a lot of humor. Emma Thompson (Carrington) , who also wrote the script, convinces as a rational Elinor, while the beautiful Kate Winslet looks like a born romantic. A delicious costume film for friends of upscale entertainment. "
"A delicate, visually impressive excursion into James Ivory's territory , which can easily compete with his best work."
Awards
In 1996, Sense and Sensibility was one of the big favorites for the Academy Awards with seven nominations , after the work had previously received the Golden Globe Award and the British Academy Film Award for best drama and film of the year. At the Academy Awards, however, Ang Lee's drama was defeated in the major categories by Mel Gibson's historical epic Braveheart , which was awarded five Academy Awards, including the categories of Best Picture and Best Director. Only Emma Thompson won the Oscar for her script adaptation of the Jane Austen novel.
The British Film Institute chose Sense and Sensibility in 1999 at number 62 of the best British films of the 20th century .
Oscar 1996
- Best adapted script
Also nominated in the categories
- Best movie
- Best Actress ( Emma Thompson )
- Best Supporting Actress ( Kate Winslet )
- Best camera
- Best film score
- Best costumes
British Academy Film Awards 1996
- Best movie
- Best Actress (Emma Thompson)
- Best Supporting Actress (Kate Winslet)
Nominated in the categories
- Best director
- Best Supporting Actor ( Alan Rickman )
- Best Supporting Actress ( Elizabeth Spriggs )
- Best adapted script
- Best music
- Best camera
- Best equipment
- Best costumes
- Best make-up / hair styling
Golden Globe 1996
- Best film - drama
- Best adapted script
Nominated in the categories
- Best director
- Best Actress - Drama (Emma Thompson)
- Best Supporting Actress (Kate Winslet)
- Best film score
Further
- Golden Bear as the best film
- 2nd place in the election of the Berliner Morgenpost readers' jury
The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.
literature
- Jane Austen : Mind and Emotion. Roman (Original title: Sense and Sensibility ). German by Ursula and Christian Grawe . Afterword and remarks by Christian Grawe. Reclam, Leipzig 2001, 410 pp., ISBN 3-379-01733-7
- Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility (Dover Thrift Editions) , 1996 Dover Publications, ISBN 0-486-29049-2 (English edition)
- Emma Thompson : The Sense and Sensibility screenplay & diaries: bringing Jane Austen's novel to film . New York: Newmarket Press, 1995. ISBN 1-55704-260-8 (English edition)
- Martina Anzinger: Gainsborough pictures reframed or: raising Jane Austen for 1990s film. A film historic and film analytical study of the 1995 films "Sense and Sensibility" and "Persuasion" . European university studies, Series 14, Anglo-Saxon language and literature, Vol. 397. Lang, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Brussels, New York, Oxford and Vienna 2003, 234 pages, [diploma thesis, 2001], ISBN 3 -631-50199-4 or ISBN 0-8204-6053-2
Web links
- Sense and Sensibility in the Internet Movie Database (English)