Are you gonna watch Clueless, too?
I love
Clueless!
No, I watched it when I did my last complete Jane Austen DVD tour and wrote off the Paltrow version.
It's Box Hill, not Boxing Hill, and I've moved Beckinsale back to No. 1 position with Garai-Miller in No. 2 spot. The casting is so perfect: Masrk Strong is a better Knightley than Jonny Lee Miller, who looks too young, even though he's pushing 50 if not past it. There are times I think Garai is too contemporary and I like Beckinsale's transition from hasughty, snobby know-it-all to loving,. generous woman. Samantha Morton is so mousey and fragile as Harriet, and Prunella Scales is the best Miss Bates, but Miranda Hart in the last film of 2019 or so runs a close second. I don't think there's a bad Mr Woodhouse in any DVD version, and it's too their credit that none of them is the whiney old lady in the novel.
And, best of all, I liked how Andrew Davies used the harvestr feastival to tie up all the loose ends that cover several chaprters in the book, and Emma's hats did not bother me in the least.
