"Emma" Topic

"Autumn de Wilde is making her directorial debut with the film in which Anya Taylor Joy plays Emma Woodhouse, a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people's affairs by match making. She is perpetually trying to unite men and women who are utterly wrong for each other. She often tries to find a suitor for her best friend but fails because the suitors usually fall for herself. Despite her interest in romance, Emma is clueless about her own feelings and is not considering her own happiness in love!! Check out the vivacious and playful trailer below and the photo shoot from Vogue:

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Can't wait to see Emma against Zombies… (smile)

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Armand

More entertainment from the author who wrote throughout the Napoleonic Wars, had a brother in the Royal Navy, and never mentioned the wars at all.

Oh, nonsense, Artilleryman.

Half the plot of Pride & Prejudice keys on a militia regiment coming to the nearest town, and then departing on maneuvers.

Persuasion centers on naval officers coming ashore after the First Abdication, and doesn't make sense unless you keep in mind that Fred Wentworth is a frigate captain, going for the prize money. (And he captured a French frigate with a sloop. Hornblower could have done no better.)

In Mansfield Park, Fanny is the daughter of a half-pay (disabled) officer of Marines, and keeps writing her sailor brother.

There is NO Austen novel without military or naval characters. Edward Said called her a war novelist, writing from a background of high taxes and a shortage of men. She'd scarcely ever known England at peace. (And it was two brothers in the RN, by the way, and a family connection guillotined. Her sister's fiancee died on a West Indies expedition.)

If you want battle scenes, try Forester, Cornwall or Georgette Heyer. (See The Spanish Bride and An Infamous Army in particular with Heyer.) But the Napoleonic Wars are as much present in Austen as landed estates and entail.

That said, I'll watch a new Emma, but I wish someone had taken another pass at Sense & Sensibility instead.

I stand corrected. Did she mention the Emperor at all?

Bill Nighy – a "must see" movie!

Happy you like it my dear cousin!. (smile)

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Armand

Who? Oh, you mean Bonaparte! (From the point of view of a conservative European, there were two real empires in Europe--ones where the Emperor didn't crown himself, and where the empire would still be there after that particular emperor went away.)

No, not that I recall off-hand. "The French," "the great nation" or just "privateers" with their nationality being assumed. Now that I think of it, possibly some of the privateers behind Captain Wentworth's fortune in prize money were American.

But read Austen sometime. Persuasion's my first pick, but most people prefer P&P or S&S. The only one I won't read again is Mansfield Park, but there are those who love it.

Sorry, but I've always thought Austen was a crashing bore, as well as the rigid Regency society with its artificial and stultifying conventions, not to mention roomsful of people constantly bobbing up and down at each other.

Yawn.

Tango01

Firstly, Is she for or against Napoleon, that's what everyone wants to know?

Secondly, how can watching this film help us win wargames?

Thirdly, it will display what the British soldiers were fighting for back home. LOL

(smile)

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Armand