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In Netflix’s Persuasion, Anne isn’t the mature woman we love
2 years, 5 months ago

In Netflix’s Persuasion, Anne isn’t the mature woman we love

Live Mint  

As the last of Jane Austen's novels, Persuasion is noted amongst her fans for the maturity of its protagonist and of the narrative. Persuasion has two important sets of parent-child dynamics: one is between Anne and her father Walter Elliott; the other between Anne’s sister Mary and her children. I understand that in the book, most of Anne's growth into …

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Netflix Persuasion adaptation starring Dakota Johnson jettisons Jane Austen’s class concerns in favour of contemporary appeal
2 years, 5 months ago

Netflix Persuasion adaptation starring Dakota Johnson jettisons Jane Austen’s class concerns in favour of contemporary appeal

ABC  

When Netflix announced its adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion, fans of the novel were "half agony, half hope". Directed by leading theatre director Carrie Cracknell and starring Dakota Johnson, Netflix's Persuasion tells the story of 27-year-old 'spinster' Anne Elliot, a woman with "claims of birth, beauty, and mind", as she reconnects with Captain Wentworth, the suitor she was persuaded to …

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Dakota Johnson’s Persuasion is an all-time disaster – how did Netflix get Jane Austen so terribly wrong?
2 years, 5 months ago

Dakota Johnson’s Persuasion is an all-time disaster – how did Netflix get Jane Austen so terribly wrong?

The Independent  

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy At first, everything seemed basically OK. As …

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Persuasion 2022 movie: How Netflix’s adaptation changes Jane Austen’s book.
2 years, 5 months ago

Persuasion 2022 movie: How Netflix’s adaptation changes Jane Austen’s book.

Slate  

Netflix’s new adaptation of Persuasion tries to bring a millennial sensibility to Austen’s final novel, combining the anachronisms of Dickinson with the fourth-wall-breaking of Fleabag. Anne Elliot Anne Elliot, whom Austen once described in a letter as “almost too good for me,” is a tricky sell for modern audiences—maybe even the trickiest of Austen’s heroines, after Mansfield Park’s Fanny Price. …

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Why the creators of ‘Persuasion’ put a contemporary spin on Jane Austen’s classic
2 years, 5 months ago

Why the creators of ‘Persuasion’ put a contemporary spin on Jane Austen’s classic

LA Times  

In “Persuasion,” a new adaptation of Jane Austen’s final novel made for Netflix, protagonist Anne Elliot speaks directly to the camera, addressing the audience like an old friend. “I’ve loved Jane Austen my whole life, and ‘Persuasion’ has always been my favorite novel,” Winslow says. “Her words do speak to contemporary audience in many, many ways, just not necessarily every …

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Netflix’s Persuasion Isn’t Just Bad Austen. It’s One of the Worst Movies in Years.
2 years, 5 months ago

Netflix’s Persuasion Isn’t Just Bad Austen. It’s One of the Worst Movies in Years.

Slate  

It is a truth universally acknowledged that every essay relating to the work of Jane Austen must kick off with those words from the opening line of Pride and Prejudice. As played by Dakota Johnson, the novel’s heroine Anne Elliot, a lovelorn, bookish, self-effacing woman on the cusp of spinsterhood, becomes an insufferably coy scatterbrain who speaks in 21st-century buzzwords …

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Henry Golding to work alongside Dakota Johnson in Netflix remake of Jane Austen's Persuasion
3 years, 7 months ago

Henry Golding to work alongside Dakota Johnson in Netflix remake of Jane Austen's Persuasion

Hindustan Times  

Malaysian-British actor Henry Golding is all set to star in Netflix's adaptation of the Jane Austen novel Persuasion starring American actor Dakota Johnson in lead. Persuasion was the last novel written by Austen, the author of literary classics like Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice and Emma, prior to her death in 1817. Star Dakota Johnson, famous for her role …

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