History Film / Persuasion1995

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: When Sir Walter's reply to Wentworth's application of permission to marry Anne is answered not with protest or assent but confusion, Wentworth's smile freezes. But Harville looks at Wentworth with an expression of utter disbelief, as though he's looking for confirmation that he heard right just now.

* WhamLine: "I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul."

* CoolOldGuy: Admiral Croft, and his wife is a CoolOldLady. When Anne spots them together in Bath, she runs towards them, her face absolutely lighting up with joy, perhaps because they represent everything she'd have liked for herself. [[spoiler: She gets it, marrying Wentworth.]]

* ShipperOnDeck: Admiral Croft for Anne and Fredrick, the whole Musgrove family for Anne and [[spoiler: Charles]] back in the day.

The second movie based on a novel by Creator/JaneAusten to come out in 1995, and the second movie treatment of Austen's last completed novel. (The first version was a 1971 miniseries. A third, made-for-TV movie would follow in 2007.) ''Persuasion'', starring Creator/AmandaRoot and Creator/CiaranHinds as its romantic leads, largely follows the plot, tone, and tight character focus of the book, with very little shift outside of the point of view of the protagonist, Anne Elliot (Root). While much less well known than the Creator/AngLee & Creator/EmmaThompson version of ''Literature/SenseAndSensibility'', ''Persuasion'' shares much of that film's attention to manners, costume, and attitudes of the Napoleonic Era in domestic England.

->''"If I may, so long as the woman you love lives, and lives for you, all the privilege I claim for my own sex, and it is not a very enviable one - you need not covet it, is that of loving longest when all hope is gone."''

''Persuasion'' opens on what might be the end of an era -- the Elliot family has fallen on hard times, and must surrender the ancestrial home to a renter in order to pay off the Baronet's debts. The renter is a naval man, an Admiral Croft, who is now retired from the sea, and wishes to find a place to settle with his wife. But more connects the two families than the house -- once upon a time, Anne Elliot was much in love with the Admiral's brother-in-law, Frederick Wentworth, and he with her. Persuaded by wiser heads to break off the engagement, Anne has never found a comparable match in the years since. And now Wentworth is home from the sea - famous, wealthy, and without a glance aside for Anne. Really. It's completely by accident that he keeps showing up where ever she is.

The second movie based on a novel by Creator/JaneAusten to come out in 1995, and the second movie treatment of Austen's last completed novel. (The first version was a 1971 miniseries. A third, made-for-TV movie would follow in 2007.) ''Persuasion'' largely follows the plot, tone, and tight character focus of the book, with very little shift outside of the point of view of the protagonist, Anne Elliot. While much less well known than the sensational Aug Lee & Emma Thompson version of ''Sense and Sensibility'', ''Persuasion'' shares much of that film's attention to manners, costume, and attitudes of the Napoleonic Era in domestic England. A reviewer once suggested it was a retelling of the Hornblower novels of iron men and wooden ships - only from the point of view of the women left on shore.

''Persuasion'' opens on what might be the end of an era - the Elliot family has fallen on hard times, and must surrender the ancestrial home to a renter in order to pay off the Baronet's debts. The renter is a naval man, an Admiral Croft, who is now retired from the sea, and wishes to find a place to settle with his wife. But more connects the two families than the house - once upon a time, Anne Elliot was much in love with the Admiral's brother-in-law, Frederick Wentworth, and he with her. Persuaded by wiser heads to break off the engagement, Anne has never found a comparable match in the years since. And now Wentworth is home from the sea - famous, wealthy, and without a glance aside for Anne. Really. It's completely by accident that he keeps showing up where ever she is.

* ConspicuousConsumption: Baronet Elliot's primary occupation. Likewise, [[spoiler: his heir, Mr Elliot.]]

* [[SpoiledBrat Spoiled Brats]]: Mary & Charles Musgrove's children. They do nothing to check their behavior, and their grandmother resorts to stuffing them with cake whenever they visit just to keep them from making trouble, which doesn't help.

The second movie based on a novel by Creator/JaneAusten to come out in 1995, and the second movie treatment of Austen's last completed novel. (The first version was a 1971 miniseries. A third, made-for-tv movie would follow in 2007.) ''Persuasion'' largely follows the plot, tone, and tight character focus of the book, with very little shift outside of the point of view of the protagonist, Anne Elliot. While much less well known than the sensational Aug Lee & Emma Thompson version of ''Sense and Sensibility'', ''Persuasion'' shares much of that film's attention to manners, costume, and attitudes of the Napoleonic Era in domestic England. A reviewer once suggested it was a retelling of the Hornblower novels of iron men and wooden ships - only from the point of view of the women left on shore.

* TrueCompanions: Wentworth and Harville. Wentworth considers a sixteen-mile drive (somewhat lengthy back then) to be no object and says he would make any journey in any weather for Harville.

The second movie based on a novel by Creator/JaneAusten to come out in 1995, and the second movie treatment of Austen's last completed novel. (The first version was a 1971 miniseries. A third, made-for-tv movie would follow in 2007.) ''Persuasion'' largely follows the plot, tone, and tight character focus of the book, with very little shift outside of the point of view of the protagonist, Anne Eliot. While much less well known than the sensational Aug Lee & Emma Thompson version of ''Sense and Sensibility'', ''Persuasion'' shares much of that film's attention to manners, costume, and attitudes of the Napoleonic Era in domestic England. A reviewer once suggested it was a retelling of the Hornblower novels of iron men and wooden ships - only from the point of view of the women left on shore.

''Persuasion'' opens on what might be the end of an era - the Eliot family has fallen on hard times, and must surrender the ancestrial home to a renter in order to pay off the Baronet's debts. The renter is a naval man, an Admiral Croft, who is now retired from the sea, and wishes to find a place to settle with his wife. But more connects the two families than the house - once upon a time, Anne Eliot was much in love with the Admiral's brother-in-law, Frederick Wentworth, and he with her. Persuaded by wiser heads to break off the engagement, Anne has never found a comparable match in the years since. And now Wentworth is home from the sea - famous, wealthy, and without a glance aside for Anne. Really. It's completely by accident that he keeps showing up where ever she is.

* BigFancyHouse: Kellynch Hall certainly qualifies. So does the more 'economical' quarters the Eliots take at Bath.

** Very nearly every Eliot and Musgrove. Most of their time seems to be spent finding amusements.

* CoolOldLady: Mrs Croft, Lady Russel, and Nurse Rooke.

* ParentalNeglect: Mary and Charles for their son, especially after [[spoiler: he falls and breaks an arm.]] Anne tries to make up for it.

* ConspicuousConsumption: Baronet Eliot's primary occupation. Likewise, [[spoiler: his heir, Mr Eliot.]]

* DoubleMeaning: The conversation Wentworth has with Anne when they meet in Bath. He's quite sorry for the shock she must have seeing him--in Lyme. Everything is his fault and he's full of regret--about Louisa's fall. He talks about how heartbroken men live forever in mourning--as Benwick should have. Definitely ''not'' alluding to what happened eight years ago with Anne, at all.

* [[SpoiledBrat Spoiled Brats]]: Mary & Charles Musgrove's children.

* AdaptationDistillation: Some of the dialogue has been...condensed, to make it more speakable. For example, when Anne is at Lyme she sees a handsome gent admiring her, but doesn't recognise him. Later over breakfast, Mary realises that their cousin William Walter Elliot is in town, and Anne realises that the handsome gent is he. In the book, Wentworth comments "Putting all these very extraordinary circumstances together, we must consider it to be the arrangement of Providence, that you should not be introduced to your cousin." In the film, Wentworth looks at Anne and says "Lucky then you didn't bump into him."

* CoolOldLady: Mrs Croft, Lady Russel, and Nurse Nan
* HappilyMarried: Admiral and Mrs Croft are absolutely adorable old marrieds. With a tinge of bittersweet - Admiral Croft is noted as having a wife but no childern.
*** Mrs Croft (when Anne's horrifically spoiled nephews burst in and demand the Admiral's attention): "The Admiral is very fond of children."
* IdleRich: Very nearly every Eliot and Musgrove. Most of their time seems to be spent finding amusements.

* TrueCompanions: Wentworth and Harvell

* SpoiledBrats: Mary & Charles Musgrove's children.

* BigFancyHouse: Kendetch Hall certainly qualifies. So does the more 'economical' quarters the Eliots take at Bath.

* ShipperOnDeck: Admiral Croft for Anne and Wentworth, the whole Musgrove family for Anne and [[spoiler: Charles]] back in the day.

*** Mrs Croft (when Anne's horrifically spoiled nephews burst in and demand the Admiral's attention): "The Admiral is very fond of children."

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