SENSE AND SENSIBILITY is just plain great. Emma Thompson penned the adaptation and Ang Lee directed it, which is pretty much everything you need to know right there. But take a look at this cast: Thompson, Alan Rickman, and Kate Winslet, all of whom Can Do No Wrong, in the three primary roles; Tom Wilkinson, Hugh Grant, Imelda Staunton, and Hugh Laurie among the supporting players. Patrick Doyle pulled down an Oscar nomination for the music. Thompson won an Academy Award for her writing, and the picture garnered further nominations for Thompson’s and Winslet’s acting, plus nominations for Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, and Best Picture (it lost to THE ENGLISH PATIENT).
Ok, but you knew this was a good movie. I knew it was a good movie: I recall loving it upon its initial release. Seeing it again, however, I was struck by just how good Thompson is in it. Don’t get me wrong: Winslet and Rickman are literally great, but Thompson does so much with her part, conveys such a deep and rich personality beneath her character’s practiced decorum, that she makes herself a marvel to behold.
While watching the film, it occurred to me that Winslet is now old enough to play the Thompson role. Then it occurred to me that Winslet seems to be growing up to be Emma Thompson. A person could do much worse.
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just came across this and i agree, Emma Thompson in "Sense and Sensibility" is phenomenal! Her acting is breathtaking. The part where he visits her and her sister (Kate Winslet)asks her why she is being so cold, and she tells her "What do you know of anything but your own suffering?" So much depth. So powerful.
Emma Thompson is superb in that movie. Her acting is something at which to marvel. When she talks about not being able to share it with "a single soul" and almost starts crying, I breakdown every time. I've watched that movie a gazillion times to watch her emote and hold in her emotions, suffering underneath. And Kate Winslet is great as well.
Have you seen Wit? She is brilliantly devastating in the role of a cancer patient with only her sharp wit to get her through her suffering. As I've come to expect when I see Ms. Thompson's name on the poster, she's incredible.
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