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=== [[Sense and Sensibility (novel)|The novel]] provides examples of: ===
These things about ''[[{{ROOTPAGENAME}}]]'' are subjective - not everyone will agree with all of them.


* [[Esoteric Happy Ending]]: Possibly Marianne and the Colonel to a modern audience due to [[Values Dissonance]], similar to Jo's fate in ''[[Little Women]]'' but with less evidence of [[Ship-to-Ship Combat]].
* [[Esoteric Happy Ending]]: Possibly Marianne and the Colonel to a modern audience due to [[Values Dissonance]], similar to Jo's fate in ''[[Little Women]]'' but with less evidence of [[Ship-to-Ship Combat]].
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* [[The Woobie]]
* [[The Woobie]]


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=== [[Sense and Sensibility (film)|Ang Lee's 1995 movie]] provides examples of: ===

* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: Emma Thompson's Best Adapted Screenplay win makes her the only person to have won Academy Awards for both writing and acting. (She got Best Actress for ''Howard's End''.)
* [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]: Patrick Doyle's soundtrack, especially the main theme, which is reprised multiple times and comes to a spectacular crescendo in the wedding scene.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]:
** [[House MD|Dr. House]] is the long-suffering husband of [[Harry Potter|Dolores Umbridge]]?!
** And [[Titanic|Rose De Witt Bukater]] is the sister to Nanny McPhee? Or was she [[Harry Potter|Professor Sybil Trelawney]]? Ah no, she's [[Much Ado About Nothing|Beatrice]]!
** Marianne hooks up with [[Alan Rickman|Severus Snape]], while her sister falls for Charles from ''[[Four Weddings and a Funeral]]''.
** Their mother is Madam Pomfrey, and the nice old lady who takes them to London is the (original) Fat Lady from Gryffindor Tower, who lives with Cornelius Fudge. The [[Harry Potter]] movie sets were practically a reunion party for the cast of this film.
** Their bitchy sister-in-law is [[The Young Victoria|Queen Adelaide]]. Or [[Lord Peter Wimsey|Harriet Vane.]] And their half-brother is [[The Vicar of Dibley|Hugo Horton]].
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]:
** Watch Imelda Staunton (Mrs. Palmer) interacting with Emma Thompson in ''this'' film, then follow it by watching their characters interact in ''[[Harry Potter]] and the Order of the Phoenix.''
** Hugh Grant and Emma Thompson play siblings in ''[[Love Actually]]''. Emma Thompson is also married to Alan Rickman in the same movie.
** Emma Thompson is married in [[Real Life]] to Greg Wise, who plays Willoughby.
** [[Hugh Laurie]] playing sarcastic Mr. Palmer years before ''[[House (TV series)|House]]''. And stealing the show.


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Latest revision as of 15:02, 8 July 2020


These things about Sense and Sensibility (novel) are subjective - not everyone will agree with all of them.

"She had seen enough of her pride, her meanness, and her determined prejudice against herself..."

    • Also, from chapter 8:

"A woman of seven-and-twenty," said Marianne, after pausing a moment, "can never hope to feel or inspire affection again...


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