And this week's Friday night movie has been... Persuasion (1995)!
So there's a new adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion doing the rounds on Netflix - one that has a lot of Austen fans up in arms.
I find this of interest as Persuasion was the first Austen novel I ever read: It was for Uni back in 2000. So the anger over this new adaptation got me thinking: Has there ever been a good adaptation of Persuasion?
Apparently there has: It was a BBC production dating back to the mind-nineties. And that sounds like a challenge to me...
I suppose it is fitting that this came out the same year as the BBC miniseries of Pride and Prejudice (the one with Colin Firth in it) as that adaptation will forever be the gold-standard of Austen adaptations. Therefore it would be easy to see this one mining the same audience.
Still, it is a BBC production so it has what one expects: Devotion to the source material, beautiful photography and great production. The themes are still in place and, much like the source material, it does offer itself as an alternative to the afore-mentioend P+P. Granted I haven't seen any adaptations of Persuasion prior to this one but from the looks of it, a very high benchmark has been set.
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