The actors actually have (or are given) more insightful things to say than the director (“Austen understands power and gender dynamics”) and the producer (“our movie is best experienced in theaters”).
Random thoughts on the new bits revealed:
-Elinor and Edward at an art exhibit. In the book, she is the one who paints, so it makes sense that she would want to attend such an event. There are also passing references in the video to Marianne’s and Willoughby’s shared love of music.
-Mrs. Jennings has a pug. Well, apparently Fiona Shaw is not optimistic about her chances of getting a shot at playing Lady Bertram! (My space regency’s already complicated genealogy thanks you.)
-people are apparently only just waking up to the fact that the scene with Marianne and Brandon in the forest is probably their first meeting, and are annoyed about it. Look, it’s cinema, the woman meeting her future love interest pretty much has to be an inflection point, and this at least has the benefit of not being a retread from other versions, and of positioning them as having a shared love of nature.

When this film shows up at our local theater, we’re going to livestream our quick reactions, followed by, the next day, an actual discussion of how well or badly the director, cast, and script served Jane.
I want to go in relatively cold. Eventually, when we reach the Sense and Sensibility portion of Jane Austen, She Watched, we’ll watch it again and I’ll review it and we’ll do a more in-depth livestream. By then, having watched numerous other versions, I’ll have a really good idea of what this film gets wrong or right or skips over or emphasizes.
The Agatha Project showed me how wildly different films can be despite using identical source material.
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Sounds like a plan! I will look forward to it.
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It’s part of our ongoing effort to get some publicity and maybe — eventually sell the book.
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Good luck!
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