Screenplay for "Sense and Sensibility"

24 - Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries - Emma Thompson

I was late to Jane Austen.  Something about the titles sounded trite to me as a teenager, and I didn't take the Senior English class that read Austen.  So, my introduction was this movie.  I'd gotten sick, thinking it was a cold, which progressively got worse over a course of days to the point where I could no longer swallow food (and actually, liquids were pretty painful as well) and finally hauled myself to a doctor, who had me open my mouth, took a look down my throat and proclaimed, "Yuck.  Looks like Strep." And then sent me off for antibiotics.  By the point I could swallow ice cream (half-melted), a couple days into the liquid anti-biotics, my roommate told me she was going to take me to a movie, to make me feel better, and because she owed me money for tp or something.  She took me to a matinee of Ang Lee's "Sense and Sensibility" saying something about needing tissues (I think she had already watched it once.)  I was crying my eyes out, and fell in love with Jane Austen on the spot.  And then of course, started reading her.  My sister, I think, gave me this book later that year.  I've looked over it before, but I've not read the whole thing.  Began and finished it this afternoon.  Reading straight for the past couple of hours to the point where Emma Thompson's voice is in my head.  The diary is entertaining that way.  And I haven't seen the movie in a while, but I think there are changes between this version of the screenplay and the movie, added dialogue, dropped dialogue/scenes from the final cut.