Filmed in 1971 when I was 25.I am now 70 and have twice seen again this miniseries based on the genius of Jane Austen's Persuasion which I enjoyed very much.I particularly liked Thomas Ireland's music which introduced each episode.
I continually watch this over and over again! I am glad that Ann is so beautiful in this version and I love that powder blue dress she is wearing at the end. However, I can't remember how she and Wentworth 1st met ???
Enjoyed this!. It’s filmed very much like a play. . Good acting, fabulous dialog, great costumes, nice set designs. Love viewing all the Jane Austen stories.
Anne Elliot is everybody's favourite person she gets along with everybody, the women admire and love her and the men too, she is beautiful, intelligent, sweet, sensible and capable and Frederick Wentworth is lucky to have and she is lucky to have him, they will live happily ever after and have happy children.
So sweet. I know these old adaptations are more in the vein of photographed stage plays but I have a particular fondness for them since they all of them stick so close to the books. Love this ending. 1995 isn't very good (loud parade in background for lukewarm kiss with three edits in it?!! You for real) and 2007 doesn't fare that much better (looking at you, marathon). This is both accurate and heartfelt.
The ending is the one used in the book, the other films used the ALTERNATE ending that Jane's nephew published in his book, after her death. Jane wrote two endings, and the one you see here is the one that actually made it to publication originally. But as I said, her nieces and nephews found amid her papers this alternate ending and for some reason a lot of the film adaptations preferred to use the alternate.
Yes I agree too! The best it is... the walk they took looking back at the past... beautiful. The other versions didn’t show part... their heart to heart ...
Watching this again. It's just too good not to. Sadly the storyline is something that happens far too often in real life. We are persuaded to go against our gut instincts because a well meaning friend or family member tells us it's for the best.
The best part of this is that Louisa isn’t in it! I literally ground my teeth during her incessant forced laughter and inane gaiety. I can’t imagine the director viewing those scenes and thinking that poor actress got it right. “That was very good, dear, but this time, remember to laugh on _every single syllable!!”_
@@ekcentrik Your comment made me laugh harder than I should ;D it's so funny how to true that is though, when she was in a scene you could barely hear or keep up with the other character from how loud she was talking and acting
I cant believe they cut the scean where captain Wentworth has to ask Ann if her and Mr. Elliott wanted thier house back! Its definitely one of the best!
This version of Persuasion involves an important trade off re the portrayal of Anne’s age and her disconcerting hairstyle. The actress is otherwise perfect. My favorite production.
@@KenyanBunnie Sally Hawkins and Amanda Root both seem far more put-upon in their adaptations than Ann Firbank does here, I agree. But neither are portrayed as victims per se. Sally a teensy bit... maybe. But not really.
Charles is such has such a kind and light hearted character, I am surprised that Ann didn't marry him even without romantic love. Just to not be an old maid since people put so much stock into that in those days
I hated Jane Austen ( never having read her, of course ) till I saw this adaption all those years ago, and now again. I've caught up on my Austen reading since then - still having trouble with Mansfield Park though. Thanks for uploading this memory.
Huh? You hated sth. without knowing anything about it? How? I mean it's the way things are now I still don't fully get it. Mansfield Park is a wopper and I find Fanny and Edmund a bit insipid as well.
I do too! Sally Hawkins will forever be the perfect Anne Elliot. This one is always laughing and smiling, no hint of the internal turmoil Anne has lived for the last eight and a half years.
I have these problems: The actress who plays Anne is 38 or so years old--and while I think 38 is a fine age, it's a little old for Anne Elliot. Her hair styles are very 70's, and she is too assertive in the beginning to make much of a change by the end. Mary is shrill instead of whiny. Elizabeth is not dignified enough. I'm thinking these are problems with direction. There have been technological changes which are helpful at reducing ambient noise. Although I love Rupert Penry-Jones, I think the 1995 version is probably the strongest of the three.
Gary Novak lol love it!! Yes although Anne is older I believe this version is the best out of the three adoptions. It’s the closest to the book.the 1995 version is great but the running and horrible kiss make it a miss for me.
exactly, people still think that saying the actress WAS (and looked) older than she was supposed to be is offensive. For your interest, it's not. Also she didn't look one year younger
Yes, I agree. Austen adaptations also almost always cast unconventionally attractive ladies to play Miss Bingley because she's unsympathetic, even though she is supposed to be handsome. I don't know why they do this. A lot of people complained Anne Bancroft is too old to play this part but I couldn't agree less. She's perfect.
@@lyng1905 I suppose they don't want to say that an actress/character is plain, and usually actresses are pretty, unless they are playing broad comedy... but in the book, Anne thinks that Mrs C's cleverness and youth outweigh her lack of good-looks, whereas Elizabeth thinks that since Sir Walter is very vain and generally dislikes people who are not good looking, he wont fall in love with Mrs Clay because she's not pretty...I suppose the script simplified things a bit, by claiming that Mrs Clay was pretty, and that the daughters were worried that Sir Walter might fall for her...
This Anne appears too old looking for the part. Anne is only 27 this actress looks far older. I think my problem is I love the 1995 version too much. The 2007 version is also a favorite even with its ridiculous ending.
In the 2007 version the problem with the ending was Anne doing some kind of Bath city marathon. It was impossible that between leaving Anne at her house , for him to have gone home wrote the letter and gone out again, only to be outside her house again. He had only just left her. It made no sense and her running and reading the letter was ridiculous. The very final scene when he brought her to her old house was well done I grant you.
saffie girl Exactly. That running and kissing was horrible, so unlike the true Ann. I also wandered why they pictured her in desperate light. I also found captain Wentworth a bit colder than necessary...
Really liked this adaption for one reason that never happened in the newer version that they called each by their first names I really did like the newer one more if at the end they had just said their first name to each other at the kiiss ending
In that day, your party was chaperoned and led by 1-2 people. As an unmarried single woman and guest, it is not up to her to issue invites like in public that way, particularly not to a single young man.
In the book she's meant to be young-ish (She has been married and had 2 children) but not pretty...She certainly isn't that young in this version and is average looking.. but she's a bit younger than Sir Walter, and an adept at flattering him, so its plausible that Anne would feel that she might manage to snare him into marriage....Its kind of a sign of how dumb Sir Walter is that he's taken in by her when she has neither good looks nor youth nor breeding by their standards... however she does look a bit old to have children and that is part of the worry for William ELliot that Sir Walt will marry a woman young enough to give him an heir...
I'm surprised by how many unlikeable/unpleasant characters there are in Persuasion compared to other Austen novels: Sir Walter and his two other daughters are pompous and selfish: Louisa and Henrietta are very shallow and flighty, then it turns out that Cpt Benwick is just as shallow and needy. Mr Elliot and Mrs Clay are grasping and devious. Cpt Wentworth is surprisingly sinister and suspicious-looking in many scenes, probably badly-directed, although it would have helped if he were a better-looking actor.
There are disagreeable and angering people in all of Austin's works. She is famous for making the most rediculous characters. And there are ALWAYS those who are obsessed with status.
Yes but in fairness the obsession with status was a sign of the times and Austen's characterisations of this were usually deliberately negative, showing her disapproval of it rather than endorsement.
Filmed in 1971 when I was 25.I am now 70 and have twice seen again this miniseries based on the genius of Jane Austen's Persuasion which I enjoyed very much.I particularly liked Thomas Ireland's music which introduced each episode.
I continually watch this over and over again! I am glad that Ann is so beautiful in this version and I love that powder blue dress she is wearing at the end.
However, I can't remember how she and Wentworth 1st met ???
Love this version and have watched it several times. There seems to have been a golden age of British television from the 60s to the early 80s.
One never tires of Jane Austen. The stories are always a delight.
Indeed true. I am sad to only be watching this now!
How am I watching this only now? This version is wonderful! I adore the ending!
This is the best version of Persuasion yet.
This version is the best!!!! Loved it very much, so beautifully faithful to the book🖤🖤🖤🌹 and best captain Wentworth indeed!
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His hair is an odd 60s bi level horror but I can get past it. The actors are good. Her hair piece sucks. Pretty woman though.
Enjoyed this!. It’s filmed very much like a play. . Good acting, fabulous dialog, great costumes, nice set designs. Love viewing all the Jane Austen stories.
Everybody loves and admires Anne Elliott, she is the best.
I luv the furnitures in those days / times . Such beautiful furnitures and garments.
Anne Elliot is everybody's favourite person she gets along with everybody, the women admire and love her and the men too, she is beautiful, intelligent, sweet, sensible and capable and Frederick Wentworth is lucky to have and she is lucky to have him, they will live happily ever after and have happy children.
Yes the best story out of Jane Austens books, certainly the most romantic, and Captain Wentworth and Anne are the best matched.
Agreed....
This is the first time I've seen it marvelous Thankyou
This has to be the BEST ENDING OUT OF ALL THE THREE VERSIONS
LoveResidentEvil4 oh yes
So sweet. I know these old adaptations are more in the vein of photographed stage plays but I have a particular fondness for them since they all of them stick so close to the books. Love this ending. 1995 isn't very good (loud parade in background for lukewarm kiss with three edits in it?!! You for real) and 2007 doesn't fare that much better (looking at you, marathon). This is both accurate and heartfelt.
The ending is the one used in the book, the other films used the ALTERNATE ending that Jane's nephew published in his book, after her death. Jane wrote two endings, and the one you see here is the one that actually made it to publication originally. But as I said, her nieces and nephews found amid her papers this alternate ending and for some reason a lot of the film adaptations preferred to use the alternate.
@@theroyalennui Where was the other ending used? As far as I know they used the ending with Frederick writing a letter to Anne...
Yes I agree too! The best it is... the walk they took looking back at the past... beautiful. The other versions didn’t show part... their heart to heart ...
This is an amazing vintage series.
This is the best ending of this in film I have seen thus far.... bravo
This is wonderful to watch!
Thank you very much for uploading this miniseries. It was an engaging and enjoyable story.
My favorite version. Thanks for posting this!
Watching this again. It's just too good not to. Sadly the storyline is something that happens far too often in real life. We are persuaded to go against our gut instincts because a well meaning friend or family member tells us it's for the best.
The best part of this is that Louisa isn’t in it! I literally ground my teeth during her incessant forced laughter and inane gaiety. I can’t imagine the director viewing those scenes and thinking that poor actress got it right. “That was very good, dear, but this time, remember to laugh on _every single syllable!!”_
When she fell and hit her head, I thought " she's finally going to shut up".
@@ekcentrik Your comment made me laugh harder than I should ;D it's so funny how to true that is though, when she was in a scene you could barely hear or keep up with the other character from how loud she was talking and acting
Louisa was pretty irritating
Rupert Penry-Jones will always be my favourite Captain Wentworth 🥰 but I do love this rendition of Persuasion 😁
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This was made 5 years before I was born, I'm enjoying it 49 years later. Its worth the wait.🥰💕
I absolutely adore the desperation and slight patheticness of their first meeting here especially on her part. It's so realistic it hurts.
The costumes are very nice.
thank you, it came at a good time...
Thank you so much for uploading this!!
Sally Hawkins is by so far the best Anne Elliot and Rupert Penry Jones an absolute perfect Captain Wentworth : best version of Persuasion.
That version has terrible last ten minutes. Anne jogging through Bath like a lunatic? No, thank you.
And a beautiful music and screen and script in 2007.
I cant believe they cut the scean where captain Wentworth has to ask Ann if her and Mr. Elliott wanted thier house back!
Its definitely one of the best!
Well it doesn't occur in the book.
@@lizellesmythe9458 oh, that makes sence. I didn't realize. I read it twice I think, I cant believe I never noticed. ...
Interesting that the other two versions had that scene. I just couldn't remember if it was in the book.
@@drpatrickbarry It was in a chapter that JA wrote but did not put in the book...the ending she wrote was perfect....
@@glen7318 I never knew that! It's such a good scene in the 1995 movie
This version of Persuasion involves an important trade off re the portrayal of Anne’s age and her disconcerting hairstyle. The actress is otherwise perfect. My favorite production.
I do like this Ann(e)! She is not a victim and she did make a smart decision.
Ann Mackay You felt the other Anne portrayal were victims?
@@KenyanBunnie Sally Hawkins and Amanda Root both seem far more put-upon in their adaptations than Ann Firbank does here, I agree. But neither are portrayed as victims per se. Sally a teensy bit... maybe. But not really.
I enjoyed watching. The hair is a horror of mullets and wigs.
Loved the talk
Thanks for sharing!
Captain Wentworth is totally handsome 😍
His hair sucks though.
@@wednesdayschild3627 lol
Fantastic!!!!
Charles is such has such a kind and light hearted character, I am surprised that Ann didn't marry him even without romantic love. Just to not be an old maid since people put so much stock into that in those days
Thank you Sumire
I hated Jane Austen ( never having read her, of course ) till I saw this adaption all those years ago, and now again. I've caught up on my Austen reading since then - still having trouble with Mansfield Park though. Thanks for uploading this memory.
Huh? You hated sth. without knowing anything about it? How? I mean it's the way things are now I still don't fully get it. Mansfield Park is a wopper and I find Fanny and Edmund a bit insipid as well.
I like Charles. Capital!
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This Anne Elliott has no emotion, no sadness. Nah, I am not sure if I like this Anne. So far my favorite is Sally Hawkins as Anne.
I do too! Sally Hawkins will forever be the perfect Anne Elliot. This one is always laughing and smiling, no hint of the internal turmoil Anne has lived for the last eight and a half years.
That's a shame. This version is "my" anne. I think she is superb.
@@cd3224 you like this Anne..... Bless your heart 😬
I have these problems: The actress who plays Anne is 38 or so years old--and while I think 38 is a fine age, it's a little old for Anne Elliot. Her hair styles are very 70's, and she is too assertive in the beginning to make much of a change by the end. Mary is shrill instead of whiny. Elizabeth is not dignified enough. I'm thinking these are problems with direction. There have been technological changes which are helpful at reducing ambient noise. Although I love Rupert Penry-Jones, I think the 1995 version is probably the strongest of the three.
Let us hope you can persuade future directors, Lady Russell.
Gary Novak lol love it!! Yes although Anne is older I believe this version is the best out of the three adoptions. It’s the closest to the book.the 1995 version is great but the running and horrible kiss make it a miss for me.
I think the actress looks fine, nearer thirty than forty for sure.
exactly, people still think that saying the actress WAS (and looked) older than she was supposed to be is offensive. For your interest, it's not. Also she didn't look one year younger
I think we have to remember that at the time a woman of 27 looked older and was considered middle aged...
Much as I admire Charlotte Mitchell she was badly miscast as the young and pretty Mrs Clay.
Yes, I agree. Austen adaptations also almost always cast unconventionally attractive ladies to play Miss Bingley because she's unsympathetic, even though she is supposed to be handsome. I don't know why they do this. A lot of people complained Anne Bancroft is too old to play this part but I couldn't agree less. She's perfect.
Mrs Clay is not meant to be pretty,
@@glen7318 in the beginning Anne says she is worried because Mrs Clay is young and good looking which the actress in this series is neither
@@lyng1905 I suppose they don't want to say that an actress/character is plain, and usually actresses are pretty, unless they are playing broad comedy... but in the book, Anne thinks that Mrs C's cleverness and youth outweigh her lack of good-looks, whereas Elizabeth thinks that since Sir Walter is very vain and generally dislikes people who are not good looking, he wont fall in love with Mrs Clay because she's not pretty...I suppose the script simplified things a bit, by claiming that Mrs Clay was pretty, and that the daughters were worried that Sir Walter might fall for her...
How delightfully REFANED! They don't talk like that anymore in Received Pronunciation!
This Anne appears too old looking for the part. Anne is only 27 this actress looks far older. I think my problem is I love the 1995 version too much. The 2007 version is also a favorite even with its ridiculous ending.
mistresspat7 What was wrong with the ending? He twirled her around, smiling, kissed, and danced!
In the 2007 version the problem with the ending was Anne doing some kind of Bath city marathon. It was impossible that between leaving Anne at her house , for him to have gone home wrote the letter and gone out again, only to be outside her house again. He had only just left her. It made no sense and her running and reading the letter was ridiculous. The very final scene when he brought her to her old house was well done I grant you.
And I hated when she practically had to grab him to kiss him. Honestly, Anne was never a desperate person; why did they make her out to be so?
saffie girl Exactly. That running and kissing was horrible, so unlike the true Ann. I also wandered why they pictured her in desperate light. I also found captain Wentworth a bit colder than necessary...
@@Greenwillow is that the version where Anne has stringy dark hair and her mouth is open a lot?
Really liked this adaption for one reason that never happened in the newer version that they called each by their first names I really did like the newer one more if at the end they had just said their first name to each other at the kiiss ending
I prefer version 2007. More émotion. Sally Hawkins and Rupert Penry jones and all actors of the version 2007.🤩
I think Sally hawkins looks weird for the role (not her fault). I like Amanda Root for the part.
Love you too
I don’t understand why Anne doesn’t invite the captain to sit with her party which would prove her interest in him. Are they not social equals?
In that day, your party was chaperoned and led by 1-2 people. As an unmarried single woman and guest, it is not up to her to issue invites like in public that way, particularly not to a single young man.
In this version, thankfully, Penelope doesn't have any children. It makes easier to loathe the character.
The bedrock of England.
As far as Anne not telling them. I consider that karma
The one lady at 38:00 is wearing Kermit the frog dress
I like it...
Lol
Far too bright for an evening interior setting during the Regency period.
all 3 remake of this movie annes dress n hair is so out of date in comparison to others
Sally Hawkins makes a much much better Anne
I thought Mrs Clay was supposed to be young and pretty? Not very well cast her part.
In the book she's meant to be young-ish (She has been married and had 2 children) but not pretty...She certainly isn't that young in this version and is average looking.. but she's a bit younger than Sir Walter, and an adept at flattering him, so its plausible that Anne would feel that she might manage to snare him into marriage....Its kind of a sign of how dumb Sir Walter is that he's taken in by her when she has neither good looks nor youth nor breeding by their standards... however she does look a bit old to have children and that is part of the worry for William ELliot that Sir Walt will marry a woman young enough to give him an heir...
I'm surprised by how many unlikeable/unpleasant characters there are in Persuasion compared to other Austen novels: Sir Walter and his two other daughters are pompous and selfish: Louisa and Henrietta are very shallow and flighty, then it turns out that Cpt Benwick is just as shallow and needy. Mr Elliot and Mrs Clay are grasping and devious. Cpt Wentworth is surprisingly sinister and suspicious-looking in many scenes, probably badly-directed, although it would have helped if he were a better-looking actor.
There are disagreeable and angering people in all of Austin's works. She is famous for making the most rediculous characters. And there are ALWAYS those who are obsessed with status.
Yes but in fairness the obsession with status was a sign of the times and Austen's characterisations of this were usually deliberately negative, showing her disapproval of it rather than endorsement.
Ann Elliot talks like she has dentures.
Ridiculous hairdos
This is the proof that literal adaptation doesn't mean to convey the real sense.
I love this version. However she is the worst actress ... no convincing. Too theatrical. Still this is my 3rd time watching 😊😋
i dont like hair n dress n age of this actress acting as anne.so dated .