{"id":2969,"date":"2020-10-16T12:33:14","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T12:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/?p=2969"},"modified":"2020-10-16T12:33:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T12:33:14","slug":"emma-movie-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/10\/16\/emma-movie-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma: movie (2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2971\" src=\"http:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screenshot-381-219x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"283\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screenshot-381-219x300.png 219w, https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screenshot-381-768x1053.png 768w, https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screenshot-381-747x1024.png 747w, https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screenshot-381.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 283px) 100vw, 283px\" \/>Just what the world needs, another adaptation of Emma. I have four already, and I\u2019m sure there are others.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What I liked:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Johnny Flynn naked and not just for the obvious reason! It was lovely to see a Regency gentleman getting dressed with his valet\u2019s assistance.<\/li>\n<li>Seeing Mrs Goddard\u2019s schoolgirls out in their red cloaks, two by two.<\/li>\n<li>Miranda Hart as Miss Bates. I didn\u2019t think anyone could improve on the many previous incarnations of Miss Bates but her Box Hill moment was superb.<\/li>\n<li>Bill Nighy as Mr Woodhouse. I didn\u2019t expect to like him at all, but he actually worked very well as an old fusspot with his fear of draughts everywhere, even though he wasn\u2019t actually ill.<\/li>\n<li>The music. Aptly frivolous.<\/li>\n<li>Emma and Mr Knightley\u2019s dance at the ball, where he, in particular, very visibly and believably falls in love. I\u2019ve complained in reviews of other versions about the age disparity and the creepiness of him falling in love with a girl he\u2019s known since she was a baby, but Johnny Flynn is hot enough to overcome the creepiness factor, and having him suddenly notice her as a woman and realise that she\u2019s all grown up now is brilliant. Much, much better than the worrying suspicion that he\u2019s actually been in love with her since she was twelve. Ick! I didn\u2019t like him running after Emma\u2019s carriage, though. Silly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What I disliked:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The nosebleed! Ugh. I see what they were aiming for, but still\u2026 ugh.<\/li>\n<li>The costumes. Emma\u2019s were too stylised and stiff, I hated the corkscrew curls and Johnny Flynn\u2019s shirt points were way too high. I wanted to see his face! Mrs Elton\u2019s hair was anachronistic but it worked well for her. What was the matter with Mr Elton\u2019s vestments? He looked as if he was about to take off. I did like the way Harriet\u2019s hair gradually copied Emma\u2019s, though.<\/li>\n<li>Isabella and John. Two whiny by half.<\/li>\n<li>The conflation of the ball and Harriet\u2019s attack by the gypsies. I get the point of it, to interrupt a potential declaration from Mr Knightley, but it was so far out of line with the book that it threw me completely.<\/li>\n<li>Frank Churchill and Jane Fairfax got rather short shrift in this production, sacrificed to too much time spent on poor Miss Taylor\u2019s wedding, and too much froth generally. The Bates ladies, too, weren\u2019t as much in the forefront as usual.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Overall: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve heard very mixed reviews of this but although I don\u2019t think it\u2019s the definitive version (which in my view has yet to be made), I liked the freshness of the approach and the light-hearted tone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just what the world needs, another adaptation of Emma. I have four already, and I\u2019m sure there are others. What I liked: Johnny Flynn naked and not just for the obvious reason! It was lovely to see a Regency gentleman getting dressed with his valet\u2019s assistance. Seeing Mrs Goddard\u2019s schoolgirls out in their red cloaks, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2973,"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969\/revisions\/2973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}