{"id":135060,"date":"2020-12-16T22:31:58","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T19:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-modern-persuasion-review-a-cheery-but-flat-jane-austen-update\/"},"modified":"2020-12-16T22:31:58","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T19:31:58","slug":"watch-modern-persuasion-review-a-cheery-but-flat-jane-austen-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-modern-persuasion-review-a-cheery-but-flat-jane-austen-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Modern Persuasion&#8217; Review: A Cheery But Flat Jane Austen Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a416cb49957a\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a416cb49957a\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-modern-persuasion-review-a-cheery-but-flat-jane-austen-update\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Modern_Persuasion_Review_A_Cheery_But_Flat_Jane_Austen_Update%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Modern Persuasion&#8217; Review: A Cheery But Flat Jane Austen Update&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-modern-persuasion-review-a-cheery-but-flat-jane-austen-update\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Modern_Persuasion_Review_A_Cheery_But_Flat_Jane_Austen_Update%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Modern Persuasion&#8217; Review: A Cheery But Flat Jane Austen Update&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Modern_Persuasion_Review_A_Cheery_But_Flat_Jane_Austen_Update%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Modern Persuasion&#8217; Review: A Cheery But Flat Jane Austen Update&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Modern_Persuasion_Review_A_Cheery_But_Flat_Jane_Austen_Update%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Modern Persuasion&#8217; Review: A Cheery But Flat Jane Austen Update&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        Back in 1995, in the midst of cinema\u2019s brief fixation with Jane Austen, director Roger Michell made the definitive film of \u201cPersuasion\u201d: as literate and elegant as it was underestimated upon release. That same year, Amy Heckerling set the bar for modernized Austen adaptations with her lithely funny and era-defining \u201cEmma\u201d riff \u201cClueless.\u201d A quarter-century later, the straightforwardly titled \u201cModern Persuasion\u201d falls some way short of either benchmark. Refashioning Austen\u2019s bittersweet final novel about love surmounting prickly English class politics as a peppy romantic comedy of missed connections among the moneyed New York <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> set, Alex <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">App<\/a>el and Jonathan Lisecki\u2019s film is both too innocuous and too flatly imagined to stir much feeling either way.<\/p>\n<p>What it does have going for it is Alicia Witt, a likable, spirited star too little used by Hollywood of late, but recently a leading mainstay of Hallmark holiday <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a> \u2014 from which \u201cModern Persuasion\u201d perhaps counts as a modest promotion. Her <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>, slightly spacy screen presence goes some way toward making an actual character out of a protagonist otherwise drawn via romcom identikit: A klutzy, cat-doting singleton wedded to her job but only one mild makeover away from va-va-voom sexiness, Manhattan PR star Wren Cosgrove seems both entirely familiar and not entirely human.<\/p>\n<p>Jane Austen certainly wouldn\u2019t recognize her as an incarnation of her heroine Anne Elliot, though to be fair, Lisecki and Barbara Radecki\u2019s sitcom-style script claims only faint allegiance to her novel. (The credits, for their part, don\u2019t acknowledge the adaptation.) Still, it\u2019s cheerfully peppered with \u201cPersuasion\u201d parallels and reference points, many of them of a throwaway nature: The publicity firm where Wren works is named Keller Keller Lynch, a nod to the novel\u2019s key location of Kellynch Hall, while her crotchety cat is called Wentworth, after the novel\u2019s romantic hero. That the name is assigned to her pet rather than her eventual love interest is a discouraging sign of where any frisson of chemistry in the film truly lies.<\/p>\n<p>Three men vie for Wren\u2019s affections in the course of the film, but those familiar with Austen\u2019s tale will spot the Captain Wentworth proxy immediately. Just as Anne, pressured by family, broke off a youthful engagement with Wentworth in the novel, so did Wren ditch her college boyfriend Owen (Shane McRae) when he invited her to move with him to San Francisco. Urged by her high-flying aunt Vanessa (Bebe Neuwirth, classing up any scene she\u2019s in with low-effort hauteur) to put her own career before that of a man, she chose the East Coast \u2014 and has apparently regretted her decision ever since.<\/p>\n<p>That Wren has found no romantic alternative in the 15 or so years since is hard to believe \u2014 but then she also occupies one of those peculiar movie vacuums where, despite being attractive, personable and well-connected, she appears to have no friends or acquaintances outside the office whatsoever. If she did, this 87-minute story might be even shorter: Any half-empathetic confidante could tell Wren what\u2019s up when Owen, now the millionaire mogul behind a Twitter-type social media network, turns up at Keller Keller Lynch with a major marketing contract up for grabs.<\/p>\n<p>Did he choose her firm by accident? Plainly not, but that doesn\u2019t stop Wren stalling and dithering, accepting the shy advances of Owen\u2019s colleague Sam (Dominic Rains) and the slicker ones of rival PR exec Tyler (Christopher O\u2019Shea); Owen, meanwhile, is diverted by Wren\u2019s younger, flirtatious assistant Kate (Daniella Pineda), whose social media expertise prompts some distinctly dated stabs at millennial-speak satire in the script. Inadvertently, phrases like \u201cgeek on fleek\u201d render the film as specific a period piece as any Regency-era Austen narrative.<\/p>\n<p>And so it goes, in its essentially harmless but frictionless way, full of liquid-soap dialogue and televisually bright lighting. Witt and McRae, both amiable individually, don\u2019t strike so many sparks together as to make this love story especially urgent, until a denouement that anticlimactically substitutes a text message for the heart-spilling letter of the novel. (It has already cited New Wave pop lyrics where Austen used Romantic poets: Such updates are cute enough, but don\u2019t do the present many favors.) What \u201cModern Persuasion\u201d can\u2019t find is an equivalent for the particular barriers of class and social bias that keep Austen\u2019s lovers apart so long; in a well-dressed world of Hamptons weekends and buzzy media parties, all Wren and her soulmate really need is a spare moment to talk.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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