{"id":474518,"date":"2022-07-15T23:20:46","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T20:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-persuasion-review-awkward-fleabag-style-jane-austen-adaptation\/"},"modified":"2022-07-15T23:20:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T20:20:46","slug":"watch-persuasion-review-awkward-fleabag-style-jane-austen-adaptation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-persuasion-review-awkward-fleabag-style-jane-austen-adaptation\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Persuasion&#8217; Review: Awkward, &#8216;Fleabag&#8217;-Style Jane Austen Adaptation"},"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-6a41649483f40\" 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-6a41649483f40\" 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-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-persuasion-review-awkward-fleabag-style-jane-austen-adaptation\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Persuasion_Review_Awkward_%E2%80%98Fleabag-Style_Jane_Austen_Adaptation%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Persuasion&#8217; Review: Awkward, &#8216;Fleabag&#8217;-Style Jane Austen Adaptation&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-persuasion-review-awkward-fleabag-style-jane-austen-adaptation\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Persuasion_Review_Awkward_%E2%80%98Fleabag-Style_Jane_Austen_Adaptation%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Persuasion&#8217; Review: Awkward, &#8216;Fleabag&#8217;-Style Jane Austen Adaptation&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-persuasion-review-awkward-fleabag-style-jane-austen-adaptation\/#optional_screen_reader\" >optional screen reader<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-persuasion-review-awkward-fleabag-style-jane-austen-adaptation\/#Read_More_About\" >Read More About:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Persuasion_Review_Awkward_%E2%80%98Fleabag-Style_Jane_Austen_Adaptation%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Persuasion&#8217; Review: Awkward, &#8216;Fleabag&#8217;-Style Jane Austen Adaptation&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Persuasion_Review_Awkward_%E2%80%98Fleabag-Style_Jane_Austen_Adaptation%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Persuasion&#8217; Review: Awkward, &#8216;Fleabag&#8217;-Style Jane Austen Adaptation&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        Jane Austen completed the manu<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\">script<\/a> for \u201cPersuasion\u201d in 1816, the year before her death. But even then, more than 200 years ago, she anticipated the conversation Hollywood is having today, putting these words into Captain Harville\u2019s mouth: \u201cI do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman\u2019s inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman\u2019s fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anne Elliot \u2014 bright, heartbroken and, at the ripe old age of 28, facing the risk of lifelong spinsterhood \u2014 naturally agrees, not to Harville\u2019s point that it is woman\u2019s nature (more than man\u2019s) to forget those they\u2019ve loved before, but to the fact that \u201cthe pen has been in their hands,\u201d and thus, the history of literature betrays a gender bias. Two centuries later, the world is still struggling to even that balance, and no studio seems more committed than Netflix to giving women a chance to control their narrative.<\/p>\n<p>While original works are welcome, Austen makes an obvious choice for female directors to adapt (certainly more than \u201cDangerous Liaisons,\u201d which gets a \u201cClueless\u201d-y contemporary makeover from the streamer this week as well). \u201cPersuasion\u201d is a fine choice of material to work from, but British stage director Carrie Cracknell has gone and done a strange thing with the book: She has tried to modernize it, borrowing heavily from \u201cFleabag\u201d (with its fourth-wall-breaking gimmicks) and \u201cEmma.\u201d (in all its symmetrically framed, Wes Anderson-indebted cute-itude), while casting a free-spirited, fully liberated American star, Dakota Johnson, as Anne \u2014 all of which s<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>s the novel of its core tension.<\/p>\n<p>You see, \u201cPersuasion\u201d is a curious romance in that, for contemporary audiences, there\u2019s nothing really keeping its two lovers apart. Not anymore, at least. Some years ago, Wentworth \u2014 \u201ca sailor without rank or fortune,\u201d played by ruggedly handsome Cosmo Jarvis (\u201cLady Macbeth\u201d) \u2014 proposed to Anne, and she accepted, but her aristocratic family disapproved of the union, and she was persuaded to break the engagement. Flash forward to the present (Austen\u2019s present, that is, of 1816), and the situation is changing.<\/p>\n<p>Anne\u2019s unashamedly conceited father, Sir Walter (Richard E. Grant, a vainglorious hoot), must rent the family estate, Kellynch Hall, reintroducing the man for whom Anne\u2019s heart still throbs to their circle \u2014 only now, Wentworth is an officer of sufficient fortune to merit her hand. Certain nuances of class and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> station still stand in their way, but few among the movie\u2019s Netflix viewers will appreciate such obstacles. (But will they prefer modern flourishes, like the \u201cplaylist\u201d of sheet music Wentworth has made for her, or her labeling of younger sister Mary as a \u201ctotal narcissist\u201d?)<\/p>\n<p>For Cracknell\u2019s purposes, the trouble is that neither character is sure the other still feels the love they once shared, and so we wait the requisite 100 minutes for them to profess their feelings and get on with the wedding that neatly ties up all of Austen\u2019s books. With this novel, however, she made abundantly clear that English marriages in Georgian times were not about feelings; they were social contracts designed to shore up a family\u2019s wealth and position. When emotion and advantage align, however, where\u2019s the conflict?<\/p>\n<p>Sharing credit (though only one is likely responsible for this choice), screenwriters Alice Victoria Winslow and Ron Bass transform their heroine into something far different from what Austen described \u2014 or from what previous screen adaptations imagined (she was played with aching understatement by Sally Hawkins and Amanda Root in the 1995 and 2007 British TV versions).<\/p>\n<p>In Austen\u2019s words, \u201cAnne Elliot had been a very pretty girl, but her bloom had vanished early.\u201d She is now \u201cfaded and thin,\u201d the most compliant of Walter\u2019s daughters, whereas Johnson appears to be at the peak of her powers (she\u2019s simultaneously rocking the MILF role in \u201cCha Cha Real Smooth\u201d on Apple TV+). Nothing against the very gifted Johnson, but she is not the right actor for this role, and she\u2019s been entirely misdirected.<\/p>\n<p>Cracknell approaches the project with confidence and a clear (if clearly derivative) vision. Her compositions are striking and swooningly romantic at times, though she has a curious idea of Anne Elliot: She likes her wine, gulping glassfuls of red; she carries a pet rabbit as a prop, and depressively mopes about sets with pastel walls and ugly oil paintings in ornate gold frames. In the novel, Anne\u2019s sense of soft-spoken propriety prolongs her misery, whereas here, she\u2019s a sharp and unfiltered narrator, delivering biting judgments of her family throughout. She regularly turns directly to the camera and throws audiences a complicit glance, as if to say, \u201cSee what I mean?\u201d or \u201cCan you believe these people?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And yet, despite this overtly disobedient streak, she\u2019s corseted by all the old-timey social conventions at play, which include sitting idly by while 19-year-old sister-in-law Louisa (Nia Towle) openly flirts with Wentworth, and entertaining a rival proposal from distant relative William Elliot (Henry Golding). The Anne we meet in this movie wouldn\u2019t hold her tongue while such things happened. So what is she waiting for? An apology from Wentworth? It was she who rejected his earlier offer. Perhaps the mind can be persuaded of reasons to reject true love, as Anne was all those years ago, but in the end (to quote not Austen, but Emily Dickinson), the heart wants what it wants.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cPersuasion\u201d is now streaming on Netflix.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-tags \/\/ a-children-icon-bullet lrv-u-font-family-primary u-letter-spacing-012 lrv-u-line-height-large lrv-u-color-brand-primary\">\n<h2 id=\"optional-screen-reader\" class=\"lrv-a-screen-reader-only\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"optional_screen_reader\"><\/span>\n        optional screen reader  <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<nav class=\"o-nav  o-nav lrv-u-border-b-1 u-border-color-brand-secondary-40 lrv-u-border-t-1 lrv-u-text-align-center lrv-u-padding-b-025 u-padding-t-050@desktop u-padding-t-050@tablet u-padding-t-050@mobile-max lrv-u-margin-t-2 lrv-u-margin-b-2\" data-dropdown=\"\">\n<h4 id=\"\" class=\"o-nav__title lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-font-family-secondary o-nav__title a-content-ignore u-line-height-140 u-letter-spacing-0002\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Read_More_About\"><\/span>Read More About:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/nav>\n<\/div><\/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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