{"id":475488,"date":"2022-07-18T17:30:25","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T14:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/netflixs-persuasion-is-an-affront-to-jane-austen\/"},"modified":"2022-07-18T17:30:25","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T14:30:25","slug":"netflixs-persuasion-is-an-affront-to-jane-austen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/netflixs-persuasion-is-an-affront-to-jane-austen\/","title":{"rendered":"#Netflix&#8217;s Persuasion is an Affront to Jane Austen"},"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-6a38749e79f7e\" 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-6a38749e79f7e\" 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\/netflixs-persuasion-is-an-affront-to-jane-austen\/#%E2%80%9CNetflixs_Persuasion_is_an_Affront_to_Jane_Austen%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Netflix&#8217;s Persuasion is an Affront to Jane Austen&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CNetflixs_Persuasion_is_an_Affront_to_Jane_Austen%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Netflix&#8217;s Persuasion is an Affront to Jane Austen&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<pre><code>     &lt;span class=\"mx-1\"&gt;Netflix\u2019s new adaptation of Jane Austen\u2019s \u2018Persuasion\u2019 has next to nothing to do with its source material.&lt;\/span&gt;\n&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;div id=\"\"&gt;\n\n\n\n                &lt;figure class=\"sf-entry-featured-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> \"&gt;\n            &lt;img width=\"800\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/persuasion-netflix-review.jpg\" class=\"articlethumb wp-post-image\" alt=\"Persuasion Netflix Review\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/persuasion-netflix-review.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/persuasion-netflix-review-768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/&gt;                                    &lt;p&gt;\n                    &lt;span class=\"sf-entry-flag sf-entry-flag-creditline\"&gt;Netflix&lt;\/span&gt;\n\n                        &lt;\/figure&gt;\n\n    &lt;!-- START BYLINE --&gt;\n    &lt;div class=\"row align-items-center justify-content-center my-4 text-center medium dark-gray\"&gt;\n        By\u00a0Aurora Amidon\u00a0\u00b7 Published on July 18th, 2022 \n        &lt;\/div&gt;\n    &lt;!-- END BYLINE --&gt;\n\n    &lt;a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Persuasion_(novel)\"&gt;&lt;span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"&gt;In the novel &lt;\/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"&gt;Persuasion&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"&gt;, Jane Austen describes two long-lost lovers torn apart by inauspicious circumstances. \u201cThere could have never been two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved,\u201d she writes. \u201cNow they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.\u201d\u00a0&lt;\/span&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the newest adaptation of the novel, helmed by first-time feature film director Carrie Cracknell, the writing team, Roland Bass and Alice Victoria Winslow, take some liberties with Austen\u2019s heart-wrenching prose. In the place of these words, the protagonist, Anne Elliot, played by Dakota Johnson, stares into the camera lens and says, \u201cNow we\u2019re strangers. Worse than strangers. We\u2019re exes,\u201d as if lamenting about a college fling \u2013 not what Austen emphasizes was likely Anne\u2019s one and only shot at true love and h<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>iness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This tragic linguistic butchering of some of the greatest writing the English language has to offer is representative of Netflix\u2019s new adaptation as a whole. For the most part, each change made and each liberty taken muddies the novel\u2019s original meaning and edits out any and all emotional stakes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The film follows Anne, a twenty-seven-year-old woman on the verge of spinster-dom residing in Bath in the early 1800s. She spends her days pining over her ex-lover, Captain Frederick Wentworth (Cosmo Jarvis), whom she has not spoken with since their painful breakup eight years prior. Things get complicated, though, when Anne runs into Frederick while visiting her sister, Mary (Mia McKenna-Bruce).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The film, which follows Anne as she navigates the acute pain of suddenly being in close proximity to Frederick again, is told in a cheeky, fourth-wall-defying, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fleabag<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> style. Johnson glances and winks at the camera with what feels like every other line, in addition to experiencing a number of klutzy faux pas (spilling gravy on her head, flirting with Frederick with a make-shift jam mustache painted on her face, etc.) The tone of Cracknell\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Persuasion<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is nothing short of whimsical, ditzy, and self-deprecating.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taking the source material into account, this tone <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">really<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> doesn\u2019t sit right. Austen\u2019s final novel tells the story of a woman who is coming to terms with the fact that she has squandered her one shot at true love, all because she allowed the people in her life to persuade her that Frederick wasn\u2019t good enough for her. And for women in the early 1800s, this wasn\u2019t something to be dealt with by making jokes about getting red wine drunk \u2013 this was a dire situation because marriage was imperative for women\u2019s financial security, and the older they got, the less of a chance they had to find a husband; and by Anne\u2019s withering age of twenty-seven, her chances were second-to-none.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taking this into account, it is no shock that Austen\u2019s novel is steeped in heartbreak, loneliness, and regret. And while the author was known for her biting sense of humor, there\u2019s not much comedy in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Persuasion <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 and given the subject matter at hand, nor should there be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cracknell\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Persuasion<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> misses that memo completely. Modern buzzwords are desperately crammed into the script at a staggering volume. When Johnson\u2019s Anne calls her cousin William (Henry Golding) a \u201cten,\u201d for example, this jarring modern lingo presumes that the protagonist has the attitude toward dating that a free-spirited millennial would about swiping through Tinder \u2013 not a woman whose last chance at love is rapidly hurdling out of her reach.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Similarly, when Anne looks into the camera with a knowing smirk as her arrogant father Walter (Richard E. Grant) goes broke, it overlooks the fact that, in Anne\u2019s time, an unmarried woman\u2019s fate is customarily inextricably tied to her fathers\u2019 fortunes. Given this, this <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> would quite likely be devastating to Anne. While this kind of modernization does, of course, work for contemporary adaptations of Austen\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Emma <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(see: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clueless<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pride and Prejudice <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(see: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bridget Jones\u2019s Diary<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), it is only because these novels are near tonal opposites of the somber, foreboding <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Persuasion<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What, then, dear reader, is the point of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Persuasion<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> if it overlooks the complete agony of Anne\u2019s lost love and the gruesome inequality of men and women during her time? Indeed, Cracknell\u2019s film completely overlooks the latter point, as well. For the most part, Johnson\u2019s Anne is free to do and say as she pleases, and there is never a true sense that she yearns to move freely like a man. There is no mention, either, that her loss of Frederick has anything to do with gender inequality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even if one were to ignore the blatant disregard of the source material, though, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Persuasion<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> still doesn\u2019t work on multiple basic levels. Johnson\u2019s breaking of the fourth wall doesn\u2019t serve any larger point and seems more like a desperate appeal to millennials and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fleabag<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> audiences than anything else. But in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fleabag<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the device works as a comment on Waller-Bridges\u2019 characters\u2019 isolation. In <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Persuasion<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the only reason Cracknell gives us to believe that Anne feels isolated is that her sisters think she\u2019s plain, which is ludicrous given that Johnson is one of the most beautiful actors working today.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cracknell makes the catastrophic choice to turn one of literature\u2019s greatest heroines into a quirky wine-aunt (think Bridget Jones without the dimension), who, in turn, doesn\u2019t have anything interesting to say. This results in Johnson just\u2026 glancing at the camera for no reason. In the beginning, this feels odd and out of place, and by the end, it is nothing short of completely aggravating.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because we are given so little insight into Anne and her interior monologue or her precarious position as a woman in the early 1800s, the emotional stakes in Cracknell\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Persuasion<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are second-to-none. We hardly know anything about the love that she and Frederick shared, so when he makes his supposedly thrilling return to her life, there\u2019s no reason we should care. Similarly, there\u2019s no chemistry between the actors \u2013 though to her credit, Johnson is an electric force on her own.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What results is nothing beyond a dull ninety-minute viewing experience that Austen fans (and others) would best be advised to steer clear of. At one point in Austen\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Persuasion<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Anne says, \u201cThe last few hours were certainly very painful. But when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.\u201d And while the first part of this quote hits home for Cracknell\u2019s adaptation, days later, the second part has yet to ring true.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><em>Persuasion is currently available to stream on Netflix.<\/em><\/p>\n<pre><code>    Related Topics: Netflix\n    &lt;!-- AUTHOR BOX --&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<div class=\"gray-bg p-4 border small mb-5\">\n<div class=\"row align-items-center text-md-center\">\n<div class=\"col-md-2\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/aurora.jpg\" class=\"circle img-fluid\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\"\/>\n        <\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md\">\n            Aurora Amidon spends her days running the Great Expectations column and trying to convince people that Hostel II is one of the best <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> of all time. 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