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Shyanne 2022-09-11 19:30:54
Pure Tucao
There are several versions of the movie, starring Sally Hawkins, all because of a preference for "Fingersmith".
However, in addition to the strong acting skills of the actors, the casting and costumes of the movie are quite different from the original. The female protagonist Anne, who was born in...
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Stanford 2022-09-11 19:43:53
persuade
I don't dare to write a review of Jane Austen's works. I have read very little of it, and I need to attend an "Austen Book Club" myself. My superficial understanding is limited to the few films I have watched. In "Persuasion", the front is mostly hesitant and uneasy struggles, deliberately cold...
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Anne Elliot: To think that soon he may be walking through this house.
Lady Russell: Anne, you know that your father thought it a most unsuitable match. He would never have countenanced an alliance he deemed so degrading.
Anne Elliot: He was not alone, as I recall.
Lady Russell: My dear, to become engaged at 19, in the middle of a war, to a young naval officer who had no fortune and no expectations. You would indeed have been throwing yourself away. And I should have been failing in my duty as your godmother if I did not counsel against it. You were young, and it was entirely prudent to break off the understanding.
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Sir Walter Elliot: Come, come, Anne! We must not be late. You cannot have forgotten we have an invitation from Lady Dalrymple.
Anne Elliot: I regret I am already engaged to spend the evening with an old school-friend.
Elizabeth Elliot: Not that sickly old widow in Westgate-buildings?
Anne Elliot: Mrs Smith. Yes.
Sir Walter Elliot: Smith? Westgate building?
Mrs. Clay: Excuse me.
Sir Walter Elliot: And who, pray, is Mrs Smith? One of the five thousand Smiths that are everywhere to be met with? Upon my word, Miss Anne Elliot, you have the most extraordinary taste. To place such a person ahead of your own family connections among the nobility of England and Ireland. Mrs Smith!
Anne Elliot: Perhaps she is not the only poor widow in Bath with little to live on and no surname of dignity. Good evening.
