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didyousaybooks's review
5.0
Quoi de mieux pour accompagner le visionnage que le scénario, brilliament écrit par la grande Emma Thompson?!!
Que du bonheur!
Que du bonheur!
ithiliens's review
4.75
I love Emma Thompson with all my heart and will go on doing so until the day I die.
questingnotcoasting's review against another edition
emotional
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
4.0
This was really interesting. Emma Thompson's diaries are very clever and funny as expected and I enjoyed seeing behind the scenes of the film. I mainly wanted to read this for Thompson's diaries, but reading the screenplay was also entertaining. It helped that I know the film well enough to picture most of the scenes. Austen and Thompson are a great combination and it's made me want to re-read some of Austen's novels, or at least re-watch some adaptations.
katpyro's review
3.0
Read it in one, so pretty light .. but now I know more about how movies get made. And now I've got to go re-read Sense and Sensibility so I can see what made it into the screenplay and what didn't.
eak1013's review
5.0
Because Emma Thompson is even more clever and delightful than you think she could possibly be.
somechelsea's review
4.0
I adore this movie, so I was thrilled to find this book at a library book sale (For fifty cents, no less!). I then surprised myself by sitting down and reading the entire shooting script - it mostly made me want to watch the movie again, but I enjoyed it.
What I really enjoyed, however, were Emma Thompson's shooting diaries. She's witty, she's honest, she's endearing, and she gives us those behind-the-scenes bits of gossip that we all love. (She even discusses Hugh Grant's arrest, which apparently happened after he had finished his part in the film. Heh.) I want to be her when I grow up. :)
What I really enjoyed, however, were Emma Thompson's shooting diaries. She's witty, she's honest, she's endearing, and she gives us those behind-the-scenes bits of gossip that we all love. (She even discusses Hugh Grant's arrest, which apparently happened after he had finished his part in the film. Heh.) I want to be her when I grow up. :)
lindaunconventionalbookworms's review
3.0
I think this needs to come back on my to-read list, as I have read a lot more about Jane Austen now, I might actually appreciate the story more as well.
kristin's review
5.0
A wonderful funny insight to the filming of sense and sensibility. I loved the memories of Alan Rickman <3
aliibera's review
5.0
I am continually amazed by the accessibility of Austen - despite the specifics of early 19th century Britain, the emotions, the behavior, the sense of humor feels modern and immediate. Emma is layered - both charming and intelligent and like most modern women with those same virtues is also a bit of a control freak. She falters on her flaws but she is never made to be either stupid or ridiculous. Unlike Mrs. Elton- who is exactly the woman that we all secretly hate in our small communities of friends or office mates.