Which emma adaptation is the best

From the web series company that brought you The Lizzie Bennet Diaries comes this similarly-structured Emma adaptation. Emma Thompson. Kate Winslet. Hugh Grant. Alan Rickman. Need I say more? We mentioned was a good year for Austen fans, yeah? Andrew Davies is back at it again with this television movie, starring Felicity Jones as protagonist Catherine Morland Carey Mulligan also pops up as friend Isabella Thorpe.

Created by Foot in the Door Theatre, what this production lacks in budget, it makes up for in heart. From Mansfield With Love reimagines the story of 19th-century protagonist Fanny Price to modern-day Britain where Frankie Price is working as a housekeeper at a hotel owned by the Bertrams.

In an effort to keep in touch with her brother Will, she begins to send video diaries chronicling her life at Mansfield and with the Bertram family, in particularly with friend Edmund. Austen has never felt so real. The new kid on the block, Sanditon just wrapped up its first and hopefully not only season on PBS.

It's one of the great teen comedies and among the very best Austen adaptations. Knightley, giving him a deeper character development that adds authenticity to his romance with Emma. On top of that, Mia Goth is a surprising standout as the awkwardly kind Harriet Smith. Thompson and Kate Winslet star as Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, two sisters left penniless after their father passes away.

As expected, Thompson and Winslet are amazing in their roles, while Hugh Grant is delightful as usual as Edward, and the late Alan Rickman features as Colonel Brandon in one of his early roles, before he transitioned to mostly darker characters. Fitzwilliam Darcy, the film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice is the obvious winner of the top spot on this list. From the thorny first meeting to the famous rain scene, director Joe Wright makes us fall in love with Darcy and Bennet over and over again with each new viewing.

Image via Excel Entertainment Group. Image via Eros International. Image via Sony Pictures Releasing. Image via Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Woodhouse, a handsome Mr. Knightley and an Emma who is likeable despite her faults. Knightley have at least the chemistry of friends, if not lovers. Jonny Lee Miller, who played Mr. Knightley, also played Edmund Thomas in Mansfield Park, and he does Austen like a comfortable veteran.

That said, as a fan, nothing is better than the BBC versions of classic novels. All the points. I will also subtract points because her dad is a high-powered lawyer, not a hypochondriac gentleman, which I really enjoyed in the book. I take it back, Emma can be sexy — it can downright sizzle. The supporting cast modernizes the film with droll humor and an excellent sense of physical comedy. Bill Nighy steals every scene as Mr. Woodhouse, playing up the hypochondria and melodrama. Pride and Prejudice is great, sure, but don't believe the hype.

One of its many strengths is its script Emma Thompson, who also starred as leading lady, Elinor Dashwood, won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay , which manages to capture the dry wit and intelligence of the original novel while adding a playfulness and sexuality so undeniably modern that it cuts through the bonnets and lace.

The rolling shots of rain-lashed moors are divine, the chemistry between the characters feels sincere. I defy you to find an Austen beau that you will root for more! Stuck in a rut, filmmaker Amy Heckerling returned to memories of Emma , which she devoured as a college student. Enter Cher Horowitz.

Only, that neighbourhood happens to be a fictional Beverly Hill high school in the early Nineties. Clueless may not be the most conventional Austen adaptation - you're more likely to find tank tops than top hats, and archaic language is swapped out for 'Valspeak', a whole new dialect unique to Valley Girls - but it is arguably the most successful for bringing the 19th-century author into the lives of millions of millennials. What's more, it revived a film genre teen movies that had been lingering in the doldrums.

Without Clueless , there would be no Mean Girls. But without Austen, we there would be no Clueless. Quite the challenge, then, for the actress playing the titular role of meddling matchmaker Emma. Compare this adaptation's ball scene every decent Austen adaptation has one to that in go-to favourite Pride and Prejudice , where Elizabeth and Darcy simply snark, and we see Emma and Knightly realise their love with every step.

This is the adaptation for true romantics. What is your favourite Jane Austen adaptation? Tell us by emailing editor penguinrandomhouse. They broke boundaries and challenged conceptions.

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