Speaking of wet shirts
Alert Janeites Chantel and Franka let us know about these photos from S&S08, including the promised wet-shirted wood chopping scene.
Willoughby makes us feel old. What is he, twelve? And we don’t think it’s completely accidental that New!Edward bears a striking resemblance to Old!Edward.
Well, snark and drool away.
September 25th, 2007 at 7:26 am
I am confused: is that Col Brandon chopping wood? And, if so, why? Do we think that gentlemen do this kind of thing? No, no! That’s what the servants are for!
And, I must have been looking the other way and missed the announcement of an S&S08. Do we need same? Why don’t they tackle Mysteries of Udolfo for a change–there’s a lot more sexy stuff in that.
September 25th, 2007 at 7:38 am
No, it’s Edward Ferrars chopping wood. He doesn’t look very ‘Edward Ferrars’ to me, but we’ll see. I’m still positive about this production!
September 25th, 2007 at 9:19 am
That’s Col. Brandon with the dead
bunniesbirdies.September 25th, 2007 at 9:28 am
And I think it is raining in the chopping scene. No words for the moment, I need time!
September 25th, 2007 at 9:43 am
Willoughby looks a little like Rowan Atkinson in Blackadder the Third. Edward Ferrars is chopping wood to work off some of his !Pent-Up Hot Passion! for Elinor. At least, that is what they will expect us to believe. In reality, it is simply because watching him chop wood>>>>watching paint dry>>>>listening to him talk.
September 25th, 2007 at 11:03 am
They look a bit of a strange collection, but we’ll see.
I wonder if they’ll include Margaret Dashwood in this version?
September 25th, 2007 at 11:20 am
Yes, Margaret Dashwood is going to be in this version. She is to be played by Lucy Boynton. Here’s a picture of the actress.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2006/12/05/npotter05.jpg
I think the picture of Edward is one taken near the end of the film. You can see his church behind him. He didn’t have alot of money for servants so he probably would be chopping his own wood.
September 25th, 2007 at 11:43 am
He had no parishioners to give some wood to a nice, single clergyman?
Honestly, he’d have been mothered to death by the women in his parish. No way would they have allowed him to go without cordage.
September 25th, 2007 at 11:44 am
Cord wood, I mean!
September 25th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
Actually, Col. Brandon probably would have kept a supply of wood at the parsonage.
September 25th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
Marrianne is wearing the dress Elizabeth Bennett (Keira Knightley) wore when visiting Pemberley:
http://costumersguide.com/pride_prejudice/Lacy%20Brown/top3.jpg
September 25th, 2007 at 2:51 pm
GAH! Am I the only one who wants to drool over Willoughby? I’m sorry, but I do love Dominic Cooper so. *shame*
September 25th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
Marianne looks exactly how I imagine her.
Elinor and Brandon are OK, but is anyone else waiting for an adaption where Elinor is more beautiful than Marianne, like she is in the novel? Marianne only wins the “beauty contest” because of her inner fire.
Edward is too handsome and Willoughby isn’t handsome enough. Actually, he looks very much the villain he is. But Willoughby should be just like Greg Wise played him: so beautiful and charming that even when you know of his evil doings, you still almost want to forgive him everything. (Which makes him Austen’s most dangerous villain imho.)
September 25th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
Not sure how this is going to turn out- the bbc productions certainly have gone downhill recently (e.g Jane Eyre) they just seem to be appealing to a “modern audience” and basically dumbing down everything, plus it seems that Andrew Davies has become more rampant than ever recently
Is every new production just becoming the same standard and style as P+P05?! It’s just a worry for the future if that’s all we’re to expect and if that’s what people believe to be Jane Austen.
Having said all this however, fingers crossed, it could turn out well. I think the actors have some good resemblances to the actual characters, and any period drama is a fun night in in my mind
September 25th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
And do my eyes deceive me, or is Edward wearing the Puffy Shirt from Seinfeld?
September 25th, 2007 at 4:36 pm
I don’t particularly care for this Willoughby in looks,but if the majority of people drool over him than the film-makers have made their point. He’s supposed to be like that. Some people don’t look particularly handsome in still photographs,but when you see them moving, talking, etc, it makes all the difference in how “handsome” they appear.
September 25th, 2007 at 4:37 pm
My vote goes for Col. Brandon — but it always does… I’d take Alan Rickman over Greg Wise any day of the week. Love the Col’s pups too.
September 25th, 2007 at 4:58 pm
Ah, but Emma Thompson chose Greg Wise in real life…
September 25th, 2007 at 5:22 pm
Forgot to mention that Edward’s hat is reminding me of the unfortunate hat on MP1-Edmund. Not a becoming hat! I know that’s what clergymen wear, but they screw up on other things, why not this?
September 25th, 2007 at 7:21 pm
Wow, Arwen! Good eye!
Does anyone else think that Col. Brandon’s hairstyle looks too much like a mullet in that pic?
September 25th, 2007 at 8:11 pm
Me.
I see Euromullet.
September 25th, 2007 at 10:13 pm
Eddie had better stop brooding over Elinor long enough to remove his hand.
September 26th, 2007 at 7:48 am
LOL at “Euromullet”! You’re right…a la Sean Bean’s hair in the Sharpe’s films.
Notwithstanding some of the awful men’s wigs in Emma-1996-TV, I had hoped that the really bad hair ended with the 1970’s adaptations…
September 26th, 2007 at 8:12 am
Ahhhh, Maisy, but Sean Bean is perhaps one of the select few actors who can totally rock the mullet without coming off looking like a guest star on “Saved By the Bell”.
September 26th, 2007 at 9:30 am
wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute…Sean Bean’s Sharpe!Mullet is a sacred and beautiful thing.
September 26th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
Sean Bean is a sacred and beautiful thing regardless; Sharpe mullet, Middle Earth mop, or whatever.
But getting back to Austen film adaptations (did Sean ever do an Austen adaptation? Why not forgoodnessake?), as far as Elinor and Marianne are concerned with the latest S&S, the debate seems to be forming along the same old lines as with Ang Lee’s S&S (or in other similar circumstances for that matter). I can certainly see the attraction of Charity Wakefield’s or Kate Winslet’s Marianne. Bedazzling and immediately compelling for sure. But Elinor as Hattie Morahan or Emma Thompson do far more for me from the get go. There’s a quiet elegance and depth there that’s not necessarily readily apparent unless you’re attuned to it. Something that you immediately sense will take some work and time to delve into to full appreciate. And that’s just hawt.
September 26th, 2007 at 10:07 pm
I think my vote for Worst!Hair!Ever! in an Austen Adaptation HAS to go to Ewan McGregor in the Gwyneth “Emma”.
Sean Bean isn’t really an Austen guy. I see him as more of a Bronte fellow.
NTTAWWT.
September 28th, 2007 at 7:29 pm
Not to mention that Oliver Mellors ‘do…or undo, as the case may be. Bean and his hair were the only things that saved that castastrophe known as “Scarlett”.