Modern, indeed very modern (perhaps too much?): the latest film adaptation of the novel Persuasion (available on Netflix) stars Dakota Johnson as Regency of Anne Elliot, the protagonist.
Before her, Anne Elliot and Amanda Root tried – in a more canonical form – but this time, thanks to Shonda Rhimes’ rewriting of this iconic period of British history, fit is more like Bridgerton than to Jane Austen. This is the last complete work written by the author and then published posthumously. Sanditonin fact, it has not been completed and has become a TV series (from July 20 on Sky and NOW the episodes of the second season, but without Theo James).
This new declination of Persuasionwith the diva of Fifty shades looking into the room, grimaces pleased and makes fun of everything and everyone, it cannot be compared to Anya-Taylor Joy’s experiment with Emma, a fresco of great visual power and commendable rhythm. Is it a good try? Absolutely. Is the actress panting and puffing a little too much? You may be. (And she’s an American too, but that’s another story)
There are even those who go hard and define the project as “pure agony” (the magazine Vox) or “an abomination” (word of ReelViews). And someone clarifies – The Spectator, just to mention the names and surnames of the newspapers – «it’s not about those films that are so bad that they become beautiful. No, on the contrary, it is so bad that it becomes boring. Perhaps the longest hour and 49 minutes of our life. “
Perhaps in this case we exaggerate a little (there is much worse in circulation!), So here is what the New York Times to calibrate but without gilding the pill: «The contrast between the modernized dialogues and the language appropriate for the Jane Austen era makes both styles even more affected». Los Angeles Times adds to the dose: «It seems that the sentences are taken from an Instagram filter, with those catchy and random word generators, those idiot bots that do online summaries ». She ruined, second Slatenot just Jane Austen “but all her modern heirs, from Cher Horowitz to Bridget Jones.”
The series of negative, not to mention nefarious, criticisms continues because – according to critical comments and the first reactions of the public – the commercial operation of refreshing a classic (the concept itself is chilling) has undergone the boomerang effectlike those fifty-year-olds who mimic teenagers in the disco, without being aware of how ridiculous they may seem to the eyes of the boys.
TO Sky News the 32-year-old actress partner of Chris Martin comments: «I understand that some people may not be happy with this modernization but it’s a cover, you don’t have to listen to it loud, it’s an artists interpretation of a masterpiece. Like it or not, there are different tastes for different books ».
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Source: Vanity Fair
