5/27/2023 0 Comments Persuasion dakota johnson![]() ![]() Movies Why the creators of ‘Persuasion’ put a contemporary spin on Jane Austen’s classic But she would have to be playing someone other than Anne Elliot, the oldest, wisest and scarcely most accident-prone of Austen heroines. To be more charitable still: A movie in which Johnson falls on her face, upends a gravy boat over her head and climbs the stairs grumpily nursing a bottle of wine might be a source of some theoretical amusement. ![]() No movie that finds Dakota Johnson modeling high-waisted frocks against the Lyme Regis seawall or the lush Somersetshire countryside could be called a complete waste of time. Like even the lousiest Regency-era frippery, it has its intermittent pleasures, most of them visual. To clarify the obvious - something the movie under review today has no problem doing - the “A” excerpts are from Jane Austen’s magnificent novel “Persuasion.” The “B” excerpts are from the movie, which I suppose you could also call “Persuasion,” insofar as it appears to have lifted sentences from the novel and fed them through some kind of Instagram-filtering, catchphrase-generating, text-summarizing idiot bot. ![]()
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