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The Austen Photo-Recap Chronicles; Emma

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I had a blast watching that movie and now a blast reading this. Poor Miss Bates. (so fabulously played by Miranda Hart though)

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Ah, Emma, our favourite spoiled rich girl with a heart of gold. There’s been a bit of a resurgence of love for our girl due to the awesome new adaptation that’s been keeping people swooning in their self-isolation.

You guys, I love the BBC version with Romola Garai and Jonny Lee Miller to an embarrassing degree. I’ve watched it so many times that I can recreate the exact cadence in which Mr. Knightley says, “badly done.” Buuuuuuuuuuuut, it’s 4 hours long, and even though we’re all overrun with time right now, I shall respect your attention spans.

Plus, the newest adaptation really is quite dreamy.

The movie opened with our girl Emma dragging her servants out in the wee hours to pick the perfect bouquet of flowers for her ex-governess who was about to be married.

This whole situation set up the Woodhouse family perfectly. Yes, Emma and her father…

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I saw the new version of Emma at the movies last night! It was good. BEAUTIFUL scenery and costumes, oh my gosh.

I’ve said this before but I never really warmed to Emma the character. I was much more a Miss Bates and Harriet Smith kind of person. And both of them were perfect in this! So that was nice.

Honestly, Miranda Hart is absolutely perfect casting for Miss Bates. There literally couldn’t have been anyone better.

Her big important scene (you know the one if you’ve read the book) was wonderfully acted too.

Gotta admit, I did actually like Emma the person more in this than in the book. Her moment of ur, I guess these days we’d call it cancellation was well done and it made me feel for her. But start saying thank you to your servants for god’s sake! It was so annoying to me that none of the upper-class characters ever did that.