I have read all of Jane Austen's novels several times.
Although Pride and Prejudice (1995) is my favorite adaptation of the novel, Andrew Davies has not always written good scripts. He tries to "sex up" his adaptations and includes plot spoilers. Darcy is not supposed to be shown looking in London for Wickham until Lydia reveals that he was at her wedding. Sense & Sensibility (2008) shows Willoughby having sex with Eliza at the beginning! We are not supposed to know that Willoughby is a seducer and cad until Col. Brandon reveals the truth.
Northanger Abbey (2007) implies that Captain Frederic Tilney had sex with Isabella Thorpe (she is nude under the bed sheets). Isabella was a gold digger and she would never have sex before marriage in that era. Jane Austen certainly never implied that. Catherine Morland has a dream sequence where she is in a bathtub and she later stands up nude in front of Henry Tilney. That never occurred in the novel. None of the film was shot in Bath. I would rate Northanger Abbey (2007) as a 5.
Northanger Abbey (1987) is not perfect. The Marchioness and the pageboy are not needed. The music is not period appropriate, although I do like it, especially at the end. I'm glad that much of the film is shot in Bath, although it is inaccurate to show the Roman Baths because those were not discovered in that era. The dream sequences clearly show that Catherine is obsessed with The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe. I've never read that novel but I have a 46 page graphic comic that tells the story. Katharine Schlesinger is good for the role of Catherine (their names are almost the same!). Peter Firth is good as the witty Henry and I especially like the way he teases her. I like his speech (mostly from the novel) when he suspects that Catherine thinks that General Tilney murdered Henry's mother. I like his argument with the General near the end of the movie. However, my favorite scene is at the end when the beautiful music is playing, Henry and Catherine talk, and a tear falls from her eye when he kisses her.
Anyone who voted 1 for this movie has not seen Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966) or Robot Monster (1953). Those movies deserve a 1. I consider those voters too extreme. I don't think this movie deserves a 10 either, so I'm giving it a 7.
Although Pride and Prejudice (1995) is my favorite adaptation of the novel, Andrew Davies has not always written good scripts. He tries to "sex up" his adaptations and includes plot spoilers. Darcy is not supposed to be shown looking in London for Wickham until Lydia reveals that he was at her wedding. Sense & Sensibility (2008) shows Willoughby having sex with Eliza at the beginning! We are not supposed to know that Willoughby is a seducer and cad until Col. Brandon reveals the truth.
Northanger Abbey (2007) implies that Captain Frederic Tilney had sex with Isabella Thorpe (she is nude under the bed sheets). Isabella was a gold digger and she would never have sex before marriage in that era. Jane Austen certainly never implied that. Catherine Morland has a dream sequence where she is in a bathtub and she later stands up nude in front of Henry Tilney. That never occurred in the novel. None of the film was shot in Bath. I would rate Northanger Abbey (2007) as a 5.
Northanger Abbey (1987) is not perfect. The Marchioness and the pageboy are not needed. The music is not period appropriate, although I do like it, especially at the end. I'm glad that much of the film is shot in Bath, although it is inaccurate to show the Roman Baths because those were not discovered in that era. The dream sequences clearly show that Catherine is obsessed with The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe. I've never read that novel but I have a 46 page graphic comic that tells the story. Katharine Schlesinger is good for the role of Catherine (their names are almost the same!). Peter Firth is good as the witty Henry and I especially like the way he teases her. I like his speech (mostly from the novel) when he suspects that Catherine thinks that General Tilney murdered Henry's mother. I like his argument with the General near the end of the movie. However, my favorite scene is at the end when the beautiful music is playing, Henry and Catherine talk, and a tear falls from her eye when he kisses her.
Anyone who voted 1 for this movie has not seen Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966) or Robot Monster (1953). Those movies deserve a 1. I consider those voters too extreme. I don't think this movie deserves a 10 either, so I'm giving it a 7.