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The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay & Diaries (Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film)
The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay Diaries - Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film Author:Emma Thompson Bringing Jane Austen's Sense & Sensibility to the screen has been a labor of love. Vividly described by the producer, Lindsay Doran,in her introduction, the process has taken fifteen years to come to frutation. In Emma Thompson, Doran found her ideal scriptwriter, since Emma Thompson already had a lifelong passion for the novels of Jane Austen a... more »nd a natural gift for writing, which Doran first recognized when she caught reruns of a comic British television series that Thompson had written. With characters rigor and determination, Emma Thompson set about the job, between acting in many films and picking up an Academy Award en route. The script took her five years to complete. It is unusual for an actress to write a screenplay. It is even more unusual that she should also publish a detailed domestic account of the making of the film in which she played a leading role.« less