Me too!!!! I love it so much, though I have seen all of the other versions I could never narrow my favourite down to one, they all have their strengths and weaknesses. But I adore Kate as Emma!!

agreed!

Same 🤣

Badly down 😂

Oh I bet emma is very naughty in the bedroom 😏

I lost count. This is THE one movie that I can watch forever. Like if I am allowed to watch just one movie, this will be the one...

PurplePinkHearts I did. We’ve been together over 40 years.

@@fizzao1342 How wonderful! I am hoping and praying I will get married to mine. :)

Or the richer man.

@@lizclegg7556 ideally, he'd be both !!!

Actually the lesson is, use your brain and your morals to choose the better man, whether he is older or younger.

Regina McIlvain--I quite agree.

I agree. It's a perfectly lovely version. He plays Knightley perfectly and she has Emma down pat. I cannot tolerate that clown version out now.

@@onemercilessming1342 Totally agree.

This came right out of my imagination. The book came live to me.

He is so abominably selfish that he makes me want to kick his teeth in. I don't get why anyone loves him, he's unbearable!

@@ffeff8353 He is senile and is unable to understand the significance of marriage. That's why everyone humors him. In the book, Emma and Mr. Knightley both know that he cannot be left alone and that he cannot be moved to Knightley's house. So Knightley moves into Emma's house.

@@ffeff8353 Exactly.

He might be afraid Emma will die having a baby. Mr. Woodhouse has anxiety.

.....meaning the unguarded chickens of course, silly....lol

Lmao

Totally agree.

You're not that far. Watch the movie Clueless, which is a modern (during the 90s) take on Emma.

Kate Beckinsale is a very good actress, but I would hardly describe Emma Woodhouse as hated. Emma Woodhouse begins by thinking she is queen of all she surveys, finds out that she has competition and is under threat, and then grows up and learns to protect her position.

@@lizclegg7556 I totally agree with you Emma Woodhouse is the best and sometimes the worst and she is Queen of all she surveys to me.

Great observations!

Yes the couples must have worked hard, as their dancing was both elegant and natural & totally in tune with the time.

I don't understand the father not wanting his daughter to marry- was the chicken thing a joke?

Absolutely. My favourite too, forever and ever. It's just the way I imagined the book. The book came to live...

I like the wedding scene. 99 % of the movie they r not a couple so I appreciate more time showing them as a couple in love and a United front and shows Emma matured in her views regarding miss smith and mr Martin and being a real friend and being a leader in the community on how to treat others.

I completely agree with you!

I suppose in this case it was for the best anyway, Jane Austen made it pretty clear that neither Harriet nor Emma actually benefited intellectually or character-wise from being friends. Aside from learning a few more refinements to her manners, Harriet was only puffed up and influenced by Emma's snobbery to act against her own best interests, and Emma's arrogance got worse as Harriet was her yes-man and did whatever she said.

Dubbel Henke. I agree. The engagement party at the end was not in the book but everything else was done perfectly according to the book. Although I enjoyed the engagement party scene, I don’t think anyone in the landowning “station” at that time would have deigned to include the farmers and the peasants in with the estate owner and the upper crust-this was clearly modern democratic ideas imposed on an early 19th century scene. But it made a nice ending and showed that Mr. Knightly and Emma were generous people.

@@candyapple7445 Word. I also love this version; the scene where Emma is scolded for behaving cruelly to Miss Bates is - although she deserved it - so touching. She is ashamed of herself, regretting her actions, but her heart aches for being told off by the man she loves. A wonderful scene indeed, don't you think?

@@dubbelhenke854 Oh, yes! That’s where I first noticed how sexy Mr. Knightly was! 😉

I don’t know much about societal norms from this time and place. But I would assume if Mr. Knightley could consider Robert Martin a friend, then the wife of Mr. Knightley could consider the wife of Robert Martin a friend.

She was really good as Mrs Hurst!

It does seem like the same 20-30 British actors appear in nearly every period drama.

I love to play this game too! Every time we see a period drama my sister cannot bare it !😂

Ditto 😊

. . . And isn't mrs Weston, played by the aunt of the Crawley sisters in Downton Abbey? The aunt with the auburn hair. . Maggie Smith's daughter? I am useless with faces, but I'm like a savant with voices, and I recognized her voice immediately.

And also taller, darker, and more direct, forceful and masculine as well.

I prefer Johnny Flynn's portrayal...much more accessible with the mixture of manliness, vulnerability and humour. I could believe his Mr. Knightley loved Emma; not so convincing in this adaptation.

Not as weird as it would be today. I think back then people matured earlier than they do today in some aspects.

and both of them look so much alike !!!!!!

They look so alike! How?! HOW?? 😵😯☺️

I know I spotted that too!!! Isn't that funny

@@mv5375 They really do, in sex education they did just a great job casting them together

Relatives!!!!

Yes I like him.. Johnny Lee Miller was my favorite

I much prefer the Paltrow version to this one...the picnic scene by itself in this one put me off completely. So overdone, so not what a picnic of that time in that milieu would have been!

I liked Jeremy too but I think Mark Strong is the "manliest" of all of them. We're running out of men.

I thought it was pretty bad, not bad as I expected. Bitchiest and nastiest Emma I have ever seen, and an oddly febrile Mr Knightley and uninteresting Frank Churchill, but the Box Hill humiliation of Miss Bates is well done.

@@lizclegg7556 In the original Jane Austen book, Emma Woodhouse does come across as being snobbish, not to mention that she was always poking her nose into other people's buisiness.

@@dtaylor4552 Snobbish and interfering yes, but bitchy and nasty no.

I thought it was very funny, a new take on the story, definitely more comedy. And the scene where ah e slights Miss Bates was definitely the best. Emma is a good person but she is also very snobbish.

The 2020 version has my heart although I can see why it might not appeal to Austen purists. I adore it though! The cast, the acting, the soundtrack, etc are all just delightful.

Mr Knightly is kind of rough-mannered in the book anyway--but I might be a bit biased, I do love a grumpy romantic hero haha

I love him in this version. He seems so authentic. The other actors sounded all the time like reading the script in from of the camera with no talent... so I would rather have Mark Strong shouting and passionate

I can't unsee it now

@@schoo9256 either can i😭

lizashush : Agreed. I always felt Robert Martin’s return to Harriet was Austen’s effort to redeem Emma. It’s more realistic for Harriet to be left out alone and disappointed. I like how this film portrays Emma as accepting the Martins though I don’t think it’s true to the book.

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@@amasion2882 It's strange, but I always felt that Mr Knightley went out of his way to put Emma's right to wrong. From the way they were written, Mr Martin and Mr Knightley didn't have a typical dynamic for the time. Mr Martin thought very highly of Mr Knightley and went out of his way to ask for his advice on Harriet. Meaning, if Mr Knightley encouraged it, and promised that Emma wouldn't meddle this time around; Mr Knightley would've mostly likely encouraged him to try once more.

😐 I think you need to re-read the book. Emma never cared about who’s with who. She found self-satisfaction in matchmaking when she got success the first time, and wanted to do more of it. After Mr. Elton confessed his feelings to Emma, she resolved not to matchmake anymore, because it all went wrong. --- (Chapter 1) “I planned the match from that hour; and when such success has blessed me in this instance, dear papa, you cannot think that I shall leave off match-making.” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (Chapter 16) The first error and the worst lay at her door. It was foolish, it was wrong, to take so active a part in bringing any two people together. It was adventuring too far, assuming too much, making light of what ought to be serious, a trick of what ought to be simple. She was quite concerned and ashamed, and resolved to do such things no more. “Here have I,” said she, “actually talked poor Harriet into being very much attached to this man. She might never have thought of him but for me; and certainly never would have thought of him with hope, if I had not assured her of his attachment, for she is as modest and humble as I used to think him. Oh! that I had been satisfied with persuading her not to accept young Martin. There I was quite right. That was well done of me; but there I should have stopped, and left the rest to time and chance. ---