It’s such a tone-deaf device, demonstrating so little sensitivity to the delicate precision of Austen’s writing, that you wonder why she didn’t just go the whole hog and bung in some comedy trombone quacks and an audience laugh track.
Cracknell beefs up the humour by having Johnson repeatedly make winking eye contact with the camera. Dakota Johnson as Anne Elliot in Persuasion. JDakota Johnson as Anne Elliott in 'Persuasion.' Nick Wall/Netflix One of the most important things to happen in Persuasion, Carrie Cracknell’s new Netflix adaptation of Jane. Who is cast in Persuasion Dakota Johnson, who has recently starred in well-received indies like The Peanut Butter Falcon and Our Friend, and is more widely known to have been the lead of the 50 Shades of Grey film series, has been announced to play the lead as Anne Elliot. But now, with fortunes reversed, they meet again. Anne Elliot (Dakota Johnson) was persuaded not to marry the then penniless Frederick Wentworth ( Cosmo Jarvis) seven years before. The gauzy melancholy of Austen’s story about lost loves reunited is mothballed in favour of a sassy romcom reading of the material. In character: Dakota Johnson was seen playing Anne Elliot for the first time as she donned a white shirt and long black dress while filming for Netflixs Persuasion with co-star Nikki Amuka-Bird. But this adaptation of Jane Austen’s Persuasion, by the theatre director Carrie Cracknell, from a screenplay by Ron Bass and Alice Victoria Winslow, is a travesty. Greta Gerwig’s Little Women handled the balance elegantly and The Personal History of David Copperfield, in the hands of Armando Iannucci, matched irreverent humour with respect for Charles Dickens’s classic. T he sweet spot for period literary adaptations is to combine an instinct for the spirit of the original work with a distinctively modern sensibility.
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