emma – Spitfire Alice A Gra

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birdhapley:

#Area Man Briefly Considers Confessing Deep and Profound Love For Best Friend In Order to Win Argument (via @taxicabsandcupcakes)

@wildehacked did you know John Lee Miller was in an Austen film?

DID I KNOW

JONNY LEE MILLER

WAS IN AN AUSTEN FILM

First of all, this is a miniseries, and second of all, I have seen this miniseries ten or twelve times, because it is the BEST Jane Austen miniseries!

It’s tied with the Emma Thompson Sense & Sensibility as my Favorite Jane Austen adaptation, probably???

It’s on Amazon Prime, and I HIGHLY recommend it–Romola Garai slays as an Emma you can both easily fall in love with AND easily reconcile that with her snobbery and her occasional cruelty–like, this is a true-to-the-material Emma who you can SEE came to us by way of Clueless–and Jonny Lee Miller is amazing as Knightley. There are some Knightleys out there who are kind of moralizing, because a lot of the time Knightley is RIGHT and Emma is WRONG, and the viewer knows it even if Emma doesn’t, and there’s this like, weird pedagogical bent to the romance? yeah, that’s not the vibe here. The vibe here is BANTER. You can see that Knightley and Emma really enjoy arguing with each other, even when they both get so passionately worked up about the argument that they’re legitimately mad about it, and it does a lot to keep them on the same level, to me–JLM’s Knightley gets red-faced and irritated just when Romola Garai’s Emma is spluttering and frustrated, and if it weren’t for the fact that there are other people around, they’d easily fall into the kinds of shouting matches that end with somebody pressed up against a wall being soundly kissed. Like, LOOK AT THE GIFSET–they spend the whole miniseries arguing with each other, and therein lieth the romance of it all.

Anyway I love JLM and I love Romola Garai and I love this miniseries and everyone should watch it instantly, thank u for your time

Source: austenchanted

ouatrunway:

Beautiful Cloaks

This show has so many incredible cloaks. They are absolutely a highlight for me when watching – I have been known to loudly coo when a particularly sublime one appears on screen.

I think it’s remarkable how much effort and attention is put into the costumes for even minor costumes. The little cloak that Grace (the Mad Hatter’s) daughter wears is absolutely beautiful, as is the fur-lined cloak that Merida’s mother wears. And they’re only seen on screen for barely a few minutes each!

My favourite cloaks are probably Belle’s from season 1 and the pink cloak that Princess Eva wears when eavesdropping on Cora (it just has such exquisite beading along the edge). I also love the heavily textured cloak worn by the Dark Ones – it looks almost like animal skin.