The controversy that surrounds the transformation between Clueless directed by Amy Heckerling and Emma by Jane Austen is immense. Critics argue that Clueless is a "dumbing down" of Emma, reducing a timeless classic to a degrading, superficial and hardly distinguishable adaptation, taking away from ... ...

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The film Clueless, written and directed by Amy Heckerling, is an version of Jane Austen's book Emma and strongly parallel the story in conditions of character progress and accomplishment. Even though Emma was written in 1816 and developed ... ...

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