1. Film Adaptation - Sense and Sensibility
... Edward's reading, Thompson dramatizes the scene in which he reads a poem by William Cowper. Thompson also invents a scene in which Marianne and Willoughby read Shakespeare's Sonnet 116. After Willoughby jilts her, a tearful Marianne is filmed repeating the sonnet mournfully while gazing down on Combe Magna. As Emma Thompson attest in her diaries (1995) the language is important but that the screenwriter cannot use ... ...
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