As smart and witty as Austen-via-Thompson's language is in the film, Lee's subtle and sensitive direction is expressive enough that you could likely follow this film with the sound off - or dubbed into a foreign language. The vast majority of the story unfolds through what characters don't say to each other and the way their behavior negates what they do manage to say. Lee's direction of Sense and Sensibility takes that principle and essentially turns it up to 11. Any screenwriting teacher worth his or her salt will tell you that movie storytelling is "all about subtext," because that is basically how people in real life talk to each other. It was initially thought of as some sort of novelty to hire the Taiwan-born filmmaker as the director of such a distinctly British story, but Lee's understanding of the way people behave within societies that have strict social codes seems to put him right in his wheelhouse with this material. Writer and star Emma Thompson's airtight script, which rightly won the Adapted Screenplay Oscar, is beautifully realized by director Ang Lee ( Brokeback Mountain). While this film might not have the cult following of that BBC Pride and Prejudice or Amy Heckerling's semi-irreverent Clueless, it holds up exceedingly well twenty years after its initial release. Sense and Sensibility arrived during the Jane Austen mini-boom that somewhat permeated movies and TV in the mid-to-late '90s and has persisted to a lesser degree ever since. I because I conceal nothing, and you because you communicate nothing.
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