Sense & Sensibility (1995) Scene

Colonel Brandon's proposal to allow Edward Ferrars and Lucy Steele to marry. With English Subtitles.

[@robertwatford7425]

You have to admire the sheer, steel, nuts of Ang Lee to do a scene that is so pivotal as a two minute master shot without cut-aways or close-ups and the talent of the two leads to be able to carry off the pacing and convey so much energy by barely moving and almost whispering. A Masterclass in filmmaking from one of my favorite films.

[@skyciele]

why does he do that though

[@lisakaz35]

I like how Grant oddly taps his foot. Not sure it it's to evoke a nervous tick or pacing in his lines (or both).

[@jrtg1990]

​@@lisakaz35it's just Hugh Grant being Hugh Grant imo😂 he does that weird walk a lot in other movies

[@sophiat8250]

literally sought out the video to make this exact comment

[@dagenn7904]

Elinor's little grimace at 3:07 as she watches Edward walk out of her life forever (she believes) is simply astonishing in how in one gesture is captured her struggle to remain proper, gracious and composed in the face of such anguish and heartbreak. For me, Emma Thompson deserved the Oscar for that alone.

[@Lampritch]

You can also see Edward's torn feelings at 3:09. He's come, albeit willingly, to the one person he really wants to see, expectng to hear her reproach him and to stammer out an apology, only to hear her present the offer of a parish which (next to her) he craves most. Like Willoughby, he'll have the situation in life he desires but not the person.

[@CeltycSparrow]

It makes her joy at the end all the sweeter when she can finally have him.

[@theresabollman8061]

An example of real love. She still wants the best for him even though she so wants him for her own.

[@theresabollman8061]

@@jasonbaileystudent9088 Thank You, Jason.

[@doveandpatch]

Yes, but it also protects her from by showing her as less interested in Edward than her acquaintances once thought she was. She could hardly tell Col. Brandon to not give him the living without requiring further explanation, even refusing to be the one who informed Edward of the opportunity would have required explanation.

[@theresabollman8061]

@@doveandpatch Yes, thats true.

[@laceandribbonsviolin]

Also knowing that his promise to Miss Steele meant he would make a faithful husband must have cut her inwardly - because she valued faithfulness even when she didn’t get to be the person he was faithful to, because it meant that if she was on the receiving end of his faithfulness she could trust him to be loyal forever. A double-edged sword

[@o0OHermioneO0o]

"As you know, I am no orator." Dude, you're about to be a clergyman. Practice!😅 Jane Austen really had a thing for tongue-tied male leads.😂

[@harringt100]

Isn't there a line where he talks about "giving very short sermons?" I can't remember if it's in the book or only in one of the adaptions or which one.

[@plutonianshores13]

@@harringt100 I haven't read the book but in this film yes, he says that exact line!

[@rowanaforrest9792]

I think Edward will be a charming clergyman with short sermons that no one minds sitting through. Also, I suspect he won't wear a wig! :D

[@angelwhispers2060]

The entire point of Jane Austen's novels was for girls to get the understanding that they should be more careful about the men that are overly Charming that they were likely to be Fortune hunters or fraudsters or gamesters. And a man who is a bit tongue-tied a little messed up in his social manners was better than a man who could charm everyone in the room but have no loyalty or morals.

[@susanweber6861]

I thought the same thing lol, some preacher you’ll make

[@jollybadger227]

You can hear her heart breaking when she says "you will always have it."

[@jingarosm]

At 02:46, it's even more obvious "That is more important than ...anything else"

[@thejessifar4619]

Something about this situation I loved that's only mentioned in the book is that, though the parish provided a living for Edward, it was a very small amount and not enough for a couple to live on. But when Edward was engaged to Elinor, his sister (Fanny, Elinor's sister-in-law) convinced their mother to give them a small fortune rather than cut him off entirely. Considering that Elinor was the most polite out of all the Dashwoods to her when she arrived at the beginning of the story, and was willing to marry Edward despite lack of fortune, Elinor gained Fanny's approval. It showed more character depth for Fanny, and more conflict resolution.

[@kahkah1986]

Plus, she did really care about Edward. He is her favorite brother. She was protecting him at the beginning from Elinor, because she assumed Elinor was after the money when they were penniless, and she is probably still thinking of Edward at the end, she doesn't want him to be poor.

[@harringt100]

@@kahkah1986 Would have shown more genunine character for Fanny to persuade John to finally honor his promise to the late Mr. Dashwood. But I guess some intervention is better than none.

[@kahkah1986]

@@harringt100 Yeah, but like I said, she really doesn't care about the Dashwoods, she doesn't care about Elinor, just Edward. She did it for Edward, not Elinor. And it isn't her money in the way the Norland/ Dashwood inheritance is now her money, she's fine with getting Mrs Ferrars to deal with the problem her initial selfishness created.

[@harringt100]

@@kahkah1986 That's why I say it would have shown more character development to have John help them. It's not an actual sacrifice of hers to persuade Mrs. Ferrars to do (a little bit) right by Edward.

[@jmarie9997]

Honestly, I believe Fanny's main motive was to keep Robert and Lucy from getting any more money from their mother. It's must have seemed ironic that Robert was rewarded with an inheritance then ended up marrying the woman Edward was disinherited for.

[@hl-nz3go]

Can't imagine such generosity nowadays. Kindness is often sadly mistaken for foolishness.

[@marxjenn1]

As is sacrifice

[@littlesongbird1]

Yes but Colonel Brandon was punished by his family for wanting to follow his heart so I no doubt he felt bad for Edward.

[@carlotta4th]

Keep in mind every protagonist in Jane Austen stories is still *way* better off than everyone else even when they're 'destitute.' But millionaires are still kind to their friends--it's just that ordinary people aren't caught up in those social circles.

[@serenaqiang6353]

One of the most touching scenes in the movie. Heartbreaking and heart-warming.

[@Lanallaby]

***** I know for some reason this is one of my favourite scenes! Such compassion for each other

[@12classics39]

For a solid 2 minutes, not a single movement from the camera. Just a still focus on two phenomenal actors, letting them do their thing.

[@7BD273]

2:01 love the subtle foot tap of Edward's after Elinor says the Colonel is the kindest and best of men.

[@Roguefem76]

I suspect he was wondering if Elinor was romantically involved with Colonel Brandon, and to him her answer seemed like confirmation.

[@joyfairclough4686]

That flinch she makes at 3:06 is heartbreaking and my favourite bit of acting in the whole film. It's such a tiny moment but so enormous.

[@tipyourwaiter]

"Your friendship has been the most important of my life." "You will always have it." The subtext! Such great writing and acting.

[@lukasmiller486]

I would have said "It is Lucy's friendship that must be most important to you now."

[@12classics39]

Indeed. The only way they can admit their love in this impossible situation.

[@jmarie9997]

We watched this in the theater. The tension was so great, we didn't know whether to laugh, cry, or scream, "Somebody do something!"

[@elle_na619]

I like this movie better than the book simply because of Emma Thompson portrayal of Elinor is astonishing, the ending scene when Edward proposed to her and she finally break down in tears hit me hard in the feels, made me cried with her too 😢 I even like this more than any Pride & Prejudice adaptations Although for the book I like P&P better than S&S

[@dzonbrodi514]

Yeah, it's the best straight adaptation of any Austen novel by far, and one of those rare occasions when the film is better than the book (another being The Godfather). The epynomic opposition that works so well in the book of P&P of pitting Darcy against Elizabeth doesn't work so well with Elinor and Marianne as the characters are far less well developed as real people, and are palpably metaphorical polarities; Elinor is a bit too saintly and pragmatic, and Marianne is a bit too tiresome and affected. By contrast Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet are both charming in different ways, and the casting is perfectly judged in other characters. Hugh Grant is just right as the well meaning but easily manipulated Edward, Greg Wise exerts exactly the right kind of vacuously plausible charisma, Elizabeth Spriggs is vulgar and annoying when she needs to be, but also patently good-hearted, Imogen Stubbs is on the ball as the scheming and silly Lucy, Alan Rickman is entirely believable as the man whose kindness and dependability make him a good romantic fallback and Hugh Laurie steals every scene he is in.

[@jwyatt631]

I read somewhere that Emma Thompson wrote and revised the screenplay over a period of about five years. The screenplay was good enough to win the Oscar for Best Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published.

[@cindycain3301]

Almost 30 years ago, and I remember it as if it were yesterday.

[@ЛюдмилаАнтипина-у8ы]

Как она любит! И как старается перевести это чувство в дружбу,чтобы видет его....и скрывает от всех своё страдание! Игра актёров прекрасна.

[@nettyabbott5412]

Absolutely Love Emma Thompson .no other actress can outdo her nor a kinder person would we ever know. 🦋💕

[@sweetnoriah]

Brandon was genius...Lucy didn't want a simple clergyman..she wanted money. and was proved right.

[@rayzhong8542]

sweetnoriah What makes him a genius? Do you mean that he offers Edward his parish to test if Lucy is sincere?

[@jdkloosterman9379]

I believe that's Sweetnoriah's point, yes, that he gives the parish to see if Lucy will desert a poor working man. I don't buy it, though. Lucy would be if anything quicker to drop a penniless man with no job than she would a steadily employed clergyman. Brandon didn't know Edward--or Lucy. He just recognized that they were in a situation like what he'd been in, and he wanted to help.

[@lisakaz35]

Makes me wonder if Brandon had any idea that Elinor was interested in Edward.

[@harringt100]

@@lisakaz35 I don't think so. The only reason he would have to suspect that is Mrs. Jennings's jokes and he probably regarded those as nonsense. And if he had thought she was, it seems uncharacteristically inconsiderate of him to make her meet with Edward like this.

[@jmarie9997]

@@jdkloosterman9379 yes, Brandon's motive was to assist a man who was being unjustly treated. He believed Edward was truly attached to Lucy, and wanted to help him.

[@twelfthlady847]

I swear if you listen closely it sounds like she says "Dude, please sit down." 😆

[@serenaqiang6353]

I also like the way you have the subtitle to such well-written script!

[@WakandaBabe]

When he says "Forgive me."

[@zhannageskin3304]

Wonderful movie and talented actors!!!!

[@Ceares]

One of my absolute favorite movies and I rewatch the 30 minutes over and over. I don't know what makes me happier, how very happy Elinor and Edward will be or how very miserable the Ferrars will be with Lucy married to Robert.

[@Lampritch]

In the book, they're all happy with Lucy -- who strives to charm all of them, however insincerely, and mostly succeeds. One of them, actually.

[@elizabeths.8683]

The importance of honoring one’s marriage engagement is such a major plot point in Sense and Sensibility, it really sheds a lot of light on Mr. Wickam’s and Mary King’s cancelled engagement in Pride and Prejudice. Anyone with more sense than Lydia Bennett would have instantly realized that Wickam’s engagement being broken off was a giant red flag.

[@Evi19Black]

I am so glad that eduard got his dream At the beginning he said that he desires this life

[@tuoedisny]

I like that she wears the same dress as back then. And that woman in the picture between them...

[@snow2555]

Jane Austen might not be around for a very long time indeed but she still gives me life :*)

[@Blue8spiral]

Wow, I almost cried watching that.

[@StrangeFacinations]

She plays his love interest in this movie then his older sister in Love Actually.

[@majoragooden7142]

My God. I feel you, Elinor

[@gypsygirltarot2451]

this is true love that she is so selfless

[@terencehennegan1439]

1:56...being given a parish one would think it would bring a great sense of joy and satisfaction, but when she responds to (colonel Brandon must be a man of great worth and respectability ) yes he is the kindest and best of men, it dampens his satisfaction as if it means nothing to what his heart truly desires. What was in his head when he left that room, the mind boggles, not a clue in sight.

[@austenmemes8901]

amazing scene!

[@pershop4950]

She said she is a friend and he said her friendship was important to him. Both of these two people did not confess anything to the other.

[@letitbeenow]

Subtext, darling.

[@LovelyPeach40]

Love this movie most men didnt look at clothes or body but your mind. Sweet

[@gunnelaxelsson3226]

My god it has to have been so uncomfortable to sit on such low chairs all the time. 😂 I'm glad we changed that with time.

[@lukasmiller486]

“Your friendship has been the most important of my life.” If I were Eleanor, I would have said “It is Lucy’s friendship that must be most important to you now, Edward.”

[@falconeshield]

People are selfish. She didn't want to let go of the one thing (in her mind) she shared with him

[@Lampritch]

But she didn't...

[@CheryleThomas]

It has subtitles how do I get ride of them

[@karmahadid]

At least he kept his promise to lucy to marry her

[@bell-xk5dd]

Is it fair that he should keep his promise whereas Lucy can break hers?

[@katherinegraham3803]

@@bell-xk5dd No, it's not fair, but it did work out for him in the end. Keeping his promise to Lucy is what caused his family to disinherit him. The fact that his family disinherited him is why Lucy dumped him for his brother. The fact that Lucy dumped him for his brother is what allowed Edward to marry Elinor.

[@jennifermusgrove6711]

While the subtitles were nice, they were not word-for-word. And perhaps that the words that were omitted didn't really change the meaning, I thought the purpose of subtitles were to have everything that is said in a readable format....

[@rowanaforrest9792]

This was badly subtitled. It is supposed to be work-for-word. Many words and phrases are missing. This is one of my favorite movies so I've watched it a lot and don't need the subtitles, but since I couldn't get rid of them, I noticed the poor quality.

[@dianedenham5259]

Yes, I came looking for a comment addressing the subtitles, so many missing words and phrases. 🤔

[@susampson278]

Quality of audio is terrible

[@teddy9770]

The dresses back then were terribly unflattering.

[@Lanallaby]

lool i have to agree!

[@AnnaMarianne]

Teddy 97 But the dresses of this period seem to have been the only comfortable clothes women got to wear after the Middle Ages! I'd certainly rather wear these than anything before or after.

[@teresarivasugaz2313]

NO! Blessed be the Empire silhouette, the only dresses that look good on me are the ones with really high waists, I'd thrived in the Regency era, fashion-wise 😭

[@katherinegraham3803]

I can't help but think they look very elegant from the front and undeniably goofy from the back. And I'd still take them over the fashion that came in the following decades.

[@Lampritch]

@@katherinegraham3803 Better than low-rise jeans, for sure

[@alisonfaulkner47]

I always saw more chemistry with her and Brandon. Not much with these 2. Odd I guess but heck I was team Aiden on SATC too.

[@katherinegraham3803]

I see it too. They're both shown as principled and emotionally reserved people who still feel deeply, although they may not always show it. In a different world, I can imagine the characters being very happy together.

[@irenescott3108]

I have a question relating to the offer from col. Brandon. Latter in the book after Edward proposes to Elinor he goes to visit col. Brandon about the living yet Jane Austen writes that Edward had been angry about the colonel’s offer. I’d like to know why he was angry. Do you know why?

[@gillianstapleton7741]

I think it's because he assumes, at this point in the story, that Colonel Brandon is interested in Elinor. Only later does he realise that his annoyance is misplaced.

[@lucibonannevinte9200]

Eles se casam no final? Não lembro

[@cheryls.5251]

The whole movie please

[@karengerber8390]

@ Cheryl S The entire movie is currently available, on KZbin. 08:56, CDT; Wednesday 20 July 2022

[@lam-tue.nguyen]

awwhh this is so depressing.... that look on his face damn.......

[@shinjineesen400]

I don't think Edward Ferrars deserves Elinor Dashwood. I just read a fanfiction where she rejects his proposal after hisvsecret fiancee Lucy Steele marries his brother Robert. Elinor has good friends - notably Sir John Middleton and his mother in law Mrs Jennings - who have assisted her mother and her. She comes to realize that Edward Ferrars, a man who has been secretly engaged to a worthless female, is not the best match she could make. She is not desperate enough to take him. Furthermore, she has grown to despise the Ferrars family including Fanny Dashwood nee Ferrars The fanfiction brings together different characters from different Austen novels. It is incomplete and we don't know who the Dashwood sisters will marry.

[@Lampritch]

If you want to get into that, you could construe a situation where Elinor becomes entangled with Mr. Palmer (Mrs. Jennings' stiff son-in-law, hilariously portrayed by Hugh Laurie in the film); he's contemptuous of his wife but in the one scene when Charlotte's not there to annoy him, he drops his caustic demeanour and is kind to Elinor, endeavouring to arrange the best doctor he knows to help her sister. It's also not hard to imagine Willoughby haunting Marianne -- as Mrs. Brandon, a more enticing target than ever. Then again, Jane Austen was not concerned about the royalties from sequels.

[@tal-ux8fu5he6l]

מראה לו שהיא סולחת לו על כל דבר, ויש פה רק ידידות, הבטחה חשובה אם רוצים לקיים אותה, ולא כשמשהו הישתנה

[@themermaidstale5008]

If Edward Faris looks uncomfortable most of the time, it must be due to those clothes; they are gawd awful! They don’t fit him. See how it puckers in the back above his shoulders.

[@andreluischavescamaraocama4693]

Um diálogo tão feroz presente no filme razão e sensibilidade... Ang Lee reduz á um monólogo de teatro... Tirando toda a emoção de uma cena caso fosse dirigido por James Ivory, de Retorno á Howards End... Nossa, levaria o espectador ás lágrimas!😄. Mais na mão de Ang Lee, diluiu- se em água com açúcar!

[@cat_pb]

Tenho de discordar, Ang Lee fez um trabalho maravilhoso!

[@andreluischavescamaraocama4693]

@@cat_pb eu já achei caricato,a Direção dele neste Razão e Sensibilidade. O que salvou o filme foi o roteiro de Emma Thompson e lógico, as atuações do contidas no filme. Mais, essa é a minha opinião!😄. Até a próxima!

[@rocko0214]

The cast of this is outstanding and the performances are as well, still it bugs me a little that everyone is so much older than the characters in the book. I know, i'm a d!ck, but this is the internet.

[@rumblefish9]

That was intentional. The director and producers thought that audiences might not relate if their ages were younger considering Elinor is often seen and referred to as a "spinster"

[@Lampritch]

No, you're not being a d... Emma Thompson was good, but looks a bit too much like Edward's big sister; and I understand that literary societies protested against the casting of Hugh Grant as Edward, someone described in the book as "not handsome". A better choice for Edward might have been Steve Huison, the fellow who played the utterly insecure "Lumper" in "The Full Monty". That wouldn't have been good for the box office, though.

[@bonniebester606]

Help me Lord Jesus...Deliver me from these Cruel Corrupt People who would see me utterly Destroyed! 😩

[@InuitInua]

I love this movie so much, except for Hugh Grant.

[@Preethi_18]

He is the best ..!!not sure y u wud not like him

[@bodnica]

Agree!

[@ravshanhikmatov4236]

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