We all need a bit SENSE AND SENSIBILITY in our lives

[@allieren]

This is one of my favorite movies! I’ve seen it so many times. “Give me an occupation Ms. Dashwood, or I shall run mad.” Ugh, love Col. Brandon 🥰

[@practicaldreamyr]

Fun fact: this film took place shortly after Emma Thompson's divorce from Kenneth Branagh - she wasn't looking for love, but a psychic told her she'd meet her husband during the filming of her next movie, and she actually did! Though she initially tried to set Kate up with him, Emma ended up marrying Greg Wise, who plays the dashing Willoughby in this adaptation. They're still married to this day. 💕

[@GrainneMhaol]

I think it was Greg who saw the psychic, which was why he initially took out Kate. Anyone could see the chemistry between them in the ball scene....

[@allieren]

I didn’t know that! That’s adorable!

[@Adme55]

My only complaint about the end is that Edward lost his fortune and Lucy got away with her fortune hunting behavior. Otherwise, I love this… Not to mention I love that Emma Thompson wrote this screenplay and won an Oscar for it.

[@DeeM30]

This is where my love for Alan Rickman started!

[@lindala2602]

Same

[@ellenb2498]

About Imelda Staunton, she is a brilliant actress who played an evil character in HP. In reality she's best friends with Emma Thompson.

[@practicaldreamyr]

Yes, she's also an incredible stage/musical actress! One of my favorite Mrs. Lovetts (Sweeney Todd) and Mama Rose (Gypsy). She's electric to watch onstage.

[@jlerrickson]

I adored her in Vera Drake: such a powerful performance.

[@HuntingViolets]

Mrs. Jennings' daughter (Imelda Staunton) was also one of the Queens Elizabeth on _The Crown_ and appeared with Emma Thompson in _Much Ado About Nothing._ She is married to Jim Carter, who played Carson on _Downton Abbey,_ and their daughter, Bessie Carter, played Prudence Featherington on _Bridgerton._ Jim Carter and Imelda Staunton were also in _Shakespeare in Love,_ she playing Viola's nurse and he playing the actor who plays the nurse in the stage play of "Romeo and Juliet" (in the movie).

[@janescribner8258]

Yes, and she played the evil Professor Umbridge in Harry Potter. What an actress! There was also a wonderful miniseries named "Cranford" that she was in. Worth watching Kemi!

[@papercup2517]

She also played the Mother in My Family and Other Animals, and Vera in Vera Drake, for which she received an Oscar nomination. And she's a lovely person! Many years ago, when I used to run a restaurant in Devon, she was a fairly frequent customer, along with her fellow actors from the local repertory company. She was always very warm and a lot of fun. It was exciting to see the success she made of her later career. Couldn't be more well deserved, IMO.

[@samkenyon4522]

I ran into Imelda Staunton in the private wood next to my sister's house (which is owned by her landlord who is Imelda's cousin) when she helped me round up my sister's wayward terrier. I have face blindness so never recognise anyone and after having a lovely chat with her I caught up with my sister who asked me if I knew who I'd just been speaking to. I assumed I'd just failed to recognise a neighbour yet again (happens a lot) and she said "no, that was the Bafta award winning Imelda Staunton" 😅

[@sp72929]

Alan Rickman will always be The Colonel Brandon from me - they could not find a better actor for the role.

[@leonh.kalayjian6556]

Memo, you are a detective!! You analyzed Lucy so well and you knew Edward is a good guy.

[@lechat8533]

We have six actors and actresses in this gem, who also played in Harry Potter: 1. Elinor Dashwood = Professor Trelawney / Emma Thompson 2. Mrs. Dashwood = Madame Pomfrey / Gemma Jones (she played the main character in the British period drama series "Duchess of Duke Street") 3. Mrs Palmer = Prof. Umbridge / Imelda Staunton 4. Colonel Brandon = Prof. Snape / Alan Rickman R.I.P. 5. Sir John Middleton = Cornelius Fudge / Robert Hardy R.I.P. 6. Mrs Jennings = First "Fat Lady" / Elizabeth Spriggs R.I.P. in The Picture

[@margaretkurek2111]

Mrs. Jennings = The Fat Lady in HPatPS / Elizabeth Spriggs

[@anne-charlottefastrez3959]

Not to mention Mrs Jenning's actress who played The Fat Lady in the first two Harry Potter

[@lechat8533]

@@anne-charlottefastrez3959 I can`t believe I forgot to mention her. I`ll correct the error at once. Thank you, Anne-Charlotte!

[@kathyastrom1315]

Such a wonderful movie! Emma Thompson won an Oscar for her adapted screenplay, and Kate Winslet had her first Oscar nomination in only her second film. Her first film is also fantastic-Heavenly Creatures in 1994 was the first non-horror film directed by Peter Jackson, who scored his first Oscar nomination for its screenplay (along with his partner Fran Walsh). That movie also deserves a reaction on this channel!

[@foots-qt4pk]

lol! Emma Thompson (Eleanor) was also in Harry Potter. She played the divination teacher with the really thick glasses, Sybil Trelawney. Robert Hardy, (John Middleton) was Cornelius Fudge, Minister of Magic in Harry Potter.

[@margaretkurek2111]

Also Mrs. Jennings played the Fat Lady in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, and Mrs. Dashwood played Madam Pomfrey.

[@ultimatespinach]

A great choice Kemi, one of my favourite movies of all time. I downloaded it about 20 years ago and have watched it at least once a year, it never gets old. The production values, the locations, the superb ensemble cast, it just works on all levels for me. Cheers from Woodstock, Ontario!

[@vbrown6445]

I think Willoughby started out with the intent to just play around with/seduce Marianne, just like he did with Eliza (who he left pregnant), but ended up falling in love with her against his will. I think his aim was always to marry wealth, but he surprised himself by falling for Marianne and would have asked her to marry him. But as soon as his aunt threatened to cut him off (because of Eliza), he decided to secure his wealth elsewhere (with Miss 50-thousand pounds). Even had he married Marriane, I think he would have eventually cheated. Marianne is very lucky that she didn't end up like Eliza-- with her passionate nature she likely would have slept with him fully expecting them to get married.

[@Jennifer-rp2sh]

You touched her ankle! You cut her hair! 🤣🤣

[@cliffchristie5865]

In a real behind-the-scenes twist, Emma Thompson began a relationship with, and married, Greg Wise, who plays the unfaithful Willoughby.

[@chefskiss6179]

I'm so glad hearing you talk about the other Hugh Grant flicks you've watched... I hope you do his Four Weddings & A Funeral on this channel, it is the one that put him on the map. I just KNOW you'll be in tears watching how funny it is, it's the same writer as Notting Hill and Bridget Jones's Diary. Pretty please? 😂

[@KMJsec]

In the old days they did bloodletting: draining some blood believing that the illness would leave with the blood. It actually sometimes worked to strengthen the immunesystem because it provoked the body to produce more cells to fight infection.

[@megdelaney3677]

Pride and Prejudice 1995 Wuthering Heights 2009 Sense & Sensibility 2008 Jane Eyre 2006 Persuasion 2007 Northanger Abbey 2007 Emma 1996

[@katharinaharmsen2991]

my favourite Jane Austen Movie! Thank you. "Persuasion" with Ciaran Hints is on second place for me

[@stillhuntre55]

Have you ever seen the Jane Eyre miniseries with Timothy Dalton? It's on KZbin. THE BEST!

[@kilian-one-l]

Although I'm not personally a fan of HP anymore, since you mentioned Snape, there are actually many HP actors in this. Umbridge, Mrs. Jennings played The Fat Lady (in the first movie), Professor Trelawney (Emma Thompson/Eleanor), and Cornelius Fudge

[@ifeelpretty5790]

Harriet Walter (Fanny) plays such a great snob 😂 She’s probably more known today as the mother in Succession.

[@cliffchristie5865]

And charmingly sympathetic in a ten episode arc of adaptations of the Lord Peter Wimsey stories for British TV in 1987.

[@ASmiffff]

​@@cliffchristie5865 The perfect Harriet Vane ❤

[@livb6945]

She is also, unless I'm mistaken, a descendant from Jane Austen herself

[@jencb9565]

and as Rebecca's mother in Ted Lasso

[@carolineben-ari2798]

And Rebecca Welton's mother in Ted Lasso.

[@happybkwrm]

I loved your reaction, especially when Fanny talked John out of giving his relatives anything!!! 😲😲

[@71lizgoeshardt]

FINALLY... I've waited so so long for you to watch this!!!! You are a darling, Kemi!

[@fleurgi]

I thought your channel was gone! I am so relieved it is just under another name now,. I love your reactions. This along with my Persuasion 2007 are my favorite Jane Austen adaptions.

[@kathyastrom1315]

Emma Thompson was in several of her then-husband Kenneth Branagh’s films- Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing, and Dead Again. All of them are amazing! The first two are some of my favorite Shakespeare films ever. I used to put my dvd of Henry V on my tv before beginning the weekly cleaning of my apartment and just have the dialogue blaring out at top volume while I dusted. I was able to quote the opening of Derek Jacobi’s Chorus speech in full. Emma and Kenneth remain my favorite Beatrice and Benedict on screen-the way they snipe at each other is so well done. I saw Dead Again in the theater, and I still love its moody mix of noir and Hitchcockian flare.

[@glynnisi]

I needed this today. This movie is one of my favorite movies & a top Austen adaptation. Emma Thompson's screenplay captured the warmth and humor of the novel. Beautifully acted. It's hilarious how many of the actors reunited in HP movies. It's also testimony to how good of an actress Imelda Staunton is that I love her flighty silliness in this movie as much as I despise Umbridge. Thank you for your insightful, warm, caring reaction. As I said, just what I needed today.

[@redhoneytea]

im so happy this has graced my screen again. i wanted to watch it yesterday and you answered my wish. thank you kemi 💗

[@xKagryx]

It’s a joy to watch you react to this, my most favorite love story!

[@glass12]

Far from the Madding Crowd (2015) deserves more love, watch it, Kemi!

[@71lizgoeshardt]

Oh my, wonderful wonderful film!

[@allieren]

That’s one of my favorite books of all time. I didn’t care for the movie at first but it grew on me and I would also recommend it. Then I’d recommend reading the book too! 😊

[@glass12]

@@allieren I loved the movie, I hope Kemi can react to it someday :D

[@kayfountain6261]

The actor playing Sir John, Robert Hardy, a great classical actor, developed in interest in medieval warfare in the 1960s whilst playing Shakesperian roles. From that he became the countries leading expert in medieval longbows.

[@lechat8533]

Thank you very much, dear Kemi❣ I am a big period drama fan and British productions are my favourite because they are made at authentic locations and are not bound to studio backgrounds. I also love the British way of acting. They make you forget that it is just make-believe.

[@YoursAlwaysKemi]

Thank you so much!

[@Jeffrey-e3n]

Howards End is another great movie with emma thompson. She won an Oscar for this movie.

[@EssEll9791]

One of my comfort films. Funny how Jane Austen and Charlotte Brone adaptations are in my top ten. ❤

[@gibsongirl2100]

One woman in the party with Willoughby at the ball said something to the effect of, "wearing their country fashions, no doubt" - basically looking down their noses at their ball gowns as not being very fashionable and implying that Marianne and Eleanor were gauche.

[@ifeelpretty5790]

Fun fact I just learned: the actor who played Robert Ferrars, Richard Lumsden, was married to Sophie Thompson, Emma Thompson’s sister, for 20 years starting the year this movie came out!

[@meganlutz7150]

Such a great reaction ! Agree totally about Mrs. Jennings as well.

[@thegrasslands4187]

At the dance Willoughby told miss 50 thousand pounds the Elinore and Marianne were acquaintances from that place where their cottage was located (Devonshire? Can't remember) Then she turned and looked at them and responded with amused derision, "Wearing their country fashions I see." She was mocking them for their clothes not being fashionable.

[@HuntingViolets]

Imogen Stubbs, who plays Lucy here, won the contest director Ang Lee set up where the actors had to write something from the POV of their character. She wrote a snarky letter to Elinor, post-marriage, which is including in Emma Thompson's screenplay and film diary book for this movie. Stubbs was also Viola in a film adaptation of "Twelfth Night."

[@jilliandiamond3358]

House married to Umbridge - gotta love it

[@livb6945]

Right?! They were also a couple in "Peter's friends"

[@livb6945]

You said "Snape!" But did you realise (or did I miss it?) these Harry Potter actors are also in this movie? The mother is Madam Pomfrey, healing the kids in the Hospital wing; Barton is Cornelius Fudge, the minister of magic; his mother is the Fat Lady from the painting letting the Gryffindors into their quarters. Ellinor, Emma Thompson, is of course Professor Trelawney. Imelda Staunton was glorious as the horrible Dolores Umbridge in the Order of the Phoenix.

[@reevesavage]

the weird part is, Willoughby actually did care for Marianne, it just didn't out match his need to keep his lavish lifestyle and he's free to just pretend Marianne doesn't exist anymore because he's a man in that society...the woman Colonel Brandon previously was in love with had a daughter whom was warded in the area as long as Brandon paid for her living expenses...Willoughby had also knocked her up, just pretended she didn't exist anymore too, and Colonel Brandon had to meet him in London to kick his ass for it (not to mention how he ghosted Marianne)

[@joanward1578]

Love Alan in this role.

[@calme-dx2dp]

You should watch *THE BAD SEED* 1956 version.

[@user-ok1vf6qx4k]

Great review, thank You. I agree on many levels with You. And Brandon was just the perfect man!

[@BiddyBiccy]

I loved this reaction! You're very perceptive with your understanding of relationships between people. And you make me laugh so much 🤣 If you want a better opinion of Imelda Staunton I recommend you react to the series Cranford (and the sequel Return to Cranford) I think you'll love it. She's hilarious in it and you may start to like her more! Another costume drama you'll enjoy is 1995 Persuasion if you haven't seen it yet. It's the best adaptation of that story I think.

[@cliffchristie5865]

More than a few of the actors subsequently appeared in the Harry Potter films.

[@kavtoM]

I hope you'll watch the BBC miniseries. It is my favourite adaptation of this novel.

[@criss_v33]

FInallyyyyyy! One more Jane Austen's adaptation to warm our hearts! What's next.... "Mansfield Park"???

[@HuntingViolets]

In another movie by Ang Lee, _Eat Drink Man Woman,_ another woman asks her sister where her heart is.

[@livb6945]

For those whu haven't seen the movie Peter's friends, at least check out the clip "way you look tonight" from it, it's delightful! It will cure you all from the bile of House and Umbridge 😊

[@lindala2602]

Emma Thomson adopted a young boy who was a refugee from Rwanda

[@mikesgirl8304]

This is my favorite Austen, I identify with Marianne so much, I got my heart broken by a Willoughby but then I married my Colonel Brandon and have been happily married for 20 years

[@summer1097]

You should watch Love Actually for Christmas! You would love it, I would love it, we would love it!

[@MmmGoodToast]

I love your insight and emotional reactions to these movies.❤Next please watch pride and prejudice with Colin Firth 1995, and Persuasion from 1995, and Emma With Kate beckinsale 1996

[@clairemendoza8082]

My mom’s fav movie!! One of them anyways Absolutely 👍 incredible!! Love love this film. Thanks for watching it. Jane Austen knocks it out of the park once again. Love your channel here in So. Cal USA 🇺🇸 Love to all!! Please check out Jane Eyre 1983 with Timothy Dalton. One of my fav novels ever. 🌹🥰🥰

[@centurycountess4949]

another fun favorite of mine, although the regency era was beautiful it too was a hard time for women. Inheritance laws as shown in the film only the son got it. or is there was no son the fortunate may have gone to the son of a make relative (as mentioned in pride and prejudice) and the widow and daughters would have been at that relatives mercy. This was literally the days where if you were a woman it was marriage for survival very rarely for love however you could pick a man you liked, and that was through dances and gatherings then it was a wait game. it was impolite for the lady to call onto the man (but if you befriended the sister of course your could use that as a method to hopefully get a quick greeting but visits were normally 15 minutes unless it was super urgency or you were invited to stay for lunch it was rude to stay longer then that. So women would hope they made a good impression on a man at the dances or events they attended and sit and wait hoping he'd call. so it was very important to be active in dance and party events. If I remember right the ONLY way a woman got everything was if she had a type of tittle (in Jane Austen persuasion) (going by the movie from the late 80's / or early 90's Anne's family had a cousin who was a viscountess who I believed was a widow but she had a son so she could have her share of the inheritance. sadly in this film. The mother wasn't the biological mother of the heir and hence he could of either been kind to her or not, fortunately he had to give them a share because his father had him promise him to be kind but his own wife's manipulation and treatment made him restrict that kindness which was very sad which is why at the end in order to maintain good reputation was probably why the brother and his wife attended because the younger sister married a man with high status and it would of been sus if they didn't and I guess the whole story of their frugal treatment would of came out. and in conclusion reputation, money, and attending events were all an important way of survival for the women and to keep their family's safe especially if they didn't have a male heir and their fate depended on who the daughter married.

[@miriam8376]

Does this mean it’s time for Persuasion?! (Preferably the one with ciaran hinds, but any version is good except the one with Dakota Johnson, which is hot garbage).

[@Ksenia1988-e7z]

Huh? What happened to your other channel? I stumbled across this channel by accident.... I know that I watched the reaction to this movie already.

[@joanward1578]

Did you recognize Dolores Umbridge from Harry Potter....in this movie, she's the one with the baby.

[@nat._j]

I just came back to your channel and wanted to watch some of your older videos and couldn’t find them. I can only find your videos from a month back everything else is a couple years old. Did all your videos get taken down, Is everything okay?

[@CJ77777]

You should watch the BBC 1995 version of Pride & Prejudice. It's the superior version.

[@YoursAlwaysKemi]

Already done - its on Patreon, trying to get t out here

[@CJ77777]

@YoursAlwaysKemi Ooh, interested to hear your opinion. 😊

[@Taewills]

What happened to Sincerely KSO? I haven’t been online in a while but this channel popped up for me and I was unsubscribed! (Rude of KZbin) I didn’t see a message on the community page either so I’m mostly just curious.

[@danielkillian1222]

Bloodletting