Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay & Diaries

by Emma Thompson

Overview

Bringing Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility to the screen was a labor of love for writer/actress Emma Thompson. Featuring the complete award-winning script, Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay & Diaries also showcases Thompson’s unreserved, often hilarious diaries that capture the unique experience of making this film. Her rare and personal perspective makes this an irresistible book for students of film and Austen devotees, as well as for everyone who loved this extraordinary movie.

This Newmarket Shooting Script® Book includes:

• The complete screenplay
• Emma Thompson’s diaries written during the film’s production
• Introduction by producer Lindsay Doran
• More than 50 photos, including stills, cast photos, and behind-the-scenes shots
• Full cast and crew credits

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781557047823
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	07/10/2007
Series:	Shooting Script
Edition description:	Shooting Script ed.
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Emma Thompson won her second Oscar® for her screenplay adaptation of Sense and Sensibility (she won the Academy Award® for Best Actress for Howard's End). Named by Time magazine as one of its 2004 “European Heroes,” she was recently appointed to the United Nations Global Coalition on Women and AIDS.

Table of Contents

Introduction   Lindsay Doran     7
The Cast     17
The Screenplay     25
The Diaries     205
Appendices     281