Reviewing every Emma adaptation (in the last 25 years)

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Before social isolation, there were movie theaters. Back at the beginning of March, Mikaela and I were lucky enough to see the new Emma (2020) directed by Autumn de Wilde before Florida’s safer-at-home measure was enacted. We enjoyed it and it prompted us to watch every film (and the BBC's 2009 miniseries) adaptation in the last 25 years because I love Jane Austen and that’s a totally normal reaction for me and my girlfriend is indulgent.
We watched: Clueless (1995), Emma (1996), Emma (also 1996), BBC's Emma (2009), and Emma (2020).
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@FerretinSocks 4 года назад

"Mikayla. Scrivener''s girlfriend. You know this." I laughed out loud XD

@hats4pigeons132 4 года назад

I had to pause the video so I didn't miss anything after Mikaela said "We want to eat the rich and we will" with a zoom on her face at 9:14 because I was laughing so hard

@rachaelpoulin1997 4 года назад

I think the best part is how matter-of-fact she is. Like, the eventual uprising of the impoverished masses is just common knowledge and to say otherwise would be foolish in her eyes. She's right of course, which only makes it better.

@Drewski217 4 года назад

Re: Cher/clueless. I do think Cher remains spoiled but I always thought her transformation was about her generally realizing to be more compassionate to others around her or to be more aware

@RETHINKWONDER 4 года назад

Mikaela! I LOVE when Mikaela makes an appearance! Thank you for this video; it's making this period of isolation a little less isolating. I hope that everyone from The Princess and the Scrivener community is well.

@prufrockj.a8532 4 года назад

The 2020 version's dance sequence was amazing. I particularly loved how the attraction between Emma and Knightley was made so obvious and how immediately after that dance, they both knew something had permanently changed in their relationship. That part where Knightley runs to her house and Emma comes down to meet him was riveting. And the way the movie used Harriet's comments about Knightley as the catalyst for all the miscommunication between Emma and Knightley later on made it even better.

@ahhhfakemonsters 4 года назад

There's a RU-vid Emma adaptation called Emma Approved that you might be interested in. It's made by the same people who made the Lizzie Bennet Diaries, a lovely adaptation of P&P and one of my favorite things on RU-vid

@tiadeets 4 года назад

I was going to say. I'm sad it wasn't included.

@qmonk5108 4 года назад

Omg I was literally going to mention that! Emma Approved has perhaps my favourite Emma! While it's very cheesy and a low budget webseries and like? it's definitely not Perfect, I think the lead actress really holds the whole thing together. While I dont' know that I love the knightly, I think the Emma Approved Emma is maybe my favourite Emma?? Like maybe I need to do a rewatch and I haven't read the book either. I also haven't seen the 1996 Adaption (I've seen clueless though, the 2009 one and the 2020 one). But the webseries Emma is just so... like she's manipulative and sure of herself and demanding and... It's like she knows she's manipulating people but she thinks it's okay because she feels she knows better than them. She's incredibly likeable and charming and like just cute and you really feel for her when everything comes back to bite her and I just ADORE that Emma. For a while I was super into watching those literary webseries and that was one of my favourites!

@jetsninja 4 года назад

Yesss! Loved Emma Approved! Great isolation binge-watching.

@LibraryFairy762 4 года назад

I was also going to mention this one :)

@ameliecarre4783 4 года назад

@@qmonk5108 I liked this Knightley and they certainly had the best Harriet.

@Lazamattaz 4 года назад

So hype for this video! And mentioning Rachel Maksy at the beginning? Y'all are paragons of excellent taste!

@Broadwaychica 4 года назад

This was really fun to watch, you two had interesting things to say and were of course adorable as usual. And I was SO pleased when you brought up Paige's interpretation because when I listened to the audiodrama adaptation narrated by Emma Thompson, I REALLY got the sense that Emma's in love with Harriet but doesn't recognize that. It definitely made me a LITTLE more able to swallow some of her less likable moments. I really should give this story another try, and you've given me some great options.

@maddietownsend7696 4 года назад

I was hoping you'd bring up the dance scene in the 2020 version. It was absolutely the BEST I've seen in really any period drama. It was just so sexy hahaha. Fantastic.

@TwoRiversInSpace 4 года назад

2009 is my favorite. But I'm biased towards Johnny Lee Miller. I feel the chemistry they have at the beginning very much mirrors exactly what they are, lifelong friends who are in some ways are the least ridiculous in their families. And I like the portrayal of Knightley as personable. The scene you clipped and the WTF is so hilarious. Mark Strong I felt was too... Rochester... and shouty. His anger at the haircut was a lot. And the baby thing during the proposal, as you both did, I was also like "WHYYYY!?" (The chicken thing is in the book I think) Mrs. Elton's accent in this one was odd. I think Andrew Davies also employed fantasy sequences for his adaption of Northanger. I loved the 2020 servants, not only their silent commentary, but the "this is how much effort is involved for Emma to go to the get flowers for Miss Taylor" type stuff, Bill Nighy, costumes, (that pink jacket 😍) music, Harriet's realizations, and I really enjoyed Rupert Graves as Mr. Weston as far as Mr. Westons go.

@actual-spinster 4 года назад

do you know ..... how grateful i am for this video?? i havent even watched it yet i'm just .... joyful!!!!

@BrokenDarkFire 4 года назад

Okay, I love Jane Austen, and I needed to go to bed because I’m a TA for an early morning Zoom class, but god, I clicked on this video so fast. I’ve been thinking about rewatching all the Emma’s since seeing the 2020, which I also watched about 4 days before California began shutting down. I didn’t even really register that this was a long video, because I was so into it. I love how thorough this was. I grew up with the Gwyneth Paltrow version, but I loved 2009 so much it surpassed my adoration of it. I haven’t seen the 2009 version in about eight years, but in my memories, it’s still my favorite for Romila Garai and Johnny Lee Miller’s performances. That said, I absolutely loved the 2020 version. I loved all the wacky dramatic things that Emma and Knightly and Elton did. It was absolutely absurd and watching it at 11 pm on a Friday night, just me and some random guy in the theater, was absolutely the treat I needed after a rough week. Clueless will always be my aesthetic delight, though ❤️

@ameliecarre4783 4 года назад

My main problem with the Miramax version (and it's been a while so I may need to rewatch it to be sure) was that, I think, Emma was in the wrong not just because she badly misinterpreted most of what was said to her, but also because she was actually lied to by Frank at some point. Which doesn't happen in the book or other adaptations, and takes something away from the story and Emma's character, to say nothing of Frank's. Also, Gwyneth Paltrow, although beautiful as always, was given a weird look that didn't suit her so much and made her look like a Modigliani; while Jeremy Northam was looking sooo good that there was no mystery as to how the story would end (and I didn't know the story when I first saw this movie.) The 2009 serie is my favorite, because I think all characters were perfectly cast and given something significant to do (the financial situation of the Bateses, the childhoods of Frank and Jane away from their families, Harriet's social position are topics that were given some space). I have not yet seen the 2020 film.

@lanatherana157 4 года назад

Me, a demiromantic, as a child loving Emma and relating so much. It makes sense now that I'm an adult.

@misfittoys5873 4 года назад

You two are delightful :)

@RoganShannon13 4 года назад

I still haven't seen any versions of _Emma_ but I enjoyed this and the video from By the Book!

@miliaushka9647 4 года назад

India's Aisha is an Emma adaptation as well. Really cute and fun!

@erinreadsalot 4 года назад

Loved this video! I have been very tempted to rent the 2020 Emma and I think this will be the final tipping point. In terms of other adaptations I would highly recommend "The Emma Agenda" which is a webseries that is available on RU-vid. It is a modern adaptation that really plays with the inherent queer aspects of the source material, such as having Knightley being a woman and Jane Fairfax being a man. It has one of my favorite Emmas as well!

@danyramos8139 4 года назад

Do you think I’m going to sit 45 minutes to watch this? Yes, you’re right, so bring tea and cookies because this is a long ride and I want to enjoy every bit of it.

@ella5452 4 года назад

Personally, the Romola Garai version will always be my favourite .😊 great video! Thank you and stay safe🌻 💕💕💕

@one_smol_duck 4 года назад

I just want to say this video convinced me to give 2020 a shot, even though I really hated the trailer and thought the movie was going to be terrible. I was really pleasantly surprised -- the trailer doesn't do it justice at all. Thanks for convincing me! Oddly enough I also thought Little Women wasn't going to be any good from the trailer, and that turned out to one of my new favorite movies. I guess I just can't trust trailers anymore lol.

@imahimfan 4 года назад

I've got a big crush on Johnny Flynn so I loved the 2020 version. He's a beautiful folk singer check out his music!!

@agenttheater5 4 года назад

Best advice I can give to staying healthy is to get at least one hour outside in the sun for vitamin D, and the salad dressing I always have with dinner - crushed garlic, lemon juice, olive oil. It goes with just about everything you might be having salad with, just need a small jar to shake it all together with

@cantbeleveitsnotnaru 4 года назад

Sarah, Mikaela, thank you for this. I had a horrendously awful day, and this was so sweet and nice. Thank you Mikaela for making me unexpectedly bust out laughing a couple times. I really needed it. I literally finished rewatching 2009 Emma yesterday and have been thinking of 2020 version. I think I'll watch that tonight.

@LouiseBrooks-vt7jh 4 года назад

Love the video! You two are so cute together. Would you guys consider doing the same review for the Jane Eyre adaptations? 🌞

@Drewski217 4 года назад

8:05 I love this movie but feel that sentiment completely. Honestly as a gay guy I think my media encouraged the same trope during my teens (2000s) of younger gay men needing to look towards older gay men as dominant partners to guide you?

@stargirl11223 3 года назад

Omg I love when Mikaela says “because we want to eat the rich, and WE WILL”!!!!!!!!!! (P.S. I’m rewatching your vids because Princess just posted a video about Rein and after I watched I wanted more.) love your videos both of you!!

@fantaghiro1389 2 года назад

There is a brazilian telenovela (soap opera) called Orgulho e Paixão (Pride and Passion) wich takes Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Sense and Sensibility and Northanger Abbey and combines it into a AU crossover fanfic set in 1910s Brazil, and their Emma is also brown haired.

@gabriellesimone3668 4 года назад

Okay this really makes me want to watch 2020 “Emma.” and get into the story! - thank you both for doing such an in depth analysis. Also that was the cutest thing, Makayla kissing u and saying “we have fun here” after thinking you’d said “thank you for being gay”. Lol- thought I’d heard the same. Great vid, ty :)

@chobbes1514 4 года назад

Enjoyed your video. Would like to know if you plan to do one of these for the Pride and Prejudice versions. Also would like to know whether you plan to do review of Booksmart which was one of the best films of last year. Thanks.

@kerrychristensen7204 4 года назад

I watched Emma 2020 with my Mom and although we liked it as a movie, we didn't like it as an adaptation. The costumes were nice and the girl who played Harriet was absolutely *adorable~* But! I did not appreciate the butt. My mother did, that's what I didn't appreciate. 😂 It was really cool to see the valet dressing him, though! I mean scenes with a maid tying her lady into a corset or fixing her hair are a dime a dozen.

@Xenolilly 4 года назад

Emma Approved is my favorite.

@LaurenMorley 4 года назад

Having read the book myself, I prefer adaptations of Emma to reading the novel. Something about not having to be so extensively in Emma Woodhouse's headspace, I think. Also! Also! That line about Knightley having held Emma in his arms as a baby is a line from the actual proposal in the book!!! D:

@julia.24 4 года назад

that’s not true!!

@julia.24 4 года назад

“As a friend!"-repeated Mr. Knightley.-"Emma, that I fear is a word-No, I have no wish-Stay, yes, why should I hesitate?-I have gone too far already for concealment.-Emma, I accept your offer-Extraordinary as it may seem, I accept it, and refer myself to you as a friend.-Tell me, then, have I no chance of ever succeeding?" He stopped in his earnestness to look the question, and the expression of his eyes overpowered her. "My dearest Emma," said he, "for dearest you will always be, whatever the event of this hour's conversation, my dearest, most beloved Emma-tell me at once. Say 'No,' if it is to be said."-She could really say nothing.-"You are silent," he cried, with great animation; "absolutely silent! at present I ask no more." Emma was almost ready to sink under the agitation of this moment. The dread of being awakened from the happiest dream, was perhaps the most prominent feeling. "I cannot make speeches, Emma:" he soon resumed; and in a tone of such sincere, decided, intelligible tenderness as was tolerably convincing.-"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am.-You hear nothing but truth from me.-I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.-Bear with the truths I would tell you now, dearest Emma, as well as you have borne with them. The manner, perhaps, may have as little to recommend them. God knows, I have been a very indifferent lover.-But you understand me.-Yes, you see, you understand my feelings-and will return them if you can. At present, I ask only to hear, once to hear your voice.”

@julia.24 4 года назад

sorry i just hate that line so much i had to consult my copy of emma and i’m grateful to find it’s not present!

@ahhhfakemonsters 4 года назад

If I had known Miranda Hart was in the 2020 movie I would e watched it already

@natalieajax-lewis4752 4 года назад

"We want to eat the rich and we will" Words to live by :D thanks Mikaela properly made me laugh

@michellecrocker2485 2 года назад

The 2020 one was very fun and I love the historical accuracy of the costumes

@AllTheArtsy 2 года назад

You like the fact that Emma "fights back" in the 2020 film which I personally find odd. She's not supposed to-- she's supposed to feel shame and remorse in that moment. Mr Knightley is berating her for being cruel. The fact that 2020 Emma shouts back baffles me, especially since they changed the line from "Ah! ma'am, but there may be a difficulty. Pardon me- but you will be limited as to number-only three at once.” which she could and did argue Ms Bates may not have understood to be insulting, to the very cutting "There's the difficulty. When have you ever stopped at three?" For her to shout back at Mr Knightley tells me she thinks herself justified in her insult to Ms Bates. Emma is supposed to walk the fine line of being just unlikeable enough due to her thinking too highly of herself-- but she's not supposed to be intentionally cruel.

@heleneverbach 3 года назад

I love Emma, it's probably my favorite of the books. My big problem with a lot of the Emma adaptations is they play Emma too serious and too demure instead of leaning into the upbeat, fun, mean but not really self aware about how she's hurting those around her so maybe it's not intentional cruelty but just the misguided assumption that she's always right and the classist values she holds are correct combined with her confidence (which is what makes her so compelling as a character). Clueless has an upbeat Emma, but I agree that she's maybe too mean and classist. Gwenyth Paltrow and the actress from Emma. were both way too demure and I didn't really get why the people in their world would have liked Emma so much because she wasn't that likable in those films. The best non-book Emma is from Emma Approved

@Sofia-fc5tb 4 года назад

Olivia Williams is in the second 1996 one. Mmm, Olivia Williams.... I've had a very intense gay crush on her since her intense top energy in Dollhouse

@charliewatts7577 4 года назад

ahh i love this video

@pluezilvlk8427 4 года назад

.... Okok, I'll watch Emma. (2020)

@CostumedFiend_Audio 4 года назад

This wasn't at all the point of this video, but now I'm imagining the literal robbery of a chicken's property. I think I'll watch the 2020 version now.

@OkGoGirl82 2 года назад

It was real odd for me to watch Tamsin Greig as Miss Bates the first time I saw the 2009 Emma because the only thing I'd ever seen her in before was the comedy series Black Books. I have yet to watch the 2020 version, but so far Tamsin is my favorite. Gonna watch the 2020 version soon.

@Princess_Weekes 4 года назад

i totally agree with your ranking, although I think I do rank 2009 slightly over 2020

@macklinloosley-millman9215 4 года назад

I love the 2009 one. Probably because it is one I am most familiar with. But I agree that the outfits of the 2020 are amazing. I dream about that dress Emma wears with the green leaves. My favourite Jane Austen adaptation is the 2005 Pride and Prejudice, and the one I find the weirdest is The Mansfield Park from the 1999, also with Jonny Lee Miller as the love interest.

@rebeccacarroll9893 4 года назад

You wanna talk about weird age gaps and knowing someone as a baby? Grover Cleveland, the 22nd and 24th president of the us, married Frances Folsom who was 28 years younger than him. He was 49 and she was 21 btw. A fun anecdote of this weird ass relationship is that Grover gifted the Folsom’s with Frances’s bassinet/cradle BEFORE she was born. Yikes.

@runawaypony429 4 года назад

Rebecca Carroll One of the more interesting (and creepy) things I’ve learned on RU-vid. Thanks! :-).

@cherrysubmarine 3 года назад

Grover Cleveland can only be one president!!!

@rebeccacarroll9893 3 года назад

@@cherrysubmarine He held two nonconsecutive terms in office from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897. This made him our 22 and 24 president with Benjamin Harrison serving as the 23rd President of the United States from 1889 to 1893. Idk what to tell you the US political systems weird 🤷🏼‍♀️

@cherrysubmarine 3 года назад

@@rebeccacarroll9893 I mean, I know they consider him the 22nd and 24th president, it's just a pet peeve of mine cause one person cannot be two presidents

@KiraraCyborg 4 года назад

you too are so cute.

@nicolasalejandrorodriguezm265 4 года назад

very interesting

@shmyshmys 3 года назад

I'm like the 1% that really enjoys Paltrow's Emma, I just think the cast is perfect Toni Collete, Ewan is the perfect Frank Churchill, perfect Miss Bates, perfect Mrs. Elton, Alan Cumming as Mr. Elton. Plus the score by Rachel Portman is really lovely. I don't enjoy the Beckinsale adaptation as much, the highlight for me is Olivia Williams as Jane Fairfax, in fact I'd say this is the most interesting Jane Fairfax out of the 3 adaptations for me. I like Romola as Emma but that's about the only thing I like. She also seemed a bit old for the role not to mention taller than Mr. Knightley LOL. I enjoyed the 2020 version for costumes but I find Frank Churchill and Mrs Elton forgettable, the first time I watched I thought the music was really interfering with the movie for me, but now I really like the soundtrack.

@Poorstargazer23 4 года назад

Will you review Pride and Prejudice adaptations?

@PrincessScrivener 4 года назад

It's not out of our wheelhouse ;) In the meantime, there's a really great series from another channel that I LOVE! Seriously, I cried through the LBD video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-I4WN_g5whdM.html -- P

@lavenderrosecosplay5639 4 года назад

@@PrincessScrivener thank you for recommending this. I look forward to watching it :)

@tinymxnticore 3 года назад

We all talk about Clueless being the "modern" Emma but we never talk about Cher being the "straight" Emma. 🤔

@myettechase 3 года назад

I love Clueless but my *god* does the stepbrother choice annoy me! Especially since their dad- emphasis on THEIR, as in THEIR SHARED DAD- seems to approve of their relationship. Ick.

@anne-zh2kd 4 года назад

The thing is , I really don't like Emma. I read the book and hated her. BUT she learns.Mr Knightley, however, never does. He is a selfimportant, conceited douchebag. And while I understand that is was different times, the whole superior, inferior thing makes me so friggin annoyed. And as much as I do not like Gwyneth Palthrow she did make me dislike Emma as much as the one in the book. I love Jane Austen, and wanted to read all her books , but Emma really made me so frustrated