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Ben O'Shea - Sense Of Sensibility - He's A Bit Of A F-Boy · Lisa & Russell

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  Speaker 1: Right to Flick with Ben O'Shea.
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  Speaker 2: Well, then. It's a classic.
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  Speaker 1: It is indeed.
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  Speaker 2: Top of the morning to you. Put on your plumbiest
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  Speaker 2: English accent. Sense and Sensibility. Yes. Look, this is.
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  Speaker 1: Another adaptation of, you know, literature that's a few hundred
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  Speaker 1: years old. 1811. I'm not that worried about spoilers. If
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  Speaker 1: you haven't read it already, it's been out for 200 years.
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  Speaker 2: That's your problem. Jane Austen is who you look for.
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  Speaker 2: Jane Austen. Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility.
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  Speaker 1: Um, lately it seems as though all of these adaptations of,
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  Speaker 1: or period pieces, uh, you know, they're so contemporary, right?
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  Speaker 1: Like you've got Bridgerton, um, you've got the great, you've
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  Speaker 1: got Wuthering Heights. They kind of throw the rule books
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  Speaker 1: out and, and some people just get sick of it.
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  Speaker 1: I think they just want. You know, like it was
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  Speaker 1: back in the, you remember that in the 90s and
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  Speaker 1: the 80s, some of those great BBC adaptations of Emily
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  Speaker 1: Bronte and Jane Austen.
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  Speaker 2: True to the story. Yep. Colin Firth climbing out of
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  Speaker 2: the lake with a wet shirt. Forget that. And then,
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  Speaker 2: of course, you had Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility in 1995.
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  Speaker 2: Which was fantastic. That's the high watermark. That is the
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  Speaker 2: absolute gold standard. Emma Thompson and Kate Winslow.
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  Speaker 1: Emma Thompson wrote it, for starters. Then she starred in it.
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  Speaker 1: You had Kate Winslet. They both played sisters. You had
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  Speaker 1: Hugh Grant. You had Alan Rickman. It was just incredible.
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  Speaker 1: Had to be. And so, look, that's a very high
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  Speaker 1: bar for any follow-up.
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  Speaker 2: This isn't looking good.
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  Speaker 1: But I will say Sense and Sensibility hasn't tried to
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  Speaker 1: compete with Ang Lee. They've tried to do something a
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  Speaker 1: little bit different. A lot of period works, it's almost
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  Speaker 1: like watching a museum exhibit, right? Like it's sort of
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  Speaker 1: a novelty. You look at it and you go, oh, well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like that's a– It doesn't feel particularly real.
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  Speaker 1: What this film has done, directed by Georgia Oakley, is
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  Speaker 1: she makes it feel as if you're there. Like what
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  Speaker 1: it must have actually been like to live in that time.
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  Speaker 1: It's very naturalistic. It's very realistic. It stars Daisy Edgar-Jones,
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  Speaker 1: who you might remember from Normal People. And then she
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  Speaker 1: was also in Where the Crawdads Sing. We try not
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  Speaker 1: to talk about that because that film was terrible. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't good. And Esme Creed-Miles is in it as well.
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  Speaker 1: They play the Dashwood sisters. Eleanor and Marianne, who are
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  Speaker 1: left penniless after the death of their father. All the
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  Speaker 1: money goes to, you know, sort of their stepbrother or
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  Speaker 1: something like that. And so the only really way that
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  Speaker 1: they can survive in proper society is if they match
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  Speaker 1: with a, you know.
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  Speaker 2: A well-heeled suitor.
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  Speaker 1: It's all about the suitors back in those days. Women
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  Speaker 1: didn't have much power. And a lot of people looked
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  Speaker 1: at this book at the time as though Jane Austen...
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  Speaker 1: was saying, this is a DIY handbook of how you
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  Speaker 1: should be as a lady in society. And Eleanor was
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  Speaker 1: the one who, like, she sacrifices her own feelings. She
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  Speaker 1: always does the right thing for her family. She was
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  Speaker 1: the Jo March.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. A bit of a martyr, if we're being honest.
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  Speaker 1: But even if it meant kind of like turning her
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  Speaker 1: back on her true love, Edward, who's a lovely bloke,
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  Speaker 1: played by George McKay in this film. And meanwhile, you
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  Speaker 1: had the sensibility side of the equation, which was Marianne,
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  Speaker 1: who is impestuous and, passionate and she.
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  Speaker 2: Would rather die. She's the Amy March. Yeah, exactly. I'm
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  Speaker 2: a little women referencing here. That's right. Yes, you are.
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  Speaker 2: I'm here for it a lot.
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  Speaker 1: And she would rather die than live a life without,
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  Speaker 1: you know, sort of passion. And so she, of course,
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  Speaker 1: falls for falls for a dude in Willoughby who, look,
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  Speaker 1: he's a bit of a cad, if we're being honest.
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  Speaker 1: He's a bit of an F-boy. Yeah, that's right. Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Now, that's contemporising. Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: An Elizabethan F-boy.
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  Speaker 2: 1811 F-boy. Indeed.
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  Speaker 1: It is fascinating to think about what these two sisters
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  Speaker 1: might have been like if they lived in the age
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  Speaker 1: of dating apps.
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  Speaker 2: Can you imagine? I think Marianne would have had all
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  Speaker 2: sorts of problems.
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  Speaker 1: She would have been swiping like crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Would they have worked on Love Island? She would have.
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  Speaker 1: And so the film goes through the trials and tribulations
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  Speaker 1: of these two sisters as they're dealing with these dudes.
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  Speaker 1: And I guess it's really a story about the patriarchy
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  Speaker 1: oppresses women, the disenfranchisement of women. And that's where it
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  Speaker 1: becomes quite interesting, right? Because This is obviously a 200-year-old story,
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  Speaker 1: but you look at it today and you go, oh,
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  Speaker 1: maybe there's something still pretty applicable.
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  Speaker 2: There's some parallels to modern life.
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  Speaker 1: We've come full circle.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. We're back. The dashes are now trad-wise.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, trad-wise.
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  Speaker 2: They want to be disenfranchised. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. All right. Well, this time round, how many quivering,
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  Speaker 1: fainting spells are you giving it?
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to give it three and a half.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: And a few petticoats thrown in as well. Worth a look, Lisa.
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  Speaker 2: No lakes. Worth a look. That's not true.
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  Speaker 1: There is actually one very sodden male in a linen shirt.
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  Speaker 1: So there's something for you.
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  Speaker 2: There's your Mr Darcy moment. It wouldn't be the story
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  Speaker 2: if there wasn't.