Sense and Sensibility

Sense and Sensibility (1995)

Timing: 2:16 (136 min)

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Release date

1995-12-13

Country

United Kingdom, United States

Production

Columbia Pictures, Good Machine, Mirage Enterprises

Genre

Drama, Romance

Budget

$16 000 000

Revenue

$134 582 776

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Director

Ang Lee

Actors

Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman, Hugh Grant, Gemma Jones, Greg Wise, Elizabeth Spriggs, Imogen Stubbs, Harriet Walter, James Fleet
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Scenario

Producer

Lindsay Doran, Sydney Pollack

Operator

Michael Coulter

Composer

Patrick Doyle

Artist

Audition

Michelle Guish

Editing

Tim Squyres
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• The first draft of the screenplay consisted of 350 handwritten pages. The final version incorporated elements from this draft and thirteen others, which took Emma Thompson nearly five years to write.
• Director Ang Lee initially envisioned Kate Winslet as Lucy, but she desperately wanted to play Marianne. Arriving at the audition, the actress began reading Marianne’s lines, and when this was pointed out to her, she pretended that her agent had made a mistake and sent her the wrong text. Regardless, she landed the role of Marianne.
• The Dashwoods moved into the cottage in winter, when it was still cold and the sheep were covered in their long winter fleece. These scenes were filmed at the end of May, and during filming, one of the animals became ill from the heat. They had to be sheared and then filmed already shorn, even though the plot called for it to still be winter.
• The end credits of the film express gratitude to Stephen Fry. This refers to an incident during the screenplay’s development when Emma Thompson had computer problems. She couldn’t find the script file and asked Stephen Fry for help. It took Fry seven hours to figure out what was wrong and fix the issues.
• The filmmakers saw only Hugh Grant as Edward. He even agreed to reduce his fee, as the film’s creators were experiencing certain financial difficulties.
• According to Emma Thompson, in the scene where Colonel Brandon, played by Alan Rickman (1946-2016), talks to Elinor and Marianne (played by Thompson and Kate Winslet), and they are all on horseback, many takes were ruined by one of the horses constantly passing gas. Eventually, the scene was filmed as best as possible, and the inappropriate sounds were simply removed in editing.
• During filming, Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet lived together to feel more comfortable around each other, as they had to play sisters.
• To immerse himself in the British atmosphere and get used to British humor, director Ang Lee spent six months in the UK before the start of filming.