In the 1995 adaptation of Persuasion, Anne plays the same tune that Wentworth playfully played in an earlier part of the film. This little detail suggests that Wentworth learned it from Anne, who plays piano regularly, years ago.
“The party from Uppercross passing down by the now deserted and melancholy looking rooms, and still descending, soon found themselves on the sea-shore; and lingering only, as all must linger and gaze on a first return to the sea, who ever deserve to look on it at all …”
- Persuasion, volume 1, chapter 11, Jane Austen
In addition to the excellent writing of this adaptation, the framing of this shot is amazing. Wentworth and Anne are as far apart as they can possibly be while still being in the shot, but they are also the only two figures in darker clothing, with the others blending in more with the rocks in terms of colors. The distance between them starts to erode after this point in the story as well, so this is a visual representation of how they remain connected no matter how much physical space they keep between them.
She gloried in being a sailor’s wife, but she must pay the tax of quick alarm for belonging to that profession which is, if possible, more distinguished in its domestic virtues than in its national importance.
