The dance scene is justas good as the 2005 Pride & Prejudice one. But I particularly love this one because of the detail about Emma’s gloves. She takes them off. Even after she asks Mr Knightley to dance, she doesn’t put them back on. Touching a woman’s bare hand was a very intimate form of physical affection, and generally considered a big no-no at the time (especially public occasions). The gloves are off, their barriers are down…and while it may seem like a sweet dance between two friends, it becomes unbearably intense as it goes on. They get closer, the camera gets closer, and they begin to lose focus of the world around them, even the dance itself. And I just lovethe glorious close-up of their hands touching, like they don’t want to let go just yet. The skin-to-skin contact is everything. Thank-you, Autumn de Wilde!
Firstly, Emma is supposed to be unlikable. Jane Austen intentionally wrote her to be unlikable. And it’s not a prerequisite for any kind of fiction or film to have a likeable female lead.
And for your information MonaLISA,Johnny Flynn is the perfect age for Mr Knightely, he’s thirty-seven, and it’s not his fault he’s so damn youthful!
Mr. Knightley: I must tell you, Emma, what you will not ask though I may wish it unsaid the next moment
Emma:Then do not speak it. If you wish to speak to me, as a friend, or to ask my opinion, as a friend, I will hear whatever you like.
Mr. Knightley: As a friend? Emma, that I fear is a word… Tell me, Emma, have I no chance of ever succeeding? My dearest Emma, the dearest you will always be, my dearest, most beloved, Emma, tell me at once. I cannot make speeches. If I loved you less then I might be able to talk about it more, but you know what I am. I have lectured you and I’ve blamed you and you’ve borne it as no other woman in England could have borne it. God knows I have been a very indifferent lover but you understand me, you understand my feelings.
