Emma Goes Hollywood

Emma Goes Hollywood Between 1970 and 1986, seven feature-length films or television miniseries, all British, were produced based on Jane Austen novels; in the years 1995 and 1996, however, sex additional adaptations appeared, half of them originating in Hollywood. The concerns at the center of Jane Austen’s plots – sex, romance, and money – play a large part in the adaptability of Jane Austen’s work into film. The details of developing love and the constraints of limited finances provide …

…makes her less of a person, and at the end of the film, she is still seated atop the pedestal of her own making. Overall Heckerling’s rendition of the Austen classic is a purer more accurate Emma, enabling the movie going audience to detect the flaws in the character, while McGrath’s film appears to prefer leaving Emma on the pedestal, causing it to fall short of a true translation of Austen’s intent.