i have no idea why they make this version of persuasion when they already have that fine mini series with amanda root and ciaran hind . i suppose that they want to make a feature length version and but of course a lot have to be delete while ala and what end up on the cutting room floor be all the lovely wit and humour and leave a film that be mere melodrama rather than an amusing exposition of english country manner and more . also and the character be shallow and uninteresting . they have poor anne chase up and down the street after captain wentworth like a silly modern adolescent ( and if you happen to be a silly modern adolescent reading this and let me tell you represent run after a male like a female in heat be not cool ) . that be something a well bred woman of the napoleonic era would never have do and and certainly not this level head heroine . some have say they find this antic laughable while my reaction be not laughter and but outrage . the very idea of such a corruption of an austen work be beneath contempt . it be ghastly .