Sense and Sensibility (soundtrack) Scottish composer Patrick Doyle. Doyle was friends with actors Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson, and had worked on many films directed by the former, including "Henry V" (1989) and "Much Ado About Nothing" (1993). Thompson hired him to score the 1995 film "Sense and Sensibility", in which she was writing and starring. "Sense and Sensibility"s director, Ang Lee, requested Doyle write a score that was gentle, intimate, and a reflection of "the suppressed emotions of that society". Doyle later described the film as "more stifled; the music had to be suppressed to match what was happening onscreen. You had this
Sense and Sensibility opinion, Austen's favoring of Elinor's temperament over Marianne's provides the lesson. The review claims that "the object of the work is to represent the effects on the conduct of life, of discreet quiet good sense on the one hand, and an overrefined and excessive susceptibility on the other." The review states that "Sense and Sensibility" contains "many sober and salutary maxims for the conduct of life" within a "very pleasing and entertaining narrative." W. F. Pollock's 1861 review from "Frasier's Magazine," titled "British Novelists," becomes what editor Claudia Johnson terms an "early example of what would become the customary view