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 and Sea Monsters transform it into the theme of the novel. However, with "Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters", the image is created by the artist. "Entertainment Weekly" gave "Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters" a rating of B- (in contrast to a rating of A- for "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies"), wondering "(c)an it be that in the rush to turn a charming book novelty into a renewable resource, the whole Austen-and-monsters series has already jumped the shark?" "The A.V. Club" gave the novel a favorable review and a grade of A-, approving of Winters' "aggressive approach to transforming his assigned text