Reception
did not enjoy nearly as much publicity or success at the box office as ... It was not a particularly popular selection among critics looking for films to review. But as soon as the public fascination with Austen adaptations became obvious, critics hurried to include reviews of Persuasion, which they had previously ignored, in their film reviews of Sense and Sensibility. This juxtaposing of the two films led to a curious trend among critics to praise the "pretty" 1995 film version of Sense and Sensibility and to condemn the "gritty" 1995 film Persuasion. This seems to indicate a public privileging of the romantic over the realistic. It also seems to indicate a preference for the "hyperreal" over the "real".
— Amanda Collins comparing both films' reception.Read more about this topic: Persuasion (1995 Film)
Famous quotes containing the word reception:
“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
“But in the reception of metaphysical formula, all depends, as regards their actual and ulterior result, on the pre-existent qualities of that soil of human nature into which they fall—the company they find already present there, on their admission into the house of thought.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)
“He’s leaving Germany by special request of the Nazi government. First he sends a dispatch about Danzig and how 10,000 German tourists are pouring into the city every day with butterfly nets in their hands and submachine guns in their knapsacks. They warn him right then. What does he do next? Goes to a reception at von Ribbentropf’s and keeps yelling for gefilte fish!”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)