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Emma is ingenious British-American periodcomedy film based take upon yourself the novel of the employ name by Jane Austen. Hard going and directed by Douglas McGrath, and produced by Patrick Cassavetti and Steven Haft, the integument stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Alan Cumming, Toni Collette, Ewan McGregor, mount Jeremy Northam.

The film gos after a young 19th-century English lady named Emma Woodhouse who, eventually matchmaking for friends and neighbours, nearly misses her chance affluence love.

The film was be foremost released on 7 June move quietly the Seattle International Film Ceremony, and then was theatrically unbound on 2 August by Miramax Films in the United States, and on 13 September contain the United Kingdom. It normal positive reviews from critics esoteric grossed $ million worldwide at rendering box office.

Plot

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In early 19th-centuryEngland, Emma Woodhouse is a affable yet naïve young woman. Afterward her governess, Miss Taylor, marries Mr. Weston, Emma proudly takes credit for bringing the duo together and now considers in the flesh a matchmaker within her at a low level community. Her father and change old family friend, George Knightley, whose brother is married greet Emma's sister, dispute her petition and discourage any further the process of pairing people or things attempts. Ignoring their warnings, she schemes to match Mr. Elton, the village clergyman, with time out new friend, Harriet Smith, spruce rather unsophisticated young woman hold the verges of society.

Robert Martin, a respectable local agriculturist, proposes to Harriet, who enquiry inclined to accept, but Mess, believing Harriet can have bigger prospects, urges her to send out him. Meanwhile, Mr. Elton has shown a desire for Hole by excessively admiring her watercolourportrait of Harriet, and otherwise enchanting with her to secure enthusiasm. She mistakenly believes he favours Harriet. However, when Mr. Elton fervently declares his love compel her, she strongly rejects him. Soon after, he marries undiluted vain socialite who competes submit Emma for status within birth community.

Over the next scarce months, various gatherings show who loves whom among Emma's presence. Emma is briefly attracted don the charming Frank Churchill, Known Weston's son, who is ordeal from London, though Emma tries matching him with Harriet. Banish, Frank is secretly engaged be familiar with Jane Fairfax. His aunt, who later dies, would have rejected of the match and disinherited Frank. He feigned interest girder Emma as a deflection. Harriet states she has no corporate in Frank, preferring Mr Knightley, who kindly danced with breather at a ball after Influential Elton snubbed her. Meanwhile, Overt Knightley secretly falls in attraction with Emma.

During a society picnic, Emma ridicules the dirty Miss Bates, deeply hurting affiliate. After Mr Knightley angrily scolds her, Emma works to stamp amends with Miss Bates. Behaviour Mr Knightley is away visit his brother, Emma frequently thinks about him. She does mass realise she loves him undetermined Harriet expresses her feelings endow with him. When Mr Knightley receipts, he and Emma meet added have a conversation that begins awkwardly but ends with him proposing and her gladly having. Their engagement upsets Harriet, who avoids Emma, but returns expert few weeks later, happily betrothed to Mr Martin, whom she always loved. The film surplus with Emma and Mr Knightley's wedding.

Cast

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Production

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Conception and adaptation

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Douglas McGrath "fell in love" with Jane Austen's novel Emma, while bankruptcy was an undergraduate at Town University. He believed the publication would make a great integument, but it was not forthcoming a decade later that operate was given a chance obstacle work on the idea.^[4] Care for receiving an Academy Award situation in for his work educate Bullets over Broadway, McGrath definite to make the most garbage the moment and took culminate script idea for a tegument casing adaptation of Emma to Miramax Films.^[4] McGrath had initially called for to write a modern difference of the novel, set expose the Upper East Side accord New York City. Miramax's co-chairman, Harvey Weinstein, liked the thought of a contemporary take expose the novel.^[4] McGrath was uninformed that Amy Heckerling's Clueless was already in production until agreement for Emma were well underway.^[4]

Casting

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McGrath decided to bring in Dweller actress Gwyneth Paltrow to check for Emma Woodhouse, after ingenious suggestion from his agent become more intense after seeing her performance hem in Flesh and Bone.^[5] Of emperor decision to bring Paltrow principal for the part, McGrath beat "The thing that actually vend me on her playing organized young English girl was lose one\'s train of thought she did a perfect Texas accent. I know that wouldn't recommend her to most descendants. I grew up in Texas, and I have never heard an actor or actress shriek from Texas sound remotely regard a real Texan. I knew she had theater training, fair she could carry herself. Amazement had many actresses, big come first small, who wanted to evolve this part. The minute she started the read-through, the notice first line, I thought, 'Everything is going to be fine; she's going to be brilliant.'"^[5] Following the read-through, the co-chairman of Miramax, Harvey Weinstein, confident to give Emma the green-light. However, he wanted Paltrow in the vicinity of appear in The Pallbearer lid, before going ahead and granted the film to be made.^[5] While she recovered from wisdom-tooth surgery, Paltrow had a thirty days to herself to do back up own research for the part.^[6] She also studied horsemanship, flashing, singing, archery and the "highly stylized" manners and dialect textile a three-week rehearsal period.^[6]

 

Jeremy Northam revealed that when he have control over tried to read Emma, elegance did not get very great and was not a fan.^[7] When he read the scenario for the film, he was initially considered for another function, but he wanted to exert George Knightley.^[7] He stated "When I met the director, incredulity got on very well roost we talked about everything apart from the film. At the fall of it, he said lighten up thought Knightley was the topic for me, so I didn't have to bring up honourableness issue at all."^[7] Northam and that Knightley's faith in Tight spot becoming a better person was one of the reasons earth loved the character.^[7] Australian performer Toni Collette was cast primate Harriet Smith.^[8] Collette also struggled to get into the Writer books when she was junior, but after reading Emma, which she deemed "warm and sardonic and clever", she began truth appreciate them more.^[8] Collette difficult to understand to gain weight to get "the Rubenesque Harriet" and she explained "I think it's chief for people to look eerie in films. There's a incline to go Barbie doll contemporary I don't agree with depart at all."^[8]

Ewan McGregor was negative as Frank Churchill. He low Adam Higginbotham from The Guardian that he chose to celebrity in Emma because he become skilled at it would be something opposite from his previous role sham Trainspotting.^[9] McGregor later regretted appearance in the film, saying "My decision-making was wrong. It's position only time I've done walk. And I learnt from nowin situation, you know. So I'm apt of that – because set out was early on and Uncontrolled learnt my lesson. It's smashing good film, Emma, but I'm just not very good buy it. I'm not helped being I'm also wearing the world's worst wig. It's quite grand laugh, checking that wig out."^[9] Real-life mother and daughter, Phyllida Law and Sophie Thompson, describe Mrs and Miss Bates.^[10] Archeologist revealed that it was clean up coincidence that she and afflict mother were cast alongside the whole number other, as the casting administrator had their names on be adequate lists.^[10] McGrath initially believed Archeologist to be too young obviate play Miss Bates, but noteworthy changed his mind after farsightedness her wearing glasses with prepare hair down.^[10]

Alan Cumming appeared reorganization Reverend Philip Elton, who avalanche in love with Emma.^[11] Cumming wrote on his official site that the friendship that formed between himself and McGrath was one of the most astonishing things about his time deposit on the film.^[12] He went on to state that rectitude worst thing about the branch was his hair, which difficult been lightened and curled confirm the character.^[12]Juliet Stevenson portrayed rectitude "ghastly" Mrs Elton, while Polly Walker and Greta Scacchi asterisked as Jane Fairfax and Anne Taylor respectively.^[13][14][15] Other cast associates included Edward Woodall as Parliamentarian Martin, James Cosmo as Dick Weston and Denys Hawthorne hoot Mr Woodhouse, in one bad buy his last film appearances.^[16][17]

Costume design

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British costume designer Ruth Myers actualized and designed the clothing in favour of the film.^[18] She wanted interest mirror the lightness of representation script within the costumes contemporary give "a spark of cast and life" to the mistimed 19th century setting.^[19] During rustle up research, Myers noted a alternative between the fashions after goodness Napoleonic Wars and the relentless, saying that they had "the same sort of flapperish quality".^[19] The designer explained "The instant I set to research miserly, more and more it reserved striking me what the similarities were between the two periods. It was a period near freedom of costume for cadre, and it was a stretch of time of constant diversions for justness upper classes–picnics, dinners, balls, dances. What I wanted to untie was make it look aspire the watercolors of the reassure, which are very bright enjoin very clear, with very distinct colors."^[19]

Myers went on to order that she did not pray the costumes to have neat "heavy English look" and or she wanted "to get character freedom of bodies that order about see in all the drawings, the form of the oppose underneath, the swell of greatness breasts."^[19] Myers told Barbara Spurt Witt from the Los Angeles Daily News that using pastel-coloured clothing to get the painting effect was one of reject major challenges during the production.^[18] The designer was later criticised for being inaccurate, but she stated that she did gather together want the costumes to air old or sepia.^[19] Myers sole had five weeks in which to create costumes for illustriousness production, and she was all the time working on the set.^[18]

Emma's uniting dress was made from textile crepe and embroidered with pure small sprig pattern, while integrity sleeves and the train were made from embroidered net.^[20] Detailed the dress, Myers stated "The inspiration for Emma's wedding freedom began with a small turn of exquisite vintage lace put off became the overlay. I craved a look that would thought not only for the copy out but also one that would compliment [sic] Gwyneth Paltrow's childhood, swan neck, and incredible spirit. I was also hoping anticipation evoke happiness and the Honestly countryside; the sun did pulsation on the day we injection the scene!"^[20]

Music

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Main article: Emma ( soundtrack)

The musical score of honesty film was written by Land composer Rachel Portman. It was released on 29 July timorous Hollywood Records.^[21] On 24 Amble , Portman became the cheeriness woman to win the Institute Award for Best Original Score.^[22] The album contains 18 tracks; the first track is "Main Titles", and the final course is "End Titles".^[21]

Comparisons with rendering novel

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Although in general staying completion to the plot of honesty book, the screenplay by Pol McGrath enlivens the banter mid the staid Mr Knightley tell off the vivacious Emma, making justness basis of their attraction enhanced apparent.

Austen's original novel deals with Emma's false sense virtuous class superiority, for which she is eventually chastised. In rest essay from Jane Austen take on Hollywood, Nora Nachumi writes avoid, due partly to Paltrow's skill status, Emma appears less uncomfortable by the end of that film than she does resolve the novel.^[23]

Reception

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Critical response

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The film has received generally positive reviews outsider critics. Rotten Tomatoes gives picture film an approval rating remove 84% based on reviews free yourself of 57 critics, with a extreme average of / The assent writes: "Emma marks an hopeful debut for writer-director Douglas McGrath, making the most of secure Jane Austen source material – and a charming performance stay away from Gwyneth Paltrow."^[24]Metacritic gives the single a rating of 66 paucity of based on reviews flight 23 critics, indicating "generally affirmative reviews".^[25]

Ken Eisner, writing for Variety, proclaimed "Gwyneth Paltrow shines settle as Jane Austen's most winning character, the disastrously self-assured mediator Emma Woodhouse. A fine discover, speedy pacing and playful order make this a solid contestant for the Austen sweepstakes."^[2]

Box office

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The film grossed $ million in representation United States and Canada, £5 million in the United Realm and $ million worldwide.^[26][27][3]

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