Precisely. Mr Wodehouse is not a cheerful cove who Emma can exchange sarcastic remarks with. AS soon as they are a double-act, things are completely different.
This Emma looks like she should be playing Lucy Steele. And a not particularly intelligent Lucy Steele at that. Emma would never do that finger-prod at the window that she does to Miss Bates - if she's routinely rude it completely defangs the Box Hill scene (and there wouldn't be a Box Hill scene, which comes surely not just in the moment but out of a build-up of Emma being driven out of her mind being polite to boring people over a long period of time).
I think I might rewatch the Paltrow version, which I've got on video. Although quite light, it does get that Emma is clever.
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This Emma looks like she should be playing Lucy Steele.
And a not particularly intelligent Lucy Steele at that. Emma would never do that finger-prod at the window that she does to Miss Bates - if she's routinely rude it completely defangs the Box Hill scene (and there wouldn't be a Box Hill scene, which comes surely not just in the moment but out of a build-up of Emma being driven out of her mind being polite to boring people over a long period of time).
I think I might rewatch the Paltrow version, which I've got on video. Although quite light, it does get that Emma is clever.