September 14, 2011
What percentage of the screenplay can be attributed to her personally and what to Miss Austen? “It’s a fairly good question. Most of it comes from Austen. I sort of put a comb to it, like running a comb through hair. Other people were involved, too. An example of that would be the line: ‘Charles, you cannot be serious!’ That sounds like McEnroe on the tennis court. It’s mostly Jane Austen, but sometimes simplified and compressed. Emma Thompson did some dialogue, and Emma’s a wonderful Jane Austen writer.” (Deborah Moggach, Screenwriter)   

What percentage of the screenplay can be attributed to her personally and what to Miss Austen?

“It’s a fairly good question. Most of it comes from Austen. I sort of put a comb to it, like running a comb through hair. Other people were involved, too. An example of that would be the line: ‘Charles, you cannot be serious!’ That sounds like McEnroe on the tennis court. It’s mostly Jane Austen, but sometimes simplified and compressed. Emma Thompson did some dialogue, and Emma’s a wonderful Jane Austen writer.”

(Deborah Moggach, Screenwriter)

  

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