How to adapt Jane Austen -- and why it's so hard to get right
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From the Colin Firth-starring "Pride and Prejudice" to "Clueless" to "Persuasion," filmmakers find endless inspiration in the books of Jane Austen. CNN spoke to Austen scholars about why we love Austen adaptations, and why some can be so hard to nail down.
And yet, filmmakers keep trying.
There are the modern retellings -- "Clueless," which dropped its Emma Woodhouse in Beverly Hills and dressed her in Alaïa, and this summer's "Fire Island," a version of "Pride and Prejudice" with gay protagonists. There are those that stick closely to the text, like Whit Stillman's uproarious "Love and Friendship" and the 1995 "Pride and Prejudice" miniseries that turned a generation of viewers into Colin Firth-as-Darcy diehards.
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