“Colonel Brandon materialises at her side and wordlessly offers her his hunting knife. Oddly nervous, Marianne takes it. She turns back to the rushes and cuts them with ease. The Colonel’s gaze follows her movements as if held by a magnet.”
Sense & Sensibility (1995), Screenplay by Emma Thompson Based on the novel by Jane Austen
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Dammit Marianne. You don’t deserve him.
I just rewatched this movie, and I was once again struck by how this whole scene could be straight out of a Romantic...