Emma.
Slate's Spoiler Specials
Slate Podcasts
3.6 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
On the Spoiler Special podcast, Slate critics discuss movies, the occasional TV show, and, once in a blue moon, another podcast, in full spoiler-filled detail. This week, Marissa Martinelli and Heather Schwedel discuss Emma. Though certainly not the first adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel, director Autumn de Wilde’s film humanizes the familiar characters and departs at times from the source material to bring a certain freshness to this comedy. Will Emma’s meddling still result in matchmaking errors? How far does she have to go to right her wrongs? And what’s with the inopportune nosebleed?
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:03.6 | I want to tell you my secret now. |
| 0:06.4 | I see dead people. |
| 0:09.4 | Silent breeding people! |
| 0:13.3 | No, I am the father. |
| 0:18.7 | What's in the box? What's in the box? |
| 0:25.0 | You maniac! |
| 0:26.9 | You blew it up! |
| 0:28.7 | Damn, you all the hell! |
| 0:33.1 | Hello, and welcome to Slate's spoiler specials. |
| 0:36.0 | I'm Marissa Martinelli, an associate editor here at Slate. And today I'm joined by staff writer Heather Schwedell. Hi, Heather. Hi, Marissa. Today we're going to be spoiling Emma, the new Jane Austen adaptation from director Autumn DeWild. Heather, I'm so excited to talk to you about this movie. We watched this movie together, and I got to hear all your reactions in real time, and I have been ishing to discuss them with you. |
| 1:00.5 | There was a lot of laughter and gasping during our screening. |
| 1:03.5 | Is that fair to say? |
| 1:04.7 | Yes, I think that's fair to say. |
| 1:06.4 | So where do you stand on Emma? |
| 1:09.2 | Are you a big Austin fan? Have you read the book, Emma? Have you seen other adaptations? |
| 1:16.3 | I read the book Emma in college or high school, so it's been a while. And I actually had not seen the major, I think of it as the most major adaptation, the 1996 one with Gwyneth Paltrow. |
| 1:30.1 | But I have seen Clueless. |
| 1:32.3 | Clueless has been like an enduring obsession in my life. |
| 1:35.3 | So I would say like my biggest familiarity with Emma comes through that. |
| 1:40.2 | I pulled up the trailer for the 1996 Emma just because I wanted to get kind of its vibe and I thought about watching it. |
| 1:46.9 | And then I was like, no, you know, let me just keep this most recent Emma in my head. |
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