{"id":1609344,"date":"2022-08-16T17:02:38","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T21:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1609344"},"modified":"2022-08-16T17:03:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T21:03:17","slug":"i-watched-netflixs-persuasion-so-you-dont-have-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-watched-netflixs-persuasion-so-you-dont-have-to\/","title":{"rendered":"I Watched Netflix\u2019s \u2018Persuasion\u2019 So You Don\u2019t Have To"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fi-watched-netflixs-persuasion-so-you-dont-have-to%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1609344&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Hollywood continues to serve as the vanguard for wokeism, shamelessly promoting progressive values at the price of cinematic quality. <\/p>\n<p>Among its recent embarrassments are:\u00a0\u201cLightyear,\u201d and \u201cFantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore\u201d both promotes an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/comics\/2022\/06\/17\/lightyear-same-sex-couple-kiss\/\">LGBTQ agenda; <\/a>\u201cGhostbusters\u201d and \u201cBatgirl\u201d underwent a feminine makeover; \u201cCuties\u201d is sex-positive; and Marvel\u2019s\u00a0\u201cThor: Love and Thunder,\u201d was declared the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pgRMRamzoyE\">gayest Marvel movie ever<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Each movie underwhelmed at the box office and gloriously suffered from negative reviews.<\/p>\n<p>This summer, we were treated to yet another doozy: Netflix\u2019s adaptation of Jane Austen\u2019s \u201cPersuasion.\u201d Don\u2019t worry, though, I watched it so you don\u2019t have to.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Riddled with nods to the woke mob, the movie makes antagonistic jabs at the traditions and values of the Georgian era it aims to depict. The characters frequently attack \u201ctoxic masculinity,\u201d forcing in lines such as, \u201cMen like explaining things\u201d and, \u201cSorry. There I go trying to protect you.\u201d It casts Lady Russell, a trusted and respectable confidant, in a sexually suggestive light. It checks racial diversity boxes, lazily and dishonestly erasing the reality of the age. One character perverts a religious proverb into a silly secular saying: \u201cThe universe always has a plan.\u201d The characters act morally offended at period-accurate norms \u2013 such as the idea that a man of wealth might be in want of a wife. But no one bats an eye while ranking other people hot-or-not.<\/p>\n<p>Netflix threw together modern lingo with some older vernacular and tried to remove Jane Austen\u2019s characters and costumes from their time, making for an embarrassing replica of 1817 England. It infused Austen\u2019s masterpiece with modern sensitivities and effectively deconstructed her picture of true virtue \u2013 arguably the very essence of \u201cPersuasion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the shallow, historically inaccurate bows before the woke mob, Netflix\u2019s adaptation trades Austen\u2019s depiction of deep goodness and sweet femininity for cheap, over-sexualized, and aggressive feminism. It confuses vice for virtue and paints pride as pretty in a shameless degradation of true beauty.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>My only consolation is that the movie itself was so pathetic, disingenuous, and entirely unentertaining \u2013 having destroyed the original story beyond all recognition \u2013 that it lost the power to plague young women with its false ideals of womanhood and beauty.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the original novel, Austen\u2019s main character, Anne, is a lovely and delicate, dignified and wise woman with human complexity. Her virtues are balanced with timidity, excessive generosity, and a \u201cpersuadable temper,\u201d which, though well-intentioned, leads her to err. Netflix cast Dakota Johnson, the former \u201cFifty Shades of Grey\u201d star, as Anne \u2013 but this was by no means Jane Austen\u2019s Anne. In fact, Johnson butchered her.<\/p>\n<p>Granting Netflix the benefit of the doubt, perhaps they never intended to create Anne Elliot for the screen as she is in the novel. Instead, they made an entirely new character. They confused soft-spoken Anne Elliot with bold Elizabeth Bennet (how, I\u2019ll never understand), and they scraped together a shallow woman whose pride serves as her defining character trait.<\/p>\n<p>Anne of Netflix rolls her eyes some five times in the first 30 minutes of the movie, an ugly habit Anne of Kellylynch Hall would never allow herself; her humility and kindness would prevent it.<\/p>\n<p>Anne of Netflix borders on alcoholism, a plot device the origin and purpose of which remain a mystery. The real Anne upholds the utmost temperance of tongue, rationality, emotion, and one assumes, substance, as well.<\/p>\n<p>Anne of Netflix prides herself on her sex-appeal and is infatuated with Captain Wentworth for his. She makes a crude reference to herself and calls the captain\u2019s appeal \u201celectrifying.\u201d The true Anne holds herself reserved, even to a fault. Never would she put such an intimate part of herself on display, even as a modernized version of herself. She would not denigrate herself so; it is out of the scope of her nature.<\/p>\n<p>Jane Austen worked diligently as a flag-bearing, first-wave feminist to depict women as more than child-making and -rearing wives. She touted women\u2019s intellectual authority and moral capacity as equal to that of men\u2019s. Netflix successfully strips women of their virtue, moral strength, and purity and boils them down to naked sexuality, in a performance that is nothing short of offensive and repulsive from the \u201cFifty Shades\u201d star.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anne in the movie relishes her family\u2019s humiliation. She celebrates it. Anne in the book is mortified when her family is humiliated. Despite coming from a family of caricatures of vanity and self-pity, Anne never wishes them ill \u2013 she invests her life in their welfare.<\/p>\n<p>The proud version of Anne calls attention to herself \u2013 often and awkwardly \u2013 not to say anything of value, but to tell a story about a sensual dream of an octopus. (Yes, it hurts me too.) The lovely Anne carefully calculates her every word to do the most kindness, \u201clisten[ing] patiently, soften[ing] every grievance, and excus[ing] each to the other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anne in the movie is a morally degenerate,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood continues to serve as the vanguard for wokeism, shamelessly promoting progressive values at the price of cinematic quality. Among its recent embarrassments are:\u00a0\u201cLightyear,\u201d and \u201cFantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore\u201d both promotes an LGBTQ agenda; \u201cGhostbusters\u201d and \u201cBatgirl\u201d underwent a feminine makeover; \u201cCuties\u201d is sex-positive; and Marvel\u2019s\u00a0\u201cThor: Love and Thunder,\u201d was declared the \u201cgayest &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1609430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1609344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1609344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1609430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1609344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1609344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1609344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}