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Hallmark To Race Swap Nearly Entire Cast For Adaptation Of Jane Austen’s ‘Sense And Sensibility’
That Park Place ^ | February 2, 2024 | John F. Trent

Posted on 02/06/2024 3:08:29 AM PST by C19fan

The Hallmark Channel has race-swapped nearly the entire cast for their upcoming adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility.

Sense and Sensibility was the first novel written by Jane Austen and is set in the late 18th century. It follows two sisters Marianne and Elinor who find themselves in tough circumstances after the death of their father, who leaves his fortune to his eldest son from his first marriage. The two sisters, their mother, and their third sister leave their home and move in with a cousin.

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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: drama; hallmark; period; race; raceswapping; regency; ridiculous
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Looks like another new period drama production I will boycott. Since Hallmark is the producer, I will not be missing anything as the acting will be dreadful.

I boycotted the recent BBC adaptation of Dickens' "Great Expectations" with black Estella and Jaggers.

1 posted on 02/06/2024 3:08:29 AM PST by C19fan
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They only do this because black people are not creative enough to come up with decent stories on their own. They need to appropriate our culture because they recognize that it is superior.


2 posted on 02/06/2024 3:18:24 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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Race swapping because the societal impacts of primo-genitor and the possession and residency in English country houses and the effects on status, family and marriage are a universal social concern affecting those of African heritage as much as those who grew up in a tenuous position in the British class system.

I will be awaiting this thrilling development with bated breath.

3 posted on 02/06/2024 3:31:09 AM PST by AndyJackson
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It’s not even our culture. Those of English heritage left to escape that nonsense.


4 posted on 02/06/2024 3:32:14 AM PST by AndyJackson
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I certainly hope their ratings suck and put an end to this crap.

If no one watches, it will eventually sink in...Hallmark doesn’t have the deep pockets of a Disney to keep churning out clinkers.

Too bad...the channel used to be mildly entertaining. Now, it just sux.


5 posted on 02/06/2024 3:35:50 AM PST by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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What a great idea, just like The remake of The Wonder Years. CANCELLED after two seasons. Season 2 was only 10 episodes so it was knowingly dead after season 1.


6 posted on 02/06/2024 3:38:54 AM PST by DAC21
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Just more anti-White BS. Why don’t they create their own stories instead of undermining existing ones?


7 posted on 02/06/2024 3:46:54 AM PST by Altura Ct.
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make no sense and insults sensibility.


8 posted on 02/06/2024 4:11:48 AM PST by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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Will Hallmark’s anticipated new audience be entertained by it at all?


9 posted on 02/06/2024 4:12:52 AM PST by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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Apparently there are no good black authors writing about black protagonists. Du Bois must be rolling in his grave.


10 posted on 02/06/2024 4:15:42 AM PST by Sirius Lee (Next week on The Bickersons... )
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If Hallmark wants to capture the true essence of urban black ghetto culture they can film in Papua New Guinea, watching the natives roast a cadaver before devouring the human flesh from head head to toe. Then afterwards, using the skull to play a round of basketball. This is the winning platform of the democrat party.


11 posted on 02/06/2024 4:23:31 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To anyone with any sense of actual history the pics look wildly odd and out of phase. It isn’t just wrong it’s stupid. Unwatchable.


12 posted on 02/06/2024 4:25:02 AM PST by TalBlack (I We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: Sirius Lee

If it’s from a black author the story will be about racism. I never watch these programs with the racial recasting. Complete turn off of what could have been a good movie or series. It’s so fake.


13 posted on 02/06/2024 4:29:58 AM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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When South Park did the same thing it was pretty funny
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14 posted on 02/06/2024 4:35:23 AM PST by The Louiswu (Pray for Peace in the world.)
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make no sense and insults sensibility.

Please! Next you'll be telling me H'wood will do a remake of "Ghostbusters" with all females....

Wait....uhhhhh.....nevermind.

15 posted on 02/06/2024 4:50:14 AM PST by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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How totally discordant and woke this is, like using a transgender male as a spokesperson for Bud Light. Know your audience. When will this insanity end (absolutely ridiculous and gratuitous). If I were a black actor, I would not get near this remake with a ten foot pole; it’s an embarrassment and demeaning to them. And it’s always some woke white liberal behind this kind of fiasco. Geez.


16 posted on 02/06/2024 4:58:24 AM PST by flaglady47
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The Hallmark Channel has race-swapped

That same hyphen woulda worked well in the headline. W/o the hyphen, the headline is needlessly garbled.

17 posted on 02/06/2024 4:59:01 AM PST by Migraine
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And when this culturally appropriating adaptation inevitably flops, it will be because everyone’s “racist”, not because it was a crappy, preachy, boring mess.


18 posted on 02/06/2024 5:09:00 AM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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Black is promoted as historically real when it isn’t. The viewer is supposed to not see the skin color of the Black English Earl


19 posted on 02/06/2024 5:11:06 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Hamascide is required in totality)
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Talk about stunt casting...


20 posted on 02/06/2024 5:12:37 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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