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Sense and Sensibility (1995) More at IMDbPro »

• Anachronisms: Marianne plays three different contemporary keyboard instruments, but each sounds like a modern grand piano.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: Mismatch between Marianne's keyboard actions for "The Dreame" and the sound it produces.
  
  
• Continuity: In the dance scene when Elinor ducks between the dancers on first pass she is wearing a shawl low on her arms. When she comes back between the same row of dancers only a second later she is not wearing the shawl.
  
  

• Continuity: The scene in which Lucy Steele reveals to Fanny Dashwood that she (Lucy) and Fanny's brother (Edward) have been secretly engaged initially shows Lucy stroking a dog. When Fanny realizes what Lucy is saying, she becomes hysterical and sends everything flying, but the dog is no longer there.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The story takes place in the early 1810s. However, when Margaret is hiding under the table in the library, Edward Ferrars refers to Belgium and Vladivostok. At this time, the region now known as Belgium was under Dutch rule and only became a separate country in 1830. The city of Vladivostok was founded in 1860.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When the fiddler exits the church at the wedding, the fiddle is fitted with a chin-piece, which was not used on fiddles until the twentieth century.
  
  
• Continuity: At the end of the film, as Edward is coming up the road, Elinor is working in the garden; her hands grimy up to the wrists. As the women rush into the cottage just seconds later, the amount of dirt on her apron doesn't match the dirt that was on her hands, and her hands are practically clean.
  
  
• Continuity: When Elinor and the rest of the family stands when Edward comes with the news of his brother's wedding, first Elinor's hands are at her sides, then they are under her apron (presumably to hide her dirty hands), and then they are back at her sides.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The film is set around 1810 (the original novel was published in 1811). There are a pack of dogs, one of them a Golden Retriever, near a gate. Golden retrievers didn't come into being until after 1850, when so many of the gun dog breeds were formed.
  
  
• Factual errors: In the wedding scene, Colonel Brandon wears a military coat - but it has only a single epaulette, which was the mark of a junior officer, no higher rank than captain! And it has gold buttons and silver lace loops on the lapels, which is an impossibility in British military uniform where buttons and lace are always the same colour, either both silver or both gold. (Mixed metals colours were known in French military uniforms, but never British ones.)
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: In the library scene, when Margaret has her back to the camera, her battery pack microphone is clearly visible attached to her waist.
  
  
• Continuity: When Marianne and Elenor return from London, and join the Palmers at their estate, Marianne walks to the top of the hill to see Willoby's estate. Elenor is inside by the window. First Mr. Palmer hands her a cup of tea, which she takes from his hand. The next shot is of Marianne, and then cuts back to Elenor. She no longer is holding a cup, but Mrs. Palmer pours another cup and hands it to her.
  
  
• Continuity: Time of day inconsistency: The scene at Norland where Edward is reading the poem is set in the evening. The following scene where the Dashwoods receive the letter from Sir John Middleton occurs in the afternoon. The next scene between Marianne and Elinor in the bedroom occurs again at night but is referred to as if it had happened earlier the same evening.
  
  
• Anachronisms: In asking, "is love a fancy, or a feeling?" Marianne quotes the first line of a sonnet by Hartley Coleridge (son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge). This poem was written/published in the 1830s, two decades after the setting and publication of Sense & Sensibility.
  
  

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