Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
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> In Ang Lee's universe, it's as if the sixties and seventies' sexual
> uprisings either didn't happen (Brokeback Mountain) or were
> fundamentally misguided and ended only tragically (The Ice Storm).
> Only his Regency venture (Sense and Sensibility) ends happily (but in
> that case he had to, based on Jane Austen's plot).
It (S&S) didn't have to end as happily as he made it happen: the final scene (the wedding picture) includes a smiling Mrs. Ferrars. Austen had not yet hit her stride in S&S, but she certainly did not include _that_ 'happy' an ending.
Carrol