The part of Persuasion [N*tflix’s movie fic for money] that I have been caught the most on is using “Für Elise”
I get the frustration with writing and the characters and the style and the costumes (especially Anne) and what the added and what they removed is a big. Even after the trailer, it was worse than expected.
But they (and I don’t care to know who ‘they’ may be) deliberately chose to add in a known and specific piece of music and draw attention to it by naming it. It shouldn’t have been impossible to find a song a decently accomplished pianist of the time would know and can be danced to. But they didn’t put in the effort even for that. Beethoven might have written it before Persuasion takes place, but it wasn’t published until 1867. There is no way at all that Jane Austen would have even known it existed.
I learned that in a minute of basic internet searching. I didn’t even have to click a link. To me this carelessness (or perhaps disregard) says all that needs to be said about the seriousness/capabilities/priorities of those who made the movie.