This version is my favorite though they definitely took a lot of liberties. Its sort of like they took the story and looked at it and put in things they thought were probably there but that Jane Austen just did not feel was polite to talk about (the slavery thing might be a good example. Austen wrote that was Sir Thomas' land because she knew someone who had that. Yet, slaves would have been a big issue, especially in very "fast" and/or intellectual groups in London as in 1811 England abolished slavery after a lot of hearted politics.) It was sort of weird how that was such a big emphasis.
Jane Austen as Fanny was sort of weird, especially since I really like that Fanny is different from the standard heroine, but the costume designs for her and for Miss Crawford say a lot about their characters.
I think that them having properties in Antigua is mostly put in to have an excuse for sir Thomas to go away for over a year. Hm London society is not exactly a good thing in MP. It's like they took the relationships from Mansfield Park and ran off with them making their own story out of it.
Edmund's hair changes a lot, doesn't it? From long in 1983 to this. No idea how appropriate it is. The more I learn the less I know.
Oh, it is something to get Sir Thomas off the stage, but there's also a reason she chose that particular way to get him off stage. Austen wrote to ask the people who owned land in Antigua about it at one point.
I think Mansfeild reflects a very certain set of morals, really one that's kind of repressive almost. But then, Austen did not like the Regent or the watlz or some of those other things that were contraversial morally from that time....
I like how this version dove right into the Prices' situation and how very poor they are. I'm also strangely fond of this Mary Crawford. Edmund was a bit more bland.
I think this is the version where they shot the dance scene linking together the gaze/lines of Henry Crawford-Fanny-Edmund? It was a really well-done shot.
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Jane Austen as Fanny was sort of weird, especially since I really like that Fanny is different from the standard heroine, but the costume designs for her and for Miss Crawford say a lot about their characters.
Wonder how time appropriate Ed's shorn hair is.
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Edmund's hair changes a lot, doesn't it? From long in 1983 to this. No idea how appropriate it is. The more I learn the less I know.
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I think Mansfeild reflects a very certain set of morals, really one that's kind of repressive almost. But then, Austen did not like the Regent or the watlz or some of those other things that were contraversial morally from that time....
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I think this is the version where they shot the dance scene linking together the gaze/lines of Henry Crawford-Fanny-Edmund? It was a really well-done shot.
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