I love you, Jane Austen, but...

[katranna]

Mansfield Park's heroine, Fanny Price, is amazingly contemptible in her ridiculous passivity, priggishness, and Mary Sueness. She lacks precisely the qualities that made your other female characters so interesting: ie, spirit, a lively mind, and a sense of humor. All she has is cringing timidity, frailty, and Virtue

Comments

[electricwitch]

Egh, I don´t like Mansfield Park much. Except the implied incest. Or was that just in the film.

Anyway, get yrself to glam_lolz, it´s Bolan week.

[katranna]

Oh, it's kinda in the book too. Hahah, definitely makes one go wtf?

Am not sure glam_lolz is the best place for me this week, I think I take it a bit wee too seriously. :-) Doesn't help that I'm studying Dionysus stuff now.

[electricwitch]

Ah dear. No lolzy ideas on what he would have done if he had lived? That´s the theme, I tried to put the most positive spin on it that I could think of, hee.

[katranna]

I think I'll be more in the mood for that on the birthday rather than the deathday, hee. See, too much Dionysus and Orpheus for me right now. First one descends into the underworld with the death and is all somber and srs, and then one ascends back up for the reincarnation/re-whatever you wanna call it, and then you can get drunk and be lolzy.

[electricwitch]

and I´ve been posting all the lolzy quotes. No-one is appreciating it, bah!

[katranna]

Actually I quite enjoyed those. :-D

[electricwitch]

lol, well I was hoping you would XD

Anyway, I agree with you, it´s better to celebrate on his birthday, but if I don´t make this into something happy I´d spend the whole week crying.

[katranna]

I'm also really too busy to make macros, but it sounds better to say that I'm just that sensitive. :-D I will be making a Very Sad Playlist for The Day though, starting with something like Cosmic Dancer and ending in Dandy in the Underworld, and encompassing Spaceball Ricochet and maybe Teenage Dream and Life's a Gas and that sort of thing in the middle.

[glamourcorpse]

Which version does Youtube have? The bigscreen release one, or the made for British TV one?

[katranna]

This was about the 1999 version, I think it was a bigscreen release. :-)

[glamourcorpse]

Thanks. I had to watch that for Film and Literature class. I really want to see the TV one because if I'm not mistaken it has Billy Piper in it. Rarr.

[radrac]

Meh, it's all just the industry trying to play to the intended audience.
I mean, nowadays no one would go to a movie that was advertised as "insipid female gets pushed around until someone stand up and fights her battles for her."
Remember, the movie will be directed at women (as most men wouldn't be caught dead watching this) and the industry seems to feel that today's woman is a mix between slut, clothes-horse, and militant feminist.

So yea, go with that

[katranna]

By all means, it's an improvement. I fully support "the industry" in this particular move. However, even the New fanny is obviously nothing close to "slut, clothes-horse, and militant feminist"--she's more like... Jane Eyre or something.

Though "slut, clothes-horse, and militant feminist" is not a bad way to be! :-D

[greensword]

Yeah, I actually would have no shame in being somewhere between a slut, a clotheshorse, and a militant feminist. Provided I could also be a nerd and a tomboy on the sly.

[greensword]

God, I hate Mansfield Park. I also saw the movie you mentioned (as in, 'saw it in a video store', not 'actually subjected myself to it'). My dad was with me, and I ranted at him about it in great length until he was like, "Look, I love you, Shauna, but I can't listen to any more about Jane Austen or else my brain will melt."