![]() I am sure I would have thought it was an average film if I didn't know the original source, but it was a big disappointment. Clever, studious, and a writer with an ironic imagination and fine moral compass, she becomes especially close to Edmund, Thomass younger son. Jonny Lee Miller's Edmund is not nearly pious and conflicted enough. MANSFIELD PARK 1983 2 Ray of happiness Follow At 10, Fanny Price, a poor relation, goes to live at Mansfield Park, the estate of her aunts husband, Sir Thomas. ![]() In the film he is just always a big, mean bully. ![]() With so many storylines to choose from in the book, I wonder why new ones were added, such as the slave trade and opium use? It is a shame that Sir Thomas didn't have the character arc seen in the book, that has him appreciate Fanny more and show her greater kindness when he returns from Antigua. I think the writer/director should have had more faith in the characters in the book. There was no sense of period or restraint in her portrayal. She was smiling (constantly), having pillow fights, speaking her mind. While Frances O'Connor is a wonderful actress, she played Fanny all wrong. Now I understand that they probably wanted to make it "more appealing" to today's moviegoers, and I know that it's hard to fit all a book into a film - but why did they change the essence of who Fanny Price is? She is a highly moral, quiet, smart, very put-upon young lady. ![]() Maybe it was a mistake to watch this adaption of Mansfield Park the day I finished reading the novel. ![]()
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