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19. Dez 2015
Not as good as I expected...
I read Mansfield Park before watching this movie. The book, being fairly slow and less entertaining than Austen's other books, I wasn't expecting the movie to be as loveable as Emma or beautiful as Pride and Prejudice. However, the way this movie was done... Well, Mansfield Park itself looked far grand than I imagined it would, the characters were... so-so... I didn't like how they changed bits and pieces of the script, such as how Fanny accepted Henry's proposal, and then how she changed her mind the next day. I didn't like that Fanny's brother was left out of the movie, and that, although Fanny brought her sister with her, it was very discreet, and viewers probably wouldn't have even understood if they hadn't read the novel. Then there was this random scene in which Fanny finds a notebook of her cousin Tom's, and she pages through it finding disgusting grotesque drawings of people and creatures. This scene was not in the book at all. It was not even hinted, and it added absolutely nothing to the movie. I don't think Tom even had a sentence in the movie after this scene, and I still don't understand why on earth it was added in the first place.
Finally, the way the movie ended was... better than the book, I suppose since the book ended so abruptly. However, the ending was still found wanting, and I wished they had done a better job at it. Time passing and Fanny getting married was barely even alluded to, and the only way you figured out this had occurred was that she was heading towards her new cottage with her husband...
Definitely not the best of Austen's novels, and certainly not the best of her film adaptions.
We were disappointed.