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Summary: Mansfield Park - book definetely better than movie
Review: This movie does not do justice to the book. It does not capture the full meaning of the story and a few elements in this film are completely out of character. If this film is regarded separate from the book, it might deserve a higher rating. A few important scenes which take place in the book are replaced by others in the movie which alter the feeling of the particular moment. If you wish to see a movie that stays true to Jane Austen's book, this is not the movie for you. To watch this movie and to possibly even enjoy it, the viewer must regard it as an entirely separate piece. It is true that this movie has a few worthy moments, but the book is more worthy of your attention and time.
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Summary: horrible
Review: this is the worst of the recent adaptations of jane austen novels. by far. i'd give it NEGATIVE 5 stars if i could. the story is rushed and confusing, and the characters have no depth or charm. even mrs norris is bloodless in this film. a terrible, terrible screenplay. this is what happens when a feminist decides to rewrite literature/history to fit her silly idealogy. it's as if a male chauvinist decided he didn't like the 'effeminate', 'wimpy' hamlet, and turned the indecisive, tormented dane into an uncomplicated, take-charge, rambo-type action hero! what a total travesty that would be of shakespeare's classic. who in his right mind could sit for that? so who in his right mind can tolerate what's been done to fanny price? it's the same thing. fanny has a right to be fanny, even if it doesn't agree with some woman's notions of what a woman 'should' be. let's be frank: most women are NOT liz bennetts, even if many think/wish they were. so why should all movie heroines be foreced to fit this one narrow, ideological mold? why can't women just be women in the movies like they are in life? there's nothing wrong with fanny price. she's a beautiful character...read the book instead, and skip this film. fanny - and jane - deserve better than this.
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Summary: Mansfield Park
Review: If you love Jane Austen stories, as the British say, "Give this one a miss!" Our heroine, Fanny, is terribly mis-characterized (as compared with the book, and after all, what else is one to compare it with?); so too, her benefactor, Sir Thomas. Fanny is made out to be somewhat bold-instead of timid- and the Bertram scion is portrayed as positively mean. If these changes to Austen's brilliant story aren't travesty enough, this screenwriter chose to make the story into a campaign against Slavery--a theme never touched upon by Austen-on the flimsy excuse that the Bertrams have financial interests in Antigua. To give you an idea of just how far-fetched and far-afield this is, try to picture the lovely movie, Emma Thompson's "Sense and Sensibility" as being turned into a rant about the Abuses and Excesses of The Church of England, merely because one of the central characters wants to be a vicar! It's a clear case of taking too much 21st century liberty with a 200 year-old story.
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Summary: Not faithful to the book
Review: I was disappointed with the changes to Fanny's character and the "spicing up" that was done to the storyline. The changes made were purely commercial. The old BBC version is a truer adaption of Austen's novel.
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Summary: Loved it!
Review: I just loved this film. I just had to buy it to add to my collection.
If you love "Sense and Sensability", "Pride and Prejudice" and anything of Jane Austen, then you will love this movie! It is just fabulous.
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Summary: HAVE THE MAKERS READ THE BOOK?
Review: THE WORST ADAPTATION OF A JANE AUSTEN NOVEL THAT I HAVE EVER SEEN. THIS RIDICULOUS FILM DISPLAYS A COMPLETE MISREADING OF THE NOVEL FROM THE BEAUTIFUL ACTRESS WITH ATTITUDE PLAYING AUSTEN'S STRONG BUT MEEK FANNY PRICE, TO THE MANIACAL, MONSTROUS PORTRAYAL OF SIR THOMAS BERTRAM AS LITTLE BETTER THAN SIMON LE GRIS! GIVE THIS ONE A MISS AND READ THE BOOK!
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Summary: NOT JANE AUSTEN!!!
Review: I bought this DVD and was extremely disappointed. The 'writers' really destroyed her characters as she wrote them; they defiled Sir Thomas's character with gratituous sex drawings and introduced the subject of master/slavery sex into the story... this movie is enough to make her spin in her grave.
This wasn't a movie to put in the hands of those who did it. Only those that did Pride and Prejudice for A & E have even touched on the real Jane Austen.
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Summary: Jane Austin's Story Spoiled
Review: As an enormous fan of Jane Austen, Mansfield Park is one of my favorite books. The emphasis on integrity in the book and it's innocence is completely destroyed by vile additions in this movie. How can anyone be so egotistical to think they could improve on a Jane Austin story by adding "politically correct" modern elements never even hinted at in the origional story? Jane would roll over in her grave to see the shocking, in your face sexuality gratuitiously added to her beautiful love story. I enjoy Jane Austin so much mainly because I don't have to worry that my senses will be asaulted by the kind of immorality Hollywood loves to depict so graphically. Shame on the makers of this film.
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Summary: better than the book
Review: I saw the movie before I read the book and that is what inspired me to read the book. It was (is) a sluggish book and it took me quite a wile to get through. The movie on the other hand was lively and enjoyable and the right amount of time. Frances O'Conner is now one of my favorite actresses due to this movie, because she acts so well in here. The mean characters do a wonderful job being mean wile also being sympathetic-which isn't easy to do. To those people who complain about it being "to altered" they should try reading the book- then they may realize how much better a movie it is. Also I believe that Julia is played by Justine Wallach (or whatever her last name is).
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Summary: Watch O'Conner.
Review: While Austen is hard to spoil, this is probably the weakest in the procession of adaptations that came out of Hollywood in the last decade. The main reason to watch it is the up-commer O'Conner, who somehow manages to create a believable and endearing character out of the confusion of Fanny's updated, spunky attributes and her lingering devotion to a stilted, wimpish Jonny Lee Miller. The sprawling momentum of the film is hung on little else: the minor characters are not very interesting, and the tacked-on slavery issue doesn't hold up. Still, you care for the girl; her struggles seem noble, and her happy ending is satisfying. I imagine that girls in particular might appreciate Fanny more than some of Austen's other heroines, whose troubles are more social than internal and are therefore somewhat less innocent. But you would want to screen the slavery intervention scene, which is not Austen.
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