denisa-dellinger If you are a Janeite, as people who love all things Jane Austen, you are not gleeful about the latest adaptation of Mansfield Park. This latest BBC version of the classic seems to leave a sick feeling in ones stomach from the very beginning. Where does one begin? Characters: no character development whatsoever, wrong character traits in all of the characters and whole characters essential to the story left out. It seems that the writer just jumbled a few plot lines from the book and added a few of his or her own and moved the story along so quickly that no one had a chance to identify with the main character Fanny Price or any of the Bertram family for that matter. What or who brought the Crawfords into the neighborhood? Even these characters were shortchanged. Any hour and a half film would not do justice to any story but why with Masterpiece theater the main distributing network seek to put together a piece of shoddy work like this? They have done such mini series such as Downton Abby and other book adaptations so well that they have taken awards. Why slight poor Jane? or Fanny Price for that matter? It seems like they just decided one day to update the timeless stories written by the mistress of the 19th century novel and had a third grader write the screenplay. I have to say that the definitive Mansfield Park adaptation was done as a miniseries in the 80s. Fanny may have been a little stiff but she is by no means a hoyden or a perky girl with stringy hair worn down. Fanny never ran through a house in her life and would not be caught dead doing so, in fact, she was not a hardy strong girl at all although she did a lot of walking and was known to be a avid rider. There was nothing wrong with the casting. They only acted to the lines they were given so I do not fault them. I would like to give BBC a tip. When next considering adapting Jane Austen to the small screen, please use do use real authentic dialogue and real plot lines. Do not veer off and do your own thing. Those who watch are more knowledgeable that you and will catch you in your shoddy work and eviscerate you in it as seen in these previous reviews.

Ben Larson I have to confess that I have little experience with Jane Austen, or with period pieces. I only came to this film as it stars Billie Piper of Dr. Who fame.Of course, the costumes of the period show off Piper's assets, as well as everyone else.One thing I find fascinating is the constant focus on marriage. It seems that love hardly enters the picture. It is a competition to see what kind of a match (titles and/or money) can be made.I was beginning to despair that Edmund (Blake Ritson) would ever choose the right woman to marry, but he got his head right in the end.

domvig-693-916147 I am happy to see other people as outraged as i am about mansfield park. It is my favorite of all the jane's (minus persuasion, northanger abby and lady susan which i haven't read yet. I haven't seen this film but i saw the other one made in '99 or something and i didn't get past the first 14 minutes. they made fanny price seem too much like jane herself and totally changed her countenance, which in my opinion is the subject of the book. Don't call it mansfield park if it isn't mansfield park!I really have to write ten lines??? thats retarded...anyway what more can i say about this ... They made fanny price (in the other movie) loud, will say what she feels no matter what and playful and she is none of those things. Defenet slap in the face.

Kara Dahl Russell For a teenager who has never read Austen, this adaptation might be fine. But only for them. This is a disjointed "Cliff Notes" version of Mansfield Park, and if you have not seen another version or read the books parts of it would be head scratching.Why has it been so hard to do a good adaptation of this book? The one in the 1990s took such liberties that it barely seemed to be the same book - the mindset was completely modern and prurient.Here we have Billie Piper who looks like a pretty country wench. She has a charming personality that develops nicely - but she has flagrantly died blonde hair, with black eyebrows and - through much of the pic - dark brown roots. So much for unspoiled cousin. It is incredibly distracting, and the rest of the cast is in the greasy hair, rumpled clothing genre that shows a real disrespect for period accuracy.One thing is good here - Haley Atwell is the best Mary Crawford of all the versions. She is note perfect, flirtatious without being at all modern or suggestive, flippant and completely without any moral or ethical compass. Henry here is actually good looking enough to be a slight temptation for our heroine.Jemma Redgrave takes one of the most interesting roles in the story and manages to make her actually boring until her last scene - much too sensible. This is just a production that really missed the mark, a real low for Austen fans.The only serviceable version is the one with odd duck (perfect for the role) Sylvestra La Touzel (despite the very very gay Henry Crawford - he's just laughable).