Mansfield Park (2007), Grade: BI love all things Austen, so I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. But Mansfield Park isn't one of my top Austen novels. Fanny isn't my favorite heroine nor is Edmund my favorite hero. I think I enjoyed the older BBC version a lot better. In this version you don't quite get the abuse that Fanny has to endure while she's with her cousins. Aunt Norris is a horrible person, yet you don't quite get that feeling in this movie. And I just kept hoping that Edmund would wake up and smell the coffee when it came to Mary Crawford! He does, but it takes forever. The movie shows a lot of her and her brother as they talk of their schemes to marry into the family. Hayley Atwell was an excellent Mary Crawford. Fanny was played as more of a tomboy in this one. She seemed more of a genteel sort of personality in the other version. So all-in-all, it was a fun version and worth a view!
Part of the Everything Austen Challenge.
I'm reading this book now and plan to watch the film soon after. Glad you liked the film :) Thanks for the review!
ReplyDeleteI just watched this yesterday. Mansfield Park isn't one of y favorites either. For me, the movie moved really fast. I was a bit surprised by how Mr. and Miss Crawford were portrayed. Were you?
ReplyDeleteNot my favorite Austen either, but I'll probably watch this movie at some point. My daughter enjoyed it, too.
ReplyDeleteCertainly not my favourite dramatisation of an Austen classic either. I have to say I think it is let down by the miscasting of Billie Piper. She can play a cockney/Londoner well enough, but she is not convincing as minor gentry.
ReplyDeleteI havent seen this one yet either. Thanks for posting... reminds me to get going! LOL :)
ReplyDeletei'm still working my way through reading mansfield park. 3 weeks now. it's my evening reading. the characters aren't as fun as the other austen creations. but i'm curious to see what happens and who ends up together.
ReplyDeleteI've not read the novel yet, but loved the movie version with Jonny Lee Miller as Edmund. I'll have to see if my library has this one.
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