Mansfield Park (1999)
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| | Customer Reviews: The worst adaptation ever made. (22 July 2010)This movie is an abomination. Jane Austin would have been ashamed to watch some of it's scenes. The director took so many liberties with this movie its ridiculous. She purposefully changed the main character "Fanny" from a sweet, wise, innocent, and honest girl, to a feminist with an anti-slavery agenda which was not in the book at all! Miss Crawford is presented as bi-sexual and Mr. Crawford is actually presented in a likable manner when you are supposed to know he is a flirt and a scumbag! All the majesty of a beautiful, wealthy house is some how missing and all the characters are inaccurate in some way from the way Jane Austin wrote them. Do not buy this movie. EVER. Loved the Book, Hate the Movie.. (14 July 2010)I recently read Mansfield Park, and loved the story so I couldn't wait to get the movie home and watch my favorite characters come to life....what a disappointment. Fannie price is supposed to be a quiet, mild mannered, sweet tempered young lady, she had opinion's but she didn't share them. I didn't care for the way Hollywood portrayed her character at all. Hollywood also got Sir Thomas's character wrong, they portray him as mean hearted and vile, while in Jane Austen's Novel he is quiet and distant but he loves his family and you get a clear sense of that... And where is William Price, Fannie's brother. He is such an important part of Fannie's life, and yet they dicided to cut the character from the movie....really! There is no love making or graphic pictures spoken of in the novel, why did they feel the need to put it in the movie...There are still people in this world that will watch movies without filth! I had no idea, Mrs. Betram was a opium junkie. Maybe I misunderstood her character in the novel....but I doubt it. Mrs. Norris, Edmond Bertram, Miss Crawford and Mr. Crawford's characters were spot on. But as for the movie as a whole, the lighting was bad, the screenplay questionable....I just didn't get it. I'm hoping some better qualified director and screenwriter will come along and give it another try... Mansfield Park - Frances O'Connor (09 July 2010)I really like this version of Mansfield Park. It has more of the Austin book portrayed on screen. I am a big fan of the classics. I will be ordering more DVDs in this genre in the future. Blu-ray Upscaling almost like BD disc (15 April 2010)Blu-ray upscaling of this DVD brought vast improvements in the colours and picture sharpness. The sub-titles were sharper and the picture quality was more vibrant. I play old dvds on the new Blu-ray players before consigning them to storage. This dvd seems to benefit from upscaling more than others. To be fair, the picture quality of this 1999 dvd was excellent to begin with. I was waiting for a Blu-ray version of this picturesque movie. Until a BD with restoration is released, an upscaled version is an acceptable compromise. Not what expected (16 March 2010)This movie was not what I expected. I have read Mansfield Park but did not have any trouble following the movie. I liked it very much. I would highly recommend this movie. |
