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kate_nepveu) wrote2019-04-25 07:47 am
kate_nepveu) wrote2019-04-25 07:47 am
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Thursday morning links have a busy day ahead
Oral argument this afternoon, big dumb movie tonight, so just a few things:
Cool rocks I found while out with the kids this weekend.
The kids making bunny ears with their bunny cake.
Max Gladstone gets meta (no spoilers) in the amusing The Conversation Tony Stark and Thanos Should Have Had.
thefourthvine asks what story you would like to get the Spider-Man treatment—rebooted every five years—with the caveat that you have to watch each version. I'm leaning toward something heist-y like Leverage or Ocean's 8, because I could always use more heists, but I'm still thinking about it. You?
Edit: also please see these pictures and then give me hair style advice?
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The 1999 version directed by Patricia Rozema... At some point I want to rewatch it and see whether being in the headspace of "this is a movie set in the same time as Mansfield Park, with characters of the same names and a similar plot, but is completely unrelated to Austen's story" makes it more bearable. Fanny's personality is totally wrong, and the whole tone of the movie is off. I did like Rozema's bringing West Indies slavery to the foreground, but I didn't buy the details.
The 2007 version with Billie Piper -- again, Fanny's personality was wrong. I found it truer to the book than the 1999 version, but overall it left me unimpressed.
Mansfield Park is difficult to put on screen. Fanny Price is not a modern heroine: she's reserved and self-effacing; she has a strong sense of her low place in the Mansfield family and no desire to resist her position or advance herself, so it's hard to make her understandable and sympathetic to a modern audience without changing her personality. Mary Crawford is much easier to portray! Fanny has a rich internal life with strong feelings and opinions, but she rarely explicitly expresses them; another challenge for filming. I've often thought that a Bollywood production would do MP justice, with the musical numbers to convey the interior thoughts and feelings.
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