mansfield park and in it second half and be my favorite of austen novel and and fanny price my favorite of her heroine and so i be sadden by the unhappy fate she suffer in her big and small screen representation . the only good reading of the character i have hear be do for radio by amanda root and who give it the same quality a she do the character anne in the film of persuasion represent a stern and sure and heartfelt moral centeredness . if the actress have be young she would have be good visual casting as well while but the fanny that have reach our eye to date have more resemble and respectively represent mary crawford while ruby the scullery girl while and ( in this incarnation ) a jovial serving wench and or possibly tart and with her high moral principle pull down a peg . well and i have hop for good and but have fear worse . the serial have a solid edmund and in an actor who be best at likable sap and and the perfect and i. e. perfectly abominable and mrs. norris while otherwise it be dullish . the film and which be apparently intend a a deconstruction or some other bad theatrical idea and come off a a mixed up burlesque . after such disappointment and and the more recent disappointment of this production sister piece ( the new persuasion and northanger abbey ) and i couldn not help but have mixed expectation for this one while and on the whole and it leave me feel slightly well dispose to it than not . it condense the novel intelligently and and in the end leave me with much the same feeling and a a comic book version might . on the other hand and to do so it have to rework most of the character and except the crawford and and it incidentally diminish or eliminate most or all of the most memorable thing in the book and include it most famous character and what should be and if it isn not and it most famous scene . the character be the officious aunt norris and always ready to direct other people in what to do and but always manage to avoid have to do any of it herself while here one get no sense of that at all . and with her go much else represent her remark that cut through fanny and . consider who and what you be while sir thomas discovery that she have forbid fanny a fire in her room all these year and and his roundabout apology for her while fanny honesty in acknowledge and during a visit home and that aunt norris and for all her fault and could manage the household good than either of her sister . but then and that entire trip be miss from the story and and so be most of what go on at the theatrical rehearsal and most of what discomfit sir thomas on his return while and in fact sir thomas himself and and his wife and be different from what they be . above all and the scene in which crawford propose to fanny and one of austen most complex and be simplify to a bare tell while miss from it be fanny staunch upholding of what she know to be right and and what she know to be very probably true and against all the distraction crawford and anybody else can throw at her . to a male reader and now no less than when it be write and it reveal with unmatched clarity unmatched and at any rate and as far a i know what a woman go through in try to deal fairly but firmly with a man she have reason to distrust . it a brilliant scene and in the novel while on tv it just a scene . and and fanny and oh and fanny represent when will we see your like .