Mansfield Park

Trailer—Mansfield Park

when i began to watch this movie i was frankly appalled by the shoddy direction and sub standard camera work, not to mention Billie's acting, or lack thereof! and then, all of a sudden came the appearance of Blake Ritson as the dashing Edmund. To be perfectly honest if he were my cousin, i'd do him too! lucky Billie. he is a pillar of charm, wit, and style. his slightly indie haircut and perfect accent rendered him irresistible! and on that basis alone,i would highly recommend this movie to anyone! its a delight and the plot is wonderfully romantic and fulfilling, like many other itv film productions of Jane Austen's work.

I must admit that in most of the movie, I got irritated at Billie Piper's Fanny Price-character. Because I thought she was to childish, silly, naive and quite ignorant. But as the time went, the movie got more and more enjoyable. I found it very nice and quite interesting. And what an ending. The ending was really romantic and sweet. And which movie is perfect any way? No one! There's not even a perfect human being on this planet, so give this movie or whatever you might call it, because we always get a second chance, so why shall it be betrayed? And many of you haven't even seen the ending of this movie. And the ending is the best part of it all. Enjoy and act like the way you should be acting, next time you are going to give a movie a review, because you might spoil it for the rest of us.

This was not the greatest adaptation I have seen of a Jane Austen novel, but it was by no means the worst, and I feel that some of the comments written by other contributors have been unduly harsh. To be fair, if you want really great Jane Auten heroines then you should look no further than Keira Knightly (in Pride and Prejudice) or Gwynneth Paltrow (in Emma). But then both of those productions had huge budgets, brilliant casts, and certainly the former benefited from one of the finest pieces of film direction I have ever seen. (If you can get to see Pride and Prejudice with the director's spoken comments, as shown on Sky recently, then it is a very worthwhile exercise.) This made-for-TV production was much lower budget, and it showed. But that does not justify some of the mean criticism levelled by others. Billie Piper seems doomed to be remembered as Dr Who's sidekick or Chris Evans' former wife, while her earlier performance in Ruby in the Smoke demonstrated that she is a very capable actress. So, too, here, and she was really let down by some less able direction within a limited shooting time-frame. Would the BBC have done it better? Probably ... but on the whole this was a fair crack at a slightly lesser known Jane Austen story, and worth a second look with a slightly less critical hat on!!!

Oh dear, well so far this show hasn't got very good reviews, and I don't understand why because all in all I thought it was very enjoyable. Much of the plot was missed out, but this is understandable because it is a very long book which had to be squeezed into a 2 hour slot. In the book, we can see Henry Crawford's love for Fanny building up over quite a while, but for those viewers who have never read the book, it comes as a surprise and happens too quickly and for that reason doesn't quite work. Also I think that Mrs Norris doesn't seem quite odious enough. However there are many positive things to say about the adaption. I think Edmund Bertram is quite to perfection; just how I imagined him. Billy Piper did a very commendable performance - and we see her grow throughout. Overall I would say it is well worth a watch, genuinely!

Why bother, ITV? Admittedly, Mansfield Park is the most difficult of the novels to "get," and Fanny is certainly the hardest to like, but... If one is going to take it on, then have the courage to risk being true to the book and its rather complicated spirit. And for heaven's sake, have the guts to cast Fanny as she was written: A prissy, good-hearted, sweetish, whiner! Mrs. Norris wasn't nearly as awful as she should have been. And what the heck happened to Portsmouth? The contrast between Fanny's rather dubious family and family home and the splendors of Mansfield is key to, well, so many aspects of Fanny's refusal of Henry, her uncle's rejection, Henry's near transformation to a good person, etc., etc. Again, given the complexity and challenges of the novel, why did they bother? It's beyond me...

As a fan of nearly any period drama, and at that a huge Jane Austen fan, I was horrified by this adaption. As a fan of the 1999 version of Mansfield Park, I was constantly comparing the two and this fell far short. It felt hugely rushed and very one-dimensional so that it became boring very quickly. There seemed to be no subtly to the relationships, particularly that of Fanny and Edmund, and little atmosphere despite being set in a beautiful location. Despite having looked forward to the Jane Austen season since Christmas I turned this off after an hour and went to bed. I will be interested to watch the adaptations of Persuasion and Northanger Abbey, of which I have no much-loved version, to see if they still manage to bore me in such a manner.

A excellent adaptation of the Jane Austen novel. Similar adaptations include Jane Eyre which was featured on BCC1 last year. Billie Piper acted the part of Fannny Price brilliantly and also played the part with emotion and graceness. I loved her relationship with Edmund and how their relationship grew throughout the show. The plot was excellent and acted fantastically by both actors and i can't think of a thing that was wrong with this show. I hope Mansfield park comes out on DVD so i can enjoy it many times again. This was an excellent show and hope many more people will watch it. There will be more adaptations of Jane Austens great classics know to us all. I hope they are acted just as well as Mansfield park.

The scenery breathtaking, the acting fantastic, the characters well portrayed but with added passion. If anyone has read all of Jane Austens books as i have, I'm sure that you will find that out of all her leading ladies, Fanny Price is the dullest therefore i am glad this production showed a more passionate story and although not a complete portrayal of Fanny Price i thought the story well put together and all together beautiful. I was so enchanted by it that i walked away at the end of the production beaming as i thought it so beautiful. For a comment on the acting i thought that Billie Piper's Fanny Price was very well done and that Blake Ritson's Edmund Bertram was worth watching if not only but to drool over him. Enchanting, beautiful and worth watching: this coming from a viewer who is not intellectually-challenged!

Was this sponsored by Wash and go? Was the hair stylist on strike? What a mess! Would well-bred young ladies of those days be seen in public with hair like Billie Piper's? Casting Ms Piper was a big, big, big error. She is undeniably attractive to look at, but, after Dr Who, the natural place for her was EastEnders, not in a Jane Austen adaptation. Her looks and demeanour are completely out of place. The ITV website shows the makers of the film saying (this is the gist) that Fanny Price is a boring character, but that they fixed that by bringing in Billie Piper. If they had so little sympathy or understanding for Jane Austen's original work, why did they bother adapting it? (Were these the same people who gave us 'Marple'? The same blinkered, tied-to-the-zeitgeist mentality was at work there too). This version is rather boring. It also seems to be a very low-budget one, bound to the one setting. The so-called picnic (a few people standing around on the lawn of the house) is an unbelievably feeble scene. But it is at least vastly better than the 1999 version.