Movie
1999
Mansfield Park is a 1999 British romantic comedy-drama film based on Jane Austen's 1814 novel of the same name, written and directed by Patricia Rozema. The film departs from the original novel in several respects. For example, the life of Jane Austen is incorporated into the film, as are the issues of slavery and West Indian plantations. The majority of the film was filmed on location at Kirby Hall in…
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Today’s trend of conforming entirety of history and culture towards increasingly rigid limits of contemporary 21st Century “wokeness” isn’t anything new. Decades ago, artists, writers and film makers were trying very hard to reinterpret or “reboot” various works of art towards more liberal, progressive and “hip” values even when the originals were anything but. An example can be found in the works of Jane Austen, im…More
