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...feel about introducing actual sex into a Jane Austen movie...
...Well, he's an unusual type of cad--not the Austen type, really. He genuinely loves [Fanny] and really reassesses his behavior. Nobility inspires him. It's harder to judge him because he's not really all that bad. His affair with Mariah is a typically human thing--how often do people break up and sleep with someone else...
...research included] historical accounts and paintings. I went to the National Portrait gallery in London. We read this manners book, called What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew which was heaven. I realized that the thing about this period was that everything was sacrificed for the sake of appearance. [The costume man told me] one's trousers must be so tight they show one's mood...
Innuendo, Wit and Blatant Sexuality Abound in Patricia Rozema's Austen Adaptation
...know it happened. The idea crashes through the barrier of your typical illusions of parents/grandparents--sterile virgins who exist only in the context of...well, you. Breaking down these types of barriers is exactly what director Patricia Rozema attempts to do in her rather unorthodox adaptation of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park. Indeed, Rozema crashes through the "garden party" of archetypal Austen movies (think Emma Thompson and Kate Winslett running breathless over the moor in Sense and Sensibility) to present a more richly satirical piece full of innuendo, witticism, and blatant sexuality. Yes, you heard right: sex in a Jane Austen...