Word: sexed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What's powerful about the novel is what's unsaid, but it was an era that was ripe with sexuality and flirtation and full of innuendo. Everything was sex and sex and sex...
...Well, once [Patricia Rozema] adapted the novel to have Henry be a viable match for Fanny Price, there was a dilemma after the Portsmouth scene [in that the relationship could still happen]. The sex scene seals the impossibility of their relationship--it's totally shocking...
...hate to do this to you, but... Imagine your parents having sex. Worse yet, your grandparents. I know, it's awful, one of those things that couldn't have been--but we all 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...
...that raucous spirit that we see a series of modifications: The Crawfords, Austen's villains, are noticeably less distasteful and quite unabashedly sexual; in general, characters are more unguardedly flirtatious, witticisms a little sharper, plot changes less subtle; and crowning it all is the "sex scene". The infidelity discovered via implication in a letter in Austens novel becomes a visual, shocking debacle in the film, quite in character with the brash nature of the adaptation. Amazingly, the director has planned her story in a way that makes this acceptable by keeping with her more open, admittedly "extreme" tone throughout...
...promptly divided the critics; most agreed, however, that Harris had infused his carefully written Hannibal with profound themes and delicate character textures. What a joke! The book, in a nutshell, tracks Clarice in yet another search for Lecter and gradually going insane. By the end, she's his sex slave and they feast together on human brains while the victim--still alive--sits at the dinner table. Laughing...