When I read the book of Mansfield Park the character of Fanny seemed to me to be a sort of fragile, sweet-tempered sort of girl but anxious about a lot of things. You would feel sympathetic towards her as she had a lot of hard experiences in her early life (being treated differently in a bad way and always being put down in some slight or treated unkindly). Then she would complain about everything and write to her brother William or talk with Edmund who were the only people in her life who comforted her and treated her with kindness.
When the movie was shown in class it was very strange. I had imagined Fanny having blonde curly/straight hair and here Fanny had dark brown hair. Even her very personality was different but not in a good way. In the book she seems shy and timid always afraid of something. In the movie she is like Elizabeth in that she is a strong woman, but here she is almost being passive aggressive in a way. When people put her down she is angered in a quiet way, but walks out of the room and cries. She seems always to want to speak her mind and get her opinions known. It seems the movie version is trying to get the readers/audience to sympathize with Fanny's situation where in the book they already care enough about Fanny to be right there with her in the story. In the movie there is a little bit of a disconnect to Fanny. In the book she is annoying at times, always complaining or crying about something or other. In the movie she is more interesting, but in an almost solemnly sad kind of way. I don't think the film accurately portrays the character of Fanny very well. It didn't capture the essence of Fanny, so I feel it is more of a loosely based on version of Mansfield Park as opposed to an adaptation.
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