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Apr. 11th, 2020 03:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anghraineI’m ambivalent about the Romola Garai Emma, but I would murder a kitten* for a MP adaptation that treated Fanny and Mary along the lines of the way that Emma did with Emma/Jane/Frank.
Like … both are brought to live under the guardianship of a rich and powerful uncle, both are enormously shaped by their upbringings within their foster families, but those upbringings are very different and Mary and Fanny are wildly different in personality yet attracted … and I think it could also raise the emotional stakes for the audience, which is sometimes difficult for people with MP adaptations.
I can just imagine seeing tiny Fanny vs tiny Mary and Henry, but in the same basic positions—like, being led to a fancy door or something. And then there'd be young Fanny being almost sent away to Mrs Norris, leading to Mary sending herself away from the admiral, to the two meeting at last ... okay, that's probably more of a graphic novel than a film, not that I can do either. But if I could that is how I would adapt MP.
*not my kitten
Like … both are brought to live under the guardianship of a rich and powerful uncle, both are enormously shaped by their upbringings within their foster families, but those upbringings are very different and Mary and Fanny are wildly different in personality yet attracted … and I think it could also raise the emotional stakes for the audience, which is sometimes difficult for people with MP adaptations.
I can just imagine seeing tiny Fanny vs tiny Mary and Henry, but in the same basic positions—like, being led to a fancy door or something. And then there'd be young Fanny being almost sent away to Mrs Norris, leading to Mary sending herself away from the admiral, to the two meeting at last ... okay, that's probably more of a graphic novel than a film, not that I can do either. But if I could that is how I would adapt MP.
*not my kitten