Having been most gruesomely electrocuted and thrown against a wall to my death, in Skyrim, I decided on a break and a film. Finding Mansfield Park available I decided to watch it - I definitely haven't seen this version and I recently started to reread the book but Fanny Price was never my favourite heroine, and I didn't get very far. So I decided I could watch the film instead. Anyhow... I only just started it but it seems Aunt Norris's lines are identical to the book so far, while Fanny herself is quite different. She's got more confidence and and seems to enjoy making up gruesome stories (probably about Skyrim adventurers being electrocuted) which she then tells her sister who was actually a brother in the book. I wonder if little Susy will be sent to sea, too? Probably not... Anyhow, she also wrote a short history of England, as well - which is something Jane Austen did, not Fanny. So far I'm finding it a slightly odd mix of adhering strictly to some parts of the book and going off script entirely for others... And I'm not even 15 minutes in
Edit: And it wasn't until I recognised Hugh Bonneville as Mr Rushworth that I realised it must be older than I thought, though I recognised several actors and they did all look young(er).... It's from 1999/2000.
Edit2: I might have to finish the book after all, because besides rushing through most of what I seem to recall from the book, the film also added stuff that I'm pretty sure wasn't there. Sir Thomas Bertram was, as I recall, a nice but reserved man who frightened young Fanny because he didn't smile enough. The film Sir Bertram was ... ew. And I've always recalled one of the boys dying but he didn't. Maybe he didn't in the book either... But I'm certain Fanny never walked in on those two, in the middle of, you know...
Although I do think I recall some of the consequences.
Anyhow, my plan was to watch a film and crochet, but Gandalf decided I was to be a cat pillow for most of the time, so... I think I got around 30 stitches, 1st row.