The movie turns one of Regency literature’s most complex heroines into a Manic Pixie Dream Spinster.
Austen’s novel uses third-person narration, but one with many insights into its heroine’s observations and opinions. The film translates this by having Johnson offer commentary in voiceover as well as deliver asides directly to the camera . Anne thus recites verbatim many lines otherwise belonging to the novel’s narrator, such as noting that vanity is “the beginning and the end” of her father’s character.
She is aAs in the book, the film sees Anne, her father Sir Walter Elliot , and her elder sister displaced from their home when financial mismanagement forces them to relocate to Bath and rent out their estate—to none other than Fredrick Wentworth’s sister and her husband. Wentworth is now a wealthy captain in the Royal Navy who still resents Anne for leaving him, even as he spends time with her and her in-laws, the Musgroves.
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