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Normally, I don't care what a movie adaptation does with a book, as long as it's a good movie (consider how The Shining is a brilliant film because of Stanley Kubrick, whatever its relationship to King's book). What I find annoying about the type of revisionism Fattore is discussing is its knee-jerk solace in romanticism. It's okay to have some movies that smack of humanist delusions about romantic love, but why must the overwhelming majority of our entertainments be saturated with the myth of humanist romanticism?
Look at March of the Penguins, a documentary film whose narration betrays a completely false impression of the emperor penguin mating ritual simply to satisfy the desire of many humans to see animals inhabiting the mythical world of romantic love.
Why can't anti-romanticism prosper, whether in Jane Austen films or somewhere else?
