YMMV / Persuasion (2022)

• Memetic Mutation: Many Tumblr users adapted quotes from the novel to snark at the film. "All agony and no hope" is the most common.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: The film drew a lot of negative criticism from fans of the book for its Adaptation Personality Change of Anne, turning her from one of Austen's most pensive and mature heroines into a "messy millennial stereotype" (who drinks wine and dances alone in her room to Beethoven before the advent of recorded music), and giving her witticisms and cheeky fourth-wall breaks that might have been better suited to any other Austen leading lady and not the solemn and introspective one Jane Austen crafted in the final year of her life. This was not helped by the director's comments about how Austen's women are "always falling over and crying and getting the flu" while the leading men are "foppish, glamorous, and socially able". Very few Austen protagonists fit these descriptions^note the closest for the first is Marianne Dashwood, and it is treated as a serious character flaw — in fact, Jane Austen mercilessly parodied them as early as in Love and Freindship — and the remark reinforced fans' opinion that the filmmakers didn't understand Persuasion at all.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: A few Austenites have suggested that the anachronistic slang, fourth-wall-breaking, and Cringe Comedy would have been great for an adaptation of Northanger Abbey, which is an Affectionate Parody / deconstruction of Gothic Novels (in which heroine Catherine is a Gothic fangirl who is Wrong Genre Savvy). Others still have stated that if they were going to include that many modernisms, they may as well have gone the whole hog and done a Setting Update version of Persuasion, similar to Clueless (which was based on Emma).

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