I think Jane Campion in her defence would say that we're all just a bunch of Keats nerds who know far too much for our own good
It's like anything else; each of us have a pet hobby or interest, or something we care a lot about and if these things are brought to a wider public consciousness by being turned into a film our own vision of them changes by the imposition of another's viosion of the same material.
Bright Star is Jane Campion's own vision, her own interpretation of how she sees Keats and that period of his life; it does not and should detract from the facts as we know them, or our own internal sense of what Keats was really like.
Anybody who's ever had their favourite novel, play or TV series turned into a film will have mixed feelings about the results.
A lot of you guys love Harry Potter; I'm indifferent to it but I know a lot of people have been very disappointed by the film adaptations of those novels.
I love history, and ancient history and I balk when Hollywood makes historical epics with very little history in them at all.
When we care about, and have explored a subject in depth to such a degree that all the tiny minutiae become part of our entire conception of that subject we are unwilling, nay reluctant to see these things discarded in the name of populism [not that bright Star will become sort of runaway blockbuster].
We each of us have our internal vision of what is most important in Keats life story, of what is the essential pith and marrow of the man and when someone from outside the world of Keatsiana appears and claims one part of his life to weave a story around for a wider audience our own hackles are raised; like a cat we show our claws and are ever at the ready to defend our own little patch of ground.
It's a matter of us trying to disregard our own visions of Keats and his story, and learning to love another's.
Many of you are Keats scholars, teachers, professors even who have studied these things in much more depth and with a lot more perception than myself and I can understand your disappointment, and I share your, and have many of my own concerns about how Keats is served up and shown to the world, that this may lead to a false impression of him, somehow lessen him in our own and the general public's mind.
This is the fate however of any figure from history or art; while it may present them as different to our own eyes, it may ignite a new interest and passion in those who had never known of, or cared anything about Keats, may lead to a whole upsurge in people wanting to read and study and learn more the man from seeing his portrayal as a character in the film.
So here's to making our peace with this new film, this recreation of a kind of Keats [not our own, but we all have a different Keats in mind] and to hopefully seeing a new group of people becoming as interested and passionate as we are about the life and work of Keats.
"Oh what a misery it is to have an intellect in splints".