Both novel and film succeed on the fact that she's so comically gifted in her mastery of the art of being a complete bitch. He also likes Lady Susan's lack of conscience, which is important in filming an adaptation, because she is potentially an awful piece of work. Whit Stillman borrowed liberally from Mansfield Park in his first movie, Metropolitan, from 1990, so he has an affinity with Austen. She needs a rich husband emancipation is hardly a concern for someone so unscrupulous. That question of freedom and independence bothers Lady Susan only in practical, rather than intellectual terms.
Lady Susan struggles to find a husband for herself and her "stupid" daughter after the death of her first husband. It does fit Austen's more famous works in other ways.
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