Whenever people are comparing literary adaptations and go well of course it's going to be very compressed it's a film! the adaptation can't help that! Like... I'm sorry but film is just one medium and if you choose a certain medium you're responsible for the consequences. They could've made a mini series but they didn't. I will complain about the story being compressed!
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Feeling such a craving to rewatch the 1983 Jane Eyre once again because not only is it the most faithful to the book, Dalton and Clarke have amazing chemistry together.
Clarke is the perfect Jane, winning him over with her words and mind and Dalton has “I LOVE MY POCKET WITCH” energy radiating out of every scene. Adorable.
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Reverse unpopular opinion: Jane Eyre adaptations
This one is easier, because there's so much I actually like about different Jane Eyre adaptations! They truly are a sort of kaleidoscope of the book and its readings.
1973 has an excellent Rochester, and includes many favorite details that are often overlooked, like Abbot's garter, Blache being a brunette, and the apothecary that suggests the idea of Jane going to school. It also has a great Miss Temple and Helen Burns.
1983 has an excellent St John Rivers. Andrew Bicknell and Zelah Clarke (Jane) play off each other beautifully.
Watching 1996 opened my eyes to the themes of mercy and Providence (and has the most amazing score). It's the one that gets the closest, IMO, to Jane's severe exterior hiding her passionate heart.
1997 does a feat of covering so much of the book in so little time, and has some severely underrated photography -the scene of the sunrise at Milcotte Hill? the top notch work required from everyone, director, photographer, actors, editors, to pull it off and make the sequence look right? Jane walking through the stormy moors at dusk? it doesn't get credit enough for it. It's also Beauty and the Beast! It has the "letter to Pilot" bit! and the ending scene shows the caliber of Ciaran Hinds and Samantha Morton as actors.
2006... is well beloved for a reason, because it so captures the essence, the vibes of what people usually like about the novel. It explores the moods of the story, and gives us a very sympathetic version of both Jane and Rochester.
2011... honestly... the concept of two people, one in virtue and one in vice and yet both experience the heaviness of existence, the ennui that is only lifted when they are together... and showing it rather than telling it... including the uneasiness and surreality of the courtship, in contrast with the peace and rest of the reunion... there's merit in that, and poetry.
Send me a topic, and I will have to only say positive things about it, give a reverse unpopular opinion.
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So in rewatching the LBD and watching the Autobiography of Jane Eyre for the first time, I have to say I think I like JE's more natural even shaky approach to filming the eps. I feel that LBD is a bit too polished at times plus, we really miss out on other characters' viewpoints. I know that's the Point bc this is her diary and as Lydia once said, "Lizzie sees what she wants to see," but part of what makes P+P so great is that tho we see the world through Lizzie's eyes we're also able to gather info from other character's that help shape our own conclusions. PLUS WE REALLY REALLY MISSED OUT ON HOW OFTEN DARCY JUST STARES AT LIZZIE. like can u imagine if during her and Jane's stay at Netherfield when their house "was under construction" Lizzie decided to record while they had dinner or hung out and in the background, u saw Darcy just fixated on her and smiling to himself while she's recording completely unbeknownst to her and she doesn't even mention it
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Hate when women in novels beg for attention, ma'am you're literally a 10, manipulate tf out of that guy
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