Ohmigawd, yes! Hands down my favorite adaptation of Jane Eyre. The Orson Welles version is great and all, but Orson Welles is just too handsome to be Rochester. (Sentences I never thought I'd type!) There's something about him that is too polished -- it might just be the way films were made in the '40s. But Toby Stephens -- oof!
It's a super-sexy version, for sure, but it really captures how scandalous the whole book is for a modern viewer very well. Most adaptations of Jane Eyre are so restrained and therefore a little dull (for me, at least), but this one is so full of passion.
They do muck up the gypsy fortune teller scene, which I think is a fairly important one, but I guess I'll just have to get over it.
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Date: 2009-06-09 01:21 am (UTC)It's a super-sexy version, for sure, but it really captures how scandalous the whole book is for a modern viewer very well. Most adaptations of Jane Eyre are so restrained and therefore a little dull (for me, at least), but this one is so full of passion.
They do muck up the gypsy fortune teller scene, which I think is a fairly important one, but I guess I'll just have to get over it.