Toby Stephens seemed merely miscast in the most recent TV version, from 2006. Dalton had the dark Byronic looks, Hinds the masterful mien, Hurt seemed wistful, haunted and miscast. The most recent cinema version was Franco Zeffirelli's 1996 film starring Charlotte Gainsbourg as the adult Jane (Anna Paquin, Sookie in HBO's True Blood, played the younger version) and William Hurt as Rochester.
Since then, TV has revisited Jane Eyre every 10 years or so: in 1973 with Sorcha Cusack and Michael Jayston in 1983, starring a pre-007 Timothy Dalton and Zelah Clark and in 1997, with Samantha Morton and Ciará* Hinds. British TV next serialised Jane Eyre in 1963, with the character actor Richard Leech – an intimidating presence, he played Mr Murdstone in the BBC's 1966 version of David Copperfield – in the role. There were five American versions in the early Fifties (including one with Charlton Heston as Rochester) before the first British serialisation, in 1956, with Stanley Baker – then typecast as the boorish heavy – as Rochester. The real rush of Jane Eyre adaptations had to wait for the television age, Brontë's story being well-suited to the expansiveness of a TV series. This Jane Eyre might have been better off remaining silent: the tinny dialogue comes across more like a drawing-room comedy than a Gothic romance. The first sound version was filmed in 1934, starring Colin Clive, in supremely dodgy sideburns, and Virginia Bruce, whose expressive, kohl-rimmed eyes were made for the silent era. There were seven silent films made of Brontë's 1849 novel, including Orphan of Lowood. But back to the un-zombified screen renditions of Jane Eyre.
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a movie is much more than its technical side. Is a disappointment because this movie adds nothing. Moreover, in the rest of the film her expression and facial changes are scarce. The following scene: marriage/ discovery of the secret happens with a rate that ruins any climax! Mia Wasikowska: seems that her talent really only appears in the most dramatic scenes in which she had to use tears. There is no gradation in their relationship! Where is Grace Pole and the suspicious laughter? (They have been ignored.) Rochester has no charisma! There is no real excitement, except in the scene where they expose their love. We are not given the opportunity to be involved in the relationship Jane/Rochester because there is any chemistry between them. They had eliminated things that, in the opinion of the writer, may be garbage (which makes the situation worse). Situations come and go without connection as if all the audience had read the book.
Jane, I ask you to pass through life at my side.
Rochester: Than let you will decide your destiny. Jane Eyre: I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you. It is my spirit that addresses your spirit, as if we'd have passed through the grave and stood at God's feet equal. I'm not speaking to you through mortal flesh. And if God had possessed me with beauty and wealth, I could make it as hard for you to leave me as it is for I to leave you.
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Jane Eyre: Am I a machine with out feelings? Do you think that because I am poor, plain, obscure, and little that I am souless and heartless? I have as much soul as you and full as much heart. Rochester, and it strikes me with anguish to be torn from you. I have not been excluded from every glimpse of what is bright. Jane Eyre: I have lived a full life here.