Jane Eyre

[Boleyn]

OK who is going to watch it at 9pm?

thanks jackie imagine - she has "Heightened RP"!!!

and 'Stage Combat: advanced'.

Well, yes, she still loved Rochester and so she went to see what became of him.

The problem she had w/St. John's proposal was precisely that: that marriage is supposed to be based on love.

But St. John had a way of making her doubt herself.

Some men, in RL, are like that.

Thing is - I don't like Rochester - not in this or in the book. Fell in love with Heathcliffe, thought Rochester was a selfish pompous git. Though am warming to that twinkle...and know that if I had been Jane i would have a rather different take...

I'm enjoying it and really like Rochester. I disagree about the pace of the first episode - I was glad it raced through the school stuff so quickly as I think that section of the book is sooooo boring! For me, it only really comes alive once she meets Rochester.

Have I remembered it wrong or isn't it actually Rochester disguised as a gypsy in the fortune telling scene, rather than him hiding behind a screen as the TV showed it?

What do people think of the woman playing Grace Poole? For some reason I'd imagined her as younger than that - no real reason why.

janeite, yes you are right, it was Rochester himself who dressed as a gypsy woman and told their fortunes. I wondered what was going on last night when the woman was plainly not rochester. I suppose Toby Stephens couldn't pull it off!

Dear me, just clicked on that link about the actress who plays Jane. I had read Jane Eyre before she was born! Now I feel old.

janeite, I thought it was quite a good solution to have him hire a woman to play the gypsy but not as sinister as in an other production (can't remember which maybe the William Hurt one?) when the woman's face was almost entirely in shadow and her voice was all scary wary etc. Loved it. This was somehow not as gothic as it might have been. But I am HOOKED even though I know what happens... can't wait to see what they do with Mrs Rochester.

I hated Heathcliff.

I wanted him to wander off a cliff somewhere.

Arsehole.

I thought that about rochester and the gypsy too - thought I must have remembered it wrong.

Hello hatlady!

Sorry to jump into this one a bit late. I didn't see it until tonight.

Jane Eyre is one of my favourite EVER books, the whole atmosphere is just amazing. I'm a huge Bronte fan. And although I agree that Toby as Rochester isn't how I'd imagined, I think he's doing a good job. I'm slightly more disappointed by Ruth Wilson as Jane. In the book she's meant to be tiny and mouse-like but sort of quietly rebellious as well. I don't get that sense of her at all in this adaptation.

Am I dreaming or did James Mason once play Rochester in a very old film version of the story?

don't know about that imaginaryf - I googled him and got this film:
www.missinglinkclassichorror.co.uk/eyes.htm

The night has eyes I think it's called which has elements of jane eyre - it looks brilliant actually. I love books about remote scary big houses.... could this be it?

Oh yes, I have seen that. It's fabulous. But I still have a memory of James Mason in those scenes towards the end when he's blind.

James Mason was Max de Winter in Rebecca - could it be that that you're remembering?

Is it repeated any time during the week? I think I will have to read the book anyway, it's definitely my cup of tea. Does anyone remember the t.v version,it must be atleast six or seven years ago with Samantha Morton and Ciaran Hinds? It was pretty good. Am kicking myself I've missed so much of this especially since the reviews are so positive.

multitasker I loved that version too - even though I started off not being very impressed with whoever cast Hinds as Rochester - but I thought both he and Morton turned out to be very good.

Thanks, and of course James Mason was in Rebecca - so easy to conflate the two!

A friend rang just now to say she watched episode 1 and 2 last night. She is very upset by Rochester's hair which is apparently in need of a good brushing - I hadn't noticed that. Also she thinks he's is too young (I said, no - we're just too old!), too twinkly of the eye, and too much doing an impers of Hugh Grant. Altogether spoiling it for her. Well, I'm' enjoying it anyway!

i am SO sad but just watched a trail for next week's programme with Jane at death bed of Vile Aunt... excellent.

I must have missed the C Hinds/Morton version. See, that's ace casting to me. Hinds being appropriately saturnine.

Am now remembering C Hinds as Capt Wentworth...

Sigh

and CH in Ivanhoe (even though he was a baddie, as I remember).

(loving your name, Jackie)

I thank you

Yes, in Rebecca, of course! I'm still vaguely seeing him as a blind guy though. I'm prepared to see it as a misplaced dream memory though. Maybe when i was reading the novel for the umpteenth time I was imagining Rochester looked like James Mason ...

JackieNoHead, what was your 'normal' name.

I'm struggling to think of a halloween name and trying to avoid the obvious imaginaryfiend!

Am glad that others noticed the gypsy thing - I thought I'd remembered it wrong too. The other change they made which I thought was a shame was the writing on Helen Burns tombstone, in the novel it bore just a single word Resurgam but they showed it with her name and dates - I thought it lost the impact a bit. The implication is that it is jane who places the headstone there and the inscription is a summary of her faith/hope of better things outside Lowood. Agree with the overall atmosphere just not being Gothic enough in feel. The red scarf appearing at the tower window is annoying - I think it hinted at things too early and is a total addition.

Bought a new copy of the novel yesterday and as I'm away over the weekend on hol, should have plenty time to get stuck into it. Looking fwd to next installment.

Oh yes, the scarf annoyed me too! Am sorry - Mr Rochester may be a bit too twinkly and Hugh Grantish but he's still lovely!!! I particulalrly liked him in his red riding coat, next to Blanche's purple - I thought it showed the fakeness of Blanch really well (and Rochester's fakeness in his attempts to "love her") compared to Jane in her dowdy but natural colours.

The Samantha Morton/Ciaran Hinds version was on ITV3 a couple of weeks ago. I watched most of it then screwed up the recording so didn't see how good it was after Jane goes back to see Aunt Reed. Hinds was outstanding in Persuasion and quite good in this, they had Morton's Jane spend too much time wandering about gossiping how Grace Pool should be sacked though.

Maybe this Jane with Hinds Rochester? Toby Stephens I still picture from The Camomile Lawn, all smirks and sexiness, a handsome Rochester! And why, if they were doing this and Wide Sargasso Sea at the same time, didn't they keep the same Rochester? He is quite young anyway.