Adventure, spaguetti-western and murder

Some short Brontë references that we have found in the press today:

Bellaonline publishes several inspiring adventure quotes that include this one from Jane Eyre:

“It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.”
Charlotte Bronte

In DVDtalk the saga of spaghetti-westerns around the Django character is discussed. We are quite surprised to find the following comment of one of the films:

Django - Der Bastard (1967)
Per 100,000 Dollari Ti Ammazzo, Vengeance is Mine, One Hundred Thousand Dollars Per Killing
Directed by Giovani Fago

Here producers Luciano Martino and Mino Loy present a Spaghetti Western that incorporates a really intense and tragic story of lost love and inter-family betrayal. The resultant effect is kind of like taking a story that one of the Brontë sisters might have written and transposing it directly to the Spaghetti West.

From the spaguetti-western to the serial killer genre.

In The Daily Record we found the following article comparing one recent murder in Baltimore with Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre:

Villain or victim?

In Charlotte Bronte’s famous novel, a governess discovers to her horror that her employer, Edward Rochester, has been keeping his mentally ill wife locked away in his house. (...)

One year after Mary Kilrain was found dead in her Elkton home, John Dougherty faces trial for her murder. Was it a homicide, neglect — or something else?

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