Jane Eyre in Time Out

The C19 board (compulsory registration) continues to offer scans and material related with the new BBC production of Jane Eyre. Sometimes we have the feeling that this saturation of information hides all the other things that are going on in the Brontë world (as this one or this other one), but if it's there, we have to report it.

*Millhand* has posted scans from a short article in the Time Out magazine (20-27 September 2006):

Pag 167 (right picture, credits Flatliner V2 ), Pag 168 (Rochester picture), Pag 168 (the text). There's also a brief synopsis (with some spoilers about an aspect of the production) here.

There are interesting comments by Toby Stephens regarding other previous Rochesters:

"Orson Welles' performance in the 1944 classic was so overbearing that 'it [the film] should be called "Rochester"', chuckles Toby Stephens. 'Jane's some little bird who's wandering around and he's this monolith. He's confident that his is the nearest to Charlotte Brontë's vision, but anticipates an inevitable backlash.

And about dialogue (dialogue purists, beware):

The olde worlde dialogue, so often the bane of adaptations, was overcome when writer Sandy Welch 'knocked the ornateness off the language. I hope the tone is more intimate, more like the audience are eavesdropping - so they are led in to the action'. (Gabriel Tate)

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