Surreal but nice

Fanfic writers out there are going to love this. Colonel Rowe writes a post on her assigments for her Jane Eyre class (interesting class per se, no doubt).

The last big project is to pitch an updated movie version of Jane Eyre. I sold the women in my group on a fantasy version. Our take is that when Rochester calls Jane a changeling, he's literally correct. Bronte's novel, then, is the story of the fairy Jane in England.Our movie is the story of the human Jane in Faerie.
She goes to the Lowood School for Wizards and Witches where she endures the stern tutelage of Alan Rickman, meets the Fairy Lord Rochester as he's transforming from horse to centaur to man, escapes Thornfield to the human community of Marsh End where a fellow changeling, the fanatic St. John (Paul Bettany) wants her to accompany him back to the mundane world, and then makes her way back to Ferndean to magically heal a Rochester caught in media transformare between horse and man after barely surviving the witchfire that kills Bertha (the secret source of his power).
It's all Powerpoint and Photoshop, but it's a ton of fun. And a ton of work, so that's it for now.

Don't miss the movie poster that goes along the script: priceless!

If we're talking about original 'takes' on Jane Eyre, then this review of The Eyre Affair on Faster than the World shouldn't be missed either.

To go on with surrealism and humour, this text - in French - by Valérie Débieux is fun to read too. Jane Eyre, tired of waiting for Mr Rochester, goes away on a journey... into Oliver Twist.

This article in The Baltimore Sun has an interesting suggestion, taken from The Best Old Movies for Families: A Guide to Watching Together by Ty Burr.

"The pop culture caters to our kids, and it exists almost in the moment. There is no past and no future," says Burr. "Unless our kids break out, they will never learn that there is a past, or a past of any interest." [...]
His older daughter has been bingeing on Katharine Hepburn movies since she saw her in the original Little Women. But it went beyond movies. She started reading all of Louisa May Alcott, and that led her to the Bronte sisters. (Susan Reimer)

There is always a starting point somewhere, and as BrontëBlog shows everyday the Brontës are more than present in pop culture and ver much alive - so to speak - in our day and age.

Risky Regencies interviews new author Anna Campbell, who mentions the Brontës among her influences.

Q: Who were some of your early writing influences?[...]
The Brontes, Austen.

And finally, some pics of Haworth and the moors. You can see them on Bath, England: Spring 2007. Don't be surprised by the name of the blog since, according to its author, Haworth is 'northwest of Bath'. It undeaniably is but - well - you know, they're not side by side.

Categories: Books, Brontëites, Haworth, Humour, Jane Eyre, Weirdo