Jane Eyre is better than any old football game

You probably couldn't imagine this, but did you know that the message behind Jane Eyre is 'better than any old football game'? Thank goodness The State is there to let us know.

• Watch “Jane Eyre” on ETV’s “Masterpiece Theatre.” “A governess goes to work for a moody employer, captures his heart, then a dark secret intrudes. Charlotte Bronte’s 1847 classic stars newcomer Ruth Wilson as the spirited but plain young woman who escapes a dismal youth to find improbable true love.” See, there is hope after all, USC fans. And that message is better than any old football game. (Neil White)

After this discovery we can move on to other things. Single Titles interviews writer Christine Wells:

(2) Your novel is set in Regency England. What attracted you to writing a book set in that particular era?
I grew up loving the Regency period in fiction—Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer, the Brontes, Thackeray’s Vanity Fair. I think it was a combination of the wonderful, swept-off-your-feet romance and the wit of Regency England that drew me to writing Regency historicals.

The Daily Tribune briefly mentions Hihintayin Kita sa Langit, a 1991 Filipino film loosely based on Wuthering Heights.

While doing research for and filming Kadin, Alix was inspired to do a love story set in the place. Alix, though, is not the first to see the potential of Batanes a setting for a romantic film. Carlos Siguion-Reyna’s first film Hihintayin Kita sa Langit (1991) transplanted the story of Emily Bronte’s gothic novel Wuthering Heights into Batanes, making use of the place’s forlorn beauty. Interestingly, Alix worked with Siguion-Reyna on Kahapon May Dalawang Bata (Yesterday Children) in 1999, when he was working as a freelance film and television writer. (Roel Hoang Manipon)

Now for a few blogs. Geelong Visual Diary writes about Jane Eyre 2006 and its recent broadcast in Australia. Gail Gauthier wonders whether Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca is a retelling of Jane Eyre or not. And finally we don't know whether this post in Italian on Falcone Notturno is a joke (we certainly hope it is), but the fact is that they state that Emily Brontë was murdered. At the end of the post we are reminded to bear in mind that it was the Brontë sisters' father who enjoyed their royalties. Oh dear.

Categories: Books, Brontëites, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, Weirdo, Wuthering Heights