PG-13 rating for Jane Eyre 2011

A bit more on Jane Eyre 2011, as it seems to have received its MPAA rating already, according to Box Office Mojo:

The latest adaptation of Jane Eyre received a PG-13 rating for "some thematic elements including a nude image and brief violent content." Starring Alice in Wonderland's Mia Wasikowska in the title role, the movie opens in limited release on Mar. 11. (Ray Subers)

We ARE intrigued by the nude image. Bertha perhaps?

More on showbiz as Guillermo del Toro has said that he doesn't think 3D is suitable for each and every movie. From Digital Spy:

"I don't want to see Jane Austen's Pride And Prejudice and see Mr Darcy in 3D. I don't want to see Wuthering Heights in 3D." (Simon Reynolds)

We might soon be reporting another Brontë-related project. Interviewed by Film Shaft, Paul Andrew Williams talks about forthcoming projects.

What’s next for you?
I’m working on a project that’s sort of set here but it’s for an American company and a British company. I can’t tell you what yet. I can tell you off the record (he did and it sounds great!). I’m writing another film and there’s a period piece based on the Brontë sisters. There’s lots of things going on. And I’m trying to live my life. (Martyn Conterio)

Andrea Corr's upcoming role as Jane Eyre is mentioned on a couple of Irish news sites. ShowBiz Ireland is not at all thrilled and the Herald quotes her as saying,

"I love it, I really do. I'm very excited about it," she said. "It's full on, we've been rehearsing for the past month. It's a lovely place to work, the Gate.
"I really wanted it so I went to that audition practically in a house coat and with the hair slicked back and no make-up, the whole lot," she said.

Reverend Peter Mayo-Smith's fundraising for haworth church and his idea of opening up to visitors the Brontë crypt is still attracting attention today. From BBC News:

Mr Mayo-Smith said opening up the crypt could prove a major attraction to fans of the Brontë sisters' writing.
He said: "For people to actually see or feel themselves close to the Brontës would be the most amazing experience." [...]
Mr Mayo-Smith said the crypt would need some major work before visitors could be given access.
He explained: "There is a beautiful Victorian arch which at the moment is an absolute mess
"There is a huge oil tank which is redundant and then, on the other side, is where the Brontës are buried."
He said there was huge potential for opening up the crypt so tourists - many of whom come to Haworth from across the world, including from Japan and the United States - could get closer than ever to the final resting place of the two 19th century literary giants.
He said: "Potentially, we don't know yet, we are hoping to be able to see into the crypt where the sisters are buried rather than people just leaving flowers on the marker above."
Mr Mayo-Smith has launched the £1.25 million fundraising campaign, amid hopes that English Heritage might provide half the cash alongside money from Brontë enthusiasts and local businesses.
He said if the big plans for Haworth parish church came to fruition, he hoped they would help boost the economy of the popular tourist village.
He explained: "We want to make sure the church is here for another 150 years.
"If we enhance Haworth church then we can really build something good.
"That will enhance the number of visitors coming into Haworth which has the knock-on effect for all the traders of the village with more income coming into an area which, at times, is struggling."

The Telegraph also brings up the subject, albeit rather less objectively:

I have great sympathy for the Vicar of Haworth, the Rev Peter Mayo-Smith, who in the finest traditions of rural clergymen is trying to raise funds for his church’s leaking roof. But I do so hope he doesn’t open the Brontë crypt (containing the remains of Charlotte and Emily) to the gaze of the “million” tourists who are said to visit Haworth every year, as is his stated intention.
I can see the logic: those who love the sisters’ novels readily embrace the Gothic, so few things will delight more than a weeping vigil at the graves. But I increasingly agree with those who want all human remains, be they skulls or mummified bodies, to be removed from the indignity of public gaze, given that their loved ones’ intent was that they be consigned to the sacred privacy of oblivion. Indeed, in this context, Mr Lockwood’s final words in Wuthering Heights gain new irony: “I… wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.” (Rowan Pelling)

The London Evening Standard discusses Mr Bates in the TV series Downton Abbey, written by Julian Fellowes.

Fellowes understands our yearning for a hero who will ravish us. But first he has to suffer. Remember Rochester is blinded and lamed before Jane Eyre can marry him. It's steadfastness and loyalty that wins the female heart in the end. Think of Far From the Madding Crowd, where Gabriel Oak wins over the flighty Bathsheba. (Liz Hoggard)

The writer of a (tongue-in-cheek?) column on love in The Daily Free Press doesn't seem to know the Brontës' work so well.

I am the antithesis of lovesick. I am sick of love. I carry no heart (perhaps I have no heart within me?) and I will forever be without one (for such is my fate, my sweet). I refuse to fall for Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë's lies that love conquers all. (Anne Whiting)

We recommend Wuthering Heights. Or Villette. Or The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.

Flickr user brioli4 has uploaded several pictures from Hathersage, including one of Moorseats, said to be the original of Moor House in Jane Eyre. YouTube channel WordsForYouTV shows 45 seconds of Maureen Lipman reading Emily Brontë's Love and Friendship.

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