Bechdel Test and Wuthering Heights imaginary soundtracks

We have one more instance of the half-full/half-empty glass kind of way of looking at Jane Eyre statistics. Yesterday the glass was half full. Today, according to Box Office Mojo, the glass is half empty:

After numerous weekends of consistent growth, things began to slow down for Jane Eyre and Win Win. Playing at 247 locations (up 67 from last weekend), Jane Eyre was down five percent to $1.16 million. . . (Ray Subers)

Rope of Silicon is not very optimistic either about the film's possibilities in the Oscar race.

The obvious titles to begin with include [...] Jane Eyre (could possibly remain part of the conversation, but only as a "last one in" contender) [...]
Jane Eyre has several good performances, but I'm not putting any stock in Wasikowska or Fassbender getting mention. (Brad Brevet)

And The Awl is also negative, as it considers that Jane Eyre doesn't pass the Bechdel Test, which is weird because if the test applied to books as well the original novel would most certainly pass with flying colours.

Jane Eyre squeaks under the wire. (Choire Sicha)

However, the actual Bechdel Test website doesn't list the film yet.

Bettye Anding from NolaVie mentions the film adaptations of Jane Eyre she's seen and wonders how she will like this new one.

The film is reviewed by Miss A, Eliise Blogi, Punkie Pickle, Free in the Wind, Sam on Cinema, Let's Go to the Movies, Waffle Reviews by Apple and Orion, Enchanted Serenity of Period Films, squeeze it into little inkdrops and One Book per Week (also about the novel).

We have a couple of news items that seem to believe they have come across the perfect soundtrack for Wuthering Heights.

The Thirdcoast Digest on a Philomusica Quartet concert:

They also conveyed the most important thing: The sense of an epic drama being played, of ardent passions unleashed and exchanged, on a big landscape. This quartet isn’t Pride and Prejudice, either. It’s Wuthering Heights. (Tom Strini)

And the Gateway on a Ricardo Iznaola concert:

To switch things up he closed this set with Bach's Prelude from Lute Suite BMV 1006a. The final set was intense and unrelenting, and also oddly romantic, as if "Wuthering Heights" had been given a soundtrack. (Tressa Eckermann)

The Yorkshire Evening Post has news on the improvement works being carried out in the Oakwell Hall area:

A TWO year project to improve the surroundings of a historic country park which has connections with the Brontës is complete.
Thanks to helping hands from 200 volunteers and staff from Oakwell Hall, at Birstall, near Leeds, a nature reserve for wildlife has been created.
The unveiling of a viewing platform yesterday marked the launch, when volunteers put up signs naming their creation.
Picturesque Oakwell Hall which writer Charlotte Brontë visited in the 1830s, was featured as ‘Fieldhead’ in her novel Shirley, which she published in 1949 [sic!].
She wrote about Fieldhead house, now the name of a nearby housing estate: “The old latticed windows, the stone path, the walls, the roof, the chimney stacks, were rich in crayon touches and sepia light and shades.”

Flavorwire takes a look at some 'Accessories for Bookworms' and includes Jeremy May's Jane Eyre ring.

Book Eater (in Spanish) and Estante de Livros (in Portuguese) post about Jane Eyre. Spark My Nature writes about Wuthering Heights while Flickr user Eva Krebbers Photography has created a self-portrait inspired by that novel. And Funderingar posts in Swedish about Agnes Grey. Finally, ...... SHARP ELVES SOCIETY ...... Jane Austen's Shadow Stories discusses why she thinks that Charlotte Brontë had read more Jane Austen than she ever admitted to.

Categories: Brontëana, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, Music, Wuthering Heights