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Jane eyre movie 194312/11/2022 ![]() The scene completely bypassed the typhus fever epidemic spreading through the school and only focused on Helen Burns (who I found out was a not-credited Elizabeth Taylor) alone dying instead of the whole school dying. The Lowood school scenes were especially the darker part of the film. Rochester accuses Jane of being alien), and I didn’t notice any true connection between them until the film was almost over. There really wasn’t any joking around between Jane and Mr. On a side note, the film does come off dark–both the plot and the lack of lights used. I was a bit let down by the fact that the film completely skipped the gypsy woman scene in the book, because I found that to be very entertaining. Of the parts of the book the film did keep, they were all mostly accurate and were able to tell the story in a new and reinvented way. Overall, the film stayed close to the plot of the book and was rather entertaining to watch. Of all the film versions out there, I chose this variation because Orson Welles is in it. The 1943 film version of the classic stars Orson Welles as Edward Rochester, Joan Fontaine as Jane Eyre, Henry Daniell as Mr. ![]() (Don’t worry, I didn’t spoil anything for you because that’s the first half of the book and movie). After residing there for 8 years, she goes off to a mansion to tutor a girl, all while falling in love with the girl’s foster parent. Jane Eyre is a growing up story about Jane, an orphan who was abandoned by her evil aunt and cousins (sounding familiar yet?) to attend a boarding school for orphaned kids. The turning point of women writers, the provoking of traditional ideas, the suffering of high school students everywhere– these are all terms used to describe Jane Eyre, a book written by Charlotte Bronte, who wrote under the pseudonym Courier Bell in the mid 1800s.
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