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Favorite 'Missing Scenes'-

posted 18 years ago by mlabot
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After seeing the DVD/Serial version of Jane Eyre (Clarke/Dalton), I compiled my favorite scenes which were not in the US VHS version.

1) Bessie visits Jane at Lowood. - Jane's reaction of seeing Bessie after so many years was priceless. I was orginally baffled that the scene was not in the VHS version as depeicted in the novel.

2) Jane's wait for a job offer - Scenes with Jane walking back to Lowood from the Post Office, talking to Mrs. Watt, and the servants gossip about Jane's trip to the post office highlights Jane's anxiety on the response to her ad.

3) Georgiana and Eliza greets Jane at Gateshead. - I had always believe that there was another "Return to Gateshead" scene shot before Mrs. Reed's death. I was right.

Feel free to add more

[–] halokiti 18 years ago

All three scenes were in the US DVD release. I wished the DVD had some special features though.

[–] youdontdontreallymeanit 18 years ago

I love "Jane Eyre" but I have yet to see this version. Is Jane's cousin John Reed present in any of the scenes? He's such a fantastically nasty character and he is under-used in every version.

[–] dqmwfan 18 years ago

Hi this is my all time faverite movie and i saw the VHS first back in 98 and i loved it and before i saw the re brodcast of all 11 parts. i taped it on and i watched it until it wore out.
My faverite missing sceans are the ones with st john rivers and his sisters . i never knew about the how st jonhe got Jane's real name and the peace of paper that it was wrote on, until i read the book. A week after i read the book i saw the complte series on Romance Classices at that year (1998)

I bought the DVD as soon as it came out and i love it and watch it a lot.
This book is also my faverite book of all time.
i will watch the new 06 verision of Jane Eyre when it airs on PBS but i probably not buy it. the reason for that is because this is the perfect version of the book all the actors play there parts perfect .

This is the one and only version for me IT IS PERFECT

[–] tuttoaposto 18 years ago

Oh blimey no, I hated this version, but I guess tastes differ.

I love the '73 version, now it really is perfect in every way. (Well Michael Jayston certainly looks pretty perfect to me as Rochester!)

[–] chewtoy45 17 years ago

The scene when Jane goes into the bakery and asks the woman if she can sit down and the scene when she runs to Thornfield after leaving her trunk with the innkeeper and finds the hall a blackened ruin were not in the US/VHS version.

I wished the DVD had some special features though.

So do I. I watched it again last night for about the 10th time and was dying to see a documentary of the making of it, with interviews with the major players.

[–] dqmwfan 17 years ago

oh yes and i would love to see a interveiw with Andrew Bicknell he was so good as st Jone he was the best of all of them , zela and then tim dolton as well maybe one day

[–] Stan-64 17 years ago

Andrew Bicknell is my favorite too. Growing up he was my idea of the most beautiful man in the world. St. John is my favorite character and most other versions just blow him off.

[–] etsis 17 years ago

yes, i'd also like to see some interviews.
also this is the only verion that i have seen that got St. John right!
(all other versions are just too cheerful & "nice.").

[–] marina_andrushen 17 years ago

It IS a great surprise for me... I didn't expect so many people love St John too. It is my favourite character and I'm so glad to see him pictured right in this film. Sorry that them didn't put more scenes with him.

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[–] taylorje 14 years ago

We only see the adult John Reed through the eyes of his mother and Bessie. I would love a movie scene of how he demanded the rest of his mother's money, only to be refused. Mrs. Reed could not deny that her former "darling" was now a violent, dangerous man.

[–] cookiela2001 14 years ago

As far as the book is concerned, I miss the whole "honeymoon" period between Jane and the lusty Mrs. Fairfax at Thornfield before Rochester arrives.

Raising young Adele between them, they are a rare example of same sex marriage in the Victorian era. Also, this version implies the first Mrs. Rochester sets the fire and not Mrs. Fairfax, which is nothing short of censorship.

[–] Doc_Ostrow 13 years ago

When I first read your post, I thought you were a troll. Having read some of your other posts on IMDB, I'm convinced that you don't exhibit troll behavior, so you must have grossly misinterpreted the novel. I have read the novel and seen four adaptations. There is no hint of a "same sex marriage" between Jane Eyre and Mrs. Fairfax in any of them.

Mrs. Fairfax was not "lusty"- she was a conservative, faithful, and not very bright housekeeper for Mr. Rochester. The first Mrs. Rochester (née Bertha Mason) set both fires (trying to burn Mr. Rochester in his bed and burning down Thornfield Hall).

Perhaps you are confusing this with Rebecca, by Daphne Du Maurier. This novel was inspired by Jane Eyre. Rebecca was the dead wife of Maxim de Winter. Like Bertha Mason, she was beautiful but nasty, having multiple sex partners after marriage. Mrs. Danvers, Rebecca's former maid and Mr. de Winter's housekeeper, burns down Manderlay. In Hitchcock's movie, it is implied that Mrs. Danvers was in love with Rebecca.

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