Who's responsible.....


for the risible quality of the script? Anne Bronte or David Nokes and Janet Barron? The latter, I'll be bound. Even so, you can see why people weren't lining up to adapt this work for the screen. The first episode, setting up the mystery, was pretty good, but the last two dragged on relentlessly. Well, at least my endurance was rewarded with a happy ending. The acting standard was good to acceptable, but with such a weak script it's little wonder this didn't garner any acting awards.







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I would like to see this redone myself. I haven't read the book, so I really don't know where the fault lies. Even if the book does do this same thing to the reader, it seems this is one story at least where the adapter and directer could and should find creative license. Not to change the story , but to tell it in a way that draws the reader in and captivates them. The story has great bones, but very poor construction ... at least as seen in this adaptation. I would like to see it done better. Even if it is predictable.

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"Well Jane? Are you overwhelmed?"
~Mr Rochester
Jane Eyre 2006

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