I guess I've probably seen this version too often to be bringing this up but I always found it interesting that Jane is wearing the grey dress in the outdoor proposal scene. If you recall she mentions that she only wore that one on "first-rate occasions." And how on earth did they get that butterfly to lite on Rochester like that!!
shareFirstly, I thought that as well! "How did Jane know it was going to be a first-rate occasion?" ;)
And, it is my opinion that the Jayston is just that wonderful.
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Exactly!!I'm laughing at both those replies. I think one of the key reasons I put this version over the others is that I remember this particular scene so much more vividly. Rochester was really such a louse to Jane throughout that courtship, lol. I sometimes think it would have served him right if she simply thanked him for the "new situation" in Ireland and said she would pack that very night. The early morning scene after Mason's attack is another example of that---the way he brings up Blanche reviving him. (And Sorcha is "almost pretty" amongst those daffodils.)
I loved that little scene in the garden - they added the little part of them running there, didn't they? And his line, "Will you have a flower?" It fit so well, though; he's a bit like Jane there, when she was so desperate to leave Lowood for something new. He just wants to run away and escape to freedom...with her.
Flat, drab passion meanders across the screen!
That was new, yes. Not the line about the flower but the running. It is strange but I actually dreamt about that scene the night after I saw the series for the first time (basically I just saw the scene in my sleep :).
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I think the garden looks more realistic on the DVD too, which is nice. I can trick myself into thinking that the moonlight is just doing strange things to my eyesight. But, I see that the outdoor footage seemed to get damaged a little so I can forgive them for not filming it at Renishaw.
The scene afer Mason's attack is one where I think Sorcha looks quite like the Richmond portrait of Charlotte Bronte- especially the way she is frowning slightly.
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I did also wonder about why she was wearing the grey dress. Maybe because it was Midsummer? In some countries that is a special occasion, but I do not know how it was in England in the 1830s. Does anyone know?
/E 8-)
Indeed, the dress is the same Sorcha weares in "the guests" and the "gipsy woman" scenes. I suppose it is used again in the "proposal" scene because that is a "first rate occasion"... for the audiences! It seems to be a "visual trick" to create suspense. The viewer acknowledges the dress and says to him/herself: "Oh! Oh! Something is coming up!..."
João Pedro
"You're not turning to look after more moths, are you?..."
Now that's a definitive answer if ever I heard one. Well put!
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