And this is now a rather longwinded way of saying that the 120-minute Jane Eyre from 2011 has bits missing, Brontë darlings long dead and buried – many of them. It’s the nature of the cinematic adaptation beast. There will always be omissions and there will always be critiques of those omissions. So, the task becomes one of selection – choosing what to emphasize, what to downplay, what to ignore, what to paraphrase, what to drop and on it goes. RELATED: Jane Eyre (1996): A Handsome, but Chilly Adaptation of a Brontë Classic There will always be an editorial ruthlessness, a killing of the darlings there has to be. Much will – of necessity – end up on the chopping block and on the proverbial cutting room floor.

The challenge with all movie adaptations is, naturally, cropping a long, detailed, written narrative into a visual narrative, a feature-length film of two hours or less. So, we went to the movies to see Cary Fukunaga’s adaptation of Jane Eyre.Īs with all cinematic adaptations of Charlotte Brontë’s masterpiece, there was much anticipation going in and much discussion afterwards, comparing and contrasting various elements and characters with previous adaptations as well as with the primary source material. I was back in my homeland, kiddies and hubby were across an ocean, it was a Friday night, I had something to celebrate and some dear old friends to celebrate with. And that’s just what I did the 6 th of May 2011. How do you celebrate the successful completion of a major milestone in your life? Why you go see the latest Jane Eyre film adaptation, that’s how.

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