Jane Eyre

freyjakj asked me to let her know when I'd seen the new Masterpiece Theatre's Jane Eyre, and I just watched the last half tonight.

Homg.

That's definitely, definitely the best Jane Eyre movie-type thing I've ever seen. Jane was exactly how I imagine her and Rochester was exactly like I imagine him (though I know I think of him as being slightly more dashing/pretty/etc than he's supposed to be). Both actors did a splendid job. The guy who played Rochester also played Orsino in the Twelfth Night with Ben Kingsley as Feste, and he was much better in this even than he was in Twelfth Night. Only once or twice did I even recognize his expression as an Orsino one. I find Orsino pretty irritating, so I'm glad he did Rochester the kind of justice I felt he did.

I ALMOST was very upset with it when I thought they had completely skipped the bit where Jane actually tells Rochester she's going to leave, which I felt was really important to both their characters and their relationship. Luckily, they showed it in flashback :3 And I liked the end MUCH better than the book's ending, although the events happened the same. I really liked the way they treated it. Squee times twelve.

Now to go download some icons XD