Movie Review of Jane Eyre (2006)
You know what I always think of when I think of this movie. My senior English-lit survey of literature class. I took it because I needed a fourth year of English for uni and it was all that'd fit in my schedule. Most others took it because it was a well-known easy A. We'd be assigned a book, but then just watch the movie in class. I took it as a challenge! I was going to have read all of the portion of any given book before we watched the related bit of movie the next day in class.
Anyways, one student who down-right hated our teacher decided to basically ruin her life, and started telling stories about how she saw her drinking at school and she would come to class drunk and yell at her students in drunken rages. The rumors easily spread like wild fire. An investigation was opened up, and we ended up with a long term sub, who came in the class and was like blown away by the fact that our syllabus had Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and some Jane Austen book...probably Pride and Predjudice... lined up for us to read over the next two or three weeks. She saw in notes from our teacher that if she wanted we could just watch the movie for one of those books in class one week, and do discussion about the book and movie the next. :|
In reality, the class was not going to read all three books, much less one. But the sub would try. The first thing she did was throw out the Jane Austen book, and then she told us to get into two equal groups and pick as a group whether we wanted to read Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights. The two groups were pit in competition against each other. We were to read the book and then develop any project that would allow us to "decorate" one half of a wall. The winner got to watch the related movie. I got Jane Eyre. In the end, we made a time-line of the book, divided in three parts, and we made a huge paper mache tree that was split by lightening, ooooh, to divide the three parts of the time-line. The other half of the class gave up on Wuthering heights, because building a ginormous paper mache tree looked fun. I heard it was up in that classroom until the teacher of that class retired xD
Needless to say, my group won. :D So we ended up watching Jane Eyre, and the sub picked the 2006 version because it was the newest. I liked the movie :)
Ember, Sep 21, 2012
