Movie vs. Novel (Part 2)

Watching the final minutes of Jane Eyre went by pretty fast, which wasn't like the book at all. As Chris has stated in a previous post; the book takes a while to read while the movie only takes a couple hours. In some cases, I prefer to watch the movie because it doesn’t take up much time and it sticks in your head because there was movement with the actors on screen. The book takes quite longer and it’s harder to remember because all you’re reading are words that have no emotion unless you read some into it. That’s another thing too; you can be lead to a wrong direction because they said it in a different tone, and they meant something else than what you thought. I guess if you want something to sustain suspense you should read the book, and if you want something that doesn’t take more than one day to do would be to watch the movie.

The Problems with Most Movies

Reading the book might take days to finish, while watching the movie only takes a couple of hours. What do i prefer the Novel or the movie? Well, i prefer the Novel because it's in your hands, also because its very descriptive. When directors cast roles for films, they don’t always get it the way you would want it to be. You may find yourself disappointed by movie versions that don’t live up to your imagination. A classic complaint about movie versions concerns the deletion of material the reader finds important, which in Jane Eyre is taking out the gypsy scene, the proposal of St. John, etc. Point is, movies don't live up to the standards of the actual hard copy of the novel.

Novel Vs Movie

Chris:(From Novel)Jane and Rochester marry with no witnesses other than the parson and the church clerk. Jane writes to her cousins with the news. St. John never acknowledges what has happened, but Mary and Diana write back with their good wishes. Jane visits Adèle at her school, and finds her unhappy. Remembering her own childhood experience, Jane moves Adèle to a more congenial school, and Adèle grows up to be a very pleasant and mild-mannered young woman.


(From Movie)Jane and Mr. Rochester get married ,but at the end the movie doesn't show Jane writing letters to her cousins. Also, the movie doesn't show Jane moving Adèle into a better school, it just ends with Jane and Mr. Rochester(Who has regained his sight) in the forest with two kids walking. I think they need to make movies that don't cut out parts from the novel, even if it is really long.

Movie vs. Novel (Part 1)

Watching the Jane Eyre movie today was very interesting for many reasons: some parts from the novel was left out, and the actors seem more dramatic. Though it was different from the book, I thought that the parts we watched today were really entertaining, and I got sucked into watching it! The character Jane is matched up to what I envisioned her to be like: she has a sort beauty in her that shines even though her looks aren’t as graceful. A lot of the characters that appeared were very different: Mr. Rochester is not handsome or young, which didn’t surprise me, but I thought that he would at least look decent enough to the character written in the book. I did like the movie because you got to see the visual part of what I was reading, and their emotions were very visible, which helped me understand the context better.