OK, this is driving me crazy ... i KNOW the woman playing Mrs. Harper from another period movie but can't place her to save my life! She played a meanie if i remember correctly....can anyone help me????
@Butterfly1Queen She was in the 1995 "Persuasion" as Henrietta, but she wasn't mean... and she was also in the period series "Lark Rise to Candleford" as Ruby - she ran a dress shop and was a little snobby at times but not nearly as mean as her sister was... probably not what you're remembering...
@nightswimmer99 Yes!!! Persuasion! That was it, and you're right .. she wasn't a meanie in that one .....must be another one i was remembering that she was a meanie! Cuz she wasn't in that one, but that was the movie i was thiking about! Thanks so much! Ahhhhh! I hate it when i can "almost" remember someone but can't place them! Thanks a lot for taking the time to respond! :)
@OldFashionedLover Don't get it twisted and take it all out of context. Just respect and enjoy the different opinions regarding the books and the movies on Jane Eyre and WSS. I greatly prefer WSS to Jane Eyre because I can relate and identify better with the character Antoinette, Christophe, and all the others in the book, as well as the culture presented or described in the book. I simply cannot identify with the characters and the culture in Jane Eyre, that is why I prefer WSS.
@cassopia09 Yes, I understand you more then you might think. I agree with you totally about one's own opinion. Maybe you got me wrong, I wasn't attacking anyone here for having his own opinion. I was just sharing my own, as you said, because we should respect each other's opinion, but still feel free to say it! You didn't want to stereotype, got it now. But please respect my opinion! WSS has a beauty of its own, thats why I said I wish there weren't any connection to JE. That's what bothers me!
Just finished reading Wide Sargasso Sea & wanted to watch the movie to get an idea on what is going on. Book is a little confusing for me since i'm not particularly fond of Jamaican accent and how difficult it is at understanding the language..but it's a good book. Now have to write a 6 page essay on it hahah
So much wrong with this interpretation. The first part of the book is totally missing. Antoinette has a cultured English accent. Not far off the mark with the Rochester character, however. Very close to how I imagined him.
@SlipknotAreMyDrug at lest your not dyslexic like i am i have to reed these both and pride and prejudiced a tail of to cities most of Shakespeare works in 1 semester
I know there are some who would disagree with me, but everyone is entitled to his or her viewpoint. It is my viewpoint that Wide Sargasso Sea is a brilliant book and the 1993 film adaptation is the best one that I have seen. I do not care for Jane Eyre at all, and Mr. Rochester reminds me of Victor Frankenstein. He helped drive her to lunacy, rejected, abandoned, and locked her away.
That you think so of R. is only b/c this book presents him like that. If you'd read JE, you'd get a totally different impression. It depends on the book, you can't judge R. as an a** in general. WSS makes him so but JE was written first and its R. is not. I don't consider WSS being not a good book, it's just different, but b/c I love JE, I can't think of it as a prequel, doesn't fit at all! I wish the author had made it a totally separated story, that would do justice to both books!
@OldFashionedLover Thank you for sharing your views with me. But remember that each person is entitled to his or her opinion. I have read both books and I still feel the way I do about both. This is not a debate or a pass/fail subject. You like Jane Eyre better than Wide Sargasso Sea and I happen to like Wide Sargasso Sea better than Jane Eyre. So what? I am entitled to feel the way I do, as you are entitled to feel the way you do, without being critcized and ostracized for my views.
oh, I am sorry, if my words could be misunderstood! of course you can have your own opinion!!! I would never critizise one for having his own opinion. What I ment with "fail" is not your opinion, of course that has nothing to do with failing or not, I meant your way of stereotyping people from different countries, because I think that is the worst way of debating. I don't like stereotyping at all, that's why I can assure you I prefer individualistic thoughts. Just my opinion ;-)
@OldFashionedLover thank you again for sharing your opinion with me. If it seemed that I was stereotyping people from different countires, you misinterpreted my meaning. I was not stereotyping, but expressing my dislike for a character or characters that I could not relate to or identify with. I certainly cannot judge a person based on myths, misconceptions, or stereotypes formed by others.
@OldFashionedLover Like you, I prefer to decide for myself how an individual or a group of individuals are based on their actions and treatment of me.
filled with graphic sex scenes. Nothing but sex and finally, insanity. This is an insult to call it a prequel to Jane Eyre. It shouldn't even be mentioned in the same breath! Seems if you don't have anything to say or do in a movie, just take off your clothes and call it "art." It's not quite as bad (sexually explicit) as the 2000 version, but it's dull, boring and hard to fast forward all the sex scenes.
While this film is mildly interesting and colorful, it is an abomination to call it a prequel to "Jane Eyre." I'm sorry I watched any part of it, and most certainly will never recommend it to anyone I care about. Long live the real Mr. Rochester!
@Schuttberg Well, then, perhaps read the book? I suppose movies are easier on the mind. It is a prequel to Jane Eyre. The book is incredibly well-done. Perhaps the alternate perspective boggled your precious mind, but logistically, this story depicts events that shaped the plot and setting of Jane Eyre. This is a downfall of the movie biz; stories lose their depth. READ A BOOK. W.S.S. is revolutionary, the quintessential anti-bildungsroman.
@OMGitsJoRetro Just because W.S.S isn't a bildungsroman novel doesn't mean it 's an anti-bildungsroman one. Quite simply it's a colonial story about the mad woman in the attic and how she came to be. Symbolically Antoinette has been described as Jane Eyre's alternate ego when she loses control. This is one of the important reasons why W.S.S was written. To call it anti-bildungsroman is unfair because Antoinette's circumstances were completely different.
While this film is mildly interesting and colorful, it is an abomination to consider it in any way related to "Jane Eyre." I didn't finish watching it and will never recommend it to anyone at all.
This is so fucking dark I prefer Jane Eyre, but it's darker than the winds of death, so heart rendering, dark and sorrowful.
nounever 1 week ago
LOL he crosses his legs like a women XD
MsCosmicOwl 1 month ago
@MsCosmicOwl Back then it would have been inappropriate for women to cross their legs in any manner. All leg-crossing was manly. :)
kragary 1 week ago
@kragary
Oh, I see :). Note to self-Leg crossing is manly
MsCosmicOwl 1 week ago
Now this is where its at
AnnisaAyana 2 months ago
This book ripped my heart out. Sooo sad.
TheIllegitimateChild 2 months ago
@ Butterfly1Queen. She was a meanie in MansfieldPark as Miria. Maybe this is the meanie one you have seen?
ThiiNatawii 3 months ago
OK, this is driving me crazy ... i KNOW the woman playing Mrs. Harper from another period movie but can't place her to save my life! She played a meanie if i remember correctly....can anyone help me????
Butterfly1Queen 3 months ago
@Butterfly1Queen She was in the 1995 "Persuasion" as Henrietta, but she wasn't mean... and she was also in the period series "Lark Rise to Candleford" as Ruby - she ran a dress shop and was a little snobby at times but not nearly as mean as her sister was... probably not what you're remembering...
nightswimmer99 3 months ago
@nightswimmer99 Yes!!! Persuasion! That was it, and you're right .. she wasn't a meanie in that one .....must be another one i was remembering that she was a meanie! Cuz she wasn't in that one, but that was the movie i was thiking about! Thanks so much! Ahhhhh! I hate it when i can "almost" remember someone but can't place them! Thanks a lot for taking the time to respond! :)
Butterfly1Queen 3 months ago
Dam I imagined Antoinatte to be much better looking.. no more fantasies for me.. lol
riplawliet209 7 months ago 2
Like you, I prefer to decide for myself how an individual or a group of individuals are based on their actions and treatment of me.
cassopia09 10 months ago
@OldFashionedLover Don't get it twisted and take it all out of context. Just respect and enjoy the different opinions regarding the books and the movies on Jane Eyre and WSS. I greatly prefer WSS to Jane Eyre because I can relate and identify better with the character Antoinette, Christophe, and all the others in the book, as well as the culture presented or described in the book. I simply cannot identify with the characters and the culture in Jane Eyre, that is why I prefer WSS.
cassopia09 10 months ago 2
@cassopia09 Yes, I understand you more then you might think. I agree with you totally about one's own opinion. Maybe you got me wrong, I wasn't attacking anyone here for having his own opinion. I was just sharing my own, as you said, because we should respect each other's opinion, but still feel free to say it! You didn't want to stereotype, got it now. But please respect my opinion! WSS has a beauty of its own, thats why I said I wish there weren't any connection to JE. That's what bothers me!
OldFashionedLover 10 months ago
Just finished reading Wide Sargasso Sea & wanted to watch the movie to get an idea on what is going on. Book is a little confusing for me since i'm not particularly fond of Jamaican accent and how difficult it is at understanding the language..but it's a good book. Now have to write a 6 page essay on it hahah
luckysister2 10 months ago
"When are we going to England?"
I always shiver when she says that. A whole character compressed in a single line
Niniane17 1 year ago 3
@Niniane17 quite apt too. highlights her whole insanity.
trailbreakerprime 7 months ago
So much wrong with this interpretation. The first part of the book is totally missing. Antoinette has a cultured English accent. Not far off the mark with the Rochester character, however. Very close to how I imagined him.
Verfemdung 1 year ago
antoinette is not jane eyre! she's the first wife of rochester!
lippymaffei 1 year ago
Did they use the same set as the 2006 Jane Eyre BBC production??
autumnsoliloquy 1 year ago
I love Jane Eyre and I love this story too!! :)
Noctem2 1 year ago
@xxGabriellaxx100 Precisely!!
culturefabulous 1 year ago
04:59 -hang. ZZZ.
haneespy 1 year ago
I Have To Study This For My English Course, Along With Jane Eyre. God Help Me!
SlipknotAreMyDrug 1 year ago 39
@SlipknotAreMyDrug
mcmaster?
ALLAHkaSAPAHI 1 year ago
@SlipknotAreMyDrug this is a good and relatively easy novel to get through.. its jane eyre that u should be worrying about...
MissExecutive 1 year ago
@MissExecutive I've Already Read Jane Eyre, And I Got Throuh It Pretty Easy To Be Honest. I Just on't Like Either Novels. >.<
SlipknotAreMyDrug 1 year ago
@SlipknotAreMyDrug Im doing it this year, HOW DID YOU DO IT D:
4kedTunge483 5 months ago
@SlipknotAreMyDrug Hopefully after doing your English coursework, you learnt that you don't have to capitalize every word in a sentence.
BeckyForTheLULs 5 months ago 35
@BeckyForTheLULs I was thinking, instead of asking for God's help to do English assignments, we just open the books and start reading.
manthasagittarius1 1 month ago
@SlipknotAreMyDrug at lest your not dyslexic like i am i have to reed these both and pride and prejudiced a tail of to cities most of Shakespeare works in 1 semester
Hrady55 5 months ago
the novel & the '93 version were both fab...but i can't even get through the first part of this version without changing to something else...
velvetvervet 1 year ago
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this movie is good :)
OMGihearttwilight 1 year ago
I love this movie
starrynightz 1 year ago
oooooo Jean rhys' attended the same school i attend
greengreen4lyfe 1 year ago
this is such a beutiful film, why can't there be more like this. it makes a change from stuff on tv, it was on BBC3 or 4 two weeks ago.
890buddha 1 year ago
I know there are some who would disagree with me, but everyone is entitled to his or her viewpoint. It is my viewpoint that Wide Sargasso Sea is a brilliant book and the 1993 film adaptation is the best one that I have seen. I do not care for Jane Eyre at all, and Mr. Rochester reminds me of Victor Frankenstein. He helped drive her to lunacy, rejected, abandoned, and locked her away.
cassopia09 1 year ago
@cassopia09
That you think so of R. is only b/c this book presents him like that. If you'd read JE, you'd get a totally different impression. It depends on the book, you can't judge R. as an a** in general. WSS makes him so but JE was written first and its R. is not. I don't consider WSS being not a good book, it's just different, but b/c I love JE, I can't think of it as a prequel, doesn't fit at all! I wish the author had made it a totally separated story, that would do justice to both books!
OldFashionedLover 10 months ago
@OldFashionedLover Thank you for sharing your views with me. But remember that each person is entitled to his or her opinion. I have read both books and I still feel the way I do about both. This is not a debate or a pass/fail subject. You like Jane Eyre better than Wide Sargasso Sea and I happen to like Wide Sargasso Sea better than Jane Eyre. So what? I am entitled to feel the way I do, as you are entitled to feel the way you do, without being critcized and ostracized for my views.
cassopia09 10 months ago 2
@cassopia09
oh, I am sorry, if my words could be misunderstood! of course you can have your own opinion!!! I would never critizise one for having his own opinion. What I ment with "fail" is not your opinion, of course that has nothing to do with failing or not, I meant your way of stereotyping people from different countries, because I think that is the worst way of debating. I don't like stereotyping at all, that's why I can assure you I prefer individualistic thoughts. Just my opinion ;-)
OldFashionedLover 10 months ago
@OldFashionedLover thank you again for sharing your opinion with me. If it seemed that I was stereotyping people from different countires, you misinterpreted my meaning. I was not stereotyping, but expressing my dislike for a character or characters that I could not relate to or identify with. I certainly cannot judge a person based on myths, misconceptions, or stereotypes formed by others.
cassopia09 10 months ago
@OldFashionedLover Like you, I prefer to decide for myself how an individual or a group of individuals are based on their actions and treatment of me.
cassopia09 10 months ago
jean rhys' wide sargasso sea is very sexual. indeed the first mrs roche
nichirenista 1 year ago 13
@nichirenista Very Sexual?
TetraLonelySouls 3 months ago
filled with graphic sex scenes. Nothing but sex and finally, insanity. This is an insult to call it a prequel to Jane Eyre. It shouldn't even be mentioned in the same breath! Seems if you don't have anything to say or do in a movie, just take off your clothes and call it "art." It's not quite as bad (sexually explicit) as the 2000 version, but it's dull, boring and hard to fast forward all the sex scenes.
mbrboc 1 year ago
thanks so much for putting this up, I've been wanting to see this for ages
goosesnarg88 1 year ago
the 1993 version is much better and more true to the book.
rapingurchurches 1 year ago
While this film is mildly interesting and colorful, it is an abomination to call it a prequel to "Jane Eyre." I'm sorry I watched any part of it, and most certainly will never recommend it to anyone I care about. Long live the real Mr. Rochester!
Schuttberg 1 year ago 3
@Schuttberg Colorful? Interesting choice of words.
reapercussions 1 year ago
@Schuttberg The novel is much much much better. As for the film, I will patiently wait for someone to do the book justice.
reshabriella 1 year ago
@Schuttberg Well, then, perhaps read the book? I suppose movies are easier on the mind. It is a prequel to Jane Eyre. The book is incredibly well-done. Perhaps the alternate perspective boggled your precious mind, but logistically, this story depicts events that shaped the plot and setting of Jane Eyre. This is a downfall of the movie biz; stories lose their depth. READ A BOOK. W.S.S. is revolutionary, the quintessential anti-bildungsroman.
OMGitsJoRetro 1 year ago
@OMGitsJoRetro Just because W.S.S isn't a bildungsroman novel doesn't mean it 's an anti-bildungsroman one. Quite simply it's a colonial story about the mad woman in the attic and how she came to be. Symbolically Antoinette has been described as Jane Eyre's alternate ego when she loses control. This is one of the important reasons why W.S.S was written. To call it anti-bildungsroman is unfair because Antoinette's circumstances were completely different.
xxGabriellaxx100 1 year ago 3
@Schuttberg It's not a prequel to Jane Eyre, it's a post-colonial response.
GenericUturbeName 11 months ago
While this film is mildly interesting and colorful, it is an abomination to consider it in any way related to "Jane Eyre." I didn't finish watching it and will never recommend it to anyone at all.
Schuttberg 1 year ago
Their marriage could've gone on so well...
trailbreakerprime 1 year ago