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CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS AND THE CINEMA
others say it did not give a good picture of Charlotte Bronte's story. In some ways I prefer the original story without the alterations made by the studio which produced it. The scenes which I liked better than the original were the final ones, where Mister Rochester did not lose his arm, when his house was set on fire by his mad wife, as the book told us he did. Apart from this incident, the scenes were practically as I had imagined.
The actors and actresses, I thought were given roles which they filled very capably. The part which Orson Wells played was cut out for him and it was a good return to the screen after having taken up directing, I believe. Joan Fontaine was too beautiful for the role of Jane Eyre when she was in the school as everyone seemed to think she was an ugly duckling. Margaret O'Brien made Adele seem very sweet and real — more than Charlotte did in the book.
To start from the beginning of the film the child, Jane, was living with her Aunt and cousins but the boy bullied her a lot and she was disliked very much by all the family. Eventually her Aunt sends her to a school run by a terrible hypocrite named Mr. Brocklehurst. From the start she is singled out as a liar and very wicked child and is cruelly punished. She makes friends with a pretty girl named Helen. Helen is very delicate and after being made to walk round the courtyard in the pouring rain as a punishment, dies of consumption. Jane is left with only one other friend — the school doctor.
When Jane grows up she is offered a post at the school as a teacher but she refuses and answers an advertisement as governess to a little girl named Adele. When Jane meets the child's guardian she falls in love with him, though she believes Mr. Rochester is going to marry a young woman, Blanche Ingram, who is only fond of his money. She leaves for another post and after some time believes Mr. Rochester calls for her. Jane returns to find the house burned, Mr. Rochester blind, but she marries him and gradually he regains his sight.
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
Introduction; comments on — : from book to film, choice of actors, personnal enjoyment, conclusion.
The Scarlet Pimpernel was an unknown Englishman who saved members of the French aristocracy from the horrible deaths of
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