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In the end, what does it for me with the 2011 version is how it manages to be both literary and cinematic. Scenes like these two, which some people find boring, are what make it successful for me... Apparently this clip has to be opened directly in YouTube...

I find that a lot of older film adaptations of literary classics rarely had any interest in the source material. There are obvious exceptions, of course. There happen to be a particularly large number of film versions of Jane Eyre, and I find most of them turn it into a Jane Austen novel. I...

Mike, sorry to respond after all these years, and I don't know if you've seen any other adaptations. I'm kind of a Jane Eyre enthusiast, actually, so I'll toss in my own comments. I'm a big literature fan, and that's where the basis of my movie feedback comes from. I'm not concerned that an...