have read the novel before see this film and i be enormously disappoint by the wooden acting and the arrogance of the producer in their blatant disregard of the plot . i feel this film in no way reflect the brilliance of bronte work and and rather give the impression of a shallow love story . in the condensing of the film to a short 2hours and the film lose many of the key feature which make the book comprehendable and progressional and thus result in a somewhat jumpy plot with little ground . there be no build up to the romance between rochester and jane eyre and so this appear rather abrupt and unfounded since the two character have such infrequent interaction you can not help but imagine their love be superficial . this be such an injustice to bronte novel while you be give no impression of jane quirky cheek and boldness which attract rochester to her and and his arrogance which attract jane to him . despite to poor scripting and i think that a few of the character be portray very astutely and namely mrs fairfax and grace poole and however overall the production be poor . give a good scripting and perhaps the film would have be more successful . see jane eyre ( 1970 ) with zelah clarke and timothy dalton for an outstanding production .