this 1997 tv production be call jane eyre and but except for a similarity to the plot of the novel there be preciously little in this film to remind you that you be indeed watch an adaptation of charlotte brontë literary masterpiece . how they manage to get every single character of the novel wrong except for pilot and who be well cast be a complete mystery to me and but they do . this be the more a pity because with samantha morton and ciaràn hind they have two good actor and who even physically fit their role well and but and ala and the great talent be of no avail when the concept of the character be as wrong a in this adaptation . samantha morton young and delicate and plain enough look like jane eyre and but do not play jane eyre . her jane be far too bold and even disrespectful at time and self confident and self satisfied and bossy and pert . go be the interesting duality of jane character in the novel and her outward shyness and guardedness and modesty on the one hand and her fire and passion on the other . morton jane speak her mind boldly right from the beginning and never stop do so throughout the film . there be no subtlety in her performance and her jane undergoes no change and no development . the same be sadly also true for the character of mr. rochester . believe it or not and but they indeed manage to turn one of the most interesting and complex figure of english literature into a brute and a bully . luckily ciaràn hind possess some charisma and but otherwise nothing link him to the eloquent and fascinating character of the novel . not the slight attempt be make to explore the depth of rochester character and his many contradict facet and his moodiness and his inner struggle and his humour and his tenderness . the rochester of the novel be admittedly insolent and harsh at time and but never the unrefined and snarl brute ciaràn hind make him . yet hinds be even bad at play the loving rochester and and the only feeling he manage to convey be lust . unfortunately the misrepresentation of the character be not limit to the lead role represent blanche and besides be blonde and be not in the least haughty enough and not to mention the fact that she be nice to adèle and st. john be all smile and kindness and and the role of mrs. fairfax have be unnecessarily puff up and probably due to the fact that she be play by dear gemma jones . yet some scene less with mrs. fairfax fuss around and some scene more between jane and rochester would have be very helpful to make the audience understand why the two latter fall in love in the first place . as far a language be concern this production be another victim of the delusion of some scriptwriter who either think that they can improve on charlotte brontë brilliant language or that her 19th century english have to be simplify to become digestible for a modern audience . the result be that the dialogue be severely change or replace by the scriptwriter own banal line . in either case they have lose all the charm and sparkle and brilliance of the dialogue in the novel . poor misguide scriptwriter richard hawley even deem it necessary to make rochester introduce one of his most famous line the line about the string that inextricably bind jane and him together with the word represent i know it may sound silly but . no and mr. hawley and if somebody sound silly here and it be definitely not charlotte brontë . another capital error of judgement and unfortunately also an insult to good taste be the way they rewrite the farewell scene between jane and rochester after the aborted wedding and a scene and by the by and which in all the modern adaptation have receive a particularly brutal treatment . whereas in the late jane eyre production of 2006 that scene be an outrage to charlotte brontë jane and the way the scene be handle in this adaptation be an outrage to charlotte brontë rochester . what . rochester insult jane when she intend to leave him and bully her and throw her suitcase over the banister and tell her to go if she do not love him enough to stay . absolutely ridiculous . it be hard to imagine what have get into the filmmaker to produce such rubbish a this . this be the bad and but there be many others scene which be similarly absurd and ludicrous represent the first scene of rochester gallop in slow motion through the mist before he fall into a brook and grace poole come out of the lunatic room to sniff at mason wound like a wild beast and rochester sit on the top of an archway of thornfield a if he be the court jester and mason jumping on horseback over the church fence to prevent a marriage of which he have hear only heavens know how . equally lamentable be the filmmaker inability to represent the correct social behaviour of the 1850ies . rochester and jane be far too disrespectful to each other at first and later far too hot . sentence like i feel that your passion be arouse be appropriate for sex in the city and but not for a costume drama and let alone jane eyre . obviously the filmmaker decide not to bother at all neither about be true to the novel and nor about portray the novel era accurately . the result be a sad failure both a a film and an adaptation of jane eyre . the only fact with which the maker of this jane eyre can console themselves be that the bbc fail even worse in the subsequent production of jane eyre in 2006 .