{"id":2408,"date":"2019-06-24T15:46:42","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T19:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/?p=2408"},"modified":"2019-06-24T15:46:42","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T19:46:42","slug":"random-movie-monday-jane-eyre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2019\/06\/24\/random-movie-monday-jane-eyre\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Movie Monday &#8212; Jane Eyre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t\n<p>I promise I didn&#8217;t rig Google&#8217;s random number generator. This week&#8217;s random movie (DVD 11799) just happens to be one of my favorite movies: Cary Fukunaga&#8217;s 2011 adaptation of <em>Jane Eyre. <\/em>Here&#8217;s our summary:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> When orphaned governess Jane Eyre arrives at imposing Thornfield Hall, she&#8217;s intrigued by her brooding, wealthy employer, Rochester. His dark moods and the strange occurrences in the house lead her to discover a terrible secret that he had hoped to hide from her forever. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>What this summary leaves out is that Jane Eyre is adapted from the eponymous 1847 novel by Charlotte Bronte. It&#8217;s a Gothic novel, but it&#8217;s also one of the first English proto-feminist works of fiction.  Director Fukunaga and screenwriter Moira Buffini highlight this aspect of the story, unlike other (often longer) adaptations that treat it as a romance.  In less than two hours, they fully flesh out a story that&#8217;s part scandalous declaration of independence, part coming of age, and part romance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Add all of that to superb costuming, a sublime score (I&#8217;m still upset composer Dario Marianelli wasn&#8217;t even nominated for an Oscar), and solid acting from Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender, and you&#8217;ve just got a really solid film. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Official Jane Eyre Trailer\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XiZo96FF5D8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I promise I didn&#8217;t rig Google&#8217;s random number generator. This week&#8217;s random movie (DVD 11799) just happens to be one of my favorite movies: Cary Fukunaga&#8217;s 2011 adaptation of Jane Eyre. Here&#8217;s our summary: When orphaned governess Jane Eyre arrives at imposing Thornfield Hall, she&#8217;s intrigued by her brooding, wealthy employer, Rochester. His dark moods [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies-at-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}