Jane Eyre 2011 picture image

Jane Eyre 2011

I have been reading Jane Eyre and when I say that I mean I started it like back in September and read it somewhat periodically but it’s ok I have watched the mini-series from 1983 so I know the in’s and outs. Like so many other literary works Jane Eyre has adapted many, many times and this version is from 2011 and it’s alright.

Mia Wasikowska as Jane Eyre 2011 picture image

Mia Wasikowska as Jane Eyre

The way the film is shot is it gives more of a gothic feel and at some points it seems like the shot are more appropriate to a Fantasy work, though to be fair this really only at the start of the movie. As the film goes on it takes on a weird near music video style to the direction and editing. Not saying it’s bad just different.

Mia Wasikowska as Jane Eyre Tamzin Merchant as Mary Rivers Jane Eyre 2011 picture image

Mia Wasikowska as Jane Eyre Tamzin Merchant as Mary Rivers

The movie also takes on a flashback framing agent. Meaning the start of the movie has Jane wandering the moors and meeting the kindly Rivers. Her life and meeting Mr.Rochester are told as flashback. The weird caveat is that after she arrives at Thornfield and until she leave it’s unbroken flashback and you forget about the framing. It’s inconsistent and unnecessary. Not saying the idea behind doesn’t have merit because it’s helps create air of mystery but they could have framed it better with more editing or even some use or motif to tie or even contrast her life at Thornfield with her current life.    

Mia Wasikowska as Jane Eyre & Michael Fassbender as Edward Rochester Jane Eyre 2011 picture image

Mia Wasikowska as Jane Eyre & Michael Fassbender as Edward Rochester

Then we have the romance. The chemistry between Rochester and Jane is odd in this movie. It’s there sometimes and mostly this on part of the actors.  Michael Fassbender does a fine job as Rochester but Mia Wasikowska as Jane is hit or miss. She does a great gob with the physical end of Jane but it see she can’t really deliver the dialogue. It’s like she doesn’t believe or understand the lines of dialogue.

Mia Wasikowska as Jane Eyre & Michael Fassbender as Edward Rochester Jane Eyre 2011 picture image

Mia Wasikowska as Jane Eyre & Michael Fassbender as Edward Rochester

To be fair, and I really don’t want to bring up the book but Jane Eyre is a hard role to play. She is a women who seems meek and shy but she really bursting with passion and wit. It’s that society and her station doesn’t allow for her to act that way. This movie has be acting more shy except for few lines about her being “passionate” and “ambitious.”  Honestly Jane’s hair styles this movie showcases her personality more.  Her hair is neatly pulled back into intricately braided buns. Something that looks demure and simple but is really complex and dimensional.

Mia Wasikowska as jane Eyre & Michael Fassbender as Edward Rochester Jane Eyre 2011 picture image

Mia Wasikowska as Jane Eyre & Michael Fassbender as Edward Rochester

With any movie adaption of a book they are either cut or run through aspect which this version does and it end so abruptly at it does take away somewhat from the story but all in all it’s an alright version. Not amazing or great but not unwatchable.   

 

 

Side Note- In my grand scheme I hope to look at Jane Eyre and its movie versions more in the future but I need to finish the book first.

Red Riding Hood picture image

Red Riding Hood

Let’s not mince any words or waste any time, This movie sucks. Red Riding Hood (2011) tries to take an already dark story and tries to make it more dark and add a Twilight-esque love triangle and hey it was directed Catherine Hardwicke to boot (Twilight director). So why was it bad?

Amanda Seyfried as Valerie and Shiloh Fernandez as Peter Red Riding Hood picture image

Amanda Seyfried as Valerie and Shiloh Fernandez as Peter

In undisclosed medieval Fantasy times there is a village the is plagued by werewolf attacks but the people and the werewolf have an understanding where they give it some livestock and it does kill people, ah Harmony itself. Living in this village is young Valerie and her pal Peter, get it Peter and the wolf, too clever. They caught a rabbit together and Valerie kills it, pay attention to that because it like SUPER important later, like you have no idea, your mind will be blown.

Flash forward ten years and Valerie has grown. She is in love with Peter but her mother wants her to marry rich bland guy Henry. Also the werewolf has killed a human, Valerie’s older sister Lucie. The Village people are pissed so the go mob style and kill a wolfs but a crazy priest who hunts werewolfs tells them they didn’t. In the hunt for the werewolf Henry’s father is killed. Valerie then learns the Lucie’s real father was Henry’s father and me mother had an affair.

At some point, Valerie gets her red riding hood from her grandmother who lives in the woods. Then the werewolf attacks and speaks with Valerie and only she can understand, it tells her that it wants her to come away with it or it will destroy the village. Valeries sees that the werewolf has brown human eyes and since everyone but Valerie has brown eyes everyone is a suspect. There is also a blood moon which means it is the time for the werewolf to pass on the curse.

So some more stuff happens, Crazy priest dies and it turns out Valerie’s dad is the werewolf and the curse that has been in the family for generations which makes it strong. He killed Lucie because he was enraged to learn that she wasn’t his daughter when she couldn’t understand him. Valerie’s dad tries to convince her that she has it in her to be a werewolf because she killed the rabbit, mind-blown. Then Peter comes in, Valerie kills her dad but Peter got bitten in the fight and gets the curse.

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Amanda Seyfried as Valerie

First thing, Valerie takes the death of most of her family pretty darn well. Her sister dies and she is pretty sad but that is over in a few scenes, I mean she does have more important things to deal with, like her love triangle. But she feels nothing when her grandmother is killed and she kills her own father and it like no reaction. She should not be ok.

Amanda Seyfried as Valerie Red Riding Hood picture image

Amanda Seyfried as Valerie

Valerie’s inability to express emotions could be the result of shitty writing and character development but I think it’s something; bad acting. The acting in the movie is on the whole BAD! Mostly everyone under act the shit out of this except one Gary Oldman who vomits up the god-damn fake scenery. Really it’s hard to get into this movie with the amount of bad work from the actors.

While I’m here I might as well discuss the characters. So Valerie tells us that she tries to be a good girl but the killing of the rabbit proves she isn’t. Not sure why I would except a girl in her position in life, in medieval times to have skinned and prepare food was it because it was for boots. Other than the dark stain on her character she is built up to be pretty and prefect but really Vanilla Ice Cream have more bite than her. She is bland and yet she stabbed her lover, dances suggestively, tried to have sex with Peter all the time and killed her own father and yet she is bland. That is pretty amazing, see what the power of bad acting can achieve.

The other characters were bland too but what REALLY bothers me is that writing in this movie is so shitty that things like character motivations and establishing emotions which is needed to development are not there for the sake of the boring, I repeat BORING love triangle. For instance Valerie’s father, his motivation is he wants to leave the village because he has been disrespected, his words but when did that happen? We never see it maybe it was the affair and Lucie not being his child but he wanted to leave before that hence why he called Lucie out. Speaking of Lucie you can’t feel anything for her when she dies because we never see her alive save for like two flashbacks. Why couldn’t there have been a scene with Lucie and Valerie as children laughing or something? Instead we have establish Valerie and Peter, you know the important emotion source of the movie….though this movie is as emotional as a math textbook.

Shiloh Fernandez as Peter Red Riding Hood picture image

Shiloh Fernandez as Peter

Anyway moving on to the scenery or the sets. I have seen Ren Faire with more believability in the sets that this movie vague attempts at a backdrop. The sets looked fake. There was no life to anything, no grit no realness. Really with this level of non commitment to having interesting character or sets there is nothing to maintain the viewer’s attention other than attractive people running around in the snow. I was bored by the minute seven.

Amanda Seyfried as Valerie Red Riding Hood picture image

Amanda Seyfried as Valerie

Basically this movie was made on Twilight’s coattails and the trend of making dark fairy tales movie that was popular for a while. It’s similarities to source material of Little Red Riding hood are like little homages. Her Red Riding hood was pointless, Peter being the woodsmen, going to grandmother’s house and the lines about grandmother’s facial features. These were just there to connect to the source and not much else. This a Twilight werewolf movie.

Amanda Seyfried as Valerie and Shiloh Fernandez as Peter Red Riding Hood picture image

Amanda Seyfried as Valerie and Shiloh Fernandez as Peter

Red Riding Hood sucks, it tries to be dark bit with emotional impact or interest from the actors it just lays there on the floor limp and lifeless. Some of the shot were cool like of the scenery, at least I believe that that mountain or that tree were a mountain and tree. Just skip it.

Clue 1 and Clue 2

More Pictures of the Asian Tour Cast, Enjoy. (Click to Enjoy them in Full-Size Glory)

Candice Parise as Esmeralda  during Belle  Notre Dame de Paris 2011-2012 Asian Tour picture image

Candice Parise as Esmeralda during Belle Notre Dame de Paris 2011-2012 Asian Tour

Dennis Ten Vergert as Gringoire during the Age of The Cathedrals  Notre Dame de Paris 2011-2012 Asian Tour picture image

Dennis Ten Vergert as Gringoire during the Age of The Cathedrals Notre Dame de Paris 2011-2012 Asian Tour

Matt Laurent Notre Dame de Paris 2011-2012 Asian Tour picture image

Matt Laurent Notre Dame de Paris 2011-2012 Asian Tour

Robert Marien as Frollo during Belle  Notre Dame de Paris 2011-2012 Asian Tour picture image

Robert Marien as Frollo during Belle Notre Dame de Paris 2011-2012 Asian Tour

Bell Notre Dame de Paris 2011-2012 Asian Tour picture image

Bell Notre Dame de Paris 2011-2012 Asian Tour

Matt Laurent Notre Dame de Paris 2011-2012 Asian Tour picture image

Matt Laurent Notre Dame de Paris 2011-2012 Asian Tour

Dance my Esmeralda Notre Dame de Paris 2011-2012 Asian Tour picture image

Dance my Esmeralda Notre Dame de Paris 2011-2012 Asian Tour

Candice Parise as Esmeralda during My Home in the Sky Notre Dame de Paris 2011-2012 Asian Tour  picture image

Candice Parise as Esmeralda during My Home in the Sky Notre Dame de Paris 2011-2012 Asian Tour

Robert Marien and Matt Laurent Notre Dame de Paris 2011-2012 Asian Tour image picture

Robert Marien and Matt Laurent Notre Dame de Paris 2011-2012 Asian Tour

Candice Parise as Esmeralda during Live for the One I Love Notre Dame de Paris 2011-2012 Asian Tour   picture image

Candice Parise as Esmeralda during Live for the One I Love Notre Dame de Paris 2011-2012 Asian Tour

The Shadow Notre Dame de Paris 2011-2012 Asian Tour picture image

The Shadow Notre Dame de Paris 2011-2012 Asian Tour

 Notre Dame de Paris 2011-2012 Asian Tour image picture

Notre Dame de Paris 2011-2012 Asian Tour

Cast Curtain Call  Notre Dame de Paris 2011-2012 Asian Tour picture image

Cast Curtain Call Notre Dame de Paris 2011-2012 Asian Tour

 

Another picture from the Asian Tour of Notre Dame de Paris;

Candice Parise as Esmeralda and Matthew Laurent as Quasimodo Asian Tour Notre Dame de Paris picture image

Candice Parise as Esmeralda and Matthew Laurent as Quasimodo Asian Tour Notre Dame de Paris

My Guess is this Shot is during Ma Maison c’est tu Maison or “My Home in the Sky” (English version {It’s a silly title}). I like this picture since it’s high quality, a performance picture, and shows costume details.

Here are some pictures I found of the Asian Tour Cast of Notre Dame de Paris.  It’s been a little tricky finding them, as adversitering for the show feature the 2005 tour cast. I’m hoping that when the show leaves China finding videos and pictures will be easier. Anyway Enjoy!

Warning – 8 somewhat big pictures;

Chinese News Paper with Ian Carlyle as Clopin and Matt Laurent as Quasimodo picture image

Chinese News Paper with Ian Carlyle as Clopin and Matt Laurent as Quasimodo

A Dancer performing in Bohomienne in The 2011 Asian Tour of Notre Dame de Paris picture Image

A Dancer performing in Bohomienne in The 2011 Asian Tour of Notre Dame de Paris

Matt Laurent as Quasimodo performing The Feast of Fools Asian Tour Cast Notre Dame de Paris picture image

Matt Laurent as Quasimodo performing The Feast of Fools Asian Tour Cast Notre Dame de Paris

Court of Miracles Asian Tour cast Notre Dame de Paris picture image

Court of Miracles Asian Tour cast Notre Dame de Paris

The Bells Asian Tour Cast Notre Dame de Paris picture image

The Bells Asian Tour Cast Notre Dame de Paris

Myriam Brousseau as Fleur de Lys performing My Heart if you Swear Asian Tour cast Notre Dame de Paris picture image

Myriam Brousseau as Fleur de Lys performing My Heart if you Swear Asian Tour Cast Notre Dame de Paris

Tim Driesen as Gringoire picture image

Tim Driesen as Gringoire

Myriam Brousseau as Esmeralda with Candice Parise picture image

Myriam Brousseau as Esmeralda with Candice Parise

Original Cast of Notre Dame de Paris in Kiev December 13 2011 picture image

Original Cast of Notre Dame de Paris in Kiev December 13 2011

Just like in 2010 the Original Cast of Notre dame are set to perform another Notre Dame de Paris Concert in Kiev this evening December 2011. That means there are at least two peformance of the show, the Original cast and the Asian Tour Cast, Kind of Neat Huh?Hopefully we’ll get to see some decent video on Youtude ^^

So I had said the Robert Marien, Matt Laurent, and Myriam Brousseau were in the World Tour Cast but it seems that they are in the Asian Tour 2011-2012 Cast. I Suppose with two English Tour cast information get a little confusing. Or Perhaps I’m Waaay off and was wrong about a World Tour.

Anyway here is the Cast of the 2011 Asian Tour Cast

Cast of Notre Dame de Paris Asian Tour 2011 picture image

Cast of Notre Dame de Paris Asian Tour 2011

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Confirmed Cast (Source) and (Source

Quasimodo – Matt Laurent
Esmeralda – Candice Parise
Frollo – Robert Marien
Gringoire – Dennis Ten Vergert
Phoebus – Stephen Webb
Clopin – Ian Carlyle
Fleur de Lys – Lilly-Jane Young

 

Alternates
Quasimodo/Frollo – Nigel Richards
Gringoire/Phoebus – Tim Driesen (Source)
Esmeralda/Fleur de Lys – Myriam Brousseau (Source)
Quasimodo/Clopin -Marc Akinfolarin

Unconfirmed
According to Twitter posts, Rachel Muldoon and Tom Muggeridge are in cast, my guess is that they maybe dancers but I don’t know, some how they’re are linked with the cast.

EDIT 6/25/12
There is a World Tour. It Starts October 31th in Russia. Tour will be English.

(((I’m sorry I got it wrong, but I’ll post something when (and if) and cast news is released on the 2012-2013 cast unless the Asian Tour is in fact the tour that General Entertaiment Associates meant and if that’s the case, why did the say it would be 2012-2013 when the Asian Tour only going to last for a reported 8-9 months? My guess is that the Asian Tour is the Tour Cast and General Entertaiment should have been more clear in their write up. But still it would be cool to have a world tour of Notre Dame de Paris)))

 

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