The meaningful glances, whispered exchanges and chaste caresses between the leads creates a suspenseful chemistry seemingly nonexistent in the modern romantic comedy. Rochester, a brooding Michael Fassbender. The recent movie adaptation directed by Cary Fukunaga, focuses on the stormy romance between Jane, played to mousy perfection by Mia Wasikowska, and the mysterious Mr. “Jane Eyre,” first published in 1847 by Charlotte Brontë, tells the tale of the troubled adolescence and maturation of the titular character. The older, ruggedly handsome man staring into the fiery eyes of a pale teenage girl is a story from well before my time. This was no teenage-heartthrob freak-out. “Shhh!” - the man in front of me at the theater hissed angrily at my friend and I as we whispered giddily about the couple embracing on the screen.
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