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Franco Zeffirelli's filmd adaptation of Creator/CharlotteBronte's classic novel ''Literature/JaneEyre'', starring Creator/CharlotteGainsbourg as Jane and Creator/WilliamHurt as Rochester. Notably also includes Creator/AnnaPaquin as the young Jane.

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Franco Zeffirelli's filmd adaptation Creator/FrancoZeffirelli's 1996 [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptation]] of Creator/CharlotteBronte's classic novel ''Literature/JaneEyre'', starring Creator/CharlotteGainsbourg as Jane and Creator/WilliamHurt as Rochester. Notably also includes Creator/AnnaPaquin as the young Jane.
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* SlipperySkid: St. John slips on the wet grass when he tries to get his hat from falling.
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* AdaptationalExplanation: This happens during the scene where Mr. Rochester shows Bertha to Jane and other people from the church. In the novel, there is no explaination why Mr. Rochester had to put Bertha in the attic instead of mental asylum. In this version, he explains that he discovered that the mental asylums in the county were terrible and it wouldn't fit for patients like Bertha to stay there.


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* {{Narrator}}: Jane only narrates during the beginning and ending of the movie.
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* ShipperOnDeck: Adele subtly does this after Jane returns in Thornfield Hall from Gateshead. She gives an amusing glance to Jane and Mr. Rochester before going to the kitchen.
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* TheChessmaster: Mr. Rochester is seen playing chess around few times, showing that he is capable to manipulate others to attain his goals.
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* GrandStaircaseEntrance: Jane walks down the stairs in her wedding dress to meet with Mr. Rochester.
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* AdaptionalTimespanChange: In the novel, Jane drew Mr. Rochester's face when she was at Gateshead Hall to pass her time and miss his presence. In this version, she drew him by Adele's request in the gardens of Thornfield Hall.

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* AdaptionalTimespanChange: AdaptationalTimespanChange: In the novel, Jane drew Mr. Rochester's face when she was at Gateshead Hall to pass her time and miss his presence. In this version, she drew him by Adele's request in the gardens of Thornfield Hall.
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* AdaptionalTimespanChange: In the novel, Jane drew Mr. Rochester's face when she was at Gateshead Hall to pass her time and miss his presence. In this version, she drew him by Adele's request in the gardens of Thornfield Hall.
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* AnywhereButTheirLips: This is how Mr. Rochester kisses Jane during their proposal at the gardens. Jane later copied him and then kissed his lips.

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* AnywhereButTheirLips: This is how Mr. Rochester kisses Jane during their proposal at the gardens. Jane later copied him and then kissed his lips. This was later averted near the end of the movie.
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* DoorHandleScare: When Jane is closing the window in her own room, there is a close-up shot of a door handle unlocked and the door itself is temporarily opened.
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* AnywhereButTheirLips: This is how Mr. Rochester kisses Jane during their proposal at the gardens. Jane later copied him and then kissed his lips.
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Franco Zeffirelli's adaptation of the novel starring Creator/CharlotteGainsbourg as Jane and Creator/WilliamHurt as Rochester. Notably also includes Creator/AnnaPaquin as the young Jane.

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Franco Zeffirelli's filmd adaptation of the Creator/CharlotteBronte's classic novel ''Literature/JaneEyre'', starring Creator/CharlotteGainsbourg as Jane and Creator/WilliamHurt as Rochester. Notably also includes Creator/AnnaPaquin as the young Jane.
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Franco Zeffirelli's adaptation of the novel starring Creator/CharlotteGainsbourg as Jane and Creator/WilliamHurt as Rochester. Notably also includes Creator/AnnaPaquin as the young Jane.

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* AdaptationDyeJob: Rochester has reddish brown hair and Blanche is a blonde.
* AdaptedOut: Diana, St. John and Mary's older sister is not present in this version.
* AfterActionPatchUp: Mr. Rochester wipes a trickle of blood from Jane's right hand after they take out the fire in his bedroom. Jane got the wound from taking out the roses in the vase filled with water.
* AgeCut: Young Jane is seen putting some flowers on Helen's grave. When Miss Temple is calling Jane, it shows a grown-up Jane walking towards her.
* AgeLift: In the novel, Jane stayed at Lowood for 8 years and then left at 18. In this version, she was aged up to 20 and her time in Lowood was extended into 10 years.  Jane's actress, Creator/CharlotteGainsbourg was 25 at the time the film was shown.
* BookEnds: The movie begins with a still drawing of Gateshead Hall. The last scene then ends with a drawing of Jane and Mr. Rochester in the grassfields as a married couple, with the latter implied that his eyesight is recovered.
* CompositeCharacter: As in 1943, Helen Burns takes the place of Julia Severn and becomes the girl whose curly hair Mr. Brocklehurst orders cut off. Jane stands up for her and has her hair cut off as well.
* DarkIsNotEvil: "The shadows are just as important as the light."
* DeathByAdaptation: Grace Poole. Bertha throws her to her death before leaping to her own.
* DoubleTake: Mr. Rochester does one upon his first meeting with Jane on Hay Lane.
* EarlyBirdCameo: St. John and his family appear when Jane returns to her childhood rearing house to attend her aunt's final illness. While not on the level of either the 1943 or 2011 films in including him from the very beginning, it is still earlier than his final-quarter appearance in the novel.
* TheEnd: The last scene flashes the word "The End" between Jane and Mr. Rochester then the image becomes a still drawing.
* FaceNodAction: Jane and Helen looked at each other and nod before their hairs are cut off by Mr. Brocklehurst.
* FamilyPortraitOfCharacterization
** At Thornfield Hall, a portrait of Mr. Rochester's father is shown in the study room looking proud but the background behind him is dark. In Mr. Rochester's bedroom, a small portrait of himself as a young boy is shown looking happy. Mrs. Fairfax reveals that Mr. Rochester is an unhappy man and he doesn't get along with his father and elder brother.
** Later in the movie, Jane receives two small portraits of her family - one is her deceased uncle and another is her father.
* FlyawayShot: The last scene ends with the camera raising up to see the panorama view of Jane and Mr. Rochester standing in the grassfields.
* GraveMarkingScene: Jane goes to visit the grave of Helen and laid some flowers there, even before leaving Lowood to work as a governess.
* GoBackToTheSource: Jane travels back to Lowood school in order to relieve her past memories. There she hears Mr. Rochester's voice.
* IChooseToStay: Miss Temple is offered by Jane to leave Lowood together but she decides to stay there in order to continue taking care of the girls. In contrast to the novel where she left the school after she married.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Shortly after taking out the fire in Mr. Rochester's bed, Mr. Rochester drinks a glass of brandy in his study. He even offers it to Jane.
* MementoMacGuffin: The unfinished sketch of Mr. Rochester drawn by Jane. Adele and Mr. Rochester spends some time staring at it while Jane is away in Gateshead Hall.
* PragmaticAdaptation: Though in general the film plays like an AdaptationDistillation, the final Rivers section is combined and manipulated quite a bit to fit it into a coherent, unified narrative. One especially notable change is that Bertha sets fire to Thornfield just as Jane is running away, rather than two months later as in the novel.
* SomethingAboutARose: Jane pulls out a boquet of roses in the vase in order to use the latter in taking out the fire in Mr. Rochester's bed. Her hand ended up having some cuts but [[AfterActionPatchUp Mr. Rochester tended it and then thanks her for saving his life]].
* TastesLikeFriendship: Helen gives some bread and cheese to Jane during bedtime as a gesture of their friendship.
* WalkAndTalk: Jane and Mr. Rochester talks about the importance of the shadows while walking towards a small, dark corridor to outside.

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