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eBook – The Empire Striketh Back

eBook –  The Empire Striketh Back Full title :  William Shakespeare's The Empire Striketh Back By : Ian Doescher  Iillustrations :  Nicolas Delort Score : 9/10 Year : 2014 Publisher : Quirk Books  eISBN :  978-1-59474-716-8 Based on  978-1-59474-715-1 (hard cover) Pages : 176 *  Language : English From Goodreads : Hot on the heels of the New York Times best seller William Shakespeare’s Star Wars comes the next two installments of the original trilogy: William Shakespeare’s The Empire Striketh Back  (and not reviewed as yet,  William Shakespeare’s The Jedi Doth Return.) Return to the star-crossed galaxy far, far away as the brooding young hero, a power-mad emperor, and their jesting droids match wits, struggle for power, and soliloquize in elegant and impeccable iambic pentameter. Illustrated with beautiful black-and-white Elizabethan-style artwork, these two plays offer essential reading for all ages. Something Wookiee this way comes!  *** As he explains at the end, Ian Doescher
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Movie - Jane Eyre (2011)






Movie – Jane Eyre 

Score : 4/10  
Year : 2011
Director:  Cary Joji Fukunaga 
Country : UK. USA.  
Language : English. French  
Duration:2h00
Writers : Charlotte Brontë (novel) ; Moira Buffini (screenplay)

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This is only an ok movie, I can’t get why its imdb medium rating is 8/10, as it’s only Jane Eyre on a diet, stripped from the core feminist aspect, and lacks any emotional impact, in spite of good acting, but which was a bit too clinical.

I didn’t like the casting either, not that the main actor’s aren’t good, they would be elsewhere, but they don’t correspond to Brontë’s descriptions… for instance, Jane is too pretty, Rochester isn’t as taciturn as he’s supposed to be and St James far too young… as you can see in these images



 
The good aspects : the score & cinematography are pretty.
Too bad, because there was a lot of potential here, which I feel is wasted.
Final score 4/10 – watch only if you want to compare to other adaptations of the story.

Starring: Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, Jamie Bell, Holliday Grainger, Sally Hawkins, Tamzin Merchant, Imogen Poots, Judi Dench
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