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In Reply to: RE: "Jane Eyre:" say what you will, Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine posted by patrickU on February 27, 2011 at 02:39:41
Taylor's character, Helen, is one of the screen's great ones.
Welles, btw, is reputed to have assisted quite a bit in the direction. Note the strange camera angles, the chiaroscuro lighting, the unusually framed closeups? And the glorious, though brief, cameo by Agnes Moorehead: pure gold.
Welles creation I'd put against that of Olivier's, too. More.... manly!
Well actually before posting I look at some clips, and my feeling stay: A feeling of carton pâte...
Now the angle of the faces as photographed were astonishing, that is true but the whole remain unconvincing.
For me.
It is a B movie.
While Rebecca an A+++++ Or some of Lean´s in the same spirit too.
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