movie: jane eyre

[seperis]

You know, and I say this with deep romantic love, Rochester is a creepy creepster who is creeping creepily. Just. For the record. Oh my God his creeping over Jane. How did I forget how unearthly unsubtle Rochester is? He's not even goddamn trying not to be creepy.

Christ, man, just get a fucking sign that says "I HAVE A CREEPY SECRET WHILE I CREEP OVER YOU, JANE."

"Poor and obscure as you are", how did I completely block out this?

Jane Eyre version with Michael Fassbender, which just makes it weirdly appropriate. It's like, Magneto in the nineteenth century whose mutant power is Creepiness. Creepneto. IDK. And also, not genocidal. I mean, I assume, but I've forgotten a lot of the book, so maybe he leads some kind of--yeah, no idea.

Suffice to say, Creepneto is freaking me out badly.

Oh, strangulation in the church. That's--what the hell.

Wait, I'm about to meet the wife. This is terribly, terribly disturbing.

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[fenlings]

Jumping in to say, wow, what an interesting theory on romance novel heroes. Can you point me to some evidence or further explanation?

[seperis.livejournal.com]

I read most recently linked about two years ago (or possibly three) off of Smart Bitches, Trashy Novels, but originally it was mentioned in a lit course I was in circa 1999. I can't be more specific; I've been slowly going back through their archive when I think about it, but I haven't hit that one yet. There are a few via google, but most of them are short pieces on the idea, nothing near as comprehensive as that one. That one had, if I remember correctly, reference to specific research, which is why I'm still looking for it.

Which reminds me to go looking again.

[seperis.livejournal.com]

Actually, let me check my old bookmarks; I didn't save that one, but during the recent discusison on rape in romance fic last year I was reading another one that was (somewhat) related that I meant to follow up on because it picked up some of the same line of thinking, though the subject was on specific plot tropes, not the genre in toto.