"A Reasonably Faithful Adaptation of Jane Eyre"
I think I have a new favourite parody. I'm watching this clip from SCTV, a classic Canadian sketch comedy show. This sketch is called 'Jane Eyrehead.' I can tell you exactly when I decided this is my new favourite parody. It was when Mr Rochester came riding down Hay Lane on an adorable little grey donkey. Somehow he manages to remain completely serious, and quite stately even while trying to keep his legs from hitting the ground and while accompanied by brisk donkey-trotting and cow bell sound effects. This Mr Rochester truly deserves the cuff she gives him. He 's... certainly peculiar. Quite... peculiar. Quite... Jack Benny like. After Jane recognises him she cuffs him and calls him a pig-headed moron. He takes no offence: "You got spunk! I like dat! Si-mone! Come'n out meet your neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew guvness!" he cries, while having a seizure, or flapping his jowls... 'Simone' is rather more advanced than Adele... "Bonjour mademoiselle. I look forward to stimulating pedagogical sessions which will expand both my horizons and your professorial boundaries."
'Reasonably faithful'- nice to have some honesty for a change! Maybe someday we'll have 'nothing like the real thing.' I haven't seen it all, but here you have parts one and two of 'Jane Eyrehead', with Andrea Martin as Jane Eyre, Joe Flaherty as Mr Rochester, John Candy as 'Mr Rochester's gentleman', Martin Short as Mr Mason, and Eugene Levy will be in there somewhere as well.
3 comments:
This is hilarious!! Thanks for the link!
Rochester's howling and belligerant fits reminds me of Ciaran Hinds' portrayal of Rochester.
So does the ending suggest that Rochester is a servant and is happy?
He's not quite that bad ;) I like the bit when they first show him at his estate- he's bracing against the door frame and looking brooding and sinister just before he breaks into that wierd tirade about mules :D
Hard to say- he doesn't have much of an emotional range, does he? Although he seems glad to see Jane at any rate. You had to have wondered what he would have done for a living, right? I must confess that this had never crossed my mind.
where is the link to this clip. i love sctv and i just had to read jane eyre and i've been dying to see the clip and the youtube link doesnt work :(
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