Edward fairfax rochester. No more should be written about him. It has already been done millions of times because the literary Church has doctors and I only dedicate myself to a humble writing. But today I woke up to the deeply Victorian foot and in love. And if there is a paradigm of the most victorian love, that's the lord of Thornfield Hall, Edward Rochester. He, Fitzwilliam Darcy and the immense heathcliff are the Holy Trinity for the most passionate and devoted spirits of the romance novel Victorian.

I forget about Jane Eyre and company. This is about how Eyre succumbs and a hundred million like her to the so devious and ravishing soul of one of the best male literary characters created by a Woman. And it goes from those many faces that you have borrowed on a screen. Do you keep one? With none? Let's see.

Have been shot lots of movies and TV series about Jane Eyre, the classic of Charlotte Brontë published in 1847. We have from a first silent version of 1918 (almost a hundred years already) until the last in 2011. So there are quite a few faces to the rough, particular, romantic, and tormented Edward Rochester.

I have chosen those of those six actorsTwo North Americans and four British. And I stay with the indispensable and necessary portraits of British. His character is well known both for his strong containment of emotions as for your ravishing passion when they let them out.

Alma rebelde (1943) - Orson Welles

Although its original title was Jane Eyre. The always overflowing and overflowing genius of Orson Welles he stepped into Rochester's shoes. And the soft and delicate Joan fontaine there was nothing he could do but fall into their nets. Very with the touch of Hollywood in the middle of world war, it is seen with different eyes now, but the essence is there.

Jane Eyre (1983) - Timothy Dalton

Television series. The with the BBC he gets involved and signs 11 episodes adaptation as correct as it is effective. The Welsh Timothy dalton He also put Rochester on a suitable perch and received considerable approval from critics and the public. Still today is among the favorites of that audience.

Jane Eyre, by Charlote Brontë (1996) - William Hurt

It was signed by the renowned Italian director Franco Zeffirelli. Its international cast leaves precisely that mark that may not fit as in other adaptations. Nevertheless, it can be seen. The american William Hurt, by her features, she gives Rochester an even colder and more distant air that complements quite well with the French Charlotte Gainsbourg like Jane Eyre.

Jane Eyre (1997) - Ciarán Hinds

Movie for television. Ciaran Hinds, magnificent actor Northern Irish so known for Game of Thrones o Roma, lent him one of the more stony looks that Mr. Rochester has had. It also achieved a very good counterpoint with the delicacy of the actress Samantha Morton.

Jane Eyre (2006) - Toby Stephens

New 4 episode miniseries re-signed by the BBC. And it improves. Pure English toby stephens, with impossible better acting blood in his veins, he tackles Rochester.

I remember starting to watch it on a Saturday night and finish it at 3 in the morning. Enraptured by the darkness with which she endowed her angular features, Stephens makes up one of the finest Rochester that can be seen. Again, but as always, this adaptation triumphed among audiences and critics. And Stephens remains one of the favorites.

Jane Eyre (2011) - Michael Fassbender

So far the last adaptation to the movies, because there will always be some more. Ideal for new generations come closer to this classic. Ideal also for its most recognizable face, that of the German-Irish Michael Fassbender, which does everything and everything quite well. The Edward Rochester of his as disturbing as expressive look could have passed without saying a word. It contains and overflows all the torment, passion, tenderness and pain.

Concluding ...

The fact that it is better to meet Mr. Rochester in reading, in his original description that Charlotte Brontë gave him. But there is always some lazy which we can never force to read. Well, nothing. Let any of these adaptations be seen. We still get that, if you don't take the book, at least you know and you can fall in love so much of a character as we are of Edward Rochester so many readers.