To ask if you're looking forward to the "re-imagined" Wuthering Heights?

[Toeragg]

I can't wait! Jacob Eldori's wig looks a bit dodgy in the first part but he scrubs up well when Heathcliff becomes rich. Not sure about the Yorkshire accent.

Margot Robbie looks a bit too old and glowy to be Cathy but I'm there for the frocks, the interiors and the scenary!

Anyone else going?

I think the book is absolutely brilliant, one of the best ever written. It's unearthly and disturbing and timeless in a way that boggles my mind when I think of Emily Bronte's limited life experience. The characters seem more like spirits of place than humans (well, some of them).

I think many people assume it's a romance, read it and are disappointed, confused and/or appalled.

The new film doesn't appeal to me.

Film and TV adaptations so rarely show the whole book, you’d have thought there would be considering they’ve dragged Wicked out over two films but I doubt there will be.

Lucky for you, this movie bears no resemblance to the book.

No, I can't see Margot as Cathy at all. I prefer the 2011 film where Heathcliff was actually cast as non white.

Agreed, adaptations never really seem to get the dark violence of the book, I love it and reread it recently.

I totally agree that people expect something very different from the book so often don’t know what to make of it, and adaptations tend to sanitise so many of the themes, plus rarely even depict the second half.

I’d love to see someone make a more realistic adaptation but it weirdly seems like it will never be done.

Oddly, the guy they’ve cast as Linton in this version seems like he’d have been more suited to play Heathcliff.

Lovely, isn't it? 😁

Booked to see it Monday, looking forward to it and trying to ignore any reviews.

But Emily Brontë didn’t intend it to be — that’s quite clear. Heathcliff’s supposed lifelong love tells her sister-in-law, who has fallen for H, that only an ignorance of his character can explain her attraction to him, that he’s not a ‘diamond in the rough’ but a ‘fierce, pitiless, wolfish man’. When H returns after C has married Edgar, C isn’t at all torn or anguished, and while she’s delighted to see him, she describes herself as his ‘friend’ and doesn’t appear to seek to be alone with him, seeing him in the presence of her husband and SIL and taking her SIL with her on their walks. And no novelist, wanting you to root for her supposed romantic hero, would depict him as hanging the spaniel belonging to the teenager he’s eloping with as they run off together. Or depict him as beating her up while pregnant after their marriage.

The romance thing is entirely the fault of adaptations.

Yep cannot stomach anything that makes Heathcliff a romantic hero or a catch is that what we are teaching our daughters they should want in a man

he doesn’t love Cathy it is an obsession a need to own and possess and it is a love that destroys.

he is cruel to the generation below (I assume not shown the film) and theirs is far more the love story

I'm all for deconstructing and reimagining classic texts but Emerald Fennell doesn't strike me as up to the task. Most of her work to date is disturbingly regressive and unimaginative beneath a vaguely liberal sheen so it doesn't surprise me that she's apparently reduced Wuthering Heights to "doomed romance".

It probably can't annoy me as much as Promising Young Woman though. Still mad that she suckered me in with the promise of a rape revenge narrative only to see the lead female character repeatedly victimised, little impact on the male characters and the head-thumpingly awful conclusion of "the cops will save you".

My initial reaction from the trailer is it seems extremely surface level and she’s misunderstood the book. The casting is wrong so the foundation doesn’t make sense. A 35yo blonde Catherine frolicking around with a bad boy… Heathcliff is now a white guy, the most stereotypical hot male romance protagonist. The personalities dont make sense with the wrong casting.

Not my Cathy, not my Heathcliff.

If the casting was actually done properly, maybe it could still be enjoyable in a parallel universe way, where we recognise familiar characters.

But this just looks like it was made to be titillating. Could have just made a new story rather than calling Wuthering Heights.

No.

Absolutely agree. Whilst some of the performances in Saltburn were memorable, it was utter trash and queasy throughout.

This looks to be in the same vein. Boak.

Saltburn and Wuthering Heights share a theme of 'low-born fella preys on the upper classes and schemes to take their estates...'.

Is this something that keeps toffs/ La Fennell awake at night?

I have been trying to work out what all the bodices and thrusting bosoms and rain reminded me of. You have nailed it

Oh, I love a bit of drama, so yes I'll be there OP! I'm 57 and was a young teen when I read it, so I've forgotten the finer details and they can be imaginative as they like 🙂

Ditto.
It was the most boring book I've ever read in my entire life. It took me ages to force myself into finishing it.

Totally agree.
Margot is no Cathy. Hate this miscasting shit. Cathy was 17 and dark haired and brown eyed, feral, wild and untameable.
This is a travesty and I'll not be watching it and it should not be called Wuthering Heights
However, it might appeal to people who've not read WH.
The Tom Hardy/Charlotte Riley drama was probably the best adaptation IMO.

I'd rather tidy the shed than see that nonsense

Yes but emerald fennel clearly doesn't fancy him and she fancies Jacob Elordi. That's also why Cathy is older - this is emerald fennel fanfic of the book with her as the protagonist/heroine

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The thing looks dreadful, nothing like the book … if she wanted to make a different film, that’s ok, just don’t call it “Wuthering heights”

😂

Saw it last night the guardians 2 star review puts it better than I could

I loved the Tom Hardy one with Charlotte Riley as Cathy. It was dark, gruff, violent and moody. It showed Heathcliff at his cruellist moments too. Not sure about this new one.