Emily

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Anyone see it? I was actually surprised it came to our local cinema, normally they only show big blockbusters. There was only 3 of us in the showing it was heaven! I thoroughly enjoyed it. Some of the language I was miffed at (Emily being called Em by Charlotte & Branwell I just can't imagine it) the character of Emily seemed heavily based on Cathy from Wuthering Heights. I don't know if this actually true 🤔 maybe Cathy is based on Emily herself.

Just wondering what others thought

I went on my own today and I loved it.
I definitely need to reread Wuthering Heights now.

I liked it generally. I liked the ambience, if that is the right word. I liked the clothes and the places and some times, the complete absence of background music. Certainly the makers used her and her brother romping over the moors to suggest that's where she got her ideas from, about Cathy and Heathcliff escaping up to the moor. I looked up the curate, William Weightman(?) and a review of the film, and he might have been fond of Anne but I don't think he had a raving affair with Emily, and that inaccuracy irks me a bit. 🙂
Thank you for starting this thread. I saw the film last week and I was wondering whether to start one, so I just checked in and was pleased to see you've got one going.
P.S. I stayed in Haworth once and walked up above the parsonage.

I saw it and enjoyed it. I have no idea how historically accurate it was.
But it made me think about how hard it must have been if you were in any way 'different' back then and didn't fit neatly into the mould. There wasn't much room for individuality. Or personality really.
It was hard for Emily, it must have been hard for her father, who probably lived her and wanted her to be happy but he was under so much pressure to have a respectable family.

Yes, that's it upinaballon the ambience and the clothes and scenes with the moors itself are just beautiful and the silence in it, I know exactly what you mean. We visited Hawort last summer and went into the Parsonage it was lovely. I could have spent all day in the parsonage shop, all those lovely editions. That was another thing that annoyed me, Emily would never have seen the Wuthering Heigths published under her name. She was Ellis Bell. Its wasn't until after Anne & Emily's deaths that Charlotte put the world straight on who the authors really were. Which is so sad to think about.

I'm in my 70s and when I was a girl I used to have a comic called 'Girl' (I think it was related to comics called Robin and The Eagle). There was always a Christmas annual and one year there was a story about the Brontes, in cartoon form. I learned then that they sold their books under men's names, Acton, Currer and Ellis Bell. Those early facts stick in our heads when we aren't carrying too many other things in our skulls.
I can understand why the writers/makers wanted to put something into Emily's story which might explain the passion of 'Wuthering Heights'.
They were all so young when they died.

I want to watch this but it hasn’t been on yet at the two cinemas near me. Hopefully they will have it soon.

I loved this film, having expected to find it irritating. I thought they created an atmosphere that felt very believable. There are indications that Charlotte was rather taken by WW as well as Anne. He did give them each a Valentine as they had never had one and walked 10 miles to post them to create the illusion of a secret admirer.
As there is so little known of Emily - only one letter, I think survives from her - this seemed to me quite a successful attempt to tap into the experiences that might have led to the creation of Wuthering Heights - (though it has always seemed to me the work of someone for whom passion and sexual love occurred only in her imagination.)
The scene with the mask was a brilliant way of conveying the power of storytelling and the longing for the lost, beloved dead and echoed the time when Patrick Brontë asked his young children questions whilst giving them a mask to wear to make them feel more free to tell the truth.