Wuthering Heights

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Anyone planning to see this? From the trailer I was expecting it to be marmite and not in any way a straight adaptation of the novel, but the reviews I've seen so far are universally uncomplimentary. I'd already booked to see it, so will go in with an open mind!

Unless it all happened on Epstein Island!

He kills a dog too.

No, Nelly rescues it at its last gasp!

He does put a trap over a nest of lapwing chicks though, so they starve to death because the adult birds can’t get to them to feed them.

Hareton is shown hanging a whole litter of puppies…

In the latest film? Hareton isn't in it is he?

Thanks, I got confused. I knew there was canine death. Not in the film thankfully.

In the novel. No, Emerald F disinvented Hareton.

I thought Isabella's hair was gorgeous: so thick and long and wild. Pre-Raphaelite. My dream hair, tbh.

Though it had nothing on the real hair of many women in the 19th century in terms of volume and length. 😮Google it. Though she wouldn't have worn it down like that in company.

Observe …

Let’s stop defending shallow art as made ‘for women’
https://observer.co.uk/news/columnists/article/lets-stop-defending-shallow-art-as-made-for-women

I decided to read the book again just in case I was being an oversensitive young person, and now knowing what the second part was like, but got to the dog hanging and decided I was right the first time. I know it's beautifully written, harrowing, groundbreaking etc but not for me!

I’m not impressed with my hair. And although it’s shorter than Isabella’s, it’s hard to make work with ‘business casual’.

Some 19thc women had very thin hair, too, just as they do now. In the Little House on the Prairie books, teenage Laura’s friend Mary wears a hair switch, and L makes a ‘hair receiver’ for her mother for a present, which is to hang by her mirror to collect hair from her hairbrush that she’s using to make a hairpiece.

www.pioneergirl.com/blog/archives/5990

I think one of the big differences with 19thc hair and which period films almost never get right (Jane Campion’s The Piano’ being an honourable exception) is that it was seldom washed. Frequent brushing was what kept it ‘clean’. Ish. Far too many shiny, bouncy hairdos in period films.

saw it last night and hated it. I knew it would be an interpretation and I know and love EF’s previous output. I’m not precious about reimagined workings of classic literature either. I just thought it was awful, laughable dross. The first half was an (unintentionally?) hilarious caper, like an SNL skit based on Wuthering Heights.

The second half was better but ruined by the fact that Jacob Elordi was the only one playing it seriously. There was zero chemistry between Robbie and Elordi and she was way too old for the part. She’s a gorgeous actress and they managed to make her look like a dogs dinner in those dreadful costumes and hairstyles.

The CGI was unnecessary, they had enough natural resources in Yorkshire to at least stick to natural surrounds.

Terrible terrible movie.

I saw it last night and loved it for its complete madness. Forgot the book and took it at face value. Encouraging DD to read the book now, if I can find it on my bookshelves.

I just watched it for the second time now that its available on Amazon. It looks like utter shite on UltraHD; the format totally ruined it. I'm in a hotel at the moment and don't have a ultraHD screen at home, but - my god - I don't understand why anyone wants that kind of effect when watching a film, it's just naff.

I thought the film was great was I first saw it but once you've seen Fennell's stylisatic flourishes and shock tactics it doesn't really sustain a repeat viewing.

I do want to see this still but £16 to rent is too high a price for me.

That is a horrifying price, @berlinbaby2025!

I pay Curzon £25 for up to 28 tickets per month in an actual cinema - so I’m now hugely resistant to paying for individual film rental online.

It’s now on Now TV. I thought it was ok though nothing like the book. I found the BDSM stuff a bit weird and uncomfortable though.

watched it on NOW, it looked beautiful but far too long.

It was only £11 to see it at the Curzon!

I did find I had to keep reminding myself that Cathy was really young because I was seeing her as a mid 30s woman.

I just watched it. It was ok, I quite enjoy gothic horror but I didn't see any chemistry between HC and Cathy and the links to Saltburn(which I LOVED) were distracting but I realise that was probably the point.

Didn't like MR in this at all, thought she was really miscast but makes sense if viewed as WH through the eyes of a teen.

Yes 1 of the problems with the film is that MR was the producer and rang Emerald F and said do you think I could be Cathy and EF said yes - MR is far too old.

Just watched this. I don't mind that it's a different interpretation of the novel. In fact I was hoping that would be a positive thing, as it's my least favourite Bronte novel, so I was happy for it to be re-imagined as a love story rather than a tale of cruelty, abuse and revenge.

However I almost didn't get through it as I was so bored. I'm not sure if all the sexual symbolism was supposed to be erotic, but I found it laughable, it was as though I was watching a bad comedy sketch at times.

As others have said, Margot Robbie was just too old for the part and there was no real chemistry with Jacob Elordi. It was all so superficial and left me cold and bored.

Thought it was a bizarre film as pp said. Some v weird bits !

What were the links to Saltburn ?

On the back of it I started watching The Tenant of Wildfell Hall on iplayer , with Tara Fitzgerald, but gave up on that as it was also weirdly done.

I also watched Sally Wainwright's Bronte biopic on iplayer. To Walk Invisible I think its called. That is brilliant.
Chloe Pirrie as Emily is amazing.

To Walk Invisible is absolutely brilliant. Very realistic insofar as we understand the daily details of life at the Parsonage, and the casting is extraordinary -- not just Chloe Pirrie (though I agree). All the casting of the siblings. (Finn Atkins as Charlotte?) I don't know who the actor was who played Branwell, but his death was horribly believable.

I've only seen part of Saltburn on TV, but both it and WH involve a resentful outsider wreaking revenge on a household of richer, grander people (well, two households in Heathcliff's case), and in both there's a minor obsession with bodily fluids and oozings. In Saltburn, a character drinks the bathwater someone else has ejaculated in and performs oral sex on a menstruating woman. EF's Heathcliff licks the hand with which Catherine has been masturbating, and there's all that smashed egg goo lying around being implicitly sexual.