New Wuthering Heights production

Well I'm off to see it in the morning, on the release date, i'm going with my daughter!
I'll decide then whether I like it or not, until I see it I couldn't possibly comment.

Lilyflower

Emily Brontë was a vicar’s daughter and certainly a virgin with little to no personal experience of love or sex. WH is devoid of any overt sexual references - though Cathy does give birth to Linton’s daughter. It is as much about Heathcliff’s desire for revenge on Hindley as about his obsession with Cathy. The adaptation sounds risible and vulgar. It will probably win an Oscar.

Sadly I agree.

There was a very good TV adaptation in the 70s I think. Keith Michell was Heathcliffe and it carried on with what happened after Cathy's death and Heathcliffe's brutality to the rest of the family.

Emily Brontë was a vicar’s daughter and certainly a virgin with little to no personal experience of love or sex. WH is devoid of any overt sexual references - though Cathy does give birth to Linton’s daughter. It is as much about Heathcliff’s desire for revenge on Hindley as about his obsession with Cathy. The adaptation sounds risible and vulgar. It will probably win an Oscar.

Paperbackwriter

I think it's very patronising and sniffy to state, as someone did further back, that they doubt the director had actually read the book!
I think it sounds pretty dreadful - for me, Kate Bush nailed all the essences of Withering Heights just in a song and a couple of videos. (And yes I've the book)

But if you want to see what Emerald Fennell can do - I hugely recommend Promising Young Woman. Fantastic.

I agree regarding Promising Young Women.

I have looked at EF’s wiki page, she has done rather a lot, must of which I have enjoyed.

The director did read the book mid teens as it was part of the curriculum. Screenwriters provide the celluloid story though.

This film deals with the first part of the book, before lives and circumstances become complicated, dastardly and dark.

However, suspension of belief is necessary.
Beautiful as she is, Margot Robbie is 35! not a mid teen,
blonde, not dark curly haired, tall at 5’6”

Jacob Elordi (who was also in Saltburn) is 6’4” ! an
extraordinary height for a supposed starving ragamuffin barefoot child from a ship or the streets to grow into.
Jacob is late twenties.
They both have perfect teeth.
They are not semi feral, out on the wild rugged moors.

The trailer is on YT, as is a mini interview with
Emerald Fennell on Kermode&Mayo’s take.

I hope you ladies going to see it soon enjoy it and are not disappointed in any way.
This is a huge Hollywood production, music, costumes, stars.
Martin Clunes plays irascible old Earnshaw, who introduces
a cuckoo in the nest to his ill fated family.

Come back with your reviews please.

I think it's very patronising and sniffy to state, as someone did further back, that they doubt the director had actually read the book!
I think it sounds pretty dreadful - for me, Kate Bush nailed all the essences of Withering Heights just in a song and a couple of videos. (And yes I've the book)

But if you want to see what Emerald Fennell can do - I hugely recommend Promising Young Woman. Fantastic.

Going with a group of older people next week - won’t mention the soft porn bit ! Was unaware so will see . 😀

Turdiplonk46

Blimey. Think a good number of you need to chill. It’s art. It’s interpretation. It’s creativity. No one is forcing you to watch it.

As for the snooty comment about the director not reading the book 😳 is this based on firm evidence?!

Maybe it’s me that needs to chill (and consider my membership of Gransnet 🤣). And yes, I am a grandma. Pile on if you want!

I agree with you and I am an 80 year old great grandmother. I plan tomwatch it next week.

Bridie22

Im quite looking forward to seeing it !!

Me too !

I can't wait to see it.

keepingquiet

Wuthering Heights can never be well-adapted for stage or screen, it is far too complex a novel.

I don't know if the director ever read the book, but I suspect not.

I won't be seeing the film...

I was shocked to read that the director is Emerald Fennell, Patsy, the gay nurse from Call the Midwife. Ridiculous of me I know.

I personally won't be watching this version, for a start, Cathy should be dark haired and wild, not a pretty blonde. Seems as though this is just going to be a sex fest without all the nuances in the, as you say, complex novel.

Agree with Falling Star that films and some theatre production are made to be hit as a sign of the times

I went to see a produntion of Cabaret several years ago. At a well known theatre. And some of it was little more than soft porn.

I think this is what is called Artistic Licence?

Times move on.

I am going on Sunday with my daughter & mother in law(who is 84). We are treating her cos she doesn’t go out much & this is her favourite. Having read these comments i think it will be memorable for all the wrong reasons 😂

Totally agree! Not my type of film prefer the old versions...'Sexed up' for young audiencesWill be giving it a miss.

Marmight-🍹

No one on here is saying that anyone cant make their own judgements..But i wonder how many will come back on here after they have seen the film and admit that they maybe did not enjoy it after all🤔😁

Turdiplonk46-Interpretation?? No, you really cant 'interprete' or re-create a classic novel in any old which way and expect to get great aclaim for yourself for it! So maybe you're the one who needs to chill.and as for the films director?Do they really sit around and one day go "ooh,i know, we could do yet another remake of a classic and do it how WE would have" 🤔-yes maybe they do, and sadly some production company is daft enough to listen to them.🙄

Well. I would like to see it and make my own judgements.

Nah, not for me, but to each his own. It's never been a favourite story to read, and I doubt that a few raunchy scenes will make it any more appealing to me

Can’t wait to see this film

Was willing to keep an open mind,as had only seen blurbs about it in magazines, but today seen a whole article in House Beautiful (online) describing in great detail as '9Easter eggs in wuthering heights' you cant unsee once you've seen them' depicted i think from the views of the director and the set production- some nonsence about sweating walls, and pink,veiny walls as though Cathy has 'become part of the house'- and she looked in one photo as though her dress is partly made of red pvc- which i'm not sure they had in those times- so no i wont be rushing to cinema to spend money to view this.I might look it over once its eventually moved onto the sky tv.But not sure ill stick with it.The 1970's film i think we went as a group from school when it was reshown(i was about 13 then) as part of our English literature class.But i thought the later one with Tom Hardy was quite good,although i did think Tom made a bit of a fatter- faced looking Heathcliffe,which im not sure Heathcliffe was meant to be?But acting was ok.But as for this new guy, well yes,i must admit he does'nt look that hot to me! After reading the article today it seems to have been based more on the writers & directors perspectives, rather than miss Brontés.

these are the actors who joined the me too movement lol

Grandmabatty

I read Wuthering Heights years ago but didn't really enjoy it. I disliked the heavy use of dialect as it slowed down the pace for me, disliked every character intensely and didn't enjoy the storyline. The setting seemed so bleak to me too.
I watched the original film with Laurence Olivier which was highly sanitised.
I'll pass.

I agree not a likeable character in it.

I never liked the book. Liked all the other Brontë books but found Wuthering Heights unpleasant.