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First test screening for Emerald Fennell’s ‘WUTHERING HEIGHTS’ gets negative reaction and is being described as “aggressively provocative and tonally abrasive” :
‘It’s a deliberately unromantic take on Brontë’s novel, stripped of emotional nuance and full of salacious detours that serve little narrative purpose beyond shock value.’
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | August 5, 2025 9:58 PM |
Let me guess- Heathcliff rapes Cathy?
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | August 5, 2025 8:46 PM |
That does sound excessive, but reading Wuthering Heights made me feel gross and uncomfortable. It’s not a particularly romantic book, but rather one of obsession and twisted famillial relationships.
Neither Heathcliff nor Cathy are particularly good people, Cathy’s brother is awful, and their little society is claustrophobic and sick. Perhaps that is what the director is trying to convey.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | August 5, 2025 8:46 PM |
R2 nailed it.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | August 5, 2025 9:10 PM |
Wuthering Heights is Romantic, not romantic. It's about how society warps and corrupts what should be natural and free. And there's a lot of fairly triggering stuff in it, like what Heathcliff does to the dollface.
But salacious it is not. There's that amazing big emotional scene between Cathy and Heathcliff during which Emily decorously neglects to mention that Cathy is heavily pregnant until she suddenly goes into labor.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | August 5, 2025 9:40 PM |
The only experience I have with this story is the black and white movie with Olivier.
I was young-ish when I saw it so probably missed all the nuance and plot points. 😛
They were both miserable and their love could never be, right?
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | August 5, 2025 9:48 PM |
I love the song Wuthering Heights by Pat Benatar.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | August 5, 2025 9:56 PM |
I think Emerald’s out to adapt “Wuthering Heights” for Gen Z as she did with “Saltburn” which is just a Gen Z version of “The Talented Mr. Ripley”.
Critics might hate it but I bet it will be a favorite for Gen Z, which is relevant.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | August 5, 2025 9:57 PM |
I thought it was Kate Bush?
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | August 5, 2025 9:58 PM |
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