Emerald Fennell’s adaptation will star Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi.
A must watch.
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Emerald Fennell’s adaptation will star Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi.
A must watch.
by Anonymous | reply 111 | September 28, 2024 5:43 PM |
Christ, I can just imagine the modern updates to this. And no I DONT mean DEI. I mean culture and behavior.
The one with Colin Firth had them kissing in public at the end — in the early 19th century??? Even prostitutes didn’t do that.
In this one I’m sure Elizabeth will publicly fellate Darcy at the end.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | September 23, 2024 8:03 PM |
DEI? Can you grow the fuck up?
by Anonymous | reply 2 | September 23, 2024 8:06 PM |
(sigh) Margot Robbie is too contemporary looking and the guy is too….too young/soft/untested. Heathcliff is a half-gypsy foundling, he lives in the stable, uneducated etc until he goes away and comes back with money and the veneer of a gentleman. This guy could play Edgar Linton though.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | September 23, 2024 8:07 PM |
No one will ever match Oliver Jackson-Cohen's beauty as quasi-Heathcliff in otherwise forgettable Emily (2022).
by Anonymous | reply 4 | September 23, 2024 8:08 PM |
I trust Emerald Fennell who has never disappointed me thus far.
The “DEI” poster above is a racist troll.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | September 23, 2024 8:16 PM |
I'll stick with the Geraldine Fitzgerald/David Niven version.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | September 23, 2024 8:16 PM |
[quote] I trust Emerald Fennell who has never disappointed me thus far.
I loathe Emerald Fennell, who is a pretentious clown who makes ridiculous movies.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | September 23, 2024 8:22 PM |
I'm tired of all of these 19th century novel reboots - there are way too many of them. Wuthering Heights has been done SO MANY FUCKING TIMES.
14 of them to be exact.
Are there no original stories anymore? New novels are being written all the time. I don't get this.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | September 23, 2024 8:28 PM |
[quote] I'll stick with the Geraldine Fitzgerald/David Niven version.
Exactly. Lawrence Olivier played the definitive Heathcliff.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | September 23, 2024 8:32 PM |
[quote] Lawrence
Oh, dear myself on that one. It’s Laurence!
by Anonymous | reply 11 | September 23, 2024 8:33 PM |
Racist casting.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | September 23, 2024 8:34 PM |
How can they add a gay angle to this?
Is Hindley going to be secretly in love with Heathcliffe?
by Anonymous | reply 13 | September 23, 2024 8:35 PM |
r9 I just don't understand what new spin she can bring to it, unless she does it with a modern twist and with needle drops all over the place. Maybe the camerawork will be really interesting?
by Anonymous | reply 14 | September 23, 2024 8:36 PM |
R9 good thing you don’t have to watch
by Anonymous | reply 16 | September 23, 2024 8:38 PM |
R6 She’s the worst director in the last decade
by Anonymous | reply 17 | September 23, 2024 8:38 PM |
R13 the irony of you bringing up DEI hires in a negative light but wanting the story to be switched to gay… you aren’t even smart enough to realize you’re a hypocrite
by Anonymous | reply 18 | September 23, 2024 8:39 PM |
I'd prefer to see an adaptation by Rose Glass.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | September 23, 2024 8:40 PM |
Cathy never makes it past age 18 in Wuthering Heights. Robbie is nearly twice that age. This is down there with Norma Shearer as Juliet.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | September 23, 2024 8:41 PM |
Good point about her age
by Anonymous | reply 21 | September 23, 2024 8:45 PM |
This is a film that reeks of CIS WHITE PRIVYLEDGE
Why can't Dylan Mulvaney play a demure Cathy in her big screen debut ?
And Heathcliff is meant to exude big dick energy so who better than Elliot Page to play him?
by Anonymous | reply 22 | September 23, 2024 8:51 PM |
Brenda Dickson as Cathy.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | September 23, 2024 8:52 PM |
[quote]How can they add a gay angle to this?
Nelly Dean is a huge dyke.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | September 23, 2024 8:53 PM |
I'd prefer a remake of Jane Eyre with Elisabeth Moss as Jane.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | September 23, 2024 8:54 PM |
Selena Gomez as Jayne Eyre with Ricky Martin as Mr Rochester
by Anonymous | reply 26 | September 23, 2024 8:56 PM |
Good LORD, NO!!!
This is just ridiculous.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | September 23, 2024 9:03 PM |
Yes, there have been so many adaptations of the book and, frankly, none of them are ideal. We certainly don't need another, especially by a professional button-pusher like Fennell.
The 1939 version suffers from Merle Oberon's prissy Cathy that has little to do with Bronte's character. Otherwise it's still the best version though it pulls a number of the novel's punches.
There's a version from 1970 with Timothy Dalton as Heathcliffe (pretty good casting) and Anna Calder-Marshall as Cathy (she's much more like it than Oberon) which doesn't shy away from the lead characters' selfishness and occasional unpleasantness, but after a decent enough first half the script and direction fall apart.
No other version I've tried to watch has even been as good as the two mentioned above. The Ralph Feinnes/Juliette Binoche (!) pairing was awful.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | September 23, 2024 9:20 PM |
I liked the PBS Tom Hardy version.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | September 23, 2024 9:23 PM |
Just have a guy sucking Elordi off and stuffing his ass and it'll all be fine.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | September 23, 2024 9:23 PM |
Robbie is too old and Elordi doesn't have the roughness needed for Heathcliffe.
Emma Mackey, who played Emily Bronte in EMILY, looks a lot like Robbie (something that could have been used humorously in BARBIE, but wasn't). She also seemed too modern to be convincing in the role.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | September 23, 2024 9:26 PM |
Well this is a NEW adaptation.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | September 23, 2024 9:29 PM |
Heathcliff is supposed to be Romani or Indian.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | September 23, 2024 9:29 PM |
R33 what adaptation cast someone who was Indian or Romani?
by Anonymous | reply 34 | September 23, 2024 9:31 PM |
the audience for this has passed on🥱🥱🥱🥱
by Anonymous | reply 35 | September 23, 2024 9:32 PM |
R34 I’m not aware of any but it’s 2024. Why not cast Dev Patel?
by Anonymous | reply 36 | September 23, 2024 9:44 PM |
Ho many times does this need to be remade?
by Anonymous | reply 37 | September 23, 2024 9:52 PM |
In the late 90s they should have made a version with Kate Winslow and Rufus Sewell.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | September 23, 2024 10:21 PM |
Quick, for the love of humanity, someone PLEASE stop FORCING r9 to watch any more remakes of 19th-century classics!!
He cannot help watching them once they are made, and then... HE SUFFERS!!
by Anonymous | reply 39 | September 23, 2024 10:24 PM |
R37 - the only thing I can think of is that Margot Robbie threw some of her own money in to produce it so she'd have something more distinguished and respectable on her resume to balance out the Barbie movie and Suicide Squad films.
Seriously. There have been too many remakes and too recent ones.
This feels like a Margot Robbie driven vehicle - maybe a part she always wanted to play and she loves the book? Otherwise, it makes no sense how this would be greenlit.
ANOTHER version of Wuthering Heights? Yeah, yeah - hear me out - BUT we've got Margot Robbie and she's putting up half of the production budget.
"Well, why didn't you say so? Here ya go!!"
by Anonymous | reply 40 | September 23, 2024 10:24 PM |
In the early 80s they should have done a version with ONJ and John Travolta. A musical.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | September 23, 2024 10:24 PM |
She's really not a great actress but yeah they'll ignore all the challenges if she foots the bill.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | September 23, 2024 10:26 PM |
R40 she has 3 Oscar nominations? Yeah, her resume has some good projects.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | September 23, 2024 10:27 PM |
Is this a she has no prospects type of movie?
by Anonymous | reply 44 | September 23, 2024 10:41 PM |
Why are some people thinking this will suck? Robbie and Elordi are stars and Fennell hasn’t let us down yet.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | September 23, 2024 11:28 PM |
Paul Mescal would be a better Heathcliff.
She’s way too old for Cathy, but I don’t think Robbie would be a good fit for any of the 19th century heroine parts that a thirty-something actress could get away with - Anne in Persuasion, Dorothea in Middlemarch…
by Anonymous | reply 46 | September 23, 2024 11:41 PM |
Racism is part of Heathcliff’s story in the book. The films all erased that.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | September 23, 2024 11:43 PM |
R43 - 2 acting nominations, one for I, Tonya and one for Bombshell. While good films, they're not serious dramas.
I hope she pulls out. And God forbid they do a 'modern' treatment of it in today's times, but then again, I can't think of a version that has done that.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | September 24, 2024 4:24 PM |
Have none of you seen Margot Robbie in Mary, Queen of Scots (playing QE1)? She CAN do period and do it well. She was nominated that year for Bombshell in supporting but I consider that citation for her Mary, Queen of Scots performance as well.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | September 24, 2024 4:35 PM |
Someone needs to tell Emerald Fennell she is not that talented.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | September 24, 2024 5:04 PM |
Sorry r50, but my nails are wet.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | September 24, 2024 5:07 PM |
Am I the first one to call out that R1 is talking about PRIDE AND PREJUDICE and not WUTHERING HEIGHTS?!
R1, I guess everyone must have you blocked.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | September 24, 2024 5:08 PM |
It's just a nasty story. Doesn't matter who's in it. If it's true to the book then Heathcliff is a sadistic creep. If it isn't true to the book then it's not really Wuthering Heights.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | September 24, 2024 5:11 PM |
R45, I’d say she’s batting 0 for 2.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | September 24, 2024 5:11 PM |
They’d make a great looking couple if she weren’t already married.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | September 24, 2024 5:12 PM |
[quote] A must watch.
We’ve had sufficient.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | September 24, 2024 5:16 PM |
Promising Young Woman was excellent and Carey Mulligan was robbed of the Oscar that year.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | September 24, 2024 5:35 PM |
I love Margot and Jacob is great so is Emerald. So just stfu all you trolls.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | September 24, 2024 5:42 PM |
This is one of my favorite novels, & the casting is NOT hitting the mark.
Margot is beautiful, but she is not the archetype for this role.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | September 24, 2024 5:45 PM |
You can love Margo all you want, but she's WAY too long in the tooth to be playing the part of Catherine. Period. She's 34 fucking years old. Catherine is almost half her damn age in WH.
What's with all these Australian actresses trying to play age-inappropriate roles? YOU'RE TOO OL.D.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | September 24, 2024 5:46 PM |
^you, not your
by Anonymous | reply 61 | September 24, 2024 5:47 PM |
R45 I wouldn’t call Elordi quite a star yet but he’s getting there.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | September 24, 2024 5:48 PM |
R60 - I feel attacked.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | September 24, 2024 5:49 PM |
Will Jacob get his big peen out, running nude over the moors?
by Anonymous | reply 64 | September 24, 2024 7:52 PM |
Margot Robbie needs to be sent back to Australia. She can’t act and isn’t the bombshell they wish to make her out to be. She’s a dime a dozen in Australia.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | September 24, 2024 8:00 PM |
She was perfect in Barbie.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | September 24, 2024 8:02 PM |
Agree, r65. She has a very generic look to her. She's very similar to Jaime Pressley.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | September 24, 2024 8:12 PM |
Here's another Jaime who has a similar look.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | September 24, 2024 8:21 PM |
R67/68 - you could say the same of Jacob Elordi. I disagree with you but he's attractive, but nothing to lose sleep over.
This also feels like a long desired wish of Emerald Fennell to make a version that would suit her from her teenage reading of the novel.
Again - none of this is needed or wanted.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | September 24, 2024 8:42 PM |
They make a great couple. If she’s playing his mother.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | September 24, 2024 8:44 PM |
Jamie Preslly was very pretty.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | September 24, 2024 9:13 PM |
He’s attractive enough but he’s too boyish.
by Anonymous | reply 72 | September 24, 2024 9:57 PM |
I think his face looks like an image from a funhouse mirror. It's not that attractive to me at all.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | September 24, 2024 9:59 PM |
Gotdamn, he's attractive
by Anonymous | reply 74 | September 24, 2024 10:01 PM |
R70 That’s biologically impossible. She is only 7 years older than him.
by Anonymous | reply 75 | September 24, 2024 10:07 PM |
I thought Margot Robbie was all wrong as Barbie too when I saw the first photos of her in Barbie outfits but I reconsidered when I saw the trailer. Then when I saw the movie I did think she was perfect. It was the movie that mostly sucked, except for the parts that were just the Barbies in Barbieland.
by Anonymous | reply 76 | September 24, 2024 10:12 PM |
good one, r77
by Anonymous | reply 78 | September 24, 2024 10:19 PM |
[Quote] DEI? Can you grow the fuck up?
Are you mentally retarded? What was there about my reference to DEI that you didn’t understand?
by Anonymous | reply 79 | September 24, 2024 11:19 PM |
[Quote] The “DEI” poster above is a racist troll.
Jesus fucking Christ. I said
[Quote] And no I DONT mean DEI.
So I specially was NOT referring to it.
by Anonymous | reply 80 | September 24, 2024 11:20 PM |
Withering Interest is a more appropriate title
by Anonymous | reply 81 | September 25, 2024 7:41 PM |
[quote] She was perfect in Barbie.
No she wasn’t. First of all, that film was a piece of shit. Second, she doesn’t look like Barbie.
by Anonymous | reply 82 | September 25, 2024 8:10 PM |
[quote] Gotdamn, he's unattractive
by Anonymous | reply 83 | September 25, 2024 8:11 PM |
Oh god, R82. Are you that psychotic anti-Barbie person from last summer who had daily meltdowns about the movie?
by Anonymous | reply 84 | September 25, 2024 8:20 PM |
R84 😂 right.
by Anonymous | reply 85 | September 25, 2024 8:22 PM |
Tired of Margot Robie. Her Sharon Tate was awful.
by Anonymous | reply 86 | September 25, 2024 8:44 PM |
okay
by Anonymous | reply 87 | September 25, 2024 9:14 PM |
[quote]the guy is too….too young/soft/untested.
I agree, he looks too sweet. Rufus Sewell, as mentioned above, would have been a perfect Heathcliff back in the day.
by Anonymous | reply 88 | September 25, 2024 9:27 PM |
R18, not at all. The criticism of DEI is that it often sacrifices merit and purpose for superficial diversity.
Example, nothing wrong with making Ariel black. But where it got weird for me was where they kept Eric white but still created an adoption storyline so they could have a black queen. God, if you want a black queen that badly, just make Eric black too.
Gays do not need DEI to be successful. We do just fine on our own merit without the need for DEI.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | September 26, 2024 4:00 AM |
[quote] The criticism of DEI is that it often sacrifices merit and purpose for superficial diversity
Surely not any valid criticism. Or do you have evidence beyond your own personal mermaid rewrites? Academic diversity-equity-inclusion initiatives correct biases that still persist; I've never known them to produce job candidates who weren't extremely qualified and dynamic. And yes, there are areas where gays are discriminated against despite our "merit."
by Anonymous | reply 90 | September 26, 2024 10:50 AM |
Isn't Robbie like a good 10 years older than Elordi? That would change the dynamic between Heathcliff and Cathy.
I recently watched the Olivier/Oberon version and while mostly entertaining it was so wretchedly cringey and melodramatic. Not really interested in seeing the story again with even lesser actors.
Besides, this is my favorite version of "Wuthering Heights"...
by Anonymous | reply 91 | September 26, 2024 11:48 AM |
R92, can you do any better than a right-wing cherry-picking rag with banners on the "Second Amendment" and "Kamala's cackle"? I guess we know where you get your information from.
by Anonymous | reply 93 | September 26, 2024 4:56 PM |
[quote] Academic diversity-equity-inclusion initiatives correct biases that still persist; I've never known them to produce job candidates who weren't extremely qualified and dynamic.
Nice trolling.
by Anonymous | reply 94 | September 26, 2024 6:25 PM |
Trolling? I have decades of experience. Nice that you live in a world where there's no prejudice.
by Anonymous | reply 95 | September 26, 2024 6:46 PM |
R82 what does Barbie technically look like. Her features are so plain and she doesn’t have a pussy either. Should they have gotten a pussy-less actress?
by Anonymous | reply 96 | September 26, 2024 8:47 PM |
[quote]Should they have gotten a pussy-less actress?
She'd never make it, a disaster on the casting couch.
by Anonymous | reply 98 | September 26, 2024 8:57 PM |
Naked mansex + Elordi = win
by Anonymous | reply 99 | September 26, 2024 9:22 PM |
R97 - Tom Hardy for the win as Heathcliff. He'd have been a great choice. Sexy and rough.
by Anonymous | reply 100 | September 26, 2024 10:08 PM |
Test
by Anonymous | reply 101 | September 27, 2024 5:30 AM |
R93, I’m still waiting for the left wing journalists to debunk this report.
Crickets.
by Anonymous | reply 102 | September 27, 2024 5:30 AM |
Umm, r100? He did play Heathcliff in 2009.
by Anonymous | reply 103 | September 27, 2024 1:14 PM |
We need a Heathcliff willing to get his cock and ass out
by Anonymous | reply 104 | September 27, 2024 7:03 PM |
R93, just because your adversary says the sky is blue, it doesn’t follow that the sky is red.
by Anonymous | reply 105 | September 28, 2024 12:49 PM |
Yes, R104—they should add a woodland bathing scene with Lockwood and the vicar. Emily would have done so, had she been writing in our times.
by Anonymous | reply 106 | September 28, 2024 1:15 PM |
Nobody who loves Wuthering Heights is ever going to make a good adaptation of it. They don't have the sense of proportion required to do the structural work. (It's a miracle Kate Bush succeeded so well, but she got away with it by doing it when very young and only dramatising part of one scene.)
Interestingly, I don't think it's ever been made into a ballet (DL please advise?), but that is probably the medium where an adaptation would work--by removing all of Bronte's cumbersome words and using music and movement to magnify the passion and the stormy moorlands. You could easily cast Cathy and Heathcliff from ballet dancers: young Nureyev would have been the best Heathcliff evah.
by Anonymous | reply 107 | September 28, 2024 2:30 PM |
i prefer WH to be the PBS version with Tom Hardy. I don't need a remake; that version is sufficient.
by Anonymous | reply 108 | September 28, 2024 4:56 PM |
[quote] In the late 90s they should have made a version with Kate Winslow and Rufus Sewell.
Who is Kate Winslow?
by Anonymous | reply 109 | September 28, 2024 4:59 PM |
Kate Winslet would have insisted on full frontal
by Anonymous | reply 110 | September 28, 2024 5:12 PM |
R103 - Oh I didn't realize. I see it's from 2009. I'll go search it out.
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