Test Screenings of Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” got mostly negative reactions

Let me guess- Heathcliff rapes Cathy?

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.

R2 nailed it.

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.

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?

I love the song Wuthering Heights by Pat Benatar.

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.

I thought it was Kate Bush?

“Aggressively provocative and tonally abrasive”? An Emerald Fennell film?

Well I never.

Didn’t Tina Fey call her out on this very thing months ago? How all over movies are needlessly dark renditions of “powerful womanhood?”

Darling Emmy takes her sexual grotesquerie so seriously that it’s not even fun enough to be camp.

Awful self-funding grifting nepo-baby.

"Raised 5 children while directing "Promising Young Woman!!!" (Regina King).

[quote] There’s hyper-sexualized imagery — far more explicit than any previous adaptation of this material. The film opens with a public hanging that quickly descends into grotesque absurdity, as the condemned man ejaculates mid-execution, sending the onlooking crowd into a kind of orgiastic frenzy. A nun even fondles the corpse’s visible erection.

Pass.

Fill my arms with heather; all that they can hold!!

And she was SUCH a nice nun.

Has the definition of nepo-baby now been stretched to include anyone born to a parent who is successful in a field unrelated to their own career?

This isn’t about actual nepotism any more. It’s just resentment.

R16. Yes. It has.

(You've heard about self-funding interns, right?)

this was never going to be a good movie with 35 year old Margot Robbie playing a teenager and Fun-House Face playing someone tortured and actually devastatingly handsome.

to hear she added in all the unnecessary shit to it to "spice it up" makes it all the more worse.

There seem to be no original ideas left.

I liked the Andrea Arnold version (most people didn’t) primarily for the kid who played a young Heathcliffe, Solomon Glave. He was stunning.

It's this year's Little Miss Sunshine!

R18 "There seem to be no original ideas left."

Whaddya mean! "Saltburn" was NOT plagiarising:

Brideshead Revisited / Talented Mr Ripley