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‘I loved it!’: Brontë museum staff praise racy Wuthering Heights film
Staff at Brontë Parsonage Museum in Howarth embrace Emerald Fennell’s sex-laced take, while Emily Brontë’s most recent biographer calls BDSM version ‘a lot of fun’
Emerald Fennell’s film of Wuthering Heights opens with an aroused nun observing a hanged man with an erection. Other additions to Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel include BDSM, masturbation on the moors, beds filled with eggs for erotic effect, and endless sex in the rain.
Meanwhile, characters have been omitted or conflated, key plot details altered and the entire second half of the book left out. As well as ensuring a bumpy ride for English literature students tempted to watch the movie rather than read the novel, such changes have caused consternation among a number of academics and fans of Brontë’s work.
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Is this love? Don’t be Heathcliff and Cathy – what you should watch, read and play this week
Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights is a loose (very loose) adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel. The film is, as the director has attested, the intense, “unhinged”, gothic story she remembers reading as a 14-year-old. As such, it is full of imagined passages and heightened romance and violence. It’s truly Fennellian in its excess – if you’ve seen Saltburn, her story of class envy, you know what that means (bathtub scene, grave scene, so many other scenes).
This new film version is not alone in marketing the story of star-crossed lovers as “the greatest love story of all time”. However, if you’ve ever read the book you know that it’s not really the sort of love anyone should strive for. It’s cruel and abusive. Heathcliff is not some broody prince but a violent tyrant. Cathy is spoiled and manipulative. Everyone around them suffers in the pair’s maddened need for each other. If you’re looking for love, this is perhaps not one you would want to emulate.
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