Emerald Fennell Now Going Moor-To-Moor Trying To Shock People
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Key Points:
- Emerald Fennell's film adaptation of Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights" diverges sharply from the novel, emphasizing visual excess and interior settings over the moors' bleak solitude that defined the original story and characters.
- The movie reinterprets key characters and relationships, portraying Catherine as a demonic child and Heathcliff as a rugged white man, while reversing the ethnic casting of Edgar Linton and Isabella, which alters the dynamics and themes of the original work.
- Fennell's adaptation simplifies and sanitizes the complex, often brutal emotional landscape of the novel, focusing on explicit sexuality and spectacle rather than the spiritual and psychological depth of Catherine and Heathcliff's bond.
- Critics argue that the film avoids engaging
