World of Reel <\/a>writer Jordan Ruimy said it was \u201cthe most unusual Wuthering Heights\u201d ever. \u201cWhat the next film version called for was a jolt of fresh energy, something bold and unexpected. For better or worse, it seems that\u2019s exactly what Emerald Fennell may have brought to the table.\u201d<\/p>\nThe new movie, which will arrive in cinemas on Valentine\u2019s Day, has already been hit with criticism from Bront\u00eb fans after pictures emerged of Robbie wearing an Eighties-style wedding dress on the set of the film. <\/p>\n
The casting of Elordi as Heathcliff was criticised in particular, since the character is described in the book as having dark hair, dark eyes, and dark skin.<\/p>\n
While history shows that the miscasting of Heathcliff in film or TV adaptations is nothing new \u2013 the character has been played by the likes of Laurence Olivier, Richard Burton, Ralph Fiennes, Tom Hardy and even Cliff Richard \u2013 Elordi\u2019s casting has still raised eyebrows.<\/p>\n
Another criticism from Bront\u00eb readers is that Elordi, 28, and Robbie, 35, are the wrong ages, as their characters are teenagers for much of the book\u2019s plot. However, the character Mr Lockwood also meets Heathcliff 20 years later, when he is around 40.<\/p>\n
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\u2018Saltburn\u2019 director Emerald Fennell is behind the forthcoming \u2018Wuthering Heights\u2019 adaptation (Getty Images for Loewe)<\/p>\n
The film\u2019s casting director Kharmel Cochrane has since said that if people are offended by the casting decisions, then the set design is \u201ceven more shocking\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was one Instagram comment that said the casting director should be shot,\u201d Cochrane said at the Sands Film Festival in St Andrews, Scotland, according to Deadline.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut just wait till you see it, and then you can decide whether you want to shoot me or not. But you really don\u2019t need to be accurate. It\u2019s just a book. That is not based on real life. It\u2019s all art.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s definitely going to be some English Lit fans that are not going to be happy. Wait until you see the set design, because that is even more shocking. And there may or may not be a dog collar in it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bront\u00eb\u2019s novel follows the relationship between the two families, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, in rural Yorkshire around 1770, and the tumultuous relationship between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, an orphan fostered by her father.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[77,3943,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-330192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114998076033954488","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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