sorry I had to like it
09.03.2026 16:31
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sorry I had to like it
agree, even the “cruelty” towards Isabella almost seems like a bit they’re doing, nobody gets hurt or has anything done against them that they haven’t already consented to
THERE we go!
it’s wonderfully different, hope you enjoyed it!
the “I know writers who use subtext and they’re all cowards” meme
Emerald Fennell adapting Wuthering Heights
*sister IN-LAW
it’s also a riff on how Brontë’s Nelly narrates Heathcliff as somebody who runs about announcing to everybody his diabolical and nefarious plans before he carries them out, followed by everybody’s horror at him following through on them
this is of course nowhere to be found in the book, but it is a meta commentary on what leads Brontë’s Isabella into that relationship knowing what her own sister has told her about him and how she already knows he treats her - to me this is a dialogue with the text and Fennell’s experience of it
I’m thinking of one of the (for me) standout scenes between Heathcliff and Isabella where he tells her exactly how he’s going to treat her and asks her as he goes along multiple times “do you want me to stop?” and she answers no at each step (2/x)
I’m not sure I’d go that far. I agree that “WH” has not tried to capture anything like the cruelty and abuse Brontë wired into her characters, but it absolutely is in conversation with some of those dynamics, even if they’re rendered with more gloss and hyperreal maximilism than ppl might like (1/x)
who’s more villainous - the frankenstein Guillermo gave us, or the one Shelley gave us? adaptation or fan fiction?
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Wyler did the same
I feel like this is too fine a needle to thread reliably. Fennell _is_ having a specific personal conversation with one very specific set of dynamics, which includes the wish fulfillment of who people want these two Characters to be. AND this did bring us back to the book, and I’m so happy it did.
but it’s not NOT wuthering heights either. I love the scare quotes, it told me everything I needed to know, and the result is absolutely gorgeous fan fiction that I will probably rewatch more than any of the other not-wuthering-heights adaptations we have available
I don’t understand the review philosophy here. Fennell tells everybody that she’s not doing WH, actually puts the title in scare quotes, and still at least 50% of everybody’s “criticisms” are about how different it is from the book?
The reviews are so weird. Fennell told everybody that she wasn’t doing the book we all read. She added scare quotes ffs. The reviews acknowledge this, confirm that it literally is nothing like the book, and then waste all their paragraphs complaining about the differences compared to the book
Screenshot of Rotten Tomatoes showing “WUTHERING HEIGHTS” at 69%
STOP THE COUNT!
I saw it and liked it a lot. I do wonder why almost everybody except apparently Andrea Arnold wishes Emily Brontë had written a different book
at first I was gripey about this idea and than I noticed the scare quotes in the title and you know what? hell yeah
lol I have been looking at that movie poster for weeks and it wasn’t until I read your review that I noticed the fing quotation marks in the title 😂
this move alone has absolved all my worries
Bad Bunny, Kendrick Lamar, and Beyonce are three of the most globally popular artists rn. We are so lucky they are so smart and work so hard to use their art to teach cultural history lessons through music, dance, and visually magnificent sets when they could just stand there in jorts and lip sync.
(note: still have the Andrea Arnold version to catch up with 🤞)
I’m looking forward to it all the same, and I’m encouraged by your rec even if it ends up not really having much connection to the actual WH story cuz I like what Fennel does anyway, I just would one day like to see somebody capture the main vibe of this book!
agree on the history of film adaptations and the second half - the “stubbornness” I meant is that of movie adaptations to flatten it into a story of star-crossed lovers cursed in a love triangle instead of the generational story of social/racial status, abuse, and denial that dominates the book
screenshot of a guardian article with this headline and lede: ‘There’s an enormous amount of sado-masochism in this book’: Emerald Fennell defends her Wuthering Heights adaptation This article is more than 4 months old At the Brontë Women’s Writing festival, the Saltburn director explained her decision to cast Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi in her sex-charged retelling of Emily Brontë’s novel
I do love Fennell’s stuff so far, but I really can’t reconcile her sex-infused characterization here with the book I read or the idea that her changes, which include the stubborn refusal to incorporate any ideas from the second half of the story, might make sense
just caught up with this today and was not expecting to see anything that I hadn’t already seen from 2025 blow me away, but this movie did exactly that, from the very first moment to the very last
hi my name is @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and believe it or not I’m only the second biggest fucking idiot on capitol hill
same, pulling Bovino and all the CBP agents out of Minnesota definitely counts as a meaningful backoff imo
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