I have a theory about Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights. The more I learn about this movie, the less I think it is an actual adaptation of Wuthering Heights but the new trailer leaned heavily into the Brontë of it all.
From the start, many were rightfully angry over the casting of Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff, a character that is described as dark-skinned in Emily Brontë’s novel. And then there was a conversation about the costumes and Robbie’s hair as Catherine in the film and how it wasn’t period accurate. All this led to me convincing myself that this was far from a straight forward adaptation. My current theory is that Robbie is playing a woman who wants to live out her Wuthering Heights fantasies.
With the new trailer though, we get to see a bit more of Catherine and Heathcliff’s love story. And…well…it is hot. Did I need to see Jacob Elordi putting Margot Robbie up by her corset? No but as a short girl, I said “Me and WHO!?” out loud so there IS that.
The film is described as follows: “A bold and original imagining of one of the greatest love stories of all time, Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights stars Margot Robbie as Cathy and Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff, whose forbidden passion for one another turns from romantic to intoxicating in an epic tale of lust, love and madness.”
Something is up with Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights”
We’ve already talked about the quotes in the title of Wuthering Heights and the fact that it is a “bold and original imagining” of Brontë’s work does make it seem like this is going to be different from the book itself. Whatever ends up happening, it is exciting to see Jacob Elordi just be hot in something for the joy of it.
Whatever ends up happening with Wuthering Heights, this trailer really leaned into the love story of Catherine and Heathcliff for the fans of Brontë’s novel and it has us intrigued.
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