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Wuthering Heights
Avg 4.9
Wyler fully expected me to believe that the fully white man on my screen was somehow half Chinese and Indian..? Wuthering Heights (1939) lacked the passion that is signature for a truly gothic story. not to mention a whole half of the book was left out, which would have completed Heathcliffs revenge arc and fleshed out his characters motivations as also being class driven, not just romantically driven. i think the problem was they tried to make it too much into a romance film, when Wuthering Heights tackles more than that (that isn’t to say there was no class commentary, because there was, IT JUST SHOULD HAVE BEEN LONGER). Heathcliff’s “haunt me, then” scene in the book was full of so much visceral emotion, that the film’s fell kind of flat in comparison.