(50 Shades of) Wuthering Heights trailer starring Margot Robbie

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Written/directed by Emerald Fennell, the writer of Saltburn.

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That explains it

Blue Balls the Movie

He was a dark skinned gypsy.

Dark skinned by the 1700s definition so probably just a dark complexion, not black

Lockwood says that Heathcliff is “a dark skinned gypsy, in aspect” (chapter I). Several other characters also call him a “gipsy”: Mrs Earnshaw (IV), Hindley (IV), Mrs Linton (VI), Joseph (IX), and Edgar (X).

Nelly describes him as a “black-haired child” (IV) with “dark face and hair” (X) or “black hair, and eyes” (XX) and likens his eyes to a “couple of black fiends” (VII). She advises him, “A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad, if you were a regular black” (the implication being that he is not one) and says playfully, “You’re fit for a prince in disguise. Who knows but your father was Emperor of China, and your mother an Indian queen” (VII). When he returns after making his fortune, “the cheeks were sallow, and half covered with black whiskers” (X). When he is ill, she is disturbed by “Those deep black eyes! That smile, and ghastly paleness!” (XXXIV). After he dies, she “combed his black long hair from his forehead” (XXXIV).

Mr Linton says he is “a little Lascar, or an American or Spanish castaway” (VI). (A lascar is a sailor from south or south-east Asia. The implication, I think, of “castaway”, is that his complexion is dark as if sun-tanned.)

Isabella says that when Heathcliff prayed, “God was curiously confounded with his own black father” (XVII).

It appears they got the casting right, hair and skin tone

WTH!!!! This is more pornish than 50 shades.

Remember that scene at the beginning of American Werewolf in London when they are walking through the moors and talking about how Heathcliffe lived there and maybe he was howling?

I watched that movie several times on HBO as a kid (hat tip: Jenny Agutter's boobs) and I always thought they were talking about the cat from the popular comic strip and how that didn't really make sense.

Years later I saw Wuthering Heights and the little light bulb over my head turned on.

Here's the thing all the woke crowd might be complaining about, Heathcliff not being a black guy. I'm more confused why he has a cat's name


i hate mondays

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An incredibly moody and suggestive novel got an adaptation with an incredibly moody and and suggestive trailer.

This will probably suck, but not every British lit adaptation needs to be in the dry, BBC miniseries-style.

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They’re marketing it as a booktok-esque, torrid, love story. Even giving it the Gone with the Wind treatment. That’s so horribly off the mark. This one is going to be terrible and I love a good classic remake with a twist.

I’m going to guess they don’t remotely follow the actual storyline given the quotation marks around Wuthering Heights. And Emerald Ferrell is known for highly stylized with no real substance.

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An incredibly moody and suggestive novel got an adaptation with an incredibly moody and and suggestive trailer.

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Ahh yes because as long as they get the mood right they nailed it!

Monty Python did it better.

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I'm all for some hot Margot Robbie but wtf kind of 50 shades of grey adaption is this about to be? Just name it something different, not Wuthering Heights.

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Isn’t she kind of old to be playing Cathy?