Recently, the infamous Warner Bros. production studio produced arguably one of the Best movies of the year. Wuthering Heights is a novel written by the English author, Emily Brontë. The novel is based on a passionate and tragic love story between the main characters, Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, which takes place during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The setting of the book and movie is in the Moors of Yorkshire. In the most recent film adaptation of the book, Australian actors Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi played the leads.
This past weekend, I had the opportunity to watch the movie at its debut. I attended the film with fellow Lewis Cass senior students, Emma Hildebrand and Allyson Berry. None of us had read the book, unsure of what to expect. Allyson Berry stated, “Before watching Wuthering Heights, I mainly expected the movie to be about a typical romantic relationship with a typical happy ending.” But to her surprise, the movie was the opposite. Berry said, “After watching the movie, I would describe it as a jealous romance between two people who love each other but simply can not be together.” She said that one scene that has stuck with her since seeing the movie is when Heathcliff was riding on his horse, leaving Wuthering Heights to go to the Linton Estate to get to Catherine as she was dying, and it was him continuing to try to get there, but sadly, he did not make it in time. Emma Hildebrand said even though she did not read the book, the movie was easy to follow. Hildebrand stated one scene that stuck with her was the ending because “it was emotional and I did not want it to end that way.” Both Hildebrand and Berry said they would highly recommend watching the movie. Berry thought the movie was so good that she watched it for a second time that weekend.
According to Vanity Fair’s, Yannick Lowery, there are many major changes from the book to the movie. Unlike the movie, in the book, Catherine dies in childbirth. Another major difference is that instead of her father being cruel to Heathcliff when he first arrived, Catherine is the one who mistreats him in the book. In the movie, Heathcliff is gone for five years after he finds out Catherine is to marry Edgar Linton; however, in the book, he is only gone for three years. Finally, another major difference is that in the book, Isabella Linton is Edgar’s sister, but in the movie, she is his ward (guardian).
Personally, I think Wuthering Heights is the movie of the year. Since seeing the movie, I have not been able to get it out of my mind. One scene in particular is the scene when Catherine had just gotten done talking to Edgar, and she went to sit down on her bed, but when she did, she realized she sat on eggs. This is a little inside joke that Heathcliff and Catherine had, and it signified that he had returned.
Overall, the production of Wuthering Heights was a great success. So, if you need something to do this weekend, I highly recommend going to see Wuthering Heights in theaters. Local movie times include AMC in Kokomo and Mary Max Theatres in Logan.
