wuthering heights update

I have found out about the screen versions of "Wuthering Heights" and thought I would share them with you.

The above image is from the 1992 film starring Ralph Fiennes (sigh!) and Juliette Binoche. But the original version was 1939 starring Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon.

But there was also a 1970 version starring Timothy Dalton and Anna Calder-Marshall.

But wait... there is more... the BBC did a 5 part mini-series version in 1998 starring Robert Cavanagh and Orla Brady.

AND... as if that was not enough... there is a new film version on its way in 2010 starring Michael Fassbender as Heathcliff and Abbie Cornish as Catherine!

So what are you waiting for? You better get down to your video store and get watching! Tell me what you think!!!

wuthering heights

Well! I have just finished reading "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë. It was a strange book to read. The style of the writing was easy enough to read, but strange the way it was written. It was an unusual (for me) storytelling style with little regard for description of event or emotions. You really followed the story as an observer without knowing any intimate knowledge of any of the characters or the actions that took place. For me it meant that I was never too sure how I felt about any of the characters, in fact the way I saw them kept changing continually. The only feeling I had that lasted throughout was the desperate sense of things getting terribly more and more twisted in hopelessness. Although I know that it is a love story, I really felt like the characters were so twisted with ulterior motives, standards and traditions that I really didn't feel like it was a love story at all!! I think I will try and get a movie version of it out from the library to see someone else's vision. That might bring the characters to life more for me. It is a very depressing story isn't it?! I might read it again in the future after I have found out what other people see in the characters and the story.