Wuthering Heights director defends significant changes made in adaptation of beloved classic
Wuthering Heights director addresses differences between film and novel
- Emerald Fennell has discussed the significant changes made in her film adaptation of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, primarily due to time constraints.
- The film, starring Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie as Heathcliff and Catherine, focuses mainly on the first part of the novel and their tumultuous relationship.
- To streamline the narrative, Fennell cut characters such as Mr. Lockwood and Hindley, integrating aspects of Hindley's character into Earnshaw, portrayed by Martin Clunes.
- Earnshaw is depicted as a more prominent, drunken and abusive antagonist in the film, combining traits of a deeply loving yet cruel individual.
- The adaptation has received divided critical reception, with some praising it as “oozy and wild” while others, including The Independent, have called it an “astonishingly bad adaptation.”
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