Review of Wuthering Heights (2011) by Nahla I — 01 Apr 2013

Any resemblance between this movie and Emily Bronte's book is merely coincidental. Although the scenes of the moors are beautifully shot, the director makes many mistakes, or she just doesn't care what the book was about.

Heathcliff is a gypsy, not black. The class difference between gentry-the class the Earnshaws are supposed to be- and tenant farmers-the way the Earnshaws are depicted in this film, including their Yorkshire accents-was HUGE in Victorian England.

And the lack of dialogue in what is supposed to be a LITERARY classic is unforgivable. What dialogue there is is not the kind you would find a clergyman's daughter writing. This film isn't "excitingly fresh," it's a travesty.

And I forgot to mention boring, since the actors deliver their lines as if they were reading the phone book. If Emily wasn't dead, she'd die of mortification!