""That was so much fun, that scene. I think that was Emerald kind of taking the killing of the dog and these really dark parts of the novel and putting them into this scene," Elordi said. "I had so much fun because it's at that point that Isabella and Heathcliff are completely off the deep end. They're living in a kind of hell, you know?""
""It's the moment that his obsession clicks over into something else - into a rabid desperation - and he loses any semblance of composure," he clarified. "It's a nice point for the character, I think. You can see it in his face when it's Nelly at the door, and it's not Cathy. And it's not working anymore, and the joke is over, which means it's real, you know? And they have to face it.""
The film places a climactic scene in which Nelly finds Isabella chained to a fireplace wearing a collar and behaving like a dog. That sequence draws from Heathcliff's killing of Isabella's dog in Emily Brontë's 1847 novel and reframes the cruelty as direct dehumanization of a human character. The moment signals Heathcliff's obsessive descent into rabid desperation and the collapse of any composure or restraint. Isabella's behavior in the scene functions as an awakening and a turning point in her experience of abuse. The sequence compresses the novel's darkest elements into a single disturbing tableau that emphasizes a relationship's self-generated hell.
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