"This weekend brings the wide release of Saltburn director Emerald Fennell's adaptation of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights. As is befitting Fennell's established style, the movie offers over-the-top sexual titillation (though, crucially, zero nudity) and elaborate production design. Plus, a contemporary pop soundtrack from Charli xcx. A horny film version of a 19th-century novel is as adult-skewing as it gets at the box office these days."
"Crucially, it should be pointed out that Heathcliff is technically Cathy's foster brother, which allows Wuthering Heights to fit comfortably into one of the most popular genres of online video in the world. Another crucial change from the book is that bad boy Heathcliff, while described as ethnically ambiguous and dark in the novel, is very much a pretty straightforward white Australian Elordi."
A wide-release film updates a 19th-century tale into a contemporary, sexually charged period drama that foregrounds the illicit romance between Cathy Earnshaw and Heathcliff. The film emphasizes over-the-top sexual titillation while avoiding nudity, and relies on elaborate production design and a contemporary pop soundtrack by Charli XCX. The narrative trims much of the original story to focus on Cathy and Heathcliff's relationship, highlighting that Heathcliff is technically Cathy's foster brother. The casting presents Heathcliff as a white Australian actor, while other traditionally white roles are cast with actors of color, continuing a long history of predominantly white portrayals.
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