"It's not Robbie's gobstopper diamonds or her scarlet sunglasses or her stuffing grass into her mouth or the loud snip of her corset laces being slashed with a knife or her elaborately erotically bound hair as she contemplates multiple silver cake stands stacked with vertiginous fruit puddings. It's not any of her dresses the red latex number or the perfectly 1980s off-the-shoulder wedding dress topped by yards of veil half-wuthered off her head."
"I'm not talking about the fact that (like Oberon's!) Robbie's wedding dress is white, which is not period-correct. This has exercised many people on the internet. I'm more worried about the fact that almost a century since Olivier's film, we are still calling it a love story a great one! The greatest! It's being released the day before Valentine's Day! when what actually happens is that Cathy rejects Heathcliff because she's a snob, and he turns into a psychopath."
The trailer for Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights foregrounds extreme visual excess, anachronistic design choices, and contemporary casting. The imagery includes closeups of dough, gaudy interiors with silver walls and plaster gods, and Margot Robbie in striking costumes from red latex to a 1980s off-the-shoulder wedding dress. Jacob Elordi appears as a conventionally white Heathcliff. The trailer proclaims the story the greatest love story of all time despite the plot showing Cathy rejecting Heathcliff out of snobbery and Heathcliff becoming violent. Earlier film versions truncated the novel to create a romantic ending, underscoring the novel's resistance to straightforward cinematic adaptation.
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