"The trailer sees Bronte's star-crossed lovers, Catherine (Margot Robbie) and Heathcliff (Jacob Elordi) meeting first as children, then becoming tangled in a torturous love affair as adults in the West Yorkshire moors. What would you do, Heathcliff, if you were rich? Robbie's Cathy asks Elordi's Heathcliff. I suppose I'd do what all rich men do, he answers. Live in a big house, be cruel to my servants, take a wife."
"But the two struggle with their feelings and, indeed, the trailer includes several clips of kissing and crying in the rain to a new song created by Charli xcx, Chains of Love, as part of a new album to be released with the film in February. Viewers also glimpse some anachronistic fashions and Fennell's signature colorful flourishes. So kiss me, and let us both be damned, Elordi's Heathcliff says to Cathy at trailer's end."
"The Promising Young Woman director, known for her love of mordant envelope-pushing, found controversy from the start with her erotically charged take on the English literature classic. The film's casting director, Kharmel Cochrane, defended her choices after some suggested that Robbie was too old to play the role of a young maiden, while others questioned Elordi's ethnicity, as Heathcliff is generally perceived to have a Romany or Gypsy background and darker skin."
Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights trailer frames Cathy (Margot Robbie) and Heathcliff (Jacob Elordi) as childhood acquaintances who evolve into a torturous adult love affair on the West Yorkshire moors. Cathy marries wealthy Edgar Linton to preserve social status, prompting a devastated Heathcliff to flee and vow revenge. The trailer intercuts kissing and weeping in rain with Charli XCX’s new song "Chains of Love," part of an album releasing with the film in February. Visuals include anachronistic fashions and colorful stylistic flourishes. Casting choices prompted controversy over Robbie’s age and Elordi’s ethnicity, and test screenings yielded mixed, provocative reactions.
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