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Wuthering Heights: Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi Film Splits Critics
- On Friday, Warner Bros. released Emerald Fennell’s reimagined Wuthering Heights, an R-rated theatrical debut based on Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel with quotation marks signaling reinterpretation.
- Building on her reputation from Promising Young Woman and Saltburn, Emerald Fennell, a writer-director, said she wanted to capture how the novel made her feel at 14, motivating a personal reimagining.
- Fennell’s reworking foregrounds eroticism and intensity, staging explicit sexual imagery and using anachronistic costumes and vivid sets, with Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi embodying this modern, lust-driven vision.
- Early response indicates a split between fans and purists as Emerald Fennell, writer-director, Margot Robbie, lead actor and producer, and Jacob Elordi, lead actor, launch the film for Valentine’s Day weekend amid heavy star-focused hype; Fennell’s style targets younger audiences despite literary purists’ objections.
- In broader context, this joins a long line of Wuthering Heights adaptations as Emerald Fennell, writer-director, recasts Heathcliff as a Liverpool orphan and casts Shazad Latif as Edgar Linton, prompting debate on the film’s handling of Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel.
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By Ángela Reyes Haczek, CNN en Español. It seemed impossible to further polarize the internet, and then Hollywood saw fit to produce a new adaptation of "Wuthering Heights." Rivers of online commentary have flowed since the first trailer was released, and now that the film starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi has debuted on the big screen, the debate is unavoidable: can this adaptation of Emily Brontë's classic be defended? Director Emerald F…
‘Wuthering Heights’ is a raunchy and shallow take on a Brontë classic
The moment Emerald Fennell added quotation marks to the poster and promotional material for “Wuthering Heights,” many cinephiles and Emily Brontë purists knew it would stray from the source material. Little did we know it would be a two-hour-and-16-minute deep dive into Fennell — and, by extension, Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi — disappearing into an unhinged, raunchy bodice-ripper fantasy. At least the romance happened in the moors. The film s…
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MEGA"Wuthering Heights," starring Margot Robbie, has garnered mixed reviews from film critics ahead of its debut later this week. The Emerald Fennell's adaptation was called out regarding its directing as well as the performances of Robbie and her co-star Jacob Elordi. However, some critics also had much praise for the movie, which is a loose adaptation of Emily Brontë's famous novel. Margot Robbie And Jacob Elordi Were Criticized For Their 'Wut…
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