Snerk, Nutty.

Also, I just realized that I will be working Sunday night, as will S, and we'll be missing most of the Oscars. Dammit.

I'll have Mr. Rochester and the batshit secret in the attic, pleasethankyou.

I'm about two-thirds done with The Eyre Affair, and love the fact that Rochester is becoming a big, if mysterious, character in this modern-if-AU story. Also loved that Wordsworth is portrayed as a typical poet, using his romantic airs to hit on women.

JANE:Mr. Rochester(cocks pistol): Make up your mind.Blanche or me. I'm way too old for this shit. Oh, and thanks, Corwood, for the image of two of my favorite literary characters running around the moors like Paulie and Christopher in "Pine Barrens" Catherine saying "cocksucker" when her phone doesn't work, alone, may drive me back to therapy. Honestly, "Reader, I murdered him." works better. Alliteration and shit.

I don't know...I like the language in it.

Erika is me. I also just love how very fucked up all the characters are, but I love Jane Eyre more.

"Romantic" doesn't just mean having or inspiring squishy feelings of love. They aren't naturalistic characters, they aren't classical characters; they're romantic characters.

This is why I used a small 'r' in my post about Heathcliff not being a romantic hero. I use the small 'r' for squishy, happy romantic love stuff, and capital 'R' for the traditional definition. Wuthering Heights is about as Romantic as you can get.

"Romantic" doesn't just mean having or inspiring squishy feelings of love. They aren't naturalistic characters, they aren't classical characters; they're romantic characters.

That's true, but I don't think the writer of that particular article meant the term in the broader "Romance" sense.

Jane Eyre was one of the formative books from my girlhood and I still carry fond memories of it, for all the overwroughtness. It saddens me that there hasn't been yet a "definitive" adaptation of the book to screen (IMO anyway) although I did like the Zelda Clarke/Timothy Dalton quite a bit. No doubt someone will try again.

There was a *terrible* adaptation of Wuthering Heights with Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes as Cathy and Heathcliff back in the early 90's. It boggled my mind because I love Binoche and Fiennes, but they were so miscast and the direction and the dialog were just horrible.

but they were so miscast

Who is your ideal casting for it? Feel free to roam back in time since you don't think it's been done definitively.

I can't read about Wuthering Heights without thinking of the semaphore version.

Voice Over : And now for the very first time on the silver screen comes the film from two books which once shocked a generation. From Emily Brontë's 'Wuthering Heights' and from the 'International Guide to Semaphore Code'. Twentieth Century Vole presents 'The Semaphore Version of Wuthering Heights'.

(Caption on screen: 'THE SEMAPHORE VERSION OF WUTHERING HEIGHTS' Film: appropriate film music throughout. Heathcliffe in close-up profile, his hair is blowing in the wind, he looks intense. Cut to close-up Catherine also in profile, with hair streaming in wind. As if they are 1ooking into each other's eyes. Pull out to reveal, on very long zoom, that they are each on the top of separate small hills, in rolling countryside. Heathcliffe produces two semaphore flags from behind him, and waves them.)

I really liked Juliette Binoche. She was a great Cathy/Catherine. I would like to see Joseph instead of Ralph do it.

Wuthering Heights appealed to me because of the narrative style. I loved how the story came together by people telling stories, and that there were often stories told within these stories, which sometimes got confusing, but hey. And you only ever get the stories from the perspectives of, basically, outsiders, so you can never really tell what really goes on with this "couple."

thanks, Corwood, for the image of two of my favorite literary characters running around the moors like Paulie and Christopher in "Pine Barrens"

My work here is done.