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."
That's true, but I don't think the writer of that particular article meant the term in the broader "Romance" sense.
I don't know how you can possibly tell either way. It read to me like the writer (or maybe the editor) was totally unfamiliar with the book, looked it up somewhere, and saw the word "romantic" in the entry.
The comments here didn't seem to be specifically about the article; I thought they were more general. If I've misunderstood the entire conversation, never mind, but... using capitals to distinguish the literature from the emotion only works if everyone shares that convention.
Who is your ideal casting for it? Feel free to roam back in time since you don't think it's been done definitively.
Alan Rickman from about 20 years ago as Rochester. He can do snarly, broody, passionate and idiosyncratic, and he's not conventionally handsome (those terrible teeth!) but is awfully charismatic.
I have a tougher time with casting Jane. Maybe Kelly McDonald? She's got that small frame with a stubborn chin; she's of course far too pretty, but at least not in a showy way.
There was also a version with Samantha Morton and Ciaran Hinds.
Samantha Morton, right? There's another Samantha I get her confused with.
Samantha Morton, right? There's another Samantha I get her confused with.
Possibly you confuse her with Samantha Mathis, who has a similar name, but that Jane Eyre was indeed with Ms. Morton.
Yes, Mathis is the other Samantha. The one who doesn't star in nearly so many interesting movies.
