I agree with whomever wrote that they liked the music in this version of Wuthering Heights ... but that's about all I liked.
I'll start with the setting. Wuthering Heights felt more like a grungy farmhouse than the haunting fortress which I remembered from the book. What happened?
On to Anna Calder-Marshall as Cathy. THAT VOICE! Whenever she'd be summoning Heathcliff, that screeching of hers sent shivers (not good ones either) up my spine. No wonder he was always hiding. I think they should dub in the bit from the 1992 version that has the crows fleeing the tree, into the 1970 version when Cathy goes a shriekin' through the moors. Sublime.
Sorry, Dalton fans, he's taking the biggest hit. Timothy Dalton got the wrong script. He was acting out the Quasimodo part in the Hunchback of Notre Dame, I'm sure of it. I remember Heathcliff as being a little rough around the edges, but sheesh, I don't remember him grunting and dragging a foot around! He was like some aloof lout, more in need of orthopedic intervention than Cathy's love. He was not Heathcliff to me, but he made a very attractive Quasimodo.
No version of this movie is on par with the book. It's so tempting to put on film because the characters are so rich and the settings and story so perfectly gloomy ... it just never works.
I'll start with the setting. Wuthering Heights felt more like a grungy farmhouse than the haunting fortress which I remembered from the book. What happened?
On to Anna Calder-Marshall as Cathy. THAT VOICE! Whenever she'd be summoning Heathcliff, that screeching of hers sent shivers (not good ones either) up my spine. No wonder he was always hiding. I think they should dub in the bit from the 1992 version that has the crows fleeing the tree, into the 1970 version when Cathy goes a shriekin' through the moors. Sublime.
Sorry, Dalton fans, he's taking the biggest hit. Timothy Dalton got the wrong script. He was acting out the Quasimodo part in the Hunchback of Notre Dame, I'm sure of it. I remember Heathcliff as being a little rough around the edges, but sheesh, I don't remember him grunting and dragging a foot around! He was like some aloof lout, more in need of orthopedic intervention than Cathy's love. He was not Heathcliff to me, but he made a very attractive Quasimodo.
No version of this movie is on par with the book. It's so tempting to put on film because the characters are so rich and the settings and story so perfectly gloomy ... it just never works.