Already Viewed-"Wuthering Heights"

"Wuthering Heights" is the last movie that i have already viewed. This classic tale has been remade many different times. The two movie posters on the left are from 1939 and a remake in 1992. There is a new version that came out in 2011. The version of the movie that I saw was the 1992 one with Ralph Fiennes (Lord Voldemort) and Juliette Binoche. I read this book my sophomore year of high school in Ms.Hurley's class again. I had her for two years in a row and that poor woman had to deal with my shenanigans for 40 minutes 5 days a week. Anyway, I adored the book and the movie. The movie did a fabulous job of following the book, even having the same actress play Catherine and Cathy. At first, I thought the book would be horrible because i had read Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte freshman year, and that book was dreadful. However, Emily Bronte (Charlotte's sister) did a much better job! Her book wasn't too long and difficult and the plot was a winding road of intrigue, mystery, passion, and revenge. We watched the movie in class but I would consider it one of my personal favorite movies. Ralph Fiennes is amazing as Heathcliff and made me fall in love with the character more. Everyone in my class would make fun of me because i was head over heels in love with Heathcliff. Even though he was kind of abusive and scary, my heart melted for him. He is the original bad boy character that is just misunderstood and needed someone to love him unconditionally. It is a tad confusing trying to distinguish between Catherine the mother and Cathy the daughter because Juliette Binoche plays both characters. I thought this was perfect and an extremely artistic impression of these two characters. In the book, it says that Cathy looks so much like Catherine that she reminds Heathcliff of his lost love. By making the same actress play both females was genius! I could go on and on about this movie, but for all you hopeless romantics like me, you just need to watch it with a box of tissues next to you and some Ben and Jerry's to keep you company. For all you boys out there, watch it and learn how men used to show affection towards their one true love (just don't abuse them like Heathcliff abuses Isabelle).

"Wuthering Heights" (1992)
Directed by: Peter Kosminsky
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Ralph Fiennes, and Janet McTeer

SUMMARY:
The story follows the Earnshaw family who live in Wuthering Heights. There are two children in the Earnshaw family, a boy named Hindley, and his younger sister Catherine. Their father is extremely rich and travels a lot. When he returns from a trip to Liverpool, he brings back a homeless boy, adopts him, and names him Heathcliff. Hindley is jealous of Heathcliff because he feels his father pays more attention to the homeless boy than him. Catherine and Heathcliff become very close and spend a lot of time together. Hindley goes to college but returns three years later with his wife Frances after the death of their father. Hindley becomes the master of the house and forces Heathcliff to become a servant to them. One day Catherine and Heathcliff go to spy on their neighbors the Linton family when Catherine is attacked by a dog and stays with the Lintons until she is healed. She comes back a changed woman and starts to distance herself from Heathcliff and falls into the arms of Edgar. Frances gives birth to a son named Hareton and she dies shortly after, Hindley becomes a drunk. Edgar asks Catherine to marry him and she accepts. She tells her maid Nelly that she does not love Edgar but loves Heathcliff although she could never marry him because he doesn't have status or wealth. Heathcliff hears this and runs away although he missed the part of Catherine saying she will use her marriage to raise Heathcliff's status. He returns six months later a gentleman and much richer. He marries Edgar's younger sister Isabella as revenge against Edgar. Catherine has fallen ill and Heathcliff goes to see her secretly, after which she gives birth to her daughter Cathy and dies. Isabella flees Heathcliff and has a son named Linton, Hindley dies and gives Wuthering Heights to Heathcliff and guardianship over his son Hareton. Twelve years later, Isabella is dying and Edgar goes to get her son to adopt. This is when Cathy learns of Wuthering Heights and her cousins since she had never been allowed outside of her home, the Grange. Linton arrives and is very sickly and is staying at the Grange, but Heathcliff wants his son with him. He wants Linton and Cathy to marry so he can inherit the Grange. Three years later, he holds Nelly and Cathy hostage at Wuthering Heights and Cathy and Linton marry. Edgar dies and so does Linton. Hareton tries to be friends with Cathy but she retreats into herself. Lockwood who was renting the Grange comes back to Wuthering Heights after eight months. Heathcliff has died seeing visions of Catherine, and Cathy and Hareton plan to get married. Heathcliff is buried next to Catherine.

Sorry for the long summary but it is a complex story! Watch the movie with an open mind because you may hate Heathcliff but everything he does is to prove to Catherine that he is her true love and she is his beloved.