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Lover of -
Emily Bronte
Bob Dylan
Aussie Rules Football
Favourite Actors -
Benicio Del Toro
James Dean
Humphrey Bogart
Robert de Niro
Clive Owen
Ed Norton
Tom Hardy
Ralph Fiennes
Johnny Depp
Cate Blanchett
Toni Collette
Meryl Streep
Abbie Cornish
Julianne Moore
Kate Winslett
Top 10 Movies (in no particular order)
East of Eden
The Deer Hunter
Blade Runner
Things we Lost in the Fire
Oscar and Lucinda
Rebecca
Schindlers List
Children of Men
Witness
Gattaca
Top 10 Books
Wuthering Heights
Pride & Prejudice
A Suitable Boy
A Farewell to Arms
The Poisonwood Bible
Dune
The Hours
The Border Trilogy
The Mists of Avalon
Possession
Reviews
Wuthering Heights (2009)
True to the Book
I am a confessed middle aged Wuthering Heights tragic- have studied the book at at University level, read it many times and seen all of the major movie and TV versions- I consider this film version to be the best I have seen. Though it departs from the plot a number of times it still comes closest to the the themes and tone of Emily Bronte's work. The cast was excellent - especially Tom Hardy who was brilliant and really "nailed" Heathcliff , for me at least. The only reason for not giving it 9 or 10 stars is the curious omission of most of the powerful dialog from Cathy's death scene. They seem to have taken all of the angst out and just left the tender aspects. That being said - they have retained much of Emily Brontes brilliant language. I am in fact, bemused by some commentary that very little dialog from the book was included - I even read the book again straight after watching the movie and can confirm that this is just not a valid criticism. Much of the books dialog was included unchanged - though in some instances spoken by Cathy or Heathcliff instead of Nelly - and a good deal of the narration was reworked very effectively as dialog.