Love the smutification of classic literature

[u/Sanddanglokta62]

[u/Ok_Future6226]

I'm all wuthered out

[u/pestoraviolita]

Why is he white?

[u/Wodelheim → u/pestoraviolita]

[u/Evolutioncocktail → u/Wodelheim]

God, Karen, you can’t just ask literary characters why they’re white.

[u/AlysRose_FFXIV → u/Evolutioncocktail]

I'm dead.

[u/Swan-Diving-Overseas → u/pestoraviolita]

Yeah isn’t he ambiguously either black, southeast Asian, or Romani in the book? Definitely not white (and IIRC that’s a major point to his character and the whole romance)

[u/pestoraviolita → u/Swan-Diving-Overseas]

Yup, he faces prejudice and bigotry for that. It's a big deal.

And who played him in adaptation? Laurence Olivier, Tom Hardy, Ralph Fiennes. I think only the 2011 adaptation had him be played by a non-white actor, a black man.

Now he's white again. I guess Emerald thought she could get away with it because three other adaptation did. She's so out of touch with reality.

[u/Swan-Diving-Overseas → u/pestoraviolita]

Yeah the 2011 one is the only one I’ve seen, the race felt like a major part of the story as Heathcliff is bullied as an outsider and the girl seemingly is attracted to him for the same reason.

Fennell should’ve just done Jane Eyre or something

And I liked that 2011 film a lot, Andrea Arnold’s style is very sensory and naturalistic in that

[u/pestoraviolita → u/Swan-Diving-Overseas]

Fennell should have done a brand new original erotic period drama because clearly that's what she wanted. That would have been the smart move to escape all this scrutiny and also whitewashing.

[u/ancientestKnollys → u/Swan-Diving-Overseas]

In the book he could be mixed race, that would explain why his ethnicity is ambiguous. If he was full black or southeast Asian that wouldn't look very ambiguous.

[u/GriveousDance21 → u/pestoraviolita]

Petition for Terry Crews to replace Jacob.

[u/alwaysunderwatertill]

[u/rvdp66]

Let the girls have their smut. They pay big bucks for it.

[u/MassiveTicket8930 → u/rvdp66]

i only want smut if its canonical if im gonna pay big bucks for it.

[u/smegma_sommelier69 → u/rvdp66]

As a man with a wife who likes this stuff, it benefits me greatly.

[u/DarkMuret → u/rvdp66]

Love me some Capitalist Smut™

[u/bratty_bubbles]

honestly it doesn’t look good but if its not a blockbuster i will be shocked. i mean jacob elordi alone comes w an army of teen girl fans

[u/sbidlo]

Anyone who thinks that modern adaptation "smutify" classic literature has evidently never read classic literature

[u/-Flutes-of-Chi- → u/sbidlo]

Anyone who thinks modern adaptations smutify classic literature are whiny idiots. Go watch one of the 20 other adaptations. What's the point in adapting classic literature if they're all the same

[u/pestoraviolita → u/-Flutes-of-Chi-]

If she only wanted to make an erotic period piece set in Classical Period, she could have made her own story. Or even vaguely and loosely based it on Wuthering Heights, changed the names and certain details to escape scrutiny. That would have saved her and this movie the controversies and racism accusations. It would have saved us the damn headache of having to hear her lie about "being faithful to source material".

[u/fatamberisfat]

Lol, a lot of 🌽 addicts in the comments ready to throw hands to get their next fix 🤣

[u/reallyjustreally-_-]

I hated every chracter in that book. I dont know how they will make chracters likeable without butchering them

[u/iplaybassok89 → u/reallyjustreally-_-]

I feel like the younger Catherine is the book’s only truly sympathetic character and they just cut her out of the adaptation most of the time.

Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff sucked. I couldn’t imagine watching a movie that revolves around a romance between those two and nothing else and so I never have, and sounds like that won’t be changing.

[u/Content-Walrus-5517]

But, that's the onion

[u/GoneWitDa → u/Content-Walrus-5517]

I am also very confused by that. I don’t know what film or book they’re talking about but the onion is obviously satire.