It was some time since we didn't read a Brontë reference in a book or movie review.
The Denver Post publishes a review of the recently premiered film "
Friends with money" directed by Lisa Cholodenko and with Jennifer Aniston, Catherine Keener and Joan Cusack. The title of the movie motivates imaginative plays on words like these ones:
Many of the great 19th-century British authors could have given their novels the same title: "Friends With Money."
"Bleak House"? Some friends
with money, others with lawsuits.
"Pride and Prejudice"? Friends with mansions and poor judgment.
"Wuthering Heights"? Friends with money and psychotic jealousy. The reviewer goes further tracing parallelisms between the film's plot and Wuthering Heights:
Writer and director Nicole Holofcener casts Jennifer Aniston as Olivia, a housemaid among wealthy careerists, re-inventing Emily Bronte's idea of Heathcliff cleaning the Wuthering Heights stables.Well, now that we're trembling with the idea of
Angelina Jolie playing Cathy, a a transvestite Heathcliff played by Jennifer Aniston could be the next possible Hollywood blockbuster.
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I'm so ashamed to admit this... but I recall a "Friends" episode featuring "Wuthering Heights": Rachel and Phoebe take a community ed lit course and Rachel chooses the latest issue of Vogue over the assigned reading.
ReplyDeleteNo need to be ashamed! I love Friends and love that episode. They also debate Jane Eyre in a very funny way (Jane is a cyborg :P).
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