Colourful Brontës

Today we have a very colourful stock of Brontë references from the most unexpected sources:

Haunted Houses horror movies: According to PopPolitics, Jane Eyre qualifies as an antecedent:

Think of "Jane Eyre," taunted by the madwoman in the attic who turns out to be the wife her lover has locked up. (Sam J. Miller)

Godard's Week End (1967): Nashville Scene reminds us of a scene from Godard's symbolic and quite bizarre film:

The director issues withering denunciations of the West over a static shot of a guy chewing his lunch; he rejects film’s literary influences by setting fire to Emily Brontë—literally.

Porn legend Ron Jeremy: he is interviewed on the Colorado Springs Independent and a Wuthering Heights mention slips in:

But the fact is, we are. If you want to laugh, watch Monty Python; wanna cry, watch Terms of Endearment or Wuthering Heights; want to be scared, watch Brian De Palma or Hitchcock. Want to get a little romantically excited or something, watch a late-night HBO movie with cheerleaders, nurses, flight attendants, or watch a porn. It's part of the wide world of entertainment — nothing more, nothing less. (Interview by Matthew Schniper)

Canine dental hygiene: About Last Night links this most improbable topic to a scene from Jane Eyre:

Comparing notes on the ride home, Mr. Tingle said the experience had reminded him of sitting in a Baptist church. For me it had been like the scene in Jane Eyre where young Jane is lectured by Mr. Brocklehurst, the superintendent of Lowood, on the importance of reading Psalms. At one point, the vet was telling us about the holiest of holy dogs, a golden retriever who waits in the hallway each evening for its owner to brush and floss its teeth, and all I could think of was this exchange:

"And the Psalms? I hope you like them?"
"No, sir."
"No? oh shocking! I have a little boy, younger than you, who knows six Psalms by heart: and when you ask him which he would rather have, a ginger-bread nut to eat, or a verse of a Psalm to learn he says: 'Oh! The verse of a Psalm! angels sing Psalms;' says he, 'I wish to be a little angel here below;' he then gets two nuts in recompense for his infant piety."

"Psalms are not interesting," I remarked.

More mentions: The Telegraph talks about Valerie Martin's Trespass; Machine Gun Funk reviews Betcha Bottom Dollar from the Puppini Sisters and their Kate Bush cover:

They cover Kate Bush's "Wuthering Heights" where I wouldn't have recognized it as a Kate Bush song, but this gives classic proof that you can take good songs and successfully translate them into a completely different genre. (Bambi Weavil)

The Realm of Assimbya posts a Wuthering Heights fan fiction story: Love for Hate. Some confused Italian tourists that have visited Haworth (without knowing it, it seems) post their pictures here. More Brontë Country pictures in this post on Boots Across Britain: Haworth- Hebden Bridge Walk.

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