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Monday, June 04, 2012

Monday, June 04, 2012 9:38 am by Cristina in , , , ,    No comments
The Seattle Times features Wuthering Heights 2011:
British filmmaker Andrea Arnold, whose gritty, primal take on "Wuthering Heights" screens at the Seattle International Film Festival this week, first read the Emily Brontë classic as a young adult. Because the book was so famous, she was expecting it to be a love story. "When I read it, I was a bit surprised," she said in an interview at the Toronto International Film Festival last fall. "It's not quite as simple as that — there's so much more going on. It's actually a confounding book, really." (Moira Macdonald) (Read more)
Shock till You Drop interviews Michael Fassbender, who makes a reference to his role in Jane Eyre 2011:
Q: Regarding your character "David," he's an earlier android than Ash in "Alien" and Bishop in "Aliens," so di you reference their performance at all?
Fassbender: No, I don't know why, but sometimes you do, like when I was doing "Jane Eyre," I watched as many of the Rochesters as I could get my hands on, but for this I made a decision not to watch the "Alien" movies. (Edward Douglas)
The Guardian's Shortcuts discusses prequels by bringing up the unavoidable reference... with a most certainly avoidable blunder:
From the 1966 Jane Eyre spin-off novel Wild [sic!] Sargasso Sea to Ridley Scott's cinema release Prometheus, the prequel has been a much-used narrative device. (Priya Elan)
Judging by this letter from a reader to the Morning Star, another blunder concerning the Brontës seems to have happened recently:
There was an extra dimension to one of the Quizmaster's questions in the weekend Morning Star (May 26-27).
As well as knowing the name of the house in Wuthering Heights, correctly identified as Thrushcross Grange, the further test was to realise that it wasn't Charlotte Brontë who wrote it, it was her sister Emily!
Emily died within a year of the novel being published and while Charlotte did write an introduction to the second edition of the book two years later, the power and imagination of the narrative is Emily's.
Carol Stavris
Didcot
Sonam Kapoor continues displaying her Brontëiteness. From the Deccan Herald:
"I am a very romantic person and the film [Mausam], which is about four seasons of love, reinstated my faith love. This is why when I was in Edinburgh, which is the second season in the movie, I felt like I was a part of Emily Brontë's 'Wuthering Heights'," says Sonam.
The Sault Star is worried about plans for a new legislation:
Republicans in New York State want to force organizations based there to remove posts made by anonymous sources.
That would include blogs and news agencies.
The legislation would cut down on the "mean-spirited and baseless political attacks" on the Internet, says Republican Assembly member Jim Conte.
He obviously didn't follow the federal Republican leadership race.
The legislation has no chance of passing because the U.S. Constitution guarantees freedom of speech, but it's troubling politicians would see it as their legitimate authority to decide who can and cannot publish anonymously, in any forum.
Back in the 1800s, such sentiments would have silenced the Brontë sisters, who published under pseudonyms, thus their voices were rendered anonymous. (Brian MacLeod)
The Hindustan Times recommends Jane Eyre among other novels:
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
Another book I read in my teens. The character of Jane Eyre fascinates me, her childhood as an orphan in an institution, her role as a governess, her love for Mr Rochester, another powerful male protagonist in literature. (Amrutha Penumudi)
The Canon reviews the novel while Save the Bookworms! loves the 1983 miniseries, Movies 4 Dummies writes briefly about the 2011 adaptation and Red Curtain shares screencaps from the 1973 miniseries. Flickr user Lucia Buffa posts a collage with pictures of an old edition of Jane Eyre. Finally, Cor de Mel posts in Portuguese about Wuthering Heights.

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