Tarantino-like Wuthering Heights

Ox in a Box features Inspector Sands's production of Wuthering Heights which is described by Co-Artistic Director of Inspector Sands Giulia Innocenti as 'quite Tarantino in parts'.

“Wuthering Heights is such an epic story but we are doing it a little differently and going right for the jugular, as if you are in a court room and the audience is the jury,” Giulia Innocenti explains.

Guilia, a founding member and Co-Artistic Director of Inspector Sands which is staging the Brontë classic, is hugely excited about their adaption, which is already receiving rave reviews and coming to Oxford Playhouse from Tuesday (May 16) next week. [...]

“It’s as much about making a monster and what isolation can do to you, as a love story and that’s what makes Wuthering heights so exciting,” she says. “It’s like putting the characters on a petri dish and looking at them under a microscope.

“So, it’s not right to call it a love story. It’s more about what you can do to people in the name of love and the horrors that are committed.”

“Because Heathcliff is such a tragic figure and always an outsider in a really hostile, unwelcoming environment, which really resonates in today’s political climate,” she adds.

“I think after lockdown we can all relate to that; the increased tensions in a domestic setting, so it gets quite Tarantino in parts, but don’t worry there is lots of humour as well.

“It’s dark but the comedy comes out of that. We didn’t know if the audience would find it funny until we put it in front of them, but it seems to work,” she smiles.

The Student imagines 'Muppet Adaptations of Classics (and the characters who remain human)' and one of them is

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

If there were ever a Brontë novel to get a Muppet spin, we think that should be Jane Eyre. Jane will be the one human, and Anya Taylor-Joy seems like a good option. For the rest of the ensemble, Sam the Eagle embodies the brooding figure of Mr Rochester, and no one can play Bertha Mason, the mad creature in the attic, other than Animal. Miss Piggy and Kermit take on supporting roles this time as Blanche Ingram and St. John Rivers, respectively. A Muppet revival of this gothic classic is everything we English students want. (Naomi Wallace and Catherine Hodge)

Miss Piggy as Blanche Ingram is certainly something we'd love to see!

Someone who did play Jane Eyre herself is Ruth Wilson, who has a very interesting conversation with The Guardian, which looks back on her promising start as Jane.

Paste Magazine recommends 'The 20 Best Movies on MUBI' and one of them is

7. Wuthering Heights

Year: 2011

Director: Andrea Arnold

Stars: Kaya Scodelario, James Howson, Solomon Glave

Rating: NR

Directed by Oscar-winning Andrea Arnold (Red Road, Fish Tank), Wuthering Heights’ pacing is reminiscent of Terrence Malick’s The New World, where instead of Heathcliff and Catherine, it was John Smith and Pocahontas who slowly, silently wandered fields and rolled about the grass. Robbie Ryan, the director of photography, has been a long-time partner with Arnold, and together they have developed a unique style of storytelling, one that includes the landscape as a character in itself. Ryan has won four awards to date for his work on this film, and deservedly so. His perspective through the lens is both sensitive and bold, and very, very honest. The acting cannot be faulted. Every role is played impeccably well, making the period believability nearly infallible. Both Kaya Scodelario (Clash of the Titans, Skins) as the adult Catherine and Shannon Beer as the younger version were utterly convincing as the coy, love-torn heroine. It is James Howson, however, the adult Heathcliff himself, who steals the show. In his first-ever film role, Howson could have been plucked right off the pages of Brontë’s novel, with all the angst, confusion, awkwardness and beauty of the original protagonist. He makes the audience empathize with him, yet he still holds them at a distance, keeping the attention solely on himself to the very last reel. (Maryann Koopman Kelly)

According to MovieWeb, the Brontë sisters would 'Would Make Great Modern Biopics'.

The three Brontë sisters, well known for such works as Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, were novelists and poets creating works of astonishing quality and popularity during a time when writing, especially poetry, was considered an inappropriate profession for women. Publishing many of their stories and poems under male pseudonyms, the Bronte sisters' talent was apparent in the success and fame of the stories that they published. The identities of all three Bronte sisters was eventually revealed in 1850, after two out of three of them had passed away.

The clandestine nature of their publications, as well as the difficulties that the sisters experiences in their early writing career, would make for relevant and thought-provoking cinema. Such a biopic picture could be presented as a celebration of how far the ideas of gender equality have come, or could explore elements of the culture that have endured. No matter how their story is handled, a modern retelling of this story would be an excellent example of historical cinema. (Ryan Christian)

'Clandestine nature of their publications'?

Publishers' Weekly interviews writer Charlaine Harris.

All good writers begin in childhood as avid readers; what authors influenced Harris? “Frank Baum’s Oz books fed my imagination in a good way,” she says. “I read them over and over. I’m still trying to find a way to work Princess Langwidere into a book. I also read a lot of mysteries. I enjoyed the C.S. Forester Hornblower books... not that I knew anything about the Napoleonic Wars, or sailing, or the social conventions of that time. Now I do! And Naomi Novik took the same conceit a step further, with dragons. I am a happy camper. I also read Jane Eyre multiple times: it’s the template for the entire romance industry, but so rich.” (Patricia Guy)

Shondaland finds a Brontëite:

For Jenny Fran Davis, author of Dykette (out on May 16), her real love affair with literary fiction began with Jane Eyre and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn when she was young. (Lily Herman)

A contributor to Her Campus has Jane Eyre on her 'immediate summer reading list'.

4. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

I have one end goal for this summer really: read more classics. The Brontë Sisters have been on my radar for years now and maybe now I’ll have the attention span for them. Jane Eyre takes place in late 18th and early 19th century England where the titular character suffers a tragic upbringing that leads her to Thornfield Hall. Here she is hired by the hermit Edward Fairfax to care for Adèle, his ward. Yet there’s something mysterious hiding in Thornfield Hall that may leave Jane broken in more ways than one. Do I know how this book ends? Yes, I read the summary when I was in the 8th grade. But I want to read Brontë’s writing style and see if it’s for me. Let’s see how this goes… (Shree Patel)

Mr Rochester is hardly a 'hermit', though.

Cuba Encuentro interviews writer Abilio Estévez who recommends

-Jean [sic] Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë. Y ya que estamos, El ancho mar de los sargazos, de Jean Rhys. (Carlos Espinosa Domínguez) (Translation)

Morning Star reviews Chicanes by Clara Schulmann in which

The voice of Charlotte Brontë sounds alongside bell hooks, Gertrude Stein is nearby to Nathalie Quintane, Lauren Berlant just across from Anne Sexton, Anne Carson close to Joan Fontaine; the wonderful Vivian Gornick and her mourning mother are there, the all-female band Beat and the Pulse singing Austra, and lots more. (Fiona O'Connor)

WAtoday (Australia) features NSW Deputy Premier and Education Minister Prue Car.

Her three-unit English teacher, Michele Elborough recalled there were early signs she would be drawn to a political career. “We’d be in class discussing Jane Eyre, or Yeats, and conversations would steer towards politics or political ideas. It was quite unusual.” (Lucy Carroll)

iNews features Filey.

Named after Charlotte Brontë, who stayed in the adjoining Cliff House during her visits to Filey, The Glass House at Charlottes is a whimsical setting for dinner. (Sarah Holt)