The Guardian looks into the success of Netflix’s
Wednesday.
Especially for a teenager with a kid-friendly rating, Wednesday speaks with the critical self-awareness and acumen of your textbook Byronic hero, a literary archetype commonly associated with Heathcliff of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, or more recently Gossip Girl’s Chuck Bass, and even Sylvie. They’re your clever, morose, condescending types, dangerously blessed with irresistible good looks and saddled with the baggage of past trauma. (Wednesday’s trauma is the death of her pet scorpion, who was murdered when she was six; she’s since vowed to never cry again.) (Janelle Zara)
Far Out Magazine ranks Andrea Arnold's films and
Wuthering Heights is at the bottom of the list.
5. Wuthering Heights (2011)
Many have tried to adapt Emily Brontë’s iconic 19th-century novel Wuthering Heights, with varying degrees of success across the board. Arnold’s 2011 attempt sits somewhere in the middle of such adaptations, being a faithful recreation of the novel that somewhat modernises the text by making Heathcliff a black character, played by James Howson, even if Arnold does little more than this to magnetise viewers.
Stripped back and bare, Arnold does well to express exactly what made the original novel so good, though her signature mark of quality is somewhat missed. (Calum Russell)
BFI has an obituary of film director Yoshishige Yoshida which mentions his take on
Wuthering Heights:
After a hiatus of 13 years, Yoshida returned to filmmaking with A Promise (1986), a powerful drama about ageing and dementia, and Wuthering Heights (1988), a broodingly atmospheric version of Emily Brontë’s novel transposed to medieval Japan. (Jasper Sharp)
In
Bury Times, James Daly, Conservative MP for Bury North, makes the case against housing plans destroying the local countryside.
As I’m writing this article on the wall is a picture of the great Emily Brontë, and it is to her that I defer in just one of those institutions that sustain human flourishing.
For Emily, that was the countryside around her in Haworth and on the moors.
These open spaces were a release from the newly urban and industrialised village of Haworth where she lived together with Bradford and Keighley beyond.
“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.”
My point is that the green spaces around you are as fundamental to your sense of self, community and even political values.
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