Difference in Book and Movie?
I have read the book and really enjoy it. I am looking for a version of the movie that is very much the same. COuld someone gove me teh main differences in this movis and the book by Emily Bronte? Thanks
shareThis is one of the most true-to-the-book versions. The differences lie in the casting - none of the actors look like the characters in the book, though they all did a brilliant acting job. Nelly is much older than in the book - she's supposed to be the same age as Hindley, in this film she's already middleaged. Heathcliff and Cathy are grown up by the time Cathy is bitten by the dog and stays at Thrushcross Grange - in the book they're young teenagers.
But overall, the film is consistant to the book, and I would recommend it over the 1939 film (which is completely different!) which like the Timothy Dalton film only covers the first half of the book, and the 1992 version which changes a lot.
The two truest adaptations are this 1998 TV film, and the 1978 TV series.
I bought this recently, thinking it was the version I had seen on TV some years back. (Probably the 1978 version - since both were full of unknowns - and it had been a long time.)
I thoroughly enjoyed it anyway. I have never warmed to either of the movie versions I've seen, simply because they try to make Heathcliff into a romantic character. He was abominable, but then so was Cathy.
I remember my ex, who has never read the book, shaking his head in despair over the mini series because it wasn't at all "nice" like the movie.
Good! Because Bronte's story is not "nice" either.
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this version kills the book. it is not faithful in anyway... whats up with all their kissing? they dont kiss until the day before cathy dies! this is simply wrong, and upset me seeing as wuthering heights is a fave of mine.
shareI agree I found everyone to nice .. they should all have cramped up the meanness
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