I know a lot of people find Promising Young Woman writer-director Emerald Fennell's provocations hollow and obnoxious but, as anybody who was around here during Saltburn-mania 2023 knows well, I'm not one of those people. I find her movies and her provocations delightful -- people take it all way too seriously when it comes to her. She's just making black comedies about privileged assholes, but the fact that she comes from the world of privileged assholes keeps confusing people. Perfectly reasonable people get very precious all of a sudden. I don't get it. Saltburn is one of the funniest movies of the decade dammit. Anyway people are already for a dozen reasons up in arms about her adaptation of Wuthering Heights which stars Jacob Elordi...
... (as you can plainly see) opposite Margot Robbie, and judging by this teaser just dropped today she's turned it into a full-scale bodice-ripper with heaving cleavage and, well, even more heaving cleavage. And I cannot fucking wait! Bodice-rippings, swarthy stable-boys, technocolor heaving cleavage -- this thing is one Fabio short of a romance novel cover brought to life and I'm so very here for it. I mean I also love Andrea Arnold's extremely beautiful and restrained adaptation too -- why can't we have both?? Anyway watch:
This isn't out until Valentine's Day 2026 so we've got several months to wait, and probably listen to a bunch of people find something else to be annoyed about before they've seen it -- personally I just mostly want to know what the fuck is happening in this second-long shot from that teaser:
Like... what the fuck am I looking at? Do I even want to know? I do! Oh I do totally want to know! Anyway if you've got thoughts or feelings feel free to shate them with me in the commnets... i fo you can pull yourself away from these gifs anyway!
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I would have preferred a classier actress like Daisy Edgar-Jones for the role of Cathy.
Isn't Heathcliff supposed to be black?
In the book he is variously described: "dark-skinned gipsy" with "black eyes"; "as white as the wall behind him"; "a little Lascar, or an American or Spanish castaway"; "pale...with an expression of mortal hate." So: open to interpretation.
Jacob always has zero chemistry with his female co-stars.
I kinda liked Saltburn. Withering Heights is such a complicated, drawn out story, not sure I'm that interested, regardless of who directs.
another useless remake.
I've never interpreted him as explicitly black skinned-he's definitely not lily white but he's not African black either. He's repeatedly described as "gipsy" which suggests Romani or as the previous poster stated, perhaps a Spanish ancestry with some Moorish blood. Elordi is of Basque descent, so this is not white washing.
Why bother,just to add male bodies that never existed way back then,when will they cast someone in a film who doesn't like he's spent 3 quarters of the year inside a gym,it seems like more of the same sex obsessed stuff from this director.
This teaser...I trust Fennell. Her movies are mind f**ks. And she gets career best performances from her actors. Only two movies, but still... The very tall Elordi in that door frame?. Margot giving me "Favourite" vibes? And bonus points for the shot of Owen Cooper, who will become the youngest Emmy-winner in a minute? Obsessed.
SOMEWHAT I'M AAAALL TINGLED(?) BY THAT AMUSING CLAIM!! LOL
THEY, WHOEVER,ER, THEY MIGHT BE, HAVE RUN OUT OF FRESH IDEAS GAZILLION YEARS AGO ... 🙄🙄🙄😒😒
I APPROVE THAT IDEA OF BARBIE THINGIE AS LESS CLASSY! LOL EWWWW... BARBIE IS SAID TO BE AN ANTI-MALE FLICK, RIIIIGHT???!!! LOL CUUUUUURSES!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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