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Year: 1939
Director: William Wyler
Plot: William Wyler's Wuthering Heights is one of the earliest screen adaptations of the classic Emily Brontë novel. A traveler named Lockwood (Miles Mander) is caught in the snow and stays at the estate of Wuthering Heights, where the housekeeper, Ellen Dean (Flora Robson), sits down to tell him the story in flashback. In the early 19th century, the original owner of Wuthering Heights, Mr. Earnshaw (Leo G. Carroll), brings home an orphan from Liverpool named Heathcliff (Rex Downing). Though son Hindley Earnshaw despises the boy, daughter Catherine develops a close kinship with Heathcliff that blossoms into love. When Mr. Earnshaw dies, Cathy and Heathcliff grow up together on the Moors and seem destined for happiness, even though Hindley forces Heathcliff to work as a stable boy. When Cathy (Merle Oberon) meets wealthy neighbor Edgar Linton (David Niven), Heathcliff (Laurence Olivier) gets jealous and leaves. Cathy marries Edgar, and Heathcliff returns with his own wealth and sophistication. He buys Wuthering Heights from the alcoholic Hindley (Hugh Williams) and marries Edgar's sister, Isabella Linton (Geraldine Fitzgerald), out of spite. Still obsessively in love with each other, Cathy gets deathly ill while Heathcliff grows into a bitter old man. Ellen continues telling Lockwood the story as Dr. Kenneth (Donald Crisp) enters and reveals the fateful ending. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
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]]>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:40:04 GMTWuthering Heights1939William Wyler<a href="/players/P___117452/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>William Wyler</a>'s Wuthering Heights is one of the earliest screen adaptations of the classic Emily Brontë novel. A traveler named Lockwood (<a href="/players/P____44988/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Miles Mander</a>) is caught in the snow and stays at the estate of Wuthering Heights, where the housekeeper, Ellen Dean (<a href="/players/P____60865/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Flora Robson</a>), sits down to tell him the story in flashback. In the early 19th century, the original owner of Wuthering Heights, Mr. Earnshaw (Leo G. Carroll), brings home an orphan from Liverpool named Heathcliff (Rex Downing). Though son Hindley Earnshaw despises the boy, daughter Catherine develops a close kinship with Heathcliff that blossoms into love. When Mr. Earnshaw dies, Cathy and Heathcliff grow up together on the Moors and seem destined for happiness, even though Hindley forces Heathcliff to work as a stable boy. When Cathy (<a href="/players/P____53758/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Merle Oberon</a>) meets wealthy neighbor Edgar Linton (<a href="/players/P____52791/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>David Niven</a>), Heathcliff (<a href="/players/P___105057/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Laurence Olivier</a>) gets jealous and leaves. Cathy marries Edgar, and Heathcliff returns with his own wealth and sophistication. He buys Wuthering Heights from the alcoholic Hindley (<a href="/players/P___116867/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Hugh Williams</a>) and marries Edgar's sister, Isabella Linton (<a href="/players/P____23694/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Geraldine Fitzgerald</a>), out of spite. Still obsessively in love with each other, Cathy gets deathly ill while Heathcliff grows into a bitter old man. Ellen continues telling Lockwood the story as Dr. Kenneth (<a href="/players/P____86224/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Donald Crisp</a>) enters and reveals the fateful ending. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide7Taggedy Taggged (6-10)13163http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t00478lslhs.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Wuthering_Heights/39110/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/blogs/pippin06/archive/2009/12/7/44494.aspx Post By: pippin06
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Body: What's the AFI Project, you ask? For more information, or if you just enjoy my bemused ramblings, read here:http://www.spout.com/blogs/pippin06/archive/2008/3/1/25756.aspx Wuthering Heights is on the following AFI lists: The Original Top 100 (#73)100 Years...100 Passions (#15) Surprisingly, there is no DVD of this version of Wuthering Heights currently in print. After careful research, in an attempt to avoid acquiring the film through other, more questionable means, I managed to find out that Hulu was streaming this film - but only for a limited time! In fact, it expired on the day I finished watching it. It was like fate that I should find a legally streaming copy of the film, just as it was fate that brought Heathcliff to Cathy on those fated English moors... I digress. Wuthering Heights happens to be one of my favorite books (originally written by Emily Bronte), and I had remembered seeing this version of its adaptation in my 12th grade advanced placement English class shortly after reading the novel for the first time in that class as well. From the recesses of my memory, I remembered not particularly loving the film, but I could not remember why. In the end, I realized what it was: the adaptation is one of the worst adaptations in the history of print to screen. It literally lops off one half of the book! And whether that half of the book is, arguably, the boring half or not, I feel that the progression of events in this classic film version are a bit disingenuous, since it neglects to depict half of these tempestuous characters' lives to give them the true meaning as written by Bronte. Yet, the film follows the first half of the book closely. Directed by William Wyler (who also directed Ben-Hur amongst several other films), the movie opens when a stranger named Lockwood becomes lost on the English moors and finds himself at the doorstep of a sombre household. The name of the estate is Wuthering Heights, and when he arrives, he begs of its apparent lord some lodging, for the winds and the snows have made him lost. Begrudgingly, he is granted his request, but when he settles down to sleep in one of the abandoned upstairs rooms, he hears the breath of a voice on the wind in the room's drafts and looks out the cracked window only to see the apparition of a woman, whom he believes may be another lost traveler like himself. He desperately calls out for the estate's owner, who, in a fit of disbelieving rage and anguish, runs madly out into the storm. This behavior prompts the housekeeper, Ellen Dean (Flora Robson), to tell Lockwood what gave rise to it. In the early 19th century, the house's original owner, Mr. Earnshaw, brings home a bedraggled orphan from Liverpool, Heathcliff. Mr. Earnshaw's son, Hindley, sees him as a rival for his father's affections and despises him, while his sister, Catherine, takes to Heathcliff like glue. Their fast friendship develops into love, complete with the imaginings of their very own castle on the moors. Soon after, Mr. Earnshaw dies, and though Cathy and Heathcliff seem bound for a destiny of happiness, obstacles interfere with their wild, passionate love. Hindley (Hugh Williams) forces Heathcliff (Laurence Olivier) to work as a stable boy. Meanwhile, Cathy's (Merle Oberon) tastes change as she blossoms into a young woman, and after meeting a wealthy neighbor, Edgar Linton (David Niven), she pines for the finer things in life, while Heathcliff erupts into a fit of jealousy and leaves, particularly after hearing the first half of a tragic confession to Ellen on Cathy's part, in which she opines that though Heathcliff is below her desired station in life, she loves him dearly. Heathcliff's departure leaves Cathy bewildered and alone, and so she accepts a proposal of marriage from Edgar. A few scant years later, however, Heathcliff returns, wealthy and refined himself, whereupon he announces that he has purchased Wuthering Heights in order to liberate Hindley from his alcohol and gambling-related debts. To further enact his plan of spiteful revenge against these siblings, he marries Edgar's sister Isabella (Geraldine Fitzgerald), though he does not love her. This act causes Cathy to become affected by a mysterious illness that hurtles her toward an untimely death and forces Heathcliff to review his choices and attempt to coax the woman he loves from death's door. What works in Wuthering Heights and what translated well into this adaptation was the overall spirit of the endless, timeless love that binds the Heathcliff and Cathy characters and becomes the theme for the novel itself. The Brontes were products of the romantic era, so coined because novels of their type contained these epic, often tragic, always difficult romances, and everything from the cinematography (which won an Oscar) to the art direction to the performances in this film captured some of the grandiose theatricality and utter satisfaction produced by this romance. The entire picture, though, is truly carried on the shoulders of Sir Laurence Olivier, whose Shakespeare and theater training made him a convincing and dashing Heathcliff. After watching this film again and performing my usual post-film research, I read that he wanted his real-life love, Vivien Leigh, to be Cathy, but that the studio denied his request, believing that she was not yet a star pending the release of Gone with the Wind. Still, all throughout the picture, I felt that in some ways, Ms. Oberon reminded me very much of Leigh, and I couldn't help but wonder what the erstwhile Scarlett might have been like in the role of Cathy, a character not too far-flung from Scarlett in many respects, but with her native English accent and her real-life husband in the opposite role. On the other hand, Merle Oberon offered a great performance, even if her portrayal felt a bit more classically hammy than that of Sir Olivier. In fact, the film is engaging because the spirit of the story is taken so to heart by the ensemble of actors, the director, and the other filmmakers. The major flaw in this film, however, comes from the fact that the adaptation truly ignores half the book. The book does not stop at Cathy's illness and the tragic subsequent events - it follows Heathcliff into old age more fully, into the lives of his offspring and of Cathy's offspring (as she did have at least one child with Edgar). It depicts Heathcliff's endless regrets as to how he chose to fight in life for Cathy and how he mourns her death, and while the ending is essentially the same as that of the film, it's far more poetic and satisfying in the book because the book is more about Heathcliff as a character and his endless devotion to Cathy, mirrored in its more organic ending, than about their troubled romance in life. While it can more often than not be argued that film adaptations lose so much in comparison to their written source material, I feel that this is especially true of Wuthering Heights because the ending feels too pat and contrived in the film version, whereas it carries a deep, emotional, and tear-jerking significance in the novel. This loss constitutes a major flaw in the film, in this viewer's opinion. Yet again, this may be why the AFI dropped Wuthering Heights off of its Revised greatest films list (where it was replaced by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid after that film's own significant decline). The novel, with all of its weighty themes and careful images, is far more timeless than this film version, even if its parts have a mark of excellence. Given everything I've discussed, I'm very much inclined to give the film a 7 for being shaky but entertaining. After all, the spirit of the novel is there, and the film is engaging of its own accord, even if it's the diet soda version of the novel. As to the test, Wuthering Heights does not pass. I am much more inclined to own the book and now sort of desperately want to read it again (actually, maybe I do own the book...I think it's time to revisit my library). It is also with this same caution that I recommend this film to others: if you don't care about the book, and you love epic romances, you will love Wuthering Heights, the film. Fans of the book would do well to steer clear of the film altogether.
]]>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:28:24 GMTpippin06Reel Thoughts12/7/2009 10:28:24 PM What's the AFI Project, you ask? For more information, or if you just enjoy my bemused ramblings, read here:http://www.spout.com/blogs/pippin06/archive/2008/3/1/25756.aspx Wuthering Heights is on the following AFI lists: The Original Top 100 (#73)100 Years...100 Passions (#15) Surprisingly, there is no DVD of this version of Wuthering Heights currently in print. After careful research, in an attempt to avoid acquiring the film through other, more questionable means, I managed to find out that Hulu was streaming this film - but only for a limited time! In fact, it expired on the day I finished watching it. It was like fate that I should find a legally streaming copy of the film, just as it was fate that brought Heathcliff to Cathy on those fated English moors... I digress. Wuthering Heights happens to be one of my favorite books (originally written by Emily Bronte), and I had remembered seeing this version of its adaptation in my 12th grade advanced placement English class shortly after reading the novel for the first time in that class as well. From the recesses of my memory, I remembered not particularly loving the film, but I could not remember why. In the end, I realized what it was: the adaptation is one of the worst adaptations in the history of print to screen. It literally lops off one half of the book! And whether that half of the book is, arguably, the boring half or not, I feel that the progression of events in this classic film version are a bit disingenuous, since it neglects to depict half of these tempestuous characters' lives to give them the true meaning as written by Bronte. Yet, the film follows the first half of the book closely. Directed by William Wyler (who also directed Ben-Hur amongst several other films), the movie opens when a stranger named Lockwood becomes lost on the English moors and finds himself at the doorstep of a sombre household. The name of the estate is Wuthering Heights, and when he arrives, he begs of its apparent lord some lodging, for the winds and the snows have made him lost. Begrudgingly, he is granted his request, but when he settles down to sleep in one of the abandoned upstairs rooms, he hears the breath of a voice on the wind in the room's drafts and looks out the cracked window only to see the apparition of a woman, whom he believes may be another lost traveler like himself. He desperately calls out for the estate's owner, who, in a fit of disbelieving rage and anguish, runs madly out into the storm. This behavior prompts the housekeeper, Ellen Dean (Flora Robson), to tell Lockwood what gave rise to it. In the early 19th century, the house's original owner, Mr. Earnshaw, brings home a bedraggled orphan from Liverpool, Heathcliff. Mr. Earnshaw's son, Hindley, sees him as a rival for his father's affections and despises him, while his sister, Catherine, takes to Heathcliff like glue. Their fast friendship develops into love, complete with the imaginings of their very own castle on the moors. Soon after, Mr. Earnshaw dies, and though Cathy and Heathcliff seem bound for a destiny of happiness, obstacles interfere with their wild, passionate love. Hindley (Hugh Williams) forces Heathcliff (Laurence Olivier) to work as a stable boy. Meanwhile, Cathy's (Merle Oberon) tastes change as she blossoms into a young woman, and after meeting a wealthy neighbor, Edgar Linton (David Niven), she pines for the finer things in life, while Heathcliff erupts into a fit of jealousy and leaves, particularly after hearing the first half of a tragic confession to Ellen on Cathy's part, in which she opines that though Heathcliff is below her desired station in life, she loves him dearly. Heathcliff's departure leaves Cathy bewildered and alone, and so she accepts a proposal of marriage from Edgar. A few scant years later, however, Heathcliff returns, wealthy and refined himself, whereupon he announces that he has purchased Wuthering Heights in order to liberate Hindley from his alcohol and gambling-related debts. To further enact his plan of spiteful revenge against these siblings, he marries Edgar's sister Isabella (Geraldine Fitzgerald), though he does not love her. This act causes Cathy to become affected by a mysterious illness that hurtles her toward an untimely death and forces Heathcliff to review his choices and attempt to coax the woman he loves from death's door. What works in Wuthering Heights and what translated well into this adaptation was the overall spirit of the endless, timeless love that binds the Heathcliff and Cathy characters and becomes the theme for the novel itself. The Brontes were products of the romantic era, so coined because novels of their type contained these epic, often tragic, always difficult romances, and everything from the cinematography (which won an Oscar) to the art direction to the performances in this film captured some of the grandiose theatricality and utter satisfaction produced by this romance. The entire picture, though, is truly carried on the shoulders of Sir Laurence Olivier, whose Shakespeare and theater training made him a convincing and dashing Heathcliff. After watching this film again and performing my usual post-film research, I read that he wanted his real-life love, Vivien Leigh, to be Cathy, but that the studio denied his request, believing that she was not yet a star pending the release of Gone with the Wind. Still, all throughout the picture, I felt that in some ways, Ms. Oberon reminded me very much of Leigh, and I couldn't help but wonder what the erstwhile Scarlett might have been like in the role of Cathy, a character not too far-flung from Scarlett in many respects, but with her native English accent and her real-life husband in the opposite role. On the other hand, Merle Oberon offered a great performance, even if her portrayal felt a bit more classically hammy than that of Sir Olivier. In fact, the film is engaging because the spirit of the story is taken so to heart by the ensemble of actors, the director, and the other filmmakers. The major flaw in this film, however, comes from the fact that the adaptation truly ignores half the book. The book does not stop at Cathy's illness and the tragic subsequent events - it follows Heathcliff into old age more fully, into the lives of his offspring and of Cathy's offspring (as she did have at least one child with Edgar). It depicts Heathcliff's endless regrets as to how he chose to fight in life for Cathy and how he mourns her death, and while the ending is essentially the same as that of the film, it's far more poetic and satisfying in the book because the book is more about Heathcliff as a character and his endless devotion to Cathy, mirrored in its more organic ending, than about their troubled romance in life. While it can more often than not be argued that film adaptations lose so much in comparison to their written source material, I feel that this is especially true of Wuthering Heights because the ending feels too pat and contrived in the film version, whereas it carries a deep, emotional, and tear-jerking significance in the novel. This loss constitutes a major flaw in the film, in this viewer's opinion. Yet again, this may be why the AFI dropped Wuthering Heights off of its Revised greatest films list (where it was replaced by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid after that film's own significant decline). The novel, with all of its weighty themes and careful images, is far more timeless than this film version, even if its parts have a mark of excellence. Given everything I've discussed, I'm very much inclined to give the film a 7 for being shaky but entertaining. After all, the spirit of the novel is there, and the film is engaging of its own accord, even if it's the diet soda version of the novel. As to the test, Wuthering Heights does not pass. I am much more inclined to own the book and now sort of desperately want to read it again (actually, maybe I do own the book...I think it's time to revisit my library). It is also with this same caution that I recommend this film to others: if you don't care about the book, and you love epic romances, you will love Wuthering Heights, the film. Fans of the book would do well to steer clear of the film altogether. http://www.spout.com/groups/Movie_Polls/Re_Which_of_these_Hollywood_films_released_in_1939/657/43894/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: Dr_Gor
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Post Date: 9/13/2009 9:28:35 PM
Body: [quote user="Risselada"] Please reference this thread for the rules of this group. I just posted a blog about The Hunchback of Notre Dame. One of the things commented on the special features was how this movie was almost outshadowed by the so many other well known movies that also came out of Hollywood in this same year. I could hardly even list half of films that are still well known today, but I tried my best to pick what would probably be people's most favorites. Please vote only once in each poll. Movies referenced in this poll:Destry Rides AgainGone with the WindThe Hunchback of Notre DameMr. Smith Goes to WashingtonNinotchkaThe Roaring TwentiesStagecoachThe Wizard of OzThe WomenWuthering Heights [/quote] I think I would have to vote for The Wizard of OZ in this one only because I thought Dorothy was pretty hot and Judy Garland gave me a "tingly* feeling at a very young age... The Hunchback would be second followed by Stagecoach ... (John Wayne RULES!) ... < GOR >
]]>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:28:35 GMTDr_GorMovie Polls9/13/2009 9:28:35 PM[quote user="Risselada"] Please reference this thread for the rules of this group. I just posted a blog about The Hunchback of Notre Dame. One of the things commented on the special features was how this movie was almost outshadowed by the so many other well known movies that also came out of Hollywood in this same year. I could hardly even list half of films that are still well known today, but I tried my best to pick what would probably be people's most favorites. Please vote only once in each poll. Movies referenced in this poll:Destry Rides AgainGone with the WindThe Hunchback of Notre DameMr. Smith Goes to WashingtonNinotchkaThe Roaring TwentiesStagecoachThe Wizard of OzThe WomenWuthering Heights [/quote] I think I would have to vote for The Wizard of OZ in this one only because I thought Dorothy was pretty hot and Judy Garland gave me a "tingly* feeling at a very young age... The Hunchback would be second followed by Stagecoach ... (John Wayne RULES!) ... &lt; GOR &gt; http://www.spout.com/groups/Movie_Polls/Re_Which_of_these_Hollywood_films_released_in_1939/657/43415/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: Risselada
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Post Date: 8/5/2009 11:40:04 AM
Body: I had to say Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. I just love it. Can't help it. I saw Stagecoach so long ago, I can't remember many specifics, but I know it was amazing! Sounds like it's time for a revisit. Is there anyone here who actually found Gone with the Wind a bit long and grating? I find Vivien Leigh to be pretty annoying a lot of the time. But people say she was perfect for the part. I've never read the book though, so maybe Scarlett O'Hara the characters is just annoying to me.
]]>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:40:04 GMTRisseladaMovie Polls8/5/2009 11:40:04 AMI had to say Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. I just love it. Can't help it. I saw Stagecoach so long ago, I can't remember many specifics, but I know it was amazing! Sounds like it's time for a revisit. Is there anyone here who actually found Gone with the Wind a bit long and grating? I find Vivien Leigh to be pretty annoying a lot of the time. But people say she was perfect for the part. I've never read the book though, so maybe Scarlett O'Hara the characters is just annoying to me. http://www.spout.com/groups/Movie_Polls/Which_of_these_Hollywood_films_released_in_1939_is/657/43392/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: Risselada
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Post Date: 8/4/2009 6:09:36 PM
Body: Please reference this thread for the rules of this group. I just posted a blog about The Hunchback of Notre Dame. One of the things commented on the special features was how this movie was almost outshadowed by the so many other well known movies that also came out of Hollywood in this same year. I could hardly even list half of films that are still well known today, but I tried my best to pick what would probably be people's most favorites. Please vote only once in each poll. Movies referenced in this poll:Destry Rides AgainGone with the WindThe Hunchback of Notre DameMr. Smith Goes to WashingtonNinotchkaThe Roaring TwentiesStagecoachThe Wizard of OzThe WomenWuthering Heights
]]>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:09:36 GMTRisseladaMovie Polls8/4/2009 6:09:36 PMPlease reference this thread for the rules of this group. I just posted a blog about The Hunchback of Notre Dame. One of the things commented on the special features was how this movie was almost outshadowed by the so many other well known movies that also came out of Hollywood in this same year. I could hardly even list half of films that are still well known today, but I tried my best to pick what would probably be people's most favorites. Please vote only once in each poll. Movies referenced in this poll:Destry Rides AgainGone with the WindThe Hunchback of Notre DameMr. Smith Goes to WashingtonNinotchkaThe Roaring TwentiesStagecoachThe Wizard of OzThe WomenWuthering Heights http://www.spout.com/groups/Chicks_who_like_Flicks/Re_Why_do_I_like_movies_that_make_you_cry/453/19577/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: divinemsjunebug
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Post Date: 9/9/2007 11:58:32 AM
Body: Oh, sorry you had such a bad day at work that day, believe me, I have been there. I have to say I really don't like watching a lot of tear jerkers (maybe the really old ones like Wuthering Heights, An Affair to Remember or Dark Victory). There was one movie that made me cry for 20 minutes after the stupid movie was over and that was Iris. Whew, I have NEVER done that before. Then there was Schindler's List and the Pianist, oh my god, talk about tear my heart out. They were excellent movies and I think everyone should be MADE to watch them in school because it showed the brutality and evilness and non caring of how a lot of people were and still are, but I don't want to see them again. whew, way too painful and sad. Anyway, you are right, after you have a good cry at a movie you do feel a lot better. Maybe in some movies we cry because we think how we would be in that situation, but it's a SAFE cry because we know we aren't in that predicament...
]]>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 15:58:32 GMTdivinemsjunebugChicks who like Flicks9/9/2007 11:58:32 AMOh, sorry you had such a bad day at work that day, believe me, I have been there. I have to say I really don&#39;t like watching a lot of tear jerkers (maybe the really old ones like Wuthering Heights, An Affair to Remember or Dark Victory). There was one movie that made me cry for 20 minutes after the stupid movie was over and that was Iris. Whew, I have NEVER done that before. Then there was Schindler&#39;s List and the Pianist, oh my god, talk about tear my heart out. They were excellent movies and I think everyone should be MADE to watch them in school because it showed the brutality and evilness and non caring of how a lot of people were and still are, but I don&#39;t want to see them again. whew, way too painful and sad. Anyway, you are right, after you have a good cry at a movie you do feel a lot better. Maybe in some movies we cry because we think how we would be in that situation, but it&#39;s a SAFE cry because we know we aren&#39;t in that predicament... http://www.spout.com/groups/FRESH/Re_Mr_Smith_Goes_To_Washington/75/9324/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: Risselada
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Post Date: 5/25/2007 12:08:50 PM
Body: [quote user="divinemsjunebug"] Anyway, even when people did die in movies back then, they still kind of left you with a little hope, but usually it was happy. Look at the old (SPOILER FOR WUTHERING HEIGHTS) Wuthering Heights, even though the main characters die (I hope this isn't a spoiler for some people since it's such a Classic) but at least their ghosts are reunited at the end and you know that they will be at their castle forever on the moors...sigh...[/quote]You didn't spoil anything for me regarding Wuthering Heights. I have read the book, been involved in a play, and seen three versions of the movie.
]]>Fri, 25 May 2007 16:08:50 GMTRisseladaFRESH5/25/2007 12:08:50 PM[quote user="divinemsjunebug"] Anyway, even when people did die in movies back then, they still kind of left you with a little hope, but usually it was happy. Look at the old (SPOILER FOR WUTHERING HEIGHTS) Wuthering Heights, even though the main characters die (I hope this isn&#39;t a spoiler for some people since it&#39;s such a Classic) but at least their ghosts are reunited at the end and you know that they will be at their castle forever on the moors...sigh...[/quote]You didn&#39;t spoil anything for me regarding Wuthering Heights. I have read the book, been involved in a play, and seen three versions of the movie. http://www.spout.com/groups/FRESH/Re_Mr_Smith_Goes_To_Washington/75/9323/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: Risselada
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Post Date: 5/25/2007 12:08:49 PM
Body: [quote user="divinemsjunebug"] Anyway, even when people did die in movies back then, they still kind of left you with a little hope, but usually it was happy. Look at the old (SPOILER FOR WUTHERING HEIGHTS) Wuthering Heights, even though the main characters die (I hope this isn't a spoiler for some people since it's such a Classic) but at least their ghosts are reunited at the end and you know that they will be at their castle forever on the moors...sigh...[/quote]You didn't spoil anything for me regarding Wuthering Heights. I have read the book, been involved in a play, and seen three versions of the movie.
]]>Fri, 25 May 2007 16:08:49 GMTRisseladaFRESH5/25/2007 12:08:49 PM[quote user="divinemsjunebug"] Anyway, even when people did die in movies back then, they still kind of left you with a little hope, but usually it was happy. Look at the old (SPOILER FOR WUTHERING HEIGHTS) Wuthering Heights, even though the main characters die (I hope this isn&#39;t a spoiler for some people since it&#39;s such a Classic) but at least their ghosts are reunited at the end and you know that they will be at their castle forever on the moors...sigh...[/quote]You didn&#39;t spoil anything for me regarding Wuthering Heights. I have read the book, been involved in a play, and seen three versions of the movie. http://www.spout.com/groups/FRESH/Re_Mr_Smith_Goes_To_Washington/75/9302/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: divinemsjunebug
Post To: FRESH
Post Date: 5/25/2007 2:02:29 AM
Body: Yeah, I know I am very corny at times but I do like a happy ending. There are some movies that are excellent but the endings are so dark and you leave the movie feeling REALLY down. It's like movies like Seven, American Beauty, The Descent, Pan's Labrynth, etc. etc. etc. - they were all great movies but really depressing endings (of course you could interpret a couple of them as sad and happy endings). Anyway, even when people did die in movies back then, they still kind of left you with a little hope, but usually it was happy. Look at the old (SPOILER FOR WUTHERING HEIGHTS) Wuthering Heights, even though the main characters die (I hope this isn't a spoiler for some people since it's such a Classic) but at least their ghosts are reunited at the end and you know that they will be at their castle forever on the moors...sigh...To Kill a Mockingbird, even though they did have a very sad death scene in it (it was there for a purpose so people could see the injustice of bigotry and racism) but it still had a very happy ending. I have to say that I do miss that. Okay, I could go on and on and on, I know there are still movies out there with happy endings, like When Harry Met Sally, Kung Fu Hustle, but it's mostly the CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED movies that have the sad, depressing endings. Okay I could just keep going so I'll shut up now. :0)
]]>Fri, 25 May 2007 06:02:29 GMTdivinemsjunebugFRESH5/25/2007 2:02:29 AMYeah, I know I am very corny at times but I do like a happy ending. There are some movies that are excellent but the endings are so dark and you leave the movie feeling REALLY down. It&#39;s like movies like Seven, American Beauty, The Descent, Pan&#39;s Labrynth, etc. etc. etc. - they were all great movies but really depressing endings (of course you could interpret a couple of them as sad and happy endings). Anyway, even when people did die in movies back then, they still kind of left you with a little hope, but usually it was happy. Look at the old (SPOILER FOR WUTHERING HEIGHTS) Wuthering Heights, even though the main characters die (I hope this isn&#39;t a spoiler for some people since it&#39;s such a Classic) but at least their ghosts are reunited at the end and you know that they will be at their castle forever on the moors...sigh...To Kill a Mockingbird, even though they did have a very sad death scene in it (it was there for a purpose so people could see the injustice of bigotry and racism) but it still had a very happy ending. I have to say that I do miss that. Okay, I could go on and on and on, I know there are still movies out there with happy endings, like When Harry Met Sally, Kung Fu Hustle, but it&#39;s mostly the CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED movies that have the sad, depressing endings. Okay I could just keep going so I&#39;ll shut up now. :0) http://www.spout.com/blogs/divinemsjunebug/archive/2007/4/22/7393.aspx Post By: divinemsjunebug
Post To: divinemsjunebug Blog
Post Date: 4/22/2007 2:23:24 AM
Body: A wonderful Classic Sappy Love Story. I love this old movie, it really doesn't follow the book very closely but it's a great movie. It's a movie about Pride and Greed and Depression and Loathing - but in the end how love survives even death.
]]>Sun, 22 Apr 2007 06:23:24 GMTdivinemsjunebugdivinemsjunebug Blog4/22/2007 2:23:24 AMA wonderful Classic Sappy Love Story. I love this old movie, it really doesn&#39;t follow the book very closely but it&#39;s a great movie. It&#39;s a movie about Pride and Greed and Depression and Loathing - but in the end how love survives even death. http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/Great/MemberTagFilms.aspxGreat
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