A Hundred-Word Film Review--1939 Edition of "Wuthering Heights"

Camylle 2022-03-25 09:01:22

I just wanted to take a look at it, but I couldn't take my eyes off it. Lawrence Oliver's Heathcliff is so infectious. This alone makes other versions unwatchable. David Niven is also much more handsome than in "Murder on the Nile". The movies at that time were obviously stage plays. The lines are so beautiful, and photography is a picture. It was really fun to watch. Maybe it's because these clumsy film techniques now feel particularly sincere, so often old movies, often telling distant fictional stories, make me feel very close to my heart. The trance feeling after watching the movie came again.

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Wuthering Heights quotes

  • Cathy: He seems to take pleasure in being mean and brutal. And yet, he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. And Linton's is as different as frost from fire... Ellen, I AM Heathcliff.

    [thunderbolt]

    Cathy: Everything he's suffered, I've suffered. The little happiness he's ever known, I've had too. Oh, Ellen, if everything in the world died and Heathcliff remained, life would still be full for me.

  • Heathcliff: Why are your eyes always empty? Like Linton's eyes.

    Isabella: They're not empty, if you'd only look deeper. Look at me. I'm pretty. I'm a woman and I love you. You're all of life to me. Let me be a single breath of it for you.