Wuthering Heights and a Werewolf...and a Zombie too by Ralph S. King

'Ralph Fiennes makes a demonic Heathcliff, his startlingly blue eyes the only concession to a matinee audience. The Independent wrote favorably of the film, and notes the fidelity of the movie to the dark sensuality and cruel side of Emily Bronte's character Heathcliff: Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 25% based on 12 reviews, with an average rating of 4.20 out of 10. The film received mostly negative reviews from film critics. American director Steven Spielberg claimed he liked Fiennes for Goeth because of his 'dark sexuality.' The role of Heathcliff opened up doors for Ralph Fiennes to play Amon Goeth in Schindler's List. The film stars Ralph Fiennes as the tortured Heathcliff and Juliette Binoche as the free-spirited Catherine Earnshaw, in a precursor to their later, successful collaboration on The English Patient. Paramount Pictures was forced to use the author's name in the title of the film as Samuel Goldwyn Studio (later sold to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) owned the rights to the simple title Wuthering Heights due to the copyright on their 1939 film version of the novel. Juliette Binoche as Catherine Earnshaw and Catherine Linton.Theirs is the happy romantic ending that Heathcliff and Catherine are denied, except after death, walking as ghosts together on the moors. The story then follows how her daughter with Linton, and his son with Linton's sister – whom Heathcliff tricks into marrying him and then treats with great cruelty – fall in love. Ultimately Catherine dies and a devastated Heathcliff begs her to haunt him as a ghost.

Heathcliff and Catherine's love is painted in intense Romantic tones in contrast to the superficial artifice and shallow feeling of high society as represented by the Lintons. The story tracks the story of Heathcliff's and Catherine's fierce love and Heathcliff's rage, pain, jealousy and vengeance that he pitilessly enacts on the man that gets in the way of his marrying her, Edgar Linton. When her father dies, Catherine's biological brother, jealous that Heathcliff was their father's favorite, treats Heathcliff as a servant and has him beaten. The story is that of the fierce passionate love between the moor-loving, wild girl Catherine Earnshaw and the poor equally wild spirit her father takes in to be raised as her brother, Heathcliff. This particular film is notable for including the oft-omitted second generation story of the children of Cathy, Hindley and Heathcliff. Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights is a 1992 feature film adaptation of Emily Brontë's 1847 novel Wuthering Heights directed by Peter Kosminsky.

Wuthering Heights and a Werewolf...and a Zombie too by Ralph S. King