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I was really annoyed about this adaptation for several reasons.
Firstly, the overacting. This was most likely down to the (ridiculous) directing, as every character during scenes where there's an argument/tension, just seem to shout and scream with veins popping out of their foreheads, in this really OTT manner, which it was never meant to be like in the book. Yes it was very intense but it was never meant to be in such a melodrama kind of fashion like this. Plus, the other adaptations I've seen, from 1970 and 1992, were not like this at all. The acting and portrayal of characters was just how they should be. The portrayal of these characters was just really off.
Something else that really annoyed me was how much of the original dialogue they changed from the original book. Not only that, but the lines the character's had were really stupid, with it being like a children's adaptation the way they added really stupid, simplified, basic, unoriginal lines, that were never in Bronte's story AND were just so unnecessary and stupid, instead of just keeping it in the original, creative, complex but exciting literature theme that Bronte wrote it in.
Oh and those sex scenes, WHAT was the need for that? That was never in the book, and so there was no need to show it, though obviously for the director this was just to add "passion" to it or make it seem more exciting and appeal to a younger generation audience. Not to mention the amount of times Cathy and Heathcliff are busy kissing, making it sexual too. They were never meant to kiss that much in the book as well. It was over done and just excessive. Like stop sexualizing and changing Bronte's works like this.
It just annoyed me, like why change that much and make it that over the top?!
score 2/10
unicornssparkles 27 February 2020
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6-1-2021 02:55:06