Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights
#0Wuthering Heights
Posted: 12/10/03 at 2:15am
Anybody catch this new version on MTV in September..was it anygood?
kev
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#1re: Wuthering Heights
Posted: 12/10/03 at 10:03am
If it was on MTV, then I definitely missed it.
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#2re: re: Wuthering Heights
Posted: 12/10/03 at 8:28pmwuthering heights was on mtv? i definately missed that.
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#3re: re: re: Wuthering Heights
Posted: 12/11/03 at 1:47amDon't worry, you didn't miss "Wuthering Heights" at all. All it shared with the original was the title.
#4re: re: re: re: Wuthering Heights
Posted: 12/11/03 at 6:38amI remember reading an article about it, but remembering the disaster that was "Carmen: A Hip-Hopera," I decided not to watch.
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#5re: Wuthering Heights
Posted: 12/11/03 at 5:21pmi watched it because we're reading it in school right now. it wasn't terrible but it doesn't really follow the book very well
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#6re: re: Wuthering Heights
Posted: 12/11/03 at 5:24pmWUTHERING HEIGHTS is my all-time favorite novel. In fact, it led me to major in Victorian Literature as an undergrad. However no film or stage adaptation comes close to capturing the scope of the plot or the richness of Emily Bronte's prose.
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Updated On: 12/11/03 at 05:24 PM
#7re: re: re: Wuthering Heights
Posted: 12/11/03 at 9:00pmIt's my favorite novel as well....thus, the name I chose for this board. Hard to believe Emily Bronte only wrote one novel. Her poetry is wonderful as well.
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#8re: re: re: re: Wuthering Heights
Posted: 12/12/03 at 11:07am
Jim Steinman MTV musical but the score really didn't sound much like Steinman, unless you think of his pre-Meat Loaf/Bonnie Tyler days - back when he was writing musicals for Joe Papp.
Mini-CD soundtrack available from Footlight on MTV's own label.
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#9re: re: re: re: re: Wuthering Heights
Posted: 12/12/03 at 6:27pmI think teenagers might have liked it, but it left me, if not cold, luke warm. Heath (Heathcliff isn't a cool name) was a guitar playing rocker, who becomes a star. The ending was appropriately sad, but most of it was forgettable.
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