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How the 'Wuthering Heights' Trailers Are Bringing Eroticism Back to the Big Screen

In an era of cautious cinema, where on-screen intimacy is often sidelined or poo-pooed by younger generations, director Emerald Fennell is making a loud statement: passion belongs on the big screen. The full-length trailer for her adaptation of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights confirms what the first snippets suggested—this is an aggressively provocative, unapologetically erotic reinterpretation of "the greatest love story of all time."Let's dive in. The Sexy Wuthering Heights Trailer The trailer trades typical English literature adaptations for something far more raw and hot. It throws us directly into the obsession that consumes Margot Robbie’s Catherine and Jacob Elordi’s Heathcliff. And it gets us all hot under the collar for where their romance will take us. The glimpses we get are not subtle: several clips show the lovers entangled in intense moments of "kissing and crying in the rain." This is a relationship driven by self-destruction and underscored by the film's visually bold style. Fennell injected dark sexual tension into Saltburn and wielded the weapon of female rage in Promising Young Woman, and now she is reinventing stuffy literature into something much more erotic and modern. Maybe leave the kids at home for this one. "So Kiss Me, And Let Us Both Be Damned"The trailer’s most revealing moment comes in its final line, delivered by Elordi’s Heathcliff: “So kiss me, and let us both be damned.” This line perfectly encapsulates the illicit nature of their bond, which is precisely the kind of uncompromising passion that Hollywood has often shied away from.With...

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Published By: NoFilmSchool - Friday, 14 November

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