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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Two things I’ve read about the movie turned me off from seeing it.

1. The recent interview where the director explained why she made Heathcliff white. She removed race as a theme entirely because that’s how she saw him when she read it as a teenager? Rolled my eyes so hard.

2. Walls made of skin? Eww. Not my thing.[/quote]

Of course she pictured him as white, because she is white. White people always center themselves. Kind of like how in most churches Jesus is blond and blue eyed.  :roll: [/quote]

Bless your heart.  Not enough eye rolls for you.
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It's just true. DCUM is really showing its racist ass today, between this thread and the one where everyone is vehemently refuting the idea of microaggressions. [/quote]

Please just stop trying to turn everything into a racist “microaggression.”  Re: this movie, there is no evidence that Heathcliff was actually another race, just that he was dark and “gypsy-like.”  That is widely open to interpretation, as several posters have already explained in detail.  And again, this a FICTIONAL character, unlike those in Hamilton who were indisputably white people but were cast as POC.  Funny how that doesn’t outrage you.

Perhaps someone should make a film or show about Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, et al but cast them with white people.  I’d just love to see your indignation over that.[/quote]

You need some media literacy.  The whole point of Hamilton was having BIPOCs play founding fathers. There was nothing going on with casting white Heathcliff except institutionalized racism, so status quo.

There was an afro heathcliff 15 years ago:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/nov/13/how-heathcliff-got-a-racelift
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"Media literacy"?  You need some *actual* literacy - as in, read the book.  And from your own link:

"In her novel, Brontë leaves Heathcliff's precise ethnicity open to debate, variously describing him as "a Lascar" and a "dark-skinned gipsy in aspect", which only adds to the confusion. Should he be black? White? Roma? Indian? Couldn't they have just cast Colin Firth?"

And from the comments section:

"In the book, Heathcliffe was described as a ragged street Arab found running wild on the streets of Liverpool. 'Street Arab' is simply a figure of speech, and means any kid pursuing a nomadic existence. It doesn't literally mean Arab, or Gypsy. Heathcliff could have been any ethnicity - but he was never described as black...!!!"

And as for the "afro Heathcliff" (your words), that's just another interpretation.  That director chose to make his Heathcliff black.  Emerald Fennell chose to make hers white.  You'll just have to get over it.[/quote]

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