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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I enjoyed the movie OP to answer your question. Steamy + fun to watch. [b]DCUM will take the fun out of anything. [/b]The filmmakers were quite clear this movie was not a direct adaptation from the book which is over 150 years old.[/quote]

Understatement of the decade.[/quote]

I haven’t seen the movie but I think the posters are saying it’s a real missed opportunity to make a hot interracial relationship that would be more true to the forbidden love nature of the book.
But maybe the filmmakers were a little uncomfortable making healthiff who is sort of a bad guy or at least morally ambiguous the sole POC.

I read the book dozens of times as a teen but need to reread it as an adult.

This is sort of beside the point but I listened to an interesting podcast about Elizabethan England saying there were actually a lot of people pf North African descent — via the moors in Spain and interactions with Spain — in England and most converted and intermarried so there are actually a lot of Brit’s with African ancestry.  They did a whole study of 17tj century parish records.

I think when I read it as a teen I didn’t know what lascar meant and assumed he was like a “black Irish” kid speaking Irish (gibberish).  But re-reading. an African or Indian kid makes more sense—or likely mixed race with white father and African or Asian mother, which I’m sure tjere were tons of.  The 2013 movie Belle is a true story of a late 18th century British woman whose mother was an African slave and father was a British sea captain — a great movie and a story that definitely would have been known to Bronre since it was a big part of the British abolition movement.  I think it’s likely she intended heathcliff as a similar character — a child of a woman of color and a white British father who was adopted by a friend or relation of the father.

There are a ton of mixed race British actors so I don’t feel like it would have been that hard for them to find someone. [/quote]

The Bronte sisters bring up mixed ancestry characters a lot in their books. Bertha Mason, Mr. Rochester's wife was Jamaican and creole.[/quote]

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