How screenplay writers straighten out these complexities-or don't-determines to a large degree their success or failure. Emily BrontГ«'s storyline is hopelessly convoluted, with multiply nested narrators and a multiple-generation plot that turns in upon itself. The transfer of Emily BrontГ«'s wildly passionate novel Wuthering Heights to large and small screens follows this pattern to some degree.Д«ut classic British novel presents would-be adapters a hurdle that sends them off in different directions. In much more recent times you may also get modernized or updated versions of the stories, sometimes even skipping any overt references to the original work-like Jane Austen plots placed in American high schools or London businesses. Often these unctuously carry the original author's name in the film title: MaryДracula, William Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice-as if to say, 'Forget what came before, here's the authentic work as the author intended', although the boast is seldom fully justified. Years later they are redone in grittier styles, purporting to be more faithful Hollywood, classic novels are adapted for grandiose entertainments that drastically compress or change the stories, characters and themes. Wuthering Heights (1939): Director William Wyler writers Charles MacArthur, Ben Hecht, John Huston featuring Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon, David Niven, Geraldine Fitzgerald Wuthering HeightsДЎ939, 1992, 2009 Straightening out a literary classic Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon are tragic lovers Heathcliffe and Catherine in 1939's Wuthering Heights.

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