a friend of mine turned me into a tom hardy minion. ok the guy is great to look at and i like his acting. i haven't read literature in a long time, and not really the bronte sisters fan. but god, i was shocked when i saw this. not because it was not good, but i don't expect the melodrama to be of hindi movie proportions. tom hardy as heathcliff bowled his eyes out upon finding out that the his lover died. cathy, his married lover went out of her mind when heathcliff married someone else to spite her. it ended badly for all of them since both cathy and heathcliff could not let go of each other and determined to burn everyone who got in their way.
tom hardy brings a raw animal passion and the bad boy mystery to heathcliff, which according to bronte's enthusiasts is what the book portrayed heathcliff as. at times i find hardy odd in the movie, he is too modern and lacked the sensitivity of 19th gentlemen personified by actors like alan rickman and ralph feinnes. i recalled feinnes in onegin (1999) - he is heartless hiding behind the gentleman facade who destroyed anyone who came into contact with him - feinnes played the character with malicious gentlemanly air. cathy played by charlotte riley is equally powerful in her desire for heathcliff.
i may not enjoy the story that much given my aversion for emotional theatrics like that, but i like the acting, not conventional to period dramas, but anything different is a good change.
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