![]() Ted's Evaluation - 2 of 3: Has some interesting elements. But the actual story? Go read it instead. With Toland, Cathy defines what we see and how. This film is why Orson Welles wanted him on "Citizen Kane." You need to watch it to see where much of the disembodied ghost-observer comes from. And Toland's lighting and framing are so haunting. The interiors of the house are magnificent in design. When he photographs the heath, we feel the atmosphere as if the mist had emotion. Greg DID stretch cinema in the way we mentioned. But the cinematography is extraordinary, from the very special Greg Toland. It is therefore unsurprising that the subject of death was of major importance to her. It was a direct personal experience, too, in that Emily Brontë lost her mother when she was three and her two eldest sisters before she was seven. The dialog and acting are ordinarily conceived. Death was a common occurrence in Emily Brontë’s world of nineteenth-century Haworth. But you might want to watch this for another reason. Olivier seemed good enough at what he knew (stage acting) but that isn't bendable to great experiences in film. If you want a great film that celebrates, explores, exploits Bronte, you can't escape the reality that you'd have to stretch film the same way Charlotte stretched perspective. They invented ways of observing the soul that hadn't already been mined by Shakespeare. The Brontes created great literature because they invented so much of what it means. ![]()
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