Why I'm obsessed with the Brontës + Interviewing the Director of Emily
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- In which I interview Franes O'Connor, Director and Screenwriter of Emily (featuring Emma Mackey) and gush about why I am fascinated by the Brontë sisters and Wuthering Heights! Plus a few bits from my trip to Haworth and some recommended further reading on the Brontës.
This video does not contain a paid sponsorship, but I was given the opportunity to see the film early and attend the Emily press junket to interview Frances O'Connor.
0:00 Why I love the Brontës
5:53 Frances O'Connor Interview
12:05 Film thoughts & recommended reading
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Not quite a video response to Leena Norms' video about (not liking) Wuthering Heights, but more of an invitation to explore the lives of the Brontë sisters! I got to interview the Director and Screenwriter of the new Emily film and ask some of my burning questions. Can't wait to hear what you think of the film (it's out tomorrow on the 14th) and keep an eye out for more Brontë content soon. P.s. this video contains no spoilers for the film, besides what you can already see in the trailer. Enjoy!
If you love the Brontës, I highly recommend the PBS Masterpiece miniseries To Walk Invisible, which chronicles the siblings' journeys in becoming writers.
I’m rewatching it at the moment! It’s absolutely wonderful.
@@booksandquills Oh, great! Yes, it's another great immersive watch.
It was what introduced me to Emily’s wonderful poetry, and about which I will be giving a talk to my local U3A next year. I was invited to read her poetry to the Brussels Bronte Group, but unfortunately it clashed with another engagement. I have recorded a number of her poems.
Ok I am buzzed to see Emily now!
I just read "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" at it was my favorite!
Last year I participated in the online Sundays with Jane Eyre class through the Rosenbach Museum, and ever since, I've been ready for more Bronte! I read Wuthering Heights when I was very young, so it's definitely time to revisit as an adult.
I remember Wuthering Heights being put on our booklist one school summer break. And I thought we had to read it for school, so I bought the book and tried to read it. I read the first chapter and couldn't get into it, and abandoned it. It wasn't on our syllabus, so I never touched the book again...till a few years later during a semester break in my first year of college. I made it through the whole book in about 3 days. And fell in love with it. It was also my first time reading/experiencing a story where the antagonist was the focal point/ where the "protagonists" weren't inherently likeable "good" people. It was an eye opener.
Plus I read it during the rainy season, so it kind of added to the atmosphere of the supernatural and gothic elements of the book.
I'm watching Emily today at the Sitges Film Festival ❤️ Will watch the interview after!
Great interview. Wuthering heights is my all time favorite book, too.
I saw a preview of Emily (so cool you did the interview!) and I found it so dark and gothic but very immersive and it really drew me in.
I read Wuthering Heights when I was about 12 and I think it went over my head, so I definitely want to read it again soon.
PS: So you're name is Sanne and you're Dutch. Well, pleased to meet you! I looked in your channel's description section. All right, then, I'll be hearing from you, Phillip!
Loved hearing your perspective on wuthering heights and emily Bronté, I would be most interested to see a video by you about your visit to Thornton and what you thought of it.
Ps: I love your hair (long) like this :)
Magnificent film! Excellent video- enjoyed your interview with the director. Thank you.
Love Emma Mackey
You know i feel the same as you do, i got into them around maybe 2 years ago(sorry for my english im no native speaker) and i actually saw to walk invisible before reading any of their novels, and that movie sort of shaped the way i see them. I feel so passionate bout them because its like, they are a family so you have 4 different personalities, and 7 novels, different writing skills, and the juvenillia, and their poetry, and their lives are so deeply interesting and since i knew them i never stopped reading about them and you always learn something new, or reread the novels and see things in a different light. I never got the opportunity to visit haworth but, its my life's dream. And im soo excited to watch this film, although i think im probably more of a 'bronte purist' and for me reality beats fiction. Loved your video!
My all time favourite book ❤
I just paused this to order the recommended reading lol I’m so excited for this movie!!
Wuthering Heights is one of my favourites though it took me about 4 months to complete.I just loved the character of Heathcliff. One of Emily's magic is to make the readers love the character of Heathcliff despite his cruelty and dark personality.
I can’t wait to see the movie! And maybe reread Wuthering Heights? So far it’s my least favorite of the Bronte books, but I read it last about 10 years ago, so maybe I would feel differently now. The tenant of wildfell hall is one of my favorites, I think you would love it! ✨
Yes please to a video on other books I can read about the Brontë sisters! I am looking into writing my BA thesis on one of the sisters, so that would be truly helpful to get some inspiration! :D
Was it the Joanne Froggatt read audio book? Because I just listened to that and it was SO GOOD and changed Wuthering Heights from a book I’d tried to read and abandoned to one of my favorite books of all time.
I shared about this under Leena’s video too, but for my the dialect was intimidating and prevented a good first read. Now I can go back to the book and really get into it. Anyways, settling in for the rest of the video
I’m pretty sure it was! Yes it helps so much with the dialect.
I think I discovered Wuthering Heights maybe a bit earlier than most people.
When I was about 10 years old our teacher made us read a book called "Kamo: L'Agence Babel", by Daniel Pennac, in which book-title protagonist Kamo, is forced into a correspondence with an english-speaking girl in order to improve his english. Eventually he falls in love with said girl, and it is revealed that she never existed: she was Catherine Earnshaw, the second one. I was a bit curious and there was a comic adaptation of the story in my class, and I read the whole thing whithin the day.
I absolutely adored this version, then the book when I finally read it, I now own three different french translations (which all have very different titles, the first one, the oldest french translation, is just "Un Amant", which is so off the mark it's kind of funny, then "Wuthering Heights" which just didn't translate the names of the places, and finally "Les Hauts de Hurlevent", which is my most recent version)
Thank you!!
I read Jane Eyre first when I was 12-13yo & it instantly became my favorite. Then I read Wuthering Heights & it was different. It made me uncomfortable but therein lies Emily’s genius. Art is supposed to evoke emotions. Loved the film & its interpretation of what may have been. I appreciate all 3 sisters writing but Emily Brontë is now my fave.
PS: Briefly, I've been studying the Bronte sisters on my own off and on for years. I just found and watched some documentaries on Emily Bronte and found out about the Belgian Essays and the film Emily that was just out last year. I got to understand that Emily Bronte and I are a lot alike more than her other two sisters. I haven't seen the movie get but I can tell that Frances O'Connor must share a kind of kindredness with Emily too. I really need to talk about all of this to be able to understand myself better through Emily Bronte. It's very necessary for me. So maybe I can write to you first and Frances O'Connor later but send her this comment too. Thanks, Phillip!
Hi Phillip, thanks for your comment, but the way you're reaching out for contact in a very personal way with multiple messages isn't quite appropriate as we don't know each other, so I won't be able to answer your comments and emails.
@@booksandquills I'm very sorry. I was afraid of then. That's too bad. I've done it before. I apologize for my carelessness. I'm in a very bad spot. My regards, Phillip!
@@phillipjones8099 Hope you'll be doing better soon and I appreciate your response! Best - Sanne
Best biopic I saw about the brontes was - To Walk Invisible: The Brontë Sisters - if you haven't seen it you ought.
I want to be your new best friend!!! As an admirer and lover of the Brontë's, I found this video thoroughly engaging. Do you have a copy of her poetry? It's just another avenue for peering into the person she was. I remember reading (somewhere), as a lot of her poetry deals with the subject matter of death, that she literally faced death every single day as her bedroom looked out over the graveyard. You have to imagine that that would make some sort of impression on a young, creative mind. Definitely delve into Anne's works as they contrast one another and are amazing in their own right. I suppose we can thank poor Branwell for any research she needed to do for "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall". Poor Branwell. Speaking of which, did you know that Daphne du Maurier wrote a book about his life? "The Infernal World of Branwell Brontë". There's also a book about their kingdoms of Angria and Gondal. Happy reading!
I love Jane Eyre but Wuthering Heights is a strange one. It makes a romantic hero out of a wife abuser but somehow it's a compelling story, especially its ghostly touches and I love the 1992 film. I recently watched Emily, and I was with it right up till the end when all the sequence of the know events went a bit bonkers and I could not see why. Emily wrote her novel after Branwel's death in this film, in the few months she had left when she had pneumonia, and the three sisters did not get together around that famous table and write their novels the same time. The way I see it, filling in the gaps and making up a fictious story is done at its best when it fits in with the known facts. I enjoyed the film, but I just could not see what artistic merit there was in changing the sequence of events at the end.
What are the best adaptations of Wuthering Heights? I saw the one with Ralph Fiennes. I thought that one was ok but not great. I plan on seeing the masterpiece theater one with Tom Hardy next. I heard the one with Laurence Olivier is totally different in tone from the book. Are there any other good ones?
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I read Wuthering Heights thinking the haunting would be in more parts. But it's literally just 1 scene and then never again. Soooo why do people say it's about a haunting?
For those of you who are interested in learning more about the Brontes I can't recommend Claire Harman's biography of Charlotte Bronte enough. Obviously the video is about emily, but as the relationship between the sisters was an integral part of their life, it covers emily in quite some detail.
I’ve just ordered this from thrift books. Thanks for the recommendation!
@@AK-kd9cb No problem. It's one of the books she holds up in the video. You're in for a complete treat, one that really humanises the brontes whilst confirming some of the elements of their myth.
PS: I read in your profile that you're a scholar of dystopian and apocalyptic subjects and literature, so, I have something to tell you about a couple of dreams I've had that you would care to read about. But more about them later. So, if you do care to please write back and I'll share them with you. Thanks, Phillip Jones!
It is an interesting take on Emily, but if you know little about the Brontës don't start here; watch "To Walk Invisible", then read a little, then watch this very stylised interpretation that somewhat stretches artistic license. It is a good film, but pure fiction.
Greetings! I must talk to Frances O'Connor about her film Emily and you. I was writing a longer comment but something went wrong. It's very important to me and urgent and vital, so please write back and forward this brief comment to her. That's all I can say for now. Time is of essence. Please reply soon. Thanks so much for your kindness and understanding, Phillip Jones! PS: Do you have a website or email?
I studied Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë for A-level English Literature, I hated it. It was tedious, boring and there was too much analysis and evaluation going on, my entire class hated it but hey each to their own😭.
If you want to know Emily Brontë simply read her poetry. And leave it at that. We in this self-congratulating, self-important modernist triumphalist fog of ours will never fully understand the depth of their souls. Read _Song_ and _Stars_ and _Fall leaves fall_ and _A sudden chasm of ghastly light_ and and and. Read them all over and over. And leave it at that. Please. Then read her soul-mate Emily Dickinson.
You won't KNOW EB from reading her poetry or reading WH. Doesn't matter how many times you read them. She couldn't explain herself while she was with us, and reading her (non) soul-mate ED won't allow you to "KNOW" either one. You'll have a notion about her and the other Emily, and about as valuable as VB's (here).
Many things in life are mysterious, but the gothic and magical elements are figments of the imagination, transmuted undigested bits of potato, or perhaps corpse-tainted drinking water.
@@kevinrussell1144 Thanks for the correction(s). I've always had trouble facing reality.
@@vonBottorff How true. Sometimes a cigar smoking in an Oval Office ash tray is not just a cigar. It's the emotive flight of fancy that soars, far above the stained dress or sordid dissembling.
Blue heather'd hillside
The gritstone grinds at thee and me