'Wuthering Heights' & 'Wuthering Heights'

I've not read a book and the film version with such varying versions.

Basically, the film ends with Catherine dying. The same scene is the first third of the actual book.

I guess once the producers get the rights to do a film version they're at liberty to do pretty much whatever they please with it. No wonder J.D. Salinger didn't want to deal with movie rights.

It is shocking that director William Wyler read Emily Bronte's novel and decided to gut it, do about 1/3 of the total book and leave out a large, large chunk out of the film.

Developing the film's screenplay like they did and leaving out a large chunk of the book, it rewrites the characters quite a bit.

In the film, Catherine comes off like a total bitch going from Heathcliff to Linton and then never really giving up Heathcliff. I mean, give yourself to someone or no one.

In the book, with another 2/3 of the story in place, you learn what a sadistic piece of shit. In the film, he's a sympathetic character. In the book, he's an asshole and Catherine couldn't have played a smaller role.