What are you watching these days?

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Until treating ailments became professionalized, and for a while solely a men's occupation. Women with healing powers were called witches.

[Front-Ranger]

Yes. Agnes was rumored to be the daughter of a forest witch and she did nothing to dispel the idea. She gathered herbs from the forest and kept a pet hawk. I loved the scenes with the hawk.

[Front-Ranger]

Other movies to put on your watchlist include Wuthering Heights with Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi (who was very convincing as Frankenstein on Netflix). Did anyone see the limited 30th anniversary re-release of Sense and Sensibility? No? Then you'll have another chance next year as it will be showing more widely. The main Brokie connection is that it was directed by Ang Lee who swore, when the film was finished, that he would never again do a film that required working with sheep.

[serious crayons]

Other movies to put on your watchlist include Wuthering Heights with Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi

I'm not sure about this one. Wuthering Heights is one of my favorite books ever, and most movies get it kind of wrong. It's not a love story, at least not in the traditional sense. And in this case, Margot Robbie seems wrong for the role. Loved her in Barbie, of course, and liked her in other roles. But the Catherine Earnshaw character is some years younger and not as sort of blandly beautiful as Margot is (again, not to insult her because basically I like her).

I originally read it after seeing the movie adaptation starring Timothy Dalton (trailer below). It's a little bit love storyish, too, but it's complex and IMO is the best of the many adaptations (including one starring Lawrence Olivier, who seems like a really odd choice).

[Sason]

Other movies to put on your watchlist include Wuthering Heights with Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi (who was very convincing as Frankenstein on Netflix). Did anyone see the limited 30th anniversary re-release of Sense and Sensibility? No? Then you'll have another chance next year as it will be showing more widely. The main Brokie connection is that it was directed by Ang Lee who swore, when the film was finished, that he would never again do a film that required working with sheep.

 

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[Front-Ranger]

Well, that was quite an experience! Thank you, friend. I couldn't make out all the words, so I looked up the lyrics and here they are.

Out on the wily, windy moors
We'd roll and fall in green
You had a temper like my jealousy
Too hot, too greedy
How could you leave me
When I needed to possess you?
I hated you, I loved you, too
Bad dreams in the night
They told me I was going to lose the fight
Leave behind my Wuthering, Wuthering
Wuthering Heights
Heathcliff, it's me, I'm Cathy
I've come home, I'm so cold
Let me in your window
Heathcliff, it's me, I'm Cathy
I've come home, I'm so cold
Let me in your window
Ooh, it gets dark, it gets lonely
On the other side from you
I pine a lot, I find the lot
Falls through without you
I'm coming back love, cruel Heathcliff
My one dream, my only master
Too long I roam in the night
I'm coming back to his side to put it right
I'm coming home to wuthering, wuthering
Wuthering Heights
Heathcliff, it's me, I'm Cathy
I've come home, I'm so cold
Let me in your window
Heathcliff, it's me, I'm Cathy
I've come home, I'm so cold
Let me in your window
Ooh, let me have it
Let me grab your soul away
Ooh, let me have it
Let me grab your soul away
You know it's me, Cathy
Heathcliff, it's me, I'm Cathy
I've come home, I'm so cold
Let me in your window
Heathcliff, it's me, I'm Cathy
I've come home, I'm so cold
Let me in your window
Heathcliff, it's me, I'm Cathy
I've come home, I'm so cold

[Sason]

As usual at this time of year, I give you here the only Xmas song needed, sung by the greatest tenor of all times.
The video is beautiful too.

O helga natt by the incomparable Jussi Bj?rling

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Thanks, Paul and Lee! Kate Bush's version comes closer than the movies to capturing the spirit of the book. In fact, anyone familiar with the book will recognize the repeated window lyrics as a reference to one of the book's earliest scenes, when Mr. Lockwood, a tenant on Heathcliff's property, visits Heathcliff's house (Wuthering Heights), winds up having to stay overnight and in the middle of the night has visions of a woman scratching at the window to be let in. In his sleep he dismisses her as a wicked sprite or something, then in the morning thinks it must have been a tree branch scraping against the glass. He describes his experience to Heathcliff in a way that's supposed to be light and humorous, at his own expense ... but Heathcliff believes it really was Cathy and gets overcome with longing and grief.

Or something like that. It's been at least 30 years or so since I last read it.