I think that I may have read Frankenstein in high school, though honestly, upon seeing Guillermo Del Toro’s rendition, I’m not sure that I did. Upon watching Wuthering Heights (2026), I realized early on that I must have confused it for a variety of other novels set in the period and written in the Gothic genre. So, I came into these films more or less blind to their literary background; that’s probably why I liked them well enough as a viewer, even though I can sense, just as a literarily-minded person, that they are distant from their sources.
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