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"Wuthering Heights" -- the Bronte Lehane Scorsese Arnold connection
Classic 19th century gloom and doom tome inspired "Shutter Island," and now inspires "Fish Tank's" Cannes-winning director, too.
Interviewed recently about the books that influenced him when he was writing his gothic pulp novel, Shutter Island, Dennis Lehane cited, among other sources, Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights. With its mix of the insane and the ghostly, that seems just about right, and if Martin Scorsese didn't look at the eerie 1939 William Wyler adaptation when he was prepping the Shutter Island shoot, he… well, he probably did. (He looked at Vertigo, Out of the Past, Laura and lots of other titles.)