Brideshead Revisited - Charles has lunch with Sebastian

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[CaptainGrimes1]

Film wasn't that bad old boy

[TheBorzoilover]

All of the actors and actresses in this series were brilliant, and then there was Antony Andrews,he was beyond brilliant.

[perkiomenville]

These guys are undergrads at college? Where's the beer keg? Where's the pizza boxes? C'mon this doesn't seem like a realistic portrait of college life?

[VegaValentino]

Antony looks like the poet Brian Howard!!!! and Sebastian like Lord alfred "bosie" Douglas!

[Wadj1]

Theirs was a delightful and sweet affair. I adored them :o)

[holmsatlarge]

 I Like the reference to Grace Darling.

[vudu8ball]

These people knew how to live!!!  Even the rich in this country (USA) are vulgar barbarians in comparison. A lunch at any Ivy leg school these days would probably consist of delivery pizza and jagermiester shots.

[palejewel676]

This is what "Gossip Girl" is going for, but only occasionally recalled in the First Season.

[MultiSigrun]

indeed a pick up line,what charmer. but did you know that jeremy irons was suppose to be sebastian, it would match the book better. the book tell describes how much the look alike both ways... and the english mummy, and i love how much he cares for sebastian without the whole sex thing..

[MultiSigrun]

What a pick up line...giggle

[suzycreamcheesez]

Thank God. Someone to take my mind off Jack and Ennis for awhile.

[suzycreamcheesez]

What is a "Footer"?

[holmsatlarge]

@suzycreamcheesez Footer=football=soccer.As if Antoine would indulge in such things.

[suzycreamcheesez]

@holmsatlarge thanks!

[dstewart28]

You know what I had always like about this series and other period pieces, particularly the ones portraying this particular period? It's because the men in those ages knew about and had honour and his honour as all that a man had, what does he have now nothing his a dishonourable droog now. since a kid I always felt like I was a gentleman stuck in the wrong place or something. :)

[weltonreds]

Someone, I don't recall whom ....once claimed each frame was a Rembrandt and no less a masterpiece when compared to anything produced by the brush and placed on a canvas........I'm inclined to agree, like all great art it is timeless and perfect and as such it only revels it's essence over time. Not unlike alcohol coursing through the blood stream, the more ones sense succumb to it's effect the greater it's influence.

[michaeljordan136]

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Brideshead Revisited - Charles has lunch with Sebastian

[xsoireg]

Oh the good memories of life

[perkiomenville]

man, my dorm parties were nothing like this. we had corn chips instead of plovers egg. a keg instead of champagne. blue jeans, backwards turned baseball caps and t-shirts instead of bespoke suits and nearby toilet just in case someone had too much to drink. and nobody lisped either.

[andreaandrewmilne]

"My affair with the Duchess of Vincennes was on an altogether higher plain than any of you hobbledehoys can conceive. Do you know what it was cemented our love? We used the same coloured varnish for our toenails."

Why haven't I watched this series before? Tut, tut. Too much distracting Youtube :-)

Lovely English Oxfordian 20s wit, from a post-war perspective, that is.

Regards and ♥, andrea

[greatbookie]

This clip illustrates the difference between dealing with acquaintances who are homosexuals from those who are merely English.

[thinazzabird]

fans of Waugh are fans of his close friend Mitford, drop by channel thinazzabird to hear readings of Nancy Mitford's HIGHLAND FLING and observe other uploads danka

[riseuplight]

such vivid characters..

[GoldenChimes]

You misunderstand eyeboan - no about RCatholicism - but about England.

[TrenchTownLTD]

i shall sh-sh- shimmy down your burrow and chivy you out like an old st-st-stout

[suzycreamcheesez]

@TrenchTownLTD "stoat"

[rjberry]

more like et in arcadia eggo

[selfidentity1]

interesting how there are no more people like this in the UK, now all cambridge students scavenge in the rubbish for food and spit on each other's faces with groans! very creepy social changes...

[jw5255]

What? What a ludicrous and imbecilic comment. I'm not sure it even makes sense- more the product of some psychotic dream. What do you mean- spit in faces? Very many Cambridge students- from all parts of the world I must add- lead lifestyles quite comparable to those portrayed. A student.

[Dragonrdh]

The portrayal of Anthony is so true to the book- especially the 'large saucy eyes'.

[ArtOfMe021]

I'm almost finished with the book now and I love it. I'm surprised at how well this adaptation captures the feel of this moment. What a fabulous Sebastian! It's nice to see Charles outside the perspective of his own head, too.

[skylur44]

"He was magically beautiful, with the epicene quality which in extreme youth sings aloud for love and withers at the first cold wind."

[beardo373]

Though I know I ought to be disgusted by the vanity of this society, Sebastian is an intoxicating character. "Please don't wake me up....hello." What a pickup line!

[L3ft2D13]

omg I never heard them talk b4 weird but cool

[dlbarch]

The Anthony Blanche character is a marvelously entertaining creature, but let's not forget that Waugh quite clearly meant him to be thoroughly loathsome. He is deliciously flamboyant, but equally despicable, as is his later betrayal of Sebastian's friendship.

[penpan123]

shup

[ottoline1]

Although actually, if it were a genuinely negative portrayal, no doubt Anthony's fate would be suicide of some other such unhappiness, as was the traditional route of gay men in (publishable) literature of the time. As it is, he is given space to express his sexuality in a positive way, so really it's a satire. but not a cruel one.

[holmsatlarge]

@dlbarch Betrayal?He was warming Charles of the danger of close contact to the Flytes.

[leparadisartificiel]

Love it! Does anyone know what it is Anthony Blanche is reciting?

[motherofpearl13]

Anthony's reciting "The Waste Land" by T. S. Eliot.

[ticfortea]

@motherofpearl13

or at least some of it - reciting the whole thing would fill two full episodes !

[wisesatyr72]

in a perfect gay english society

[wisesatyr72]

jeremy iron is smashing

[hippohipster1146]

Blanch, or whatever, sounds like the caterpillar from Alice in Wonderland

[velvetcat]

i love this series and all of the characters in it, particularly antony blanche (squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee) and sebastian

[ohmygod851]

Reading this book (and seeing the series) was one of greatest turning points in my life. I dread to think where I'd be now if I never had. I love it more than anything else, ever.

But what did you all think of the new film?

[motherofpearl13]

The book/series was a turning point in my life, too. I saw the series when I was thirteen and I've been completely obsessed ever since, so I know how you feel. The film was so unbelievably terrible that just thinking about it makes me shudder...

[martijnvanheeringen]

@ohmygod851 Definitely the knockout scene of the knockout series of all time. I though the movie was not that bad, if you consider the effort of having to bring it all down to 2 hours or so instead off 11 which this series got. Obviously, the movie never got the same depth, the sense of romantic yearning and loss that this series had. And the movie didnt have these actors (let alone Laurence Olivier). The best tv ever.

[JaneEva]

The sound on this is awesome, thank you. So many Youtube videos you have to strain to hear. Well done!

[belzondium]

"My dear. I should like to stick you full of barbed arrows, like a pincushion".

[JohnChgo]

Clearly a reference to the fate of SAINT Sebastian......in a way, Brideshead's Sebastian was also a martyr for his religion......

[JohnChgo]

....."My dear, I should like to stick you full of barbed arrows, like a pincushion...."

[Gabbrany]

"My pppreposterous tutor, for ffffooter"

[phantomgooseberry]

3:40 Is Charles a teeny bit jealous?

[anniemihn]

Had Lord Alfred Douglas been half as sweet as Sebastian, Oscar Wild wouldn´t have end up the way he did. Anthony Andrews was born to play this part. Just brilliant.

[skylur44]

THE finest series ever produced for television, LOVE Nickolas Grace. "One two three; down the little red lane they go, and HOW the students stare!"

[teflonmagnet]

...and cheapy2006 watching them all with pants around ankles.

[thekingdomofillusion]

A perfectly delightful sequence. This era has long passed for many of us but the postmodern movement has done it quite a favor; the classic cable knit crew can still be found at any Ralph Lauren store, the classic Anthony Blanche archetype still lurks amongst the elite groups of the world (I've encountered many Blanche wanna-be's in my undergraduate days, especially hailing from Manhattan's wealthier nooks) and the Ryder archetype is now syndicated without mercy to the common folk: O.C. & G.G.

[tinyblulites]

Anthony Andrews portrays Sebastian perfectly, his charm and coquettishness are irresistible.

I am sorry to say this, but think this is still better than the recent movie, Lady Marchmain (played by Emma Thompson?), by what I have seen I think she plays the part with too much of a prevalent "English" attitude, she's too "Anglican."

Lady Marchmain was supposedly a quietly, manipulative, schemeing catholic lady who was an iron first in a valvet glove...

Thank God for this series!

[tinyblulites]

or even a velvet glove!

:D

God Bless Evelyn Waugh, he is my favourite author.

[Taskat]

Oh, of course it's better. How could they direct this as a film about homosexuality? If anything, I would only call those subtle hints of sexuality, in the novel, quirks of the time. They give Anthony character, and provide a different angle to Sebastian, although it's nothing like how the movie would have it.

[stanthology]

Waugh describes A.Blanche in the book.The dialogue in this film is almost right out of the book.This is really wonderful stuff. I love A. Blanche's character. Nickolas Grace IS A.Blanche ...Perfect...read the book ,regarding this and the other Blanche scenes. It's just perfect...unique .The world would be a lesser place without these characters and this book...

[stanthology]

anthony blanche

[bibliophilechick]

I love this sequence from the miniseries. I used to watch this part (pretty much exactly) over and over again.

Also, that look of utter enchantment which comes over Charles'/Jeremy Irons' face as he and Sebastian discuss going to the Botanical Gardens is such a lovely little moment. I love it.

[briefbrief]

nicholas grace was perfect as anthony blanch

[welshdevondragon]

I'm in love with the book I HAVE TO see all of this! It looks absolutely spot on which never happens with books I love on the screen! Thank You!

[LONDONER01]

I found the relationship between Sebastian and Charles more emotional than the one between Charles and Julia.

[Appypollylodgies]

@LONDONER01 so do we all I think =) Personally i was anxiously waiting his return throughout the series, in vain it seemed.

[hotwok19]

Brilliant though Anthony Andrews was as he descended into chronic alcoholism, for my money the finest piece of acting in BR was Nicholas Grace playing Anthony Blanche. Though playing a totally unsavoury rampant homosexual, he managed to make him almost likable.

[newmark401]

I don't find Anthony Blanche unsavoury, totally or otherwise, at all and I'm not so sure that he was "rampant", whatever that means. If he was a real person, as opposed to a character in a book, he would probably not give a damn whether people found him likeable or not.

[hotwok19]

By "rampant", i mean predatory, active or on the lookout, so to speak. By the way, i have no personal dislike of queers. One of my heroes is Alan Turing, who was largely responsible for cracking the code of the German ENIGMA machine during WW2. He also foresaw the coming of the computer age, which sadly he never lived to see. He committed suicide after being hounded by the police the heinous crime of preferring sex with men instead of women. This message is, to some degree, a legacy of him.

[elizzievb]

Yes, one can tell you have no dislike of gay men just by the way you call them "queers"....and your comment reminds me of the people who say "I'm not a bigot - some of my best friends are black". Yikes.... =-[

[hotwok19]

In my comments on Nicholas Grace playing homosexual Anthony Blanche, i never actually used the word "queer", but only expressed my admiration of Grace's stupendous acting playing an intellectual queen.

[sebastianrer]

A Fop?

[eyeboan]

Keep the politically correct stuff out of the discussion. It (rightly) didnt exist in the era of this story. Waugh was a Catholic who loved people, no matter what their preferences, but he would not have condoned genital homosexual activity. Just enjoy the film and read no more into it than what you see.

[julianc007]

Anthony Blanche....best character ever!!

[dadfkl1]

So you think that 'Brideshead' is a vulgar novel? Buy yourself a dictionary.

How can you say that that the TV series 'redeemed...the book' when so much of the book is portrayed word-for-word, scene-by-scene in the TV series?

[dlbarch]

Absolutely. Waugh only wrote one vulgar novel, but Brideshead Revisited was it. HOWEVER, the series was brilliant, and it redeemed an otherwise unreadable book. This scene is one reason why.

[welshdevondragon]

How was it vulgar? I don't know anyone who does not like/love it and am genuinely curious.

[endrrahene]

I couldn't care less about the reputation it has or it doesn't have. I have found Henry James' novels to be prurient in the way you desribe. Brideshead is probably the last in a line of great works written about the strong bond that develops between two heterosexual men, a bond that stopped getting attention only when homophobia started its reign of terror. And I speak as a woman. I wish there were fewer books and movies on romance and more on friendship.

[lizclegg]

This TV series was wonderful. And it was so much better than the mediocre Evelyn Waugh novel.

[glenngould99]

wtf?

[lizclegg]

For me personally the novel just doesn't work. In particular, and most importantly, Julia's reconversion on the death of her father and the way in which she chooses the faith given to her over Charles. But I found the TV series totally convincing.

[HooksGambit]

madness!

[newmark401]

Sometimes I can't help coming here. Then again, as someone once said of Shakespeare, one keeps returning to the classics again and again.

[MrPogle]

Loved Anthony Andrews, too! Both such incredible actors--such believable performances and one of the most beautiful portrayals of friendship ever filmed.

[patsamm]

jeremy is still the best!!!!..thank you!!

[littleladybird2112]

Love watching Jeremy!

Thanks