A wonderful and beauty video about the most emotional and magnificent serie i have ever seen. Certainly, what program you used to do the video?Good job, thanks for this video.
While I love all of this vid and its delicate beauty, I want to single out 0:25 to 0:29 for praise. As they close the gate to the garden to the lyric "no happy ever after," I see an allusion to the Fall, the expulsion from Eden, the loss of youth, and innocence, and perfect joy. The novel tells that story: Brideshead is Charles's Eden. This vid is fantastic.
I feel so sorry for Sebastian ! What a life ! He had got everything but did not know how to enjoy it at all .
A lot of Aristocrats around the world too ended up being like him . Even in my country the aristocrasy and thier ancestral property was lost due to excessive drinking !
This is brilliant. Brideshead Revisited is my favourit novel and tv series ever. A. nd Lexicon of Love is one of my very favourite albums. Well done old boy.
I believe was 11 years old when for the fist time, I was attractive to this television series . I was living in Mexico. I always liked Charles & Sebastian.
Charles and Sebastion are lovers .Sebastion is gay .Charles is not..Their sexual relationship is the product of the time.Brought up in all male Boarding Schools,when sexuality awakens leads to homosexual affairs.See the fine movie "IF" for the feel of this pattern.Charles` fascination for Julia is driven in no small part by his love of Sebastion(we recall she is described as almost a twin.)A promise of heterosexual sex with his male lover.A heady combination.
i wanted to thank you for putting scenes of this series together with "all of my heart"... because i wonder if without that i ever would have stumbled over it otherwise! i just managed to get my hands on a copy and now its one of my favourite series.. i am already craving for the book!
you chose the scenes so well.. so absofuckinglutely well fitting to the lovely moments in the song! i was also very surprised you even chose this so short scene of sebastian flipping his hair back. lovely video!!
Up to the 60s the Christians were still persecuting the gays - imprisoment & torture & many died in their cells. Christians today are fighting for the rights to persecute the gays, because the gays are their last target to torment for their sadistic pleasure. The Christians cannot burn witches, genocide the Jews, massacre 'infidels', rape natives and lynch the blacks anymore.
My dear, you forget that all the main characters in this story as well as the author is Christian, including the pansy friend Antoine. Now dont be pipped as there does exist a decent moderation of religion in which healthiness abounds, dear lout
Still an unbelievable work to combine the pathos hope and love embodied by the words of Waugh and the Granada production. In the era it was not about a gay or straight love, it was the closeness that one could have with another which was almost species specifically forbidden... either way, I still find this effort incredibly moving.
Excellent. I do not think the story portrays them as 'lovers', just a profound, intense friendship, He was in awe of him at first, puzzled somewhat, but enjoyed their friendship. I do wish he had stayed with Julia though!!! Good song to put to the clips,thanks for posting
100% - they were not gay - in the story or your mind, it was/is normal for close friends to be very close without sex. But it is a place where few go these days without some embarrassment from the confederacy of twitterers. It is not part of THIS particular story. IMFAO.
Whether just friendship or as lovers, the relationship between Sebastian and Charles is one of the most moving I've seen in literature, and this adaptation brings even more meaning to it. Perfect actors.
they were both gay and lovers?.. really ..well I never.. I just thought charles 'hung around' that place and befriended that Sebastian chap.. okay the odd hug.. but that was just about it..
talk about playing down something! but then agian.. I never really watched the hwole series.. totally atmostphereless and the whole place/house everything had a gloomy feel of deserted.ness. ie. just them and the camera crew(s)..
In answer to Jacero10, we can all have a bit of indulgence during our student days, however Charles went on to earn his own living and serve in WW2. Charles is not a self-indulgent person. All this talk of indulgence smacks of jealousy.
You must be thinking of something else, that doesn't happen in the televised version of "Brideshead Revisited", which is what this is. I haven't seen the film version, so can't comment on it.
Has anyone at all noticed the synchronisity of the line "there's a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow" with the dialogue in the programme? Brilliant!
To read this as a love story between Charles and Sebastian is to completely misunderstand the novel. Their friendship based on debauchery was the decadent low point of the story. The rest of the story is about how their various sorrows and chastenings brought each of the characters back to God. Sebastian to a life of service, Cordelia and Julia the same, Charles to faith in the Lord of the Tabernacle and Sebastian's father on his deathbed. The story's beauty is not decadence, but conversion.
I think you're right, the novel is ultimately about coversion to Catholicism, but I think to disregard the relationship between Charles and Sebastian is a mistake; the very fact that it's Evelyn Waugh writing about undergraduates at Oxford University says it all. Waugh himself commented that Sebastian was the prefigure for Julia. I interpreted their time at Oxford as the time of innocence, Aloysius being the patron saint of youth, and the imagery of all that "the youngest of the martyrs (c)
... here is lain, fair as Sebastian and early as slain". By discarding Aloysius once leaving Oxford, Sebastian is leaving innocence. The chapter entitled "Et in Arcadia Ego" ends the moment Charles decides not to return to Oxford; the university is therefore their Arcadia, and their problems intensify once they leave. Of course, Waugh being a Catholic, did add the element of conversion and that soothes the characters, (c)
Oh how interesting I know of the light blonde man but never realized he was in a film-THANKS for the info-and there is a new movie you say are what we siing here the new one I would think-but yet it looks like it still be from 81 I obviously know nothing of this-Just that 1 man!!! Life is weird like that
Personally, if I didn't know much about "Brideshead Revisited", but wanted to learn more, I'd read the novel first, then buy or rent the mini-series. Both all well worth the effort.
Great collection of scenes! But I noticed some clips that I don't remember seeing on my DVD version (25th anniversary collectors edition). How much did they cut?!
Anthony Andrews was a first love for me: Ivanhoe, Scarlet Pimpinel, this serial, and now he stills having this charming that only great gentelmen have. I love it.
A massive over sight to drop Aloysious to the cutting room floor, his cannon of work is up there with greats , Rupert , Paddington,etc
I raise a glass to you Aloysious and hope to our sweet lord baby jesus you beat your drugs problem,i cant bare see you go the same way as Hammy the hampster.
Oh jeffrojune.That is so sad...and so brave of you.I can only say that somehow he would know that you are and were, a truly wonderful friend.
And please I beg of you goth. See the series with Jeremy and Anthony before you see the film. I can just see by the trailer and by the fact that they have added a sex scene (not in the book)that they will destroy the beauty of it.
Plus the leads look totally uncharismatic unlike Andy and Jezza! Do yourself a favour and see it in it's purest form.
What a fantastic edit. Love the choice of song and how you've taken time to fit the scenes to it.
Missed the series when aired (slightly too young?) but I'm looking forward to watching it soon. But don't know whether or not to wait until after the film (UK release on my birthday!)..??? Or try to read the book first? Eeek!
My best man at my wedding (and I his,) my cool balance to my nerdiness, and my only true friend since the 5th grade (1982) died of cancer in 2002. When I heard his father say "terminal" I collapsed to the floor of a waiting room at Crawford Long hosp in Atlanta, only able to cry out "Oh God!" Can two men have a deep and loving bond that lasts for decades and not be gay? YES.
Can a gay man find affirmation of love in this video? YES. Know matter how you take its meaning this is extraordinary.
"Ivanhoe" is one of my favorite Anthony Andrews films. I like it even better than the "Scarlet Pimpernel." His co-star is Olivia Hussey as Rebecca. I would sure love to see it again.
The last time I saw this series I was a teenager. All this time I thought these two guys were brothers. Was I mistaken? I'm still a little confused here.
I dont know whether I want to see the film or not ... I just know that all the way through I'm going to be ranting at how good the '81 series was. NOBODY could beat Anthony Andrews as Sebastian. It's just plain impossible. He was completely adorable! I love him to bits!
I know right? He is the absolute cats pajamas. I was only three years old when this first aired, but I saw it years later in college. Anthony was my idea of Prince Charming.. (sigh)
I wasnt born when it aired but I was able to see it just recently and I loved it! I adore Anthony, I wish he was better known, because he is just brilliant! Still, at least he got an award for playing Sebastian (Best Actor I think) so Im a bit mollified!
This captures well the decadent lifestyle of these two men and how they both lose all their promise for productive and happy lives by giving in to a life of indulgence. Sebastian becomes an alcoholic and presumably dies an ignoble and anonymous death in distant and primitive north africa. Charles is forced into a fairly miserable life as a soldier. Both find their only peace and happiness in the Catholic faith. Schooled in suffering they learn to long for heaven.
Charles did not have a life of indulgence - he wasn't that type. To me Sebastian was a misfit who could have found lasting happiness with Charles but Charles failed him, he was too constrained by the establishment. You can't ignore that they were thwarted in love, although they turned to the Catholic faith. Sebastian takes up with Kurt because he has also lost his "friend".
What? Charles did lead a life of indulgence. He pursued Sebastian's family and though of more modest means himself, enjoyed all the benefits of their household.
The problem with Sebastian is that he desired a virtuous life but was still given to decadence.
Seriously, one has to read this book on the author's terms. He was a traditional Catholic, not an indulgent post Stonewall gay libber.
Most of Youtube is just self-indulgent sh1t from chavmongs. Seeing your contribution made me actually get a login just to post this.
Seeing your compilation makes me want to see this series again. The sequences between Charles Ryder and Sebastian Flyte are some of the best in 'Brideshead Revisited'.
Inspired editing, real appreciation of the series and a fantastic choice of song -great stuff cffc.
Was very surprised to read in Vanity Fair that came today that someone is attempting a film remake of this story. The tv miniseries was perfect. I can't see Emma Thompson improving on Claire Bloom's Lady Marchmain. Target has a 25th Anniversary edition of the series with lots of extras on sale.
The new issue of Vanity Fair shows the actors in the new film coming out this summer. The actor playing Sebastian is not nearly handsome enough, and worse, the size of his teddy bear is WAY too tiny! Aloysius would be very cross! Pompous old bear.....
this is so good a video and music mix ABC and bridehead revisited loved them both but never put them together before they both work so well together now seeing them its so obvious that charles and sebastian really do love each other and probably 1st love which neither forgets as does anyone thanks 4 posting xx
That's a perfect pairing, since I was listening to ABC and Haircut 100 heavily at the time of the series. Whether intentionally or not, they were playing in my head when I watched the original. I'm intent on revisiting the original Brideshead series a quarter of a century on. I can't imagine the 2008 big screen adaptation coming close to equaling it.
Ooh seen it and loved it! He is brilliant in it! He is so good at playing the devilishly handsome, eccentric fop! If people loved him as Sebastian, they have to see him in the Scralet Pimpernel! I love him! He shares the same birthday as I do!
Waugh, a strictly straight guy in later years had a couple of same sex flings while at Oxford himself. I think the implication is that these can be true love affairs, but one "grows up" and gets over them. Cara forsaw this too.
I don't think that Charles ever "got over" his relationship with Sebastian. I believe that what Antoine said was true: when Charles and Sebastian went separate ways Sebastian took Charles' life with him. He was misrable and he only had the affair with Julia because it was the closest he could come to being with Sebastian.
I think you can only really understand BR from the Catholic point of view out of which it was written. Decadence and moral decay do not lead to the happiness that Sebastian desired. The only peace that would come to him was in serving others, first in his relationship with the German, and ultimately in serving the monastery in Tunisia. As Cordelia says peace only comes from holiness and holiness only comes from suffering and repentance.
I believe the prime theme was their perpetual unending platonic connection. And the German Relationship is also dubiously unclear. My conclusion is platonism, of coarse, but Anthony was "a daisy" and even he stated the German Relationship as macabre. It's all very dubious. The most questionable sentance is this:
"...and took him in and gave him a home. A real Samaritan." Poor simple monk, I thought, poor booby. God forgive me!
I always thought the relationship between Charles and Sebastian was platonic, rather, a very intense friendship. There is no question that they love each other. Sebastian's lover was Kurt, and for Charles it was Sebastian's sister, Juila.
If they ever try to remake "Brideshead Revisited", then whoever gets the role of Lord Sebastian Flyte, has an unenviable task in trying to follow Anthony Andrews. Watching him slowly turning into a dipsomaniac, he gave an awesome performance. The moment when he was lying in a hospital bed in Algiers, & is visited by Charles Ryder was unforgettable. His health now ravaged by alcohol, he asks his former close friend to smuggle him in a bottle of brandy. The expression on his face said everything!.
Thank you for your comment, emerset, which i wrote a year ago now. Tempus Fugit!. The question of Lord Sebastian Flyte's sexuality was somewhat "fudged", since his relationship with Charles Ryder, Anthony Blanche & that odious german with whom he later lived in Algiers, was never made crystal clear. However, since Blanche, [wonderfully played by the actor whose name i can't remember], was a raving out & out "poof" & prettyboy Flyte is never seen with women, it is reasonable to assume him gay.
A perfect combination of 80's pop culture and heartache.These two guys clearly have a strong friendship which unfortunately seems to have disappeared in our modern homophobic world.
Anyway had me blubbering like a baby - dont recommend watching if you've had a recent breakup.
Anyone who thinks this was a homosexual relationship obviously knows nothing about the novel, Evelyn Waugh, or the whole point of the damned thing. News flash: close male friendship does not have anything to do with homosexuality, and it takes a sick mind to project perversion onto frienship. Not everything reduces to sex.
I totally agree with you, some people who take their sexuality too strictly might think that the characters in this movie are homosexual but obviously, they don't know the true meaning of this movie and what it's really about. Even though I'm straight I actually say, so what if there's close male friendship? We always see close female friendship a lot anyway.
a seminal tv experience while coming out in teenage years - even if charles and sebastian were explicitly written as queer, their relationship was certainly open to that interpretation, esp. as irons and andrews played it. and editing the clip to abc's best song - perfect!
sam2dope . I don't really know. You can ask cffc direct by clicking on his username at top right. That's what I do with other posters. They always answer politely. In fact they're flattered that you're interested!.Best of luck.
Well, cffc would know either way because anybody who posts comments on here, an e-mail is sent to cffc stating that there is a new comment for the video. This applies to all users who posted a video.
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desp00 4 months ago
How can you make such a beautiful vid? The editing is just wonerful.... aww my heart breaks
katewixen 6 months ago
Powerful!
treforpoly 8 months ago
A wonderful and beauty video about the most emotional and magnificent serie i have ever seen. Certainly, what program you used to do the video?Good job, thanks for this video.
xshander 9 months ago
PERFECTION
mannerofman 9 months ago
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Wonderful!! Well done you. It makes me feel all emotional. In fact, I think I'm going to burst! It makes me feel all young and misunderstood again!
dannyjacaranda 11 months ago
Wonderful!! Well done you. It makes me feel all emotional. In fact, I think I'm going to burst! It makes me feel all young and misunderstood again!
dannyjacaranda 11 months ago
While I love all of this vid and its delicate beauty, I want to single out 0:25 to 0:29 for praise. As they close the gate to the garden to the lyric "no happy ever after," I see an allusion to the Fall, the expulsion from Eden, the loss of youth, and innocence, and perfect joy. The novel tells that story: Brideshead is Charles's Eden. This vid is fantastic.
murihiku 1 year ago 2
One of my favourite songs. One of my favourite films. All the forgotten beauty of the eighties in one video. Very well done.
thesacredbandfla 1 year ago 3
wow so beautiful
katewixen 1 year ago
Personally I think that Anthony Andrew looks older and much sexier as the Scarlet Pimpernel :) But he's amazing no matter what.
shykaizen 1 year ago 3
I like the facial expressions of Sebastian . Anthony Andrews is an amazing actor !
sahajad 1 year ago 3
I feel so sorry for Sebastian ! What a life ! He had got everything but did not know how to enjoy it at all .
A lot of Aristocrats around the world too ended up being like him . Even in my country the aristocrasy and thier ancestral property was lost due to excessive drinking !
sahajad 1 year ago
:D Perfect.
DNAngel2009 1 year ago
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A beatiful combination of the best things of the 80's - british popmusic and Brideshead Revisited. This is what youtube is about!!
Uuri65 1 year ago
A beatiful combination of the best things of the 80's - british popmusic and Brideshead Revisited. This is what youtube is about!!
Uuri65 1 year ago 3
Thank God. Someone to take my mind off Jack and Ennis for awhile.
suzycreamcheesez 1 year ago
Why!!!?????? Why Anthony!!!??? Why did you have to play a guy inlove with another guy??!!!!
Jailbreak49 1 year ago
georgous string section!
dug60660 1 year ago
Charles is clearly fascinated by Sebastian like Nick is fascinated by Gatsby
missbabyice 1 year ago 5
one of the greatest youtube videos I've ever seen. seriously.
riseuplight 1 year ago 4
I´m at a loss for words, you genious of cheese.
sixfeetjenna 1 year ago
i do have a good close friend named sebastian. what a wondrous coincidence!
riseuplight 1 year ago 2
fabulous idea - boffo.
grizzwoldian 1 year ago 3
How can anyone not fall head over heals inlove with anthony andrews (sebastian)
tekqist28 1 year ago 8
@tekqist28 You are absolutely right. He is brilliant.
AgentSpookygirl 1 year ago
This is brilliant. Brideshead Revisited is my favourit novel and tv series ever. A. nd Lexicon of Love is one of my very favourite albums. Well done old boy.
spanishjohn 1 year ago
I believe was 11 years old when for the fist time, I was attractive to this television series . I was living in Mexico. I always liked Charles & Sebastian.
aaround 1 year ago 2
you chose the absolute perfect song to go with it , it's a masterpiece many congratulations
SCANDIN3 2 years ago 3
My dear.Such lovely clips and expertly composed, some I appear to have missed in previous viewings. xx
stephhe 2 years ago
Charles and Sebastion are lovers .Sebastion is gay .Charles is not..Their sexual relationship is the product of the time.Brought up in all male Boarding Schools,when sexuality awakens leads to homosexual affairs.See the fine movie "IF" for the feel of this pattern.Charles` fascination for Julia is driven in no small part by his love of Sebastion(we recall she is described as almost a twin.)A promise of heterosexual sex with his male lover.A heady combination.
holmsiantype 2 years ago 4
i wanted to thank you for putting scenes of this series together with "all of my heart"... because i wonder if without that i ever would have stumbled over it otherwise! i just managed to get my hands on a copy and now its one of my favourite series.. i am already craving for the book!
you chose the scenes so well.. so absofuckinglutely well fitting to the lovely moments in the song! i was also very surprised you even chose this so short scene of sebastian flipping his hair back. lovely video!!
sophiascalpel 2 years ago 4
Up to the 60s the Christians were still persecuting the gays - imprisoment & torture & many died in their cells. Christians today are fighting for the rights to persecute the gays, because the gays are their last target to torment for their sadistic pleasure. The Christians cannot burn witches, genocide the Jews, massacre 'infidels', rape natives and lynch the blacks anymore.
Christianty = Hate & Wickedness.
FyFhFr25 2 years ago
My dear, you forget that all the main characters in this story as well as the author is Christian, including the pansy friend Antoine. Now dont be pipped as there does exist a decent moderation of religion in which healthiness abounds, dear lout
emerset 2 years ago
I think you may have missed the point of the book.
celzmccelz 2 years ago
Still an unbelievable work to combine the pathos hope and love embodied by the words of Waugh and the Granada production. In the era it was not about a gay or straight love, it was the closeness that one could have with another which was almost species specifically forbidden... either way, I still find this effort incredibly moving.
esessions 2 years ago 5
true
luddehall 2 years ago
totally appropriate music.captures the sadness, escapism and romance of the series. sebastian was gay and hopelessly in love with charles. true?
luddehall 2 years ago 4
Excellent. I do not think the story portrays them as 'lovers', just a profound, intense friendship, He was in awe of him at first, puzzled somewhat, but enjoyed their friendship. I do wish he had stayed with Julia though!!! Good song to put to the clips,thanks for posting
MOSESCAT69 2 years ago 4
Yes, that Greek thing. The writer, E.W. seems in love with every image, moment and exchange, pure artistry. Granada did themselves proud.
jushayward 2 years ago 3
100% - they were not gay - in the story or your mind, it was/is normal for close friends to be very close without sex. But it is a place where few go these days without some embarrassment from the confederacy of twitterers. It is not part of THIS particular story. IMFAO.
GoldenChimes 2 years ago
Im watching this fantastic story on the itv player, im about half way in and its excellent stuff, i hope sebastian sorts himself out.
Fishmonkey123 2 years ago 4
What inappropriate music, utterly missing the profundity of the original story and score.
piehole23 2 years ago
Whether just friendship or as lovers, the relationship between Sebastian and Charles is one of the most moving I've seen in literature, and this adaptation brings even more meaning to it. Perfect actors.
ArtOfMe021 2 years ago 33
they were both gay and lovers?.. really ..well I never.. I just thought charles 'hung around' that place and befriended that Sebastian chap.. okay the odd hug.. but that was just about it..
talk about playing down something! but then agian.. I never really watched the hwole series.. totally atmostphereless and the whole place/house everything had a gloomy feel of deserted.ness. ie. just them and the camera crew(s)..
win3108 2 years ago
In answer to Jacero10, we can all have a bit of indulgence during our student days, however Charles went on to earn his own living and serve in WW2. Charles is not a self-indulgent person. All this talk of indulgence smacks of jealousy.
hazelnut59 2 years ago
was there a dance in this film where a woman seduces him and takes him back to his dorm and unclips her bra at front?
colrox1984 2 years ago
You must be thinking of something else, that doesn't happen in the televised version of "Brideshead Revisited", which is what this is. I haven't seen the film version, so can't comment on it.
newmark401 2 years ago
Has anyone at all noticed the synchronisity of the line "there's a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow" with the dialogue in the programme? Brilliant!
hellknight50 2 years ago 2
beautiful
katewixen 2 years ago
To read this as a love story between Charles and Sebastian is to completely misunderstand the novel. Their friendship based on debauchery was the decadent low point of the story. The rest of the story is about how their various sorrows and chastenings brought each of the characters back to God. Sebastian to a life of service, Cordelia and Julia the same, Charles to faith in the Lord of the Tabernacle and Sebastian's father on his deathbed. The story's beauty is not decadence, but conversion.
FrJcsc 3 years ago
I think you're right, the novel is ultimately about coversion to Catholicism, but I think to disregard the relationship between Charles and Sebastian is a mistake; the very fact that it's Evelyn Waugh writing about undergraduates at Oxford University says it all. Waugh himself commented that Sebastian was the prefigure for Julia. I interpreted their time at Oxford as the time of innocence, Aloysius being the patron saint of youth, and the imagery of all that "the youngest of the martyrs (c)
xxXanthiaxx 2 years ago
... here is lain, fair as Sebastian and early as slain". By discarding Aloysius once leaving Oxford, Sebastian is leaving innocence. The chapter entitled "Et in Arcadia Ego" ends the moment Charles decides not to return to Oxford; the university is therefore their Arcadia, and their problems intensify once they leave. Of course, Waugh being a Catholic, did add the element of conversion and that soothes the characters, (c)
xxXanthiaxx 2 years ago
is this a movie??
L3ft2D13 3 years ago
There was a 1981 miniseries and a very good movie a few years ago. ^^ The newer movie makes the Charles/Sebastian dynamic pretty much canon...
MorroccoSurrogate 3 years ago
Oh how interesting I know of the light blonde man but never realized he was in a film-THANKS for the info-and there is a new movie you say are what we siing here the new one I would think-but yet it looks like it still be from 81 I obviously know nothing of this-Just that 1 man!!! Life is weird like that
L3ft2D13 3 years ago
Personally, if I didn't know much about "Brideshead Revisited", but wanted to learn more, I'd read the novel first, then buy or rent the mini-series. Both all well worth the effort.
newmark401 2 years ago
Great collection of scenes! But I noticed some clips that I don't remember seeing on my DVD version (25th anniversary collectors edition). How much did they cut?!
MadMaddy1200 3 years ago
now i want to rewatch this miniseries. i love it so much. it is a flawless adaptation to me.
lovetoday123 3 years ago
Anthony Andrews was a first love for me: Ivanhoe, Scarlet Pimpinel, this serial, and now he stills having this charming that only great gentelmen have. I love it.
30Pupito 3 years ago
cheesy music.... but it works;-)
28Nina28 3 years ago
The Greatest gift is Love. What wonderful footage.
Harvey030547 3 years ago
Thank you foe these lovely scenes!
schiwi3004 3 years ago
I see this video 20 times every day. I love the song, the scenes, the great work of the actors and the feeling they transmet to me.
Only LOVE !!!!
30Pupito 3 years ago 2
Wow, Jeremy Irons a most beautiful man, this is a great video
pepeolivi 3 years ago
good song choice. I love to Anthony
30Pupito 3 years ago
wow this is great!!!
28Nina28 3 years ago
that was bloody brilliant...great song and a deeply emotional tv series...well done
tatts2004 3 years ago
series is a classic new film utter hollywood trash
glyncart08 3 years ago
And Aloysious hardly figured.
C'mon! The bear needs a good agent!
acechadwick 3 years ago 6
A massive over sight to drop Aloysious to the cutting room floor, his cannon of work is up there with greats , Rupert , Paddington,etc
I raise a glass to you Aloysious and hope to our sweet lord baby jesus you beat your drugs problem,i cant bare see you go the same way as Hammy the hampster.
Heart breaking!
HookendHammer 3 years ago
Well I saw the film on Friday.
Why did they bother? If you can't at least make a halfhearted effort to improve on the original then why??
They underplayed the charisma of Sebastian and turned him into a mincing fop and then banged on ad nauseam about Catholicism.
It was all I could do to stay awake.
acechadwick 3 years ago 2
sorry great track but with brideshead not approiate this series is a classic
glyncart08 3 years ago
bad song choice
2wents 3 years ago
this is genius! really beautiful! far better than the dreadful new film version, thank you!
garrynorfolk 3 years ago 5
Oh jeffrojune.That is so sad...and so brave of you.I can only say that somehow he would know that you are and were, a truly wonderful friend.
And please I beg of you goth. See the series with Jeremy and Anthony before you see the film. I can just see by the trailer and by the fact that they have added a sex scene (not in the book)that they will destroy the beauty of it.
Plus the leads look totally uncharismatic unlike Andy and Jezza! Do yourself a favour and see it in it's purest form.
acechadwick 3 years ago 2
What a fantastic edit. Love the choice of song and how you've taken time to fit the scenes to it.
Missed the series when aired (slightly too young?) but I'm looking forward to watching it soon. But don't know whether or not to wait until after the film (UK release on my birthday!)..??? Or try to read the book first? Eeek!
gothdawn1966 3 years ago 2
Definitely watch the series first. Brilliant
-Craig
craig9563 3 years ago 2
I remember jeremy irons in playaway singing with brian cant. hahahahaha geez, i guess we all have to start somewhere...
TheGodParticle 3 years ago
My best man at my wedding (and I his,) my cool balance to my nerdiness, and my only true friend since the 5th grade (1982) died of cancer in 2002. When I heard his father say "terminal" I collapsed to the floor of a waiting room at Crawford Long hosp in Atlanta, only able to cry out "Oh God!" Can two men have a deep and loving bond that lasts for decades and not be gay? YES.
Can a gay man find affirmation of love in this video? YES. Know matter how you take its meaning this is extraordinary.
jeffrojune1970 3 years ago 23
"Ivanhoe" is one of my favorite Anthony Andrews films. I like it even better than the "Scarlet Pimpernel." His co-star is Olivia Hussey as Rebecca. I would sure love to see it again.
jazz0685 3 years ago
The last time I saw this series I was a teenager. All this time I thought these two guys were brothers. Was I mistaken? I'm still a little confused here.
jazz0685 3 years ago
This is so beautiful and yet heartbreaking at the same time...very moving.
wilnik77 3 years ago
Absolutely ripping vid - couldn't be better. Series made me cry but this video.....breaks my heart into pieces.
elizzievb 3 years ago 3
Yes, fabulous
xPablo69 3 years ago
excellent !
heraldojesus21 3 years ago
Well done for using this song for the video poem. Its so apt! You should send it to ITV and it might prompt them to show the series again!
edinburghmarc 3 years ago
hurrah henry.. or should that be henrietta ??
moonboots69 3 years ago
A modern minstrel show. How wonderful.
firetaker25 3 years ago 2
Can you belive they are remaking this movie??!! Philistines!!
Anthony Andrews is the only one who could ever capture Sebastian's torment. Boycott the new film!
PrettyIrishGirl88 3 years ago 18
I absolutely agree. You cannot improve upon perfection!!!
MRMETHOS1 3 years ago 2
The new movie really cheapens the relationship between Charles and Sebastian.
mollypennsylvania 3 years ago 4
I dont know whether I want to see the film or not ... I just know that all the way through I'm going to be ranting at how good the '81 series was. NOBODY could beat Anthony Andrews as Sebastian. It's just plain impossible. He was completely adorable! I love him to bits!
LeChatBlanche 3 years ago 3
I know right? He is the absolute cats pajamas. I was only three years old when this first aired, but I saw it years later in college. Anthony was my idea of Prince Charming.. (sigh)
PrettyIrishGirl88 3 years ago 2
I wasnt born when it aired but I was able to see it just recently and I loved it! I adore Anthony, I wish he was better known, because he is just brilliant! Still, at least he got an award for playing Sebastian (Best Actor I think) so Im a bit mollified!
LeChatBlanche 3 years ago
@LeChatBlanche He got a BAFTA award for his role he truly deserves it. He is quite known all over the world believe me :)
I adore him wish I could see him on stage.
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@LeChatBlanche He got a BAFTA award for his role he truly deserves it. He is quite known all over the world believe me :)
I adore him wish I could see him on stage.
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@LeChatBlanche He got a BAFTA award for his role he truly deserves it. He is quite known all over the world believe me :)
I adore him wish I could see him on stage.
AgentSpookygirl 1 year ago
Thankyou for sharing your art.I love this series so much and the love they shared.he could not save him you captured this so perfectly.
desolit 3 years ago 2
Whom play this song? May sombody tell me?
Thanks
chloeluna 3 years ago
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They were shirt lifters! no doubt about that!
chezzeeX 3 years ago
One of my favorite "couples." I hated seeing Sebastian descend into his own demons as Charles was helpless to stop it.
PrettyIrishGirl88 3 years ago 4
Thankyou It was beautiful.Its was everything I loved.
desolit 3 years ago 3
Thank you for this, this is very lovely :)
juiceliina 3 years ago 3
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Were they shirt lifters ??? - there is NO place for that in the army
I need a shite
kingofkings70 3 years ago
Excellent! Perfect song - it actually looks like a video from the early 80s! Lol. x
petie71 3 years ago
This captures well the decadent lifestyle of these two men and how they both lose all their promise for productive and happy lives by giving in to a life of indulgence. Sebastian becomes an alcoholic and presumably dies an ignoble and anonymous death in distant and primitive north africa. Charles is forced into a fairly miserable life as a soldier. Both find their only peace and happiness in the Catholic faith. Schooled in suffering they learn to long for heaven.
jacero10 3 years ago
Read Plato's Republic.
strangebeastie 3 years ago
it sucks
Aberforthette 3 years ago
I was a philosophy major--so, yeah, I've read it many times. Allegory of the cave? Good point.
jacero10 3 years ago
Joy, my friend, joy. Redemption and joy.
Watch Hal Hartley's AMATEUR to understand.
esessions 3 years ago
Charles did not have a life of indulgence - he wasn't that type. To me Sebastian was a misfit who could have found lasting happiness with Charles but Charles failed him, he was too constrained by the establishment. You can't ignore that they were thwarted in love, although they turned to the Catholic faith. Sebastian takes up with Kurt because he has also lost his "friend".
hazelnut59 3 years ago
What? Charles did lead a life of indulgence. He pursued Sebastian's family and though of more modest means himself, enjoyed all the benefits of their household.
The problem with Sebastian is that he desired a virtuous life but was still given to decadence.
Seriously, one has to read this book on the author's terms. He was a traditional Catholic, not an indulgent post Stonewall gay libber.
jacero10 2 years ago 3
What is the name of this film? I know who are the actors but I do not know the film.
RodasdeLohr 3 years ago
It's called "Brideshead Revisited" and it's a mini series made in 1981.
cantarellnohana 3 years ago
What a great video and beautiful song! Well done!
KAQ88 3 years ago
Lovely! They sure were in love.
boobabycluebaby2 4 years ago
Very moving, cffc.
Most of Youtube is just self-indulgent sh1t from chavmongs. Seeing your contribution made me actually get a login just to post this.
Seeing your compilation makes me want to see this series again. The sequences between Charles Ryder and Sebastian Flyte are some of the best in 'Brideshead Revisited'.
Inspired editing, real appreciation of the series and a fantastic choice of song -great stuff cffc.
Btw have you read the book?
dadfkl1 4 years ago
I agree. I'm glad the series is so faithful to the book and have the former on DVD. It's well worth watching it all again - and again!
newmark401 3 years ago
Brilliant!
No other 80s productions rival "Lexicon of Love" or "Brideshead Revisited".
krakatoa 4 years ago
I had the good fortune of visiting Castle Howard and seeing the racks of costumes and even Aloysius.
ravencottage 4 years ago
Was very surprised to read in Vanity Fair that came today that someone is attempting a film remake of this story. The tv miniseries was perfect. I can't see Emma Thompson improving on Claire Bloom's Lady Marchmain. Target has a 25th Anniversary edition of the series with lots of extras on sale.
Luchino 4 years ago
The new issue of Vanity Fair shows the actors in the new film coming out this summer. The actor playing Sebastian is not nearly handsome enough, and worse, the size of his teddy bear is WAY too tiny! Aloysius would be very cross! Pompous old bear.....
heightsblond29 4 years ago
I am reading brideshead for my lit class. Can anyone help me with the philosophy of Brideshead?
tomata182 4 years ago
this is so good a video and music mix ABC and bridehead revisited loved them both but never put them together before they both work so well together now seeing them its so obvious that charles and sebastian really do love each other and probably 1st love which neither forgets as does anyone thanks 4 posting xx
shaneezzz 4 years ago
That's a perfect pairing, since I was listening to ABC and Haircut 100 heavily at the time of the series. Whether intentionally or not, they were playing in my head when I watched the original. I'm intent on revisiting the original Brideshead series a quarter of a century on. I can't imagine the 2008 big screen adaptation coming close to equaling it.
GreggSFO 4 years ago
This is stunning. Love the Bowie song. Thanks for your time and talent! It is appreciated.
LegalMonet 4 years ago
its ABC not bowie
allshewrought 4 years ago
no, Bowie
JimmyC1983 4 years ago
no, sorry, its ABC from their debut album the Lexicon of Love which I have, but check wikipedia if you dont believe..
allshewrought 4 years ago
Bowie
JimmyC1983 4 years ago
its ABC
treinik 4 years ago 4
Incredible beautiful.
zsp159 4 years ago
awesome, this made me cry. i just read the book and it made me cry too... =,)
I love 01:50-01:51, Sebastian part... <3
Whatsername1001 4 years ago
brilliant the only other movie that shows love between 2 males so well is brokeback mountain
georgesturdy 4 years ago
I hate to be greedy but a corresponding vid with Charles and Julia would be (more) magic
crazycalcum3000 4 years ago
i luv anthony andrews!! he's so gd in the Scarlet Pimpernel man!! u HAV to see it!
lillacolor 4 years ago
Ooh seen it and loved it! He is brilliant in it! He is so good at playing the devilishly handsome, eccentric fop! If people loved him as Sebastian, they have to see him in the Scralet Pimpernel! I love him! He shares the same birthday as I do!
LeChatBlanche 3 years ago 2
2 of my favorite's mixed...great job..
tomtomlover 4 years ago
Waugh, a strictly straight guy in later years had a couple of same sex flings while at Oxford himself. I think the implication is that these can be true love affairs, but one "grows up" and gets over them. Cara forsaw this too.
Love the bit with the bottoms by the way.
crazycalcum3000 4 years ago
I don't think that Charles ever "got over" his relationship with Sebastian. I believe that what Antoine said was true: when Charles and Sebastian went separate ways Sebastian took Charles' life with him. He was misrable and he only had the affair with Julia because it was the closest he could come to being with Sebastian.
glassandhallo 4 years ago 7
i agree totally with you...
Whatsername1001 4 years ago
I think you can only really understand BR from the Catholic point of view out of which it was written. Decadence and moral decay do not lead to the happiness that Sebastian desired. The only peace that would come to him was in serving others, first in his relationship with the German, and ultimately in serving the monastery in Tunisia. As Cordelia says peace only comes from holiness and holiness only comes from suffering and repentance.
jacero10 3 years ago 2
I believe the prime theme was their perpetual unending platonic connection. And the German Relationship is also dubiously unclear. My conclusion is platonism, of coarse, but Anthony was "a daisy" and even he stated the German Relationship as macabre. It's all very dubious. The most questionable sentance is this:
"...and took him in and gave him a home. A real Samaritan." Poor simple monk, I thought, poor booby. God forgive me!
--chapter eight
emerset 2 years ago 2
I always thought the relationship between Charles and Sebastian was platonic, rather, a very intense friendship. There is no question that they love each other. Sebastian's lover was Kurt, and for Charles it was Sebastian's sister, Juila.
literarygenius09 2 years ago 4
Great tune. ABC are great!
trent7176 4 years ago
If they ever try to remake "Brideshead Revisited", then whoever gets the role of Lord Sebastian Flyte, has an unenviable task in trying to follow Anthony Andrews. Watching him slowly turning into a dipsomaniac, he gave an awesome performance. The moment when he was lying in a hospital bed in Algiers, & is visited by Charles Ryder was unforgettable. His health now ravaged by alcohol, he asks his former close friend to smuggle him in a bottle of brandy. The expression on his face said everything!.
hotwok19 4 years ago 3
Yes youre right. No one else will ever be Sebastian. The Hollywood retake blasphemes.
emerset 2 years ago 7
Thank you for your comment, emerset, which i wrote a year ago now. Tempus Fugit!. The question of Lord Sebastian Flyte's sexuality was somewhat "fudged", since his relationship with Charles Ryder, Anthony Blanche & that odious german with whom he later lived in Algiers, was never made crystal clear. However, since Blanche, [wonderfully played by the actor whose name i can't remember], was a raving out & out "poof" & prettyboy Flyte is never seen with women, it is reasonable to assume him gay.
hotwok19 2 years ago 2
Simply sublime. I cannot believe that something so lovingly created could inspire so much bile. Watch and listen...
esessions 4 years ago
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How to ruin one of the best series EVER - put cheesy 8o's music to it. This (and all those other similar clips out there) is simply VILE!
chickone13 4 years ago
I agree with you chickone13, they would have far better setting this video to the original Brideshead theme music.
hotwok19 4 years ago
But the TV version of Brideshead is such an 80s production!
AxelQC 4 years ago
hey come on - this is by far the most appropriate non-original soundtrack. It's contemporary and fits in every sense.
shakypam 3 years ago 2
Classic!!!!
fluffybum100 4 years ago
ooo! the clips fit exakt to eachothers and to the music! very good! N-I-C-E-!
Linmae90 4 years ago
what a jewel this is...matches the song's mood perfectly
americandemeter 4 years ago
A perfect combination of 80's pop culture and heartache.These two guys clearly have a strong friendship which unfortunately seems to have disappeared in our modern homophobic world.
Anyway had me blubbering like a baby - dont recommend watching if you've had a recent breakup.
Huminalong 4 years ago
ii REALLYYY love JEREMY IRONS(LLL
popbritglamlife 4 years ago
Anyone who thinks this was a homosexual relationship obviously knows nothing about the novel, Evelyn Waugh, or the whole point of the damned thing. News flash: close male friendship does not have anything to do with homosexuality, and it takes a sick mind to project perversion onto frienship. Not everything reduces to sex.
tominrichmond 4 years ago
Does that make "All of my Heart" an inappropriate choice of song for the video?
Gerkinstock 4 years ago
I totally agree with you, some people who take their sexuality too strictly might think that the characters in this movie are homosexual but obviously, they don't know the true meaning of this movie and what it's really about. Even though I'm straight I actually say, so what if there's close male friendship? We always see close female friendship a lot anyway.
Pittoop 4 years ago 2
I was replying to tominrichmond's comment by the way not Gerkinstock's.
Pittoop 4 years ago
Is ths about being gay or love? I sRem to miss the politics.
esessions 4 years ago
It's not really about gay or love, it's about close male friendship.
Pittoop 4 years ago 2
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What is this ****bum music? It what way does it belong here?
snakelavie 4 years ago
superb thanks very much
nerdnot 4 years ago
a seminal tv experience while coming out in teenage years - even if charles and sebastian were explicitly written as queer, their relationship was certainly open to that interpretation, esp. as irons and andrews played it. and editing the clip to abc's best song - perfect!
diegesellschafter 4 years ago
The lexicon of love by abc is an awesome album and this song from it is just beautiful
ladyloca67 4 years ago
That was really good. Jesus, that miniseries made me cry too much. It was so complicated and tragic.
emilybot 4 years ago
A gorgeous song and suich memories of watching this on PBS--a young queer in Oregon. Thank you so very much.
mkpyle67 4 years ago
Irons was awesome in teh remake of the film Lolita...lucky dog got to spend time with Miss Swain.
parkman35 4 years ago
Marvelous, just marvelous!
Pittoop 4 years ago
sam2dope . I don't really know. You can ask cffc direct by clicking on his username at top right. That's what I do with other posters. They always answer politely. In fact they're flattered that you're interested!.Best of luck.
Cheers from Robert,
Scotland. UK.
ecosse99 4 years ago
Well, cffc would know either way because anybody who posts comments on here, an e-mail is sent to cffc stating that there is a new comment for the video. This applies to all users who posted a video.
Pittoop 4 years ago
Is that the joy division in this song?
sam2dope 4 years ago