Brideshead Revisited Episode 1 PART 9
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Ghastly evening!!! How wretched of Charles not to intervene on his guests behalf. dreadful cello playing :-/
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I think they have fouled this book up. The mood is far too sombre and almost mournful.. I didn't see any of that in the book. The director has missed the knockabout, impishness that Waugh was so good at. I think the British film directors of the 1950's would have made a far better job.
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@lynxminx4 Thank God! Have been wondering what this piece is for some time! Much appreciated!
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The "old boy" is no fool - he knows what he has been up to in college. lol
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wow, what a party!!! snore. yawn, stretch and out to a pub we go!! :)
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The piece is the Faure Elegie for Cello and Orchestra.
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What a sublime pairing of actors, especially in the final part at the dinner table. That cello is awful, though. Eeeeh.
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For all his blond glorious good looks, Sebastian started to bore me already. It's these excerpts of Charles' interactions with other people, at this point, that appeals and endears me to the unfolding story.
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Does anyone know what the cello piece is that the guest is playing (yes, quite dreadfully)?
Really? For some of us, quite usual. I don't think there was an unbooked wall in our home growing up, thank heavens.
Shufei 2 years ago 8
John Gielgud is an amazing Ryder Senior. Just like in the book. Mr. Ryder has to be played as doddering, but malicious, and too many actors stray into the doddering territory when portraying the character. Gielgud plays it to perfection, with that touch of bite and asperity with those occasional malevolent looks behind a facade of apparent eccentricity and senility. He is a man who hoards his reclusiveness and treats his son with disdain accordingly, but with a veneer of civility.
BelatedCommiseration 1 year ago 6