Brideshead Revisited

Scene from the classic British TV series.

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Film & Animation

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• Brideshead
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[touchdownturnaround7]

I'm 16 and I wholeheartedly assure you, watch the TV adaptation from start to end and you will never, EVER be able to enjoy the tacky, hollywood-esque Brideshead of the movie. Same applies to the book, although I found both book and TV equally brilliant (a rare feat), in part because of incredible way the TV series captured the book. Both in attention to dialogue and detail and in really all regards it was an outstanding transferal.

[Tigerbos]

no they are not gay...they are British meaning they're not afraid to show their feminine side...plus this is years ago when men were gentlemen..a time that no longer exists apparently since most men insist upon being macho jerks...

[FrJcsc]

@holmsiantype You obviously didn't read the book, which was written by a Catholic convert and is an exploration of the dynamics of conversion among both those who were born into the Catholic faith and Charles who was not. LIke a parable it is written in such a way to be understood by the believer and misunderstood by the faithless.

[holmsatlarge]

@richmond450 Redeemed?It is religion that dooms them.Happy?That is too simplistic.Souls?How charmingly archaic.Take religion out of Brideshead and we have an existential novel.With such divergent viewpoints.clearly this old novel still has power.

[richmond450]

@holmsatlarge Actually, religion redeemed the various characters. It was sin that destroyed them. But what would an atheist know of such things. I suppose you think Sebastian should have just been a happy homosexual, and Lord Marchmain should have been allowed his divorce, and Julia her adulteries, and then everyone would have been happy. Someone who recognizes that humans have souls would disagree with you.

[holmsatlarge]

@richmond450 Inhuman?How curious of you.I am an atheist,but not homosexual.I find it odd,however, that you think one excludes the other.Religion is clearly the driving force of the self destruction of the Marchmain family.Only Cordelia escapes,thanks to her down to earth approach to life.Bridey,on the other hand,would just as easily be a Zoroastrian or Presbytarian,as he simply followed the family religion.Others have called this self destruction "God`s Grace"-now that`s what I call inhuman.

[Tigerbos]

@BernardProfitendieu I never said there were no gay men in England and I'm not naive. I just said these two particular men were not gay and yes, I did read the book.

[BernardProfitendieu]

@Tigerbos so you don't think there were any gay men in England at that time? they were all merely "British"? you're naive and Charles and Sebastian were having an affair - read the book if you have any doubts

[MowgliX]

They are very gay indeed, but so what, who cares? It's the best TV series ever made, even slightly better than I, Claudius.

[missbabyice]

@HarrietWales - The old version is far better than the new film. You barely see anything- in fact, he may have been cut out- of Anthony Blanche in the new film and he's one of my favourite characters. New film was just a glossy shallow rip off of the TV series- they even filmed it in the same place!

[suzycreamcheesez]

@richmond450 You talk those are bad things, lol!

[richmond450]

@holmsiantype What an inhuman opinion. You're obviously an atheist or a homosexual.