What have you done?! I've finally finished reading Brideshead Revisited and was curious about the film, knowing that it's supposed to make more out of the 'romance' and all. From the trailer, it's totally off the mark, just completely in another direction. However can I watch it now without waiting, I don't know, an entire year or something first?!
*facepalm*
I've got two pages marked here... "But Bridey, where did you find her?" "Her late husband, Admiral Muspratt, collected match-boxes," he said with complete gravity. Julia trembled on the verge of laughter...
Which is just fine since I laughed out loud for her.
and
"Let's get this clear," I said; "he has to make an act of will; he has to be contrite and wish to be reconciled; is that right? But only God knows whether he has really made an act of will; the priest can't tell; and if there isn't a priest there, and he makes the act of will alone, that's as good as if there were a priest. And it's quite possible that the will may still be working when a man is too weak to make any outward sign of it; is that right? He may be lying, as though dead, and willing all the time, and being reconciled, and God understands that; is that right?" "More or less," said Brideshead.
Despite the intent and feelings of Charles, this is actually a point I've got to agree on, falling on the Protestant (which of course, Charles doesn't) side of things myself. Anyway...
Made me think a good deal about The Beautiful and the Damned.
I'm not sure I want to watch the movie, especially after this fine miniseries with Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews as Charles and Sebastian. Highly recommended.
Yeah, F. Scott Fitzgerald's observations on the decadence of privileged Americans in tbe 1920s is kind of what Evelyn Waugh did with the English aristocracy.
I'm not sure I want to watch the movie, especially after this fine miniseries with Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews as Charles and Sebastian. Highly recommended. Yeah, saw that this was out there, too. Guess I'll be checking that out instead of the film. I'll go through Sebastian withdrawal without it.
In the mean time, going back to reading Christie's They Mysterious Mr. Quin. :]
*facepalm*
I've got two pages marked here...
"But Bridey, where did you find her?"
"Her late husband, Admiral Muspratt, collected match-boxes," he said with complete gravity.
Julia trembled on the verge of laughter...
Which is just fine since I laughed out loud for her.
and
"Let's get this clear," I said; "he has to make an act of will; he has to be contrite and wish to be reconciled; is that right? But only God knows whether he has really made an act of will; the priest can't tell; and if there isn't a priest there, and he makes the act of will alone, that's as good as if there were a priest. And it's quite possible that the will may still be working when a man is too weak to make any outward sign of it; is that right? He may be lying, as though dead, and willing all the time, and being reconciled, and God understands that; is that right?"
"More or less," said Brideshead.
Despite the intent and feelings of Charles, this is actually a point I've got to agree on, falling on the Protestant (which of course, Charles doesn't) side of things myself. Anyway...
Made me think a good deal about The Beautiful and the Damned.
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I'm not sure I want to watch the movie, especially after this fine miniseries with Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews as Charles and Sebastian. Highly recommended.
Yeah, F. Scott Fitzgerald's observations on the decadence of privileged Americans in tbe 1920s is kind of what Evelyn Waugh did with the English aristocracy.
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I'm not sure I want to watch the movie, especially after this fine miniseries with Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews as Charles and Sebastian. Highly recommended.
Yeah, saw that this was out there, too. Guess I'll be checking that out instead of the film. I'll go through Sebastian withdrawal without it.
In the mean time, going back to reading Christie's They Mysterious Mr. Quin. :]
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