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Revisiting Brideshead . . .
Aug. 5th, 2008 02:49 pmI snuck off this afternoon (or, to be literal, at 11:45 am) to catch a matinee of Brideshead Revisited. I am, as I may have mentioned, vastly a fan of the book and the Jeremy Irons/Anthony Andrews miniseries, and had been looking forward to this with trepidation. Why revisit perfection?
Well, it is not and will never be definitive, but it was beautifully filmed and well-acted. There were things about it that bothered me; there were things about it that I do wonder what people who aren't familiar with the source text will make of it; and there were some changes that I did think undermined what Waugh was on about. Still, it caught the spirit of the book, and was well worth seeing. Many of the things that disturbed me most in the tv ads had a different spin onscreen. More below, with spoilers, under the cut.
And they used Castle Howard again. I hadn't read where it was filmed, but I was sitting there going "that looks like . . . like . . . ," and the closing credits came up, and it was. So I guess Castle Howard has become Really Truly Brideshead. (Or it's like having a member of the original cast play a cameo in your movie remake. One or the other.)
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Well, it is not and will never be definitive, but it was beautifully filmed and well-acted. There were things about it that bothered me; there were things about it that I do wonder what people who aren't familiar with the source text will make of it; and there were some changes that I did think undermined what Waugh was on about. Still, it caught the spirit of the book, and was well worth seeing. Many of the things that disturbed me most in the tv ads had a different spin onscreen. More below, with spoilers, under the cut.
And they used Castle Howard again. I hadn't read where it was filmed, but I was sitting there going "that looks like . . . like . . . ," and the closing credits came up, and it was. So I guess Castle Howard has become Really Truly Brideshead. (Or it's like having a member of the original cast play a cameo in your movie remake. One or the other.)
( Read more... )
