Comments on: Interview with “Brideshead Revisited” Director and Star

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:14:25 +0000

when will it come out on DVD? I would like to go buy it

By: sk

sk — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 01:31:00 +0000

I just saw the TV version, and I haven’t yet seen this film. But come on! On disc two there is a reference to a place in Switzerland (as I recall) that’s supposed to be good for SEXUAL problems as well as alcoholism, as Rex mentions. The guy (Sebastian) goes around with a teddy bear. His other buddy Anthony (the guy with the stutter) is gay. We all know perfectly well about English boarding school romances (that do involve sex). You want reality? At minimum, Sebastian was gay on stilts. And if you don’t believe that, you must think Liberace was straight. Charles is more ambiguous, but apparently more gay than straight, though not solely gay, as his attraction (at the beginning) to his wife makes clear.

What’s more, it’s pretty clear that the upper classes don’t much care about the issue, though the middle classes and the climbers do.

I also thought it pretty clear that S & C were up to SOME hanky panky from the TV series–we just didn’t see it on screen. C’mon, nude sunbathing together?

I haven’t read the book, but it might be that this movie is more true to the book than the book was.

By: Will

Will — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:51:00 +0000

Never read the book.But to film.Out of my own stupidity.Why not the character oh I duno…Bisexual? Heavens for bid.

By: Caleb Wilkes

Caleb Wilkes — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:09:36 +0000

“Anticipated?” By whom? The definitive film version of Brideshead Revisited – made with pain-staking fidelity to Waugh’s novel – was made by Granada for UK television in 1981. Go out and get it on DVD: it is seriously worth 659 minutes of anybody’s time. This cheap spin-off is a transparent attempt to cash in on the success of the original version. Why redo badly that which has been done brilliantly already? And Brideshead is a CATHOLIC novel, not a gay one; the whole point is the final redemption by divine rather than human love. Sebastian and Charles’ relationship may be ambiguous, but to make Sebastian “gay” is just the kind of ham-fisted idiocy and bumbling philistinism I would expect from the director of – dear God! – “Kinky Boots.”

By: Rick Zimmerman

Rick Zimmerman — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:46:09 +0000

“how you approach the relationship between HE and Charles?”

Where did you learn grammar? My old english teachers are whirling dervishly in their graves!