A Few "Warnings" about the Brideshead Movie ;)

[cristina]

...and some information about previous projects to bring Brideshead to film:

www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/film-and-tv/features/brideshead-revisted-how-cinema-is-rewriting-evelyn-waughrsquos-classic-832621.html

[katycarl]

Ergh, that trailer is just kind of painful.

[Bernardo]

Painful? That's rather an understatement. I'm quite convinced this movie is going to be a horrible train wreck with Waugh's masterpiece and thousands of unsuspecting viewers as the casualties.

...if only it would get more people to read the book, but I fear what will happen is that people will assume that they know what the book is about, having seen the movie, and won't bother.

Lady Marchmain rejoicing over her daughter's match with Rex Mottram! Oh, the humanity!

[ebdonlon]

Gouging out one's eyes while spitting nails is a pretty complicated business, but it can be done -- take it from one who knows!

After the recent "Sense and Sensibility", it was suspected that Andrew Davies was insane. Now it is proved.

Emma Thompson, what are you doing in this movie!?!?

Poor Aloysius. We should rescue him.