RL and then Brideshead Revisited
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redfiona99Well, I've learnt to put on mascara and lipstick so I shan't totally show Rachael and Dan up at their wedding.
Brideshead Revisited:
Okay, so I'm seriously considering renting out the new Brideshead Revisited because Matthew Goode was not terrible as Ozymandis. Which might sound arse-backwards but I'm very persnikity about such things because Brideshead does things to me, it's one of the few books where I feel like throwing the book at a wall because of the characters. For something where a lot of the major emotions are elided and a whole lot of it is about repression, it's very intense.
And the ITV version is awesome. It un-elides scenes that need more explanation, but it hits the same buttons. Seriously, it took me about three goes to get through the episode after where it all goes to hell ... it gets worse.
And I am stupidly, excessively protective of Sebastian. Dear sweet golden boy. His entire character hits me where it hurts. Repeatedly. With the dull, continual throbbing of recognition. He's one of the reasons I don't drink that much (the other one is Charles Stringham, my other dear sweet lost boy). So when I hear that he's being played by someone who is playing him effettely, I get a little annoyed because the whole point is that he's not effette, the only person in the book that is is Anthony Blanche, and the whole point is that Anthony is not one of us/them and has his obvious homosexuality and that he's decidedly foreign mark him out and get him into more trouble than either one separately would, while Sebastian is weird but still one of us/them. Like an awful lot of lit, it's all about social class, and that if they change that they're going to miss out on an awful lot of the subtleties in the book.
Part of my fears are assuaged by how prominantely they feature Lady Marchmain on the publicity, because while I might hate the harridan (um, I think I've previously mentioned that no part of me is sane on this topic), she's vitally important.
That they've got a decent actor in to play Charles in all his changable "glory", (See previous re: sanity. I loathe Charles because I loathe the way I've let down friends in the past - see also: hits me where it hurts.) makes me happy. I still worry that they'll mess with it in a bad way, but I'm now willing to give it a go on its own terms.
Brideshead Revisited:
Okay, so I'm seriously considering renting out the new Brideshead Revisited because Matthew Goode was not terrible as Ozymandis. Which might sound arse-backwards but I'm very persnikity about such things because Brideshead does things to me, it's one of the few books where I feel like throwing the book at a wall because of the characters. For something where a lot of the major emotions are elided and a whole lot of it is about repression, it's very intense.
And the ITV version is awesome. It un-elides scenes that need more explanation, but it hits the same buttons. Seriously, it took me about three goes to get through the episode after where it all goes to hell ... it gets worse.
And I am stupidly, excessively protective of Sebastian. Dear sweet golden boy. His entire character hits me where it hurts. Repeatedly. With the dull, continual throbbing of recognition. He's one of the reasons I don't drink that much (the other one is Charles Stringham, my other dear sweet lost boy). So when I hear that he's being played by someone who is playing him effettely, I get a little annoyed because the whole point is that he's not effette, the only person in the book that is is Anthony Blanche, and the whole point is that Anthony is not one of us/them and has his obvious homosexuality and that he's decidedly foreign mark him out and get him into more trouble than either one separately would, while Sebastian is weird but still one of us/them. Like an awful lot of lit, it's all about social class, and that if they change that they're going to miss out on an awful lot of the subtleties in the book.
Part of my fears are assuaged by how prominantely they feature Lady Marchmain on the publicity, because while I might hate the harridan (um, I think I've previously mentioned that no part of me is sane on this topic), she's vitally important.
That they've got a decent actor in to play Charles in all his changable "glory", (See previous re: sanity. I loathe Charles because I loathe the way I've let down friends in the past - see also: hits me where it hurts.) makes me happy. I still worry that they'll mess with it in a bad way, but I'm now willing to give it a go on its own terms.
