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TerminalNewEnglander
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| First Name: | Bill W. | | Gender: | Male | | Faith History: | Cradle Catholic; Lapsed Catholic; quasi-UCC; Reverted Catholic. |
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Posted: Sun Aug 3rd, 2008 01:00 am |
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A theatrical remake of the Evelyn Waugh novel just got a limited release. I've never read the book or seen the 1981 PBS miniseries, but I saw this new movie version last night with my wife. Should be good fodder for some discussion.
Here's the USCCB review: http://www.usccb.org/movies/b/brideshead.shtml
After reading this review, I'm now thinking I should read the book or see the miniseries in order to better understand how this portayal of the story compares.
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mg57
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Posted: Mon Aug 4th, 2008 06:17 pm |
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Another review of Brideshead Revisited by Barbara Nicolosi, - scroll to Saturday August 2, -
http://www.churchofthemasses.blogspot.com/
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Intercessor
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Posted: Mon Aug 4th, 2008 06:56 pm |
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TerminalNewEnglander wrote:
A theatrical remake of the Evelyn Waugh novel just got a limited release. I've never read the book or seen the 1981 PBS miniseries, but I saw this new movie version last night with my wife. Should be good fodder for some discussion.
Here's the USCCB review: http://www.usccb.org/movies/b/brideshead.shtml
After reading this review, I'm now thinking I should read the book or see the miniseries in order to better understand how this portayal of the story compares.
Bill, I haven't read the book. A friend shared that he could not get through all the "praising Oxford" passages.
The miniseries is fabulous--gorgeous cinematography, brilliant performances; I've lost track of how many times I've seen it. The Lord used that miniseries to help draw me to the Church.
One heads-up in case you have kids or grandkids around--You won't want them watching the bedroom scene (between Jeremy Irons and Diana Quick) that occurs in the shipboard episode.
Grace and peace,
Becky
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TerminalNewEnglander
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Posted: Tue Aug 5th, 2008 03:40 am |
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mg57 wrote: Another review of Brideshead Revisited by Barbara Nicolosi, - scroll to Saturday August 2, -
http://www.churchofthemasses.blogspot.com/
This is most interesting, written by someone who sounds very knowledgable about the novel, and an apparently devoted Catholic. Apparently, the story has been changed markedly, transfoming it from something very supportive of Catholicism into something quite the opposite ... for the most part.
There are some comments posted against this review, many by people who haven't even seen the movie. Part of what I posted there:
"As offended as I was during much of the movie, I will say that the Flyte family's Catholicism -- as ill-conceived as it may have been -- was portrayed as having triumphed in the end, though the damage had already been done. It's as if they wanted to finish on a positive note just so they could claim it wasn't a total Catholic bash. Here's three examples from the last few moments of the film: The father crosses himself just prior to death, Julia declines any further relationship with Charles so as to not cut herself off from His mercy, and Charles balks when contemplating snuffing out a candle in the Brideshead chapel years later."
Where I say "the damage had already been done," I mean the anti-Catholic theme of the movie had already been made clear.
Charles, an atheist, is maybe at least respectful of the Faith in the end, demonstrating this by refraining from snuffing out a candle that's in front of a statue of the Blessed Mother. Maybe he's even touched...
Julia and Charles are each married. Though Julia's husband has agreed to an annulment, there's no way the atheist Charles can split with his wife to be with Julia in a way acceptable to the Church. Julia decides it's more important to remain in communion with the Church, so bids farewell to Charles, the love of her life.
The most touching seen is when Julia's father, on his death bed and surrounded by family on bended knee, at first resists the presence of a priest, who has been brought in to administer Reconciliation, but ultimately gives in and crosses himself.
But, by the time all this happens, the typical anti-Catholic bigot sitting in the audience has already had his prejudices reconfirmed, so the totality of this ending probably doesn't do much to dissuade that. Too bad. This movie could have been an effecitve vehicle in the right hands.
Some good news here is that this movie is not doing well at the box office.
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