Free Ride

[oselle]

I worked late and was tired and couldn't face the subway trip home so I took the Long Island Railroad instead. It's a terrible splurge -- six bucks for a five-minute ride. My stop is the first one out of Penn Station so there's always a chance the conductor won't get around to me before I hit my stop. Which means I still have my unused ticket and it's good for six months. Today the conductor didn't get around to taking my ticket so I have six months to use that ticket again. And this was the best thing that's happened to me in a quite a while.

I think my life needs a serious readjustment. Or something.

Also

I read a review of the new and wholly inexplicable Brideshead feature film that said that in this version, Julia accompanies Sebastian and Charles to Venice. This is where Charles and Julia fall in love and this is what precipitates Sebastian's descent into alcoholic despair. And then Lady Marchmain forbids Julia and Charles from being together because Charles is an agnostic.

Is this possible??? I really want to see this movie just to see how completely shitty it is. It sounds AWFUL.

Comments

[mews1945.livejournal.com]

We have to take those little things as we get them. Life seems to do a lot more kicking us around than giving us cookies.

[oselle.livejournal.com]

I took the LIRR today and they didn't ticket me AGAIN!! So I still have that ticket! That means I'll get at least THREE rides out of it, which brings the per-ride cost down to only $2! Go me!!

[pearlette.livejournal.com]

Is this possible??? I really want to see this movie just to see how completely shitty it is. It sounds AWFUL.

You took the words right out of my mouth, darlin'. :)

The gorgeous -- and very moving -- ITV Granada miniseries of 1981 is probably the most perfect adaptation of a book, ever. Even if Charles is just as dislikable in the miniseries as he is in the book, LOL, and Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews are really too old for the parts ... it's still a fabulous production, so atmospheric you drown in it, completely immersed, and incredibly faithful to the seriousness of Waugh's Catholic theme. And, heck, there's homoeroticism in droves!

I've no doubt the new film will be very entertaining, in a horrid sort of way, but it will have nothing to do with the novel that Waugh wrote. At one point, apparently in a scene set in Venice, Michael Gambon's Lord Marchmain practically offers both Julia and Sebastian to Charles on a plate. Ugh. UGH!! This is Brideshead, you bastards, not some cheap 1920s imitation of Cruel Intentions! :(

Travesties like this make me thank the good Lord we Tolkienistas got PJ. I mean, really. Seriously. :)

[oselle.livejournal.com]

Michael Gambon's Lord Marchmain practically offers both Julia and Sebastian to Charles on a plate.

I think I read that some critic actually did compare it to Cruel Intentions. Sounds AWFUL. I mean unintentionally laughably AWFUL. What the shit is Julia even DOING in Venice, for crying out loud!? And OMG, Sebastian becomes a drunk because Charles falls in love with Julia? WTF!?

I should just save the $11 it would cost to see the movie and put it towards the miniseries DVD. My VHS tapes of it are just about worn out.

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

WTF.

And here I've been weirded out by the use of "Breathe Me" in the commercials, thinking that didn't fit Brideshead. Apparently nothing does!

[oselle.livejournal.com]

I think they took a brilliant and very complex book and made it into something more like Gossip Girl than Evelyn Waugh. It's actually kind of offensive the way they skirt the whole homosexual issue to focus on the Epic Love of Charles and Julia that didn't even happen until they were both in their thirties.