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Brideshead Revisited the movie!

Brideshead Revisited is a 2008 dramatic film adaptation of the 1945 Evelyn Waugh novel of the same name, directed by Julian Jarrold.

This movie version focuses on forbidden love and the loss of innocence.

Ben Whishaw as Sebastian Flyte, left, and Matthew Goode as Charles Ryder, in the Brideshead Revisited film

 

The movie goes: aka plot

In the pre-WWII era in the UK, Charles Ryder (Matthew Goode) starts to study in Oxford. He befriends Sebastian Flyte (Ben Whishaw), who is an homosexual and alcoholic and, like Ryder, an atheist. Both proclivities are disapproved of by the noble Marchmain family to which Sebastian belongs. Ryder (Matthew Goode) becomes entranced by the family and their large and beautiful estate, in spite of the strict Catholicism of Lady Marchmain (Emma Thompson).

Ryder becomes increasingly interested in Sebastian’s sister Julia (Hayley Atwell). Sebastian is shocked when he sees them kissing, wanting Ryder’s love for himself. To Ryder’s regret she marries another man, a chancer. Lady Marchmain says she would not have agreed to a marriage with Ryder since he is an atheist.

Julia is unhappy with her husband and has an extramarital affair with Ryder. Sebastian’s allowance is rescinded. On one visit to Brideshead, Ryder gives Sebastian money with which he buys alcohol and gets drunk. Lady Marchmain is angry with Ryder and he implies that she causes Sebastian’s misery, which in turn makes him drink. Ryder is no longer welcome at the estate.

Sebastian repairs to Morocco where he fuels his drunkenness and, in turn, gets sick there. At the request of Lady Marchmain, who is terminally ill, Ryder visits him there and asks him to return. However, he is not well enough to travel, and would not like to return anyway.

‘Vivid performances’: The cast of the new Brideshead Revisited film, from left, Matthew Goode as Charles Ryder, Hayley Atwell as Julia Flyte, and Ben Whishaw as Sebastian Flyte-dailymail

 

Hot casts:

Emma Thompson as Lady Marchmain

Michael Gambon as Lord Marchmain

Ben Whishaw as Lord Sebastian Flyte

Matthew Goode as Charles Ryder

Greta Scacchi as Cara

Patrick Malahide as Mr. Ryder

Hayley Atwell as Lady Julia Flyte

Felicity Jones as Lady Cordelia Flyte

Joseph Beattie as Anthony Blanche

James Bradshaw as Mr. Samgrass

Emma Thompson as Lady Marchmain with Matthew Goode as Charles Ryder and Hayley Atwell as Julia Flyte behind

 

love can be so complicated: i love you, you want my sister, i want you all to my self. . . . s i g h

mothers. . . . . 

 

 

Brideshead Revisited Novel (a must read for all time sake)

Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a novel by the English writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1945. Waugh wrote that the novel “deals with what is theologically termed ‘the operation of Grace’, that is to say, the unmerited and unilateral act of love by which God continually calls souls to Himself”. This is achieved by an examination of the aristocratic Flyte family, as seen by the narrator, Charles Ryder.

Time Magazine included Brideshead Revisited in its list of “All-time 100 Novels.” In various letters, Waugh himself refers to the novel a number of times as his “magnum opus”; however, in 1950 he wrote to Graham Greene saying “I re-read Brideshead Revisited and was appalled.” In Waugh’s preface to the 1959 revised edition of Brideshead the author explains the circumstances in which the novel was written, in the six months between December 1944 and June 1945 following a minor parachute accident. He is mildly disparaging of the novel, saying; “It was a bleak period of present privation and threatening disaster — the period of soya beans and Basic English — and in consequence the book is infused with a kind of gluttony, for food and wine, for the splendours of the recent past, and for rhetorical and ornamental language which now, with a full stomach, I find distasteful.”

Brideshead Revisited was brought to the screen in the ITV drama serialisation of 1981, produced by Granada Television. A film in July 2008.

 

 

 

is it me or fiction, movies, drama & etc with homosexuality issues make it such a great story! And there is a saying that says: love is blind. . . . so whats so wrong about it at times? 

 

From left, Auberon, Alexander and ‘Brideshead’ writer Evelyn Waugh-dailymail

 

remarks:

Alexander Waugh was told his grandfather wrote Brideshead Revisited from personal experience. So the erotic new film version posed an awkward question: Did his Grandpapa really do that? makes you wonder how our parents get it on. . . . . or someone who -_-”

 

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movie trailer. . . . . .  awesome!

 

Penelope

 

Penelope is a 2008 comedy-fantasy film from Summit Entertainment and Stone Village Pictures directed by Mark Palansky. It stars Christina Ricci as Penelope, James McAvoy and Reese Witherspoon.

 

it goes:

Generations ago, an embittered witch placed a curse on the Wilhern family because their son had impregnated her daughter, one of their servants. The son offered marriage but his family refused and married him off to another. The witch’s daughter, overwrought, threw herself off a cliff. The witch then cursed the Wilherns in such a way that would result in the next girl born into the clan having the face of a pig. For generations, only sons were born into the family, until approximately twenty-five years ago when Penelope (Christina Ricci) was born, stricken with the curse. It is said that the curse can only be lifted if one of her own learns to love her, which is interpreted by her parents to mean a blueblood–i.e. a person from an established wealthy family.

sweet penelope, oh sweet penelope! EEEEKK! she a . . . .  .

When a tabloid reporter named Lemon (Peter Dinklage) begins stalking the family to get a photograph of the infant Penelope, her parents, Jessica (Catherine O’Hara) and Franklin (Richard E. Grant), cloister their daughter away in their mansion, where Penelope spends her life immersing herself in intellectual pursuits such as literature, horticulture and music. Now an adult, Penelope’s parents attempt to introduce her to possible rich suitors, hoping that one of them will fall in love with her and break the curse. Unfortunately, every man who lays eyes on the girl takes flight at first sight, never to return, including Edward Humphrey Vanderman III, a spoiled, cruel-hearted snob who finds her repulsive.

you havent had beer before?

Vanderman teams up with Lemon and the team goes out to find someone who can get into the house for a picture. They mistakenly take Johnny (James McAvoy), an unrepentant gambler with a heavy heart, for Max (Nick Frost), who agrees to help Lemon and Vanderman snatch a photograph of her for money. When “Max” meets Penelope, however, he is unexpectedly caught off guard by her disarming charm, and decides to renege on his agreement with Lemon and Vanderman, realizing that their attempt to exploit Penelope is repugnant. Penelope, however, interprets Max’s ambivalence to mean that he too finds her monstrous. She decides to flee the protection of her parents’ home, and journeys out into the city, naive and ignorant of the world from which she has been sequestered her entire life. Having no money, and seeing that Lemon and Vanderman are publicly offering a reward to anyone who can produce a photograph of her, she decides to collect on the reward by producing a photo of herself, essentially coming out of hiding to the public.

oooo the world!!!!- i wonder anyone could breath under that! only with a snout only with a snout!

Vanderman’s father, seeing the public’s fondness for Penelope and embarrassed by his son’s vocal cruelty toward her, coerces Edward into proposing to her. Penelope nearly marries him, but backs out of the wedding at the last minute. When her mother urges her to marry him, lest she be forced spend the rest of her life with her current appearance, Penelope exasperatedly tells her mother that she likes herself the way she is. At that moment, she is enveloped by magical energy, and when it dissipates, her pig snout and ears are gone.

Penelope moves on with her life, becoming a horticulturist and teacher, the spectacle of her former appearance forgotten by the public. At a costume party at which she wears a porcine mask, she meets Johnny, who, unaware of her transformation, apologizes for not being able to break her curse, although it is obvious he is still in love with her. After removing her mask and revealing that she had the power to break the curse all along, the two begin a romance.

i love a PIG!!!

The film ends with Johnny pushing Penelope on a swing after teaching a horticultural class. Lemon, the reporter, is about to take a picture on a nearby paddle boat and decides to call it even for once.

 

Hot Casts:

Christina Ricci as Penelope Wilhern

James McAvoy as “Max Campion”/Johnny Martin

Catherine O’Hara as Jessica Wilhern

Reese Witherspoon as Annie

Peter Dinklage as Lemon

Richard E. Grant as Franklin Wilhern

Simon Woods as Edward Vanderman III

Ronni Ancona as Wanda

Nick Frost as Max Campion

Lenny Henry as Krull

Nigel Havers as Edward Vanderman II

Burn Gorman as Larry

Russell Brand as Sam

John Voce as Duty Cop

 

One heck of a modern day love story. . . . to me its adorable pretty much like the movie babe!- anyone remember babe the piggy movie back in 1999 i think. . . . 

watch it for the warm feeling

the kind of feeling when ur swept off ur feet! 

 

penelope trailer. . .  sweet!

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