tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116085973306668397.post4286651176632161004..comments2023-11-06T18:49:51.851-08:00Comments on Admiral Cod: Wine & HopeLaguna Beach Fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08027025872132699493noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116085973306668397.post-4199031036278561922012-12-07T14:29:16.587-08:002012-12-07T14:29:16.587-08:00Do I dare even to view the more recent version whe...Do I dare even to view the more recent version when the Irons version inhabits such a perfect location in my mind?<br /><br />Leave out the Catholic aspects? What's the point of the story without it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116085973306668397.post-30236822856452880232012-12-06T08:16:58.444-08:002012-12-06T08:16:58.444-08:00When I first saw the TV version of Brideshead, I p...When I first saw the TV version of Brideshead, I phoned one of my brothers and said, you must see this. Why? You'll hear English spoken as you've never heard it before. How's that? Properly. <br />DEK, I saw 5-10 minutes of the recent movie. It was unbearably awful. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116085973306668397.post-68390603407967320872012-12-06T05:49:59.919-08:002012-12-06T05:49:59.919-08:00Yes, of course: the mixture of the wines. I think ...Yes, of course: the mixture of the wines. I think those lines were my first alert that Brideshead was something special. And can you imagine an undergraduate plausibly saying such a thing today, whatever his school? Even in Waugh’s time this was a lost world he was taking us to.<br />My wife and I watch the Jeremy Irons version every New Year’s Day with champagne and runny cheese. There was a new version made recently. I read that the persons in charge said that they intended to leave out all that Catholic stuff. Unsurprisingly, this new version seems to have disappeared without a trace.DEKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15017391447185559177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116085973306668397.post-28925800917651330112012-12-05T13:23:20.901-08:002012-12-05T13:23:20.901-08:00I trust that you will forgive my friend. The wines...I trust that you will forgive my friend. The wines were too various. It was neither the quality nor the quantity that was at fault - it was the mixture. Grasp that and you have the very root of the matter. To understand all is to forgive all. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com