why bother?

apparently there's a film version of "brideshead revisited" in the works, featuring emma thompson (presumably as the gelid lady marchmain). can't see the point. the 1981 granada version is near enough to ideal. the comparison is bound to be invidious. like that awful, miscast keira knightley "pride and prejudice". again, the bbc version made not long before was excellent. if the original can't be bettered, don't try.

i'd rather see waugh's "decline and fall" or "scoop" made into a feature.

the point of "brideshead", or one of the points anyway, was to show the awkward position of england's recusant catholics living "in partibus infidelium". living in protestant england, but apart from protestant england. strangers as it were in their own country. i imagine that's how all christians must feel in england now. especially having to witness the undergraduate antics of the archbishop of canterbury.