More Waugh Blogging

Over at The New Criterion, Stefan Beck has horrible new tales to tell of a literally Godless production of Brideshead Revisited in the works.

This has provoked a burst of justified indignation from Enoch Soames, Esq., who, in turn, is now expecting Stephenesque Stephen to say something snide about Waugh just to jerk his chain. This should be highly entertaining.

But getting back to BR, even if it's true that, as Mom once remarked, Mr. Woo does sometimes have that little air as if he'd been the first at the Tomb when writing on religious matters, completely stripping that central theme out in order to focus on Charles and Julia snogging would be an abomination confirming his deepest mistrust of Hollywood.

Unfortunately, I can already hear the critics telling Waugh fans not to be such dorks. "In crafting a screenplay, it's important to put any work in a context that contemporary society can understand. Without this, it lacks any real relevance. Furthermore, the director is always within his right as an Artist to bring his vision of the work to his audience, whatever the quibblings of so-called purists. Besides, check out that shower scene!"