it's an adaptation. I hate how people dump on films like this and the new Alice in Wonderland movie because there's been another film(or T.V. series)based on the same book.
I can't believe it, the Twilight movie was better than the book!! :D
Id like to agree with you, but if its going to call itself Brideshead Revisted, it damn well better be Brideshead Revisted. Because of the book and said miniseries, there are expectations that the filmmakers need to fufill; sadly, they failed to meet most for me, and it seems other fans of the series agree.
Before I had read the book or watched the miniseries, I actually enjoyed the film very much. After reading the book though, and watching the miniseries, I can barely get through it because of the changes.
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Well then, if it happens to be "an adaptation", as you say, of the book named Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, then it is a very bad adaptation. Or maybe an adaptation made for a teenage -or teenage-minded- audience, that's possible as well.
shareThere's more than one type of adaption. There's the 'Harry Potter-esk' adaptions that seek to portray the book in celluloid, and there are the 'I like these aspects of the story, so what would happen if I focussed them in a different way' kind of adaption.
I agree with a previous poster saying perhaps the name should be changed, and I have wondered about that myself. For example, In My Father's Den was a fantastic film, but if you read the book, it goes in a completely different direction in a different era, and I thought that should have been named something else and perhaps have a subtitle stating "developed from characters and ideas depicted in In My Father's Den."
I enjoyed this version of BR, but had to suspend thinking about the book/miniseries and watch it as a seperate work.