#lady julia flyte

[justjudethoughts]

Okay, maybe this is too niche but right around the time TTPD dropped I was reading Brideshead Revisited and lost my mind because I realized a few of the songs were ridiculously Julia Flyte coded. So then I thought about ALL of Taylor's songs and realized a lot of them are Julia Flyte coded and so I made a Julia Flyte (Taylor's Version) playlist telling the story in chronological order and I feel like there has to be somebody who gets it.

[atwellfilm]

HAYLEY ATWELL is JULIA FLYTE in BRIDESHEAD REVISITED

[fantastictyphoonpeanut]

Classic 80s: British period miniseries ' Brideshead Revisited' (1981) - set between the years 1922-44 from the novel by Evelyn Waugh. Here Anthony Andres as Lord Sebastian, Aloysius (as himself), Diana Quick as Lady Julia Flyte and Jeremy Irons as Charles Ryder (FTP)

[asgoodeasgold]

If you 💜 Brideshead, check My Archive for more - I am blogging about the whole film.

I am starting a rewatch of the 2008 movie adaptation of Brideshead Revisited, a 1945 novel by Evelyn Waugh. This is my most loved Matthew Goode film, based on one of my favourite novels, so it is very close to my heart.

I’ll be using the Director’s Cut bluray.

The collage above shows Charles Ryder's journey from young innocence to loss, love found and disillusion.

📷 My edit from Brideshead Revisited (2008)

The cast of Brideshead Revisited (2008) is magnificent and includes, in addition to Matthew Goode (Charles Ryder), Hayley Awell (Julia Flyte), Ben Wishaw (Sebastian Flyte), Emma Thompson (Lady Marchmain) and Michael Gambon (Lord Marchmain). Emma Thompson took the young actors, who really got on well together, under her wings.

📷 My edit from Brideshead Revisited 📀 bonus features

Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a 1945 novel by Evelyn Waugh. It follows, from the 1920s to the early 1940s, the life and romances of Charles Ryder, his encounter with the aristocratic Flytes and their beautiful stately home Brideshead and his journey of discovery. It explores themes around nostalgia for the past and English nobility, happiness, love and loss and Catholic faith and guilt.

The novel (and film) start and end with older bittersweet Charles as an officer during the war billetted at Brideshead and reminiscing about the past.

📷 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brideshead_Revisited

Brideshead Revisited was turned into a stupendous 11-part mini-series in 1981 by Granada TV with Jeremey Irons and Anthony Andrews. It is an excellent adaptation which received critical acclaim. A high bar for the cast and crew of the 2008 movie who must have felt the weight of history on their shoulders.

Trailer:

https://youtu.be/_ZtPGYLEzpw

📷 My edit from Brideshead Revisited and IMDB

Brideshead Revisited was directed by Julian Jarrold and cinematography is by Jess Hall (both pictured with Matthew Goode). The screenplay is by Jeremy Brock and Andrew Davies. I think the film is a cinematographic gem and feast for the eyes. It’s a shame it got a lukewarm reception. I think the comparisons with an 11-part miniseries, which had the time to unfold the story, are unfair. The film had to condense quite a lot of the book and made some adaptive choices which may be seen as a departure from the novel but it remains, in my view, true to the spirit of the book and is a very good adaptation in its own right.

📷 My edit from Brideshead Revisited 📀 bonus features

The main locations for Brideshead Revisited are Oxford, Venice and Castle Howard, a stately home in Yorkshire. The miniseries used Castle Howard for Brideshead so the director Julian Jarrold hesitated about reusing it, wanting to forge his own path. But he decided to go for it in the end as it fits the descriptions in the book and the baroque architecture “instinctively evokes Catholicism”.

It is a stunning place and one understands why Charles Ryder fell under its spell.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Howard

📷 My edit from Brideshead Revisited 📀 bonus features

The original score for Brideshead Revisited was written by Adrian Johnston and is one of my many favourite things about the film. It is beautiful and mirrors wonderfully all the emotions of hope, loss, heartbreak and nostalgia from the story.

Here are a few samples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjq62bxvWE8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chp7LszUYp8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2YXscQND64 

[dressedwonderfully]

Hayley Atwell as Lady Julia Flyte in Brideshead Revisited (2008)

[kingsofjiiron]

brideshead revisited (2008) dir. julian jarrold

It was my fault for bringing you to Brideshead. Run away. Run far away and don't ever look back.

8/10

[teabooksandsweets]

I usually think of Susan Pevensie in relation to Julia Flyte (and Nadine Eliot – in fact, a sort of arc that works older Susan first through Julia’s and then Nadine’s developments would be fascinating to me) but now I also think of her in relation to Charles Ryder, specifically in her relation to CSL. Because the opposites are the same !!!

First things first, I am comparing Susan’s (lack of) faith in Narnia and Aslan to their religious beliefs, because I am awfully tired of the “girlboss susan freed herself of religion” bullshit takes. Susan, for all we know, could be a perfect little church goer, a nice parish lady, shaking her head at her immature siblings who believe in all sorts of heathen playthings... but I digress. (Nylons and lipsticks and invitations are not sex and maturity... they are merely Rex Mottram!)

Susan sees herself about faith in Narnia, because she’s oh-so mature and rational. Those were CSL’s early arguments against faith and – Charles’ as well.

In a way, it was Logic, a Professor Kirke approach, that first made CSL doubt himself.

“Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.”

was what he said when he found that there were many very intelligent, rational, logical men of faith. At the same time, men who were fairly secure, confident, calm in their beliefs.

Would it be people like them who’d help Susan understand herself and the worlds? Perhaps. But Professor Kirke, it seems, could not change her mind.

And now I think of Charles... and the beautifully absurd way he found his way to God through the least likely people... Sebastian, whose trouble was that he simply couldn’t NOT believe, whose own faith was founded in a sort of child-like romance, despite being the worst example of a “good Catholic” an atheist would likely think of. Or because of it.

“I suppose they try to make you believe an awful lot of nonsense?” “Is it nonsense? I wish it were. It sometimes sounds terribly sensible to me.” “But my dear Sebastian, you can’t seriously believe it all.” “Can’t I?” “I mean about Christmas and the star and the three kings and the ox and the ass.” “Oh yes, I believe that. It’s a lovely idea.” “But you can’t believe things because they’re a lovely idea.” “But I do. That’s how I believe.”

Susan could easily be Charles in this dialogue, supposing it were about Narnia. I was nearly saying Sebastian could be Lucy, but Lucy wouldn’t keep it at that. Eustace, perhaps. Perhaps someone else entirely. The significant thing is that this was, in a way, the first step of what would be years, decades, of Charles journey. Not solid reasoning, but a lovely idea.

And to someone who claims to be so logical, so level-headed, reasoning works well, to a certain degree – but they will also always want to reason against it, and they skilled at that. Mere expressions of faith don’t interest them. But they might catch them off-guard.

Cordelia explained vocations to Charles in a similar manner:

“If you haven't a vocation it's no good however much you want to be; and if you have a vocation, you can't get away from it, however much you hate it.”

In a way, one could argue that Susan has something akin to a vocation. She is Queen of Narnia, always will be. It was the duty Aslan assigned her. At first, she did not want it – then she came to love it – until she denied it. But it always remained a part of her, no matter much she lied to herself and to the world.

Having, and hating it, as Cordelia talked about her brothers:

“Bridey thinks he has a vocation and hasn’t. l used to think Sebastian had and hated it, but I don’t know now.”

Cordelia is the youngest daughter, cheerful, her faith indomitable. Bridey is the oldest, dutiful even though his faith isn’t easy. Sebastian is the younger brother, the “problem child”, and his own spirituality is deeper than he likes it himself. Julia is the beautiful, worldly older daughter, who claims to have lost all faith. But we know how this ends...

“I've always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy.”

I know the most obvious aspect of Charles’ unhappy love for Julia is her similarity to Sebastian... but truly, I think a large part of his supposed love for Julia is her similarity to him. And she denied him, finally, because she returned to a faith that he would eventually find. (Note: one of the reasons I heavily associate Julia with Nadine, but that’s OT)

The difference is that Charles has never lost any faith. He just never took Faith itself seriously, he laughed at it as child’s play. Susan did the same with Narnia, because after losing her faith, she lost all memory of ever having it – she wasn’t lasped, Narnia, to her, had always been a game. She was like a victim of serious manipulation – done by herself (and who knows what Screwtapish influence on her) – and the eventual result was that she thought of herself as someone who never truly believed in Narnia and in Aslan –

and who doesn’t think anyone seriously did. Her siblings were still playing! How jolly! But she had better things to do.

But Charles Ryder was not driven to become a Catholic by a happy family of model Catholics. The Flytes were as imperfect as they could be, and all of them in a different way, but that was what made him understand. And I wonder... maybe that would not suffice for Susan either.

In a part yes – when she had truly grown more mature, than serious talk with someone who understood Narnia and Aslan well, who believed and was perfectly reasonable, would have been a great influence on her. But at the same time, I think to truly wake out of her trance of supposed grown-upness would be the a clear contact with imperfect faith in a True Thing. A memory of Peter, who made a quiet effort, of Edmund who repented and learned, of Lucy, who believed blindly, almost savagely, and of herself, who had doubted so often, and who had always found her doubts to be wrong.

What Susan needs is, perhaps, a plain statement she could never reason or argue against: Narnia is a beautiful idea. If it is real, it is a beautiful idea. If it is not, it is a beautiful idea.

Puddleglum knew this. The Lady of the Green Kirtle could not take this one thing away from him – that voice inside Susan that is so very much like the Lady might be defeated by such a simple truth. Perhaps her siblings’ games are much more worth than all her grown up ideas. And if they are – if this realisation is the beginning of her journey, where will the road take her?

[aconissa]

Blorbo game: Brideshead lol

blorbo (favourite character, character I think about the most): obviously OBVIOUSLY sebastain flyte!! he is in my heart always

scrunkly (my “baby”, character that gives me cuteness aggression, character that is So Shaped): I want to pay anthony blanche to follow me everywhere and comment on my every move like I'm a creature in a nature documentary. he brings me such joy

scrimblo bimblo (underrated/underappreciated fave): julia flyte. tumblerinas may forget you exist because they ignore the plot post-sebastian but I would die for you in a heartbeat. the 'here on the stairs, a minute to say goodbye' scene is one of my favourite in the whole novel

glup shitto (obscure fave, character that can appear in the background for 0.2 seconds and I won’t shut up about it for a week): cara may have not-even-legally married into the flytes but she still carries literally all the braincells for the whole family

poor little meow meow (“problematic” unpopular controversial otherwise pathetic fave): I feel like a lot of people hate charles ryder and ngl I want to smack him for half the shit he does but I also understand him on a fundamental level and thus must love him

horse plinko (character I would torment for fun, for whatever reason): bridey. but like many a weird catholic, he'd probably like it :/

eeby deeby (character I would send to superhell): lady marchmain die in a hole challenge

send me a fandom

[yes-svetlana-world]

Breaking: #LucaGuadagnino who made acclaimed #CallMeByYourName film will direct his adaptation of #EvelynWaugh #BridesheadRevisited for @BBCOne @HBO & @mammothscreen . Stars #AndrewGarfield-CharlesRyder; @josalw  - Sebastian Flyte & #RooneyMara - Lady Julia. 1/2 2:12 AM · Nov 6, 2020·Twitter for iPho

Baz Bamigboye@BazBam

[fuzzysparrow]

In the works of Evelyn Waugh, what is the ancestral home of Lord Marchmain?

'Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder' is the title of a novel by Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) written in 1945. The title, often shortened to 'Brideshead Revisited', refers to Brideshead Castle, the ancestral home of the fictional Lord Marchmain.

The story is narrated by Charles Ryder, whose path repeatedly crosses those of various members of the Marchmain family. Ryder is a student at the University of Oxford, where he makes friends with Sebastian Flyte, the younger son of the Marchmain family. Sebastian invites Charles to Brideshead Castle to meet his family during the holidays.

Lord Marchmain is a converted Roman Catholic, and religion is often talked about in the story. Lady Marchmain is a very strict Catholic and tries to control others by making them feel guilty. As a result, Sebastian finds comfort by drinking alcohol and distances himself from the family. Meanwhile, Charles falls in love with Sebastian's sister, Julia.

Brideshead Castle is set in the English County of Wiltshire. In the 1981 television version of 'Brideshead Revisited', Castle Howard in North Yorkshire was used as the setting for Brideshead Castle. It was also used in the 2008 film adaptation of the book.

Evelyn Waugh used experiences that he had in his own life and often made satirical fun of the British aristocracy. Waugh was also a convert to Catholicism, which is why religion often appeared in his work.

[oppossums]

What are you listening to? From A-Z list your song of choice then tag a friend. I was tagged by the lovely @existentialfig 💖

A Love Song Seven Ways - Benjamin Lazar Davis

Boy - lanclier

Cosmic Lottery - Evergreen

Dying Alone - American Pets

End of August - Carter Hodge

Firelight - Hundred Waters

Golden Delilah - Little Tybee

Hate Myself (voice memo) - dodie

If We’re Being Honest - Novo Amor

Julia - Yellow Ostrich

Kyoto - Phoebe Bridgers

LEMONS - Nick Leng

Ms. Siren - Austin Feinstein

New Song - Maggie Rogers, Del Water Gap

Oh Honey - Neighbor Lady

(Here’s to the) Prom Queen - Peter McPoland

Question - Fat Night

The Rock Doc - Fruit Bats

Stella Brown - Jelani Aryeh

Town of Pray - Kishi Bashi

Under the Skin - Flyte

Vanessa - Del Water Gap

Wooden Eyes - Oketo

XS - Rina Sawayama

You Seemed so Happy - The Japanese House

Zenith - Synead

I’m tagging @leena301 and uhhh @willowiswriting idk who else would want to do it 😭

[eutermesan]

brideshead revisited annoys me because it’s not gay enough. like i know it’d seem like i’m just saying this because i’m gay but listen: it’s supposed to be like, a throwback to that lovely era with nice dresses and wealth when everyone was happy because we’d recently won the great war. but then it’s also showing how shit that is. the marchmain/flyte/i don’t know how their names work family are extremely, ridiculously wealthy, but they have a shitload of problems: the father lives in venice with his girlfriend, the mother is a controlling, religious fanatic who thinks that she’s oppressed for being rich while also believing that she will nevertheless go to heaven because of just how devoted she is (genuinely the line where Charles is like ‘what about that bit where the bible says “it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for the wealthy to enter the kingdom of God”’ and Lady Marchmain’s response is ‘well the point is it’s extremely UNLIKELY but still possible’). Also, they have no means of income so while they obviously are super rich and everything they do have that hanging over their heads of ‘one day, probably soon, we literally are going to be in poverty’.

Then, Sebastian, the middle child (i can’t actually remember off the top of my head whether he’s older or younger than Julia) is hella gay. now, you can quote canon to me and all that, but he IS gay, he IS gay for Charles (whether Charles reciprocated is another matter but i 100% believe that in the canon of the book, the tv series, and obviously the film, Sebastian is gay). in the film this is explicit in him trying to kiss Charles twice, and also the conversation we see with Lady Marchmain when he’s crying which is probably her telling him that he’s committing adultery with Charles because she thinks he thinks about screwing him or whatever. Sebastian is also depressed and an alcoholic, eventually (the book and tv series kind of blend this as happening because of public humiliation and how much of a bitch his mother is, whereas the film frames it more as happening because he’s being forced into a kind of conversion therapy by his mother, and also because Charles rejects him).

So this COULD be a book about being gay in the 1920s and how that was pretty shit in all likelihood, but then it changes tack partway through and becomes about Charles and Julia. Which is annoying because it’s like Waugh goes ‘yeah this gay character has gone to this random country and contracted a disease and yeah that’s the last we see of that guy’. And also, i know it’s kind of the point of the book which is that it ends badly for Charles and his life is basically shittier for having ever met the Marchmains/Flytes, but it’s still unsatisfying.

Also, Charles kind of goes into  it thinking he can influence Sebastian’s family. Sebastian is like, my siblings are decent enough but my mum will just try and control you too. And it’s never exactly made explicit, like ‘well i’m instead going to try and control HER, charles thought’ but it’s obvious he goes into it trying to play the devil’s advocate to Lady Marchmain, sort of. he walks in saying he doesn’t believe in God (in the book and tv series when Lady Marchmain learns this, he kind of nervously goes ‘agnostic, actually’, and in  the film it’s Lady Marchmain who says ‘agnostic, surely?’ and he smiles and goes ‘nope’ which i think is so funny), and he’s saying he wants to be an artist and all that. but it ends up that he was controlled after all. he was sort of turned against Sebastian, he fought the Marchmains to be able to marry Julia but then she left him for her family. So the Marchmains always get what they want (except in the case of Sebastian, but out of sight out of mind, right?). And also I choose to believe there’s sort of, read-between-the-lines stuff going on because (yes this is kind of delving into headcanon a bit but bear with me) Charles knows Sebastian is gay, maybe they sleep together, maybe they don’t, but anyway Charles and Sebastian end up abandoning each other. Sebastian runs away from his family and Charles ends up running towards it. and i know the book isn’t about gay people, like it isn’t Maurice or anything, but if we just focus on the book (because like i’ve said, the film is explicit with it), the subtext really IS there. having Sebastian and then Charles being friends with the canonically gay Anthony Blanche is put in there, in my opinion, to put the idea of gayness in our minds and then connect that idea to Sebastian. and i’d actually argue the tv series goes further than the book. like, i’ve watched the first half of the series twice, and the second time i remember thinking ‘oh wait this is deadass really gay’. and obviously the film’s creators didn’t pull gayness out of their arses, they must’ve seen the subtext in there and decided to make it a bit more explicit.

tl:dr: brideshead revisited is hella gay and anyone who says it isn’t is wrong

[royalfoibles]

F****d Up Royal, or in this case Imperial, Marriages #49

The romantic travails Lady Mary Lygon not only wouldn’t have been out of place in an Evelyn Waugh novel, but it’s generally agreed he modeled the character of Lady Julia Flyte from his novel, Brideshead Revisited, after Mary, whom he befriended in the early ’30s, around the time she was being courted by Prince George, youngest surviving son of George V. This courtship likely would’ve turned into…

[georgefancys]

okay so morse's dysfunctional family actually fits pretty well with sebastian flyte's. if i make joyce julia, gwen lady marchmain, and then just have his dad there. so then i was thinking what about the venice scene, because constance should still be dead, but i want venice to happen because that's an important bit imo. so this brings me onto...

constance morse had a lesbian lover in venice and that's who they go to visit

[themaninthegreenshirt]

Hayley Atwell at Castle Howard [Lady Julia Flyte in Brideshead]

[bisluthq]

Glamour UK seems to think Brideshead Revisited is still a go.

https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/audrey-hepburn-biopic-rooney-mara-news-cast-trailer

"Guadagnino and Mara are also working together on a mini TV series which looks to be a retelling of period drama and novel Brideshead Revisted, which is due to be released this year.

Cate Blanchett, Andrew Garfield, Ralph Fiennes and Taylor Swift's beau Joe Alwyn are also set to join its cast. Mara will play Lady Julia Flyte, a debutante who grapples with the pressures of religion. Deep stuff."

I mean they’re just basing this on what’s been said dude like that’s the official stance according to like IMDB and stuff and who’s gonna like phone Luca to basically do a press release write up.

Only Luca fucking knows.