Core Concepts: Brideshead Revisited - TV (1981) vs Film (2008)

Core Concepts explores a single aspect of a film or TV series, and how that concept has impacted the medium, why I think it is worth exploring.

Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh's masterpiece novel adapted to screen twice, once for British TV and again for film. The Core Concept this week is to determine the reasons why the film adaptation had the cards stacked against it from the beginning.

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