265 – Brideshead Revisited

This Had Oscar Buzz

Joe and Chris

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2023

⏱️ 150 minutes

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Summary

We all know that Oscar fawns over costume dramas of literary adaptations… or so we tell ourselves when forming predictions and one with a whiff of prestige arrives. In 2008, director Julian Jerrold delivered a new adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited with an up-and-coming young cast paired with Dame Emma Thompson as the devoutly religious Lady Marchmain. With Matthew Goode as the social climber Charles Ryder and Ben Whishaw and Hayley Atwell as the siblings he romances, the queer-inflected drama earned modest reviews and box office, with Thompson an outsider Supporting Actress contender through the season.

This episode, Thompson joins our six timers club and we discuss our love for the then-emerging Whishaw. We also look back at Goode’s career including the misbegotten Watchmen film, Atwell’s career outside of Marvel, and the surprising amount of time that has passed since Thompson’s last nomination.

Topics also include Brideshead riff Saltburn, pneumonia terminology, and 2008 queer cinema.

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0:00.0	The right house.
0:03.0	I didn't get nominated.
0:15.0	Mill and Heck and friends. I'm from Canada water.
0:25.0	I'm from Canada water. Dick Poohop. Who's that in the car with your mother? My sister. I take it you're not one of us.
0:47.0	I don't live like this if that's what you mean. He's here as my friend.
0:51.0	Don't you think he ought to know what he's getting into.
0:53.0	What do you imagine you were doing on this earth?
0:58.0	I want to look back and say that I didn't turn my back, that I was happy.
1:02.0	Mr. Ryder must stay with us for the rest of the vacation.
1:05.0	You seem to me a very reliable young man.
1:08.0	Hello and welcome to the This Hat Oscar Buzz podcast, The Only podcast being trained by first year expedition expert Elizabeth
1:15.1	DeBicke.
1:16.1	Every week on this had Oscar Buzz, we'll be talking about a different movie that once upon
1:19.5	a time had lofty Academy Award aspirations, but for some reason or another, it all went wrong.
1:25.3	The Oscar hopes died and we're here to perform the autopsy.
1:28.9	I'm your host, Chris File.
1:30.4	I'm here as always with my favorite freeloading bisexual Jovi.
1:35.0	That is honestly the best description I could possibly get for this movie,
1:42.0	considering the other options were unyielding Catholic and
1:48.0	Well that's true.
1:50.0	Noumatic. What do you call somebody who has pneumonia new
1:54.7	sick well I was going to say tuberculosis right it's it's pneumonia that that
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