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1* BrokenBase: Over the 2008 film. Some fans enjoyed it and considered it a worthy period piece, while its detractors flamed its pacing, its casting, or for the introduction of a love triangle that was absent for the book. Others say that it can't be blamed for trying to fit Waugh's vast commentary into a two-hour film, preferring the much longer miniseries (which is lauded for its loyalty to the book).
2* EnsembleDarkhorse: Sebastian's teddy bear Aloysius. There was a fair bit of brouhaha when it was thought he would be absent from the movie.
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4** Charles and Sebastian's relationship is open to interpretation in the book; the miniseries takes it up to eleven while still retaining plausible deniability; and the movie makes Sebastian's sexuality/attraction to Charles explicit [[spoiler:via a chaste kiss]] while still keeping Charles's reciprocity ambiguous (and, predictably, [[ButNotTooGay playing up his attraction to Julia)]].
5** In both the miniseries and the movie, Sebastian and Anthony Blanche greet each other with a kiss on the lips.
6** Julia says of Charles' wife "Celia always had the most delicious looks of any girl in her year." Not the prettiest or the most beautiful, the most ''delicious''. Hmm.
7* MisaimedFandom: Brideshead Revisited is a story that, in Waugh's own words, is about "the operation of divine grace on a group of diverse but closely connected characters", where most of the main characters struggle with their faith before a final triumphant embracing of it. For the Catholic audience, the message is clear. To many others, [[FanMyopia it's all about the relationship between Sebastian and Charles.]] As a devout Catholic himself, Waugh would be vexed indeed by the fanbase that has developed around Brideshead.
8* ValuesDissonance: Cancels itself out in terms of attitudes towards Charles and Sebastian's relationship. In the time period when the book is set, homosexuality was taboo, ''but'' PseudoRomanticFriendship between men was still somewhat accepted. Thus, people tolerate the boys' friendship, not because they are accepting of homosexuality, but because they do not see it as homosexual.
9* TheWoobie: [[spoiler:Sebastian]] is a beautiful and lively young man at the beginning of the novel, but his family betrays him, his best friend betrays him, his lover is taken from him by the Nazis, and he spends the rest of his life as a hermetic hanger-on at an isolated monastery, with plenty of alcoholic misery along the way.

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