Brideshead Revisited

     

Brideshead Revisited2008

Stars: Matthew Goode, Thomas Morrison, David Barrass, Anna Madeley
Genre: Drama, Romance
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 133 minutes

Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a novel by English writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1945. It follows, from the 1920s to the early 1940s, the life and romances of the protagonist Charles Ryde… more »


Boy Markaster:
What do you want to be an artist for? I mean, what's the point of it? Why don't you just buy a bloody camera and take a bloody photograph and stop giving yourself airs? That's what I want to know.

Charles Ryder:
I don't give myself airs.

Boy Markaster:
Uh, yes, you do. And anyway you haven't answered my question. Come on! Answer! Answer! Answer!

Charles Ryder:
Because, a camera is a mechanical device which records a moment in time, but not what that moment means or the emotions that it evokes. Whereas, a painting, however imperfect it may be, is an expression of... feeling. An expression of love. Not just a copy of something.

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