Brideshead Revisited: The Movie. Mostly it condenses the right things. I'm ashamed to say where it goes wrong. it's that Sebastian Flyte is too gay from the beginning. He's too effeminite, too much an accumulation of all the stereotypes of the day and today. Considering that Charles eventually falls in love with his sister-he's mostly straight--this is a fatal mistake. Sebastian must intrigue and seduce Charles Ryder. You have to believe that Charles becomes fascinated by Sebastian and then, like a lottery winner, discovers he is connected to wealth and power and hereditory freedom. But the movie, in making Sebastian a problem so quickly, turns Charles into a bigger sort of predator. He indulges Sebastian and then, boom, he sees it in. The joy of the miniseries and the novel is to see a straight guy fascinated by another man for a sustained period before the bling comes out.