The 2003 Stephen Fry film Bright Young Things was based on which author's novel Vile Bodies?
Bright Young Things (film) Bright Young Things (film) Bright Young Things is a 2003 British drama film written and directed by Stephen Fry. The screenplay, based on the 1930 novel "Vile Bodies" by Evelyn Waugh, provides satirical social commentary about the Bright Young People: young and carefree London aristocrats and bohemians, as well as society in general, in the late 1920s through to the early 1940s. This was the last film in which John Mills appeared before his death in 2005. The primary characters are earnest aspiring novelist Adam Fenwick-Symes and his fiancée Nina Blount. When Adam's novel "Bright Young Things", commissioned by tabloid
Bright Young Things (film) thought "Fry, so deft with lighthearted moments, seems uncomfortable with Waugh's moralizing, and more serious scenes fall flat". She added, ""Bright Young Things" is like a party girl on her fourth martini. What had been fun and frothy turns irretrievably maudlin". Peter Travers of "Rolling Stone" felt Fry was "clever" for adapting Waugh's novel "into a movie that would make Paris Hilton feel at home," although "By the time [he] lets darkness encroach on these bright young things…the fizz is gone, and so is any reason to make us give a damn". Derek Elley of "Variety" called the film "a