Sturridge’s strawberry picnic in Brideshead Revisited is mainly faithful to Waugh’s novel. Sebastian Flyte and Charles Ryder’s idyllic picnic and intensely close friendship is a moment of respite in their otherwise often messy lives. Particularly Sebastian’s. Sebastian is gay but Charles is not. .He is attracted to Sebastian because he wants friendship and not passion. 
According to Waugh and Sturridge, Sebastian quickly gets Charles to cut class at Oxford for a day in the country. He announces, “I’ve got a motor car, a basket of strawberries, and a bottle of Chateau Peyraguey—which isn’t a wine you’ve ever tasted, so don’t pretend. It’s heaven with strawberries.” Charles later agrees, “They were delicious together.”
While Charles moons, the slightly drunk Sebastian looks up at the sky, remarking (mainly to himself), “Just the place to bury a crock of gold,” he says, “I should like to bury something precious in every place where I’ve been happy and then when I was old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.”
The cast:Jeremy Irons as Charles Ryder; Anthony Andrews as Sebastian Flyet.
Featured Image: Jeremy Irons as Charles Ryder; Anthony Andrews as Sebastian Flyte; and Aloysius as Sebastian’s teddy bear is on the left.
See Evelyn Waugh. Brideshead Revisited. London: Chapman and Hall, 1945; Charles Sturridge. Brideshead Revisited (1981). The screenplay by John Mortimer is based on Evelyn Waugh’s novel (1945), Julian Jarrold. Brideshead Revisited (2008). Screenplay by Andrew Davies, Jeremy Brock based on Evelyn Waugh’s novel (1945); https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H5Z5IhcgdY