The Picture of Dorian Gray – Part 3 of 10
Synopsis: Dorian Gray (Peter Firth) is a privileged man who sits for artist Basil Hallward (Jeremy Brett). Gray is so happy with the results that he wishes he could look that way forever; Hallward tells him it could be so, but for a terrible price. Gray soon discovers that he no longer ages, but his portrait does instead, and as he becomes more corrupt and stops putting a check on his appetites, he discovers just how great a toll is portrait is forced to bear.
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Yes it is dated.
Yes it is dated.
in modern days this …
in modern days this dorian gray would be jus average.
How nice to see …
How nice to see Judi Bowker playing Sybil. She is a master of pathos.
GOSH I wish I lived …
GOSH I wish I lived back then… I would have been SO attractive. xD
Oscar Wilde …
Oscar Wilde libertarian?
FANTASTIC DIALOUGE! …
FANTASTIC DIALOUGE!!!!!
But What more to Exspect From Wilde………
That Sybil Vane is …
That Sybil Vane is a beautiful creature. She looks just like I thought she would.
Adoro i brutti. Ma …
Adoro i brutti. Ma chi si credono di essere questi “belli”. Superiori. A chi, a che cosa !!! Poveri ingenui illusi…
peter firth here is …
peter firth here is one limp wrist away from being the “oooh, suit you sir” guys from the fast show. his head looks like a potato that’s sprouted at one end. watching him and gielgud attempt their individual riffs on wilde’s quasi-homo skewering of the fin-de-siecle’s gentlemanly manners is the difference between a mallard landing gracefully on a river and a giant boulder being thrown into it. by alan carr. and a spastic.
are you just …
are you just checking the threads for this periodically to see if someone insulted your beloved peter firth? jesus
and anyone who gave my mengele comment a thumbs down deserves to be run over by a ten ton truck fully loaded with copies of wilde’s complete works
He’s much better …
He’s much better looking that Brett.
Just one problem
…
Just one problem
Dorian is freakishly ugly.
And look what that …
And look what that got him.
yeah yeah, I see. …
yeah yeah, I see. It seems those days they took it much more intellectualy. a man can love a woman or a man or both.
I agree. This …
I agree. This version brings out the intellectual stuff (which is, in fact, just shallowness) quite well and Dorian is well done. Yet I like the Dorian of the new version better^^
Not really.
Not really.
this is like the …
this is like the time i got challenged for my comment on a video about twin studies by JosefMengeleFan
He was excellent. …
He was excellent. Both Gielgud and Brett were far too old.
peter firth’s …
peter firth’s performance ruins this entire adaptation. what the is he doing
davicho, i don’t …
davicho, i don’t think they are ‘gay’. you are limiting and confining the characters. Just the thing Wild would hate. There’s a polymorphous sexuality to all of them. A result of the romantic movement which romanticized the way of the Greeks and the natural. Byron was in this category; He surely had been with men, but with women too. We can’t even label them as BI.Just an uninhibited idea of sexuality, amorphous, polymorphous, hedonistic. Modern categories are just as constricting as old ones
They can be gay …
They can be gay actors.. but that doesn`t mean that they have to act like gay. Sean Pean in Milk is not gay but he had to act like one in the movie.
The saccharine Judi …
The saccharine Judi Bowker!
He looks adorable!!!
He looks adorable!!!
There is a …
There is a difference between “effete” and gay. This Dorian is portrayed as an effete dilletante who can “use” anyone. Shallow and self-centered much like Oscar’s real-life love. The central \character here is well done.
So true! I just …
So true! I just read it and I thought so to. But i can very much indeed imagine even this Dorian to be in love Sibyl Vane!