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"The Picture of Dorian Grey" to be released as a film in September

post #1 of 16
8/11/09 at 4:44pm
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Yet another film based on literature:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1235124/

Any Wilde fans out there? And I wonder how they will follow the real book...

I heard they are creating a gratuitous character for a love interest or something.
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post #2 of 16
8/11/09 at 5:19pm
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Originally Posted by Primrose View Post

Yet another film based on literature:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1235124/

Any Wilde fans out there? And I wonder how they will follow the real book...

I heard they are creating a gratuitous character for a love interest or something.

I was a bit obsessed and went throught a Floris Malmaison stage last year

Looking forward to this. But, a love interest? sigh.
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post #3 of 16
8/11/09 at 5:37pm
I appreciate the - perhaps unintentional - double-meaning in the title ( "picture" being another word for film or movie ).
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post #4 of 16
8/11/09 at 6:01pm
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This is one of a long list of films/TV shows with the Dorian Gray theme, probably the most famous being the 1945 film "The Picture of Dorian Gray" with George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed, Angela Lansbury and Peter Lawford
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post #5 of 16
8/11/09 at 6:24pm
THE greatest Decadent novel of all time.
There's something about his descriptive style: " And in the garden the flowers were tremulous."
Which reminds me that I'm not reading Hemingway.

( Or for that matter, Poe. The juxtaposition of the seemingly airy and charming combined with absolute evil.)

Let's hope they did a good job.

Cheers,

Mario
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post #6 of 16
8/11/09 at 6:34pm
For a moment I thought you had discovered the hideous painting of myself in the attick. (LOL)
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post #7 of 16
8/11/09 at 7:09pm
I really hope they remain true to the work of Wilde. I hate when they take absurd liberties with classics and add a superfluous side story, as if the original is not intriguing enough.

Hope no one finds that rotting old painting of me hidden deep within an old overgrown forest, in a desolate ramshackle old barn, with a hidden panel in the...oops!!! Too much info.
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post #8 of 16
8/12/09 at 12:10am
At first I though: "Oh, no. Not another Dorian Grey film", but then, after seeing some of the stills on imdb, I'm almost sure this could turn out just great.
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post #9 of 16
8/12/09 at 5:02am
Yay! Just my cup of tea. I hope with Brielle that they do justice to Wilde.
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post #10 of 16
8/12/09 at 8:03am
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Yay! Just my cup of tea. I hope with Brielle that they do justice to Wilde.

I come down on the side with Lilybelle and Brielle87. I hope they stick to Wilde's original intentions. You never can be sure with Hollywood.
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post #11 of 16
8/12/09 at 4:25pm
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I come down on the side with Lilybelle and Brielle87. I hope they stick to Wilde's original intentions. You never can be sure with Hollywood.

Ah, but this isn't Hollywood; it's Ealing Studios. In fact, at this time, the film doesn't even have a US distributor. This is put together by the same fellow (Oliver Parker) who did The Importance of Being Earnest several years ago. I think it's best to expect a similar treatment, try to appreciate his efforts to spin this for a contemporary audience, and try not to get too angry with the results.
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post #12 of 16
8/23/09 at 7:33pm
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Ah, but this isn't Hollywood; it's Ealing Studios. In fact, at this time, the film doesn't even have a US distributor. This is put together by the same fellow (Oliver Parker) who did The Importance of Being Earnest several years ago. I think it's best to expect a similar treatment, try to appreciate his efforts to spin this for a contemporary audience, and try not to get too angry with the results.

Now it sounds like we may gave a winner
Ealing was famous for comedies including Kind Hearts and Coronets and The Ladykillers, both with the great Alec Guinness. I envy anyone watching them for the first time.

BTW, who made " Earnest " with Michael Redgrave?

Cheers,

Mario
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post #13 of 16
8/23/09 at 9:33pm
Well I'm looking forward to this film - a bit of 'real' horror. I am so sick of 'sick' films like Saw and Hostel .
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post #14 of 16
8/24/09 at 5:40pm
This is one of my favorite books. I'm a big Wilde fan. I'm not wild about the director or the cast though. The prior attempts at making this into a movie have been tragic failures as well. Hopefully it'll be a pleasant surprise this time around. Hmm . . . what if Michael Bay were to direct a version of this? Oh the possibilities!!! Now that would be interesting!!!

- Ali
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post #15 of 16
1/15/10 at 11:57pm
God I would kill to play Lord Henry. Now that I think Colin Firth is being so overrated for "a single man" I'll be at the man's throat if he doesn't do an impeccable job with Lord Henry Wotton!

I guess nobody saw the Duncan Roy directed version from 2007. It was supposed to be very hard to follow and avant garde and really awful. I didn't see it.

I kind of wish they would leave poor Dorian in peace. If Ken Russell never even touched it probably nobody should.

See his "Salome's Last Dance" now that is a movie I would call "exquisite" as much as I hate that word. I think Imogene Millais-Scott's performance is one of the all time great performances by a screen actress. And Ken Russel discovered her flipping through a players directory, her "little face" popped out at him and he called her in. A miracle! Also according to him she was literally blind and had to learn how to get around the sert by learning her steps by rote.
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post #16 of 16
1/16/10 at 12:07am
It seems a bit risky considering it is based on a screenplay by the great Oscar Wilde...I would be very skeptical..thats all
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