Sadly.. in today's X FACTOR world of reality shite... someone like fry appears as a giant intellect.. when in fact he is just a memory with zero originality. A sad indictment of the times.
oscar wilde broke a toenail in 1888 which had more talent than stephen fry has possessed in his entire life. Fry is simply a big memory who quotes his massive superiors on a regular basis.
Just I am of the same idea.....still accepting the possibility of some mimetisme. It happens some time which indiiduals after a long self identification with other's art. Bravo!
Yes, I too think so. Anyway even now there are similarities- Oscar and Stephen both are more than 6 ft tall and both are Homosexual or Bi.( or what ever ?).
MagNIFICENT !!! Great, incisive & deft expository interview-commentary. What a brilliant shining Artist Wilde was, a real inspiration. Thanx for posting!
Where does Wilde end and Fry begin...The photo likeness is astonishing and let's face it Wilde's personality was before his time allowed him the room to breathe. I am sure Mr fry has indeed lived that life...Yes born to play the part and born so Wilde can experience the freedom of our generation.
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Fry has essentially wasted much of his career producing ephemeral works of popular fiction rather than the literary fiction of Wilde. To paraphrase Roy Hattersley, why does Stephen Fry try to be a second rate Oscar Wilde when he could be a first rate Stephen Fry. Fry seems to have fallen for the fallacy that output = talent. He is a mediocre actor at best, and his books really aren't special. He is the most overrated Briton of the last 50 years and he should leave Wilde to the real Wildeans.
@TheHayekian Stephen Fry is a genius. No one can doubt that. He made a brilliant contribution to comedy and his books are dry, charming and original. You, on the other hand, are a mere oxygen theif.
Please elaborate on how Fry is a genius. What has he ever created? His books are bland and possess zero genius. He is merely someone with a great memory.. who qoutes his betters... hardly a great achievement.
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Fry has spent much of his career trying to emulate one of the greatest writers the United Kingdom has ever produced, but anyone who has ever read a Fry novel knows that his literary skills are limited. The Liar is a frankly appalling novel, and Modern History tries rather too hard to appear convuluted and complex. Wilde produced an original piece of literature Dorian Gray, and his poetry, especially the Ballad, still resonates today.
@mannixisle I have to say I agree, I love many british actors and somehow it seems that they were born to act, like Stephen, I simply adore him. There are also good American actors as well and Canadian and in many other places in the world. Acting in itself is an art.
Poor Oscar Wilde, I think that had he been born in the 1950's instead of the 1850's he would be like Graham Norton or Barry Humphries but better and the definitive one. Why does Homosexuality or gay anything threaten people, I should say ignorant people. You're gay, or your left handed? So! Who cares!
@Breeslave Although that would have been wonderful for ourselves to have him here now with less supression, Wilde served England best when he did and any other time he would not have had the affect he did have. Now it would be nice to have more paridoxical satiricists writing out the problems of society as Wilde did beautifully.
Stephen was perfect for the role of Wilde. Both so similar in looks, the way they talk and they're both homosexual. However, Wilde wasn't bi-polar which is very unfortunate for Stephen. I would never of guessed he was bi-polar, but there's a documentary on Youtube somewhere. I recommend all Stephen lovers to watch it!
A deeply flawed fairy tale based on the life of Oscar Wilde. Fry condescends to play Oscar Wilde as an extension of his withered self and thus fails to capture the vitality of the man and his inner demons. Instead, what we get Wilde as pure performance and genius displayed as a sort of repetitive verbal check mate played against the affluent stupid; with smugness being the prize. The sexual convulsions must have given Fry his greatest acting challenge.
I have read "De Profoundis", the letter Wilde wrote to Douglas in prison. And I was astonished by how real the movie is. It almost contain all the details, all the real history happened in Wilde's life. Fry is marvelous, I think he got the essence of Wilde's characteristic. Thank you for the video.
Wonderful movie, really makes me want to read Oscar Wilde now. And I just love Stephen Fry's voice--I'd listen to him talk about pretty much anything!
I like Stephen Fry & he looks incredibly like Oscar, but in this film he lacks the sparkle! He seems a little uncomfortable. Funny because Stephen Fry when he's being himself on QI for example displays great Wildean charisma, but as Oscar cuts a rather sombre figure even before the trials.
Maybe he was being understated. To play such a flamboyant character the temptation is easily there to go OTT. I think he should taken a leaf from Oscar's book and resisted everything apart from temptation!
@flamehairedfemme Fry did play it safe in the film. TFry plays up his own homosexuality precisely by downplaying (intellectualizing/deflecting scrutiny or focus from) it in life, and this posture follows in his portrayal of Oscar. In that sense, Fry was both an inspired and unfortunate choice. A novice actor might have played it wth much less restraint and more delight.
Now this is real acting! Unlike all the garbage we see today produced in America, the mojority of which is just special effects, foul language, shallow movies.
@mannixisle Well, they have more cultural history and tradition to draw on. Having said that, as an American i musr confess there aren't that many UK films I can sit through, outside the timeless classics, Brideshead Revisted series and the queer ones like WILDE from the 90s.
Being an American I can't fully agree on what you say, this is more of the stereotype of Hollywood then the generalization of all american film. However this movie was an amazing display of acting :]
Someone suggested that Oscar Wilde was the part Stephen Fry was born to play, and as I watch this and he elaborates on Wilde's character I am more and more convinced
stephen and oscar are like same person... the really look alike amasing....
SuperMiro73 1 month ago
Stephen's intelligence and well-spokenness never fails to astound me<3
KittiMitties 1 month ago
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Sadly.. in today's X FACTOR world of reality shite... someone like fry appears as a giant intellect.. when in fact he is just a memory with zero originality. A sad indictment of the times.
bennythebearful 2 months ago
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oscar wilde broke a toenail in 1888 which had more talent than stephen fry has possessed in his entire life. Fry is simply a big memory who quotes his massive superiors on a regular basis.
bennythebearful 2 months ago
perfect
zoyataylor 3 months ago
i have nothing to declare but my genius
butryticki 5 months ago
i beleive that stephen fry WAS oscar wilde in a previous life.
TheDuckielova 7 months ago 3
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Just I am of the same idea.....still accepting the possibility of some mimetisme. It happens some time which indiiduals after a long self identification with other's art. Bravo!
sinoples 6 months ago
@TheDuckielova
Yes, I too think so. Anyway even now there are similarities- Oscar and Stephen both are more than 6 ft tall and both are Homosexual or Bi.( or what ever ?).
sahajad 5 months ago
If reincarnation exists Stephen is Oscar - the stature, the past scandal, the intelligence, the wit.
teathermouth 7 months ago
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I have never heard any original wit from Fry.
bennythebearful 2 months ago
MagNIFICENT !!! Great, incisive & deft expository interview-commentary. What a brilliant shining Artist Wilde was, a real inspiration. Thanx for posting!
starmanskye 7 months ago
Where does Wilde end and Fry begin...The photo likeness is astonishing and let's face it Wilde's personality was before his time allowed him the room to breathe. I am sure Mr fry has indeed lived that life...Yes born to play the part and born so Wilde can experience the freedom of our generation.
TheWelshloz 7 months ago
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I'm certain the ones who fear are always queer.
AlexBlackRecords 8 months ago
I miss this baritone fry voice... Now it's gone slightly squeaky
samyogita3288 10 months ago
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Fry has essentially wasted much of his career producing ephemeral works of popular fiction rather than the literary fiction of Wilde. To paraphrase Roy Hattersley, why does Stephen Fry try to be a second rate Oscar Wilde when he could be a first rate Stephen Fry. Fry seems to have fallen for the fallacy that output = talent. He is a mediocre actor at best, and his books really aren't special. He is the most overrated Briton of the last 50 years and he should leave Wilde to the real Wildeans.
TheHayekian 1 year ago
@TheHayekian Stephen Fry is a genius. No one can doubt that. He made a brilliant contribution to comedy and his books are dry, charming and original. You, on the other hand, are a mere oxygen theif.
KungfuCow5 7 months ago
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Please elaborate on how Fry is a genius. What has he ever created? His books are bland and possess zero genius. He is merely someone with a great memory.. who qoutes his betters... hardly a great achievement.
bennythebearful 2 months ago
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Fry has spent much of his career trying to emulate one of the greatest writers the United Kingdom has ever produced, but anyone who has ever read a Fry novel knows that his literary skills are limited. The Liar is a frankly appalling novel, and Modern History tries rather too hard to appear convuluted and complex. Wilde produced an original piece of literature Dorian Gray, and his poetry, especially the Ballad, still resonates today.
TheHayekian 1 year ago
"Not a doormat, or a dormouse, but adorable."
Stop it, Fry, you're making us all look bad.
TheAlexander627 1 year ago
@mannixisle I have to say I agree, I love many british actors and somehow it seems that they were born to act, like Stephen, I simply adore him. There are also good American actors as well and Canadian and in many other places in the world. Acting in itself is an art.
IamMegaMan2012 1 year ago
Poor Oscar Wilde, I think that had he been born in the 1950's instead of the 1850's he would be like Graham Norton or Barry Humphries but better and the definitive one. Why does Homosexuality or gay anything threaten people, I should say ignorant people. You're gay, or your left handed? So! Who cares!
Breeslave 1 year ago 2
@Breeslave Although that would have been wonderful for ourselves to have him here now with less supression, Wilde served England best when he did and any other time he would not have had the affect he did have. Now it would be nice to have more paridoxical satiricists writing out the problems of society as Wilde did beautifully.
lukesanby 11 months ago
Jude Law as Douglas reminds me of a guy in my English class for some reason.
DeliciousBubbleTea 1 year ago
@DeliciousBubbleTea is he gay?
MattyLeeschl0ng1990 1 year ago
Stephen was perfect for the role of Wilde. Both so similar in looks, the way they talk and they're both homosexual. However, Wilde wasn't bi-polar which is very unfortunate for Stephen. I would never of guessed he was bi-polar, but there's a documentary on Youtube somewhere. I recommend all Stephen lovers to watch it!
troyr92 1 year ago
he was born to play this role.
2504marcus 1 year ago 6
STEPHEN FRY I LOVE YOU AND I SIMPLY DONT CARE =i ADORE YOU !
HAHAHA YOU ARE TREMENDOUS IN EVERYTHING YOU DO
YOU ARE OSCAR!!!!!!
triptoheaveandho 1 year ago
A deeply flawed fairy tale based on the life of Oscar Wilde. Fry condescends to play Oscar Wilde as an extension of his withered self and thus fails to capture the vitality of the man and his inner demons. Instead, what we get Wilde as pure performance and genius displayed as a sort of repetitive verbal check mate played against the affluent stupid; with smugness being the prize. The sexual convulsions must have given Fry his greatest acting challenge.
johnsammyanfal 1 year ago
I have read "De Profoundis", the letter Wilde wrote to Douglas in prison. And I was astonished by how real the movie is. It almost contain all the details, all the real history happened in Wilde's life. Fry is marvelous, I think he got the essence of Wilde's characteristic. Thank you for the video.
Liebetraurig 1 year ago 5
Extrodinary movie! Extraordinary life!
Liebetraurig 1 year ago
Wonderful movie, really makes me want to read Oscar Wilde now. And I just love Stephen Fry's voice--I'd listen to him talk about pretty much anything!
yankeeangel26 1 year ago 3
I like Stephen Fry & he looks incredibly like Oscar, but in this film he lacks the sparkle! He seems a little uncomfortable. Funny because Stephen Fry when he's being himself on QI for example displays great Wildean charisma, but as Oscar cuts a rather sombre figure even before the trials.
Maybe he was being understated. To play such a flamboyant character the temptation is easily there to go OTT. I think he should taken a leaf from Oscar's book and resisted everything apart from temptation!
flamehairedfemme 2 years ago
@flamehairedfemme Fry did play it safe in the film. TFry plays up his own homosexuality precisely by downplaying (intellectualizing/deflecting scrutiny or focus from) it in life, and this posture follows in his portrayal of Oscar. In that sense, Fry was both an inspired and unfortunate choice. A novice actor might have played it wth much less restraint and more delight.
gabsylv 1 year ago
true great movie xx
wayneyeo12 2 years ago
reading the picture of dorian gray atm. wilde was a true genius and i'm so thankful that stephen fry has drawn my attention to him.
93parklife 2 years ago 4
I LOVED reading The Importance of Being Earnest in class. AGH! My favorite play of all time.
Fry as Wilde. Perfect.
wingedhamham 2 years ago 6
What, if you can narrow it down, was your favorite line?
Mine is "Rise, sir, from this semi-recumbent posture. It is most indecorous."
forloveoffilm 2 years ago 5
@forloveoffilm That is impossible for me. It's like trying to choose my favorite snowflake. Although, I can narrow it down to a single act...maybe.
wingedhamham 2 years ago 2
Stephen Fry! YAY!
JoJoKenn94 2 years ago 8
Now this is real acting! Unlike all the garbage we see today produced in America, the mojority of which is just special effects, foul language, shallow movies.
Well done!
panegyricoo 2 years ago 15
Why must you compliment something at the expense of something else?
America has produced some wonderful films.
rabbitwho 2 years ago 10
British actors are in a league of their own. They aren't movie stars, they are artists.
mannixisle 2 years ago 20
Oh, yeah. I think a lot of UK actors and European actors are way better than American actors.
nightwing01 2 years ago 4
@nightwing01 but not at playing Americans.
gabsylv 1 year ago
@mannixisle Well, they have more cultural history and tradition to draw on. Having said that, as an American i musr confess there aren't that many UK films I can sit through, outside the timeless classics, Brideshead Revisted series and the queer ones like WILDE from the 90s.
gabsylv 1 year ago
Being an American I can't fully agree on what you say, this is more of the stereotype of Hollywood then the generalization of all american film. However this movie was an amazing display of acting :]
evilCookiez 2 years ago 5
Marvelous performance by Fry, i think. and he is new to me, i noticed him a little before in Vendetta. and so on. and i'm new to wilde too.
Lion117 2 years ago 4
I don't think Oscar Wilde could live up to Stephen Fry. (Ha ha ha ha ha very witty vikingthepieking)
vikingthepieking 3 years ago 4
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am I right in thinking stephen fry is also a poofter as well. how sad
hujjesb 3 years ago
Someone suggested that Oscar Wilde was the part Stephen Fry was born to play, and as I watch this and he elaborates on Wilde's character I am more and more convinced
thatdrattedcat 3 years ago 83
Born to be Wilde? ;) Could be. He was brilliant anyway.
qwerti666 3 years ago 20
i think he's wilde reborn. that's the only "logical" explanation.
hatgirl09 3 years ago 12
How splendid!
Loved the film, love Stephen Fry, love Oscar Wilde and love YOU for posting this interview, maddie :)
scandowegianpean 3 years ago 50
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rich arrogant people.............and yet we revile them. Odd
CelticReject 3 years ago
Rubbish! I do hate arrogant people, weather they are rich or not.
I adore brilliant people like Wilde and Fry, rich or not.
bumcakes 3 years ago 23