The Picture of Dorian Gray 1976 - Oscar Wilde - Part 2 - 10

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Part 2 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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[ZukoHalliwell]

@JuanMacready Look, I have no problem with you thinking that Basil Rathbone is a better Sherlock Holmes.

But, if you honestly think that Jeremy Brett is a bad actor, you're either certifiably insane or you're too stupid for words. In either case, I suggest you see a doctor as soon as possible.

[0pudding0]

@AnaKosta You probably are too dumb to appreciate such an amazing book as the picture of dorian gray,

at least your comment makes me think so..

[MelonJMusic]

Worst version? Have you READ the book? It's EXACTLY the same! Go watch the more visually appealing and completely unrelated 09 version, then... Some people...

[bettiesboy1922]

This is the worst version of this story set to film ever.

[Leandra191991]

Doriam portrait of Gray is a movie that changes your life as the people who crave eternal youth and beauty at the end there is nothing for the ambition of one person who can lead ... the actor is very handsome and attractive .

[MsFullheart]

hes not goodlooking like helmet berger so it doesnt have that stark beauty and the beast dichotomy it should!

[cacarory]

this play is so homosexual

[trang23390]

"i am jealous of that portrait"

[Jacobitess]

Everyone seems to be taking this Dorian at face-value (LOL, I guess a good-looking person is supposed to be), but may we not consider him in the light of Wilde's ideal? Peter Firth looks exactly like Simeon Solomon, the Jewish homosexual artist of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Undoubtedly, Wilde and Solomon shared many of the same tortures, passions, guilts, and even the same Faith, ultimately. Maybe it's a stretch to say the casting was a tribute, but who knows.

[scottvska]

"Of course he likes it - who wouldn't?" "I must have it!"

Wilde wasn't hiding anything.

[BelatedCommiseration]

@madeinla It is true that is a factor. But it was also an attempt to realise the Socratic dialogues put forward by Plato in the symposium and give it a 'modern' setting for the time. There is also a strong element of Walter Paters work, especially 'The Renaissance' which was a huge influence on Wilde. In the first editions Pater even entreats the readers to experience the beautiful like a 'hard gem like flame' and I believe this phrase also finds its way into the original text of Dorian Grey.