The Picture of Dorian Gray 1976 – Oscar Wilde – Part 3 – 10

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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.

25 comments

1 thechaz83 { 02.15.10 at 11:31 pm }: That Sybil Vane is a beautiful creature. She looks just like I thought she would.
2 EnPlutone { 02.15.10 at 11:31 pm }: Adoro i brutti. Ma chi si credono di essere questi “belli”. Superiori. A chi, a che cosa !!! Poveri ingenui illusi…
3 khalithistle { 02.15.10 at 11:31 pm }: 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.
4 khalithistle { 02.15.10 at 11:31 pm }: 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
5 PeterFirthFan { 02.15.10 at 11:31 pm }: He’s much better looking that Brett.
6 BurkeHare1 { 02.15.10 at 11:31 pm }: Just one problem

Dorian is freakishly ugly.
7 nightwing01 { 02.15.10 at 11:31 pm }: And look what that got him.
8 goodluckpeace44 { 02.15.10 at 11:31 pm }: 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.
9 Ranja86 { 02.15.10 at 11:31 pm }: 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^^
10 PeterFirthFan { 02.15.10 at 11:31 pm }: Not really.
11 khalithistle { 02.15.10 at 11:31 pm }: this is like the time i got challenged for my comment on a video about twin studies by JosefMengeleFan
12 PeterFirthFan { 02.15.10 at 11:31 pm }: He was excellent. Both Gielgud and Brett were far too old.
13 khalithistle { 02.15.10 at 11:31 pm }: peter firth’s performance ruins this entire adaptation. what the hell is he doing
14 korruptangell { 02.15.10 at 11:31 pm }: 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
15 Davicho08 { 02.15.10 at 11:31 pm }: 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.
16 koln1996 { 02.15.10 at 11:31 pm }: The saccharine Judi Bowker!
17 koln1996 { 02.15.10 at 11:31 pm }: He looks adorable!!!
18 Cupcakealex { 02.15.10 at 11:31 pm }: 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.
19 tretonstycken { 02.15.10 at 11:31 pm }: 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!
20 Davicho08 { 02.15.10 at 11:31 pm }: When you read the book, you can read between lines that Dorian, Basil and Henry are gay… but this Dorian is so gay from top to bottom. How can you imagine him in love with the actress?
21 mimms55 { 02.15.10 at 11:31 pm }: True, smoking wouldn’t have helped, but to be fair he wasn’t smoking when he contracted rheumatic fever – it probably would have killed him whether he smoked or not (as it did a friend of mine). And frankly I don’t give a hoot what Jeremy did between the sheets in his private life. He was a very fine actor, probably the best Sherlock Holmes ever, and is sorely missed. Let’s have intelligent discussion instead of the inarticulate, offensive & often totally irrelevant comments appearing here.
22 JohnRogersly { 02.15.10 at 11:31 pm }: Yeah I’m sure it had nothing to do with all the cigarettes he smoked for fifty years.
23 mimms55 { 02.15.10 at 11:31 pm }: Jeremy Brett contracted rheumatic fever as a child which left his heart valves badly scarred, then in the mid-1980s his conditioned deteriorated, exacerbated by his severe bipolar disorder. Both illnesses were aggravated by the death of his much loved wife Joan in 1985. Jeremy died on September 12 1995, Gary died exactly one month later on October 12.
24 mimms55 { 02.15.10 at 11:31 pm }: Jeremy Brett was bisexual, he married twice and also had male lovers, including British actor Gary Bond. Respected performer and singer Gary died in 1995 of AIDS.
25 mehua { 02.15.10 at 11:31 pm }: haha, yes, who needs common sense anyways! I just can’t believe how witty Wilde was in his texts.

The Picture of Dorian Gray 1976 – Oscar Wilde – Part 3 – 10

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