Dorian Gray (book and movies)

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Who has read the book "The picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde???? I finished today and it didn't seem so bad at all it has a good message :that beauty isn't everything, that u must care more of who you are, not how u look like.

And as well I watch the movie (2009 version) , well half watch it, my computer broke :mad: (though I only missed the last 15 min) but as further I watch it I didn't like it, it was way out of the book and it got grose in some parts...

So what do u think of both book and movies---???

I'm looking foward to watch the old version of 1976 if I'm not mistaken, if anyone has watch it please comment :D

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I read the original version of the book when i was 8. It's a good book,but it has really scary parts (especially thanks to some of the illustrations).
Overall,this is a good book with a valuable moral.

I haven't watched the movie...
 
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the original version is really good!
the movie does put a bad reputation for the book though in my opinion, people might get a wrong concept of Dorian Gray because this movie
 
Original book, check.

1940s movie, check.

The original film is superb, to a great degree because the actor that played Dorian had that sort of far-away look of calm to his expression, even as he told a man "I know you have a way using acid to render a body completely unrecognizable. Do it and I'll pay you well. If you don't, I'll be forced to mail certain letters. I think you know which ones, and to whom..."

By the way, there was one line in the Author's foreword that was used against Oscar Wilde in his indecency trial. Something along the lines of, "There are those who find true happiness and others who must content themselves with merely pleasure. I, sadly, fall into the latter state..."

Wilde's last words were, "Oh heavens, that wallpaper is so ugly that either IT is going or I am going...."
 
Lossëndil said:
I've read the book. Very good book!
But what is the movie like? I've never seen it.
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Is way out of the book, and really sinical

EveningStar said:
Original book, check.

1940s movie, check.

The original film is superb, to a great degree because the actor that played Dorian had that sort of far-away look of calm to his expression, even as he told a man "I know you have a way using acid to render a body completely unrecognizable. Do it and I'll pay you well. If you don't, I'll be forced to mail certain letters. I think you know which ones, and to whom..."

By the way, there was one line in the Author's foreword that was used against Oscar Wilde in his indecency trial. Something along the lines of, "There are those who find true happiness and others who must content themselves with merely pleasure. I, sadly, fall into the latter state..."

Wilde's last words were, "Oh heavens, that wallpaper is so ugly that either IT is going or I am going...."
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I'm glad that 1976 version is like the book, I really am because it's a very good book and it deserves to be played correctly

lol... I didn't knew those where his last words :D

AsbelMctalisker said:
In the `40s version the actor was a very young Cornel Wild I think.
A very young Angela Lansbery had a part in it as well.
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I've google them they see good for the part.


I wonder why the 1940's and 2009 version Dorian Gray is brunette he's suppose to be blonde like in the 1976's version
 
I don't know why he has brown hair in the 1976 movie and the 2009 movie,cause he's described as blond in the book as well.
I've recently seen the newest Dorian Gray movie,but i don't know whether to like it or not,it's a very dark movie and it is little related to the book,but i believe Ben Barnes has done a pretty good job in playing Dorian Gray,but that's just my opinion.:)
 
The weird adventure movie "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" included Dorian Gray as a character. On cable television, AMC recently showed that movie. During the prior promotion of this showing, they made a point of mentioning Dorian Gray, since viewers would be aware of the new Dorian Gray adaptation.
 
I'm reading the book at the moment and enjoying it far more than I enjoyed the new movie. Ben Barnes was fantastic in it, but I didn't like how many...how can I phrase this...indecent scenes it involved. I really felt that they were unnecessary. I know the director probably wanted to get the mood of the story across and shock the viewer, but gosh...I just felt like dying of embarassment right there in the cinema. xD
 
Eärilmadith said:
I don't know why he has brown hair in the 1976 movie and the 2009 movie,cause he's described as blond in the book as well.
I've recently seen the newest Dorian Gray movie,but i don't know whether to like it or not,it's a very dark movie and it is little related to the book,but i believe Ben Barnes has done a pretty good job in playing Dorian Gray,but that's just my opinion.:)
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it is indeed VERY dark movie, but it just don't seem right, Ben was ok, he does look like Dorian but the story they managed of the movie wasn't right.

Copperfox said:
The weird adventure movie "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" included Dorian Gray as a character. On cable television, AMC recently showed that movie. During the prior promotion of this showing, they made a point of mentioning Dorian Gray, since viewers would be aware of the new Dorian Gray adaptation.
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Oooohhh... in that movie I got a bad idea of the story of Dorian Gray before I read the book, he doesn't die in that way.

Princey said:
I'm reading the book at the moment and enjoying it far more than I enjoyed the new movie. Ben Barnes was fantastic in it, but I didn't like how many...how can I phrase this...indecent scenes it involved. I really felt that they were unnecessary. I know the director probably wanted to get the mood of the story across and shock the viewer, but gosh...I just felt like dying of embarassment right there in the cinema. xD
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I agree there were unnecessary, since when does Dorian Gray drinks blood???... that was ridiculous and grose the way they showed that!
 
I've read the book and seen the oldest version of the film The Picture Of Dorian Gray (with Donna Reed and Peter Lawford). I thought both were very good.:cool:
I haven't-and wouldn't-see the version with Ben Barnes.
 
The book was poignant, tragic and is worth reading... It sounds like the remake of the movie graphically embellishes Dorian Gray's evil ways in the extreme -- not something I'd like to see either.
 
it sounds like an intresting book & movie

dorian gray does sound like an intresting movie & book, i'll have to see when it will be on one of those independant movie channels, i did notice i think it was a couple of months back that it was on the old classic movies channel
 
Princey said:
I'm reading the book at the moment and enjoying it far more than I enjoyed the new movie. Ben Barnes was fantastic in it, but I didn't like how many...how can I phrase this...indecent scenes it involved. I really felt that they were unnecessary. I know the director probably wanted to get the mood of the story across and shock the viewer, but gosh...I just felt like dying of embarassment right there in the cinema. xD
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I'm twelve and can't see it,but judging from a synopsis and the posts from here,I don't believe i'd like to see this.
I did find a snippet from an interview with Ben with him saying,
"I go home at night feeling sick."
I think that boy's got a strong conscience. Though,I really wish he'd be in some movies that were not so sexy and decent fro kids.
SHEESH!
 
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