Dorian Gray

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just watched this load of tripe.......would someone who has watched it care to explain what the heck the film was all about? i was led to believe it was a vampire-ish kinda film (love vampy films).....how wrong i was, i didn't understand one bit of it, wish i hadn't bothered watching it now
 
jaysay said:
Wasn't it based on the only novel of Oscar Wild, A picture of Dorian Grey
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yup it was based on a picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde :)

Dorian sells his soul to be youthful forever and the picture ages in his place.

from wiki ::

"The portrait serves as a reminder of the effect each act has upon his soul, with each sin displayed as a disfigurement of his form, or through a sign of aging"

It wasn't a great movie though :(
 
Which version did you watch , was it a modern day remake ? , the 1945 version with George Sanders is a classic
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Well, Dorian had a portrait in the attic, which was supposed to age instead of her, but Sharon and Tracy nicked it, and sold it down the carboot at Romford, so the plan went pear shaped.

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Haven't seen the new version, but the 1945 film, and the book were good.
 
garinda said:
Well, Dorian had a portrait in the attic, which was supposed to age instead of her, but Sharon and Tracy nicked it, and sold it down the carboot at Romford, .
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Sharon, Tracy ....... lost me on that , further explanation would be helpful , who's the woman in the pic?
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steeljack said:
Sharon, Tracy ....... lost me on that , further explanation would be helpful , who's the woman in the pic?
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I do not have a clue, steeljack...but I suspect it's some character from one of the soap operas Rindy is glued to when he's not fooling around on here. It's just a shame that he could not have helped Flashy with a brief synopsis of The Picture of Dorian Gray - one of the classics of English Literature.

Funnily enough, I was drinking earlier on in the Mahogany bar in Wilton's Music Hall, which some academics believe is where Wilde based Sybil Vane's music hall at Blue Gate Fields in the book.
 
Tealeaf said:
I do not have a clue
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It's alright being an expert on the big Irish Jessie, but your lack of knowledge about popular culture really lets you down, and is the main reason you'll never make the AW quiz team.
 
Even I knew about Dorian Grey and I'm thick............supposedly:rofl38:
I knew about Dorian in birds of a feather too
Can I join the quiz team? :confused::rofl38:
 
Flashy, I think you might appreciate the old one better than the new one.................If you're drunk at the time:rofl38::rofl38::rofl38:
 
suedarbo said:
Even I knew about Dorian Grey and I'm thick............supposedly:rofl38:
I knew about Dorian in birds of a feather too
Can I join the quiz team? :confused::rofl38:
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Don't know about that sue, but why not join the ranks of the Accy Web daily quizzer, its good fun, and Mancies usually sober too:D
 
Don`t worry Flashers...............we turned it off half way through.....utter,inexplicable tripe.........:rolleyes:
 
Watched it last weekend and actually thought it was pretty good, although why they changed the title is anyone's guess.

They also left out huge swathes of nastiness with a barrel of acid in the attic which I couldn't fathom as it's fairly instrumental in the downfall of Dorian Gray.

A good film though, nice to see Ealing Studios producing stuff again despite the efforts of the taxman to make producing British films as expensive as possible.
 
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