I noticed they used a line during the movie, when he was reading the poem about cats to Sybil mentioning “An old Irish man named Dorian Gray. I found this very interesting because they leave a sense of realism out of the story, which would give a feeling of realism for his wishes to come true.
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Also, the movie never brings up the concept of the magical Egyptian who grants Dorian his wish to stay eternally young. In the film, she reacts poorly to his confessions of sensual temptations, which ultimately destroys her trust in him. In the novel, her acting has become worse due to her heart falling in love with Dorian.
This little change has an impact on Dorian causing them to alter his motive for break up with her. Ves playing Juliet, rather than a ball room dancer. To start, in Wilde’s version, Sybil Vane is a Shakespearean actress whom Dorian obser
Clearly, the story relates through the plot and gives an accurate representation of what the book would portray, but what stands out the most is the miniscule amount of differences the director decided to change. Through out the movie The Picture of Dorian Gray, filmed in 1945 by Albert Lewin, we the audience sees vast amounts of similarities compared to the book written in 1890 by Oscar Wilde. This relieves him of all his sins and the picture and he switches back, finally showing Dorian’s age. After Dorian realized he is the result of numerous deaths, he retreats to his old school room to stab the picture in the heart. The picture begins to show Dorian’s truths portraying him as a demon-like creature, and eventually he will come to realize all the terrible sins he created over fourteen years. Dorian has his picture painted by a friend named Basil, and when Dorian meets his friend Lord Henry Wotton, his life will soon collapse.ĭorian begins to believe that youth and beauty will bring him everything he desires, so he makes a wish that the portrait will age, and he will stay forever young and handsome. Even though Dorian is a very intelligent person, he often finds himself easily manipulated and this fault will ultimately lead him to failure. The Picture of Dorian Gray is an American horror-drama film centered on Dorian Gray, a handsome wealthy young man living in the nineteenth century in London.