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10 Motion Pictures of Dorian Gray Ranked from Best to Worst. After reading Oscar Wilde's only novel, "The Picture of Dorian Gray," I reviewed every screen adaptation I could find. Unfortunately or fortunately, there aren't as many Dorian Gray movies as there are for the other 19th-century English-language Gothic horror literature "Frankenstein ...
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Sep 9, 2009 · After the death of his grandfather, the naive and pure Dorian Gray (Ben Barnes) returns to the Victorian London, where he befriends the talented painter Basil Hallward (Ben Chaplin) and the corrupt Lord Henry Wotton (Colin Firth).
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- Oliver Parker
- 2009-09-09
When a naive young Dorian Gray arrives in Victorian London to inherit an estate left to him by his abusive grandfather, he is swept into a social whirlwind by the charismatic Lord Henry "Harry" Wotton, who introduces Gray to the hedonistic pleasures of the city.
When a naïve young Dorian Gray arrives in a train to Victorian London, to inherit an estate left to him by his abusive Grandfather, he is swept into a social whirlwind by the charismatic Lord Henry Wotton, who introduces Gray to the hedonistic pleasures of the city.
The story revolves around a portrait of Dorian Gray painted by Basil Hallward, a friend of Dorian's and an artist infatuated with Dorian's beauty. Through Basil, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton and is soon enthralled by the aristocrat's hedonistic worldview: that beauty and sensual fulfillment are the only things worth pursuing in life.
Feb 16, 2024 · The most famous fact of this (im)morality tale is that while he lives a life of increasing indulgence and license, Dorian’s Gray perfect image, captured on canvas and hidden in the attic, rots....
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Jan 16, 2020 · From the outset, a mid-story byte of a bloody Dorian disposing of the painter’s corpse (in a trunk monogrammed with his initials – which ought to be a no-no), this comes across as late-period Hammer horror, complete with stage school urchins and gin-sodden glamour model trollops.
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