Gray realizes his looks won't last forever, and wishes that instead of his fine features aging, that his inevitable decay would instead be borne by the painting. The story, set in Victorian England, follows the life of the beautiful narcissist Dorian Gray, who has his portrait painted by an artist captivated by his handsomeness. There have been multiple screen adaptations, with the first in 1945, starring Hurd Hatfield, George Sanders, Lowell Gilmore and Angela Lansbury. Wilde wrote the gothic novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, in 1890. Robinson, Charles Boyer, Robert Cummings and Barbara Stanwyck. The second segment is based on Wilde's short story, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, which is about a palmist who predicts the fate of one of the guests, specifically that he'll make a fateful turn at a street intersection on his way home that evening. It's made up of three unrelated stories tied together by two men at a club talking about the occult. In 1943, the Julien Duvivier directed anthology film Flesh and Fantasy premiered. Let's continue to celebrate this wonderful writer with a look back at our favorite on-screen adaptations of his many plays, short stories and standalone novel: Colin Morgan portrays his lover, Alfred Douglas. The Happy Prince also stars Firth as his friend, Reggie Turner, and Emily Watson as his loyal wife, Constance. "Suffering is nothing, when there is love. "There is no mystery so great as suffering," he said. While it was a tragic period for Wilde - the public turned on him and he was imprisoned for being gay - (though the actual charge was "indecency"), he still held onto hope.
Now here he is in the role of the poet and playwright himself, in the biopic The Happy Prince, premiering today (October 10).Įverett also wrote and directed the film, which examines the final years of the celebrated writer's life.
That’s why I’ve always been very attached to him.Rupert Everett has already starred in two Oscar Wilde film adaptations, The Ideal Husband (1999) and The Importance of Being Earnest (2002). “I think, for me personally, he’s a very important historical figure, who’s a gay person who’s worked in a largely heterosexual world,” he said. That said, Everett also acknowledged the intensely personal aspects of the film-and why Wilde’s story resonates so deeply with him. rights is still far from over-just look at countries like Russia. As a minority, you always have to be vigilant.” Indeed, Everett added, the global fight for L.G.B.T.Q. “Now, we have a very comfortable life, but you never know what’s going to happen in America next, or anywhere. “It’s a film for the Trump era in a way, because it’s a film about what society does to a man-how society can punish a man just for being homosexual,” Everett said at a Cinema Society screening of his film at iPic Theater in Manhattan Monday night.
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But Everett, who performed triple duty on the film-he not only stars, but also wrote and directed it-wants potential audiences to know that this movie is more than a typical passion project.
Rupert Everett spent years laboring over The Happy Prince, a film about Oscar Wilde’s difficult final days set shortly before the celebrated Irish author and playwright died in exile, after being imprisoned on charges of “gross indecency.” Now, after a protracted development process that began in 2012, the film is finally about to open in theaters.
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