I reaally like this film, I like the actors in it and to me Stephen Fry`s `Wilde` doesn`t touch it. Even though his acting was good, I just couldn`t get past Stephen`s hair in that one.
Love it. Particularly Lionel Jeffries.Originally Posted by faginsgirl
I reaally like this film, I like the actors in it and to me Stephen Fry`s `Wilde` doesn`t touch it. Even though his acting was good, I just couldn`t get past Stephen`s hair in that one.
Yes, Lionel was very convincing as the angry father.
Which was the most like the real Oscar Wilde?I reaally like this film, I like the actors in it and to me Stephen Fry`s `Wilde` doesn`t touch it. Even though his acting was good, I just couldn`t get past Stephen`s hair in that one.
I think Stephen Fry wins every time
Steve
The Morley film does go into some detail about what he was on trial for. The Fry film does everything it can to put him back in the closet, giving the impression that his sole motivation for his regular attendance at male brothels was a desire to read poetry to the employees
Which was the most like the real Oscar Wilde?
I think Stephen Fry wins every time
Steve
I agree Steve. His relationship with his wife was covered in a very good way, and I thought Jennifer Ehlie did a great job in being the bewildered wife. Plus, Stephen Fry looked like Oscar Wilde.
I agree that Trials was much better IMHO although I did know very little about the trials before I saw it. Wilde merges his own two trials into one IIRC and spends a lot of time implying that the Wilde/Douglas relationship was all about poetry and art.
I'd like to see the Robert Morley film but haven't got round to mgetting a copy yet.
I agree, Stephen Fry looks a lot like Wilde. But that doesn`t mean I don`t find his hair annoyingWhich was the most like the real Oscar Wilde?
I think Stephen Fry wins every time
Steve
Are you a short back and sides kinda Girl, Shirl?
Well, not as short as your Dirk.Are you a short back and sides kinda Girl, Shirl?
And that reminds me of that film, don`t call me Shirley (that`s not my name
Michelle xx
Not just looked like him, Stephen Fry is much more like Oscar Wilde than anyone else who's ever played him. Playwright, author, wit, all round clever-clogs. Wilde was the role that Stephen was born to play.
The 1960 film focussed on the trial, as is appropriate given its title. The 1997 film gave more of a picture of his complete life
Steve
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How do you know? Did he come to you as a ghost?
It's called "research", reading about a person
Steve
However it doesn't necessarily make it the best film. I thought the Fry film was a bit of a whitewash (presumably to make it palatably to more conservative audiences in other coutries). I'd like to see a dramatisation of the Wilde story that, rather than showing him as some sort of martyr, really made it clear how appallingly he treated his wife and childrenIt's called "research", reading about a person
Steve. Would he be seen so sympathetically if he'd been serially unfaithful with teenage girls?
I suppose it depends which you think is the most important, a person's personal life and habits or their work. There are others I can think of who produced an amazing body of work of great artistic merit but who were regularly unfaithful to their wives and even to their mistressesHowever it doesn't necessarily make it the best film. I thought the Fry film was a bit of a whitewash (presumably to make it palatably to more conservative audiences in other coutries). I'd like to see a dramatisation of the Wilde story that, rather than showing him as some sort of martyr, really made it clear how appallingly he treated his wife and children
Steve
But people don't make films about what an amazing writer Wilde was. They make films about the trials - and the Fry film does everything it can to suggest that all he got up to was a bit of poetry reading as some sort of outreach work among the poorI suppose it depends which you think is the most important, a person's personal life and habits or their work. There are others I can think of who produced an amazing body of work of great artistic merit but who were regularly unfaithful to their wives and even to their mistresses
Steve
Nickolas Grace was, as ever, good value as Oscar in Salome's Last Dance.
I would have liked to see Dennis Price have a go...
You say that about everything :Last week Christopher Columbus, this week Oscar Wilde, next week Mrs Tiggywinkle
And what a tragedy that is. It's the same with print biographies. Publishers are only interested if the person has been involved in some scandal
Steve
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a film with Dennis Price is better than a film without*You say that about everything :
Although Dennis sort of did play Wilde in Kind Hearts... in my world.
*also applicable to other actors
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