Before I close my Eyes...

[dotinthesky]

In a perfect world, Prince William would be cast as Dorian Gray. He would be ideal in a movie based on Oscar Wilde's classic.

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[icymorning.livejournal.com]

it's true david beckham does not have enough charisma to kill basil hallward.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

david beckham is the most hollow person i've ever seen (apart from his wife.)

Have you ever read that Graham Green short story "May We Borrow Your Husband?" I've read it and a critic pointed out how Beckham is like the husband in the story, who is influenced and seduced by a gay couple (Elton John and his concubine come to mind.) You can so see Elton John telling Beckham: "David, you should wear a tiara. It will look very stylish."

Dorian Gray needs to be played by someone who appears shallow but has a darkness inside. I think Prince Will could pull it off.

[icymorning.livejournal.com]

or julian casablancas mmmm and i'd be his servant mmm again.

prince will with some darkness inside ? with crème anglaise please. damn. who would play sir Henry ? i propose Ollie.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

aaaahhh! no... it would have to be someone older and experient... although I guess I'm at the right age to play Sir Henry, when he first meets Dorian.

*puzzled thought*

Julian wouldn't do at all because he's not blonde.

[icymorning.livejournal.com]

he's brown-haired. he recently dyed them (!!!!) black, so he can dyed them blonde.

you're at the perfect age to play Sir Henry at the beginning of the book, and Prince Will is at the perfect age to play Dorian when he first makes his prayer not to ever grow old.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

I would sooooo take good care of Prince Will...

:o)

Julian could maybe play Hermann, the dark brooding lover of Dorian who dies of a drug overdose.

[icymorning.livejournal.com]

Can I be Sybil Vane then ?

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

is Sybil Vane the one married to Sir Henry?

[icymorning.livejournal.com]

Sybil Vane is the girl Dorian fell in love with. The young actress playing Shakespeare he was about to marry. Then he denied her, and she killed herself. And that's when the portrait started changing.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

hmmm...see, i'm reading Will Self's "Dorian" which is a re-reading of the classic, but set in the 80s. The characters still have the same names, but Sir Henry is dying of AIDS for example. And instead of a painting, it's an art installation of 9 televisions showing Dorian's naked body. Sybil Vane hasn't showed up yet...

[icymorning.livejournal.com]

I WAS SURE SIR HENRY WAS SICK. you know when I re-read the picture of dorian gray earlier this year I had a feeling something was physically wrong with Sir Henry. I don't know, that's just the feeling it left me with.

Sybil Vane should show up, maybe at the middle of the book. I can't believe they left her behind since she's the beginning of everything, the reason for her brother's vengeance - brother who will become the first person Dorian will kill.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

weird! in this book, Dorian falls in love with a black male junkie, called Hermann, and after a night of shooting up, Hermann dies... from there, Dorian's picture begins to change. This skinhead, Ginger, decides to avenge Hermann's death, and he is now at the moment looking for Dorian in the crackhouses so he can kill him.

Maybe Will Self decided not to be so faithful to the original.

[icymorning.livejournal.com]

or maybe he changed Sybil Vane into Hermann. Whoa.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

was Sybil a lost kind of person? Did she have a night of debauchery with Sir Henry, Baz and Dorian?

[icymorning.livejournal.com]

not at all ... she was an actress who played shakespeare in a w onderful way devoted totally devoted to dorian, thats why she killed herself when he denied her proposal.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

hmmm... i finished the book last night. the end is very very obscure and I don't know what to make of it.

Sybil never appeared.

[icymorning.livejournal.com]

¨so its a very very weird interpretation, its more like a re-writing of it.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

i think so... the ending was very much like a mirror suddenly put against the story itself, and warped... and it ends in a gritty abandomned urinal!

yuk.