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Dot in the Sky ([personal profile] dotinthesky) wrote2003-08-16 08:49 pm
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Before I close my Eyes...

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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[identity profile] commonpeople.livejournal.com 2003-08-18 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
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...

[identity profile] icymorning.livejournal.com 2003-08-18 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] commonpeople.livejournal.com 2003-08-18 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] icymorning.livejournal.com 2003-08-18 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
or maybe he changed Sybil Vane into Hermann. Whoa.

[identity profile] commonpeople.livejournal.com 2003-08-18 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
was Sybil a lost kind of person? Did she have a night of debauchery with Sir Henry, Baz and Dorian?

[identity profile] icymorning.livejournal.com 2003-08-19 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] commonpeople.livejournal.com 2003-08-19 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] icymorning.livejournal.com 2003-08-19 10:21 am (UTC)(link)
¨so its a very very weird interpretation, its more like a re-writing of it.

[identity profile] commonpeople.livejournal.com 2003-08-20 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
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.
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