Commentary on the Picture of Dorian Gray - Part 1
This will be the first in a long series of posts, basically detailing thoughts and impressions from the books I am and will be reading. I'm thinking about using these posts as an exercise in writing and in analyzing, because, guess what? You notice so much more while reading if you read like you've got an essay to write. It's freaky, but it makes
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For a while, I forgot, too. XD I had so much I wanted to talk about, I wasn't sure how to go about it.
Your analysis of the opening scene is AWESOME. As gals on tumblr say, head-canon accepted.
I watched two different film adaptions straight after finishing the book, one a really old one with Shere Khan George Sanders, the other the Colin Firth version you mentioned. (It was so disorienting watching the man immortalized as Darcy in such a different role.) I liked him as Wotton a lot, and also was pretty surprised that Ben Barnes gave a decent performance as Dorian himself. Ideally, I think Dorian should have been blonde, like the book (my not-so-inner purist is showing), and should have been a little less . . . serene, maybe? More bite and edge. Or that could just be me.
Johnny Depp as Henry Wotton? We need this. NOW.
The same goes for writers--all our characters are caricatures of ourselves, even and sometimes especially the dark, twisted or strange ones.
I hear you! The way I easily identify with my villains scares me sometimes. And I, too, have a story or two I'm afraid to write out the way it wants to be written. So weird how we writers buy into the illusion that we're in complete control, and get a rude awakening when we realize that our stories have wills of their own.
"Deftly"--that's the perfect way to describe Wilde's abilities to utter deep truths in plain yet elegant English. If I wasn't so inspired, I'd be depressed.
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