Compared to the book, this is comically horrible. Why is the painting actually alive? Why does he fight Henry in this scene? In the book it's his own guilt that makes him want to destory the portrait, only for it to be his own undoing. Far better ending in my opinion.
true... And the most important part...The soul switching back to him and the painting returning to it's normal state hasn't been represented in this movie... That's the indication that the painting actually held the soul, not the physical body. I didn't watch the movie and came all the way here to see that beautiful ending in the book and it's not here. P.S : The 1945 movie has a good ending just like the book : czcams.com/video/Ah5AR_KOn08/video.html
@@arrowoftruth5726 it actually was? If you watch the very end of the movie, the restored painting is in Harry’s attic. And Dorian rotting away in this scene is representative of the rot of his soul being returned to his body. I’ve read the book & I know this deviates a lot from the original text. But this isn’t as ‘awful’ as you all are trying to make it seem. Just another way to interpret the story. If you don’t like it, that’s fine.
yes please. i mean, in the book dorain stays "bad" till the end, but there he decides to die...even if he tried to killl that portriat.¨ glad that there is somebody who appreciates the oscar wilde original.
When I read this book in an English course someone said their ready of Henry's character was that he's a man who just loves to talk because he loves the sound of his own voice and because he enjoys saying things that will either shock or amuse everyone around him, but he doesn't expect anyone to actually listen to him or to take him seriously. It changed my opinion of Henry for a while - though I can't quite forgive him for being so callous whenever someone dies (though I know that that probably makes me so boring and predictable that if I'd lived in Oscar Wilde's time he'd find me too dull to be worth saying 'hello' to). I figured that whoever wrote the script for this movie didn't share that reading, but at the same time I'm guessing they're sort of saying that when Dorian calls him out for talking about a way of living but never actually living that way - though in that case it's more a 'he's all talk no action'/'he's all flash but no bang' scenario.
Hollywood can be REALLY goofy, stupid & just utterly effing dumb sometimes. The beauty of the original ending is entirely lost here with this bombastic, melodramatic, silly "showdown" between Dorian & a bellowing painting. Why do modern filmmakers not know the meaning of subtlety & nuance anymore??
Just finished the book and wanted to see the portrait represented in some way. So I ended up here and herm... _SPOILERS_ 1) What the hell is (who I suppose should be) Lord Henry Wotton doing in the room with the painting? The only person that saw the painting besides Dorian was *Basil Hallward* and it cost him his life, bless his sweet soul, he was just a poor bastard with a dream, that wanted to be a good friend. 2) The painting was him, old and rotten, with an hypocritical smirk on his face and blood dripping from his hands into a puddle around his feets. It was in fact *not a dementor* 3) It's Dorian *that decides to destroy the painting* , no kitty fight involved. He's just going bananas for all the crazy bored aristocrat tomfoolery he did, _some of which include from worst to less worse_ : instigation to suicide, omicide, blackmail, betrayal, various types of adultery, opiates, opulence and gluttony, and generally being a well rounded piece of turd. He blamed the painting, *obviously* , Lord Henry had made him the king of spoiled little brats. So since in his mind the painting was the enemy he tried to destroy it. (There is obviously a more psychological-metaphorical meaning but...). *Anyhow* How can you get a book so comically wrong you lose the entire moral of the story? Lmao ok 😂 PS: there's no girl. Sybill killed herself and that's how he discovered the painting changed with his soul.
They didn't try to adapt the book 100% they just wanted to make their take on it and they were clear on that. Anyway check the confessions of dorian gray it's great.
what a great movie this could have been, if it just followed the plot of the book. What a lost cause!! But Ben Barnes is so apt for the character Dorian.
I watched this as a kid and now, in my 20s, I decided to read the book. No wonder I didn't recognise any part of the story, wtf is going on in that scene?? Why is Harry there? WHY IS SYBILL VANE THERE?????????
I haven't seen this movie but this scene is all wrong. Harry never saw the painting. There was no girl at the end. And Dorian stabbed the picture because he sees it as an enemy to his own self image and thus ended up killing himself. He was rotten til the end.
I will admit, the entire movie was painfully boring, Ben Barnes had no chemistry with any of his love interests, and sadly I’ve never read the book, but dude…when that painting moved I felt the slightest bit of unease. Like it genuinely scared me. It was almost like an unintentional bit of genius to have the rest of the movie’s tone be so lifeless that when this part happened, it actually terrifies you for a brief second. That’s all I have to say about this movie lol.
100% agree!! As a matter of fact I seen this movie a decade ago.. and this part is the only part I remembered was decent! Thus looked for just the Ending of the movie on CZcams. LOL
first of all, whos the girl? dorian didn’t have a girl other than one night stands after sybil in the book. second of all, what’s harry doing there? third of all, why is the painting on fire? fourth of all, why is the painting alive? fifth of all, dorian chooses to destroy the painting not the other way round
Maybe it was Hetty? He broke her heart in the last two Chapters of the book and told Henry about her. I don’t really remember a description of Hetty in the book at all but I do know she was mentioned in chapter 19 and 20 only.
I find it odd we're meant to root for Henry now, after again, all the s--ty influences he had on Dorian's character, such as throwing Sybil aside to endulge in prostitutes and opiates. Don't get me wrong, Dorian has become corrupt and past saving, but he did do right by Emily, wanting to be better, even if it meant letting her go before the painting would force his hand should Emily discover. I guess is too late for Dorian, but better late than never, 'cause like Dorian said near the end, Emily had his heart, the last piece of goodness left before he destroyed the painting and forfeited his immortality.
I love this movie and I’ve seen it for the first time few years ago but I read the book this year and “I feel like this is all wrong “ it’s beautiful and ugly at the same time Anyway I want a version of the movie starring Jude law but there isn’t
Compared to the book, this is comically horrible. Why is the painting actually alive? Why does he fight Henry in this scene? In the book it's his own guilt that makes him want to destory the portrait, only for it to be his own undoing. Far better ending in my opinion.
true... And the most important part...The soul switching back to him and the painting returning to it's normal state hasn't been represented in this movie... That's the indication that the painting actually held the soul, not the physical body. I didn't watch the movie and came all the way here to see that beautiful ending in the book and it's not here.
P.S : The 1945 movie has a good ending just like the book : czcams.com/video/Ah5AR_KOn08/video.html
@@arrowoftruth5726 it actually was? If you watch the very end of the movie, the restored painting is in Harry’s attic. And Dorian rotting away in this scene is representative of the rot of his soul being returned to his body. I’ve read the book & I know this deviates a lot from the original text. But this isn’t as ‘awful’ as you all are trying to make it seem. Just another way to interpret the story. If you don’t like it, that’s fine.
yes please. i mean, in the book dorain stays "bad" till the end, but there he decides to die...even if he tried to killl that portriat.¨
glad that there is somebody who appreciates the oscar wilde original.
They still had him kill himself.
@@arrowoftruth5726 it's literally there.
When I read this book in an English course someone said their ready of Henry's character was that he's a man who just loves to talk because he loves the sound of his own voice and because he enjoys saying things that will either shock or amuse everyone around him, but he doesn't expect anyone to actually listen to him or to take him seriously. It changed my opinion of Henry for a while - though I can't quite forgive him for being so callous whenever someone dies (though I know that that probably makes me so boring and predictable that if I'd lived in Oscar Wilde's time he'd find me too dull to be worth saying 'hello' to). I figured that whoever wrote the script for this movie didn't share that reading, but at the same time I'm guessing they're sort of saying that when Dorian calls him out for talking about a way of living but never actually living that way - though in that case it's more a 'he's all talk no action'/'he's all flash but no bang' scenario.
Henry is the pure evil
Henry is corrupting and corrupts everything. It would have been better if Dorian had never met him
Hollywood can be REALLY goofy, stupid & just utterly effing dumb sometimes. The beauty of the original ending is entirely lost here with this bombastic, melodramatic, silly "showdown" between Dorian & a bellowing painting. Why do modern filmmakers not know the meaning of subtlety & nuance anymore??
Dorian was like Hyde, Lord Harry was like Jekyll (that he didn't dare to live as a real hedonistic person, just preached)
Just finished the book and wanted to see the portrait represented in some way.
So I ended up here and herm...
_SPOILERS_
1) What the hell is (who I suppose should be) Lord Henry Wotton doing in the room with the painting? The only person that saw the painting besides Dorian was *Basil Hallward* and it cost him his life, bless his sweet soul, he was just a poor bastard with a dream, that wanted to be a good friend.
2) The painting was him, old and rotten, with an hypocritical smirk on his face and blood dripping from his hands into a puddle around his feets. It was in fact *not a dementor*
3) It's Dorian *that decides to destroy the painting* , no kitty fight involved. He's just going bananas for all the crazy bored aristocrat tomfoolery he did, _some of which include from worst to less worse_ : instigation to suicide, omicide, blackmail, betrayal, various types of adultery, opiates, opulence and gluttony, and generally being a well rounded piece of turd. He blamed the painting, *obviously* , Lord Henry had made him the king of spoiled little brats. So since in his mind the painting was the enemy he tried to destroy it. (There is obviously a more psychological-metaphorical meaning but...).
*Anyhow*
How can you get a book so comically wrong you lose the entire moral of the story? Lmao ok 😂
PS: there's no girl. Sybill killed herself and that's how he discovered the painting changed with his soul.
Recommend the original black and grey movie
They didn't try to adapt the book 100% they just wanted to make their take on it and they were clear on that. Anyway check the confessions of dorian gray it's great.
This wasn't according to the book
It was better in all honesty
what a great movie this could have been, if it just followed the plot of the book. What a lost cause!!
But Ben Barnes is so apt for the character Dorian.
This scene was still quite fascinating.
I am everything that you were too afraid to be
Dorian attempts to destroy his cursed portrait to end his suffering, with the cost of his life.
I watched this as a kid and now, in my 20s, I decided to read the book. No wonder I didn't recognise any part of the story, wtf is going on in that scene?? Why is Harry there? WHY IS SYBILL VANE THERE?????????
That's not Sybil Vane. This is Henry's daughter. Sybil died at the beginning of the movie
Everyone has to watch this
I haven't seen this movie but this scene is all wrong. Harry never saw the painting. There was no girl at the end. And Dorian stabbed the picture because he sees it as an enemy to his own self image and thus ended up killing himself. He was rotten til the end.
I will admit, the entire movie was painfully boring, Ben Barnes had no chemistry with any of his love interests, and sadly I’ve never read the book, but dude…when that painting moved I felt the slightest bit of unease. Like it genuinely scared me. It was almost like an unintentional bit of genius to have the rest of the movie’s tone be so lifeless that when this part happened, it actually terrifies you for a brief second. That’s all I have to say about this movie lol.
100% agree!! As a matter of fact I seen this movie a decade ago.. and this part is the only part I remembered was decent! Thus looked for just the Ending of the movie on CZcams. LOL
The painting is actually alive? That's a new twist!
first of all, whos the girl? dorian didn’t have a girl other than one night stands after sybil in the book. second of all, what’s harry doing there? third of all, why is the painting on fire? fourth of all, why is the painting alive? fifth of all, dorian chooses to destroy the painting not the other way round
Maybe it was Hetty? He broke her heart in the last two
Chapters of the book and told Henry about her. I don’t really remember a description of Hetty in the book at all but I do know she was mentioned in chapter 19 and 20 only.
Cuz this is a weird adaptation haha
In the end...the good man won out after all
yeah, but in the original novel by Oscar Wild this is now how it ends, Dorian is not good 😂
@@Cr4zyChannel indeed. The cheesed the whole movie just for the sake that every person gets the idea what story is about.
I think he knew the real Dorian would hurt her if she released him
I find it odd we're meant to root for Henry now, after again, all the s--ty influences he had on Dorian's character, such as throwing Sybil aside to endulge in prostitutes and opiates. Don't get me wrong, Dorian has become corrupt and past saving, but he did do right by Emily, wanting to be better, even if it meant letting her go before the painting would force his hand should Emily discover. I guess is too late for Dorian, but better late than never, 'cause like Dorian said near the end, Emily had his heart, the last piece of goodness left before he destroyed the painting and forfeited his immortality.
I love this movie and I’ve seen it for the first time few years ago but I read the book this year and “I feel like this is all wrong “ it’s beautiful and ugly at the same time
Anyway I want a version of the movie starring Jude law but there isn’t
you have my whole heart
I feel sorry for Sybil
...that wasn't sybill I'm quite sure.
didnt remember a fight scene between dorian and henry in the book.
Hold up, since when sibyl still alive? She killed herself in the book, doesn't she?
She is not Sybil she is Lord Henry's daughter that wasn't in the book
This is Emily she’s not in the book
I really liked this film
Nah this painting scared the crap out of me
More like Dorian Gheyy
Just finished reading the book and god how awful this is compared to the book. I mean what were they hoping to do with this… wtf
Sorry, but this scene comes across as somthing very and poorly executed compared to the dramatic and tragic way it's described in the book.
In the real story the genesia daughter spit on Dorian Gray flathead.
lmao I didn't know what the hell was going on i just came here cos i read the book and whattt
The league of eztraordinary kigwahahhahahahahha
thank you for spoiler!
Actually if you read the book, this is now how it ends at all…. Lmao
Wow this is so bad
Ben barnes ?? 😮
Yup
Young Ben right after Narnia
What in gods name is this? Why would they change it so much from the book? This is terrible
😂😂😂
This is a terrible adaptation