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britneyshakespeare · 2 months ago

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Omg. That same website has a follow-up article about the backlash to the premise (x)

This is a lot to be inaccurate about in one paragraph, but this is why so much of TV/movie reporting is so far from real journalism. Any level of familiarity with the source would not tell you that Basil and Dorian were "romantic main characters" (implying they were an actual couple rather than having an unconsummated attraction, particularly on Basil's side), nor does the character of Dorian Gray go to jail. Oscar Wilde went to jail. Jesus Christ this is worse than YouTube "video essays" that just read the first paragraph of Wikipedia articles.

Guys, Netflix is going to make a modern day adaptation of Dorian Gray and they're making Basil and Dorian brothers

#oscar wilde #this is atrocious #from the other info this site is giving about the production (if it is accurate) it just looks like... idk a very loose liberal adaptation #i'm kinda gonna just say the theme it's allegedly giving isn't necessarily something they have to trudge up dorian gray to do #not that it can't be made related but it is kinda. eh whatever #making basil and dorian siblings isn't a bad idea bc they are 'romantic' with each other (whatever that means)#it's that dorian is literally basil's muse in a way that... uhm... siblings would nottttt usually be #personally i don't interpret dorian as reciprocating those feelings for basil at all but it doesn't really matter #the book is gay #i feel like they're just using the connection of dorian gray because it's public domain and they can #it'll get SOME audience to talk about it if ppl can point at it and say ohhh look how STUPID this is for what it's based on #netflix knows bad press for movies and tv can be as good as good press #anyway netflix junkie isn't a serious news source it's a shill website. take it w a grain of salt

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