#le portrait de dorian gray

[potatosonnet]

You and I are friends, Basil, and we must always remain so.

-

A bit of friendzoning for a late Valentines!

It’s amazing to see how the relationship between Dorian and Basil changes through dialogue selection; this line (if I remember correctly and under comprehensible reasons) did not make into the film, so I took some liberty in mixing things up and made a little offering to all the artists that gave me brainrot.

[figuresinthehaze]

Dorian if he had an ounce of compassion left

Based on that painting of Ivan and his son

[helvidius]

wakey wakey :) and thing from this post

[fleurdusoir]

De plus en plus, j'aime le secret. C'est, je crois, la seule chose qui puisse nous rendre la vie mystérieuse ou merveilleuse.

— Oscar Wilde, Le Portrait de Dorian Gray

[possessedbydevils]

This account belongs to a Dorian Gray apologist

[wildedg]

Le portrait de Dorian Gray

« Quand j’aime quelqu’un intensément, je ne dis son nom à personne. C’est presque une trahison. J’ai appris à aimer le secret. Il me semble que c’est la seule chose qui puisse nous faire la vie moderne mystérieuse ou merveilleuse. La plus commune des choses nous paraît exquise si quelqu’un nous la cache. Quand je quitte cette ville, je ne dis à personne où je vais: en le faisant, je perdrais tout mon plaisir. C’est une mauvaise habitude, je l’avoue, mais en quelque sorte, elle apporte dans la vie une part de romanesque […]. »

Basil Hallward | Le portrait de Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

[monimarat]

Le portrait de Dorian Gray (1977), with LTLV Saint-Just (Denis Manuel) as Basil Hallward and la force des choses Saint-Just (Patrice Alexsandre) as Dorian Gray.

It’s so good. Thanks @qui-rault for finding it!

[akikotobawa]

[thelastofthebookworms]

*gets the popcorn* I feel like I'm going to have a fun time.

[dixvinsblog]

Les plus belles pages de la littérature : le portrait de Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

Les plus belles pages de la littérature : le portrait de Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde

Retrouvez les ” plus belles pages de la littérature ” chaque lundi et mercredi sur le Dix Vins Blog tout au long du mois de janvier Dorian Gray, un beau jeune homme, décide de poser pour son ami peintre afin qu’il fasse son portrait. Très vaniteux, et obsédé par sa propre image, Gray est alors fasciné par le résultat du tableau : à un tel point, qu’il ressent une jalousie irrationnelle pour la…

[potatosonnet]

Made little fursonas for tpodg characters, I hope Mr Wilde is proud

Also happy 180th birthday to the Three Musketeers! <33

[figuresinthehaze]

Dance me to the end of love

[yuan-ajian]

YesterdayI saw the movie « le portrait de Dorian Gray »and there’s two actors who played Saint- Just😳.

so.👉

[fleurdusoir]

Derrière toute chose exquise se cache une tragédie. Il faut que des mondes souffrent pour que s'épanouisse la plus humble des fleurs...

— Oscar Wilde, Le Portrait de Dorian Gray

[possessedbydevils]

Dorian Gray brainrotting

[earthly-apples]

So while the 1976/1977 French stage/film adaptation of Dorian Gray is very faithful to the original book in the general tone, there are a few deviations (some I feel a slight shame some I enjoy immensely and overall the results are magnificent)

(SPOILERS BELOW)

In chapter 19 of the 1891 version of tpodg, Dorian has a conversation with Henry. The following dialogue is an excerpt of it.

This is a part that didn’t exist in the 1890 novella version, but was kept in the French production.

-Que diriez-vous, Harry, si je vous assurais que j’ai assassiné Basil? -Je penserais, mon cher, que vous prenez une pose qui ne vous va pas. Tout crime est vulgaire, de même que toute vulgarité est criminelle. Ce n’est pas vous qui commettriez un tel crime, Dorian. Le crime est l’apanage des plus basses classes. Je ne les en blâme pas d’ailleurs. J’imagine que le crime est pour elles ce que l’art est pour nous: une manière de se donner des sensations rares.

In the original book, it is then followed by:

In the play however, it is continued by these lines:

-Le crime se promène dans toute les couches sociales, mon cher. Quant aux sensations rares qu’il procure, permettez-moi d’en douter. Je vous répète qu’il se peut fort bien que je sois l’assassin de Basil. -Vous n’arriverez pas à me convaincre, Dorian. Et pourquoi l’auriez-vous tue? Je vous le demande. -Eh bien, je ne sais pas, par jalousie pour ses dons artistiques, par exemple.

(which roughly translates as: "Crime runs through all social classes, my dear. As for the rare sensations it creates, allow me to doubt it. I repeat to you that I may very well be Basil's murderer." "You won't be able to convince me, Dorian. And why would you have killed him? I ask you." "Well, I don't know, out of jealousy for his artistic gifts, for example." )

Dorian being jealous of Basil is an extremely interesting idea, and is immediately pointed out by Henry in the play:

-Dorian! Il y a 20 ans, à la rigueur j’aurais pu vous croire. Mais aujourd-hui! Sa peinture avait bien faibli, convenes-en, elle était en pleine décadence. Quelque chose semblait l’avoir quitté, vous ne trouvez pas? Elle avait perdu son idéal…Quel a été la raison de votre rupture? Basil vous ennuyait sans doute? …

(Dorian! Twenty years ago I could have believed you; but today! His painting has gone off, we must admit, it was in full decline. Something seemed to have left him, don't you think so? It had lost its ideal... What was the reason of your falling apart? Supposedly Basil bored you?) The latter parts of the dialogue allows us to return back to the book, but the question remains, what is Dorian jealous of? Let us return to the book, as it hints through Henry's lines:

Life was Dorian's art, and his results were ugly, as reflected in his portrait hidden behind the attic drapes. He would enjoy all the beauty he radiated in the eyes of a worshipper and forever be jealous that he failed to create something of similar nature. As Henry says, Dorian on a pedestal had never crafted anything. While he tried to give himself an independent life, he was always under either the influence of Henry or the shadow of Basil. If Henry represented all the sins Dorian never had the courage to commit, Basil was all the virtues that Dorian never had the courage to dedicate himself to. Dorian wants and wants: he wants to hold everything, and so jealously engulfs him when he is reminded of the lost virtues through his confrontation with Basil, when Basil falls upon his knees and begs for him to seek redemption, when Basil gives, without hesitation, forgiveness. All his differences with Basil and all his want for his innocence drives his blade. There is a want in Dorian to be recognized beyond a pretty visage, a youthful miracle. But he has killed that potential himself, to the point that he has no evidence to prove his crime, no ears to listen to his confession, and no voice to speak a word. His death marks the final blow of a tragedy: that he will always remain a pretty visage, a youthful miracle, with a frame and canvas as his coffin.