Advantages: Great acting, costumes, sets Disadvantages: Music a bit too much sometimes
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Having seen the trailer for this film several times, both me and my boyfriend decided this was a film we wanted to see. It came out on the 9th September 2009 - perhaps because of the 09.09.09 significance.
What's the story of Dorian Gray?
I had no idea what to expect, as the trailers don't actually give that much away of what the story is about. A man who never ages? A curse? Something about this trailer intrigued me - and it being set in Victorian times also appealed, making it seem all the more mysterious and dramatic.
It turns out that it's based on the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde - something I didn't know beforehand. It also turns out that it was controversial for its day, dealing with rather taboo themes.
The story follows the (mis ...
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Advantages: quite an interesting plot Disadvantages: plots a bit slow in places
I was looking forward to watching Charlotte Gray. It was a film I?d wanted to see at the cinema, but hadn?t got round to. I ended up disappointed by it. It wasn?t truly awful I was able to watch it without thinking ?god when is this going to end?. It was just not as good as I thought it would be.
It?s hard to think what went wrong with it. It?s got all the ingredients for a good film: wartime drama, love interest, secret missions. However, it was strangely flat in a lot of places.
Charlotte Gray (Cate Blanchet) is a young scottish woman working at a surgery in wartime London. Whilst returning to London from a holiday in Scotland a ?civil servant/spy master? spots her reading a French book, it turns out that she studied in France. He invites her to a book launch where she meets and falls in love with Peter, an RAF airman.
She is ...
Advantages: Beautiful prose and wondering story-telling. Disadvantages: None
If you were to think of the classic horror stories of the nineteenth century, I am sure you would be in mind of?say, Dracula or Doctor Jeckle and Mr Hyde. You will think the names Poe and Lovecraft. Some of you might even think of Oscar Wilde and ?The Picture of Dorian Grey.? Grey by the way seems to be spelt both as Grey and Gray! This is the book that I had promised myself I would read at least five years ago, and now I have done just that. But was it worth it; is it the classic it is merited as being?
The first sketches to be put on the canvas that is ?The Picture of Dorian Grey? are an introduction to three main characters. Three friends, all of different personalities? to begin with anyway. We have the young, naïve Dorian of the title, sitting for a portrait by top artist Basil Hallward and we have Lord Henry Wotton. Basil has ...
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