Dorian Gray with Annie of 5ft2

Description: Maybe everlasting youth and perpetual beauty isn’t all that it is cracked up to be. Today we follow the story of a young man with a painting who is able to remain youthful, but at a very serious price. Join us today is Annie of the 5ft2 blog to discuss the 2009 movie Dorian Gray. You can learn more about Beyond the Big Screen and subscribe at all these great places: http://atozhistorypage.com/ email: [email protected] http://rss.acast.com/beyondthebigscreen Agora: www.agorapodcastnetwork.com https://www.patreon.com/papacy On Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/Beyondthebigscreen/ https://twitter.com/BigScreenBeyond Learn More About our Guest: Annie of the 5 ft 2 Blog http://www.5ft2blog.com/ Music Provided by: "Crossing the Chasm" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Speaker 1:         Today we're going to talk about the 2009 movie Dorian Gray based on the book The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. I'm your host Steve and today I'm joined by Annie who is the writer of the blog five foot 2.

Speaker 2:         Thank you so much for being on today and yeah thank you for having me. Yeah it's great. Can

Speaker 1:         you tell us a little bit about your background and your biography and maybe some of your web sites and where we can find you.

Speaker 2:         Well yeah. My my you all well is a falsehood to blog dot com and I'm a university student and I'm from Birmingham in England and I got my degrees in English and I'm going to do my Masters in film and write in and I'm pretty much very obsessed with Oscar Wilde and William Shakespeare. Sins of other life. Drama English it's open and it's all been incredibly good for me at the moment.

Speaker 1:         The picture of Dorian Gray is actually more from books than your and in our conversations beforehand you say that this is the type of book that you like to revisit.

Speaker 2:         Yeah I make a habit of reading this book at least once every month. I have done for the past probably about 10 years which means on time.

Speaker 1:         Wow that's incredible. Well we'll start off with a brief introduction of the movie. This movie Dorian Gray is based on the 1890 classic. The picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. This is a story of a handsome youth who is able to somehow maintain his beautiful exterior for many years but his spirit or core becomes completely the opposite rotten and corrupted. The tagline of the movie is forever young forever cursed. Just briefly the production details of the movies. This is all courtesy of Wikipedia. In the Internet Movie Database it was released in September of 2009 and it was filmed in various locations around London and England. It really has an incredibly rich and detailed background. It's directed by Oliver Parker with a runtime of about 112 minutes and Ed only received 43 percent rotten tomatoes from and met a critic which I thought was kind of surprising and it had a box office of 22 million dollars.

Speaker 1:         Let's talk a little bit about the cast. Before we dig into the context of this movie because it is when you're talking about a book and a movie and a really detailed historical context that the movie and the book break out it's this becomes a little bit more complicated and maybe a little bit more fun as well. Just overall What were your impressions of the casting decisions of this movie.

Speaker 2:         I think part of my overall OK decisions. I mean Baso was incredibly well cross Henry sort of Volkoff that I think...

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