Who is the old man that corners him in the alley with a gun and who is later killed by the subway train?
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Wasn't he the brother of the girl (Sibyl) who was involved with Dorian at the beginning of the movie? She kills herself and her brother begins to cotton on to Dorian's antics.
shareHe was Sybil Vane´s brother looking for avenging his sister.
Yep.
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So why doesn't he shoot or at least knock Dorian out the first time he sees him?He knows he is Dorian Grey,and Dorian says he's Dorian Grey.Letting him get away without beating him with the gun,hitting or kicking him makes no sense.
shareBecause Dorian made him look at his face: no way that such a young man could have been involved with his sister some twenty years ago. It is only when Dorian has left and the brother finds the cigarette case that he realizes that that was indeed Dorian.
shareA prostitute at the drug den also confirms it is Dorian.
shareBut isn't the prostitute only in the novel?
Pretty sure it's in the movie too, but it's been a while since I saw it. It's a fairly important piece as it's the first time someone acknowledges the supernatural nature of Dorian, something Dorian thought he was immune from.
share"This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last." Well, I found out I can't live with suspense the way Wilde could, so I put the DVD in my player and looked up the scene. No prostitute in sight (at least not in that sequence).
The prostitute (fun fact time) is actually the young girl that Dorian seduces at the party, right before he seduces her mother too (in the movie that is)
And she only had a small role in the movie, in the book she talks to James and confirms that the man is 'Prince Charming', as all the prostitutes call him, just like Sibyl used to call him
How could anyone with half a functioning brain who watched the movie NOT know this when all you did was repeat exactly what happened onscreen?
shareThe older version ,' The Picture of Dorian Gray '(1945) starring Hurd Hatfield as Dorian & George Sanders as Lord Henry still holds up today.Ben Barnes was so wooden as Dorian and this film is almost a completely different movie.
When Dorian is found by Sybil's brother & he realizes Dorian is too young. He goes back to the drug den where he runs into Dorian's friend that he blackmailed into disposing of Basil. The man is now an addict tells him that it was Dorian and that he hasn't aged in 20 yrs but the brother is later shot while hiding on Dorian's estate during a shooting party.
The woman Dorian eventually falls in love with is Basil's ward which is the reason Dorian killed him. He was against Dorian seeing his niece who was involved with someone else. But she got engaged to Dorian and the ex-boyfriend was trying to expose him when Dorian locked himself in the room with the portrait.
This film overdid the sex and the painting coming alive but it was not a better film. Lord Henry was also changed which did not happen in the 1945 film. He never thought anything bad was too much.
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God I hate that old version. It is so cheesy and the actor playing Dorian Gray is absolutely homely. I am not a big fan of movies from the 1930s and 1940s anyway. They are so over-acted.
shareMy sentiments exactly. Why not reboot the 1945 movie for goodness sake? In his life time, Wilde himself, revised his novel quite substantially.🐭
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