After watching this film. i suspect Johnny may have a similar picture in his house. that man has NEVER aged lol
share Maybe that's the seacret of his great looks
He would have been a great choice for this part and there is something about Jhonny that I could see him playing all main characters in this type of dark period pieces.
Like Jean Baptiste in perfume or the Marquise de Sade in another film about him maybe in a Quills remake.
Yes, I often thought it would have been a perfect Johnny Depp part. Ben Barnes doesn't have the screen presence nor the overwhelming beauty of a real Dorian Gray. Even if Johnny Depp is twice as old, he could have still pulled it off.
shareBen Barnes was perfect for this part. He is very beautiful, has great screen presence and makes a great Dorian Gray. I have nothing against Johnny Depp but I find Ben Barnes much more appealing.
shareI just thought Ben Barnes was too lame, somehow. But I found the movie a bit too slow and too average anyway. So in the context of the movie he was okay, but I always thought there's something missing, a bit more darkness or sensuality or hypnoticism, just a bit.
shareThey could have shown us what happened during the time Dorian traveled the world. I loved the movie because I love Ben Barnes but the writers could have done more with that. I loved the sex montages but I suspect Dorian killed more than one person. I even read something somewhere about Oscar Wilde possibly knowing who Jack the Ripper really was and being inspired to write The picture of Dorian Gray. Interesting Theory.
shareThere was a chapter in the book that talked of all he did over a period of about two decades. What makes you think he killed more then one person? I think you are more then likely right, that he killed more then one person. Also, since seemed too have a poor impulse control, and nearly killed a guy simply for touching his key, makes me think he could have ended up seeing a prostitute, and if she made him angry could have ended up beating her to a pulp, tossing her out the door, and ending up killing her, I don't think it would have been a surprise if that did happen. Sadly to this day it does happen, with prostitutes, they are tossed out of cars beaten to a pulp like they are nothing. My guess is Dorian didn't regard prostitutes in human beings, and neither did Henry. My guess is that's why they wouldn't have really understood why it would have bothered Sybil if they saw prostitutes.
shareIt's clearly been destroyed then. I saw him on person last year and he looked every bit his age. He looked weird too. Certainly not attractive.
shareJohnny wouldn't have fit...I've always pictured Dorian as a feminine type of man. Johnny has always been quite quintessentially male.
And yeah, he is starting to age. Like everyone.