The Picture of Dorian Gray Page #2

Synopsis: In 1886, in the Victorian London, the corrupt Lord Henry Wotton meets the pure Dorian Gray posing for talented painter Basil Hallward. Basil paints Dorian's portrait and gives the beautiful painting and an Egyptian sculpture of a cat to him while Henry corrupts his mind and soul telling that Dorian should seek pleasure in life. Dorian wishes that his portrait could age instead of him. Dorian goes to a side show in the Two Turtles in the poor neighborhood of London and he falls in love with the singer Sibyl Vane. Dorian decides to get married with her and tells to Lord Henry that convinces him to test the honor of Sibyl. Dorian Gray leaves Sibyl and travels abroad and when he returns to London, Lord Henry tells him that Sibyl committed suicide for love. Along the years, Dorian's friends age while he is still the same, but his picture discloses his evilness and corruptive life. Can he still have salvation or is his soul trapped in the doomed painting?
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Director(s): Albert Lewin
Production: WARNER BROTHERS PICTURES
  Won 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.6
Rotten Tomatoes:
91%
NOT RATED
Year:
1945
110 min
2,602 Views


fully and completely,

give form to every feeling,

expression to every thought,

reality to every dream.

Every impulse that we suppress

broods in the mind and poisons us.

There's only one way to get rid

of a temptation and that's to yield to it.

Resist it and the soul grows sick

with longing for the things

it has forbidden to itself.

There is nothing that can cure the soul

but the senses.

Just as there is nothing that can cure

the senses but the soul.

Turn your head a little more

to the left, Dorian.

The gods have been

good to you, Mr. Gray.

Why do you say that?

Because you have

the most marvelous youth,

and youth is the one thing

worth having.

I don't feel that,

Lord Henry.

No, you don't feel it now.

But some day you'll feel it terribly.

What the gods give,

they quickly take away.

Time is jealous of you, Mr. Gray.

Don't squander the gold of your days.

Live. Let nothing be lost upon you.

Be afraid of nothing.

There is such a little time

that your youth will last,

and you can never get it back.

As we grow older,

our memories are haunted

by the exquisite temptations

we hadn't the courage to yield to.

The world is yours for a season.

It would be tragic if you realized too late,

as so many others do,

that there is only one thing in the world

worth having, and that is youth.

Dorian Gray had never heard

the praise of folly so eloquently expressed.

The creed of pleasure

soared into a philosophy of life,

while Dorian stood as if

he were under a spell.

He felt afraid of Lord Henry's ideas

and ashamed of himself for being afraid.

It was as if he were learning

to know himself for the first time,

as if a stranger had revealed

his own most secret thoughts to him.

For the first time he became

conscious of his youth,

and conscious of the fact that one day

he would lose it.

My visit to you hasn't been wasted, Basil.

I've found a rare and

beautiful butterfly, Euvanesse antiope.

It's very unusual in England.

Don't you think it's beautiful, Mr. Gray?

-Yes, Lord Henry, very beautiful.

-You may sit down now, Dorian.

I'm glad you met Lord Henry, after all.

-Are you glad, Mr. Gray?

-I'm glad now.

-I wonder if I shall always be glad.

-Always?

That's a dreadful word.

It makes me shudder to hear it.

Women are so fond of using it.

They spoil every romance

by trying to make it last forever.

The only difference between a caprice

and a life-long passion is that

the caprice lasts a little longer.

But I believe our hostess has appeared.

You're just in time, darling,

to witness my signature

to Dorian's painting.

Could I sign it, too?

Well, I think you're entitled to.

Since you haven't missed a sitting.

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Albert Lewin

Albert Lewin (September 23, 1894 – May 9, 1968) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He was born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Newark, New Jersey. He earned a master's degree at Harvard and taught English at the University of Missouri. During World War I, he served in the military and was afterwards appointed assistant national director of the American Jewish Relief Committee. He later became a drama and film critic for the Jewish Tribune until the early 1920s, when he went to Hollywood to become a reader for Samuel Goldwyn. Later he worked as a script clerk for directors King Vidor and Victor Sjöström before becoming a screenwriter at MGM in 1924. Lewin was appointed head of the studio's script department and by the late 1920s was Irving Thalberg's personal assistant and closest associate. Nominally credited as an associate producer, he produced several of MGM's most important films of the 1930s. After Thalberg's death, he joined Paramount as a producer in 1937, where he remained until 1941. Notable producing credits during this period include True Confession (1937), Spawn of the North (1938), Zaza (1939) and So Ends Our Night (1941). In 1942, Lewin began to direct. He made six films, writing all of them and producing several himself. As a director and writer, he showed literary and cultural aspirations in the selection and treatment of his themes. In 1966, Lewin published a novel, The Unaltered Cat. more…

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