
The Picture of Dorian Gray
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- 1945
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Lord Henry Wotton had set himself early
in life to the serious study
of the great aristocratic art
of doing absolutely nothing.
He lived only for pleasure,
but his greatest pleasure was to observe
the emotions of his friends
while experiencing none of his own.
He diverted himself by exercising
a subtle influence on the lives of others.
Eighteen, I think you said, sir.
-Shall I wait, sir?
-Yes.
Among Lord Henry's friends
was the painter Basil Hallward.
He had been strangely secretive
about his latest painting,
and Lord Henry, sensing a mystery,
determined to discover what it was
that his friend wished to conceal.
I'm sorry, my lord,
Mr. Hallward is not at home.
Mr. Hallward doesn't wish to be disturbed.
It's your best work, Basil.
The best thing you've ever done.
Of course, I can't believe that anyone
is really as handsome as that portrait.
Who is he? What's his name?
Why are you being so secretive about it?
It's a great painting.
You ought to send it to the Grosvenor
-I shall not send it anywhere.
-But why?
I've put too much of myself into it.
I knew you'd laugh,
but it's true all the same.
Well, there certainly isn't any resemblance
between you and this young Adonis.
You have an intellectual expression,
and intellect destroys
the beauty of any face.
Don't flatter yourself, Basil.
You're not in the least like him.
Of course I'm not like him.
And I'm glad of it.
"The Wisdom of Buddha."
You always did have a
passion for virtue, Basil.
Why are you glad you're not like him?
We suffer for what the gods give us,
will pay for his good looks.
-Dorian Gray. Is that his name?
-Yes. I didn't intend to tell it to you.
lf I'm going to keep on visiting you,
I'll have to send you some good sherry.
Why didn't you intend to tell me his name?
I can't explain. As I've grown older,
I've come to love secrecy.
I suppose that sounds foolish to you.
Come into the garden.
It doesn't sound foolish to me at all.
You forget that I am married
and that the one charm of marriage
is that it makes a life of deception
absolutely necessary to both parties.
I believe you are really
a very good husband, Harry,
but that you are thoroughly ashamed
of your own virtues.
-Your cynicism is simply a pose.
-Being natural is simply a pose
and the most irritating pose I know.
But you haven't answered my question.
I want to know the real reason why
you won't exhibit Dorian Gray's picture.
There is really very little to tell, Harry.
Besides, I'm afraid
I can believe anything
provided that it is quite incredible.
I'm afraid this will seem so.
There is something
I can't quite understand.
-Mystic?
I don't know how to explain it,
but whenever Dorian poses for me,
it seems as if a power outside myself
were guiding my hand.
It's as if the painting had a life of its own,
independent of me.
That's why I'm not going to exhibit it.
It belongs rightfully to Dorian Gray,
and I shall give it to him.
I want to meet
this extraordinary young man.
for their good looks
and my enemies for their good intellects.
A man cannot be too careful
in his choice of enemies.
Harry, I despise your principles,
but I do enjoy the way you express them.
I like persons better than principles,
and persons with no principles
better than anything else in the world.
-Now I remember.
-Remember what, Harry?
-Where I heard the name of Dorian Gray.
-Where was it?
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