"Che se io saprei che mio figlio mi diventerebbe un orecchione, vivo glielo faccio mangiare il ritratto di Dorian Gray!" (Vito Catozzo)
Al
regista di
Dorian Gray, invece, andrebbe fatta mangiare tutta la pellicola che ha sprecato per girare questa porcheria.
Ragazzo ricco, giovane ed affascinante (il giusto, se vogliamo, ma lascio il giudizio al pubblico femminile), Dorian Gray è però eccessivamente timido ed ingenuo per la Londra di fine 800. La cattiva influenza di un amico lo spingerà ad un patto col demonio, che ne preserverà l'aspetto esteriore facendo al suo posto invecchiare un ritratto; eternamente giovane e bello, si scopa tutto e tutti quanto e più di
Marrazzo, precipitando in una vita del tutto amorale e votata all'edonismo.
Puerile riproposizione del romanzo di
Oscar Wilde, qui con tanto di vaghissime venature horror buone giusto per i trailer, questo orrendo filmaccio si scontra con una dura realtà: estrapolare da un capolavoro della letteratura tutti i motti e gli aforismi non è sufficiente, se vuoi raccontare la storia al cinema.
Non paghi di un eccesso di citazionismo, a peggiorare il tutto c'è l'aver scelto alcuni degli attori più
cani della storia recente: le smorfie di
Ben Barnes non sfigurerebbero in un film di ninjà; ci mette del suo anche uno spaesato
Colin Firth. Le donne (interpretate ugualmente male) son tutte dei cessi ed hanno l'aria di chi si lava poco, ma suppongo che ciò aggiunga un bel tocco di realismo all'inglese.
Non che non abbia le sue sfumature trash: alla fin fine puoi passare il film a giocare ad "indovina la prossima citazione" o a fare la
Voce Tonante Della Coscienza Altrui®.
Voto: 3. Trashometro
® 3/10:
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Parker, Oliver (I)
Data di nascita: 6 September 1960
Ultimi lavori: Trivia random: Directed brother Nathaniel Parker and sister-in-law Anna Patrick in Othello (1995).
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Barnes, Ben (I)
Nome di battesimo: Barnes, Benjamin Thomas
Data di nascita: 20 August 1981
Altezza: 6' 1" (1.85 m)
Ultimi lavori: Trivia random: Member of the National Youth Music Theatre 1997-2003.
Citazione random: The audition was to play a Los Angeles lifeguard. So I turn up, pasty, skinny, off the plane, black shirt. I walk in, there's like ten guys in there, blonde, tanned, enormous. And I kid you not, one of them had his pant leg rolled up and was going, "Dude, I just don't know how to get the definition in my calves. I can't do it." And I thought, I'm in the wrong place. (The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, May 13, 2008)
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Dorian Gray (2009)
Regista: Oliver Parker Scrittore: Toby Finlay,
Oscar Wilde Genere: Drama
Valutazione: 6.8/10 (855 voti)
Durata: 112 min
Paese: UK
Lingua: English
Cast:Trama:A naïve young man. A lovelorn artist. A corruptible Lord. A deal with the Devil. It all paints a dark picture of a Victorian London and how the rich and infamous party at their peril. Here, the telling of time and its consequence of experience for life's treasures' takes its toll on the body, mind and soul. The haunting and bleak tale of power, greed, vanity and inevitable self-destruction is ever present amongst the deceit, opium dens and sin.
Trivia random: This is the second film starring Rachel Hurd-Wood (Sybil Vane) that involves an eternally youthful male lead. The first was Peter Pan (2003).
Citazione random: [from trailer]<br />Lord Henry Wotton: What are you?<br />Dorian Gray: I am what you made me!
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Firth, Colin
Nome di battesimo: Firth, Colin Andrew
Data di nascita: 10 September 1960
Altezza: 6' 1½" (1.87 m)
Coniuge: Livia Giuggioli::(21 June 1997 - present) 2 children
Ultimi lavori: Biografia:Born into an academic family - his father is a history lecturer at Winchester University College (formerly King Alfred's College) in Winchester and his mother is a comparative religions lecturer at the Open University - Colin Firth's first acting experience came in infant's school when he played "Jack Frost" in a Christmas pantomime. Three of his four grandparents were Methodist missionaries and he spent his early childhood in Nigeria, returning to England at age five where he entered a comprehensive school in Winchester. He spent two years at the Drama Centre in Chalk Farm where he was "discovered" while playing "Hamlet" during his final term. His first professional role was as "Bennet" in the West End production of "Another Country". From this performance, he was chosen to play the character of "Judd" in the movie of the play. He went on to play a variety of character parts in both film and television. For his portrayal of "Robert Lawrence" in the 1989 TV production Tumbledown (1988) (TV), he received the Royal Television Society Best Actor award and also a BAFTA nomination. He also received a BAFTA nomination for "Mr. Darcy" in the 1995 TV version of "Pride and Prejudice" (1995).
Trivia random: Has one child with actress Meg Tilly, William Joseph Firth (born September 20, 1990) and 2 sons with Livia Giuggioli named Luca Firth (born March 29, 2001, in Rome) and Mateo Firth (born in August 2003).
Citazione random: Your face is supposed to move if you're going to act. Why on earth would you take a violin and make the strings so that they don't vibrate? Injecting something in to your face so it's paralysed, or cutting bits of it up so that you take any signs of life out of it is catastrophic if you're going to express yourself in any way at all.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
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