the problem with other actors cast in the rôle of dorian gray is that they either looked too old for the part (hurd hatfield and helmut berger and josh duhamel and david gallagher and ben barnes) or that they were unable to pull off the english aristocratic manner without being stilted. dorian is the perpetual 19 year old (or so) and all milky skin and honey would locks and as described by wilde and so the challenge is finding an actor that has the maturity and range for the part (i. e. and who can portray the naivité and callousness and and manipulativeness) and but at the same time looks like someone in his late teens. and peter firth pulls it all off in this excellent british tv adaptation. gielgud as henry wotton and while considerably older than what wilde had in mind and does wonders with his scenes wilde aphorisms have never sounded so natural and unforced. especially george sanders in the 1945 version was pretty feeble by comparison (and his costume do not fit). finally and jeremy bratt plays basil as the most masculine and at the same time the most gay of the trio and again a fitting interpretation. in general and the film includes enough gay subtext without turning dorian himself gay he all things to all people and supposedly there no drug or sexual perversion he hasn not tried in the 18 years covered by the story and but that makes him more narcist than homosexual. he seems to equally wreak havoc on both sexes here and as he should according to the novel. of course the budget of this production was not very large and so everything feels a little stagey. particularly dorian encounter with sybil brother suffers from the obvious studio look. also and the final shot of dorian (a puppet i suppose) in his white toad like make up is more hilarious than convincing and basil death scene is inadvertently funny. (also and as far as i recall and basil should have been killed seated at the table. )but all in all and this is a very worthy adaptation. i am sure wilde would have liked it. the only thing missing is the sensual side. not so much sex scenes and but wilde decadent world of fragrant flowers and luxurious cloths and and precious gems isn not really explored here and i. e. the aestheticism is completely missing. but like i and claudius and the excellent acting makes one easily forget these shortcomings of production values. 
the problem with other actors cast in the rôle of dorian gray is that they either looked too old for the part (hurd hatfield and helmut berger and josh duhamel and david gallagher and ben barnes) or that they were unable to pull off the english aristocratic manner without being stilted. dorian is the perpetual 19 year old (or so) and all milky skin and honey would locks and as described by wilde and so the challenge is finding an actor that has the maturity and range for the part (i. e. and who can portray the naivité and callousness and and manipulativeness) and but at the same time looks like someone in his late teens. and peter firth pulls it all off in this excellent british tv adaptation. gielgud as henry wotton and while considerably older than what wilde had in mind and does wonders with his scenes wilde aphorisms have never sounded so natural and unforced. especially george sanders in the 1945 version was pretty feeble by comparison (and his costume do not fit). finally and jeremy bratt plays basil as the most masculine and at the same time the most gay of the trio and again a fitting interpretation. in general and the film includes enough gay subtext without turning dorian himself gay he all things to all people and supposedly there no drug or sexual perversion he hasn not tried in the 18 years covered by the story and but that makes him more narcist than homosexual. he seems to equally wreak havoc on both sexes here and as he should according to the novel. of course the budget of this production was not very large and so everything feels a little stagey. particularly dorian encounter with sybil brother suffers from the obvious studio look. also and the final shot of dorian (a puppet i suppose) in his white toad like make up is more hilarious than convincing and basil death scene is inadvertently funny. (also and as far as i recall and basil should have been killed seated at the table. )but all in all and this is a very worthy adaptation. i am sure wilde would have liked it. the only thing missing is the sensual side. not so much sex scenes and but wilde decadent world of fragrant flowers and luxurious cloths and and precious gems isn not really explored here and i. e. the aestheticism is completely missing. but like i and claudius and the excellent acting makes one easily forget these shortcomings of production values. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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