(March 19, 2021 at 4:53 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: That said, I can’t be sure this will fuck everything up more than the Ben Barnes version, which fucked up the character dynamics to the point where Basil, who was about as openly gay as the publishers of 1890 would allow, was the straightest one of the main trio.
This makes it extra disappointing for me that they changed things around....
It's the first time in history when they could make a movie with all the homoerotic elements intact and get away with it. In other words, the first time in history when they could even possibly make an accurate movie -- and they choose not to do so.
I mean, I can sort of understand it when opera producers set Don Giovanni in outer space or something weird, because presumably we've all seen non-weird versions of it. But there has never been an accurate Dorian Gray.
