#the importance of being earnest
I’ve watched “Wilde”. It was on my to-watch list for a pretty long time, thanks to @xenolinguistics-department ’s Instagram it was there even before I started making different segments for different actors. Be sure, though - I watched it because of Michael Sheen. I’ve seen clips from this movie in so many Ineffable Husbands Human!AU videos… Well, Michael Sheen is twenty-eight years old in that movie and it’s just illegal to be so young, pretty and charming! Have you seen those eyes? (And lips, and buttocks which were shown for the whole screen…) I probably should confess – I have read “The Portrait of Dorian Gray” and I didn’t like it… It felt boring and pretentious. I’ve read some of Oscar Wilde’s short stories (yes, the one about the giant too) and, what’s the most important - “The Importance of Being Earnest” – I’ve seen twice in the theatre and it was great! So, I’m a little familiar with Oscar Wilde’s works, but not a big fan of it. I’ve also seen Stephen Fry for the first time in that movie and I liked his performance a lot. I also wanted to make a note – I don’t know how historically accurate it is, so I’m not going to judge it those grounds. I enjoyed this movie so much! It’s dramatic, it’s romantic, it’s sensual (I was going to write sexy, but this word is just not good enough). I’ve seen so many beautiful naked young men in this movie. A lot of them was Jude Law, but I’m not saying it’s something bad. I cried a few times while watching – a lot of times, when I saw Michael Sheen, during the scene (Spoilers!) when Oscar and Bosie had a meeting in prison and started holding hands through the bars and I definitely cried in the end, which I didn’t expect to be at least slightly happy, however, it was. So, watching queer movies with no particular actors in them.
And, though I was a soul in pain,
My pain I could not feel.
Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol.
WHEn will someone make a good Importance of Being Earnest adaptation like please the secret is to change Nothing keep all of Wilde’s dialogue just cast actors who can pull it off and while we’re on the topic a good!! Version of Arms and the Man like all the plays I studied in an academic context that still managed to be breathtakingly funny please I want actually funny visual adaptations that are available in a mainstream source
In this week’s New Yorker Alex Ross reviews this year’s NY Phil Biennial. Here’s My take on Gerald Barry’s “the importance of being Earnest”
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it’s gets me everytime
30 Days of Pride Day 2- Oscar Wilde
Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright, his most beloved works being The Picture of Dorian GrayandThe Importance of Being Earnest. At the height of his fame and success, Wilde prosecuted the Marquess of Queensberry for criminal libel. The Marquess was the father of Wilde’s lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. The libel trial unearthed evidence that caused Wilde to drop his charges and led to his own arrest and trial for gross indecency with men. After two more trials he was convicted and sentenced to two years’ hard labour. Not long after his release, he died at age 46 from meningitis. Whilst imprisoned, he still wrote voraciously, stating in one letter,
“To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.”
In 2017, over 100 years after his death, Wilde was among an estimated 50,000 men who were pardoned for homosexual acts that were no longer considered offences under the Policing and Crime Act 2017 (homosexuality was decriminalised in England and Wales in 1967).
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