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One of the first things that came to attention when one gets over the awesomeness of Fiona Shaw more on her later was the appalling cutting. Some scenes actually looked like something from a bad Nollywood film, especially the murder of Basil played by Ben Chaplin, who was easily one of the best things about the film. The next scene he's just left the house, Wotton's daughter a-tumbling after him, and it actually looks like a completely different film.

No really - the house looks entirely different he leaves via the garden, but suddenly reappears outside the main doors and it seems to be set in an autumnal evening with smoke from a bonfire in the background or something. It was just embarrassing to watch. Now for the real gall. One thing that annoyed me a lot was the judgement in Dorian Gray. As far as I'm aware - as I haven't entirely finished the book yet - it is not so much the decadent lifestyle that deforms his portrait, but the fact that he becomes callous and cruel to those around him, particularly those who love - such as Basil - and care for him.

Now, forgive me for not subscribing to whatever morality the director is trying to portray, but I really don't see how drug-taking, casual sex and alcohol consumption counts as harming other people because essentially that is what affects his portrait according to the film. Gray's possible abandonment of Celia Radley was dealt with very very briefly - barely mentioned to be honest. In fact, leaving Vane causes maggots one to be precise , but the effects of the other two deeds of evil on the painting are not shown.

This often happens in modern 'morality plays' - they don't work because they suscribe sometimes not too consistently either to a morality we do not share today, making hypocrites out of the playmakers and cynics out of the audience. The scond thing that irritated me - keeping in with the theme of this week, perhaps - was that annoying liberal type of homophobia which pervaded the film. A straight man indulging in gay sex is no more 'bad' than him having straight sex and yes, that is the implication the director gives when every single gay or bisexual male character is depicted as an amoral pretty boy and the gay 'sex' and implications thereof is played for shock value - not, of course that it's shown beyond a kiss, because of course gay sex is so bad that although we can watch Gray messing around with a hundred sapphically inclined, opium addicted prostitutes, we can't ever see him doing the deed with a man who actually loves him.

You know, Messrs Directors, I'm not sure if you've realised this, but we're not in the 70s anymore It might be kinky, but that's only for the permanently immature or the imaginatively challenged; it might even be decadent with the right furnishings. It is not, however, bad.

It should never be portrayed as shocking or indicating a darkened soul, taken to evil and wickedness. So there; by not successfully establishing the difference between the quest for pure sensation, the love of decadence and the destructive effects of the selfish hedonist on his fellow creature, 'Dorian Gray' is both rather offensive and incredibly ineffective as a film.

It's bloody stupid and the CGI painting. When I first watched the film, I rather liked it. Now, it just makes the conceit far too absurd to be effective. It's no wonder Wilde considered the book unadaptable for stage and presumably film if he'd known of it. Last night I think it was somewhat deconstructed which is awesome because I've never actually seen a play properly deconstructed. Usually I just say it to be ironic. Or insulting. Anyway, I loved it. The musical numbers performed by the amazing Duke Special were sometimes a bit intrusive but the actors were just amazing.

I especially loved the whore 'Yvette' and 'dumb Kattrin'. Fiona Shaw was of course marvellous as 'Mother Courage', though now I understand certain people's annoyance with the fact she was given so little screen time in those wretched Harry Potter films and they are wretched, even when they're fun. Then again, if we gave every sterling actor the screen time they deserved, we'd still be moaning about the second one.

I didn't find the ending nearly as moving as I thought I would, but then, it isn't really an ending - the war is still going on and you know Mother Courage will probably shack up with the cook in Utrecht, rob him blind and head off for the next front. She'll probably end her days running a brothel and telling stories to the kids, bless her, if she hasn't been robbed en route in a case of mistaken identity by the Chaplain and Eilif. Jo Woodcock is a 33 years old British actor from Kent.

Jo Woodcock is an English television film and stage actress. Although active since Woodcock has recently come into prominence following her critically acclaimed performances as Alice in the television drama Torn in and as Liza-Lu Durbeyfield in the television series Tess of the d'Urbervilles in Read full biography.

Jo Woodcock was born on the 9th of September , which was a Friday. She will be turning 34 in only days from today 12 November, Her first feature film was Dorian Gray , as Celia Radley. She was 21 when she starred in this movie.

Since , she has appeared in 3 feature films. The last one is Powder In this movie, she played the character Ticky Turnbull. Jo Woodcock TV Actress. Jo Woodcock, British actress. When is Woodcock's next birthday?