Yes, begrudgingly I watched the entire film and as the ending scene is upon us the audience, it is Robert Morley who has the last laugh....on us. Morley was playing the turn of the century critically acclaimed poet and playwright who although married with children, his homosexuality was well publicized, as was his relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas.
I always enjoy a good biographical film that maintains a more factual basis than an endulgent and embillished storyline and although "Oscar Wilde" was mostly true to the documentation publicized, it was the overwieght and over performed portrayal by Robert Morley of the much younger and thinner real Oscar Wilde that I found dull and boring.
could only conclude that Robert Morley must have invested his own money in this fiasco that allow himself to garner 90 percent of the actual screen time on his ugly fat pug of a face. Also Morley's british accent was there for all to see and hear, but Oscar Wilde himself was from Irish descent so why not have an Irish actor portray him? There is one scene late in the film when Oscar Wilde is on trial and asked by the prosecutor about a young man to which Oscar Wilde (Morley) responds, "he is ugly". How ironic that the overweight, over aged actor Robert Morley gets to play the younger Irish and much thinner Oscar Wilde.
This is a very dull and boring film that I would prefer to read about Oscar Wilde through the history books than suffer through Robert Morley's abysmal and ugly performance. I give the film a poor 2 out of 10 rating. I could only conclud
I always enjoy a good biographical film that maintains a more factual basis than an endulgent and embillished storyline and although "Oscar Wilde" was mostly true to the documentation publicized, it was the overwieght and over performed portrayal by Robert Morley of the much younger and thinner real Oscar Wilde that I found dull and boring.
could only conclude that Robert Morley must have invested his own money in this fiasco that allow himself to garner 90 percent of the actual screen time on his ugly fat pug of a face. Also Morley's british accent was there for all to see and hear, but Oscar Wilde himself was from Irish descent so why not have an Irish actor portray him? There is one scene late in the film when Oscar Wilde is on trial and asked by the prosecutor about a young man to which Oscar Wilde (Morley) responds, "he is ugly". How ironic that the overweight, over aged actor Robert Morley gets to play the younger Irish and much thinner Oscar Wilde.
This is a very dull and boring film that I would prefer to read about Oscar Wilde through the history books than suffer through Robert Morley's abysmal and ugly performance. I give the film a poor 2 out of 10 rating. I could only conclud