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"The Picture of Dorian Gray."
At the Art Institute of Chicago, a man stops to look at "The Picture of Dorian Gray," a painting by Ivan Albright that was used in the 1945 movie version of the Oscar Wilde book.
Here's the fantastic scene in the movie when the portrait is revealed. The pacing, the music, and the sudden use of color in a black and white movie make the revelation surprisingly visceral, even though you know what you are going to see.
From the book:
“Years ago, when I was a boy,” said Dorian Gray, crushing the flower in his hand, “you met me, flattered me, and taught me to be vain of my good looks. One day you introduced me to a friend of yours, who explained to me the wonder of youth, and you finished the portrait of me that revealed to me the wonder of beauty. In a mad moment, that, even now, I don’t know whether I regret or not, I made a wish, perhaps you would call it a prayer.... It has destroyed me.”
“I don’t believe it is my picture.”
“Can’t you see your ideal in it?” said Dorian, bitterly.
“My ideal, as you call it....”
“As you called it.”
“There was nothing evil in it, nothing shameful. You were to me such an ideal as I shall never meet again. This is the face of a satyr.”
“It is the face of my soul.”
“Christ! what a thing I must have worshipped! It has the eyes of a devil.”
“Each of us has Heaven and Hell in him, Basil,” cried Dorian, with a wild gesture of despair.
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