Editorial Journal of John Cooper on Oscar Wilde
Following the podcast featuring Oscar Wilde’s grandson Merlin Holland in Gyles Brandreth’s series Rosebud, here is another worth noting for Wildeans who might have missed it.
It is an interview with broadcaster, comedian, and writer, Stephen Fry: and thus the President of the Oscar Wilde Society meets one of its honorary patrons (and the man who played Oscar Wilde in the film of that name in 1997).
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Screenwise, Stephen Fry is best known for playing Oscar Wilde in the 1997 movie Wilde.
The opening of that film shows Oscar arriving in town on horseback for his lecture in Leadville, Colorado, but the scene gives a false impression. Not because he actually arrived in Leadville by train. The point is that the 1997 film is not about Wilde’s time in America. Its story arc is the period of Oscar’s relationship with Alfred Douglas in Europe ten years later.
So why do they show Wilde in Leadville?
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