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Script vs Film
May. 26th, 2004 12:00 amThe script originally has the film open with the line "For Oscar Wilde, posing as a sodomite." which was written on a calling card* from the Marquis of Queensberry, the father of Oscar's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas (Bosie). It was the symbolic beginning of the end for Oscar.
So using this line to introduce the film serves as both a dedication to Oscar Wilde and a reminder that accusing someone of being gay can change history - as we'll see in our story.
Here is the original, with its misspelling of 'somdomite'. It was used to implicate Wilde at his trial in 1895.
*in the days before telephones, answering machines and voice mail, people left their calling cards, with their name engraved like business cards as evidence of their visit.
So using this line to introduce the film serves as both a dedication to Oscar Wilde and a reminder that accusing someone of being gay can change history - as we'll see in our story.
Here is the original, with its misspelling of 'somdomite'. It was used to implicate Wilde at his trial in 1895.
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*in the days before telephones, answering machines and voice mail, people left their calling cards, with their name engraved like business cards as evidence of their visit.
