{"id":4881,"date":"2018-10-25T22:24:09","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T15:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/studentmedia\/?p=4881"},"modified":"2018-10-25T22:26:06","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T15:26:06","slug":"film-review-the-happy-prince","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/film-review-the-happy-prince\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Review: The Happy Prince"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written by Kevin Lopez<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Happy Prince<\/em> stars, written and directed by Rupert Everett and this makes it his directorial debut in this film. For his directorial debut, Everett chose a biographical film based on the last days of Oscar Wilde (Rupert Everett).<\/p>\n<p>Everett places us inside Wilde\u2019s mind as he creates scenes that connect the audience to party and romantic flashbacks. <em>The Happy Prince<\/em> shows highlights of Wilde\u2019s adventure from being a famous playwright to losing his money. Everett displays these scenes through the coloring of the cinematography. The best scene in <em>The Happy Prince<\/em> shows two characters arguing, creating a color of orange underground noir.<\/p>\n<p>Everett shows us Wilde\u2019s explored sexuality in the time he spends with the, seemingly, sinister and seductive Alfred \u201cBosie\u201d Douglas (Colin Morgan). As the film progresses, we see Boise\u2019s cold heart warm up around Wilde as the two grow and learn from each other.<\/p>\n<p>The film has some really fantastic supporting actors the like Colin Firth, Edwin Thomas, Emily Watson and many more. Overall the cast is well cast and the performances from each actor are really amazing. But, Everett performance really stands out as you see him becoming Wilde, making for an intriguing performance.<\/p>\n<p>The film can lack a bit because of slow pacing. The movie felt a little too long, especially in the beginning. However, I would like to have seen more character development through the supporting characters. Lastly, I think this movie should have been a bit longer just to have a bit more character development from the supporting characters. It would have been nice to see more than three focal points of Wilde\u2019s life to satisfy the ending.<\/p>\n<p>Because <em>The Happy Prince<\/em>\u00a0has a great cast of actors, looks great and does a good job showing Boise\u2019s effect on Wilde I would recommend it\u2013even to those who unfamiliar with the famous playwright.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Kevin Lopez The Happy Prince stars, written and directed by Rupert Everett and this makes it his directorial debut in this film. For his directorial debut, Everett chose a biographical film based on the last days of Oscar Wilde (Rupert Everett). Everett places us inside Wilde\u2019s mind as he creates scenes that connect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4103,"featured_media":4882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[761,20],"tags":[251,881,688,882],"class_list":["post-4881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film","category-reviews","tag-film","tag-kevin-lopez","tag-review","tag-the-happy-prince"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}