{"id":11799,"date":"2018-11-19T13:54:30","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T17:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=11799"},"modified":"2018-11-19T13:54:30","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T17:54:30","slug":"spiritual-friendship-and-self-abasing-love-in-a-new-wilde-biopic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2018\/11\/spiritual-friendship-and-self-abasing-love-in-a-new-wilde-biopic.html","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual Friendship and Self-Abasing Love in a New Wilde Biopic"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><blockquote><p>which I review for <em>America<\/em> magazine:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">There is a moment toward the beginning of Rupert Everett\u2019s new Oscar Wilde biopic, \u201cThe Happy Prince,\u201d when Wilde interrupts his welcome-back-from-prison party to declaim, \u201cI met Christ in prison.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">His friend Reggie Turner (Colin Firth) quips, \u201cOh? What was she in for?\u201d, but Oscar is having none of it: \u201cDon\u2019t <em>joke<\/em>, Reggie.\u201d Everett, who is writer, director and star here, lets you hear all the curlicues in Oscar\u2019s voice, the delectation of his own surrender. Oscar performs the role of the Man Who Met Christ in Prison, and it is only more amusing and piquant because he did really meet Christ in prison.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americamagazine.org\/arts-culture\/2018\/11\/09\/oscar-wilde-finds-christ-happy-prince\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>which I review for America magazine: There is a moment toward the beginning of Rupert Everett\u2019s new Oscar Wilde biopic, \u201cThe Happy Prince,\u201d when Wilde interrupts his welcome-back-from-prison party to declaim, \u201cI met Christ in prison.\u201d His friend Reggie Turner (Colin Firth) quips, \u201cOh? 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