Oscar Wild as a pop icon

The writer Oscar Wilde is
one of the most tragic
and striking figures
in the history of English literature.
An Irishman by birth,
he wrote in English.
Oscar Wilde is one of the
most quoted writers in the world.
During his lifetime, he became
what is now called a "celebrity" and a "style icon". Stricking figure-яркая, поразительная фигура ; quoted writer-цитируемый писатель

Wilde and music

Where's Oscar? On the cover of The Beatles' iconic album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (1967) Wilde looks over John Lennon's shoulder. By the way, Lennon himself was also seen in the image of Wilde.

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The band "The Rolling Stones" did not remain in debt. In the same year when "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", the rolling stones shot a video for the song "We Love You", where they referred to the famous trial of the writer. Mick Jagger played Oscar Wilde. Referred to-ссылаться на…

Lead singer of The Smiths, and now solo artist Stephen Patrick Morrissey said in an interview that every line written by Wilde greatly influenced him. "The older I get, the more I adore him. I'm going nowhere without him. It's like carrying your rosary with you."

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In 2003, the band "Red Hot Chili Peppers" made homage to Wilde in the song "Eskimo" - the B-side to the single "Fortune Faded":In the name of Oscar Wilde ISaw the mess and I saw him smile, IGo, face to face, around the world to find an Eskimo. Made homage-отдал дань уважения

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The leader of the Soviet and Russian new wave group "Obermaneken" Ange Zakharishchev von Brausch told about the influence of Wilde:"Oscar Wilde is one of the key figures in the formation of the original aesthetics of Obermaneken. When I conceived the image of the group, the forbidden and strictly persecuted Lolita was lying on my reading table Nabokov, Sasha Sokolov's equally forbidden “School for Fools” and Wilde's official two—volume book - all together formed a kind of thermonuclear station, giving birth to the subtlest ober-reality. Subtlest ober-reality-тончайшая сверхреальность

Wilde and Cinema

Wilde (1997) starring Stephen Fry is a cult film based on the book by Richard Ellmann. The book won the Pulitzer Prize, and the film adaptation is the love of fans and critics. Fry is the "perfect Wilde" according to journalists.

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The Happy Prince (2018) is a film directed and written by Rupert Everett about the last days of Wilde. Everett himself played the main role. This is a less well-known biographical film than "Wilde" with Fry, but no less magnificent.

In the novella "XX arrondissement: Pere Lachaise" from the film "Paris, I love You" (2006), the action takes place at the famous grave of Wilde. To a couple in love experiencing their first crisis, the ghost of the writer will give a couple of valuable tips.
Valuable tips-ценные советы

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Wilde and Comics

Comics is a mirror of the soul of pop culture, did not bypass Wilde.
«Education is a wonderful thing, you just have to remember at least sometimes that it is impossible to teach anything worth knowing.»
Oscar Wilde even appears several times in the Doctor Who comics. The Doctor and Oscar either find an empty grave and chase the maniac, or try to convince the alien not to destroy the Earth.
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The name of the American webcomic "Wilde Life" is a play on words: this is both Wilde's life and the wild life. The main character's name is Oscar Wilde. And he's a writer. The similarities end there. Wilde rents a house from a witch named Barbara Yaga, so a lot of interesting things are waiting for the guy: ghosts, werewolves and other strange characters, to whom Wilde shows constant friendliness. Werewolves-оборотни