History Recap / TheConfessionsOfDorianGrayBeforeYourEyes

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A ten minute long LiveActionAdaptation of the [[AudioPlay/TheConfessionsOfDorianGray audio series of the same name]], released on [[SignificantReferenceDate October 2022]] as part of a MilestoneCelebration for the tenth anniversary of the series. It stars Creator/AlexanderVlahos who reprises his role from the audios, Georgia Curtis as Jada, David O'Mahony as Basil Hallward, and Timothy Blore as a vampire.

While out one night, the immortal Dorian Gray is kidnapped by a hitwoman named Jada who has been hired to kill him. Not at all concerned by the situation while Jada's contract demands that she questions him, he explains how he has been alive for over a century after wishing that he would remain young like his portrait at the cost of his soul. Jada eventually tires of this and shoots Dorian, who then comes back to life while freeing himself from his restraints. He then explains how he was the one who hired her as a way to pass the time, and that he had been curious to see how she would react and whether she was open minded. The short then ends with Dorian giving her a choice between running away or staying to learn more about his story.
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!!Tropes
* TheEighties: Dorian's encounter with a vampire seems to be in this decade based on their clothing and the music, further hinting that it's supposed to be Toby.
* AgeLift: An implied example due to comments made and Vlahos now being thirty-four. Dorian no longer looks like someone in their early twenties, and he comments that he had his portrait was made over 150 years ago, meaning it was in the 1860s while in the audios Dorian was born in 1862. So it's possible that, assuming the film isn't canon to the audios, Dorian is at least two decades older than his audio self.
* AlternateContinuity: Due to some issues making it difficult to determine whether the film is canon to the audios, it is this instead.
* AmbiguousSituation:
** If and how this is canon to the audios, as while [[spoiler:the GrandFinale showed Dorian dying other audios released after showed him alive after 2016]].
** Whether the vampire played by Blore in Dorian's flashback is supposed to be Toby.
* CreatorCameo: O'Mahony was the director and producer of this short film, and plays Basil Hallwood in a non-speaking cameo.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Dorian's flashbacks and comments reveal that he fought for his country multiple times such as in World War I, and that he encountered several other monsters as well as a vampire that seemingly tried to kill him.
* LiveActionAdaptation: This is the first time Vlahos has portrayed Dorian Gray outside of audios.
* ShortFilm: Is only ten minutes long.
* TruerToTheText: Unlike the audios which implied Dorian knowingly made a deal with a supernatural entity, this short film reveals that like in the novel he simply made a wish that somehow came true with Dorian spending some time trying to determine who is responsible for his immortality.
* UsefulNotes/WorldWarI: Dorian has a brief flashback to when he was fighting in the war and how he was the only survivor of a poison gas attack.
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A ten minute long LiveActionAdaptation of the [[AudioPlay/TheConfessionsOfDorianGray audio series of the same name]], released on [[SignificantReferenceDate October 2022]] as part of a MilestoneCelebration celebrating the tenth anniversary of the series. Is stars Creator/AlexanderVlahos who reprises his role from the audios, Georgia Curtis as Jada, David O'Mahony as Basil Hallward, and Timothy Blore as a vampire.

* UsefulNotes/WorldWarI: Dorian has a flashback to this time.

* TheEighties: Dorian's encounter with a vampire seems to be in this decade seems to be this, further hinting that it's supposed to be Toby.

* AgeLift: An implied example due to comments made and Vlahos now being thirty-four. Dorian no longer looks like someone in their early twenties, and he comments that he had his portrait was made over 150 years ago, meaning it was in the 1860s while in the audios Dorian was born in 1862. So it's possible that, assuming the film isn't canon to the audios, that Dorian is at least a decade older than his audio self.

* AgeLift: An implied example due to comments made and Vlahos now being thirty-four. Dorian no longer looks like someone in their early twenties, and he comments that he had his portrait made over 150 years ago, meaning it was in the 1860s while in the audios Dorian was born in 1862. So it's possible that, assuming the film isn't canon to the audios, that Dorian is at least a decade older than his audio self.

* AgeLift: An implied example due to comments made and Vlahos now being thirty-four. Dorian no longer looks like someone in their early twenties, and he comments that he had his portrait made over 150 years ago, meaning it was in the 1860s while in the audios Dorian was born in 1862.

* {{Retcon}}: While the audios hinted that he made an actual deal with a supernatural entity, here he's shown to have simply made a wish that came true like the original novel. Dorian also claims this happened over 150 years ago, which would make him slightly older than he was stated to be in the audios where he was born in 1862 while he became immortal when he was roughly eighteen.

* {{Retcon}}: While the audios hinted that he made an actual deal with a supernatural entity, here he's shown to have simply made a wish that came true like the original novel. Dorian also claims this happened over 150 years ago, which would make him slightly older than he was stated to be in the audios where he was born in 1862.

* CreatorCameo: O'Mahony was the director and producer of this short film

A ten minute long LiveActionAdaptation of the [[AudioPlay/TheConfessionsOfDorianGray audio series of the same name]], released as part of a MilestoneCelebration celebrating the tenth anniversary of the series and was released on [[SignificantReferenceDate October 2022]]. Is stars Creator/AlexanderVlahos who reprises his role from the audios, Georgia Curtis as Jada, David O'Mahony as Basil Hallward, and Timothy Blore as a vampire.

While out one night, the immortal Dorian Gray is kidnapped by a hitwoman named Jada who has been hired to kill him. Not at all concerned by the situation while Jada's contract demands that she questions him, he explains how he has been alive for over a century after wishing that he would remain young like his portrait at the cost of his soul. Jada eventually tires of this and shoots Dorian, who then comes back to life while freeing himself from his restraints. He then explains how he was the one who hired her as a way to pass the time, and that he had been curious to see how she would react and whether she was open minded. The short then ends with Dorian giving her a choice between running away, or staying to learn more about his story.

* {{Retcon}}: While the audios hinted that he made an actual deal with a supernatural entity, here he's shown to have simply made a wish that came true like the original novel. Dorian also claims this happened over 150 years ago, which would make him slightly older than he was stated to be in the audios where he was born in 1862.