What would happen if Dorian Gray destroyed his own painting?

I really wish they would have stayed with the original idea from the book. Dorian would have been a much more complex character/

Actually, I wish they would have just stayed with the original graphic novel.

Figured his story was different from the novel of Dorian Gray, was because the film's writers had to give the character a major weakness and Achilles heel as it were so he could be defeated in short order.

Most of the time film don't have the same luxury of books where stories develop a big backstory and depth to them. Whereas commercial theatrical summer movies have to tell their story within a set time period over an hour or two in theaters. one character's history from the book would have to be massively trimmed in order to fit his various subplots into the film without the movie being all about one particular character or have Dorian hog too much screen time to tell his storyarc in the movie.

The screenwriters did what they could with his part in the little time they were given i take it. I'm not excusing ay poor writing of the role of Dorian in the movie who suffered from a real lacking motivation for his actions in the film other than his "big secret" and keeping it safe from everyone else, but juggling certain characters in an ensemble cast of literary heroes/adventurers, who have teamed up to take down the villains (also an ensemble of their own) probably wasn't easy here i'm imagining from the writers, director and producers side of things.


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Name's Django, The "D" is silent.

Honestly how much would we have needed to change to have stuck to that part of the book?

The painting is the thing giving him his immortality. In this case it's invulnerability too (which is a bit more than the book ever lead us to believe but going with that)

Had Mina trapped him to the wall helpless, could she not have just said "let's see what happens when I destroy your painting?" And then stabbed it and have the same effect?

In this case it doesn't really seem we would have lost/gained much at all by the switch. So did the screen writer just think that was better? Because if there is a practical answer here I'm failing to see it.