He makes multiple reference to the novel throughout the show. The 2011/12 stage show of Derren Brown, a British illusionist, revolves around an automaton named Svengali. The character "Levi Svengali" was portrayed by actor and director Ash Avildsen in the television series Paradise City released by Amazon Prime Video in March 2021.
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In the movie of March 1983 however, the names of the characters were changed. The character was portrayed in the following films which were all titled Svengali: first by Ferdinand Bonn in the silent film of 1914, then by Paul Wegener in the silent film of 1927, by John Barrymore in 1931, by Donald Wolfit in 1954 (in Technicolor), and by Peter O'Toole in the film of 1983, which was a modernised version made for television and co-starred Jodie Foster. The story has also been used in several movies. Svengali was first portrayed by the English actor Herbert Beerbohm Tree in London and by the actor Wilton Lackaye in the United States in the stage play of 1895, Trilby. Svengali was almost immediately stripped of his Judaism in portrayals. Unable to perform without Svengali’s help, Trilby becomes entranced. In the novel, Svengali transforms Trilby into a great singer by using hypnosis.
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He had one kind of cynical humour, which was more offensive than amusing, and always laughed at the wrong thing, at the wrong time, in the wrong place, and his laughter was always derisive, and full of malice.
(Svengali) would either fawn or bully, and could be grossly impertinent. George Orwell wrote that Svengali, who while cleverer than the Englishmen, is evil, effeminate, and physically repugnant, was "a sinister caricature of the traditional type" and an example of "the prevailing form of antisemitism." He is continually filthy and yet still "clean enough to suit (his own) kind". Svengali is a stereotypical antisemitic portrayal of an Ashkenazic (eastern European) Jew, complete with "bold, black, beady Jew's eyes" and a "hoarse, rasping, nasal, throaty rook's caw, his big yellow teeth baring themselves in a mongrel canine snarl".
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