Now there's been four or five different people working on it that have call it "funny". One has to assume that these people know the difference between humor and "funny", or at least most of them.
Contrast that to the number of times I heard it called a "gothic love story"....so far....zero.
True - though Depp has called it "very dark."
I keep telling myself that as most it'll be a "black comedy" and maybe that won't be to bad. I also try to remind myself that I love "Young Frankenstein" and if we got a comedy that was as good as that, that wouldn't be a bad thing.
I'll admit that ten months ago (to the day, actually) when it was first reported that Richard D. Zanuck had described the script as being funny, I was concerned. But since then other remarks have come out as well, particularly Depp's, which make the film sound like anything but a comedy (despite the fact that BlackBook.com describes the film as a "horror comedy" - but then, Web sites have described Vicki alternately as a governess or a waitress, so it would seem that not every one of these writers actually knows what they're talking about), so it's far from a case that everyone is only saying it's funny. But that being said, I definitely believe there will be funny elements to it, and the thing that I find most reassuring in the respect is Eva Green's remark that Barn and Ang have a
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf love-hate relationship. As anyone who has seen that play/movie knows, there is some hilariously funny, dryly witty and sometimes acerbic elements to it, though one wouldn't call it a full-on comedy. And there are also some hilariously funny, dryly witty and sometimes acerbic elements to the original DS series. I mean, think of some of the scenes between Liz and Roger, Nicholas and Cassandra and Magda and Barnabas, just to name a few. And one of Angelique's best lines in Leviathans is when she taunts Sky with the line, "From Tycoon to lackey - how the mighty have fallen!" That's the sort of funny line that would be in the
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf tradition. And that's more along the lines of the type of "funny" that I'm expecting given most of what we've heard so far.
all I want is a good story.
Well, if we can believe the several remarks that have come out to that effect, then it should be.