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Current Talk '24 I / Re: (**MORE FABULOUS PHOTOS!! Replies #2519 and #2522**) Depp/Burton DARK SHADOWS Is In Production!!
« on: March 19, 2012, 06:50:42 PM »
Thanks, madscntst, for the info about Amazon and KLS' book. As per usual I'm behind on checking my e-mail and I didn't see that yet.
And yes, that is a thoughtful and thought provoking post, petofi.
And, Phil, I support much of what you've said - particularly when it comes to hoDS. Though one thing that you didn't cover that's a real pet peeve with many here on the forum is the apparent fact that DC's favorite tenet when it came to his work was "If it worked once, it will work again and again and again and..." And I firmly believe that if he was still with us and he had been given free rein by Warner Brothers to have made a DS film instead of Burton/Depp, it would have ended up in many ways as being the umpteenth reworking of both hoDS and DC's version of Dracula - and much more so than anything that Burton/Depp may have done with their version of DS, that it something I and many others would never have wanted to see. It's pretty bad when things had already gotten to the point where one could quote back the dialogue the first time watching a "new" DC version of DS because one had already heard it because it had been lifted word for word - not to mention the scenes had been restaged camera shot for camera shot from what DC had already done elsewhere. All of that makes for no suspense whatsoever because one knows exactly what's coming next.
It may very well turn out that I won't like the new film after I've seen it. But one of the reasons I won't like it will not be because it's the umpteenth retread of hoDS. And the fact that it won't be is already one of the major things that is making me more open and receptive to what the Burton/Depp DS film might turn out to be.
52 days 10 hours 9 minutes 18 seconds until the day the Depp/Burton Dark Shadows is released(ET)!!
And yes, that is a thoughtful and thought provoking post, petofi.
And, Phil, I support much of what you've said - particularly when it comes to hoDS. Though one thing that you didn't cover that's a real pet peeve with many here on the forum is the apparent fact that DC's favorite tenet when it came to his work was "If it worked once, it will work again and again and again and..." And I firmly believe that if he was still with us and he had been given free rein by Warner Brothers to have made a DS film instead of Burton/Depp, it would have ended up in many ways as being the umpteenth reworking of both hoDS and DC's version of Dracula - and much more so than anything that Burton/Depp may have done with their version of DS, that it something I and many others would never have wanted to see. It's pretty bad when things had already gotten to the point where one could quote back the dialogue the first time watching a "new" DC version of DS because one had already heard it because it had been lifted word for word - not to mention the scenes had been restaged camera shot for camera shot from what DC had already done elsewhere. All of that makes for no suspense whatsoever because one knows exactly what's coming next.
It may very well turn out that I won't like the new film after I've seen it. But one of the reasons I won't like it will not be because it's the umpteenth retread of hoDS. And the fact that it won't be is already one of the major things that is making me more open and receptive to what the Burton/Depp DS film might turn out to be.
52 days 10 hours 9 minutes 18 seconds until the day the Depp/Burton Dark Shadows is released(ET)!!