98206
Current Talk '24 I / Re: (**NEW Photos/Michelle Pfeiffer Interview In The April W!!** Reply #3083 ) Depp/Burton DARK SHAD
« on: April 03, 2012, 03:33:24 PM »I see now just how dead on HBC's comment was about not knowing how to market this movie if, indeed, all these different elements are present. I anticipate dark and scary with situation and character-driven "gothic" humor.
Which, trailers and TV spots aside, is what we've been being told. Almost exactly a year ago I even summed up much of what we were being told and strung it together in one sentence:
Well, IF it is a black comedy, it's a scary and bloody black comedy that's also a relationship story with touches of the poetic.
As for character driven humor and how that factorsa into something like the panties scene, given there's no denying that Angelique's obsession with Barnabas has always been sexual in nature, it makes sense to me that she could do exactly what she does in that scene. I can so see Lysette Anthony's Angelique doing it if she gotten the chance to be physically in her own body in the present - and I can also see Lara Parker's Angelique doing it. Though, of course, it's probably doubtful that such a scene would have been staged for the original because so much of that version's sexuality is only implied and it ran during the daytime. And even with the '91 DS it's only a possibility and not a probability - even at 10 o'clock. Though there are no such restrictions with a film. And the bottom line is that it's perfectly in keeping with Angelique's character.
My only questions are how/why is Angelique again trapping Barnabas in his coffin in the present day. But that answer will come once we all see the film.
37 days 13 hours 26 minutes 36 seconds until the day the Depp/Burton Dark Shadows is released(ET)!!