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Current Talk '24 I / Re: It's official: Dark Shadows returns as a film with Johnny Depp
« on: November 15, 2010, 06:57:16 PM »Re: DS being"Whimsical" how outrageous! Are these the same writers who are going to review the DS movie?
That I have no idea because I'm not at all familiar with the site (yesterday was the first that I'd even heard of it).
In their defense, they may have been thinking the definition of whimsical that means freakish. But even if they did, I seriously doubt that's the definition the vast majority of people reading their remarks would come away with because that's the far less used connotation.
As for the definition of whimsical that most come away with, that's been my fear ever sense Burton was first mentioned as directing because that's the sort of style that's most associated with his films. However, as I've mentioned before, I'm holding onto Sleepy Hollow as an example of Burton's work that could lend itself well to DS. It's perfectly dark and Gothic in tone. Yes, there is humor in the film, but it comes from out of character - it's not there simply for the sake of being - it has a point to it and it enhances the story. If humor is used in that way in the Depp/DS film, I'll have no problems with it whatsoever.