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Current Talk '10 II / Re: How Burton’s DARK SHADOWS Could Be Great (But Won’t Be)
« on: January 03, 2011, 06:20:24 PM »while I think the gay subtext is there, I feel it's being focused on a little too much, to the exclusion of all the other compelling anecdotes about the show's production. And really, that's where my own passion lies - in the PRODUCTION of the original show.
Quite honestly, that's what I took away from reading your article. To me it seemed as if you were advocating a behind the scenes look at how all the actors and production people came together and were able to create a unique show while not necessarily being completely aware at the time that they were creating something very special, and even that some of their creativity may have happened completely by accident. That notion is why I said in the post that introduces this topic that I thought your idea was possibly a great one.
And simply as a clarification, when I referenced that certain behind the scenes realities of DS are glossed over in the "official" version of the show, I wasn't even thinking about how some of the actors were gay or about any sort of gay subtext. I'm pretty sure that anyone who has read my posts through the years readily knows which sorts of realities I was referring to, so I won't rehash them all over again. But for the sake of not leaving others in the dark, let's just say that behind the scenes things didn't always run as smoothly and relationships weren't always as rosy as some would have us all believe. One of my all-time favorite Fest moments occurred after a particular actor had waxed on rhapsodically, as they always seem to, about how wonderful everything was behind the scenes at DS, and Joan Bennett turned to them and asked what show they were on? And yet it's that rhapsodic waxing that has become the "official" history.