What I'm about to post about doesn't really have anything to do with today's quote specifically - but the bit in Barnabas' quote about how "there was a time long ago when" he "believed..." sort of opens the door to it. But before I get into what I want to post, first let me explain to those who don't own a copy that the film's The Visual Companion book is honestly a treasure trove of very interested things related to the film - and some of those things are detailed storyboards that were created for the film. There are many in the book. And while most are for scenes that we're all familiar with because they're in the film (one from one of the breakfast scenes in the dining room even includes the Wheaties box on the table), there's one from a scene from the prologue that is not:
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Given it includes Barnabas with two apparently admiring women, presumably it's a scene that was to show off that "inveterate playboy" aspect of Barn's character. Though whether it was Depp's Barn or Thomas McDonell's Barn, who knows? The only thing we can discern (from the larger version) is that Collinwood is still under construction in the background, so the scene would have to have taken place before the scene in 1776 in which we see Depp's Barn admiring the finished house. Though given today's quote in the slideshow -
[spoiler]1972 (Deleted) - Barnabas: You know, there was a time long ago when I believed money made the man. When I believed that it was the answer to all that ailed us. But it is not the size of the house that makes the man great, Master David. It is the people he shares it with. Money will come and go. Family is the only real wealth.'[/spoiler]
- obviously Barn at that point wasn't simply just interested with attracting the attentions of many women, he was also interested in accumulating wealth and a bit obsessed with the size of his, uh, house.
And BTW, today's is the last quote from this current batch of deleted scenes. The next quote from the next deleted scene featured on the Blu-ray will show up in July.