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« on: March 25, 2011, 04:17:33 PM »
You beat me by about 3 seconds to posting this. I saw that you were posting in this topic so I waited, figuring you were posting about that article/interview. Thanks for the link.
As for the interview, it's interesting that Grahame-Smith is only writing for Depp/Barnabas. And it may not be as bad as it might sound at first because Barnabas definitely had some funny lines in both the original DS and the '91 Series. In fact, I was watching Ep #3 of the '91 Series yesterday to get ready to take the next batch of captures for the slideshow, and one particular line of Barnabas' had me laughing all over the place. However, it wasn't slap your knee type of funny, it was viciously sarcastic type of funny.
Also, it doesn't seem that it was his idea to make it funny - it seems like Burton and Depp brought him in for that task. And considering that Depp has said that his portrayal of Barn will be close to that of Frid, I wouldn't think the lines Grahame-Smith is providing are all in the knee slapping vein because that certainly isn't the way Barn was originally portrayed.
As for the interview, it's interesting that Grahame-Smith is only writing for Depp/Barnabas. And it may not be as bad as it might sound at first because Barnabas definitely had some funny lines in both the original DS and the '91 Series. In fact, I was watching Ep #3 of the '91 Series yesterday to get ready to take the next batch of captures for the slideshow, and one particular line of Barnabas' had me laughing all over the place. However, it wasn't slap your knee type of funny, it was viciously sarcastic type of funny.
Also, it doesn't seem that it was his idea to make it funny - it seems like Burton and Depp brought him in for that task. And considering that Depp has said that his portrayal of Barn will be close to that of Frid, I wouldn't think the lines Grahame-Smith is providing are all in the knee slapping vein because that certainly isn't the way Barn was originally portrayed.