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Current Talk '22 I / Re: (**NEW Photos/Michelle Pfeiffer Interview In The April W!!** Reply #3083 ) Depp/Burton DARK SHAD
« on: March 25, 2012, 08:03:31 PM »
I wonder whether the nail polish tie-in has to do with Orly getting the contract to do Depp's fake fingernail manicures for the film. The high resolution photos certainly do show them to be an unusual shade of pink.
I was thinking about parody this weekend while revisiting the 1967 Casino Royale. It seems as if the reaction to its release back then paralleled in some ways what is happening with Depp Shadows. The 1967 film is now regarded, by some of us at least, as a masterpiece and brilliant time capsule of its era. But back then most critics and moviegoers treated it as "Bomb, James Bomb." Re-watching this film from a bygone era (the same era that gave us original series DS of course) made me realize that the eventual response to Depp Shadows could be a more nuanced one than I had hitherto conceived.
For myself, watching the trailers and the rest of the Depp Shadows runup unfold has clarified for me that I'm no longer interested--if I ever really was interested--in any Dark Shadows remakes, period. I know people follow KLS's lead in saying DS is like Shakespeare and every actress deserves to give her take on Josette (or whoever). But to me, DS wasn't like a theatrical epic; it was like the part of my family I never met--the people who were like ME (which nobody else in my real family ever was). To that extent, I like the publicists' angle about every family having its weirdies or however they're phrasing.
If I walked into a room and saw somebody portraying my Aunt Lillian, and not only that, had the imposter who was supposed to be her running around in a crushed velvet cape with five hundred pounds of pancake makeup, it would be jarring and I wouldn't be able to "just get used to it." To me, DS is a cast of characters portrayed by Jonathan Frid, Grayson Hall, Joan Bennett et al. as they were 40 years ago.
I don't think I will ever be able to get through to some of you how it all makes me feel... this is my last attempt at it.
Enjoy the movie.
G.
I was thinking about parody this weekend while revisiting the 1967 Casino Royale. It seems as if the reaction to its release back then paralleled in some ways what is happening with Depp Shadows. The 1967 film is now regarded, by some of us at least, as a masterpiece and brilliant time capsule of its era. But back then most critics and moviegoers treated it as "Bomb, James Bomb." Re-watching this film from a bygone era (the same era that gave us original series DS of course) made me realize that the eventual response to Depp Shadows could be a more nuanced one than I had hitherto conceived.
For myself, watching the trailers and the rest of the Depp Shadows runup unfold has clarified for me that I'm no longer interested--if I ever really was interested--in any Dark Shadows remakes, period. I know people follow KLS's lead in saying DS is like Shakespeare and every actress deserves to give her take on Josette (or whoever). But to me, DS wasn't like a theatrical epic; it was like the part of my family I never met--the people who were like ME (which nobody else in my real family ever was). To that extent, I like the publicists' angle about every family having its weirdies or however they're phrasing.
If I walked into a room and saw somebody portraying my Aunt Lillian, and not only that, had the imposter who was supposed to be her running around in a crushed velvet cape with five hundred pounds of pancake makeup, it would be jarring and I wouldn't be able to "just get used to it." To me, DS is a cast of characters portrayed by Jonathan Frid, Grayson Hall, Joan Bennett et al. as they were 40 years ago.
I don't think I will ever be able to get through to some of you how it all makes me feel... this is my last attempt at it.
Enjoy the movie.
G.