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Current Talk '11 II / Re: Depp/Burton DARK SHADOWS Spoilers
« on: December 03, 2011, 03:38:45 PM »
Re Helena's tendency to run at the mouth... I suppose being married to the director has its perks... though I imagine Tim is FURIOUS with her at revealing that. 

The Great Expectations thing doesn't really count because anyone who has read the novel or seen one of the 99 other film versions (though to me, the 1947 film with the Divine Martita Hunt as Miss Havisham IS definitive) knows what happens to Miss Havisham.

For those who play the spoiler, bear in mind that what she spoke of could be presented in any number of ways in the completed film.  It could play out as part of a dream or nightmare sequence, for example.  As I wrote, where DS is concerned, you never know!

G.

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Lighting candles in remembrance of Keith Prentice and Chris Bernau as well.  Gone but not forgotten.

G.

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Current Talk '11 II / Re: Depp/Burton DARK SHADOWS Spoilers
« on: December 03, 2011, 03:33:30 AM »
michael c, Helena reveals--

[spoiler]that Barnabas kills Julia during the action of the movie, by draining her of her blood.  Of course, given that it's DS, that doesn't necessarily mean that Julia is dead and gone for good--nor that the only way she could return would be as a vampire![/spoiler]

Sounds as if it's going to be quite a ride.  I did not know that yet ANOTHER remake of Great Expectations has just been done, and Helena plays Miss Havisham--apparently she just finished shooting that.

G.

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Current Talk '11 II / Re: Discuss - Ep #0106
« on: November 29, 2011, 09:31:51 PM »
The idea of having the story play out in real time was Art Wallace's concept.  After he stopped actually churning out the scripts, the other writers treated time in a more fast and loose way, but also a way that seemed more natural to the viewer for whom weeks and months HAD passed since the start of it all.

My favorite time-trippy moment is that when Vicki is thrown back into 1795, it is the Fall of 1967.  When she returns, "only a moment has passed" and yet the calendar reads April of 1968.  Of course, it would have seemed very strange to viewers at the time if they had pretended that it was still 1967.

At some point in the 1795 storyline, she's in the gaol with Peter and saying dialogue about getting back to 1968.  Years later the same thing happened with Barnabas and Julia discussing a return to 1971 at the end of the 1840 storyline.  When they had left Collinwood, it had been Sept.-Oct. 1970.

G.

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Current Talk '25 I / Re: Depp/Burton DARK SHADOWS Is In Production!!
« on: November 26, 2011, 11:21:38 PM »
I don't really agree, btw, that interest in vampires goes in cycles.  It's just that some vampire themed projects get more play than do others.  To think about the past three decades, in the Eighties we had The Hunger, Near Dark, Fright Night and The Lost Boys; in the 1990s we had Interview with a Vampire, Bram Stoker's Dracula, the cult series Forever Knight (my personal fave of all of them) and the start of the BTVS craze; in the 2000s there were the projects already referenced plus any number of others.

Margo Adler, NPR reporter and author of the landmark history of US Paganism, Drawing Down the Moon, has a new book out already or imminently on the fascination with vampires.  I heard quite a bit of buzz when I was out at the Pagan conference in San Jose last Feb., the Pantheacon.  Interesting stuff.

I don't think there is any danger that people will fail to go see DS because they're done with vampires.  There is a danger that the movie will stink and word of mouth will keep people away in droves.  A friend told me that Alice raked in big bucks because it was rated G.  I do not see how DS could possibly be rated G.

G!

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Current Talk '25 I / Re: Depp/Burton DARK SHADOWS Is In Production!!
« on: November 26, 2011, 11:14:01 PM »
Now that Thanksgiving has gone and still no trailer, it makes me wonder at what kind of emotional pressures Burton may be under--from himself.

If I were as big a fan as I am and had the chance to do a remake of the some of this story, I can't imagine the kind of grief I could give myself trying to make every detail perfect.  (It does not matter that the original was rife with the imperfections of shooting material after only 2 or 3 rehearsals--in my fan's mind, it is still the ULTIMATE.)

If they are still doing post production, which I think is almost certainly the case, I don't see how there can be a final budget tally yet.  The 60 million must cover shooting costs.  I don't know about other costs.  It's interesting to think that Depp & Burton may have taken major salary cuts to get this out of the gate. 

It just may be the glossiest, most high end fan production ever seen to this date.

G.

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Thanks for that link, MB.  I wonder why the post didn't come up when I ran the search?

Heather had posted some captures a few years back, including ones from the scene where Mrs. Parks (Grayson's character) dashes terrified into the sheriff's office and makes a beeline for the drawer with the bottle of whiskey (or scotch or whatever it is)... this movie really illustrates how brilliantly Grayson could have done comedy.  But you're right, the captures may no longer be in that post if the hosting space is no longer available.

I thought issue 2 was supposed to come out last Wed. but I called my local shop and it had not come in.  Since issue 1 was delayed by several weeks I wonder if the same may not happen with issue 2?  I just checked the page for the mag on Dynamite's site and it now shows as "available soon!"  At this rate, no way is issue #4 going to be made available in "January 2012" as stated on the site...

G.

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I watched the new DVD of Gargoyles (1972) tonight and couldn't help thinking it was too bad the artist for the comics didn't have access to some screen shots of Grayson in this as a model for Julia in the Fall of 1971.  I thought the curly shag do Grayson had as Mrs. Parks took years off her face, and her figure hugging stylish white top with the silver belt made her look great.

There was an old thread with some screen captures but I guess it is no longer available since a search for "Gargoyles" on the site search engine turned up "no pages."  Check the movie out if you haven't seen it and are a Grayson Hall fan.

G.

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Thanks Zahir for posting those hulu links.  I played the clips, and it was interesting to see Chloe in action as up till now I had only seen photographs.  She is very poised, and very young.  She revealed that she trained for seven months to do "Let me in," and that she studied at the Performing Arts High School in NYC (she must have been admitted there when she was only 10, which seems extraordinary, but she made no comment about this).

She doesn't discuss the DS project at all in the available clips.  They do talk about Hugo which of course opens today.

I see her huge popularity as very symptomatic of our culture's seeming obsession with very young teenagers (or barely pubescent girls)--I have read a number of articles about this over the past five years.  It is a phenomenon I find very strange, although it is adumbrated obviously in Nabokov's Lolita and in Donovan's Mellow Yellow ("I'm just mad about fourteen/fourteen's mad about me").

G.

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Current Talk '11 II / Re: the parallel-time "tease"
« on: November 23, 2011, 05:45:33 PM »
There is one episode where Quentin's 1930s/40s pre-Grant Douglas identity is mentioned.  Julia finds a clipping and some other things and a name is mentioned.  I can't recall it at the moment but it's one of my favorite episodes.  I love the shows where Julia is trying to help "Grant" overcome his amnesia just because I think Grayson and Selby had such fabulous on-screen chem.

But you're right, the show could have done more with this, but they didn't.  An option might have been to have a storyline that involved the 1920s and Quentin having to do the I Ching back to his former self then and come to Collinsport and change history.  I think Selby would have looked very hot in 20s regalia, and the women would have looked great in the period fashions too.

Ah, we can dream...

G.

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Clips have been surfacing on Youtube.  Here's one that has JLM talking about his attraction to theatre:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiM-OBo0WOk

Kristin Scott Thomas is interviewed in the above as well... I can't help thinking how phenomenal she would have been as Liz...

G.

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That was a wonderful interview you posted some years ago with Joel from a year or two after he had left DS.  I was fascinated to learn that he had written several episodes for the series, though never received screen credit due to union issues.

There was so much more to Joel than met the eye... a truly rare and beautiful soul.

G.

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Current Talk '25 I / Re: Yet Another New Slideshow
« on: November 22, 2011, 04:51:33 PM »
Just adore today's shot of the Countess in high dudgeon.  I don't recall that scene, but it's clearly a great moment in the series.

G.

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This is getting very technical but here are my thoughts:

[spoiler](1) We may presume Julia's original 1967 formula would have worked, had Barnabas not forced her to accelerate the treatment.

(2)  Lang's 1968 formula did work for a time, but it seems that the "destructive" cell in Barnabas' blood that kept him a vampire (according to Julia's original 1967 analysis) gradually developed immunity to that formula, hence Barn's fixed looks at Vicki's neck (one of my favorite scenes) and the howling of the dogs again.

(3) In 1897, Barnabas is still under Angelique's original curse.  Julia is able to cure him with a "new, improved" formula (I still find it difficult to imagine how she was able to synthesize it given 1890s medical technology, especially the very low grade that would have been available in Collinsport).  The final injections are administered by Angelique.

(4) In 1970, Barnabas becomes a vampire again, this time because of Jeb's Leviathan curse.  That curse seems to have induced an even more virulent state of vampirism; Julia's attempt to cure Barnabas failed, and her formula actually intensified his cravings for blood.[/spoiler]

Beyond that it gets pretty confusing, but I do feel that Julia was in her rights to claim that she had cured Barnabas.  It's unclear at the end of the 1840/1971 storyline whether Barn would have reverted to being a vampire again.  That was what Sam Hall's notes stated, and I presume that a vampire Barnabas made a more attractive subject for the current comic book project than a cured Barnabas would have done.

G.

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MB, I am trying to remember any articles featuring Joel in 16 or Tiger Beat from 1968 and I can't recall a single one.  Granted, it's been a long time, but I have seen some of the issues as an adult (a generous friend presented me with a few issues as a gift many years ago) and there was very limited coverage of Joel--some stray photos if I recall aright (including one of him as a child in 16) but no feature articles such as were done for Frid, Selby, Don Briscoe et al.  Michael Stroka actually got more coverage in 1969 than did Joel and Stroka was in far fewer episodes.

Interesting, isn't it?

G.

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