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Current Talk '03 II / Re:FAVE Magazine
« on: November 24, 2003, 05:15:58 PM »
Well, I think that in hoDS as originally shot, the "human" dimensions of Barnabas' affection for Julia were present to a degree... The script excerpt for the scene in which Julia and Barnabas take a stroll together, in particular, makes one wish that that scene had wound up in the final edit of the film. At least we have the stills and the script.
In the final edit, there is, to all intents and purposes, NO character development in the movie. I'm afraid that DC took this aspect as the pattern for the dreadful episode of the 1991 series where Barnabas commits three murders in the space of about ten minutes, to an ultimately absurd effect. I'll never forget poor Julianna McCarthy's hysterical mugging in her death scene opposite Ben Cross... both thesps deserved far better than this travesty.
The same can be said, IN SPADES, for Messrs Frid, Hall, Thayer David and the other principle plays in hoDS.
G.
In the final edit, there is, to all intents and purposes, NO character development in the movie. I'm afraid that DC took this aspect as the pattern for the dreadful episode of the 1991 series where Barnabas commits three murders in the space of about ten minutes, to an ultimately absurd effect. I'll never forget poor Julianna McCarthy's hysterical mugging in her death scene opposite Ben Cross... both thesps deserved far better than this travesty.
The same can be said, IN SPADES, for Messrs Frid, Hall, Thayer David and the other principle plays in hoDS.
G.