Tim Burton's "Dark Shadows"

[America: Fuck Yea!]

fuck Alice in Wonderland.. this will be much cooler and apparently Johnny Deep is going to play Barnabas. I don't know how the hell they are going to make this film under 6 hours long, but it should be incredible.

for those of you that don't know, Dark Shadows was a popular soap opera from the 1960s about a wealthy new england family rooted from the days of the Revolution. One of their ancestors was a vampire and is set free and comes back to them as a long lost cousin who coincidentally looks like their ancestor from the 1700s. basically, cool shit goes down.

The series was brought back in 1990-91 but only last a season because the Gulf War broke out and fucked with its ratings.

here is the original
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Shadows
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059978/

here is the 1990 version:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101075/

Tim Burton
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/36942

:beerbang:

[box elder]

my mom stoked

[SubSane]

So... like a more dramatic Addams Family?

[America: Fuck Yea!]

So... like a more dramatic Addams Family?

you're on the right track, but that is really an ultra simplistic description.

[SubSane]

I'm just tryin' to wrap my mind around it based on that article and the wikipedia intro. Certainly far from high concept.

[America: Fuck Yea!]

not true.

It deals with a lot deeper issues and has about 20 main characters all interacting in different ways, switching sides, and stabbing each other in the back. It also has a doctor trying to cure the "vampirism". Moreover, the town below Collinwood plays a huge part with bodies appearing everywhere and town grows scared and impatient. The Sheriff was an integral part of the series. Also, this series skipped around time as well, with Victoria Winters (The homeschooler/nanny to David Collins) being transported to the 1790s. They find the tag on her clothes and she is accused of being a witch (but I forgot how that plot ended). It was a pretty complex show. Not a "dramatic Addams Family". While I said you were on the right track, your continued insistence on reductionism is disingenuous to the whole show.

[ARMslingerJoshua]

Sorry, Dark Shadows was one of those things that I would have to grab the remote if I saw opening credits.

[SubSane]

Um, "High concept, in film, is a term used to refer to a succinctly stated premise describing the overall idea of production in just a few sentences. The term is also applied, often disparagingly, to films that are pitched and developed almost entirely upon such a simply stated premise rather than standing upon complex character study, cinematography, or other strengths that relate more to the artistic execution of a production rather than simply an engaging high concept premise with broad appeal."

So yea, I was agreeing that it doesn't seem simple at all.

[Burnin']

he does realize there are other actors out there not named johnny dep right?

[Gatorgod]

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y269/gatorgod/GatorIcons/Head-Scratch5.gif How many hip, Gothic, pop culture themes from the past are left for Tim Burton at this point?

That should be a thread topic..Make A Tim Burton Wish List

I'd like to see him do "Varney the Vampire" justice.
http://img77.imageshack.us/img77/3092/varneyvampkf7.jpg

[America: Fuck Yea!]

Um, "High concept, in film, is a term used to refer to a succinctly stated premise describing the overall idea of production in just a few sentences. The term is also applied, often disparagingly, to films that are pitched and developed almost entirely upon such a simply stated premise rather than standing upon complex character study, cinematography, or other strengths that relate more to the artistic execution of a production rather than simply an engaging high concept premise with broad appeal."

So yea, I was agreeing that it doesn't seem simple at all.

my apologies. strangely, I have never come across that term in regards to film theory.