DARK SHADOWS (Vampir iz Kolinvuda)

[Alex]

Tim Burton & Johnny Depp, bringing DARK SHADOWS back to life


by: Symon Cordova
July 15th, 2010

DARK SHADOWS

Dark Shadows was an unusually creepy show for its time. Granted there have been oddly eccentiric characaters in films going as far back as the 1930′s possibly even farther, but one actor that comes to my mind. Vincent Price. If you have not seen the 1953 HOUSE OF WAX, I highly recommend it.  I remember watching Dark Shadows re-runs when I was younger and I would think the whole time, "What in the world is going on?"

Well now we know a little of what is going to happen.

Dark Shadows is going to be put up on the big screen, directing by Tim Burton and staring Johnny Depp as vampire Barnabas Collins.  Now something that makes this very interesting to me is that the script by John August (CHARLIE & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, BIG FISH, CORPSE BRIDE and TITAN A.E. which sadly is one of my guilty pleasures) is getting a new draft by writer Seth Grahame-Smith, who wrote Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, as well as Abe Lincoln:Vampire Hunter. That bit of news definitely adds even more intrigue to this project.

Dark Shadows was a gothic soap opera that was nominated for an Emmy in 1968.  The show surrounded the Collins family and the strange mysteries that occurs on their property.  I remember there being a very dark secret hidden deep in the Collins family personal burial tombs.

[Alex]

Dark Shadows is a gothic soap opera that originally aired weekdays on the ABC television network, from June 27, 1966 to April 2, 1971. The show was created by Dan Curtis, who tells of a dream he had in which a girl takes a long train ride to visit a large mansion. The story "bible," which was written by Art Wallace, does not mention any supernatural elements. It was considered[by whom?] daring (and unprecedented in daytime television) when ghosts were introduced about six months after it began.

The series became hugely popular when, a year into its run, vampire Barnabas Collins, played by Jonathan Frid, appeared. In addition to vampires, Dark Shadows featured werewolves, ghosts, zombies, man-made monsters, witches, warlocks, time travel (both into the past and into the future), and a parallel universe. A small company of actors each played many roles and, as actors came and went, some characters were played by several actors. Major writers in addition to Art Wallace included Malcolm Marmorstein, who created the character of Barnabas Collins, Sam Hall, Gordon Russell, and Violet Welles.

Dark Shadows was distinguished by its vividly melodramatic performances, atmospheric interiors, memorable storylines, and an unusually adventurous music score. Now regarded as somewhat of a camp classic, it continues to enjoy intense cult status among its followers. Director Tim Burton and pop icon Madonna have both gone on record as fans of the series. As a child Johnny Depp was so obsessed with Barnabas Collins that he wanted to be him, and is collaborating with Tim Burton on a theatrical film adaptation, in which he will play the character.[1]

[Alex]

[Alex]

Dakle, originalna TV serija Dark Shadows emitovala se dnevno od 1966-e  do 1971. sa ukupno 1245 epizoda.

http://darkshadows.wikia.com/wiki/Dark_Shadows

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059978/

[Alex]

Druga verzija iz 1991 je imala 12 epizoda, vampira Barnabasa Kolinsa glumeo je Ben Cross.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101075/

[Alex]

A tu su i filmovi   House of Dark Shadows i Night of Dark Shadows.

Nova verzija Tim Burtona se najavljuje za 2011-u.

[Alex]

O stripu




Dark Shadows
Dark Shadows comic

The comic book adventures of vampire Barnabas Collins were unchained within a comic by Gold Key between 1968 and 1976 - a period which was considerably longer than the run of the original television show which spawned it. Dark Shadows was, to say the least, an odd duck among daytime soap operas - originally conceived as a modern-day Gothic tale, it soon embraced supernatural storylines to attract more viewers. In 1967, it introduced Barnabas Collins, a vampire, into the regular cast - and the ratings started to go up. They kept rising steadily through 1969, by which time millions of housewives, shutins, and schoolchildren were hopelessly addicted to the unnatural goings-on within the town of Collinsport, Maine. [Especially the schoolchildren - the show's schedule had been pushed up to 4:00 from 3:30 so that more youngsters could be home after school to watch; and at the show's height of popularity, monthly articles were appearing in such youth magazines as Flip and Tiger Beat.]

The rights to any Dark Shadows comic book treatment went by default, more or less, to Western Publishing, which under its Dell imprint had adapted literally hundreds of movies, TV shows, and other similar properties. Gold Key was the company's comic book publishing imprint at this time. DS creator Dan Curtis was forced to go to Western because the other comics publishing companies - particularly the top two, Marvel and DC - were forbidden by the Comics Code Authority, a voluntary ratings board, from showing "Scenes dealing with, or instruments associated with, the walking dead, torture, vampires and vampirism, ghouls, cannibalism, and werewolfism" [apparently 'lycanthropy' was too big a word for them]. Western, whose comics were always squeaky-clean and whose licensing partners were such entities as Disney, had basically told the Code people to get stuffed. When the Code was revised in 1971 to allow such horrors, Marvel immediately started such monster titles as Tomb of Dracula, Werewolf By Night, and Frankenstein.

The Dark Shadows comic did not follow the TV show's storylines, but was basically a supernatural comic along the lines of Doctor Strange, but with more horrors and occult stuff. The protagonists of the stories were Barnabas and occasionally Quentin Collins, whose popularity on the show came to rival Barnabas's, and who appeared here as a werewolf. The unlikely heroes took on zombies, rival vampires, groups of malicious sorcerers, and even Angelique, the source of trouble for both characters within the show's continuity. Also similarly to the show, Barnabas often found himself going back in time to deal with dangers from previous centuries.

The quality of the series was uneven, and the continuity even more so - while readers didn't really expect the comic to follow the show's continuity exactly (the paperback novels by Dan Ross certainly did not), the comic often got basic facts wrong (Elizabeth and Roger were brother and sister, not husband and wife), and even tended to contradict itself. The art, which was typical of Gold Key's titles, was pretty good, but not excellent.

In any case, hardcore fans of the show - and there were millions of them - were able to keep the comic going for 35 issues. Even today, contemporary Dark Shadows memorabilia is sought after, and certainly the comic is among these, though mid-condition issues are easy to find at reasonable prices.

A Dark Shadows comic strip began syndication right about the time the show was going off the air. It lasted one year.

[Alex]

Dolazim do poente ovog topika, koja je u poslednjoj - boldovanoj rečenici prethodnog posta (izuzev poluproverene informacije da Tim & Dep snimaju film).

Kompletan novinski strip Vampir iz Kolinvuda - dakle, ne magazinski, nego onaj u kaiševima (comic strip), koji je izlazio godinu dana u Americi, objavljen je svojevremeno kod nas.

I to dva puta - prvi put u Hit Eks Almanahu 81/1, 1977-e, sve epizode, sem jedne koja je objavljena u redovnom Eksu, i krajem 80-ih u Hororu, ovaj put sve epizode u tom jednom (podebelom) broju.

Po meni, reč je o odličnom stripu, koji zbog svoje kratkoće izlaženja nije bio dovoljno zapažen i zapamćen. Crtao ga je K. Bruce, a to je, u stvari bio pseudonim Ken Balda, poznatog po stripovima Džud Sakson i Dr Kilder (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Bald), koji je bio izuzetan zanatlija, ali čije su mogućnosti bile znatno veće od zanatske upeglanosti, što je dobrim delom pokazao u Dark Shadows stripu, gde se vidi da je crtač na nivou najvećih autora novinskog stripa - nešto od toga istaknuto je bilo u tekstu   "The Look of Love: The Rise and Fall of The Photo-Realistic Newspaper Strip — The Art of Ken Bald: Truth, Beauty, and Photography", by Prof. A. E. Mendez (taj link više ne funkcioniše).

Strip je kod nas, (vidi gore) na žalost bio prezentovan sa (uobičajeno) nedostajućim kaiševima i delovima priče, čak jedna-dve epizode deluju nedovršeno. Nadam se da su neka retka luksuzna reprint izdanja ovog stripa kompletnija.

http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Shadows-Comic-Strip-Book/dp/0938817396/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1286044601&sr=1-4

[Alex]

Pošto ovaj forum vrvi od ljubitelja horora, zanima me, da li je neko, možda, gledao neku epizodu originalne tv serije ili prvi film? Može li se naći?

Jel iko bio upoznat sa Dark Shadows?

[Alex]

Niko?

Znao sam da na kraju ispadne da sam ovde najveći poznavalac horora ja.

Evo nekih linkova, koji još uvek rade, pa koga zanima...

http://www.znaksagite.com/diskusije/index.php?topic=9514.new#new

[Alex]

Pričajte vi šta hoćete, al' ovo je bio jako dobar strip!

[Kunac]

Alex, vreme je za uskrsnuće vampira iz Kolinvuda. Ove nedelje počinje snimanje Bartonovog filma.

Evo i saopštenja za štampu:

In the year 1752 Joshua and Naomi Collins, with young son Barnabas, set sail from Liverpool, England, to start a new life in America. But even an ocean was not enough to escape the mysterious curse that has plagued their family. Two decades pass, and Barnabas (Johnny Depp) has the world at his feet — or at least the town of Collinsport, Maine. The master of Collinwood Manor, Barnabas is rich, powerful and an inveterate playboy...until he makes the grave mistake of breaking the heart of Angelique Brouchard (Eva Green). A witch, in every sense of the word, Angelique dooms him to a fate worse than death: turning him into a vampire and then burying him alive.

Two centuries later Barnabas is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate has fallen into ruin. The dysfunctional remnants of the Collins family have fared little better, each harboring their own dark secrets. Matriarch Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (Michelle Pfeiffer) has called upon live-in psychiatrist, Dr. Julia Hoffman (Helena Bonham Carter), to help with her family troubles.

Also residing in the manor is Elizabeth's ne'er-do-well brother, Roger Collins (Jonny Lee Miller); her rebellious teenage daughter, Carolyn Stoddard (Chloe Moretz); and Roger's precocious 10-year-old son, David Collins (Gulliver McGrath). The mystery extends beyond the family to caretaker Willie Loomis, played by Jackie Earle Haley, and David's new nanny, Victoria Winters, played by Bella Heathcote.

Burton is directing and producing Dark Shadows from a screenplay by Seth Grahame-Smith, story by John August and Grahame-Smith, based on the television series created by Dan Curtis. Also producing are Oscar® winner Richard D. Zanuck (Alice in Wonderland, Driving Miss Daisy), continuing his long association with Burton; Oscar® winner Graham King "Rango, The Departed), continuing his collaboration with Depp; Johnny Depp, Christi Dembrowski, and David Kennedy. The executive producers are Chris Lebenzon, Nigel Gostelow, Tim Headington, and Bruce Berman.

The behind-the-scenes creative team includes cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel, Oscar®-winning production designer Rick Heinrichs (Sleepy Hollow), Oscar®-winning costume designer Colleen Atwood (Alice in Wonderland) and editor Chris Lebenzon (Alice in Wonderland). The score will be composed by Danny Elfman.

Dark Shadows is being filmed entirely in England, both at Pinewood Studios and on location.

Dark Shadows will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, and in select territories by Village Roadshow Pictures.


Premijera: 11. maj 2012. godine.

[Alex]

Fino.
Odgledao sam 30-ak epizoda stare serije i sasvim je gledljiva.

[Kunac]

Tridesetak od 1200. Ja sam juče pogledao devedesetominutni pilot serije iz '91.
Kako su koncipirane te epizode iz šezdesetih? Na početku, koliko shvatam, nema puno natprirodnih elemenata.

[Alex]

Tridesetak od 1200. Ja sam juče pogledao devedesetominutni pilot serije iz '91.
Kako su koncipirane te epizode iz šezdesetih? Na početku, koliko shvatam, nema puno natprirodnih elemenata.

Zapravo sam gledao ove epizode



Tad već imamo vampira Barnabasa, a i devojčicu - duha. Very old-fashion TV, kao "Pozorište u kući", kratke dramske epizode, fina atmosfera - radnja se odvija jako sporo (detaljno), ali prirodno za svakodnevno gledanja na ekstremno duge staze.

[Kunac]

Biće zanimljivo videti kako će Burton sve to prilagoditi svom senzibilitetu. Postoji potencijal za ozbiljan horor, nadam se da neće štedeti sa crvenom tečnošću.

[Kunac]

Dark Shadows Trailer (Tim Burton)

[Kunac]

Mračne senke igraju istovremeno u našim i inostranim bioskopima.

U SAD su imale relativno slabo otvaranje, imajući u vidu da se radi o filmu od 150 miliona dolara.

Inače, film je gledljiv, napredak je u odnosu na Bartonove novije, ali je ipak protraćena šansa. Moglo je i moralo bolje. Mračne senke izgledaju odlično, ima nekih izuzetno upečatljivh scena, ali u celini podsećaju na pilot neke TV serije, ne na film. Dramaturška struktura je jedna velika improvizacija, što može, na trenutke, da bude zabavno, ali u celini... Nedostaje jasno postavljena priča. Likovi se pojavljuju i gube, ima dosta viškova koji će imati funkciju jedino ako film dobije nastavak - što je malo verovatno imajući u vidi dosadašnji BO učinak.

[Kunac]

E, da... U filmu se na kratko pojavljuje Hannah Murray, Cassie iz prve dve sezone Skinsa. Jedva sam je prepoznao...

SKINS - S01E07 - Cassie's lovely pussy

[Alex]

Shvatio sam da je Barton napravio od ovoga komediju, što me nije oduševilo, ali se nadam da je ujedno i ozbiljan filkm?

[Kunac]

Pa, Mračne senke su pre svega komedija. Ima horor elemenata (veštica, vampira, vukodlaka itd), koji su tek nešto malo tvrđe obrađeni nego u Porodici Adams. Burton je želeo da sedi na 2 stolice: da napravi porodični film + režira hororo o vampiru koji se budi iz 196-ogodišnjeg sna... Rezultat je, gle čuda, neujednačen... 

[M.M]

Barton me nikada nije razočarao. Naprotiv. Duboko sam potisnuo saznanje da je bila premijera, ali Kunac ne zna kada je dosta.    Ko će da čeka 3-4 meseca dok ne stigne dobar snimak. 


@Kunac: Kako ti se svideo Sweeney Todd?

[Kunac]

Do Uspavane doline, dopali su mi se svi Bartonovi fimovi. Od Planete majmuna kreće havarija. Svini Tod mi se nije nešto naročito dopao.

[M.M]

Meni se svideo Svini Tod, a, ajd da se tako izrazim, najdraži Bartonovo film mi je Big Fish.

[Kunac]

Onda nam se ukusi definitivno razilaze.

[Agota]

najdraži Bartonovo film mi je Big Fish.

i meni  i Sleepy Hollow + Disney's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
volim i Edward Scissorhands

[crippled_avenger]

Agota, moraš prvo da overiš novog Mela u bioskopu pa tek onda Burtona!

[Agota]

para  que ??

[DušMan]

E, da... U filmu se na kratko pojavljuje Hannah Murray, Cassie iz prve dve sezone Skinsa. Jedva sam je prepoznao...

SKINS - S01E07 - Cassie's lovely pussy

E to je vest!
Ja sam spreman samo zbog ove informacije da odem u bioskop.

[crippled_avenger]

para  que ??

Mora da se zna ko je glavni.

[Agota]

 

Zivela Melova  diktatura i svi mi sto zivimo u strahu .

[Kunac]

E, da... U filmu se na kratko pojavljuje Hannah Murray, Cassie iz prve dve sezone Skinsa. Jedva sam je prepoznao...

SKINS - S01E07 - Cassie's lovely pussy

E to je vest!
Ja sam spreman samo zbog ove informacije da odem u bioskop.

Znao sam da glumi "hipi curu" pa sam je vrebao... Samo, u filmu se pojavljuju 4 hipi cure, a Hana ni među njima nema najkrupniju ulogu. U jednom trenutku sam se uplašio da neće čak ni progovoriti. To se, na sreću, nije dogodilo.

[Usul]

Jedan svresrdan opljuv

http://exiledonline.com/dark-shadows-and-the-death-of-tim-burton/

Somebody stick a fork in Tim Burton; he's done. Dark Shadows proves it's about time he retired and took up a hobby. I'd suggest still photography.
...

[Kunac]

 

Dark Shadows works far better as a bunch of still photos than it does as a movie.

[crippled_avenger]

Ma dajte ljudi, DARK SHADOWS je cool film. Meni je poslednji elativno relevantan njegov rad bio SLEEPY HOLLOW i donekle BIG FISH, sve posle toga je bilo manje ili više negledljivo, nije bilo film na kraju krajeva. Ali, DARK SHADOWS jeste film i tu nema dileme. Sa problemima u vođenju priče, svakako, ali ipak i sa pričom i sa likovima. Uostalom, svi imaju neke uobrazilje o Burtonu, kada je to on pa i bio veliki storyteller i gospodar filmskog izraza? Njegvi aduti i autorstvo leže u nekim drugim segmentima, i DARK SHADOWS liči na tog dobrog Burtona.

[Kunac]

Saglasan sam da je od Uspavane doline ovo njegov najbolji film, ali da je nešto posebno dobar - nije. Scanario je katastrofalan. Uhvati gringa je, na primer, superiorniji u svakom pogledu.

[Shozo Hirono]

evo, nakon što mi se konačno razbistrilo desno oko od stare tridesetpetice, mogu slobodno da kažem da niš opet ima bioskop - kljakav, ali pokretan. mutna slika, mutan ton, uz psovke i bacanje kokica prema superoperateru.


a barton, ko barton: ništa priča, samo slika.

[NGboo]

Zabavni eye-candy. Campy i ekscentričan, sa fenomenalnim kostimima, scenografijom i fotografijom. Eva Green i Johnny Depp sjajni kao veštica i vampir. (A iskren da budem, dok Burton nije rešio da napravi rimejk, nisam ni znao da postoji serija, iako ima neverovatnih 1200 i kusur epizoda.  )

[Milosh]

http://www.cracked.com/video_18418_the-inevitable-future-tim-burton-johnny-depp-movies.html

[Tex Murphy]

Мени се свидио Бартонов БЕТМЕН.

[Milosh]

Sve zaključno sa Sleepy Hollow je manje ili više dobro, odnosno odlično, nakon toga je počeo da se gubi (Planeta majmuna rimejk) i tone u manirizam (sve nakon Big Fish, iako mi se svideo Sweeney Todd (zbog izvorne priče i krvoprolića)).

[Melkor]

Uf, a meni je Big Fish corak veka. Ozbiljno sam se iznervirao nakon gledanja 

[Kunac]

Big Fish je kao Kusturica kad ne valja, da citiram nekog ko zna znanje.

[Tex Murphy]

Мени је Биг Фиш био феноменалан, а свидјела ми се и Мртва невјеста. Једино што ме је баш изнервирало је Свиња Тод, то је баш тежак крш од филма.

[crippled_avenger]

Sweeney Todd je jedini Burtonov film koji sam prekinuo. I to posle pet minuta. Sve je bilo jasno...

[Alex]

Sweeney Todd je jedini Burtonov film koji sam prekinuo. I to posle pet minuta. Sve je bilo jasno...

Trknuo po sendvič?

[Kunac]

Na Popboksu su Mračne senke dobile 3 od 5. Prikaz pod naslovom UTOVAR UTVARA potpisuje Kristina Đuković:

http://www.popboks.com/tekst.php?ID=8905

[Tex Murphy]

Погледао сам и ја ово чудо и баш ми се свидио филм. Крај је мало растегнут и мало су претјерали с оним вукодлаком, али остатак је одличан - духовито и лијепоизгледајуће, са одличним глумцима. Надам се да посљедња сцена није само гег, већ наговјештај наставка.

[Ghoul]

Na Popboksu su Mračne senke dobile 3 od 5.

nije 3/5 nego 3/10! 

[Tex Murphy]