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Jonathan Frid as the vampire Barnabas Collins in "Dark Shadows"Related content
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Excellent art work. You have captured him very well- his mystique, compelling presence and beauty. Is this done with acyrlics?
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Finally! Someone who remembers the original Barnabas Collins and not the awful reboot! This is beautiful! I really love the moodiness of this piece! It represents everything that is Frid's Barnabas -- his brooding nature, his brow, his ring, his cane. I adore the use of black along the lush colour of the purple, set off by the high contrast of his skin. Brilliant!
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Not meaning to start off an argument here, but which 'reboot' are you talking about? (Hopefully not the most recent movie, since Dan Curtis had some say in how that had turned out...) Though the '90s 'Revival Series' had seemed a little more like the Hammer Dracula films only without Christopher Lee's presence. ^ ^;;
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Actually, I love the 90s revival series; but like the Hammer Horrors, I treat them as a different animal to the Universal Horrors. The revival didn't have the intricacies of the original, but kept to the bare essentials yet made room to make the series itself own rather than a blatant ripoff. The romance between Barnabas/Josette/Victoria in the revival was more impassioned, came off as more genuine and natural, because they weren't limited by the "censorship" of the 1970s where you were forced to keep the "sexuality" down to a minimum. It's not that the actors of the original series weren't capable of doing it; they simply weren't ALLOWED to. Little things like that really made a difference.
(When I say "reboot," I mean the Tim Burton film, which was just...blech.)
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While it's true that the Tim Burton film had been very different, I can't bring myself to say anything against it, especially since I think it may have been one of Jonathan Frid's last onscreen appearances (even if it was a cameo). He, right along with Lara Parker, David Selby, and a few others appear during the party scene (when the guests are arriving). And I remember reading somewhere that Frid and Depp did speak to one another during the filming, and Frid had seemed to approve of how Depp portrayed the character.
(again, not meaning to be argumentative, it's just that I love just about everything having to do with Dark Shadows... ^ ^;; )
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I...can't say I blame Depp on the performance he did. It's just what the script called for. Sadly, it was a bad script. The film itself was just bad because it was badly written -- bad plot, bad dialogue, bad characterizations, bad everything because of technicality of a bad script. I can't say it was badly performed, because it honestly wasn't; they just did what the script told them. I can't say it was badly directed, because it honestly wasn't; he just did what the script told him. If it was a good script, if it was well-written, basically if they just took the script of HOUSE OF DARK SHADOWS and slammed it on the table, and did just that, just the way it was (even if they changed the ending where Barnabas dies), would the film have been better? Yes, I think it would have been. The reboot really boils down to a technical reason: It was very, very badly written, really.
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The late Mr Frid, a legend, wonderful work here! Elegant & mysterious, which made it more interesting
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Thanks for your kind comments! I tried to capture Frid's sense of brooding mystery in his characterization, so your words mean a lot.
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You're very welcome. I was saddened by his recent passing. He was definitely one person I would have loved to have gotten a chance to meet
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This pose perfectly represents the brooding and haunted Barnabas as played by the late Mr. Frid. I've always liked the photo image from which this is derived. He made a most suave, elegant, and debonair vampire--a gentleman--yet, one with a dark mystery surrounding him. This is a very striking image; good work.
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Thanks very much for your thoughtful comments. I grew up on the TV show, and although I didn't have the term for it when I was a kid, Barnabas Collins was a true Byronic hero – an archetype that I've always responded to. Your words perfectly capture my thoughts on the character. Glad you like the picture!
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Like a *real* vampire, you mean?
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- Yeah,something like this.
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Thank you! I grew up on that show, and Barnabas was always one of my favorite vampires.
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Me too! None of this wimpy sparkly, fangless nonsense! Frid did a vampire with bite. I like 'em that way.
I was horrified to see what the new Dark Shadows previews held in store. It's gonna be a travesty. My husband refers to it this way: "Another beloved childhood character destroyed." (He still holds a firm grudge against the live action Grinch. We both refuse to see it.)
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