Ricky Gervais saying that Johnny Depp is "the man WHO would literally wear anything Tim Burton Tells him to" in the event The 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards some time ago obviously is not a mere joke. Since Depp and Burton started their professional relationship by Edward Scissorhands (1990), Depp has become one of the actor who most often appear in the Burton films, and mostly in those films, Depp is required to become a character peculiar to the costume that much impression of simple and ordinary. After the last time role as The Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland (2010), Depp and Burton collaboration continued on Dark Shadows, a film adaptation of a classic television series was titled the same as the first airing in 1966 until 1971.
Helena Bonham Carter co-displays and musical direction of Danny Elfman, the two collaborators are also frequently appeared in the movies of Burton, Dark Shadows in 1760 to start her story by telling about how the couple Joshua and Naomi Collins (Ivan Kaye and Susanna Cappellaro) sailed from Liverpool , England to North America to start their businesses in the area. The business running successfully. Unfortunately, all that success and then began seeing a nightmare when the couple's son, Barnabas (Depp), breaking the hearts of one of their servants, Angelique Bouchard (Eva Green), which turned out to be a magician. Angelique then give you bad luck after bad luck curse on the family as well as Barnabas Collins became a vampire. By Angelique also slander, Barnabas was eventually arrested people around who consider it a dangerous creature and then buried her alive.
Turning to 1972, by accident, Barnabas suffered grave demolition kamudian Barnabas finally freed from prison. Reflex, Barnabas immediately tried to find his place earlier, which is now inhabited by a new generation of the family of Elizabeth Collins Stoddard Collins (Michelle Pfeiffer), two children, Carolyn Stoddard (Chloe Grace Moretz) and David Collins (Gulliver McGarth), his time- Elizabeth man, Roger Collins (Jonny Lee Miller) and a psychiatrist who treated David, Dr. Julia Hoffman (Bonham Carter).Barnabas is also acquainted with Victoria Winters (Bella Heathcote), a nurse whose face resembles the face of David beloved Barnabas in the past. Conditions of the Collins family has been far from being a great success as of yore. Therefore, Barnabas was determined to restore the glory of his family, though in the end he had to face re-Angelique is still alive and continues to terrorize the Collins family.
Obviously is not very precise to say that Dark Shadows is a bad work. However, Dark Shadows is also not a brilliant work. Dark Shadows more appropriately categorized as a work of Tim Burton with a mediocre quality. True that the Dark Shadows - like Alice in Wonderland which won a lot of attention because of its technical quality is brilliant - it has the technical look of audio, visual as well as sound wonderful costumes, but in storytelling, Dark Shadows featured in the absence of a strong attraction. As a drama, Burton failed to dig deep story and characters in Dark Shadows. While a comedy, Dark Shadows also never look really funny.
Weak storytelling is partly derived from the number of characters that are present in the plot of Dark Shadows which was then explored by Burton seems like one by one. Of course, with a duration of only 113 minutes, it makes some parts of the story should be marginalized. Not to mention the conflict created between the character of Barnabas Collins and Angelique Bouchard who seemed to rise and sink in throughout the film.This was coupled with a lack of strong chemistry created between several characters that make some of the fabric of relationships that are created in the plot of Dark Shadows appear less convincing.
Even so, if anyone deserves more credit than the technical procedure is the appearance of Dark Shadows clearly acting of the cast. The whole range of filler acting department Dark Shadows appear so natural and enjoy their respective roles. Of course, due to lack of tergalinya role they perform, such as the names of Jonny Lee Miller, Jackie Earle Haley, Chloe Grace Moretz, Bella Heathcote and Gulliver McGrath mostly present in a limited capacity. Limited, but it is certainly very far from disappointing. Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer and Helena Bonham Carter himself was present in an acting capacity as always convincing. But if anyone deserves the title as the thief's attention, then clearly the name of Eva Green appears in the top list. Angelique Bouchard as a cynical, sneaky but so compelling, Green appeared with a total charisma and can not be avoided altogether. So bewitching!
When compared with some pre-existing films in the filmography list of Tim Burton, Dark Shadows has the distinction of excellence is clearly not meaningful. Burton still boasts the ability to direct the film art direction, Dark Shadows unfortunately more often appear flat in the telling of the story: never really presented a story steeped in conflict and often fail in the delivery of elements of comedy. Even so, Dark Shadows was still able to perform everyday lineup with the appearance of strong characters and, of course, the classy appearance of technical procedures. Mediocre, but still able to provide an element of entertainment in itself.
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