Info on jackie's charactcer Willie Loomis

[norngirl]

here is is from http://wegotthiscovered.com/movies/character-profiles-tim-burtons-dark-shadows

Willie Loomis (Jackie Earle Haley) - How awesome is it to play an actual Groundskeeper Willie? The Oscar-nominee for Little Children is a slightly more competent servant than Mrs. Johnson, but that’s not saying much. “He’s the guy who takes out the trash,

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[yarking]

My heart PLUMMETED when I read that. As soon as I heard Jackie was in the new DS, I started watching the original character and fell in love with Willie Loomis. I had hoped they kept him sympathetic, but that doesn't seem the case from this little blurb.

I mean, in the original, Loomis basically had battered wife syndrome, and the whole thing was very tragic and angsty and made me want to scoop him up and feed him soup and hugs. I trust Jackie to pour in his usual "I have thirty seconds of screen time but can still make you bawl like a child who dropped their ice cream cone" into the character, but a script is a script.

It makes sense, though. I was talking to Writerbunny about it and she made the point that they are probably going to sell it on "Hey look, preteens! Look at how sey Johnny Depp is!" and having a (physically) abusive character does not a sexy preteen lust object make.

Still.

ARGH ARGH ARGH.

(I'm still going to watch it five times the first week it's out just for the Jackie, aren't I?)

[norngirl]

hey can you show me a episode of dark shadows can't seem to find a proper one

[yarking]

I was watching them on netflix instant watch. It's... 7.99 a month? Or something like that?

[norngirl]

God DAMNIT!!