#dracula adaptations

[thegoatsongs]

Mina: "Scandalously, Jonathan was holding my arm, but I didn't care"

Comic adaptations: don't worry we will make it Proper

Also they should be wearing mourning clothing smh

[picklepie888]

Never forget that Quincey P. Morris saved the world from a vampire infestation and died in order to save the people he loves, and the thanks he got for it is to be OMITTED FROM EVERY FREAKING DRACULA ADAPTATION!!!

[local-redhead-bookworm]

Stop! Putting! The "I have crossed oceans of time to find you" quote on stuff and saying it's from Bram Stoker's novel Dracula!! It's not!!! It was invented for the 1992 movie where Mina is Drac's reincarnated wife!! The closest we have is Drac saying "When my brain says 'Come!' to you, you shall cross land or sea to do my bidding" right after he's forced her to drink his blood!!! That's not romantic!!!! It's not even in the book!!

[garnetsfists]

The thing about Mina asking to become a vampire for her love for Dracula holds no actual emotional weight because there is no tragedy to it. What we see is that 1. it’s a neat immortality perk 2. she hates her married life anyways, so all that matters is her Destined Lover 3. she isn’t scared of becoming it

Jonathan meanwhile secretly, in his own heart, choosing vampirism for Mina hits like a ton of bricks, exactly because we know what he went through in the vampires’ lair and how horrifying it was and how he had chosen to risk death over living that nightmare for eternity. 

What Mina in adaptations is saying is “I will become immortal and bind my soul to my fated man because I hate my normal life and I can be happy with him forever.”

What Jonathan is saying is “I will become what had brought me to ruin, I will become the very thing I hate and fear. Just that so she’ll never feel alone in the dark.”

[oldcinemalover]

[joannamarieart]

Seriously, this book is so freaking gorgeous!!

[annah-the-compozer]

Idk what to do with my life now that @re-dracula reached its final episode. That was one hell of a badass experience I don't recall from reading the novel, it only enhanced my love for Dracula!

And Quincey singing to tAKE HIS HEART BACK TO TEXAS OMG

(I could picture the whole gang at his funeral and both Arthur and Jonathan taking care of the papers to bury him in his homeland)

At least I just bought Carmilla to get ready for the miniseries. Congrats to this amazing team! 👏

[vickyvicarious]

No yeah you're on the right track, in Coppola, Dracula, young-looking and well-fed, stalks Lucy, gives her horny sleepwalking disease, then has nonconsensual sex with her on a tomb while he's in werewolf form, and Mina sees that. Very focused on his goal to find his one true love through the oceans of time. (later we get the immortal lines "You killed Lucy. I love you.")

Wow. Such romance. I'm so overwhelmed by the beauty of it all.

*shudders*

Honestly, I was thinking the Lucy stuff was horrible to her in a "he spied/fed on her and she found it super hot and cheated on Arthur with him" kind of way, which is more than bad enough. Little did I fuckin' know apparently, yikes. What even is this movie. Softcore porn parody version of Dracula? Why.

[mxsoyo]

Watching every Dracula adaptation! #2

Dracula (1931) starring Bela Lugosi

Next up is the first authorised film adaptation of Dracula. The movie is actually based on a play adaptation from 1924, which explains some of the changes they made.

Should you watch it? Yes, but not for the reasons you might think. The movie is very funny (not intentionally), great to watch with friends. It is also free to watch on the Internet Archive. It is still recognizably the story of Dracula, but a lot of the details have been changed, especially the characters, so beware of that if that bothers you.

↓ Character and Story Changes + notable moments under the keep reading. ↓

Character Changes: -Renfield takes up Jonathans role of the young solicitor traveling to Transylvania in the beginning of the movie. Until he is put under Draculas influence where goes back to his book version after that. Dwight Fryes performance as essentially both Jonathan and Renfield are both very entertaining. Like that man is giving 200%. -With Bela Lugosi starring as Dracula, this movie was definitely the starting point of the sexy-fication of the character. Even thought I think this Dracula has even worse social skills than his book counterpart. -Mina is actually Jack Seward’s daughter in the movie, I assume this change was made to explain why the main characters would be hanging around at the sanatorium. Personality wise she is a bit blander than her book counterpart, partially because she spents a good chunk of her screen time under Draculas influence. -John Harker (just John, not Jonathan in this version) has been definitely changed for the worse. They made him the sceptic that doesn’t understand what is going on and is constantly doubting Van Helsings advice. He feels a bit more like a douchy version of Arthur than Jonathan. -Like I said, Jack Seward is Mina’s father in this version and is the character in name only and in the fact that he owns a sanatorium. -Lucy (her surname has been changed to Weston) is a single girl since Arthur and Quincey don’t appear. She has a stronger interest in the macabre and has a small crush on Dracula (despite everything about him). -Van Helsing gets a lot of good lines in the movie, he seems a lot less eccentric, and Dracula remarks that he has heard of him. But he is not yet the badass expert vampire hunter later movies make of him. -The movie also added two prominent characters the sanitarium worker Martin the and nurse Briggs, which both serve as a kind of comic relief. Story Changes: -As far as I know this is the first time the female vampires (Draculas roommates) are referred to as his wives. -We get a lot more scenes from the point of view of Dracula -Dracula actually introduces himself to the main characters as their next door neighbour and casually comes over for conversation before they find out he’s a vampire -Lucy dies very shortly after being introduced, but the plotline of the gang trying to keep her alive was given to Mina instead - The ending is surprisingly anticlimactic. They find Dracula lying in his coffin in Carfax Abbey, Van Helsing kills him off-screen, while John looks for Mina. -Afterwards Van Helsing also says they should leave without him, they do and then the movie just ends

Notabel Moments: -The movie starts with Swan Lake out of all songs and then is dead silent when it comes to background music afterwards -The opossums and armadillos (classical Romanian wildlife)

-this GIANT BEE (totally not a normal sized Bee jerusalem cricket in a miniature coffin)

-The BATS!!! Oh my god the spirit halloween bats! The bat driving the carriage?! -the spirit halloween plastic spider on a string -”I never drink... wine.” is such an iconic line, that I was surprised it’s not from the book, this also goes for ”the strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him” -The best scene in cinema history! I cant do it justice by explaining it, you’ll have to watch it yourself, it’s at 1:03:20

Next Up: Dracula (1958) starring Christopher Lee

[akasanata]

Hey, Dracula Daily folks, I need some help

I teach English to kids and one of my students mentioned she liked horror. Because I have a single track mind of course I immediately thought "she has to read Dracula!"

I was wondering if anyone knew an adaptation for kids that is still more or less accurate? 🙏

[pop-goes-the-weasel]

Am crying that we rarely get good Dracula adaptations. O what we miss out on

A devoted husband whom all see as a milksop, but can turn quite feral when the time comes

A devoted wife who has a mind, will and agency of her own. (Somehow people think this is non-overlapping)

A sweet upper-class girl who is all sunshine, with an innate strength

A Black man who is efficient, intelligent, kind, Cool, rich, and does not need to give sassy one-liners for good dialogues

A rich lord who is a sweetheart, loves all and sundry and is not above bending the law

Two doctors who often do dumb things due to the power of eleventy billion PhDs.

A mentally ill person who is more sinned against than sinning

And A vampire who is not sexy, but rather, an assaulter

[thegoatsongs]

If you wonder what is the state of Lucy in adaptations in the 2020's and if they break away from the previous decades' treatment, Lucy becomes a vampire in the 2020 graphic novel Dracula adaptation by essentially cheating on Arthur

(Arthur here is snork mimimiing because of the blood transfusion)

(Yes she calls Dracula "my love")

[picklepie888]

So pop culture has morphed the narrative of Dracula to where Van Helsing is now his arch nemesis and a kickass action hero vampire hunter, and Mina is his love interest. I think its only fair that an adaptation gets made where its vice versa.

[dodger-chan]

I've been thinking about the complaints on here about how adaptations of Dracula keep making his feedings on Lucy sexy, and his 'relationship' with Mina romantic. Some of it is changing cultural norms; the dark foreigner preying on our innocent women just isn't as much of a fear. Some of it is just an excuse for filmmakers to show sexy scenes without nudging the rating up too high or getting the censors too worked up. But I think quite a bit of it is that the difference between sexy and sexual is harder to show on screen.

The text is not sexy, but it is sexual. You need Lucy's words (or Jonathan's avoidance and revulsion) to show the feedings are an assault rather than a seduction. To put that on film would require extra scenes of dialogue instead of just shooting footage of Lucy sleepwalking into the mist. But in film images are the language, so the later is preferred.

[littleliongirl16]

yknow if i had a nickel for every time I wound up absolutely loving an asexual British horror podcast protagonist named Jonathan who had an excellent narrating voice and was slowly turning into a monster-

I would have two nickels, and it's weird that it happened twice.

(okay yes Jonathan Harker isn't like, the single protagonist of Murray Mysteries but I'd say he's one of the protagonists)

[lostamber]