I saw a post that said; “Describing the actual plot of Dracula to someone sounds like lying about the plot of Dracula. Dracula gets stabbed to dead by a cowboy”
Theres a part where Mina says, and I quote, "I am the train fiend." Because she has committed all the train schedules to memory. Where's my modern au where Mina has a model train set in her basement?
I feel like one of the things I've found most disappointing that's been lost in adaptation is how genuinely in love Jonathan and Mina are. Jonathan wants to tell Mina everything but is basically gaslit into thinking he shouldn't, as soon as Mina is attacked he chases Dracula with a Kukri, tells Mina everything, assures her that nothing could change his love for her, and privately admits that if she's stuck as a vampire, than he'll turn too so she won't have to suffer alone. Meanwhile Mina sees how traumatized Jonathan has been and immediately goes into "destroy the fucker that hurt my husband" mode. Like, all those adaptations that have Jonathan leaving Mina for what happened, or shipping Mina with Dracula are missing out on so much with this absolute ride or die "will walk into hell for you" couple.
I agree. Not only are those adaptations missing out on a truly heartwarming and interesting couple, but the adaptations that ship Mina and Dracula are honestly rather vile for doing so considering that, in the book, Dracula attacking Mina and draining her blood is a very blunt rape allegory; how does someone read a book where a predatory sociopath attacks a happily married woman and think that the movie adaptation should ship the happily married woman with the predatory sociopath?
I mean I don't think Johnathan Harker was all too interesting as a character in the book, but the one consistent trait he had is how much he adores Mina. Its basically his one defining character trait, so its weird to think this trait is sort of ignored when it was basically the thing that defined his character.
@@R0-83-RT We're gonna have to agree to disagree on whether or not Jonathan is interesting, since I personally find him actually one of the more interesting characters in the book, especially with how his PTSD is portrayed. But yeah, it makes zero sense for him to not love Mina in any adaptation, and vice versa, since she loves him just as vocally in her entries.
@@limit1770 THANK YOU for not thinking Jonathan is boring! I've loved Jonathan and Mina as a couple since I first read the novel in my teens. I dislike/hate all the inaccurate movie adaptations as a result.
My favorite WTF vampire weakness (introduced in later interpretations) was that if someone spilled a bag of small objects (usually seeds or stones) they would be forced to stop whatever they were doing and count everything that was spilled. This explains everything about The Count from Sesame Street.
my teacher is Romanian, and one time when we asked her how old she was, she responded, “I’m from the land of Count Dracula, we keep ourselves young”. With a creepy smile g r e a t
Red in 2016: "That summary was half an hour long. That's obviously not happening." Red in 2021: "Here's half an hour summarizing werewolf mythos!" Character development!
Red: "That summary was half an hour long. Needless to say, that ain't happening" Red, but two years later: makes a half hour long video on Lovecraft Character development!
“The mom throws out the garlic flowers and opens the windows” Ah just like those AskReddit stories of family members completely ignoring Doctor’s orders
The things that struck me when reading Dracula for the first time: * The amount of detail (and perfect grammar) that everyone puts in their letters and journals, even when facing imminent death. * How often people are absolutely horrified and repulsed by sexiness. * How much people go out of their way to say how amazing Mina is.
The English in this book is very weird to read for someone like me who is very new to old novels for instance "Ahh I see you have made it to my castle, before dinner would you like to do toilet?" (Paraphrasing here) that threw me of a bit because it seemed kinda funny to me. And reading the dialogue from characters like Van Helsing and the cockney old englishmen was super hard.
Bram Stoker was apparently a self-hating homosexual working through some things while desperately trying to repress them; of course sexiness was evil and his main villain's most developed attraction is to a man.
One thing that always bothers me about Dracula is how they make Harker either really boring or an asshole to Mina. When he is constantly supportive of her, talks endlessly about how much he adores her and is willing to face damnation and become a vampire so she doesn't have to face it alone. Sure he still has victorian attitudes about stuff, but he's really quite progressive for his time.
Indeed. I think my personal reading on him over the novel might have been influenced by a certain other Jonathan who faced a vampire in England, but he’s a good dude.
The Old Shoes not really disappointed or upset. More of a “hey wouldn’t it be cool if these people were happily married back then even though it wasn’t allowed back then.”
Ahh... well that’s most definitely understandable. I dislike absolutes, people that claim to hold a perfect truth should (and damn well better) be able to explain such. Thanks for the response.
Do you think Dracula could work as a found footage film? John’s iPad diary and then shifting to Mina and Lucy’s FaceTime call, to Van Hellsing recording to study Lucy’s mystery illness/recording strange phenomena, then to boyfriend squad recording the hunt for Dracula?
You know, that could actually work, because the Ford Coppola movie sucked, don't @ me. Yours is a very interesting idea, but I don't really think a lot of people ( Twitter) would like an adaptation in our modern day and age
My favorite line from the book: "Let us hope that the strength of four good men is equal to one malevolence of the devil" - Everyone's favorite quirky dutch doctor, Abraham Van Helsing
This is paraphrased, but my favourite Van Helsing quote comes from when Lucy is slowly dying, “Why is it that Methuselah lives 900 years, but Lucy cannot live one night with the blood of four men in her!”
The entire town of Bistritz: holds a mournful vigil for Jonathan, knowing well that his journey to the castle of the feared Count Dracula would likely be his last. Jonathan: oh how *picturesque*
It's quite accurate to the book; where the rest of the men want to leave Mina out of the Dracula hunt for sexist reasons, John only agrees because he doesn't want his wife to go through the horrors he went through, and even then, he starts thinking that leaving her out might be a bad idea; part of him can't help but feel that leaving her out will backfire (and that part of his mind is proven correct when it does indeed backfire horribly).
It feels like they're kinda projecting their love and grief over Lucy onto Mine and want to double down on protecting and keeping her safe since they failed with Lucy. Then Johnathan's just straight up DONE with being in Bram Stoker's novel and doesn't want anyone to ever experience ANY of the hell he had to go through just to keep his job/get a permanent promotion (his boss dies at some point and leaves John and Mina all his stuff including the business cause they're his surragate kids and he wants to set them up for life), and marry the love of his life. He straight up has a panic attack when he sees young Dracula walking around the city and Mina helps him through it. This is what makes her think she should really read his diary, when they got married she sealed the bag/wrapping it with wax that she stamped with her wedding and engagement rings becuase she knew that if it affected John enough to have brianfever for like a solid month and a half, it was pretty messed up and that he needed some reassurance that she loved him regardless of how much of his life he's shared with her.
@@liamjm9278 For just one example: be able to correctly recognize the signs that she was being targeted by said monster. In the book, because she was left out, she didn't realize her symptoms were from Dracula biting her until the night that Dracula force-feeds her some of his blood.
@@matthewmuir8884 She wasn't left out. She was there at the meeting and contributed to it. She even directly helped Hellsing whilst he was explaining everything by acting as a secretary. It's even her journal entry that records this meeting. She knows as much about Vampires as they do. They just didn't want her to come along when they did the hunting part. Would you bring your small schooltecher along to hunt a grizzly bear with magic powers, armed with melee weapons and a pistol? You haven't read the book; don't pretend you have. I've read that chapter last week so it's fresh in my mind.
"Say what you will but Dracula knows how to make an entrance." *Remembers Helsing where Dracula rides an aircraft carrier into the big climactic battle*
Good ol' Drac didn't ride just any old aircraft carrier into the big climactic battle, either. He rode in on a DERELICT aircraft carrier that he, himself, wrecked by dive-bombing it full-speed with a Lockheed-Martin SR-71 Blackbird. The burnt, ruined airframe of the Blackbird even formed an eerie, cross-like mast in the middle of the flight deck, and the ship arrived veiled in mist for extra flavor.
One thing I really love about this book was that every single main character is just like completely willing to die for every other main character. They just...they love one another so much.
It's also super thematically relevant! Like, various forms of true love are central to the book. The vampire women who serve Dracula openly mock him for being unable to love. Dracula's inability to love and inability to perceive or value a difference between love and lust is in thematic contrast with the sincere love shared by the group of friends that defeat him, and in particular with the healthy and mutually respectful relationship between the Harkers. (There is a slight homophobic tinge to it, as Dracula, coded as unable to feel _real_ love, only ever implies current romantic interest in one person and that's Jonathan (despite attacking the women around him instead). But... Stoker was a self-hating gay man working through some things, soooo...
I'm sure the reason she didn't record the half hour summary is because that is more time needed to draw more panels. which is what takes up most of the time between videos.
Someone needs to adapt Dracula into a road-trip/buddy comedy focused on the dude squad who only know each other because they all thought this one girl was hot and now have to kill a vampire Edit: It is also important that Van Helsing and Dracula are played completely serious the entire time with a healthy dose of Victorian dramatics
Holly, not Suzy. But yeah, part 3 is actually somewhat inspired by Dracula. Considering how much of a senile imbecile Dio is in SDC, he is rather similar to the book Count. A far cry from the awesome Kurt Barlow figure he was in Part 1....
Vampires becoming sexier over time actually makes sense from an evolutionary point of view. Assuming that the vampire's main source of survival is drinking blood of course..... They would have to get this blood from a human. But if your vampire was a monstrous disgusting monster.... Any human who sees the vampire would flee and run away making dinner a chase and more difficult to get. But if vampires evolved sexiness and beauty, then any human who saw them wouldn't run away, rather they would be attracted to your vampire. Like some some carnivorous plants evolved ways to trap insects for food, the new vampire's beauty and sex appeal gives them a much easier time getting food,guving them an edge in survival.
Skeptical Chris It was in the original novel kinda because of the ladie vampires I guess so it didn't evolve only after that. But yeah Stoker probably added it because of that. And because I guess if he had to choose someone to bite it would make sense to choose someone you would want to see around for a while
Skeptical Chris at the risk of being a big nerd, let me tell you of an interesting plant I learned about a long time ago. there is a carnivorous plant that has a special stem that looks similar to a bug. it gives off a scent that smell terrible to people, but to insects it's like axe body spray. the plant lures it hapless victims with this stem, once a bug lands on it to mate with the bait, it's dinner time! I can't remember the name of the plant since it was a really long time ago. but that some wining and dining I'd like to say. I paid attention in biology class, don't judge me. 😑
Skeptical Chris but from an evolutionary perspective, humans should all be divas too, for reproductive purposes. because evolution doesn't work that fast and shouldn't apply to vampires anyway as vampires aren't born, i declare your theory wrong.
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6:00 "Mina, darling, your hands are so warm." That's just priceless. Also, Lucy clearly has Type AB+ blood ("universal recipient" type), though Stoker himself clearly didn't know that.
@@jen.kj7 Yepp, since they have all 3 types of markers in their blood, they can get all types of blood, but can only give blood to others with type AB+ blood. On the other hand we have O-, who don't have any of the markers, so they are the universal donors, they can give blood to everyone else, but they can only receive blood from pthers with an 0- blood type.
@@jen.kj7 Yepp, exactly! It's all about the markers! And if they gave her the wrong type of blood, her immune system would have attacked because of the unfamiliar markers. For example, if she had B+ blood type, she can get O- (no markers), 0+ (+ marker) B- (B marker) or B+ (B and + marker) since those would be familiar, but if they in this case tried to give her A+ for example, her immune system would have attacked because of the unfamiliar A markers. (Of course this is just what I learned in my high school bio class, and AFAIK there are even more blood types with different indicators that we don't really learn about? I'm not sure it was an offhand comment. But this is the gist of blood transfusion rules as I know it)
@@szaboluca5536 There are a bunch of other, minor Blood Types, but they seldom count because the immune system only starts reacting to them after a cuple of transfusions. The rest is pretty accurate.
@@kisassa Thank you! Yeah I know there's more, we learned about 3 of them in bio, but others were mentioned (our teacher was really passionate about his subject) but I didn't want to cause any confusion, and I don't really remember the other ones. But thank you for the correction, it did remind me that I wanted to look something up about this :)
I'm now super offended we never see a crazy Texan with a bowie knife killing vampires in any of the movie adaptations. Seriously I've never seen Quincy appear in any adaptation?
Shame that Quincy gets left out so much, you'd think more action oriented works would want to include the guy who managed to hold off Dracula with nothing but a bowie knife, but apparently not.
someone please make an adaptation where he survives turned into a vampire or zombie or something and joins Hellsing in the hunt of vampires now with EVEN MORE EXAGERATED strength(?
Someone said that the book isn't politically correct enough to be adapted faithfully in modern day. I think a film studio should just not care, make the film, and cast Chris Pratt as Quincy for good measure. After thinking that, I really want to see it.
@@maucazalv903 I've actually thought about this and imagined a scenario where Helsing resurrects Quincy as a Jiangshi, the least involved Necromancy form he knows of, for the purpose of Lucy survived, he's struggling to kill her again, and needs to keep her occupied while he finds a solution. And of course it helps to have the extra muscle when fighting vampires.
_Carmella_ is such a strange work. Like, the horror only works if "woman passionate for another woman" is a horrifying concept to you, so it doesn't really work in the modern age. Carmella actually comes across as kind of romantic and tragic.
3:44 I have to say, having read Dracula, one of my favorite vampire-powers-that-pop-culture-forgot-about is their ability to Spider-Man climb. The way the book describes it, with him scurrying inhumanly out of sight across the wall like a lizard, is honestly creepy.
@@eddieravenwood To be fair, don't lizards sort of . . . squiggle their way around? Like, their body wiggles back and forth while they run and climb. That would be a pretty hilarious thing for a full grown Victorian count to do :)
Fun Fact: When it was time for this book to come to Iceland, the translator apparently decided that he could write a better story, and subsequently published his own significantly different version of the novel. No one in Iceland had any idea they WEREN’T actually reading Bram Stoker’s Dracula until over a century later, by which point the translator was obviously long dead. One of the best hustles you’ve ever heard of.
And apparently it's GREAT. Better than the original is arguable, but it's apparently an absolutely fantastic rendition of the vampire story in general.
“Mr. Bram Stoker has never spoken to an American in his life” *Bram Stoker has entered the chat* (EDIT: I was making a joke from part of the video. You can stop commenting that he did meet americans because I know that already. The quote is from the video on overly SARCASTIC productions. 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️)
I love this at 9:11 Stewart: Noo you're too precious Arthur: My wife would want you safe and content The State of Texas: Wouldn't want to worry your pretty head Jonathan: *no mortal should face the horrors I have known*
Funny thing with Quincy coming off as written by someone who'd never actually met an American, in reality Bram Stoker was close friends with Teddy Roosevelt and traveled the US extensively so he was quite familiar with the culture and it's quirks. It's just that at the time, the Rugged Texan/Cowboy was a popular stock character in English fiction occupying the role for when you needed a source of plain-spoken, weather-beaten wisdom and simultaneously still half wild and rather more enthusiastic when events called for a man of action and violence.
I want to write a screenplay for a modern Bram Stoker’s Dracula where everyone is modern except for Dracula and Quincey Motherf-ing Morris. I want him to continue to be a 19th century American written by someone who has never actually spoken to an American. I want him to continue to make up words that sound kind of American. I want him to still use words that make no sense in the context and I want his dialect to continue to swing wildly and violently back and forth between cowboy hick and schooled gentleman. I want the rest of the posey to just go along with it because that’s just Quincey, and I want the only person to be bothered by it to be Dracula himself. He’s an immortal being. It makes sense he speaks that way, but why is this strange man claiming to be from America despite sounding like his only exposure to American culture was from watching cowboy movies and trying to extrapolate what the upper class must sound like speaking in such a manner? It disturbs the Count so much that halfway through the movie he just straight up stops preying on women to find out what the hell is happening
It’s also hilarious to read the book, because Mina and Lucy are REALLY good friends so for a while they would sleep in the same bed because Arthur and Johnathan were away. Also Lucy would sleep walk and Mina would have to get her. 10/10 totally just roommates
For real tho, amount of gay confusion over her narration (LIKE CONFESS ALREADY) slowed me reading it so much Fact that Stoker was inspired by Carmilla doesnt help, lol
There's also a surprising amount of one-sided tension between Dracula and Jonathan. I'm reading the book now and honestly I know it probably read differently when it was published, but... (Edit: Changed "ho yay" to "tension" because apparently the term ho yay confused people? Ho yay is tvtropes slang for homoerotic tension between male characters. Its female counterpart is les yay.)
Also, apparently Stoker is heavily, heavily suspected of being a self-loathing homosexual. Apparently there's been people reading into Dracula's and Jonathan's relationship in this way for a long time because of this, and interpret Dracula's attacks on women to be displacement for his sexual desire, frustration, and anger at himself and Jonathan. It doesn't help that the "brides" (who are actually implied to be his relatives) randomly bring up whether or not someone like Dracula can really sincerely love someone... after Dracula stops them from biting Jonathan by literally calling him "mine." Honestly I think people have shipped Mina and Dracula for so long because they were more comfortable shipping a woman with her implied rapist than with the fact that the closest thing to a love interest Dracula has is a guy. The subtext is strong with this one.
I always thought vampires were “sexy” because their attractiveness causes their victim’s blood to flow more (cause, you know, their aroused or whatever) making it easy to drain the blood
@@Br-kc2jy fear makes your body react the same as with cold, everything narrows and bloodflow get focused on the vitals Being hot, figurative as well as literal makes it much easier to draw blood That is why donation locations usualy have their thermostat quite high
Crosses are super overused... imagine how could would it be to have a vampire hunter who possess a actually, 100% true reliquary, like a bone or a martyrdom tool of some saint... that would hella hurt a vampire more than any cross.
there was actually one, kind of old joke about containing a vampire by luring it into a multi-faith chapel or any other place where there are lots of different religious symbols, whereupon the vampire would have a seizure. so it has never been specified that it has to be crosses, any symbol with religious significance works
@@giacomoromano8842 I know one book where the main character uses a lamb partially due to a younger experience with an overly graphic sculpture of the crucifixion. She explains her reasoning pretty well, but the rest of the cast still makes jokes about protecting yourself from a den of vampires with a wooly animal.
My absolute favourite thing in the book is when Jonathan tries to shave with a pocket mirror and Dracula comes up behind him. At this point Jonathan already knows that he's a prisoner and recognizes that Dracula is a weird monster of some kind. He notices that he can't see him in the pocket mirror, gets distracted and cuts himself on the face. Dracula is kind of panicking because he *really* wants to suck him dry at this point but instead he says "That mirror is bad, it made you cut yourself", takes it out of Jonathan's hand and fully yeets it out of the window. Funniest shit I've ever read in any book :)
Don't you just love how Coppola's film completely deflates the horror of the situation by having Gary Old Man tell Keanu "Perhaps you should grow a beard...?"
Huh. Mina actually has a lot of agency in this. Sucks how in every other “hot vampire guy” story the women have no agency and are just used for sexies.
Stoker's notes identify van Helsing as a German professor, although it's never stated in the published version. I like to think that van Helsing is a German immigrant, living and working in Amsterdam, rather than a native Dutchman.
"...my god, does the book like talking about how hot Lucy's corpse is...!" I laughed at that line for a solid minute or so, the deadpan delivery was absolutely perfect!
Seriously what is it with literature and describing a corpse as beautiful or artists, particularly Greek, depicting guys with huge dongs and girls being allergic to clothes?! XD ( *don't need to answer the later because I get it on a symbolic meaning. So that was rhetorical. But the foremost still confuses me.* )
I've always pictured her as the Dignified Bisexual (maybe that's just because I'm also bi), so she might also find them attractive! Aside from the murder part
@@juliastrawn2113 Fun tidbot for you; Mina as bi has been basically made canon by Tumblr. Everyone noticed that how much she comments on Lucy's hotness was a bit to much for them to be roommates.
@@erin8050 Oh, I know! The tumblr Dracula fandom is so wonderful to see. And yeah, most straight women don't talk about their female friends the way Mina talks about Lucy. And there's the fact that she first noticed Dracula because they were checking out the same cute girl. Mina Harker: Bi Icon of classical literature
@@juliastrawn2113I don’t remember fully, but doesn’t at one point Mina say in her journal that she wishes she could be one of Lucy’s suitors? Or am I making a false memory? I know that Lucy says she wishes she could marry all three men, and honestly, given what we know of them, and how much they all “respect” one another, if it weren’t Victorian England they probably would have been down for a polycule.
I recently read the book, and one of my absolute favorite parts was when Johnathan touches base with Van Helsing, who confirms to the former that his nightmarish experience really did happen and he's not crazy. After that validation, Johnathan's mental health and self-confidence skyrockets.
Was just rewatching this on a post-Halloween binge and had a thought: a modern movie adaptation could be made...if it was a Found Footage genre consisting of a video diary by Jonathan, skype conversations between Mina and Lucy, snapchats and twitter posts of the more random scenes or news stuff, and vlogs of the main action. Like, Blair Witch but with more variety in media footage and also vampires.
Oh my god I have tried to pitch this idea to all of my friends that want to go into film production- the catch is that vampires cannot be caught on camera unless they're in night vision mode or with a particular filter (i.e instead of the not being able to see Dracula in the mirror, Harker can't see him on the camera)
@@abbyj8915 Oh my god, the camera trick is genius. You spread the word girl! Maybe if we tell everyone we can think of, someone will come back to the idea once they've got a career and go: imma do this, good idea.
If I recall cameras use silver as a component in the circuitry, and they used to use silver bromide if I remember in old fashioned cameras. Soooo they might not actually show up in them. Depends really.
Quincey being left out of most adaptations always seems weird to me. I mean, a badass gunslinging American hero sounds like the kinda thing Hollywood would put INTO a movie adaptation of a book, not take out.
It's often a quesion of money, I guess. There have even been versions, like the one with Bela Lugosi, where Jonathan Harker and Lucy's three suitors are combined and Mina and Lucy are fused as well - to save on roles to play.
In the first BBC adaptation, even though it's the most book accurate, still combines Quincey and Arthur into a single character called Quincy Holmwood.
Honestly I can relate. My D&D group is running Curse of Strahd, which is about as blatant of a Dracula reference as you can get in the game, and my character seems to be the only person in the party with a brain.
Eh, I felt it was pretty natural that most people wouldn't be able to figure out the plot if they were in the story. Mina was just smart in a way the rest weren't. The only seriously stupid decision on their part was cutting her out of the Dracula research club, which was informed by their victorian worldview and the fact the stress and pain brought about in trying to research and counter Dracula probably caused them to assume their life would be better without it, forgetting that Dracula's MO is preying on the ignorant.
what's funny is that's not all that different from how it goes "Hey, I'mma bury her with garlic and a cross...hey john, do you trust me?" "...yeah?" "Alright, we gotta come back and cut her head off and shove garlic in her mouth." "WHAT?!" "I asked you to trust me, I'm a doctor." "...Okay."
That scene in the 1992 movie was one of its few redeeming moments. Helsing. "Doctor, I need your post-mortem knives." Seward. "Are you going to do an autopsy?" Helsing. "No nothing so serious as that. I just want to cut off her head and take out her heart." (Seward leaves) Helsing. "Seward? Seward!"
My favorite part was- my memory is awful, so sorry if I get this a bit wrong- when Van Helsing was talking about the plan or something to Jonathan and Mina and he gets interrupted by the window being shattered because Quincey SHOT HIS GUN at a bat (Dracula most likely, Idk if that was ever cleared up for sure) that was sitting on it.
I think the scene was meant to depict what Quincy is like. I'm not sure if he was just scouting the area, trying to chase after Dracula, or just noticed the bat and didn't want to take a chance.
When I watched this the first time I thought that the “Van Helsing serious face” was an exaggeration but it’s on like every page for a couple of chapters.
I heard Alucard and instantly thought of Hellsing Abridged: Integra: Aulcard! Stop running on moonbeams! You'll never make it before morning! Alucard: I'm gonna do it this time, and then the cheese will be all mine bitches!
"... the ghost ship Demeter..." *the frickin farm goddess. farming relies on having soil (aka earth).* *ill admit, im way more amused then i probably sound.*
@@iceluvndiva21 Nah, Hades was actually pretty well adjusted and safe as long as you didn't try to cheat death without asking for permission first. It's an older sibling thing.
Dracula definitely had a thing for Jonathan. I'm 100% certain he preyed on Mina specifically to hurt Jonathan and it made him furious that Jonathan escaped him.
Honestly from this and the comments, it kinda seems like most any pairing would work, altho Jonathan and Mina are the only like explicitly ride or die. Altho tbh I kinda forgot about Lucy's actual fiance like half the time, so maybe I should go read it
I can already imagine it, and I love it! Vlogs, Mina's bridal blog where she discusses her upcoming marriage (with entries getting darker as her maid of honor and friend, Lucy, gets sicker), Sewards' "Ask an Alienist" RUclips channel and sweet naïve Lucy Westenra would 100% be a shy TikToker.
Alternatively, if you're not a fan of found footage movies, you could make it so that - at some point - every single character featured in the story meets at least one of the other characters on screen. Then, simply focus on their face and swing the camera around to be behind _them_ and not whoever had the focus before, or flash back to summat they were doing earlier
The whole Mina and Dracula romance is really weird considering that the blood sucking scene in the book almost reads like a rape scene and was horribly upsetting for the characters (and the reader).
Not to mention that Jonathan basically gets orally raped only for Dracula saying 'I'll have him first and then he's yours.' This book earned its original yellow cover.
I interpreted it as a rape scene. I read the book as a penguin classic with notes to literary references and some explanations on some words and passages. When Mina keeps repeating “unclean, unclean” she references to a part on the bible about rape. So yeah.... that
@Rosie Cairns You can read Dracula's gentleness over Johnathan as a jab at same-sex relationships, since it would have been at the time considered an act of sin/defiance against God, since being a vampire in itself is also a sin,
Stoker's Dracula:I'll use this lady as a hidden cam in order to get rid of this breakfast club of vampire hunters! Almost any other version of Dracula:Oh! I'm so in love with this victoriab hottie! I don't get it either....
Dracula: "Sparkling? Bursting into flame? Seriously? I just turn into a normal person during the day." Modern Vampires: "Then why does no one kill you during the day?" Dracula: "Well that's why I'm always in a very public place during the day, so that no one can do that without very obviously being murderer. Plus, no one is going to look for a vampire in the middle of busy street in broad daylight. It's called hiding in plain sight."
I'll be honest, I was completely surprised that being affected by sunlight wasn't a vampire weakness that originated from Dracula. Before reading it, I always thought that was the case. Even when I watched the movie adaptation, I thought they were just taking liberties with an old character.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Mina is one of the most intelligent and resourceful characters in the book, and when her assistance is rejected by the other dudes, she gets GODDAMN MIND POWERS and helps them anyway. WHERE HAS THIS CHARACTER BEEN ALL MY LIFE?!?
She's pretty awesome, yeah, but I'd like to think that we've evolved enough as a culture to not need stories with such overt displays of "WOMEN CAN BE COMPETENT TOO, YOU JACKA**ES!" What we need is _fewer_ stories where all the women are overtly _incompetent._
Eh, I'd say she's tied with her husband and Van Helsing. Helsing deduces the truth of Lucy's ailment, without knowing anything about vampires, while Johnathan manages to emulate Dracula's supernatural climbing by merely observing him.
@@jackbharucha1475 I really dislike how most adaptations of the book try to romanticize Dracula and Mina. In the book, vampire bites are a rather blatant _rape_ allegory, and Dracula is essentially a sociopathic predator. He forces Mina into unconsciousness before biting her every night, and, when he realizes that the protagonists have figured him out and are hunting him, he attacks her one night while she's in bed with her husband Johnathan and he threatens to kill her husband (who Dracula essentially paralyzed with his hypnotic eyes before the attack) if she screamed for help. Knowing that, I find adaptations' attempts to romanticize Dracula and Mina completely sickening.
Re-watching this after finishing the book, and 1) I wholeheartedly agree, it is very good, and 2) good Lord is it frustrating that they keep cutting one of the smartest characters out of the loop just because she's a woman. Actually, in general a lot of grief could have been saved by just _telling the women what's going on._ You know a great way to stop Lucy's mother from ruining your plans to save Lucy? Telling her what you're doing and why. You know another great way to protect Lucy? Telling her what's going on so she can contribute to her own rescue.
Just finished reading it too (and I mean just. I literally just put it down before watching this) and there are multiple reasons why Lucy, her mom, and Mina were kept out of the loop on multiple things. Story-wise, keeping Lucy in the dark was a lesson for Seward and Helsing. They later loop Mina in because Van Helsing quickly admires her and they don't want to make the same mistake. As for Lucy's mom, she was sick, like really sick, and they worried (even Lucy did) that telling her would be fatal. As for Mina, the only points she was kept in the dark was when the men thought they no longer had to involve her and when they didn't think they could cause Dracula would find out what they knew through her. As for Dracula getting into the house, that was completely Renfield's fault for inviting him in! As far as everyone knew, there was no way for him to enter. Seward and Helsing both see Mina after Dracula has been feeding on her but don't come to the conclusion because they weren't aware Dracula was able to enter the building.
@@Andrewtr6 Agreed. Everyone in this comment section seems to be assuming that it's just "blatant 19th century sexism" that kept the guys from telling Mina things, but it really isn't that simple. At all.
What most readers today fail to appreciate is that Dracula was the techno-thriller of its day. The diaries are done by typewriter or dictation onto wax cylinders, they travel across Europe by steamboat and steam train, they perform blood transfusions, it's all very high-tech for the Victorian era! If you want a fun take on the story after you finish reading the book, go read Saberhagan's "The Dracula Tapes". This was the first place I ever saw it pointed out that Van Helsing gave Lucy Westerna transfusions from four different men, *nine years* before blood types were discovered, and then blamed the vampire when, surprise! she died.
"Its not MY fault she died. Those humans gave her incompatible blood transfusions...that she only needed because I was drinking her blood. But clearly this is in no way my fault." (Side Note: I personally find it unfair to hold authors to scientific knowledge that was unknown at the time. So I just assume Lucy was like type AB+.)
Johnathan's reasoning for not wanting Mina involved makes more sense and is a bit more justified than the other guys in the group. He truly did see horrors that he believes no one should ever have to see.
3:49 Just imagine Dracula, the Vampire Lord, actually being super nice and polite the whole time, even though he does all this weird and horrifying stuff to everyone else at night. Like, Johnathan sees Dracula draining the blood of his servants, drying them up like a prune and killing them. Dracula then turns to Johnathan and says, “Oh, hello Johnny boy. Did you need any more tea? I just put a pot on. Oh, right, the body. Don’t worry. It’s just to keep my bloodlust within manageable levels. I also noticed you seemed to be stressed for some reason, so I turned a few beautiful women into vampiric thralls to court you while you are here. I’m hoping it might raise your self-confidence.”
There weren’t any servants in Dracula’s castle, except for the mob of Local Ethnics who come to the castle to fill the boxes and deliver them to the boat. Johnathan sees Dracula make his bed, and he makes a note in his journal that he’s 100% sure the coachman who brought him to the castle was Dracula wearing a fake beard and baggy clothing. Besides the suite kept in good condition for Johnathan’s visit, the rest of the castle was in ruins.
I honestly would love a story where all the spooky supernatural stuff gets blissfully ignored or goes unnoticed. Like, imagine Jonathan being all, "Well gee golly fellas, that Count Dracula fella is like super nice! Sure he can be a little weird, but by golly does he know how to treat a guest! Do you hear a small child screaming?"
He does a lot of housework behind Jonathon’s back throughout, making the bed, setting the table and whatnot. He really is quite polite when you dismiss the blood-sucking.
I hope everyone is signed up to draculadaily ^^ This might be the most authentic way to read dracula in the modern day and I love the daily emails from my good friend Jonathan Harker
I'm so sad I didn't hear about this until recently. Because now that it's been going on for two months I do and don't want to start it because I'll have to get caught up instead of the constant drip feed and it saddens me. So I'm hoping they maybe do it again in the future and I hear about it before it starts.
So fun thing to offer. There's a thing called Daily Dracula going at the mo the sends the chapters to your email, on the listed dates. So like, the first couple of Jonathan's journal entries
I for one wholeheartedly support an adaptation of Dracula where the last remaining members of Lucy's Man Harem find comfort in each other and fall in love after her death.
@@CJCroen1393 I've had an idea for a found footage style Dracula film released in two versions, one that stays as close to the book as possible, and one to play around with interesting ideas like this one.
@@CJCroen1393 Yes. I know the found footage phase of Horror has faded, but come on guys! Dracula's just perfect for that style! And it would modernise the story without taking away the horror.
And this is why Alan Moore made Mina the leader of a victorian superhero team consisting of Captain Nemo, the Invisible Man, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Alan Quatermain.
I started laughing my ass off in the middle of class when we covered this book, because I read Dracula having hairy palms and immediately thought of that old wives tale about how you get those.
Disregarding the fact that he might be gay (he definitely has a crush on Jonathan), he has *three sexy vampire ladies* that just live in his castle for no reason.
I'm starting to realize how many similarities Resident Evil Village has to Dracula. Not only do you get trapped in a castle with 3 hot vampire ladies there is also Lady Dimitrescu. Dimitrescu means follower of Demeter and Draculas ghost ship is called Demeter, so that's pretty neat.
Huh you can tell someone on Capcom was doing their job on making a vampire, that would give people the idea of her being a sorta of Dracula character. To bad we kind of went full horny mode, when we found out she a tall,big,curvy,and busty vampire mom with a smoking hot body.
Well, the name Dimitrescu is very similar to Dumitrescu, which is a really common last name in Romanian. It is much less cool if you are familiar with the language. It is about as epic as the name Turner was in "Pirates of the Caribbean".
I think all of them were meant to be omages to various classic/popular horror monsters, Dimitrescu is obviously Dracula, Beneviento has both Chucky and Ring vibes, Moreau is Lovecraftian, more specifically Shadow Over Innsmouth, and his name could also be a reference to the Island of Doctor Moreau, a story about a mad scientist splicing humans with animals, and finally, Heisenberg, he's the most hard to pinpoint, but with his area being all machinery and the zombies in his area having been modified with tech, I think it's safe to say he's Frankenstien
I wasn't aquainted with the LoEG so I did a Google for a plot synopsis. What I gathered is that someone Frankensteined every classical novel ever into one barely-functioning conglomerate begging for death whilst somehow managing to exclude Frankenstein himself.
And Francis Ford Coppola's. I mean, I know Coppola probably wanted to distinguish more between Lucy and Mina, and to avoid the "Victorian ingenue" cliche, but would a sheltered upper-class Victorian lady even KNOW about some of the stuff Lucy talked about? Of course it was all talk and it was probably meant to come off as more like a teenage girl trying to come off as more worldly and sophisticated than she really is, but considering the time period it's rather ridiculous.
@@jenniferschillig3768 If memory serves he also had Sadie Frost dye her hair because he didn't want audiences confused by the two main women having the same hair colour. I've often suspected that they chose red hair for Lucy because they wanted to push the old "redheads are sex demons" trope. On a more amusing note, Winona Ryder is naturally blonde, while Sadie Frost has black hair. In the book Mina is fair haired and Lucy has black hair. Assuming my memory is solid, which it might not be.
So, there was a joke circulating among my gamer friends a few years back that the novel actually describes a tabletop RPG campaign. Quincy's the Fighter who's player is bored by intrigue and roleplay and just wants to kick down the door and beat up bad guys. Seriously he ditches a strategy session to go shoot a suspicious looking bat; that's a player itching to roll initiative. Jonathan Harker is a Rogue. He's sneaky and clever in the castle (once he's aware he's in danger at any rate). He uses knives later on and when he stabs Dracula at one point, treasure falls out. The repeated references to Mina having a mind like a man's refer to Mina's player being a guy. The way Van Helsing mangles English generally (I'm told) makes more sense for a native German speaker than Dutch. So naturally this means Van Helsing's player said his character was "deutsche" and the DM misheard. I forget what the deal was with the rest of the characters, but that was the gist of it.
I always thought they didn’t tell Mina about anything because that telepathic connection between her and Dracula was a two-way street. So what she knew of their plan, so did he. It made sense to me to keep her, ergo Dracula, in the dark.
@@elizakarnopp8921 Yes, it was, and if they had told her earlier she wouldn't have become an unwilling-snitch, though it help them find Drácula, so you win some you lose some I guess
@@Br-kc2jy Not true actually. As far as they knew, there was no way for Dracula to enter the house so everyone would be safe. But Dracula tricks Renfield into inviting him in. This is why no one realizes what's happening to her until Renfield explains it. She was already showing the signs but they didn't make the connection because they were missing part of the picture.
They make a resolution to keep her in the dark two separate times, with an interlude where they resolve never to hide anything from her. The second time they decide not to tell her anything is because of the telepathy thing
Serious face time stamps First appearance: 6:40 The Bat: 6:49 The three Mina things: 6:52, 6:54, 6:58 The bite marks: 7:23 Preparations: 7:27 Funereal: 7:52 Let me know if I missed any
7:48 Fun fact: for a long time, fresh air was the primary treatment for tuberculosis. Also you gave Van Helsing more characterization in 5 minutes than the 2004 movie managed in 2 hours.
"After a run-in with 3 sexy vampire ladies, Jonathan decides he needs to get the heck out of there." Which is weird because I know a lot of guys who would look at 3 sexy vampire girls and think "I'm staying here".
Jonathan's #1 defining characteristic in the book (besides Determination) is that every cell, tissue, and organ of his body and every spark and crevice of his soul belongs to Mina and he wouldn't have it any other way. The feeling is mutual (at least in the book). They're basically an OG power couple.
I literally don't think there's a single entry of his journal without some mention of how much he loves her. Heck, it's uncommon to find a _page_ of his journal where he doesn't mention her. Even though she doesn't actually show up for like, a third of the book. That's how much Jonathan loves to gush about his wife. There's a part where the other men are all talking about how great and talented Mina is and instead of getting all jealous Jonathan's like "I could sit here and listen to them compliment the love of my life all day because she 1000% deserves it."
Fun Fact: The running water weakness isn't that strange. Running water, in a lot of different myths and legends, nullifies or cancels out magic. So, it makes a certain amount of sense that magical creature like Dracula would be susceptible to that. (I say certain because I'm fairly sure other magical creatures don''t have problems with running water, but I can see where the author could have gotten the idea.) While it won't cure vampirism, running water was one of the easiest ways to dispel an enchantment. Yes, I am a mythology nerd. What of it?
While running water would be a problem for a vampire, a creature with water-based magic/talent would be at home. While Modern Vampire films cling to the cliche of Romance between Le Vampire and Le virgin woman, and this is fine for those who are fine with the same thing over and over again. However, what do we as humans normally associate with water? Mermaids. Now this being said, when one thinks of Mermaids they think of the open sea and pirates and whatnot. But like how there are different species/breeds of Bats and ghosts, the same thing can be said of Mermaids. While some Mermaids dwell in salt water, others could dwell in freshwater (i.e. lakes and rivers which have a tendency to flow to different areas). So the chances of a mermaid and a vampire crossing paths isn't Impossible, and this has the potential to create a new kind of romance (The mermaid race sticks to its own cliche of Human x Merperson). I can honestly see a Mermaid x Vampire story be a bit Romeo and Juliet like, which your two species which could be enemies in a sense. Say some vampires go to freshwater lakes and sample the blood of a few lovely Mermaids (They can't cross running waters, but still water would be fine then (In my opinion) ). But there are other ways this idea could go. I Dare anyone to write a book/screenplay on This Idea.
A funny thing about vampires that I think is really cool! The origin of the “vampires can’t see themselves in mirrors” is because, back in the day, mirrors were backed with silver -and since silver is considered holy- they couldn’t see themselves. So, technically speaking, VAMPIRES SHOULD BE ABLE TO SEE THEMSELVES IN MIRRORS NOW! Thank you for coming to my TedTalk. UwU
@@daviddaugherty2816 *taking notice of the shadow cast by the chair i hit my toe on every other day* " ... you know, you could at least stop pretending."
@@derimperator3847 Just because it's pure evil and plotting against you doesn't mean it doesn't have a soul. I can see why the Inanimate Object Illuminati want you gone so badly...
This fixes this trope so much, it has always frustrated me, and you are doubly a rock star because you alerted me to the original version of "vampires can't see *themselves* in mirrors." I think you may have added a year to my life, because I have never been able to deconstruct or handwave that particular impossibility.
The reason for the silver is that silver has purifying/antibacterial properties (possibly why it was used for eating utensils) and vampires are in no small part a monster-version of disease. Same with garlic and holy water/running water.
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I saw a post that said;
“Describing the actual plot of Dracula to someone sounds like lying about the plot of Dracula. Dracula gets stabbed to dead by a cowboy”
Explain a [plot, movie, book] poorly! I love those. Either I recognize it and get to feel good, or I don't and it's funny.
@@mirjanbouma My favorite one of those is "Batteries go BAD."
(hint: Keanu Reeves)
@@erinfinn2273 omg that has to be the Matrix 😂👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
@@erinfinn2273 woohoo! 😁
Here’s another one
Rich billionaire realizes he’s a jerk so he resorts to police brutality
3:30 To anyone who's curious, the old lady with the cross is saying 'You're too young for death you poor idiot.'
Amazing
That's hungarian right?
Ana Nic it looks like it!
@@anastasianicolaenco4476 It is Hungarian, yes
@@alduril2882 oh yeah I think this story happened back when transylvania was still under Hungarian occupation
Theres a part where Mina says, and I quote, "I am the train fiend." Because she has committed all the train schedules to memory. Where's my modern au where Mina has a model train set in her basement?
EVERYTHING IS FINE 🙂
Giving her a nerd hobby adds so much to her character
As a model train enthuiast, I support this.
she actually bought that Lots and Lots of Trains book series from the infomercial as a child
mina: i am the train fiend, fiend of trains
lucy: dracula quivers before her!
mina with a cross: *fuck off!*
I feel like one of the things I've found most disappointing that's been lost in adaptation is how genuinely in love Jonathan and Mina are. Jonathan wants to tell Mina everything but is basically gaslit into thinking he shouldn't, as soon as Mina is attacked he chases Dracula with a Kukri, tells Mina everything, assures her that nothing could change his love for her, and privately admits that if she's stuck as a vampire, than he'll turn too so she won't have to suffer alone. Meanwhile Mina sees how traumatized Jonathan has been and immediately goes into "destroy the fucker that hurt my husband" mode. Like, all those adaptations that have Jonathan leaving Mina for what happened, or shipping Mina with Dracula are missing out on so much with this absolute ride or die "will walk into hell for you" couple.
I agree. Not only are those adaptations missing out on a truly heartwarming and interesting couple, but the adaptations that ship Mina and Dracula are honestly rather vile for doing so considering that, in the book, Dracula attacking Mina and draining her blood is a very blunt rape allegory; how does someone read a book where a predatory sociopath attacks a happily married woman and think that the movie adaptation should ship the happily married woman with the predatory sociopath?
I mean I don't think Johnathan Harker was all too interesting as a character in the book, but the one consistent trait he had is how much he adores Mina. Its basically his one defining character trait, so its weird to think this trait is sort of ignored when it was basically the thing that defined his character.
@@R0-83-RT We're gonna have to agree to disagree on whether or not Jonathan is interesting, since I personally find him actually one of the more interesting characters in the book, especially with how his PTSD is portrayed. But yeah, it makes zero sense for him to not love Mina in any adaptation, and vice versa, since she loves him just as vocally in her entries.
@@limit1770 THANK YOU for not thinking Jonathan is boring! I've loved Jonathan and Mina as a couple since I first read the novel in my teens. I dislike/hate all the inaccurate movie adaptations as a result.
Also Dracula, like, essentially rapes Mina....
How is shipping a rapist with his victim a good thing?
When i read Dracula, I literally laughed out loud and had to put the book down for a minute when Jonathan whacks him in the face with a shovel.
I did that too when they threw his box out of the carriage at the end. Don't know why, just found it funny xd
*_B O N K_*
Good to hear I’m not the only one amused by Loony Toons slapstick in horror
@@jen.kj7
Fire and Ice
good job comment for making me wheeze like a banshee before i even watched the vid
My favorite WTF vampire weakness (introduced in later interpretations) was that if someone spilled a bag of small objects (usually seeds or stones) they would be forced to stop whatever they were doing and count everything that was spilled. This explains everything about The Count from Sesame Street.
I actually heard this one too!
Though in Middle Eastern culture, it is more common to use uncooked rice, grain or lentils
Are you sure it was introduced in later interpretations? I thought it was in older Eastern European lore.
I remember they highlighted this on an episode of The X-Files
vamps are a fucking joke arent thaey
w h a t
my teacher is Romanian, and one time when we asked her how old she was, she responded, “I’m from the land of Count Dracula, we keep ourselves young”. With a creepy smile
g r e a t
*run*
"We keep ourselves young" Now that's a comeback.
I’d wear a cross necklace
Put some holy water in your water bottle
Eat plenty of garlic
Ah
Vampires are endangered because everyone likes garlic bread
Red in 2016: "That summary was half an hour long. That's obviously not happening."
Red in 2021: "Here's half an hour summarizing werewolf mythos!"
Character development!
Never forget what we lost those extra 17+ minutes of vampire stuff
@@whinycat4438 Maybe we'll get a general vampire folklore review this October?
@@timothymclean don’t do that don’t give me hope
I wanna see that extended one
OMG GUYS ITS HAPPENING
Red: "That summary was half an hour long. Needless to say, that ain't happening"
Red, but two years later: makes a half hour long video on Lovecraft
Character development!
Sara Johnsson lol then she goes back tho
Sara Johnsson to be fair she was covering five stories XD
Growth!
I am the one that made 999 into 1k so np
I would definitely watch your half-hour Dracula video.
“The mom throws out the garlic flowers and opens the windows”
Ah just like those AskReddit stories of family members completely ignoring Doctor’s orders
R/entitledparents
Anti-Vacc^^
Rabijeel Anti Mask*
Fricking Karen
All of the above and more....unfortunately.
The things that struck me when reading Dracula for the first time:
* The amount of detail (and perfect grammar) that everyone puts in their letters and journals, even when facing imminent death.
* How often people are absolutely horrified and repulsed by sexiness.
* How much people go out of their way to say how amazing Mina is.
1&2: basically victorian England.
3: OMG SHE'S A MARY SUE, CRUCIFY HER!
@@DeHerg I don't think that 1 is just Victorian England. You notice a similar thing in Civil War letters in the US.
Mina WAS amazing. She rose above the constraints placed on her gender and still kicked ass
The English in this book is very weird to read for someone like me who is very new to old novels for instance "Ahh I see you have made it to my castle, before dinner would you like to do toilet?" (Paraphrasing here) that threw me of a bit because it seemed kinda funny to me. And reading the dialogue from characters like Van Helsing and the cockney old englishmen was super hard.
Bram Stoker was apparently a self-hating homosexual working through some things while desperately trying to repress them; of course sexiness was evil and his main villain's most developed attraction is to a man.
One thing that always bothers me about Dracula is how they make Harker either really boring or an asshole to Mina. When he is constantly supportive of her, talks endlessly about how much he adores her and is willing to face damnation and become a vampire so she doesn't have to face it alone.
Sure he still has victorian attitudes about stuff, but he's really quite progressive for his time.
you mean in the book itself or adaptations?
@@floricel_112 Adaptations
Indeed.
I think my personal reading on him over the novel might have been influenced by a certain other Jonathan who faced a vampire in England, but he’s a good dude.
@@Tortferngatr **
@@Attaxalotl Jojo Part 1 is a Dracula reference.
(…seriously, though, Jonathan’s name probably is a reference to Dracula.)
That Van Helsing serious face has to be one of the funniest gags you’ve ever had.
That's the face everyone has made at some point in our lives. XD
nice to meet you in the digital flesh, Dr Bright. how are things at the S.C.P foundation?
Your not allowed to post on RUclips Dr Bright
I would like to know what song did they use for that
I think the only funnier one i can think of is "mysterious colors etc etc"
"And these two dudes are happily married"
*gasp*
"Although not to each other"
"DANG IT"
Squirrely Studios lol. My exact thought the first time I saw this video. And no I am not watching this for the 100’th time...
You guys are both seriously disappointed/upset that they haven’t been turned gay?
The Old Shoes not really disappointed or upset. More of a “hey wouldn’t it be cool if these people were happily married back then even though it wasn’t allowed back then.”
Ahh... well that’s most definitely understandable. I dislike absolutes, people that claim to hold a perfect truth should (and damn well better) be able to explain such. Thanks for the response.
@@theshoes7488 here is an absolute. Objects are gravitationally attracted to the strongest gravitational force affecting said object.
Do you think Dracula could work as a found footage film? John’s iPad diary and then shifting to Mina and Lucy’s FaceTime call, to Van Hellsing recording to study Lucy’s mystery illness/recording strange phenomena, then to boyfriend squad recording the hunt for Dracula?
wow that's amazing!!!
You know, that could actually work, because the Ford Coppola movie sucked, don't @ me. Yours is a very interesting idea, but I don't really think a lot of people ( Twitter) would like an adaptation in our modern day and age
that's genius!!!!!!!
The hunt should totally be like cringey finding bigfoot footage with the shaky cam and night vision and everything.
I’d watch that!
Dracula's solicitor's wife's best friend's former suitor's mentor just *happens* to be an expert on vampires!
like that 6 degrees of separation theory lol
Count Dracula’s secret identity: Kevin Bacon.
Dracula: "So what does that make us?"
Johnathan: "Absolutely nothing! Which is what you are about to become!!"
@@legomaniac213 I see your schwartz is as big has mine
That was confusing to read.
My favorite line from the book: "Let us hope that the strength of four good men is equal to one malevolence of the devil" - Everyone's favorite quirky dutch doctor, Abraham Van Helsing
That’s a raw fuckin line
i almost hear snark in that line.
then again, i hear snark in everything. maybe i should not be trusted to judge this.
Ahh AVH is dutch, even better than when they are depicted as german
This is paraphrased, but my favourite Van Helsing quote comes from when Lucy is slowly dying,
“Why is it that Methuselah lives 900 years, but Lucy cannot live one night with the blood of four men in her!”
Mina:
this was literally the world´s first "found footage horror"
Written Footage Horror. B)
I thought the same thing!
Hey, you’re right! Cool!
Oh my gosh- you’re totally right
"Found Manuscript Horror."
The entire town of Bistritz: holds a mournful vigil for Jonathan, knowing well that his journey to the castle of the feared Count Dracula would likely be his last.
Jonathan: oh how *picturesque*
Thank you for bringing up the excessive use of the word Picturesque in the book. I’m surprised Red did include that in this video
@@junelogalbo9740 it's alarming
@@Lolo50000 -ly picturesque
@@thornless_flora I'm wheezing
@@Lolo50000 in a picturesque way
Love how all the men are saying “oh, a *woman* shouldn’t hear this-“
And then John’s just:
no mortal should see what i have seen
It's quite accurate to the book; where the rest of the men want to leave Mina out of the Dracula hunt for sexist reasons, John only agrees because he doesn't want his wife to go through the horrors he went through, and even then, he starts thinking that leaving her out might be a bad idea; part of him can't help but feel that leaving her out will backfire (and that part of his mind is proven correct when it does indeed backfire horribly).
It feels like they're kinda projecting their love and grief over Lucy onto Mine and want to double down on protecting and keeping her safe since they failed with Lucy. Then Johnathan's just straight up DONE with being in Bram Stoker's novel and doesn't want anyone to ever experience ANY of the hell he had to go through just to keep his job/get a permanent promotion (his boss dies at some point and leaves John and Mina all his stuff including the business cause they're his surragate kids and he wants to set them up for life), and marry the love of his life.
He straight up has a panic attack when he sees young Dracula walking around the city and Mina helps him through it. This is what makes her think she should really read his diary, when they got married she sealed the bag/wrapping it with wax that she stamped with her wedding and engagement rings becuase she knew that if it affected John enough to have brianfever for like a solid month and a half, it was pretty messed up and that he needed some reassurance that she loved him regardless of how much of his life he's shared with her.
@@matthewmuir8884 She's a schoolteacher. What could a schoolteacher contribute to hunting a monster?
@@liamjm9278 For just one example: be able to correctly recognize the signs that she was being targeted by said monster. In the book, because she was left out, she didn't realize her symptoms were from Dracula biting her until the night that Dracula force-feeds her some of his blood.
@@matthewmuir8884 She wasn't left out. She was there at the meeting and contributed to it. She even directly helped Hellsing whilst he was explaining everything by acting as a secretary. It's even her journal entry that records this meeting. She knows as much about Vampires as they do. They just didn't want her to come along when they did the hunting part. Would you bring your small schooltecher along to hunt a grizzly bear with magic powers, armed with melee weapons and a pistol?
You haven't read the book; don't pretend you have. I've read that chapter last week so it's fresh in my mind.
"Say what you will but Dracula knows how to make an entrance."
*Remembers Helsing where Dracula rides an aircraft carrier into the big climactic battle*
Good ol' Drac didn't ride just any old aircraft carrier into the big climactic battle, either. He rode in on a DERELICT aircraft carrier that he, himself, wrecked by dive-bombing it full-speed with a Lockheed-Martin SR-71 Blackbird. The burnt, ruined airframe of the Blackbird even formed an eerie, cross-like mast in the middle of the flight deck, and the ship arrived veiled in mist for extra flavor.
Later casually jumps into the middle of the Crusaders-Nazi vampires staredown.
And then proceeds to go on a walk that was ultimately a little too enthusiastic, and subsequently got a little lost.
almost certainly a reference tbh
When hope is gone, undo this lock, and send me forth on a moonlit walk. Release restraint level zero
One thing I really love about this book was that every single main character is just like completely willing to die for every other main character. They just...they love one another so much.
Fit for any orgy
It's also super thematically relevant! Like, various forms of true love are central to the book. The vampire women who serve Dracula openly mock him for being unable to love. Dracula's inability to love and inability to perceive or value a difference between love and lust is in thematic contrast with the sincere love shared by the group of friends that defeat him, and in particular with the healthy and mutually respectful relationship between the Harkers.
(There is a slight homophobic tinge to it, as Dracula, coded as unable to feel _real_ love, only ever implies current romantic interest in one person and that's Jonathan (despite attacking the women around him instead). But... Stoker was a self-hating gay man working through some things, soooo...
That’s the kind of character relationships I love
That makes me think of a version of the story where they're all highschoolers who've been friends since childhood. Idk maybe there's something there
@@delcidkidv250 That sounds awesome! I really want that adaptation now.
I demand the half hour summary.
I'm sure the reason she didn't record the half hour summary is because that is more time needed to draw more panels. which is what takes up most of the time between videos.
I would also accept pure audio
orangemanatee39 well it wouldn't be an OSP video without red's drawings.
Me to
This is an amazing summary. And you're absolutely right. It's the structure of the novel that makes it so effective.
Someone needs to adapt Dracula into a road-trip/buddy comedy focused on the dude squad who only know each other because they all thought this one girl was hot and now have to kill a vampire
Edit: It is also important that Van Helsing and Dracula are played completely serious the entire time with a healthy dose of Victorian dramatics
In the actual text the suitor squad have been friends for years.
And then Jonathan is also on the roundtrip I guess
So, Saiyuki, but it's victorian vampires instead of _Journey to the West,_ and with one female main character? xD
Does jojo count? Cuz the entire plot of stardust crusaders is cuz Suzy caught mysterious fainting women disease.
@@dragenfire68 _Yare, yare daze._
Holly, not Suzy. But yeah, part 3 is actually somewhat inspired by Dracula. Considering how much of a senile imbecile Dio is in SDC, he is rather similar to the book Count. A far cry from the awesome Kurt Barlow figure he was in Part 1....
Vampires becoming sexier over time actually makes sense from an evolutionary point of view.
Assuming that the vampire's main source of survival is drinking blood of course..... They would have to get this blood from a human.
But if your vampire was a monstrous disgusting monster.... Any human who sees the vampire would flee and run away making dinner a chase and more difficult to get.
But if vampires evolved sexiness and beauty, then any human who saw them wouldn't run away, rather they would be attracted to your vampire. Like some some carnivorous plants evolved ways to trap insects for food, the new vampire's beauty and sex appeal gives them a much easier time getting food,guving them an edge in survival.
Skeptical Chris
Not too sure the theories of natural selection can be applied to fictional creatures /`^π^ cool idea though
Skeptical Chris It was in the original novel kinda because of the ladie vampires I guess so it didn't evolve only after that. But yeah Stoker probably added it because of that. And because I guess if he had to choose someone to bite it would make sense to choose someone you would want to see around for a while
I think some of the seductive traits comes fro ideas in Christianity in which the devil tries to appeal to human desires.
Skeptical Chris at the risk of being a big nerd, let me tell you of an interesting plant I learned about a long time ago. there is a carnivorous plant that has a special stem that looks similar to a bug. it gives off a scent that smell terrible to people, but to insects it's like axe body spray. the plant lures it hapless victims with this stem, once a bug lands on it to mate with the bait, it's dinner time! I can't remember the name of the plant since it was a really long time ago. but that some wining and dining I'd like to say. I paid attention in biology class, don't judge me. 😑
Skeptical Chris but from an evolutionary perspective, humans should all be divas too, for reproductive purposes. because evolution doesn't work that fast and shouldn't apply to vampires anyway as vampires aren't born, i declare your theory wrong.
Lucy's boyfriend squad would be an awesome name for a band
Agreed
I want merch
@@mothersandfuckersofthejury5416 ORDER THE SHIRTS
Other awesome band names
Green Gadget
Lightning Vortex
The Dark World
Cyber Dragon
Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon
One Day of Peace
Drastic Drop Off
Also, any Yugioh card name ever. Seriously.
Redisalive
Nothing can beat this. Ever
6:00 "Mina, darling, your hands are so warm." That's just priceless.
Also, Lucy clearly has Type AB+ blood ("universal recipient" type), though Stoker himself clearly didn't know that.
@@jen.kj7 Yepp, since they have all 3 types of markers in their blood, they can get all types of blood, but can only give blood to others with type AB+ blood. On the other hand we have O-, who don't have any of the markers, so they are the universal donors, they can give blood to everyone else, but they can only receive blood from pthers with an 0- blood type.
@@jen.kj7 Yepp, exactly! It's all about the markers! And if they gave her the wrong type of blood, her immune system would have attacked because of the unfamiliar markers. For example, if she had B+ blood type, she can get O- (no markers), 0+ (+ marker) B- (B marker) or B+ (B and + marker) since those would be familiar, but if they in this case tried to give her A+ for example, her immune system would have attacked because of the unfamiliar A markers. (Of course this is just what I learned in my high school bio class, and AFAIK there are even more blood types with different indicators that we don't really learn about? I'm not sure it was an offhand comment. But this is the gist of blood transfusion rules as I know it)
@@szaboluca5536 There are a bunch of other, minor Blood Types, but they seldom count because the immune system only starts reacting to them after a cuple of transfusions. The rest is pretty accurate.
@@kisassa Thank you! Yeah I know there's more, we learned about 3 of them in bio, but others were mentioned (our teacher was really passionate about his subject) but I didn't want to cause any confusion, and I don't really remember the other ones. But thank you for the correction, it did remind me that I wanted to look something up about this :)
ohhh. so that way it doesn't matter what the donors' types were. great reasoning.
I'm now super offended we never see a crazy Texan with a bowie knife killing vampires in any of the movie adaptations. Seriously I've never seen Quincy appear in any adaptation?
He was in the 90s Coppola movie
@@GrosvnerMcaffrey Played by Billy Campbell, no less.
Also, the BBC "Count Dracula" had a kinda-sorta version of Quincy mashed up with Arthur as a character called "Quincy Harwood."
@Will Frank point is Coppola had the actual character he even kept the honor of Dracula's heart stab
The new renfield movie has a nod to Quincy with one of the main characters literally being called officer Quincy.
Shame that Quincy gets left out so much, you'd think more action oriented works would want to include the guy who managed to hold off Dracula with nothing but a bowie knife, but apparently not.
I imagine if dracula gets cut he starts desparately drinking it back up to keep it in.
he's a very underrated character and deserved more screen time !!!
someone please make an adaptation where he survives turned into a vampire or zombie or something and joins Hellsing in the hunt of vampires now with EVEN MORE EXAGERATED strength(?
Someone said that the book isn't politically correct enough to be adapted faithfully in modern day. I think a film studio should just not care, make the film, and cast Chris Pratt as Quincy for good measure. After thinking that, I really want to see it.
@@maucazalv903 I've actually thought about this and imagined a scenario where Helsing resurrects Quincy as a Jiangshi, the least involved Necromancy form he knows of, for the purpose of Lucy survived, he's struggling to kill her again, and needs to keep her occupied while he finds a solution. And of course it helps to have the extra muscle when fighting vampires.
Red: There wasn't a victorian vampire romance novel
Carmilla: let me introduce myself
The original womanizing vamp gets so often forgotten
And not only that, it's a Lesbian Vampire Romance Novel!
Joseph LeFanu had it going on and people diSresPecT my dude so hard by forgetting about Carmilla.
Been looking for this comment!
_Carmella_ is such a strange work. Like, the horror only works if "woman passionate for another woman" is a horrifying concept to you, so it doesn't really work in the modern age. Carmella actually comes across as kind of romantic and tragic.
3:44 I have to say, having read Dracula, one of my favorite vampire-powers-that-pop-culture-forgot-about is their ability to Spider-Man climb. The way the book describes it, with him scurrying inhumanly out of sight across the wall like a lizard, is honestly creepy.
Yes! This
Spider count
Spider count
Sucks your blood
Right on out
Can't survive
In the day
Wants to take
Over the UK
watch out
Here comes the spider count
Not gonna lie, when it was described as "lizard-like", that made me chuckle.
I have a very warped sense of humour.
Oddly enough Hotel Transylvania actually adapted that
@@eddieravenwood
To be fair, don't lizards sort of . . . squiggle their way around? Like, their body wiggles back and forth while they run and climb.
That would be a pretty hilarious thing for a full grown Victorian count to do :)
Fun Fact: When it was time for this book to come to Iceland, the translator apparently decided that he could write a better story, and subsequently published his own significantly different version of the novel. No one in Iceland had any idea they WEREN’T actually reading Bram Stoker’s Dracula until over a century later, by which point the translator was obviously long dead.
One of the best hustles you’ve ever heard of.
And apparently it's GREAT. Better than the original is arguable, but it's apparently an absolutely fantastic rendition of the vampire story in general.
How is it different?
@@DimaJeydar It's literally not even the same story. The guy threw out the original and wrote his own. It's hilarious.
@@StellaStarfallcould you give me the name of this version if it‘s still available?
@@fabianschobinger2765It was published in English as "Power of Darkness: The lost version of Dracula"
“Mr. Bram Stoker has never spoken to an American in his life”
*Bram Stoker has entered the chat*
(EDIT: I was making a joke from part of the video. You can stop commenting that he did meet americans because I know that already. The quote is from the video on overly SARCASTIC productions. 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️)
Except he had a friend from Pennsylvania. Which was ironically the inspiration for the "Texan" Quincy Morris.
Dubuya Jay you’ve been wooshed
@@dubuyajay9964 He also met 2 presidents
He fucked Walt Whitman I think he spoke to at least one
@@lorendaemon7945 Pics or it never happened, show me the receipts!
I love this at 9:11
Stewart: Noo you're too precious
Arthur: My wife would want you safe and content
The State of Texas: Wouldn't want to worry your pretty head
Jonathan: *no mortal should face the horrors I have known*
“The state of Texas” I’m cackling!
The only one who actually has the right to say so was Jonathan
As a Texan everything Red put in for the State of Texas’ dialogue is extremely accurate
So her fiancé is the only one who is not sexist and it’s actually worried about the horse he has seen
@Jason Dobbins I’m fairly certain he is also sexist (it was the Victorian Era after all) but that wasn’t his focus I don’t think.
I love how modern people have made every single scary thing in the past into a sexy trickster
Frankensteins monster?
@@Blaze-xe8cl just wait a few years more
@@Blaze-xe8cl Fate/Apocrypha made Frankenstein’s monster well… surprisingly cute
@@Blaze-xe8cl look up monster high
@@Blaze-xe8cl I, Frankenstein has a very handsome Frankenstein’s monster
Funny thing with Quincy coming off as written by someone who'd never actually met an American, in reality Bram Stoker was close friends with Teddy Roosevelt and traveled the US extensively so he was quite familiar with the culture and it's quirks. It's just that at the time, the Rugged Texan/Cowboy was a popular stock character in English fiction occupying the role for when you needed a source of plain-spoken, weather-beaten wisdom and simultaneously still half wild and rather more enthusiastic when events called for a man of action and violence.
I want to write a screenplay for a modern Bram Stoker’s Dracula where everyone is modern except for Dracula and Quincey Motherf-ing Morris. I want him to continue to be a 19th century American written by someone who has never actually spoken to an American. I want him to continue to make up words that sound kind of American. I want him to still use words that make no sense in the context and I want his dialect to continue to swing wildly and violently back and forth between cowboy hick and schooled gentleman. I want the rest of the posey to just go along with it because that’s just Quincey, and I want the only person to be bothered by it to be Dracula himself. He’s an immortal being. It makes sense he speaks that way, but why is this strange man claiming to be from America despite sounding like his only exposure to American culture was from watching cowboy movies and trying to extrapolate what the upper class must sound like speaking in such a manner? It disturbs the Count so much that halfway through the movie he just straight up stops preying on women to find out what the hell is happening
Neat
The more I learn about Theodore Roosevelt, the cooler he becomes.
PS: The man hated being called Teddy, he preferred Theodore or TR.
Well, that explains it...if you only had Teddy MUTHERFUCKING ROOSEVELT TO GO OFF OF i would think we were superheroes too.
Stoker was Henry Irving's personal assistant; he had a theatrical background. He was playing to, and/or exploiting, theatrical stereotypes.
Van Helsing Serious Face.
I never laughed this hard in my life XD
I am not alone! Why is it so hilarious?!
*bwoooommmm*
@@Silver_light77 God dang it! why did it make me laugh thinking about it!
@@dakotafrisbie2033 she's incredibly pale (Inception noise)
@@Herrscher-of-Autism BWOOOOOOM
Ah, yes, the dynamic duo: Jonathan and his HUGE KNIFE
Big knife > Angry fang boi
Shouldn’t he know how to harness the power of the sun by breathing a certain way?
@@dubsquad156 where is this from
@@vimalkumar-gb3mh Jojos Bizarre Adventure
@@dubsquad156 we can re-interpret the knife as a giant, medieval sword.
“These two guys are both happily married...but not too each other”
Me: I’m gonna pretend I didn’t here that last part.
I let a gasp of surprise and a squel of excitement in the few mili seconds before she said the last part
I'm agree.
It’s also hilarious to read the book, because Mina and Lucy are REALLY good friends so for a while they would sleep in the same bed because Arthur and Johnathan were away. Also Lucy would sleep walk and Mina would have to get her. 10/10 totally just roommates
@@fl1cksfish94 yep 100% just gals being pals
@@fl1cksfish94 plot twist: dracula is just really, really bad at trying to join the polycule
I love how the novel develops into Mina Harker and “da boys” towards the end of the books.
Four good men apparently barely equal one Mina Harker
@@Vinemaple Don't shit-talk those heros.
The Boyfriend Squad(tm) are great, don't get wrong, but she has more brains than all of them put together.
I agree that Lucy x Mina is the best paring because when Mina is describing Lucy 60% of it is ‘she looked so sweet and beautiful’
For real tho, amount of gay confusion over her narration (LIKE CONFESS ALREADY) slowed me reading it so much
Fact that Stoker was inspired by Carmilla doesnt help, lol
There's also a surprising amount of one-sided tension between Dracula and Jonathan. I'm reading the book now and honestly I know it probably read differently when it was published, but...
(Edit: Changed "ho yay" to "tension" because apparently the term ho yay confused people? Ho yay is tvtropes slang for homoerotic tension between male characters. Its female counterpart is les yay.)
Also, apparently Stoker is heavily, heavily suspected of being a self-loathing homosexual. Apparently there's been people reading into Dracula's and Jonathan's relationship in this way for a long time because of this, and interpret Dracula's attacks on women to be displacement for his sexual desire, frustration, and anger at himself and Jonathan. It doesn't help that the "brides" (who are actually implied to be his relatives) randomly bring up whether or not someone like Dracula can really sincerely love someone... after Dracula stops them from biting Jonathan by literally calling him "mine."
Honestly I think people have shipped Mina and Dracula for so long because they were more comfortable shipping a woman with her implied rapist than with the fact that the closest thing to a love interest Dracula has is a guy. The subtext is strong with this one.
Then there was the time when Mina saw Lucy sleeping and was like “if Arthur fell in love with her in the drawing room, imagine what he would say now”
Disagree. The best pairing is Jonathan Harker and the Kukri Knife.
I always thought vampires were “sexy” because their attractiveness causes their victim’s blood to flow more (cause, you know, their aroused or whatever) making it easy to drain the blood
It’s also probably easier to get close to someone’s neck if you look like Leonardo DiCaprio as opposed to Igor.
But would it flow more with fear?
@@Br-kc2jy fear makes your body react the same as with cold, everything narrows and bloodflow get focused on the vitals
Being hot, figurative as well as literal makes it much easier to draw blood
That is why donation locations usualy have their thermostat quite high
@@Burning_Dwarf Good to know
@@JaelinBezel Fear can bring the same effect. Actually it's probably more effective so I guess it was just about preference.
The fact that she says "holy symbols" instead of crosses gives her away as a DnD nerd!
I mean she knows jocat
Also whats it like having a head bigger than your entire body?
Crosses are super overused... imagine how could would it be to have a vampire hunter who possess a actually, 100% true reliquary, like a bone or a martyrdom tool of some saint... that would hella hurt a vampire more than any cross.
there was actually one, kind of old joke about containing a vampire by luring it into a multi-faith chapel or any other place where there are lots of different religious symbols, whereupon the vampire would have a seizure. so it has never been specified that it has to be crosses, any symbol with religious significance works
@@giacomoromano8842 I know one book where the main character uses a lamb partially due to a younger experience with an overly graphic sculpture of the crucifixion.
She explains her reasoning pretty well, but the rest of the cast still makes jokes about protecting yourself from a den of vampires with a wooly animal.
She literally calls dracula seeing in the dark "darkvision"
My absolute favourite thing in the book is when Jonathan tries to shave with a pocket mirror and Dracula comes up behind him. At this point Jonathan already knows that he's a prisoner and recognizes that Dracula is a weird monster of some kind.
He notices that he can't see him in the pocket mirror, gets distracted and cuts himself on the face.
Dracula is kind of panicking because he *really* wants to suck him dry at this point but instead he says "That mirror is bad, it made you cut yourself", takes it out of Jonathan's hand and fully yeets it out of the window.
Funniest shit I've ever read in any book :)
My favorite part is basically “oh here buy house”
Don't you just love how Coppola's film completely deflates the horror of the situation by having Gary Old Man tell Keanu "Perhaps you should grow a beard...?"
@@willmfrank It certainly wasn't as funny as it was in the book. Gary Oldman is a great actor but his performance couldn't salvage the awful script.
And he plays it so chill too, like just walks up and chucks it out the window while speaking *v e r y c a l m l y* while Jonathan's like 😳
@@lightsideofsin8969 the BBC version from '77 keeps it smooth and a little unsettling.
“Van Helsing serious face”
Dying of laughter
BooCakeSenpai IKR!?
I almost couldn’t stop laughing 😂
S
Get equipped with
Serious Face
BooCakeSenpai I had to pause the video every time he does it just to laugh
Honestly same I was dying every time.
Actually it's helpful for the doomsday , weirdmmagedon
Something vanpiric: happens
Van Helsing: I AM HERE!
Watashi wa ga Kitaa....
HERE I COME TO SAVE THE DAAAAAAAAAAAAAY
It’s fine now: I am here
Van Helsing is Allmight confirmed (head canon
He’s not just placing garlic flowers randomly! Each and every flower is more than 100% of his focus!
Since he's Dutch rather than American, maybe his attacks are named after provinces from the Netherlands.
Limberg Smash!!
Huh. Mina actually has a lot of agency in this. Sucks how in every other “hot vampire guy” story the women have no agency and are just used for sexies.
At least there's her treatment in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (the comic, NOT the awful, awful movie).
*self insert.
Yeah especially considering the book was written in the 1890s.
You wouldn’t expect the female characters to have any agency.
I think the only I would like to see is Mel Brooks "Dracula" because I heard it's very funny.
Definitely a better love story than Twilight
I love how Van Helsing uses a German greeting instead of a Dutch one, much like Stoker’s American is super over the top
Stoker's notes identify van Helsing as a German professor, although it's never stated in the published version. I like to think that van Helsing is a German immigrant, living and working in Amsterdam, rather than a native Dutchman.
"...my god, does the book like talking about how hot Lucy's corpse is...!"
I laughed at that line for a solid minute or so, the deadpan delivery was absolutely perfect!
Same thing in Romeo and Juliet: 27 lines of Romeo getting frisky with Juliet's assumed corpse
I mean it makes sense because apparently vampirism (Is that how you spell it?) causes sexiness to triple.
Seriously what is it with literature and describing a corpse as beautiful or artists, particularly Greek, depicting guys with huge dongs and girls being allergic to clothes?! XD ( *don't need to answer the later because I get it on a symbolic meaning. So that was rhetorical. But the foremost still confuses me.* )
@@iceluvndiva21
I think the point is to say something along the lines of, “As beautiful in death as they were in life.” Still, weird.
Jonathan: It was so scary and they were horrible creatures
Mina: Than why did you wrote down “three sexy vampire ladies”
Jonathan: … I can explain
I've always pictured her as the Dignified Bisexual (maybe that's just because I'm also bi), so she might also find them attractive! Aside from the murder part
@@juliastrawn2113 Fun tidbot for you; Mina as bi has been basically made canon by Tumblr. Everyone noticed that how much she comments on Lucy's hotness was a bit to much for them to be roommates.
@@erin8050 Oh, I know! The tumblr Dracula fandom is so wonderful to see.
And yeah, most straight women don't talk about their female friends the way Mina talks about Lucy.
And there's the fact that she first noticed Dracula because they were checking out the same cute girl.
Mina Harker: Bi Icon of classical literature
I have to read the book I don't remember that. Mina was really close to Lucy but I never thought about it that way.
@@juliastrawn2113I don’t remember fully, but doesn’t at one point Mina say in her journal that she wishes she could be one of Lucy’s suitors? Or am I making a false memory?
I know that Lucy says she wishes she could marry all three men, and honestly, given what we know of them, and how much they all “respect” one another, if it weren’t Victorian England they probably would have been down for a polycule.
Starting a band called Lucy's Boyfriend Squad, anyone interested?
You need a Texan...I'm in...
Hell yeah
I’m in
You sob I’m in
Depends on the genre you wanna play. Either way....
Sure why not
I recently read the book, and one of my absolute favorite parts was when Johnathan touches base with Van Helsing, who confirms to the former that his nightmarish experience really did happen and he's not crazy. After that validation, Johnathan's mental health and self-confidence skyrockets.
Was just rewatching this on a post-Halloween binge and had a thought: a modern movie adaptation could be made...if it was a Found Footage genre consisting of a video diary by Jonathan, skype conversations between Mina and Lucy, snapchats and twitter posts of the more random scenes or news stuff, and vlogs of the main action. Like, Blair Witch but with more variety in media footage and also vampires.
Oh my god I have tried to pitch this idea to all of my friends that want to go into film production- the catch is that vampires cannot be caught on camera unless they're in night vision mode or with a particular filter (i.e instead of the not being able to see Dracula in the mirror, Harker can't see him on the camera)
@@abbyj8915 Oh my god, the camera trick is genius. You spread the word girl! Maybe if we tell everyone we can think of, someone will come back to the idea once they've got a career and go: imma do this, good idea.
I'd watch that
This would be fascinating to watch!
If I recall cameras use silver as a component in the circuitry, and they used to use silver bromide if I remember in old fashioned cameras. Soooo they might not actually show up in them. Depends really.
Quincey being left out of most adaptations always seems weird to me. I mean, a badass gunslinging American hero sounds like the kinda thing Hollywood would put INTO a movie adaptation of a book, not take out.
It's often a quesion of money, I guess. There have even been versions, like the one with Bela Lugosi, where Jonathan Harker and Lucy's three suitors are combined and Mina and Lucy are fused as well - to save on roles to play.
In the first BBC adaptation, even though it's the most book accurate, still combines Quincey and Arthur into a single character called Quincy Holmwood.
@@cayreet5992 How do you... that... how does... no sense... HOW DOES THAT WORK? HOW DO YOU DO THE ENTIRE BOOK WITH THREE CHARACTERS?
Quickly and confusingly, that's how.
They did. They called it Van Helsing... Nothing else matched.
When I red the book I was screaming inside all the time: WHY IS MINA THE ONLY ONE WITH A BRAIN.
Bless that woman.
She's so cool
The keeper of the sacred braincell
Honestly I can relate. My D&D group is running Curse of Strahd, which is about as blatant of a Dracula reference as you can get in the game, and my character seems to be the only person in the party with a brain.
Eh, I felt it was pretty natural that most people wouldn't be able to figure out the plot if they were in the story. Mina was just smart in a way the rest weren't. The only seriously stupid decision on their part was cutting her out of the Dracula research club, which was informed by their victorian worldview and the fact the stress and pain brought about in trying to research and counter Dracula probably caused them to assume their life would be better without it, forgetting that Dracula's MO is preying on the ignorant.
I love messing with people by telling them that Dracula was killed by a cowboy. No one ever believes me
Hellsing: I need to come back later to cut her head off.
Johnathan:WHAT?!
Hellsing: trust me I'm a doctor
Hellsing...another word for hades’ choral group?
sounds like something richtofen would say
I have a character concept whos basically a plague doctor who uses pressure points. This is now one of the things he will say.
what's funny is that's not all that different from how it goes
"Hey, I'mma bury her with garlic and a cross...hey john, do you trust me?"
"...yeah?"
"Alright, we gotta come back and cut her head off and shove garlic in her mouth."
"WHAT?!"
"I asked you to trust me, I'm a doctor."
"...Okay."
That scene in the 1992 movie was one of its few redeeming moments.
Helsing. "Doctor, I need your post-mortem knives."
Seward. "Are you going to do an autopsy?"
Helsing. "No nothing so serious as that. I just want to cut off her head and take out her heart."
(Seward leaves)
Helsing. "Seward? Seward!"
Is Van Helsing the first recorded 'Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass' in literature?
If so, that's something else we need to thank Stoker for! :D
MetalGlitch holy- your right
@@randomtechpriest2644 why it's his right instead of his left though?
RutraNickers first off, because a there’s a blood sucking humanoid mosquito on his right and he is right about it
@@randomtechpriest2644 .... I was making fun of your grammar when you used "your" instead of "you're"
RutraNickers just cause you said that, your right
My favorite part was- my memory is awful, so sorry if I get this a bit wrong- when Van Helsing was talking about the plan or something to Jonathan and Mina and he gets interrupted by the window being shattered because Quincey SHOT HIS GUN at a bat (Dracula most likely, Idk if that was ever cleared up for sure) that was sitting on it.
I think the scene was meant to depict what Quincy is like. I'm not sure if he was just scouting the area, trying to chase after Dracula, or just noticed the bat and didn't want to take a chance.
@@Andrewtr6 Given that he's a walking Texan stereotype, there's at least a 35% chance he just wanted an excuse to shoot something.
I'd like to thin that was just a bat. Not even Dracula, heck, not even another vampire. Just a random bat.
@@calebleach7988 Quincy does say that ever since the incidents began he’s been shooting (or trying to) every bat he sees out of discomfort.
peak american representation
When I watched this the first time I thought that the “Van Helsing serious face” was an exaggeration but it’s on like every page for a couple of chapters.
Red: "Immana talk about vampires!"
Also Red: "Immana dress for the occasion as... a tiefling!"
thats her true form you fool
people who havent played dnd : visible confusion
I think it's a demon costume.
@@charliefarmer4365 could be one in the same
@@charliefarmer4365 tiefling are demonic in nature
Vampire lore includes being able to walk on moonbeams ... *thinks of Alucard's moonwalk from Symphony of the Night- and falls over laughing*
*Taps triangle furiously*
He really does like his moonlit walks, doesn't he?
I heard Alucard and instantly thought of Hellsing Abridged:
Integra: Aulcard! Stop running on moonbeams! You'll never make it before morning!
Alucard: I'm gonna do it this time, and then the cheese will be all mine bitches!
@@jordanloux3883 Abridged Alucard is best Alucard
@@thegoodmudkip3652
(¬‿¬) when hope is gone...
undo this lock..
( ¬‿¬)>⌐■-■ and send me forth.. 🌕
on a moonlit walk (⌐■_■)
"... the ghost ship Demeter..."
*the frickin farm goddess. farming relies on having soil (aka earth).*
*ill admit, im way more amused then i probably sound.*
And of course how her daughter was taken by the God of the Underworld.
embarrassingly i forgot who Demeter was so i didn't see how hilarious that line was until i read your comment thank you for reminding me LOL
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So does that make Dracula Hades in this story?
@@iceluvndiva21 Nah, Hades was actually pretty well adjusted and safe as long as you didn't try to cheat death without asking for permission first. It's an older sibling thing.
OH MY GOD I DIDNT THINK OF THAT IM-
fucking stoker you madlad
Dracula definitely had a thing for Jonathan. I'm 100% certain he preyed on Mina specifically to hurt Jonathan and it made him furious that Jonathan escaped him.
I thought so too
Honestly from this and the comments, it kinda seems like most any pairing would work, altho Jonathan and Mina are the only like explicitly ride or die. Altho tbh I kinda forgot about Lucy's actual fiance like half the time, so maybe I should go read it
No he didn't.
Well that's definitely how Disney would rewrite it to be
Red: Say what you will about Dracula, but at least he always makes an entrance in style
Me: *muffled party party party i wanna have a party*
Bulger What do you mean you forgot the song? No no screw it screw it SCREW IT! Just take my phone and hit random. No hit random. Okay 3. 2...
I came here specifically for these. Thank you
@@chrishess5526 Yeah okay; turn it off, turn it off. It didn't work. It did not work.
I'm a fuckmothering vampire and deserve to be treated as such!
You mind holding the phone? I need to go on a walk. A VERY enthusiastic walk
If someone wanted to do a modern adaptation of this it should be done as a found footage/ webcam type thing
Didn't know I wanted this....
Someone needs to get on this.👍🏻
I can already imagine it, and I love it!
Vlogs, Mina's bridal blog where she discusses her upcoming marriage (with entries getting darker as her maid of honor and friend, Lucy, gets sicker), Sewards' "Ask an Alienist" RUclips channel and sweet naïve Lucy Westenra would 100% be a shy TikToker.
@@edisonlima4647 I want this too omg.
@@edisonlima4647 Ooh, ooh! Count Dracula himself would definitely be a sort of "Villain With Good Publicity" celebrity or something.
Alternatively, if you're not a fan of found footage movies, you could make it so that - at some point - every single character featured in the story meets at least one of the other characters on screen. Then, simply focus on their face and swing the camera around to be behind _them_ and not whoever had the focus before, or flash back to summat they were doing earlier
The whole Mina and Dracula romance is really weird considering that the blood sucking scene in the book almost reads like a rape scene and was horribly upsetting for the characters (and the reader).
And yet that point in the story was what got me fascinated with vampires.
Not to mention that Jonathan basically gets orally raped only for Dracula saying 'I'll have him first and then he's yours.' This book earned its original yellow cover.
I interpreted it as a rape scene. I read the book as a penguin classic with notes to literary references and some explanations on some words and passages. When Mina keeps repeating “unclean, unclean” she references to a part on the bible about rape. So yeah.... that
@Rosie Cairns You can read Dracula's gentleness over Johnathan as a jab at same-sex relationships, since it would have been at the time considered an act of sin/defiance against God, since being a vampire in itself is also a sin,
Stoker's Dracula:I'll use this lady as a hidden cam in order to get rid of this breakfast club of vampire hunters!
Almost any other version of Dracula:Oh! I'm so in love with this victoriab hottie!
I don't get it either....
Dracula: "Sparkling? Bursting into flame? Seriously? I just turn into a normal person during the day."
Modern Vampires: "Then why does no one kill you during the day?"
Dracula: "Well that's why I'm always in a very public place during the day, so that no one can do that without very obviously being murderer. Plus, no one is going to look for a vampire in the middle of busy street in broad daylight. It's called hiding in plain sight."
... why was Ed Sheeran more right about vampires in a music video than 99% of vampire adaptations
I'll be honest, I was completely surprised that being affected by sunlight wasn't a vampire weakness that originated from Dracula. Before reading it, I always thought that was the case.
Even when I watched the movie adaptation, I thought they were just taking liberties with an old character.
@41217beingbored Up until I read the book I was in the same boat.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Mina is one of the most intelligent and resourceful characters in the book, and when her assistance is rejected by the other dudes, she gets GODDAMN MIND POWERS and helps them anyway.
WHERE HAS THIS CHARACTER BEEN ALL MY LIFE?!?
Ikr! She's awesome!
Sleeping with Dracula if Copola is to be believed
She's pretty awesome, yeah, but I'd like to think that we've evolved enough as a culture to not need stories with such overt displays of "WOMEN CAN BE COMPETENT TOO, YOU JACKA**ES!" What we need is _fewer_ stories where all the women are overtly _incompetent._
Eh, I'd say she's tied with her husband and Van Helsing.
Helsing deduces the truth of Lucy's ailment, without knowing anything about vampires, while Johnathan manages to emulate Dracula's supernatural climbing by merely observing him.
@@jackbharucha1475 I really dislike how most adaptations of the book try to romanticize Dracula and Mina. In the book, vampire bites are a rather blatant _rape_ allegory, and Dracula is essentially a sociopathic predator. He forces Mina into unconsciousness before biting her every night, and, when he realizes that the protagonists have figured him out and are hunting him, he attacks her one night while she's in bed with her husband Johnathan and he threatens to kill her husband (who Dracula essentially paralyzed with his hypnotic eyes before the attack) if she screamed for help. Knowing that, I find adaptations' attempts to romanticize Dracula and Mina completely sickening.
Re-watching this after finishing the book, and
1) I wholeheartedly agree, it is very good, and
2) good Lord is it frustrating that they keep cutting one of the smartest characters out of the loop just because she's a woman. Actually, in general a lot of grief could have been saved by just _telling the women what's going on._ You know a great way to stop Lucy's mother from ruining your plans to save Lucy? Telling her what you're doing and why. You know another great way to protect Lucy? Telling her what's going on so she can contribute to her own rescue.
i think they didn’t tell lucy’s mom bc they were scared she was gonna have a heart attack or something…then she died from a heart attack
Karma came back to bite them (literally) after Drac started feeding off Mina.
At least they did recognize their mistake, and say that, no matter how dark the material, Mina should be in the loop.
Just finished reading it too (and I mean just. I literally just put it down before watching this) and there are multiple reasons why Lucy, her mom, and Mina were kept out of the loop on multiple things. Story-wise, keeping Lucy in the dark was a lesson for Seward and Helsing. They later loop Mina in because Van Helsing quickly admires her and they don't want to make the same mistake. As for Lucy's mom, she was sick, like really sick, and they worried (even Lucy did) that telling her would be fatal. As for Mina, the only points she was kept in the dark was when the men thought they no longer had to involve her and when they didn't think they could cause Dracula would find out what they knew through her. As for Dracula getting into the house, that was completely Renfield's fault for inviting him in! As far as everyone knew, there was no way for him to enter. Seward and Helsing both see Mina after Dracula has been feeding on her but don't come to the conclusion because they weren't aware Dracula was able to enter the building.
@@Andrewtr6 Agreed. Everyone in this comment section seems to be assuming that it's just "blatant 19th century sexism" that kept the guys from telling Mina things, but it really isn't that simple. At all.
One of my friends is Transylvanian and his name literally translates to “Red” in Hungarian. I think I may need a crucifix and holy water.
You might want a chain whip and garlic too.
While you're at it, I'd reccomend a quick trip to Air Supplena Island. The Hamon training is a must, you should totally try it.
Maybe the names Rusty & Ginger were already taken.
You might want to acquire a stand as well.
And a wooden stake. And a serious face also.
What most readers today fail to appreciate is that Dracula was the techno-thriller of its day. The diaries are done by typewriter or dictation onto wax cylinders, they travel across Europe by steamboat and steam train, they perform blood transfusions, it's all very high-tech for the Victorian era!
If you want a fun take on the story after you finish reading the book, go read Saberhagan's "The Dracula Tapes". This was the first place I ever saw it pointed out that Van Helsing gave Lucy Westerna transfusions from four different men, *nine years* before blood types were discovered, and then blamed the vampire when, surprise! she died.
"Its not MY fault she died. Those humans gave her incompatible blood transfusions...that she only needed because I was drinking her blood. But clearly this is in no way my fault."
(Side Note: I personally find it unfair to hold authors to scientific knowledge that was unknown at the time. So I just assume Lucy was like type AB+.)
Johnathan's reasoning for not wanting Mina involved makes more sense and is a bit more justified than the other guys in the group. He truly did see horrors that he believes no one should ever have to see.
GOD DAMMIT INTERNET WHY MUST EVERYTHING BE JOJO
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I wasn’t even trying to make a JoJo reference.
You thought it was a Jojo meme,
BUT IT WAS ME, a Bram Stoker reference!
"Lucy is sick"
*gasp*
"But not in a hot way"
*choke*
Later:
"Lucy is dead!"
*gasp*
"But in a hot way!"
3:49 Just imagine Dracula, the Vampire Lord, actually being super nice and polite the whole time, even though he does all this weird and horrifying stuff to everyone else at night. Like, Johnathan sees Dracula draining the blood of his servants, drying them up like a prune and killing them. Dracula then turns to Johnathan and says, “Oh, hello Johnny boy. Did you need any more tea? I just put a pot on. Oh, right, the body. Don’t worry. It’s just to keep my bloodlust within manageable levels. I also noticed you seemed to be stressed for some reason, so I turned a few beautiful women into vampiric thralls to court you while you are here. I’m hoping it might raise your self-confidence.”
There weren’t any servants in Dracula’s castle, except for the mob of Local Ethnics who come to the castle to fill the boxes and deliver them to the boat.
Johnathan sees Dracula make his bed, and he makes a note in his journal that he’s 100% sure the coachman who brought him to the castle was Dracula wearing a fake beard and baggy clothing. Besides the suite kept in good condition for Johnathan’s visit, the rest of the castle was in ruins.
@@Xalerdane Dracula is a millennial icon
I honestly would love a story where all the spooky supernatural stuff gets blissfully ignored or goes unnoticed. Like, imagine Jonathan being all, "Well gee golly fellas, that Count Dracula fella is like super nice! Sure he can be a little weird, but by golly does he know how to treat a guest! Do you hear a small child screaming?"
Fun fact, when Dracula escaped from England, he wore his usual suit with a straw hat. The ship took him anyway because he had a lot of cash. x)
He does a lot of housework behind Jonathon’s back throughout, making the bed, setting the table and whatnot. He really is quite polite when you dismiss the blood-sucking.
I hope everyone is signed up to draculadaily ^^
This might be the most authentic way to read dracula in the modern day and I love the daily emails from my good friend Jonathan Harker
MEEE eagerly awaiting my dear friend jonathan's correspondence
jonathan our bestie jonathan
I was scrolling through the comments looking for this! Dracula daily squad!
What is it and how do you sign up for it?
I'm so sad I didn't hear about this until recently. Because now that it's been going on for two months I do and don't want to start it because I'll have to get caught up instead of the constant drip feed and it saddens me.
So I'm hoping they maybe do it again in the future and I hear about it before it starts.
*chants* SUM-AR-RIE
*chants* HALF HOUR, HALF HOUR
yep
5:30 "say what you will, Dracula always enters in style"
THIS IS YOUR TIME TO PAY
THIS IS YOUR JUDGEMENT DAY
WE MADE A SACRIFICE
AND NOW WE GET TO TAKE YOUR LIFE
WE SHOOT WITHOUT A GUN
WE'LL TAKE ANYONE ON
IT'S REALLY NOTHING NEW
IT'S JUST A THING WE LIKE TO DO
“Fucking dropping the formalities. Alucard!! Go for a walk”
When hope is gone, undo this lock, and send me forth on a moonlit walk. Release restraint level zero.
Van Helsing Serious Face made me cry laughing every. single. time. XD
i know right, i even laugh when i *red* the book (heh see what i did there, because Red tells the story)
BWOOOOM
Particularly given he is Doctor Nick
If only his niece had such a face...
So fun thing to offer.
There's a thing called Daily Dracula going at the mo the sends the chapters to your email, on the listed dates.
So like, the first couple of Jonathan's journal entries
I’ve finally managed to catch up on it, and I can wholeheartedly recommend it. Great way to experience the novel.
@@snarkywallflower5829 Is it possible to catch up or do I need to wait for May 3rd next year? Or should I go read my hardcover copy instead?
@@strategicgamingwithaacorns2874 I think it's probably possible!
"...and that Arthur and Stuart are both happily married, although not to each other."
And this is how you start ship wars, Bram Stoker.
I for one wholeheartedly support an adaptation of Dracula where the last remaining members of Lucy's Man Harem find comfort in each other and fall in love after her death.
@@CJCroen1393 I've had an idea for a found footage style Dracula film released in two versions, one that stays as close to the book as possible, and one to play around with interesting ideas like this one.
@@ninjabluefyre3815 A found footage Dracula film would be really cool! Especially since it would fit with the story's original format!
@@CJCroen1393 Yes. I know the found footage phase of Horror has faded, but come on guys! Dracula's just perfect for that style! And it would modernise the story without taking away the horror.
@@carolinemcgovern4488 The only problem is, how do you get a film camera in the Victorian era?
And this is why Alan Moore made Mina the leader of a victorian superhero team consisting of Captain Nemo, the Invisible Man, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Alan Quatermain.
Gabriel Aubry leugue of extrodinary gentlemen
I would watch the 30 min version of this.
or the 120 min :)
gph.is/1G3WGvv
Me too!
Graham Ryder the problem is that she probably is that’ll take forever to draw. She draws it and it’ll take forever. This coming from a noob artist.
Me too! Still wishing for it...
I started laughing my ass off in the middle of class when we covered this book, because I read Dracula having hairy palms and immediately thought of that old wives tale about how you get those.
He is a very lonely vampire in a mostly empty castle.
Disregarding the fact that he might be gay (he definitely has a crush on Jonathan), he has *three sexy vampire ladies* that just live in his castle for no reason.
@@juliastrawn2113 Biphobia among the vampire population has to stop
@@juliastrawn2113 He isn't.
I'm starting to realize how many similarities Resident Evil Village has to Dracula. Not only do you get trapped in a castle with 3 hot vampire ladies there is also Lady Dimitrescu. Dimitrescu means follower of Demeter and Draculas ghost ship is called Demeter, so that's pretty neat.
Huh you can tell someone on Capcom was doing their job on making a vampire, that would give people the idea of her being a sorta of Dracula character. To bad we kind of went full horny mode, when we found out she a tall,big,curvy,and busty vampire mom with a smoking hot body.
Well, the name Dimitrescu is very similar to Dumitrescu, which is a really common last name in Romanian. It is much less cool if you are familiar with the language. It is about as epic as the name Turner was in "Pirates of the Caribbean".
I've read a book a while ago where an american journalist interviews someone called dumitrescu (I think) who ends up turning her into a vampire.
in romania
I think all of them were meant to be omages to various classic/popular horror monsters, Dimitrescu is obviously Dracula, Beneviento has both Chucky and Ring vibes, Moreau is Lovecraftian, more specifically Shadow Over Innsmouth, and his name could also be a reference to the Island of Doctor Moreau, a story about a mad scientist splicing humans with animals, and finally, Heisenberg, he's the most hard to pinpoint, but with his area being all machinery and the zombies in his area having been modified with tech, I think it's safe to say he's Frankenstien
There’s a reason Mina is the one in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Let's not talk about that. I _hate_ what Moore did to the Harkers. *shudders*
I wasn't aquainted with the LoEG so I did a Google for a plot synopsis.
What I gathered is that someone Frankensteined every classical novel ever into one barely-functioning conglomerate begging for death whilst somehow managing to exclude Frankenstein himself.
@@Lolo50000 And then had them all gang up against Harry Potter for some reason, yes.
@@AlashiaTuol terrifying
@@Lolo50000 I think the idea the had was basically Supernatural Avengers but, didn't know how to make that work completely.
Lucy: "Retellings always turn me into a slut."
Me: I know, right? **stares at Netflix/BBC's Dracula**
And Francis Ford Coppola's. I mean, I know Coppola probably wanted to distinguish more between Lucy and Mina, and to avoid the "Victorian ingenue" cliche, but would a sheltered upper-class Victorian lady even KNOW about some of the stuff Lucy talked about? Of course it was all talk and it was probably meant to come off as more like a teenage girl trying to come off as more worldly and sophisticated than she really is, but considering the time period it's rather ridiculous.
@@jenniferschillig3768 If memory serves he also had Sadie Frost dye her hair because he didn't want audiences confused by the two main women having the same hair colour. I've often suspected that they chose red hair for Lucy because they wanted to push the old "redheads are sex demons" trope.
On a more amusing note, Winona Ryder is naturally blonde, while Sadie Frost has black hair. In the book Mina is fair haired and Lucy has black hair.
Assuming my memory is solid, which it might not be.
@@TitusVarus I don't believe Mina's hair color was ever specified in the book.
@@rafmeinster Ah well, there you go. I probably picked that up from somewhere along the way and my brain blended it in.
They left out my favourite part, the one where Dracula yeets a wolf trough Lucy's window
well, he tells it to break in, the garlic and stuff are in his way.
So, there was a joke circulating among my gamer friends a few years back that the novel actually describes a tabletop RPG campaign.
Quincy's the Fighter who's player is bored by intrigue and roleplay and just wants to kick down the door and beat up bad guys. Seriously he ditches a strategy session to go shoot a suspicious looking bat; that's a player itching to roll initiative.
Jonathan Harker is a Rogue. He's sneaky and clever in the castle (once he's aware he's in danger at any rate). He uses knives later on and when he stabs Dracula at one point, treasure falls out.
The repeated references to Mina having a mind like a man's refer to Mina's player being a guy.
The way Van Helsing mangles English generally (I'm told) makes more sense for a native German speaker than Dutch. So naturally this means Van Helsing's player said his character was "deutsche" and the DM misheard.
I forget what the deal was with the rest of the characters, but that was the gist of it.
That's beautiful
If you think about it, all bad fantasy stories are just typical dnd campaigns.
Woderful RPG session.
I always thought they didn’t tell Mina about anything because that telepathic connection between her and Dracula was a two-way street. So what she knew of their plan, so did he. It made sense to me to keep her, ergo Dracula, in the dark.
Wasn't the discussion before she was force-fed the blood?
@@elizakarnopp8921 Yes, it was, and if they had told her earlier she wouldn't have become an unwilling-snitch, though it help them find Drácula, so you win some you lose some I guess
@@Br-kc2jy Not true actually. As far as they knew, there was no way for Dracula to enter the house so everyone would be safe. But Dracula tricks Renfield into inviting him in. This is why no one realizes what's happening to her until Renfield explains it. She was already showing the signs but they didn't make the connection because they were missing part of the picture.
They make a resolution to keep her in the dark two separate times, with an interlude where they resolve never to hide anything from her. The second time they decide not to tell her anything is because of the telepathy thing
Serious face time stamps
First appearance: 6:40
The Bat: 6:49
The three Mina things: 6:52, 6:54, 6:58
The bite marks: 7:23
Preparations: 7:27
Funereal: 7:52
Let me know if I missed any
Lol ))
Nice job
“Not many people have actually read Dracula”
Dracula Daily: “Fine. I’ll do it myself.”
7:48 Fun fact: for a long time, fresh air was the primary treatment for tuberculosis.
Also you gave Van Helsing more characterization in 5 minutes than the 2004 movie managed in 2 hours.
No one:
Jonathan: *bleeds*
Dracula: REeEeEeEeE
Dracula: WRRYYYYYYYYYYY*
DIOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
why is this applicable to jojo?
MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA!!!!!!!
ZA WARULDO!
'I'm too Victorian for this' has got to be one of my favourite notes you've put in any of these lol.
sometimes i forget about john obsessively sharpening a kukri for like the last third of the book and i love it even more each time i remember it
"After a run-in with 3 sexy vampire ladies, Jonathan decides he needs to get the heck out of there."
Which is weird because I know a lot of guys who would look at 3 sexy vampire girls and think "I'm staying here".
"Leela, I never thought I'd die like this... but I always really hoped."
ah, victorians
Jonathan's #1 defining characteristic in the book (besides Determination) is that every cell, tissue, and organ of his body and every spark and crevice of his soul belongs to Mina and he wouldn't have it any other way. The feeling is mutual (at least in the book). They're basically an OG power couple.
I literally don't think there's a single entry of his journal without some mention of how much he loves her. Heck, it's uncommon to find a _page_ of his journal where he doesn't mention her. Even though she doesn't actually show up for like, a third of the book. That's how much Jonathan loves to gush about his wife.
There's a part where the other men are all talking about how great and talented Mina is and instead of getting all jealous Jonathan's like "I could sit here and listen to them compliment the love of my life all day because she 1000% deserves it."
Remember that he already saw said women eat a baby. Just saying.
"I'm too Victorian for this"
Fun Fact: The running water weakness isn't that strange. Running water, in a lot of different myths and legends, nullifies or cancels out magic. So, it makes a certain amount of sense that magical creature like Dracula would be susceptible to that. (I say certain because I'm fairly sure other magical creatures don''t have problems with running water, but I can see where the author could have gotten the idea.) While it won't cure vampirism, running water was one of the easiest ways to dispel an enchantment.
Yes, I am a mythology nerd. What of it?
Ryven Knightray So the defence against vampires is to buy garlic, leave all the water in your house running and prepare for the water bill?
While running water would be a problem for a vampire, a creature with water-based magic/talent would be at home. While Modern Vampire films cling to the cliche of Romance between Le Vampire and Le virgin woman, and this is fine for those who are fine with the same thing over and over again. However, what do we as humans normally associate with water? Mermaids. Now this being said, when one thinks of Mermaids they think of the open sea and pirates and whatnot. But like how there are different species/breeds of Bats and ghosts, the same thing can be said of Mermaids. While some Mermaids dwell in salt water, others could dwell in freshwater (i.e. lakes and rivers which have a tendency to flow to different areas). So the chances of a mermaid and a vampire crossing paths isn't Impossible, and this has the potential to create a new kind of romance (The mermaid race sticks to its own cliche of Human x Merperson).
I can honestly see a Mermaid x Vampire story be a bit Romeo and Juliet like, which your two species which could be enemies in a sense. Say some vampires go to freshwater lakes and sample the blood of a few lovely Mermaids (They can't cross running waters, but still water would be fine then (In my opinion) ). But there are other ways this idea could go.
I Dare anyone to write a book/screenplay on This Idea.
Ryven Knightray thank you for actually doing research unlike most people
So am I my friend, so am I
It's okay so am I.
A funny thing about vampires that I think is really cool! The origin of the “vampires can’t see themselves in mirrors” is because, back in the day, mirrors were backed with silver -and since silver is considered holy- they couldn’t see themselves. So, technically speaking, VAMPIRES SHOULD BE ABLE TO SEE THEMSELVES IN MIRRORS NOW! Thank you for coming to my TedTalk. UwU
They couldn't cast shadows, either. If I recall, the reason for that is because they didn't have souls.
@@daviddaugherty2816 *taking notice of the shadow cast by the chair i hit my toe on every other day*
" ... you know, you could at least stop pretending."
@@derimperator3847 Just because it's pure evil and plotting against you doesn't mean it doesn't have a soul.
I can see why the Inanimate Object Illuminati want you gone so badly...
This fixes this trope so much, it has always frustrated me, and you are doubly a rock star because you alerted me to the original version of "vampires can't see *themselves* in mirrors." I think you may have added a year to my life, because I have never been able to deconstruct or handwave that particular impossibility.
The reason for the silver is that silver has purifying/antibacterial properties (possibly why it was used for eating utensils) and vampires are in no small part a monster-version of disease. Same with garlic and holy water/running water.