Lush is such an apt word for this gothic extravaganza. It's just such a fun watch and all of the behind the scenes stuff is fascinating to watch because they wanted to stick to old school techniques. Great reactions as always!
@@jessaandalexwatch Year later , Cary Elwes , Lord Arthur Holmwood , (Westley from Princess bride) delivered best line in Mel Brooks , Robin Hood ... unlike some other Robin Hoods , i can speak with an english accent .
@@jessaandalexwatch I hope you girls actually mean it and that this 1 is actually incredible on your eyes and you're not laughing about it because this is truly one of the best adaptations of the book and it's one of my personal favorite films of Dracula and in general and it's just horrifying romantic scary gory and bloody creepy and epically mosaic and water painting like
@@jessaandalexwatch okay Jess Alex since you are both werewolf fans and now you've seen Bram Stoker's Dracula and I do mean it that it's just as good as this film I highly recommend you guys watch the unrated cut of the remake of The Wolfman
@@jessaandalexwatch I actually disagree with some of your analysis on the original novel. First, it was a pretty optimistic novel, and there was a critique being made of the aristocracy, as was personified in the character of Lucy. If you notice, except for Arthur, the rest of the main cast of characters are all young folks from professional classes, who are all very tech savvy. They use phonographs, electric lights, typewriters, wire telegrams, and trains and rifles to beat Dracula in the end. Even Mina takes up a rifle and is shooting along with the men against the gypsies who are guarding Dracula. Lucy was an object of the aristocracy and a damsel in distress, to where as Mina being from the lower, professional class is proactive, capable, resourceful, using the tools she has available to preserve her soul. That's the critique Bram Stoker is making here. The fact that it was non consensual between Dracula and Mina was because Dracula in the novel was clearly a monster, and damned outside of God's grace. Sexuality is a weapon of vampires and that is used to illustrate the seductive power of evil. Salem's Lot is a great counterpoint to Dracula, because King takes that optimism and turns it on it's head. What happens when the vampire appears where it "can't" exist, say in some small town in Maine, in the mid 1970s, under the rational light of florescent tube bulbs? In an America that is both post Vietnam and post Watergate? You want to see Vampires running amuck--read Salem's Lot. Back when Twilight was a thing, my niece asked me which team I belonged to---I told her team I was team Kurt Barlow. Another good one is the Passage by Justin Cronin.
The fact you guys made references to Phantom of the Opera, Harry Potter, and Sweeney Todd in this commentary and that you were unapologetically pro-vampire just cements that we have to be best friends now 😂
They did win an Oscar after all. I just wish the music did as well. Wojciech Kilar did the most awesomely haunting and ominous soundtrack for this movie.
It’s interesting to me that later adaptations of Dracula mess with the “Listen to them, the children of the night…” line. This one had, “what sweet music they make.” The Frank Langella one had “what sad music they make.” But the original Bela Lugosi just had “what music they make,” and with his delivery, it doesn’t need anything else. As I pointed out in another channel’s reaction to this, Dark Shadows did the whole “true love resurrected” thing about 25 years earlier when they introduced Barnabas Collins. The actress who played Lucy, Sadie Frost - her first husband was the front man for the band Spandau Ballet, and her second husband was Jude Law.
Bram Stoker was an Irish -Catholic- Protestant (thanks, Viejotrueno). There you have it. Besides Victorian and/or -Catholic- Protestant sexual repression, there's also the Syphilis angle in the story. Also, I'm team Spike.
No, Bram Stoker was a protestant, that's why the book is a moralist tale... on the other hand, Coppola is the catholic who changed the moralist tale for a redemption tale. That's what makes it very catholic, I know because I'm spanish... Back in 1992 was said that the movie had a subtext regarding aids, which was still a mortal disease... but I don't really think Coppola was trying to say anything about it. The movie plays with sexual innuendos because it's set in Victorian times, but there's no clear message about sexuality. It's Coppola mocking that era I think Coppola wanted to get rid of the puritanism from the book, which sometimes it's preposterous, that's why he changed Dracula's character from being evil incarnated to just a sinner that needed redemption
@@JulioLeonFandinho OK, you're right, he was a protestant. I always assumed he, being Irish, was a Catholic. My bad. Thanks for enlightening me. Also: I read the book at least twice before the movie even came out. Maybe I didn't pick up on Coppola's redemption-of-the-sinner spin as much, because it was ingrained in me anyway, having been an altar boy and having been sent to Catholic boarding school led by Benedictine monks here in deeply Catholic Bavaria. The region I'm from is even called Pfaffenwinkel, Winkel meaning corner and Pfaffen being a disrespectful word for clergymen. As they say, it probably wasn't a fish that discovered water.
I am so, so, SO glad the two of you did this movie. It's one of my delicious guilty pleasures. Everything about it is just dripping with gothic romance. If the two of you love cheesy wonderful vampire movies I also recommend: The Lost Boys, Interview with the Vampire, and Queen of the Damned.
Watching you two is a riot! 😁 You remind me of the smart funny girls I knew at Wells (way back in the day)! Thanks for the best reaction video to Oldman's Dracula 😊☝
As somebody who grew with Hammer horror films I could never side with the Vampires but thoses films did have Chrisopher Lee and Peter Cushing in them which made a big difference,great reaction anyway.
One of the 2 definitive re-tellings of the legend. Seeing Drac as an more than capable villian. That he can become a romantic figure as well. He relishes in his position as an force of nature. But he yearns for love and companionship. The designs of everything are such an undertaking. Beautifully made and true to the tone of Stoker's storytelling.
This was so much fun. It's been a long time since I have watched this movie. I agree with you Jessa about the changes between the book and movie. I'm usually a book purist, but I was so happy with the changes made to the movie in this instance. I was waiting for Alex to recognize Gary Oldman, the reaction when you did was hilarious. Great reaction as always. Looking forward to whatever you react to next.
It's not an official sequel, but the graphic novel series "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" features Mina as a central character, which is definitely worth a read.
Turning Dracula into a proper Gothic romance is a bold choice and I applaud Coppola for this gem. You should watch Mel Brooks' spoof Dracula: Dead And Loving It for some more vampy laughs. It has my favorite Renfield. 🤣🤣🤣
Bela Lugosi, Sir Christopher Lee & Gary Oldman all brought their own unique style to Dracula. This adaptation / interpretation of the story is easily the most visually stunning. I live not far from Whitby in Yorkshire, which has a very special connection to the story. Bram Stoker visited Whitby in July 1890 & was working on a new story, set in Styria in Austria, with a central character called Count Wampyr. The favoured Gothic literature of the period was set in foreign lands full of eerie castles, convents and caves. Whitby’s windswept headland, the dramatic abbey ruins, a church surrounded by swooping bats, and a long association with jet - a semi-precious stone used in mourning jewellery - gave a homegrown taste of such thrilling horrors. High above Whitby, and dominating the whole town, stands Whitby Abbey, the ruin of a once-great Benedictine monastery, founded in the 11th century. The medieval abbey stands on the site of a much earlier monastery, founded in 657 by an Anglian princess, Hild, who became its first abbess. In Dracula, Stoker has Mina Murray - the young woman whose experiences form the thread of the novel - record in her diary. Below the abbey stands the ancient parish church of St Mary, perched on East Cliff, which is reached by a climb of 199 steps. Stoker would have seen how time and the weather had gnawed at the graves, some of them teetering precariously on the eroding cliff edge. Some headstones stood over empty graves, marking seafaring occupants whose bodies had been lost on distant voyages. He noted down inscriptions and names for later use, including ‘Swales’, the name he used for Dracula’s first victim in Whitby. On 8 August 1890, Stoker walked down to what was known as the Coffee House End of the Quay and entered the public library. It was there that he found a book published in 1820, recording the experiences of a British consul in Bucharest, William Wilkinson, in the principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia (now in Romania). Wilkinson’s history mentioned a 15th-century prince called Vlad Tepes who was said to have impaled his enemies on wooden stakes. He was known as Dracula - the ‘son of the dragon’. While staying in Whitby, Stoker would have heard of the shipwreck five years earlier of a Russian vessel called the Dmitry, from Narva. This ran aground on Tate Hill Sands below East Cliff, carrying a cargo of silver sand. With a slightly rearranged name, this became the Demeter from Varna that carries Dracula to Whitby with a cargo of silver sand and boxes of earth. So, although Stoker was to spend six more years on his novel before it was published, researching the landscapes and customs of Transylvania, the name of his villain and some of the novel’s most dramatic scenes were inspired by his holiday in Whitby. The innocent tourists, the picturesque harbour, the abbey ruins, the windswept churchyard and the salty tales he heard from Whitby seafarers - all became ingredients in the novel. In 1897 Dracula was published. It had an unpromising start as a play called The Undead, in which Stoker hoped Henry Irving would take the lead role. But after a test performance, Irving said he never wanted to see it again. For the character of Dracula, Stoker retained Irving’s aristocratic bearing and histrionic acting style, but he redrafted the play as a novel told in the form of letters, diaries, newspaper cuttings and entries in the ship’s log of the Demeter. The log charts the gradual disappearance of the entire crew during the journey to Whitby, until only the captain is left, tied to the wheel, as the ship runs aground below East Cliff on 8 August - the date that marked Stoker’s discovery of the name ‘Dracula’ in Whitby library. A ‘large dog’ bounds from the wreck and runs up the 199 steps to the church, and from this moment, things begin to go horribly wrong. Dracula had arrived … Every year in Whitby there is a Dracula weekend, along with the incredible Whitby Goth Festival
I love how the sound effects master and the costume designer both won oscars for their work on this film and deservedly so. The only crime is that Gary Oldman didn't win for best actor.
I could be wrong, but this may be my favorite reaction of yours, you guys were in rare form on this one! You wrote "We needed this", I can tell you that there's something about this movie that checked all the boxes for a fantastic Jessa And Alex Watch! Alex's face during, like, fifty times during this reaction was priceless. There's at least one part in this where she's blushing, when she figures out that's Gary Oldman, it's adorable....But the comment of the video has to go to Jessa who quite rightfully observed: "If there's one thing Winona knows how to do, it's how to f**k a monster." (Alex likes werewolf movies? I would LOVE to see your reactions to "An American Werewolf In London", for about ten thousand reasons! I won't list them here, but that's one that's MADE for this channel!) I love you guys! That was so much fun watch, thank you!!!
I am not into horror movıes ın general, but love a good Vampire film. In my opinion this ıs the best, most entertaining Vampire movıe I have ever watched To me, even the book was not a horror story, but a love story. The closing song by Annie Lennox epitomizes the whole gothic romance of the film! Everything about it is certainly 'lush'!
Ya I have to make an edit to this comment and add that the book is absolutely NOT a love story. At least not with Dracula. He is purely a mythical demon creature in the novel. Unless youre talking about Jonathan and Mina. The Dracula-Vlad historical connection and the love story between the Count and Mina were not in the book and tacked on (Probably a composite of what worked in previous adaptations) to what was already a fairly faithful adaption of the book. In the end we got basically the best Dracula put to film.
Loved your commentary! I try to watch this and Sleepy Hollow every year because Halloween movies must have the campy goth turned up to 1000. If you love werewolves, I'm curious if you've seen Ginger Snaps. Great movie!
Tom Waits (one of the best singers of all time) plays Renfield in this, and he's so much fun, so delightfully over-the-top (somehow even more so than Oldman as Dracula if that's possible)
Very good fun ladies! I actually enjoyed this reaction much more than when I saw the movie upon its release. However (if you can BELIEVE it!), (Andy) "Warhol's Dracula" is even better... In fact, many Warhol's films would appeal to your predisposed vamp-queen things. Finally, this film really brought out your uptalk, and reminded me not too fondly of my natal home in helLA (and so many of my students at various Cali unis)!!!
Amazing reaction! I'd really recommend Dracula Untold if you haven't already seen it. And! Love At First Bite is a funny (& very dated), detailed parody of the first Dracula film
This was the first R rated horror movie I ever saw and remember it fondly. Watch it every year for Halloween, was a fan, am a fan and try to get people to watch all the time! Ahem, regarding werewolves… Ginger Snaps. You’ll thank me later.
This movie is probably the most accurate adaptation of the book. And I think that's pretty rad! Also, some stand-out performances in this one, especially Gary Oldman. He really chews up the movie with his acting. (Apart from the changes to modernize it a bit from the old timey puritan values).
I know it's a movie & take speople off guard by its craziness, but I noticed how many people seem unsympathetic or unrealizing that Lucy was r@9ed by Dracula. Regardless this one of my favourite movies as a child, and yes my parents let me watch this as a kid.
OMG, such a hilarious review, for one of my favorite movies! You should also check out 1985s Fright Night, for more cool vamp action. Near Dark is another good one.
What a fun watch along, you guys are so hilarious and clever and this is a favorite movie. Loved your analysis of it and would happily watch another hour of it. his is such an interesting take on the material; on one side its very faithful to the book, much more than pretty much every Dracula before it. On the other hand, they did something incredibly smart when they gave Dracula and Mina a Gothic romance, creating more purpose and motivation for Mina and creating a whole new context for the plot really. Perhaps this is what really happened, and the book was edited and censored by Johnathan and the boys! Watch Interview with the Vampire if you haven't already for more horny vampire hunks! Anne Rices books and the film adaptation probably paved the way for Twilight, vampire Diaries and the other hot vamp stuff.
Of course the whole reincarnation thing has nothing to do with the Dracula story - that subplot was lifted from the original Karloff "The Mummy" (1932). Which you guys really NEED to see.
This's one of my favorite movies, if not the The favorite one... and seeing you while watching, interrupting and laughing at it all the time is so disenchanting and spoetizing that you made feel like to rise from my undeath with all the power of darkness and let the children of the night make their sweet music against you 😆 🧛🧛♂🕷🕸🦇😈
This is a classic!!!! I took a course a long time ago of voice over and I practiced with this movie giving my voice to Gary Oldman's character, it was really fun! Can I recommend one movie to you? Salem's Lot! Have you watched it? That's a classic too, an old movie but really good, specially when you're a kid and gets freaks out by this movies lol Take Care Guys!!!!
Dracula rapes Mina in the book, yes, because the book is not a romantic story but a story of revenge. Dracula is quite different. A true monster in the book, an ambiguous monster in the movie. I like the turn Coppola did for his movie. The atmosphere of the movie is something else. And also the soundtrack, specifically the "Lucy´s party" theme" is my favourite.
Okay, so if you loved Dracula and need more i would suggest one of the following books: The Historian by Elizabeth Kostrova Dracula's Child by JS Barnes
@@jessaandalexwatch it's hilarious! Matt Berry has the best speaking voice of any human that's ever lived. The whole cast are really funny. There's also Wellington Paranormal that follows the two cops from the movie. That's quite good as well.
It's funny when you say about 13 minutes that this is a gothic dream... This is the father and mother of all the gothic literature hahaha this movie was THE best vampire movie ever made
Saw in theaters when this came out, and had read the book shortly beforehand. Way I read the changes from the book wasn't so much to eliminate the "virtue" (of remaining "pure" and chaste an' all that), but as a clever way to pseudo-circumvent it by making Mina a reincarnation (maybe) of Dracula's wife, because is it really not being faithful to Jonathan if she's being "faithful" to her husband from a past life? I also don't feel like the movie actually cleared up whether Mina was supposed to be Elisabeta reincarnated or just another woman who happens to look just like her (and is played by the same actress), and Dracula's peace is just coming from himself like.. getting over himself, and y'know being finally killed as a vampire.
I saw this when I was either 11 or 12, I loved its visual look, great performances and story, I know what you are saying about the women characters in the book, it's like slasher movies killing off the women because they have sex, I like supernatural horror movies, but I'd say vampires are my favourite, if I was being seduced by a hot vampire lady, unlikely I'd resist! Loved the reactions again, thanks ladies, oh, saw Dune at the cinema today with Fiona, we loved it, hope they make part 2, I'll buy it on 4k blu ray when released! On the Bram's Stoker's Dracula blu ray there is a making of and an audio commentary, both very good :)
It's funny, knowing Gary Oldman from this it got stuck in my head that he was already a pretty old guy because I forgot what acting is and that they have this stuff called makeup. This was quite early in his career. He's only 6 years older than Keanu Reeves. Poor, horribly miscast Keanu Reeves.
I'd love a complete viewing of this with you both! A la MST 3000 🌹❤ Possible? A whole series of sexy viewing of the best vampire flicks. So much fun! 😁
I unabashedly love this movie. The practical FX, the ridiculously hammy acting (Its like Oldman and Hopkins had a bet going over who could chew more scenery), the incredible score and lavish sets and costumes. Its all amazing. The uneven casting is the only real detriment. Keanu's accent is so laughably bad it literally drags you out of any scene he is in and Winona just doesn't have the swagger at this point in her career to keep up with the rest. All in all, though, its just such an amazing film.
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"I sampled and did not want to purchase" is the best thing I've heard all week.
I live for the Gary Oldman revelation!
Also the Gary Oldman Revelation is my new band name.
Now, that was the best RUclips comment I read all week.
@katywithatea Panties WILL be thrown. 😊
Lush is such an apt word for this gothic extravaganza. It's just such a fun watch and all of the behind the scenes stuff is fascinating to watch because they wanted to stick to old school techniques. Great reactions as always!
Oooh, I’ll definitely have to look up the behind the scenes stuff.
@@jessaandalexwatch Year later , Cary Elwes , Lord Arthur Holmwood , (Westley from Princess bride) delivered best line in Mel Brooks , Robin Hood ... unlike some other Robin Hoods , i can speak with an english accent .
@@jessaandalexwatch I hope you girls actually mean it and that this 1 is actually incredible on your eyes and you're not laughing about it because this is truly one of the best adaptations of the book and it's one of my personal favorite films of Dracula and in general and it's just horrifying romantic scary gory and bloody creepy and epically mosaic and water painting like
@@jessaandalexwatch okay Jess Alex since you are both werewolf fans and now you've seen Bram Stoker's Dracula and I do mean it that it's just as good as this film I highly recommend you guys watch the unrated cut of the remake of The Wolfman
@@jessaandalexwatch I actually disagree with some of your analysis on the original novel. First, it was a pretty optimistic novel, and there was a critique being made of the aristocracy, as was personified in the character of Lucy. If you notice, except for Arthur, the rest of the main cast of characters are all young folks from professional classes, who are all very tech savvy. They use phonographs, electric lights, typewriters, wire telegrams, and trains and rifles to beat Dracula in the end. Even Mina takes up a rifle and is shooting along with the men against the gypsies who are guarding Dracula. Lucy was an object of the aristocracy and a damsel in distress, to where as Mina being from the lower, professional class is proactive, capable, resourceful, using the tools she has available to preserve her soul. That's the critique Bram Stoker is making here.
The fact that it was non consensual between Dracula and Mina was because Dracula in the novel was clearly a monster, and damned outside of God's grace. Sexuality is a weapon of vampires and that is used to illustrate the seductive power of evil.
Salem's Lot is a great counterpoint to Dracula, because King takes that optimism and turns it on it's head. What happens when the vampire appears where it "can't" exist, say in some small town in Maine, in the mid 1970s, under the rational light of florescent tube bulbs? In an America that is both post Vietnam and post Watergate? You want to see Vampires running amuck--read Salem's Lot. Back when Twilight was a thing, my niece asked me which team I belonged to---I told her team I was team Kurt Barlow.
Another good one is the Passage by Justin Cronin.
The fact you guys made references to Phantom of the Opera, Harry Potter, and Sweeney Todd in this commentary and that you were unapologetically pro-vampire just cements that we have to be best friends now 😂
As a non-native speaker I watched this for years without realizing the "issue" with the accents 🤣
"Hairy palms.. he's been living alone for a long time, don't judge!"
LOL xD hey you gotta do what you gotta do
Although in this day and age I have waxed palms.
Eiko Ishioka's costumes for the film is perfection.
Just so gorgeous!!
They did win an Oscar after all. I just wish the music did as well. Wojciech Kilar did the most awesomely haunting and ominous soundtrack for this movie.
I think it’s a very underrated score.
I am LIVING for this reaction video! The way you immediately rallied around Lucy was EVERYTHING!
It’s interesting to me that later adaptations of Dracula mess with the “Listen to them, the children of the night…” line. This one had, “what sweet music they make.” The Frank Langella one had “what sad music they make.” But the original Bela Lugosi just had “what music they make,” and with his delivery, it doesn’t need anything else.
As I pointed out in another channel’s reaction to this, Dark Shadows did the whole “true love resurrected” thing about 25 years earlier when they introduced Barnabas Collins.
The actress who played Lucy, Sadie Frost - her first husband was the front man for the band Spandau Ballet, and her second husband was Jude Law.
Hahaha, I love how thoroughly and unapologetically you're #TeamDrac and #JusticeForLucy in this. :)
Bram Stoker was an Irish -Catholic- Protestant (thanks, Viejotrueno). There you have it. Besides Victorian and/or -Catholic- Protestant sexual repression, there's also the Syphilis angle in the story.
Also, I'm team Spike.
Always team spike!
No, Bram Stoker was a protestant, that's why the book is a moralist tale...
on the other hand, Coppola is the catholic who changed the moralist tale for a redemption tale. That's what makes it very catholic, I know because I'm spanish...
Back in 1992 was said that the movie had a subtext regarding aids, which was still a mortal disease... but I don't really think Coppola was trying to say anything about it. The movie plays with sexual innuendos because it's set in Victorian times, but there's no clear message about sexuality. It's Coppola mocking that era
I think Coppola wanted to get rid of the puritanism from the book, which sometimes it's preposterous, that's why he changed Dracula's character from being evil incarnated to just a sinner that needed redemption
@@JulioLeonFandinho OK, you're right, he was a protestant. I always assumed he, being Irish, was a Catholic. My bad. Thanks for enlightening me.
Also: I read the book at least twice before the movie even came out. Maybe I didn't pick up on Coppola's redemption-of-the-sinner spin as much, because it was ingrained in me anyway, having been an altar boy and having been sent to Catholic boarding school led by Benedictine monks here in deeply Catholic Bavaria. The region I'm from is even called Pfaffenwinkel, Winkel meaning corner and Pfaffen being a disrespectful word for clergymen. As they say, it probably wasn't a fish that discovered water.
"Wait, is that Sirius Black..?"
oh Alex.. oh no.. oh no, oh no, oh no no no
Lol I love this pro-Lucy living her best undead life stance!
Love Monica Bellucci's role as one of Dracula's brides.
Genuinely one of those most beautiful women in the world
I am so, so, SO glad the two of you did this movie. It's one of my delicious guilty pleasures. Everything about it is just dripping with gothic romance. If the two of you love cheesy wonderful vampire movies I also recommend: The Lost Boys, Interview with the Vampire, and Queen of the Damned.
I love how you look at Gary Oldman the way you know Remus looked at Sirius.
Best comment! Quixtic1018 you are my people!
Watching you two is a riot! 😁 You remind me of the smart funny girls I knew at Wells (way back in the day)! Thanks for the best reaction video to Oldman's Dracula 😊☝
This was thoroughly entertaining. 😂
I don’t know if the classic Universal movies would be to your liking, but there’s a reason Bela Lugosi became iconic as Dracula
Oh, I LOVE his Drac. I watched it several years ago and he’s so magnetic!
@@jessaandalexwatch his stare is legit still scary
As somebody who grew with Hammer horror films I could never side with the Vampires but thoses films did have Chrisopher Lee and Peter Cushing in them which made a big difference,great reaction anyway.
One of the 2 definitive re-tellings of the legend.
Seeing Drac as an more than capable villian.
That he can become a romantic figure as well.
He relishes in his position as an force of nature.
But he yearns for love and companionship.
The designs of everything are such an undertaking.
Beautifully made and true to the tone of Stoker's storytelling.
My obsession?.
Tom Waits acting roles. 😊
(And his song writing. 😆)
Can confirm: 90s teenager goth girl LOVED this movie, and saw it in the theater multiple times. The soundtrack is fantastic, check it out!
Oh my god, such a fun reaction. Have either of you watched Interview With The Vampire? It's another lush gothic camp extravaganza, soooo entertaining.
Omg, so many. Lost Boys, Dracula Dead and Loving It (a parody of this one), and more. Interview would be so fun for them too review, though
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen features Mina Harker (not played by Winona) as a vampire, in case you want a sequel of sorts.
This react is everything! Team Dracula all the way. 💯
Dracula: It is no laughing MATTER!!
Them: *WILD CACKLING*
This movie is just glorious. 😂❤️❤️
This was so much fun. It's been a long time since I have watched this movie. I agree with you Jessa about the changes between the book and movie. I'm usually a book purist, but I was so happy with the changes made to the movie in this instance. I was waiting for Alex to recognize Gary Oldman, the reaction when you did was hilarious.
Great reaction as always. Looking forward to whatever you react to next.
It's not an official sequel, but the graphic novel series "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" features Mina as a central character, which is definitely worth a read.
I was 9 in 92 and absolutely loved this movie.
Alex's reactions are always the BEST..! XD
Turning Dracula into a proper Gothic romance is a bold choice and I applaud Coppola for this gem.
You should watch Mel Brooks' spoof Dracula: Dead And Loving It for some more vampy laughs. It has my favorite Renfield. 🤣🤣🤣
That is a severly under-rated parody.
Bela Lugosi, Sir Christopher Lee & Gary Oldman all brought their own unique style to Dracula.
This adaptation / interpretation of the story is easily the most visually stunning.
I live not far from Whitby in Yorkshire, which has a very special connection to the story.
Bram Stoker visited Whitby in July 1890 & was working on a new story, set in Styria in Austria, with a central character called Count Wampyr.
The favoured Gothic literature of the period was set in foreign lands full of eerie castles, convents and caves. Whitby’s windswept headland, the dramatic abbey ruins, a church surrounded by swooping bats, and a long association with jet - a semi-precious stone used in mourning jewellery - gave a homegrown taste of such thrilling horrors.
High above Whitby, and dominating the whole town, stands Whitby Abbey, the ruin of a once-great Benedictine monastery, founded in the 11th century. The medieval abbey stands on the site of a much earlier monastery, founded in 657 by an Anglian princess, Hild, who became its first abbess. In Dracula, Stoker has Mina Murray - the young woman whose experiences form the thread of the novel - record in her diary.
Below the abbey stands the ancient parish church of St Mary, perched on East Cliff, which is reached by a climb of 199 steps. Stoker would have seen how time and the weather had gnawed at the graves, some of them teetering precariously on the eroding cliff edge. Some headstones stood over empty graves, marking seafaring occupants whose bodies had been lost on distant voyages. He noted down inscriptions and names for later use, including ‘Swales’, the name he used for Dracula’s first victim in Whitby.
On 8 August 1890, Stoker walked down to what was known as the Coffee House End of the Quay and entered the public library. It was there that he found a book published in 1820, recording the experiences of a British consul in Bucharest, William Wilkinson, in the principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia (now in Romania).
Wilkinson’s history mentioned a 15th-century prince called Vlad Tepes who was said to have impaled his enemies on wooden stakes. He was known as Dracula - the ‘son of the dragon’.
While staying in Whitby, Stoker would have heard of the shipwreck five years earlier of a Russian vessel called the Dmitry, from Narva. This ran aground on Tate Hill Sands below East Cliff, carrying a cargo of silver sand. With a slightly rearranged name, this became the Demeter from Varna that carries Dracula to Whitby with a cargo of silver sand and boxes of earth.
So, although Stoker was to spend six more years on his novel before it was published, researching the landscapes and customs of Transylvania, the name of his villain and some of the novel’s most dramatic scenes were inspired by his holiday in Whitby. The innocent tourists, the picturesque harbour, the abbey ruins, the windswept churchyard and the salty tales he heard from Whitby seafarers - all became ingredients in the novel.
In 1897 Dracula was published. It had an unpromising start as a play called The Undead, in which Stoker hoped Henry Irving would take the lead role. But after a test performance, Irving said he never wanted to see it again. For the character of Dracula, Stoker retained Irving’s aristocratic bearing and histrionic acting style, but he redrafted the play as a novel told in the form of letters, diaries, newspaper cuttings and entries in the ship’s log of the Demeter.
The log charts the gradual disappearance of the entire crew during the journey to Whitby, until only the captain is left, tied to the wheel, as the ship runs aground below East Cliff on 8 August - the date that marked Stoker’s discovery of the name ‘Dracula’ in Whitby library. A ‘large dog’ bounds from the wreck and runs up the 199 steps to the church, and from this moment, things begin to go horribly wrong.
Dracula had arrived …
Every year in Whitby there is a Dracula weekend, along with the incredible Whitby Goth Festival
If alex prefers werewolves I would recommend An American Werewolf in London.
I love how the sound effects master and the costume designer both won oscars for their work on this film and deservedly so. The only crime is that Gary Oldman didn't win for best actor.
I could be wrong, but this may be my favorite reaction of yours, you guys were in rare form on this one! You wrote "We needed this", I can tell you that there's something about this movie that checked all the boxes for a fantastic Jessa And Alex Watch! Alex's face during, like, fifty times during this reaction was priceless. There's at least one part in this where she's blushing, when she figures out that's Gary Oldman, it's adorable....But the comment of the video has to go to Jessa who quite rightfully observed: "If there's one thing Winona knows how to do, it's how to f**k a monster." (Alex likes werewolf movies? I would LOVE to see your reactions to "An American Werewolf In London", for about ten thousand reasons! I won't list them here, but that's one that's MADE for this channel!) I love you guys! That was so much fun watch, thank you!!!
you should follow this up with Dracula Dead and Loving it.
I am not into horror movıes ın general, but love a good Vampire film. In my opinion this ıs the best, most entertaining Vampire movıe I have ever watched To me, even the book was not a horror story, but a love story. The closing song by Annie Lennox epitomizes the whole gothic romance of the film! Everything about it is certainly 'lush'!
The book was absolutely not a love story, that's something that was made up later
The love story in the original book was Jonathan and Mina. Obviously this movie veered off in its own direction.
Ya I have to make an edit to this comment and add that the book is absolutely NOT a love story. At least not with Dracula. He is purely a mythical demon creature in the novel. Unless youre talking about Jonathan and Mina.
The Dracula-Vlad historical connection and the love story between the Count and Mina were not in the book and tacked on (Probably a composite of what worked in previous adaptations) to what was already a fairly faithful adaption of the book. In the end we got basically the best Dracula put to film.
" Listen to them, the children of the night, what sweet music they made. " 🐺🐺🐺
Loved your commentary! I try to watch this and Sleepy Hollow every year because Halloween movies must have the campy goth turned up to 1000. If you love werewolves, I'm curious if you've seen Ginger Snaps. Great movie!
Tom Waits (one of the best singers of all time) plays Renfield in this, and he's so much fun, so delightfully over-the-top (somehow even more so than Oldman as Dracula if that's possible)
I think you two should watch DRACULA the BBC series on NETFLIX.
Very good fun ladies! I actually enjoyed this reaction much more than when I saw the movie upon its release.
However (if you can BELIEVE it!), (Andy) "Warhol's Dracula" is even better... In fact, many Warhol's films would appeal to your predisposed vamp-queen things.
Finally, this film really brought out your uptalk, and reminded me not too fondly of my natal home in helLA (and so many of my students at various Cali unis)!!!
This was a very odd thing to watch in high school. Like in class. I had a sci fi and fantasy class. It caused very confusing emotions
OMG, this is literally one of my favorite movies of all times, I mean it's up there with Star Wars OT together with a very select few..!
The costume designer won a Oscar for this
Your reactions are glorious!
Amazing reaction! I'd really recommend Dracula Untold if you haven't already seen it. And! Love At First Bite is a funny (& very dated), detailed parody of the first Dracula film
You two would clearly love Love at First Bite. Two words: Disco Dracula.
This was the first R rated horror movie I ever saw and remember it fondly. Watch it every year for Halloween, was a fan, am a fan and try to get people to watch all the time!
Ahem, regarding werewolves… Ginger Snaps. You’ll thank me later.
This movie is probably the most accurate adaptation of the book.
And I think that's pretty rad!
Also, some stand-out performances in this one, especially Gary Oldman. He really chews up the movie with his acting.
(Apart from the changes to modernize it a bit from the old timey puritan values).
You guys are fun 😂❤
Best reaction to this wonderfully nutty film.
I know it's a movie & take speople off guard by its craziness, but I noticed how many people seem unsympathetic or unrealizing that Lucy was r@9ed by Dracula. Regardless this one of my favourite movies as a child, and yes my parents let me watch this as a kid.
OMG, such a hilarious review, for one of my favorite movies!
You should also check out 1985s Fright Night, for more cool vamp action. Near Dark is another good one.
What a fun watch along, you guys are so hilarious and clever and this is a favorite movie. Loved your analysis of it and would happily watch another hour of it. his is such an interesting take on the material; on one side its very faithful to the book, much more than pretty much every Dracula before it. On the other hand, they did something incredibly smart when they gave Dracula and Mina a Gothic romance, creating more purpose and motivation for Mina and creating a whole new context for the plot really. Perhaps this is what really happened, and the book was edited and censored by Johnathan and the boys!
Watch Interview with the Vampire if you haven't already for more horny vampire hunks! Anne Rices books and the film adaptation probably paved the way for Twilight, vampire Diaries and the other hot vamp stuff.
Ha! I love the idea of the boys changing the narrative to hide that Mina and Dracula were in love!
♥I love Gary Oldman
"This is not what I wanted!"
Sure
Of course the whole reincarnation thing has nothing to do with the Dracula story - that subplot was lifted from the original Karloff "The Mummy" (1932). Which you guys really NEED to see.
I am glad that someone remembers this.
This's one of my favorite movies, if not the The favorite one... and seeing you while watching, interrupting and laughing at it all the time is so disenchanting and spoetizing that you made feel like to rise from my undeath with all the power of darkness and let the children of the night make their sweet music against you 😆 🧛🧛♂🕷🕸🦇😈
I'm from Maryland too!
y'all need to watch Interview With A Vampire.
A fun reaction. I love this movie too.
In the books
Noooo, you cut Gary Oldman’s laugh. It’s one of the best villain laughs ever! 😂😂
This is a classic!!!!
I took a course a long time ago of voice over and I practiced with this movie giving my voice to Gary Oldman's character, it was really fun!
Can I recommend one movie to you? Salem's Lot!
Have you watched it?
That's a classic too, an old movie but really good, specially when you're a kid and gets freaks out by this movies lol
Take Care Guys!!!!
great movie!!👍🙂 you'll also notice the influence this movie had on the meatloaf videos at the time!!!😉😁😁😁❤
Are you going to watch the 2020 Dracula on Netflix? Such a great adaptation!!
Welcome to 19th century vampire stories in a nutshell. They're basically sexuality
Renfield is played by musical icon Tom Waits. If you are not familiar with his work I highly recommend that you do so
Dayy 26 of asking jessa and alex to watch earth girls are easy :D
If ever it interest you guys, please watch Van Helsing starring Hugh Jackman its just so fun
Author Fred Saaberhagen proposed, in his "The Dracula Tapes" series, that Mina, having imbibed the prince's blood, eventually did turn.
Dracula rapes Mina in the book, yes, because the book is not a romantic story but a story of revenge. Dracula is quite different. A true monster in the book, an ambiguous monster in the movie. I like the turn Coppola did for his movie. The atmosphere of the movie is something else. And also the soundtrack, specifically the "Lucy´s party" theme" is my favourite.
You guys should check out taskmaster! I think you'll enjoy it
You gotta watch rocky horror picture show before October is done
didn't see midnight mass yet...
is that intro a spoiler? :(
Okay, so if you loved Dracula and need more i would suggest one of the following books:
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostrova
Dracula's Child by JS Barnes
You need to do a reaction to What we do in the shadows. You two would love it.
We do both love that movie! I’ve never see the show though…
@@jessaandalexwatch it's hilarious! Matt Berry has the best speaking voice of any human that's ever lived. The whole cast are really funny. There's also Wellington Paranormal that follows the two cops from the movie. That's quite good as well.
By the way, see the further adventures of Mina Harker in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen!!!
I think you two would love "The Guest!" Dan Stevens will blow your mind! Haha😄 But seriously, y'all should check it out
It's funny when you say about 13 minutes that this is a gothic dream... This is the father and mother of all the gothic literature hahaha this movie was THE best vampire movie ever made
You do realize that now you have to watch "Dracula: Dead And Loving It", right?
OK OK, Alex is team Jacob, we get it...
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You should really react to Count of Monte Cristo (2002) if you haven't yet, it's really good and I've seen only a couple RUclipsrs react to it
You need to watch THE HOWLING (1981), you get more werewolf sex in that one.
You guys weren't on team vampire in midnight mass? Team Vampire was why we got to see Bev die twice!
Saw in theaters when this came out, and had read the book shortly beforehand. Way I read the changes from the book wasn't so much to eliminate the "virtue" (of remaining "pure" and chaste an' all that), but as a clever way to pseudo-circumvent it by making Mina a reincarnation (maybe) of Dracula's wife, because is it really not being faithful to Jonathan if she's being "faithful" to her husband from a past life? I also don't feel like the movie actually cleared up whether Mina was supposed to be Elisabeta reincarnated or just another woman who happens to look just like her (and is played by the same actress), and Dracula's peace is just coming from himself like.. getting over himself, and y'know being finally killed as a vampire.
I saw this when I was either 11 or 12, I loved its visual look, great performances and story, I know what you are saying about the women characters in the book, it's like slasher movies killing off the women because they have sex, I like supernatural horror movies, but I'd say vampires are my favourite, if I was being seduced by a hot vampire lady, unlikely I'd resist! Loved the reactions again, thanks ladies, oh, saw Dune at the cinema today with Fiona, we loved it, hope they make part 2, I'll buy it on 4k blu ray when released! On the Bram's Stoker's Dracula blu ray there is a making of and an audio commentary, both very good :)
Can you please watch Grandview USA its a good film that stars Patrick Swazey,C Thomas Howell,and Jamie Lee Curtis.
Jessa and Alex Watch 16:36 Talk about a "Ugly Cry" !
You should react to Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein.
It was a comedy.
Yeah, we're Team Dracula!
He kidnapped a baby and gave it to his women to eat it. What a great guy!
It's funny, knowing Gary Oldman from this it got stuck in my head that he was already a pretty old guy because I forgot what acting is and that they have this stuff called makeup. This was quite early in his career. He's only 6 years older than Keanu Reeves. Poor, horribly miscast Keanu Reeves.
Thankfully there was no sparkling in this film.
Do you think they had to adr her moaning. I think that would somehow be more awkward than when on set.
these girls are cute but crazy hahaha you want this in favor of dracula hahaha being a vampire has disadvantages
I'd love a complete viewing of this with you both! A la MST 3000 🌹❤ Possible? A whole series of sexy viewing of the best vampire flicks. So much fun! 😁
I think the full reaction will end up on our Patreon once we get it going!
I unabashedly love this movie. The practical FX, the ridiculously hammy acting (Its like Oldman and Hopkins had a bet going over who could chew more scenery), the incredible score and lavish sets and costumes. Its all amazing. The uneven casting is the only real detriment. Keanu's accent is so laughably bad it literally drags you out of any scene he is in and Winona just doesn't have the swagger at this point in her career to keep up with the rest. All in all, though, its just such an amazing film.