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One of my favorite movies
Emily, you are right one hundred percent.
Y'all forgot to mention Wojchiech Kilar's incredible and amazingly beautiful score and it was the first time I noticed (I think it's even her feauture debut) the gorgeous Monica Bellucci as one of the Brides. Greetings from the Netherlands!
MICE STALKER'S CAT+ULA! Starring PIPPIN, Emily as The Love interest, and Matthew as The Gentleman.
You want movie without proper sets watch , Lars Von Trier , Dogville , 2003 ... there are some furniture , but most are outlined with white stripes on floor .
At that point there is nowhere to hide , actors must carry the movie , Anthony Hopkins and Gary Oldman could do it , Winona no .
John Wick has that nice homage to this movie , in this Keanu and Winona gets married in Orthodox church and in John Wick he does play Orthodox in chapter 3 .
This is my favorite adaptation of Dracula. I especially love how almost all of the visual effects were done for real, in-camera. My particular favorite is the shot of the train going across the top of Harker's diary early in the movie.
Thats stunning, and I'm sure many people don't get thats not CGI.
@@Silver-rx1mh Maybe not. Especially since this is right around the time of the 90s CGI boom with Terminator 2 and Jurassic Park. Just goes to show with creativity and innovation you don't have to use a computer for interesting visuals.
@@joshuahermanson341 Agreed!
I personally hate this version. It made a mockery of Jonathan and Mina.
@@44excalibur it made a mockery of pretty much everything about the story of Dracula.
"Oh no! The cowboy!"
Coppola's Dracula is one of the few to include Quincy, the most underrated character in the book.
In my favourite version, Count Dracula from 1977 they amalgamate Quincy and Arthur into one character. This actually works, He's now a Texan ambassador called Quincy P Holmwood . Also they make Mina and Lucy sisters so it makes Minas sense of loss so much greater..
Quincy was, technically, the one who dealt the actual killing blow.
@@ashleywetherall that 77 version is seriously underrated!
Nothing like a Texan cowboy in a Gothic Horror novel set (mostly) in Britain to make you go "Uh, say what?"
The wedding between Mina and John was performed by an actual orthodox priest on set reading the actual marriage ceremony, so technically they *are* married.
Once a year, Keanu gets a message from Winona saying “happy anniversary.”
Edit: just got to the end and saw that you mentioned it.
gonna well actually you here. A marriage is a civil contract recognized by the state, a wedding is a religious ceremony recognized by a church. They were wed, they weren't married.
but I never knew that about Winona, that's cute.
@@this.is.a.username she randomly texts him hello husband, also... but yes they were wed not married.. it was officiated by actual Romanian priest but obviously papers were never filed afterward so it's not official.
Tom Waits' portrayal of Renfield is my favorite part of this movie.
"Would you care for a hors d'oeuvre, Dr. Seward or a canapé?"
If you play V Rising you have to name one of your slaves Renfield or Tom Waits! LOLZ
Oldman killed it as Dracula and the film is worth watching just for him, although you do have to give credit to the design teams and set builders because the work they did is standout and even now all these years later it's still a visual feast.
The film won:
Best Makeup
Best Production Design
Best Costume Design.
Actually Production Design was won by Howards End that year. Dracula did win Sound Editing though, in addition to Costumes and Makeup. Production Design was the only category it lost.
"I have crossed oceans of time to find you." = panties dropped!
“I struggled… with the editing choices.” She says, while I’m watching Pippin quantum leap from position to position in between and even during her sentences… 😂
Although the film is called Bram Stoker's Dracula, It does take liberties with the original novel and the characters. The whole sub plot of Mina being the reincarnation of Dracula's long dead bride is actually borrowed from the 1974 movie which was also called Bram Stoker's Dracula and starred Jack Palance as the Count. That whole sub plot isn't in the book. The film is also a lot more romanticised than the novel. As you will discover as you go through the novel, Dracula is much more of a fiend. I've never understood how after Dracula has fed a new born baby to his brides that you can ever be on his side and think he's just a misunderstood creature of the night who just wants to be loved. Because they included that scene from the book, the whole love story and sympathy for the monster in the film doesn't really work.
Stoker wasn't the first author to sexualise the vampire. Dracula was published in 1897 but Irish author J Sheridan Le Fanu published his novella Carmilla in 1872 and John Polidori published his short story The Vampyre in 1819. The latter was the the other result of the gathering of Lord Byron, John Polidori and Percy and Mary Shelley at the Villa Diodati near Lake Geneva in Switzerland. Byron suggested they all write a ghost story on a dark and stormy night. Polidori wrote The Vampyre and Mary Shelley went to bed and dreamed up Frankenstein. Polidori's character was Lord Ruthven, supposedly inspired by Byron himself and was possibly the first literary portrayal of the vampire as an aristocratic, dashing anti-hero. It's possible that both Polidori and Le Fanu had some influence on Stoker's approach to creating Dracula.
I've had an interest in how the Reincarnation of a Lost Love to an Immortal Being trope jumped over into the vampire lore staples for awhile now. The closest direct point I've found is that it was heavily used in 30s-40s The Mummy series, which was stated as an influence by Dan Curtis for a plot in the 60s Dark Shadows(Where it was used for budgetary reasons for multiple characters played by the same actors), which he later re-used for his aforementioned 1974 Palance version of Dracula. My favorite version is Blackula from two years prior, in 1972. Today this trope has become a staple of the genre, so it's fun to see how it jumped in from another series to quickly become so ubiquitous.
@@aeneasfate That's very true. I believe you're right. It was used for the first time in Universal's Mummy series. It is interesting to trace the origins of these things. It has now become a cliche of the vampire genre especially and is still being used today.
It was used in the original Fright Night but I think that may have been in part a deliberate homage to Dark Shadows. It was also used in Tale of a Vampire with Julian Sands and I'm sure many lesser known vampire movies of which there are many. I love Blacula. That was one of the better movies where they used it and used it well.
The Jack Palance movie had Lucy as the reincarnation instead of Mina.
@@jkhristian9603 True but it isn't the only version to switch characters or character emphasis. The plot of Dracula pursuing the reincarnation of his dead bride is still the same in the 1974 film. In the 1979 version with Frank Langella, they switched the two characters completely. Mina became Lucy and Lucy became Mina. I love the BBC version from 1977 with Louis Jourdan. At the time it was the most accurate telling of the story but they still felt the need to change characters and the relationships between characters. They also changed the ending ever so slightly. There has never been a totally faithful adaptation of Dracula and that includes the Francis Ford Coppola version.
Dan Curtis brought many innovations through Dark Shadows and his other work. The reincarnated lost love is definitely from Barnabas Collins and Josette DuPres, which Curtis repeats in Houseof Dark Shadows and his 1974 Dracula. Now everyone does it. Withiout Dark Shadows there would be no Interview with a Vampire because there literally is and interview with a vampire in 1970 Parallel Time, where William H. Loomis locks Barnabas in a coffin and forces Barnabas to tell his story so Loomis can write it and have a hit novel. Most of this is off stage because both actors were filming House of Dark Shadows. A lot of modern vampire lore started with Dark Shadows and Dan Curtis!
I love this movie, the bad accents, over the top performances, the practical effects. I just love it all so much.
The soundtrack is just a masterpiece. ❤️
One thing I have admit, I love how honest you guys are. There are some reviewers that it feels like they're trying to gain the film makers favor. To them a film like this would get glowing praise for the brilliant acting, directing, ect. Might as well just read IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes. But here, if you have questions or concerns, your not shy to let them show. 👍 💯
My TWO favorite horror movies from this era: BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA and MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN. They were what I called high-intensity melodrama. The music, the direction. These are fall must-watch films.
Polidori's "The Vampyre" is generally considered the first modern vampire story, and was published three quarters of a century before Dracula.
Bram Stoker's Dracula is a purposeful descent into madness. The original Dracula could change forms, into a wolf, into a bat or appear as human.
Also, you guys really should react to "Interview with the Vampire" (1994) with Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Kirsten Dunst. Just a brilliant vampire movie.
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We've both seen Interview many times and love it!!!
@@JustSUMMReactions Are you going to react to Dracula: Dead and Loving It?
@@this.is.a.username They already have, you can find it in the archives.
@@JustSUMMReactions Now, are you watching the new AMC+ series? My Horror Connection has positive things to say about it.
@@DJeremyBrown they reacted to the parody first? tsk
You are just wrong. This is a cinematic masterpiece!
one thing I like about this movie, some of the more absurd or strange moments in the film are actually well explained in the book- the "blue flame" and Mina doing magic for some reason particularly.
Also, the original score for this movie is fantastic👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
"The luckiest man who walks this earth is the one who finds true love"... He looks at her... She ignores him haha
A lot of people don't mention this one, but there is a really good version of 'Dracula' from 1979. It starred Frank Langella as Dracula, who played the role after performing the role on Broadway for around a year and being nominated for a Tony Award. The film was directed by John Badham ('Saturday Night Fever' and 'WarGames'). It is basically a remake due to the script of the original 'Dracula' with Bela Lugosi. Both films were adapted from a stage play adaptation of the novel, and it was this play that both Lugosi and Langella performed onstage. The Langella version was legendary because 1)all of the sets were designed by Edward Gorey and 2) a common reaction women had seeing Langella onstage was not unlike seeing a major rock star, and many couples thanked Langella for inspiring a "wonderful" evening AFTER the theater. In the day, Langella was sex on a stick...and women swooned due to the eroticism and passion Langella brought to the role!!! The 1979 version had Lord Laurence Olivier as Van Helsing (and he was dealing with illnesses that eventually claimed him in the early 1980s), Donald Pleasance as Seward, Kate Nelligan as Lucy (but this version of the story flips Lucy and Mina, so really Nelligan was Mina). A fun bit of casting was Sylvester McCoy (the Seventh Doctor Who) as a character named Walter. The film also has one of the most unsung, but beautiful film scores by John Williams.
Much to Langella's credit...after filming the movie, he has never entertained returning to the character.
My first copy of Dracula was the tie-in to this film, and had a selection of pictures from the film. Langella WAS sex on a stick in this one.
It also basically showcased the Hollywood trend to revisit classics - the 'modern interpretation' of classic horror films, along with the 70s need for sensuality/sexuality on screen.
Side note - as a result of 'Dracula Fever' in the late 70s (seriously, there were articles written about it), we were also given a segment on "Cliffhangers", called "The Curse of Dracula", with Michael Nouri as the titular Count in modern LA.
Langella also gave us the "Dracula with a Deep V" look!
For me, this is the best version of Dracula.
One of the main reasons Gary Oldman took the role was the chance to say " I have crossed oceans of time to find you ."
That line is one of the many reasons I love this film.
LOVE THIS MOVIE!!
Adrian Pasdar, Alec Baldwin, Ray Liotta, Gabriel Byrne, John Malkovich, Daniel Day Lewis, Tom Cruise, Mel Gibson, Richard Gere, Armand Assante, Antonio Banderas, Viggo Mortenson, Charlie Sheen, David Bowie, Michael Nouri Kyle McLachlan Colin Firth, Nicolas Cage, Christian Slater, Jason Patric Costas Mandylor Hart Bochner, Alan Rickman, Sting, Emilio Estevez, Tom Hanks, Peter Weller, Aiden Quinn, Dermot Mulroney, and Hugh Grant were considered for the rule of the Count.
Would've loved Viggo Mortenson or John Malkovich in the role. Watched this in the cinema when it came out. I didn't love it. I can really appreciate it so much more now that I'm older.
There are elements of this movie that I’m blown away by: the score, costumes, production design, choice to use all in-camera effects, scenery chewing moments from Oldman and Hopkins, some genuinely unnerving imagery. And then other things (Ryder’s and Reeve’s performances/accents in particular) are at times SO BAD they almost tank the movie for me. Whether you like or hate it, it’s impossible to not at least respect its efforts
Fun fact: That little girl in the Lucy Risen scene was not acting. She was terrified of Lucy's vampire makeup. And the cooing from Lucy's actress was her trying to console the little girl.
Nosferatu _is_ basically Dracula just with a different name due to copyright reasons. But Dracula certainly was a new presentation of vampires giving them that new quality of the attractive tempter, where vampirism becomes symbolic for sin. In older folklore the creatures that Stoker worked on were a lot simpler undead creatures haunting the living.
Ain't no basically about it - you're right on the money - Nosferatu was an unauthorized/unoffical adaptation of Dracula.
@@DJeremyBrown Yeah, Murnau (sp?) couldn't come to terms with Stoker's estate, so he just made a movie about Count Orlock who is totally not Dracula and therefore did not have to pay for the rights.
Keanu's dude accent is sadly quite a lot better than his "British" one. 😁
But it's a wonderful adaptation of the novel and just beautiful to watch.
Bela Lugosi is the most classic and iconic Dracula.
Christopher Lee made Dracula scary.
Gary Oldman perfected the role.
Happy Halloween Season Guys! 🎃
Looking forward to many scary movie reactions.
And Mel Brooks made it funny. 😉
George Hamilton would like a word.
Louis Jourdan perfected the role,
"Christopher Lee made Dracula scary"
No. He made Dracula sexy
Dracula wasnt the first, there were books that dealt with vampires as more than mere monsters decades prior, Carmilla probably the most notable by Sheridan Le Fanu. And since they were 1800's fiction, topics regarding intimacy, sex etc. were quite big deal.
I love this movie although its not a very faithful adaptation. Its very artsy and expressionistic at times but thats why it stands out from the crowd.
Amazing classic Bram Stoker's Dracula directed by Francis Ford Coppola starring Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Keanu Reeves, Anthony Hopkins and of course the music video of the song "Love Song for a Vampire" single by Annie Lennox. Thank you guys great reaction awesome😎😎😎😎
The scene where Jack is shaving at the castle…
Every time the camera cuts back-and-forth from close to wide, the set wall moves in by 1 foot.
Edit: just got to the end and saw that you mentioned it. It’s one of my favorite aspects of the practical effects.
Coppola's use of old-time Hollywood practical effects in this, as well as the score, makes up for Keanu's inability to do an accent with any credibility or consistency. There are weird unexpected moments of camp in this, particularly from Hopkins, and I'm not sure if that's to serve as a tension break or if it's to distance his character in this film from Hannibal Lecter, which might have a tendency to overshadow his performance as Von Helsing. It's a lush and gorgeous film and as weird as it can be, I love it.
I watched a video of someone who made a side by side comparison of most of the adaptations made through the years, and this was at the same time the one that embellished the most, yet also one of the most faithful to the books.
I saw Dracula: Dead and Loving It before this movie. As a result, I couldn't stop laughing, especially when I saw a reference.
Y'all just don't appreciate gothic romance the way I do. Anyways, I love this movie. It rocks.
Pup-pups? No. Wolves are not domesticated dogs.
Me thinks you need to see a little film with scary wolves, called ... THE GREY.
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
6:58 - Of course! Though Strahd was half based on the book and half on the 20th century movie Draculas; but also Vlad Drakov was based off of the historical Vlad "The Impaler" Tepes, also know as "Dracula" ("Son of the Dragon"); which Stoker, in part, took some cues to create his Dracula. And many other dark lords are based on classical Gothic horror books and stories such as:Frantisek Markov's world of hafl-man/beasts was based off of The Island of Dr. Moreau, Lord Wilfred Godefroy and the domaine of Mordent was inspired by Heathcliff and the Wuthering Heights book, Mordenheim and his monster "Adam" based on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Malken of Nova Vaasa based on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Three Hags of Tepest based on Shakespeare's McBeth, Maligno in Odiare based off of Pinocchio, etc. (Few of them are original creations and, even then, take great inspiration from some book/movie or another)
29:46 - The book was written in 1897 by a Victorian era man... Chances are that Stoker's views on women were not progressive by any of today's standards but would seem awful to us regardless of how more or less of it's times they were. (Neither defending nor condemning him, just saying: What else would anyone expect?)
Strahd was drawn from Dracula, many of Ravenloft's Darklords are altered versions of classic literally figures. Frankenstein, Dr. Moreau, Dorain Gray and Dr. Jekyll/Hyde are all Darklords in the setting.
Oh, absolutely. And don't forget the realm based on The Mummy. I am also quite fond of Dementlieu as a Domain.
One of my very favorite memories of this movie happened soon after I watched it during its first run. I'd gone to a book signing in Philly where horror writer/filmmaker Clive Barker was autographing his latest kids book: The Thief of Always. And as Clive was signing my copy, he asked if I'd seen Bram Stoker's Dracula and what I thought of it. I told him I thought it was the most expensive B-movie(as Coppola was once part of Roger Corman's gang of promising young talent; and do check out one of his very early film; Dementia 13(1963) of I'd ever seen. We had a good chuckle over that. 🎃
Having read the novel from cover to cover I think it's reasonable for me to say that of all the Dracula movies made this one was the most faithfully adapted to the book. It also the movie that pulls the most information from the original legend of Vlad the Impaler.
At it's heart this movie is a love story and I would imagine that has a lot to do with why Emily didn't have a positive first impression. As somebody who has always been something of a romantic where vampires are concerned I ate it up with a spoon when I was in my early 20s. Keanu was terribly terribly miscast and quite a distraction but I found Ryder's performance quite enjoyable. Oldman and Hopkins truly carry the movie though, as they should since they are in fact the primary protagonist and antagonist of the movie.
Nina came with them because they reasoned that she was safest under their eyes and not locked up somewhere. If you recall they tried that already when they went to Carfax Abbey and left her at the Asylum and it didn't turn out too well for them.
Almost all of the editing and FX choices were done to give the movie not only a super natural feel but an old time cinema feel as well.
The most faithful adaptation is the English version made by the BBC in 1977 with Louis Jordan as Dracula.
The film comes with that nonsense that Vlad became a vampire because his wife committed suicide for love. When she committed suicide to avoid being taken prisoner by the Turks while Vlad fled to Hungary, leaving her behind and soon marrying other.
It would be more believable if Vlad became a vampire because he doesn't want to die like Gilgamesh wanted the secret of eternal life, like Omo Genghis-Khan.
Writer Bram Stoker relied on himself and his wife Florence Balcombe to develop the relationship between Jonathan and Mina Haker. The couple's relationship did not correspond to the director's sexual fantasies. And Wionna Ryder. Bram Stoker and Florence had a much longer relationship than Wionna Ryder and Johnny Depp.
This movie came out during Keanu’s post Bill and Ted period. And with that accent I still expect him to go “woah, dude, vampires.”
I liked everything about this movie. Casting great and the portrayal of Dracula was awesome, a cursed soul longing for his Mena . The look of this movie is great. Chick is off on her critique .
How can someone be off on their opinion of something subjective like a movie?
As RLM expressed, this movie is a celebration of movie making for movie people.
For context the blue flames appearing during the coach ride to the castle was mentioned in the novel its meant to show where treasure has been concealed but it only appears on one specific night
"Maybe I haven't got far enough in the book." Lol.
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There. THERE wolves
Edit: Monica Belluci as one of the brides (also Persephone in the second Marrix movie) definitely distracted me
If you guys were wondering where does Dracula get his income (if one can call it that) that he's able to purchase properties abroad... he gets it from old buried treasures in places where battles happened.
In the book it is mentioned that one night every year when "evil things are afoot" blue fire or will-o-the-wisps appear over those sites. He then proceeds to mark them for collection later.
Amusingly enough for all his wealth... he can't hire someone for household duties. The major con of being an old-style vampire; learning how to do self-housekeeping.
As evidenced in What We Do in the Shadows.
This movie was never originally intended for a theatrical release; it was written to be shown on television. As such, it takes many liberties with the standard american theatrical movie model in cinematography, pacing, effects, etc. It helps a lot to appreciate its vision if you think of it like you're watching an opera put to film. It's one of my favourite movies.
Easily my favorite appearance of Keanu Reeves is the 1997 movie The Devil's Advocate, the reason he wasn't in Speed 2. Watch that sometime. His performance was great along with the rest of the cast, but the reason to see it can be summed up in 4 words... "Al Pacino as Satan!"
This is overly dramatized and highly stylized, I'd never seen anything like it when it was in the theater. Repeated viewings may help you appreciate it. It's almost like watching a graphic novel, the drama, sex and violence are turned up to 11 but I like it. It's a modern, fresh take on an old story that's been done over and over.
Referring to it as "almost a graphic novel" is a brilliant description. Love this movie and everyone in it. I have watched it many times .❤️
Matthew's comment about 'The Brides' reminded me of the description of the 'Blood Drain' ability in the TTRPG 'Macho Women With Guns' which begins "You can drain a man dry... and drink his blood too."
i think the ”acting choices” were intentional. the movie is intended to be ”camp”, with over the top performances, like in a silent movie. or seemingly (probably intentionally) ”bland”. remember the scene in the film where ”cinema” is the hottest discovery of the day. overall, i loved the intention and the cinematography. everything art direction and technical. all the superimposition/ light and dark plays were call-backs for old movies, although they may look cheesy nowadays, in the marvel universe. various gripes (and gender conversations) aside, every frame of this movie is simply beautiful. nice reaction, luv from a subscriber across the pond! :)
This is my favorite vampire movie. I think the acting was wonderful. Wynonna and Gary killed it. Anthony Hopkins was amazing.
Ever since I read the book when I was 16 or so I was a fan of lascivious, libidinous Lucy.
This always makes me want to watch Dracula's Dead and Loving It.
Looks like Jonathan isn’t the only unfaithful one … DOUBLE STANDARD!!!!!
If you all don't know what was going on at the start of the movie, it is based upon actual history. It's the history of Vlad the Impaler, who Stoker partially based Dracula on. The battle at the start of the film is the famous Night Attack at Târgoviste:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Attack_at_T%C3%A2rgovi%C8%99te
There has yet to be a faithful adaptation of Dracula as almost all make the titular character lovelorn. As with "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein", "Bram Stoker's Dracula" changes the narrative quite a bit. I consider BS'sD a guilty pleasure. It contains many elements and characters of its source material, which is very nice as I've always liked Quincy Morris and he is often omitted or combined with Arthur Holmwood's character. I do wish these films would keep the author's name off the movie title if the film deviates, though. It would be like naming a film "Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice" while giving Fitzwilliam Darcy IBS to explain his aloofness.
I like this version too due to the use of the majority of the characters that always either get changed or omitted entirely in other adaptations. I also enjoyed the bits where Harker's journal, Mina's diary, and Dr. Sewards medical report are included. That was a nice touch.
@@alucard624 This version included Arthur, Seward, and Quincy, and being from Texas, I'm thrilled to see that. Mary Shelly's Frankenstein stuck closer to the book than previous versions such as James Whale's. Its only major deviation was having Victor reanimate Elizabeth, but that was worth it for me, both to see her turn on Victor so we see the extent of his madness, and because it was the first time I had seen Helena Bonham Carter turn batshit crazy for a role.
Stoker’s Dracula is indeed the source of the modern take on vampires.
There were others that came before and influenced Stoker, but yes, a lot of contemporary vampire is either rooted in or a rebuttal to Stoker's Count. Or early cinematic versions thereof.
So Winona and Keanu are the weakest links in the whole movie but everything else is pretty much stellar in my opinion.
Probably my favorite version of Dracula right next to Herzog's remake of Nosferatu. It's very lavish and theatrical and references both expressionist cinema and Hammer Films gothic horror and Gary Oldman as Dracula is just amazing. Also, there's no cgi or greenscreen or anything like that, everything is shot in camera with really clever use of perspective tricks, camera angles, mirrors, lights, shadows, miniature models, elaborate sets and just amazing costumes. It's pure effing style and I love it for that :D
You see a scene from this movie and it is obvious that it is from THIS movie and nothing else.
So Winona Ryder not getting along with Gary Oldman (and thus affecting their scenes) and Keanu trying way too hard on his accent (and thus coming off really stiff in his acting), for me, only knock this movie down to a 9/10. If those two issues were resolved it'd be a 10/10. I'd be perfect.
Honestly I love Keanu being so stiff, but the accent needed work.
Agree!
Ill never hate on this movie, to me its a beautiful adaptadion. Haunting and tragic. Phenomenal work.
I disagree with the wife, because I do love this movie
When this movie came out, everyone was still talking about the love story in the movie "Titanic". I am probably one of the few who didn't like the movie and thought "Dracula" was a much better love story. I watch it every year since it's come out at Halloween. I love it!
Uh this movie came out in 1992 and Titanic came out in 1997.
05:32 The look we all got on our faces when hearing Keanu’s British accent for the first time.
Cannot wait 'til Emily finishes the book and realizes how dirty Mina was done.
So dirty!!! FFC did both my girls wrong! Lol
Finished the book yesterday!
First reactor I’ve ever seen that recognized Tom Waits. That automatically puts you in with the cool kids👍
Anthony Hopkins was great and so was Tom Waits.
It's important to point out that this movie is really the first to fully tie Dracula to the real Vlad the Impaler in the intro. Stoker just borrowed the name, but Coppola made them one in the same. And yes, Keanu's surfer accent is the most distracting thing. He was definitely mis-cast. Bela Lugosi will always be Dracula to me, but Oldman is a strong second.
I read the book a few years after watching the movie. And yes the editing was different, but still a great movie, one of my favorites interpretations.
This is a bit slow-moving at times, but still worth watching more than once.
Your cat is so adorable in the bed above your sofa.
She said it. Over the top in some instances. I love Gary Oldman, but his acting went a little strong in places. Winona even said to him after a cut in a scene "Damn, dude! You're f'ing intense."
Loved the reaction as always... LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE YOUR SHIRT!!!
Yosssss!!!!! Shout out to White Wolf Games and Vampire: the Masquerade!
(We played that nearly every weekend when I was in college.)
"Your friend"....
DIO!
I am SO IMPRESSED that you recognized Tom Waits!!!
My first vampire movie was on late Saturday night TV, on one of those weekly local fright shows, and it was Bela Lugosi in "Dracula" (1931). I was in my mid-teens, puberty pulsating through me, and I have to say I felt a little something 'new' seeing Lugosi chomping on a woman's neck. I think it's well-established that westerners' sense of vampires is all sexual, which explains how loose women in the '30s came to be nicknamed 'vamps'.
Frankly, I give "Bram Stoker's Dracula" a higher rating than a 7.7. I predicted you'd give it a 7 or 8 after discussion, but I think it rates at least a 9 or higher. Not a full 10, but a high 9 for sure. It's bold, it's innovative; it does take some liberties with the original plot, but they're okay. I agree Wynona and Keanu had no business being there, but the others were incredible in their roles. I loved the special effects and costumes and sets. Lascivious Lucy was a trip, but worked. I still say there's a lot to recommend this film, visually. Coppola managed to find a very new way to present what had become a tired cliche character type while keeping the canon that accompanies it.
The earliest Vampire movie that had an impact on me (again, on a late-night monster maven show), was another Bela classic, the remake of London After Midnight, The Mark of the Vampire.
I suspect that some others might have commented on this, but yeah, I'd say that Strahd is heavily inspired by (or perhaps ripping off) Dracula. I actually was DM for the original "Ravenloft" module several times back in the day 😲 The module even included the non-Stoker reincarnation plot, an addition to the Dracula story first seen on film in 1979, if memory serves. "Ravenloft" was first published in 1983, so the concept was pretty fresh at the time.
Coppola took a lot of liberties with Stoker's book. When you get further into the book, you'll see just how much.
Gary Oldman is amazing as Dracula, but I truly can't wait to see Nicolas Cage as Count Dracula in Renfield. Also can't wait for the other Dracula movie coming out soon, The Last Voyage of the Demeter, which is covered in this film itself.
"Nicolas Cage as Count Dracula"
oh gods
I didn't object to the BBC take on Dracula (Moffat/Gatiss), although I can understand some people's concerns about how much they altered the storyline. Some interesting takeaways on his 'brides', though!
Hard To Believe It's be 30 year's since this movie came out
Check out the singer named Diamanda Galas, her song "Ewenoyme" was used when the Brides chew the horses. She did some vocal effects too but she wasn't credited, don't know why.
This is the first time I laugh at this movie, you're too damn funny😸 I'll watch your Top Secret review again after this 😹
Emily, I just got the biggest grin once you recognized Tom Waits!
Before Dracula, there was Carmilla. I recommend the read, its very...salacious.
It's made as if it's a Victorian Melodrama. Using popular Victorian entertainments. Magic lantern shows and theatre directions.
My favorite adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula is in a TV show called Penny Dreadful. It also has my favorite adaptation of Frankenstein. This show would be great for you guys to react to if you haven't seen it yet. Penny Dreadful has a lot of great moments.
This came out around the same time INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE and I watched them both repeatedly in the theater
You'd both enjoy Shadow of the Vampire. Stars John Malkovich and Willem Dafoe. Great horror/dark comedy. I'm surprised nobody has done a reaction to it yet.
Yeah, not a direct adaptation of the book, but one of the closest. But I think the thing that would have really helped you appreciate this movie is if you were a college-age goth in art school like my friends and I were. We loved it. 😆
When it premiered in theaters, that is.
Around this time, Keanu was in a Shakespeare movie, where he was the villain (Much Ado About Nothing). If you can imagine, Keanu's serious British acting was even worse.
11:03 😂
Also like the proper Slav/Romanian pronunciation of “wampire”
I’m with Emily on this one. I’ve never been a big fan of this movie. The big problem for me is I think Gary Oldman and Winona Ryder don’t have great chemistry.
I'd love to see how she likes the Christopher Lee/Peter Cushing one. And then they should watch "The Fearless Vampire Killers!" 😃
Renfield looking like a steampunk Thomas Dolby
I always have a little sadistic laugh when it shows the impaled soldiers/prisoners, because 🎶that’s not🎶how he🎶impaled them🎶
Oh yeah... the actual impalment way Vlad did... would have gotten.... some objections from studeio executives I think. Let's just say for people who do not know... Yes, Lube was used especially cases when poles were not sharpened and then you were gotten imapled alive thru an... orifice. Although Vlad did impale lot's of corpses as part of psychological warfare. That's probably most terrible ways to die I think. Legend that Sultan Mehmet was greeted sight of 23,844 impaled Turks whom Vlad had killed during his invasion of Bulgaria. Now that's a statement.
14:01 yeah, that could potentially be the reason Cary wasn't cast in the Mel Brooks parody, because he was already in the film being parodied.
As a 13 year old when it came out I wasn't allowed to see it.
I was obsessed with vampires, Winona Ryder, Keanu Reeves and Anthony Hopkins so I was dying to see this. I even bought the BTS script book and the comic adaptation. So when I finally saw the film I was like 'well... I would've done THAT differently.
The romance and sexuality was NOT in the novel so feels at odds with the horror
But for me it's a film whose parts are greater than the whole (fhhaarrnarr). Great costumes, score, production design and practical effects. Editing and shot choices can make performances feel disjointed but overall I did like the cast.
Emily, I LOVE your HAIR! OMG! Can you tell me the process of getting it that deep green? I would love to get that done someday!
Thank you!
Awe, thank you!
The blue that I had previously was starting to fade, so I just added some Manic Panic Electric Lizard on top, and this color was the outcome 😊
Cheers!!
Emily
@@JustSUMMReactions awesome!! Can wait to see the full look? Will you do a video in costume?
"Read" the book in Senior English. Fun fact, if you find the book to be "drier than sandpaper in the Sahara", then one can skim it, reading about every 4th line of text, and still achieve at least a 97% on a test about the book. As a wise person once said "Between reading a text in its entirety, and skimming the Cliff Notes, lies Genius".
Tom Waits is such an incredible actor as well as musician, I love his story in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, check that movie out of you haven’t, its a good one and becoming one of my favorites the more I watch it.
Great film, and I love the score of this film. So evocative.