You can really see how much Lee is loving playing this novel-canon Dracula. He's openly expressed his dissatisfaction with the Hammer films before. This one gives him the freedom to embody the character of Stoker's novel and hoo boy does he nail it. THAT VOICE reading Stoker's dialogue, and his visual look, the perfect Dracula.
I think it was more that he didn't want to be type casted as Dracula and fall in the same hole Bela fell in when he was Dracula, the only time I knew of his disliking of the Hammer Dracula was with how many sequels were made and how far each one went from the novel, but he was always happy to take on the role because he genuinely loved the comradery that he had with the cast and crew of Hammer, in fact when one of the directors begged him to take on the role again and was so desperate that he told lee everyone's jobs were on the line, he put aside his pride and took it on because he cared that much for them and didn't want to see hundreds of people lose their jobs
He's talking about himself as the Dracula that stood against the evil Muslims because Dracula was a great Christian warrior I love this version of Dracula awesome
This monologue gives you the sense that the house of Dracula is truly a proud lineage that has fallen into darkness. Christopher says it was such conviction and passion that he comes off as heroic as opposed to devious and menacing. You truly feel sympathy for him. It's only when he literally sprouts fangs that the audience is reminded of who he is.
Well he is Vlad Tepes, the great warrior who protected the whole of Europe from the Turks for several decades before he became a vampire I guess, we never really learned how it happened, but he definitely was a hero once, cruel, yes, but a hero nonetheless, and I really like that Stoker put some references of that into the story. :) Lee deliveres the lines perfectly, you can just see him remembering things that happened centuries ago :)
@@shadowsteed15 He became a Vampire via the Dark Arts he learned from the Scholomancy which is a hidden detail in the book that never appears in any film adaption at all.
This is the only fully book-accurate Dracula, and this whole sequence is just gold. Unlike Horror of Dracula (which I still enjoy), where Lee hadn't quite developed his sonorous voice and delivers all of his lines really quickly, here he just oozes the ancient, imposing presence. A lot of people in the comments are discussing the accent and whether or not that's book-accurate. The book does indeed refer to Dracula as "speaking perfect English, albeit with a strange intonation". While that intonation could refer to a regional accent of some kind, I don't think it necessarily has to, and I think Lee's booming voice and biting diction could definitely qualify as a "strange intonation", so it still fits.
Intonation when referring to speaking means pitch. How high and low the voice is in pitch during a sentence and where it goes high and low. Stoker implies that Dracula taught himself English from books (if I remember correctly). He also has lived on his own in a Castle for hundreds of years. It is to show the reader how clever Dracula is but that he has likely never spoken to anyone in English before so he's probably not sure of the natural inflections in the language. I don't think Stoker mentions pronunciation or accent but one would presume it sounds like someone from Romania 150 years ago who had taught themselves English without ever hearing it spoken by a native speaker.
I'd heard that this was supposed to be the most faithful Dracula adaptation but it really isn't. Aside from the opening, it doesn't follow the book all that closely to be honest. It's certainly the most faithful version that Lee starred in, but for my money the 1977 BBC Count Dracula is by far the most faithful and accurate.
He didn't have much say with Hammer. He literally just had to improvise lines from the book in the sequels in the hopes of connecting it in some way to Stoker, but considered this the only one he actually got to "play" the character despite grievances with the film itself.
christopher lee is such a great actor.he is the best dracula of all time.when he played dracula he was so intimidating,with the fangs soaked with blood and the blood red eyes.not to mention his powerful voice.
I totally agree. I've seen a number of actors playing Dracula, but none of them were as intimidating, or as intense as Christopher Lee. He was my favorite, and the best Dracula of all time...
Nearly the entire first act of this film follows the actual novel verbatim. I'm most impressed that they made Christopher Lee actually look like Count Dracula as how he is described in Bram Stoker's original text; an old man with a moustache. This is the ONLY film I've seen so far to ever get it right.
Count Dracula is a shape shifter he doesn't have a single "look" but yeah this is how he would look like in the first act in England he grows a more youthful appearance.
Kinda wish the "Bram Stoker's Dracula Starring Bela Lugosi" graphic novel gave Lugosi a moustache. :P Outside of a few details, it's probably the most loyal Dracula adaptation out there.
And you know, one thing Christopher had that made him more believable as Dracula, besides his acting, was his deep voice. I don't know why, but I find a deep voice fits Dracula
@The Galactic Senate of the Republic Most likely since apparently the material world refuses to acknowledge Dracula's presence since his soul is so blackened to the point of being null and void almost like a walking black hole...
This was always a great Dracula movie. It’s so calm and laid back with great Stoker dialogue. One of Christopher Lee’s best movies. RIP to a true Legend.
I love this movie. :) Christopher Lee was always the best Dracula, but this movie is special because it's so faithful to the book. :) Also, he's a bit older here so he definitely fits the role a lot better than in the old Hammer movies and to hear that deep voice of his is always a delight, the way he delivers these lines is amazing. :)
I cannot get over how awesome this is. **This** is the version I've been looking for all these years! So close to Stoker, the words of the novel come alive at last! Moody and artful, and punctuated with Lee's best performance in his iconic role. Superb.
"Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere." Though this movie certainly had its flaws, Lee is just magnificent here. I think this is the best performance of a book-canon Dracula I have ever seen, both in physical appearance and his commanding, intense screen presence. As entertaining as the Hammer films are, THIS is the Dracula of Stoker's novel in the flesh.
I mean, Gary Oldman was kinda doing Bela Lugosi, so I think what we're looking for is Lee's physical appearance, with Lugosi's accent mixed with Lee's "oomph".
As well as Coppola's excellent use of the camera, light and shadow. The shots where Gary Oldman's shadow does whatever it wants like Peter Pan's are some of the best in the movie. And having recently watched Coppola's version, Lee seems stiff and motionless compared to Oldman's more emotional and expressive acting. Not saying one is better, it is just odd to see the same scene with the same character be so different.
Reading the book for the first time, this was EXACTLY how I envisioned Dracula's look. The hair, the mustache, and the black suit... the only thing missing is the accent.
I have the book right here and this is what it says: "...he said in perfect english , although with an strange intonation". I have to add that my book isn't written in english but I guess it is the same in each one of the translations. What I want to say is that, with that quote in mind, I think that the count did have an accent but still knew very good english
@@jokkemursula8731 was so-so. Bela Legusi's Hungarian accent was phenomenal that it is even used on current kid friendly vampires like Sesame Street's Count Von Count and Hotel Transylvania's Dracula.
It is at first, but the ending not so much. Also some of the effects could have been done better. That said, Lee's performance in this movie is one of the best on-screen portrayals of a vampire I've ever seen (except maybe Jonathan Frid as Barnabas Collins).
Although his first Dracula movie, Hammer Films' "Horror of Dracula" (1958), remains as one of my alltime favourite Dracula films, it is true that this is the film in which Lee seems to really be into it. And Lee is the best Dracula on screen, ever.
Oh that is just glorious! The problems with the film are evident and I think sitting through the whole thing might be a bit of an endeavour, but Lee speaking the count's dialogue makes it all worthwhile!
"True. The shadows of my past remain here. We are the second magias. We have a right to be proud. For in us, flows the blood of many brave races. The blood of a tiller in these veins. To us was entrusted for centuries the guardian of our lands. The Lombard, the Bulgar, the Turk, poured their thousands against our frontiers, we drove them back. The Dracula's have ever been the hearts, blood, the brains, the sword of our people. One of my race crossed the Danube and destroyed the Turkish host. Though sometimes beaten back, he came again and again against the enemy. Then at the end, he came alone from the bloody field, for he alone could triumph. This was a Dracula indeed."
Thanks for writing the dialogue. Except 2 mistakes maybe due to auto type. Correct is: 1. Magyars which is a race of the hungarians and people settled around the Danube; 2. Attila - Attila is the warrior from the Hun Race who is believed to have ruled vast swathes of land in the eurasian plains and Danube region. The beauty of the Dracula novel and movies is that it's background is so interwoven with actual historic events, besides being a story which talks of a love story which transcends time and death
My sister worked at Pebble Mill for the BBC in Birmingham UK in the 1980s. She met Christopher Lee one day on the reception desk. She'd bent down to pick something up, stood up, and he was leaning over the desk. She nearly soiled herself right there.
Christopher Lee a true Legend, although not every film he did was a classic, he had a presence and charisma that would draw you to him and compell you to watch and believe in the character, a quality very seldom seen in actors of today. So many films and numerous roles and what a voice, this great actor could read the back of your gas bill and make it sound like a scene from a shakespearean play. Although he was offered a lot of big budget film roles, some which he turned down, he did confess his regret in doing so. However, he has left us with a very impressive body of work, that hopefully new generations will discover and enjoy. RIP Sir, regrettably gone...but NEVER forgotten..A True British Legend.
2:32 For a hermit vampire who never cleans, the table cloth and upholstery is immaculate. We'll never know how Dracula trained the spiders to only decorate the candelabras. Ancient Transylvanian Secret...😆
Christopher Lee in later interviews would refer to franco's version as an indifferent film. He remarked that he knew he was in trouble when he saw all the zoom lenses!
I love Herzog's remake of "Nosferatu", one of the best Dracula films made, even when it has nothing really to do with Stoker's book. Kinski was excellent, but Lee will always be THE Dracula to me.
@@sheep1ewe It has nothing to do with that which the reason he's missing his reflection and has no shadow because it's heavily implied that the Devil took his soul as his due when he became the 10th scholar to ride the dragon and control the elements when the attended the Scholomancy which is how he became a vampire in the first place or either that the material world outright rejects him.
Eu cresci assistindo a Lendária Dupla; Cushing e Lee ( ótimos atores )que levavam a Hammer filmes nas costas durante muitos anos, e Lee foi e sempre será o Lendário e Temido Conde Drácula!
My favorite Dracula portrayal is Gary Oldman in the film, "Bram Stoker's Dracula"(just an INCREDIBLE score composed by Wojciech Kilar). However, Sir Christopher Lee's performance is always AWESOME.
FUN FACT! Producer Harry Alan Towers raised the budget through his Lichtenstein shell corporation, then left Franco with so little cash to actually make and deliver the film that Franco ended up having to pay for part of the production himself!
I love Gary Oldman as Dracula but Christopher Lee remains number ove. I believe it's his heights ,voice and that sinister look in his eyes that gives him that special edge.
he didn't experience the no-reflection-in-the-mirror until a day or two later when he was shaving. the one with Louis Jourdan also attempted to stay more closely with the book. I wish I could see all of this.
So the scene with the stuffed dolls ? Was that in the book ? Or the way they kill Dracula ? I don't think so.. The beginning of this film is mostly faithful to the book, it's true, however by the end it completely strays away from the book. I'm guessing it had something to do with the investors backing out halfway through the filming. Franco, the Director, had to finance it by himself just to finish it.
Actually the plot of this film, in its entirety, ends up being entirely different from the original novel by Bram Stoker. For example: Van Helsing has a practice near London, a clinic for the mentally ill, where Dr Seward works as his subordinate, whereas in the novel, Van Helsing goes to London from Amsterdam at Dr Seward's request. Jonathan Harker waking up in Van Helsing's clinic after escaping from Dracula's castle rather than Mina travelling to mainland Europe to bring Jonathan back to London. Renfield went mad because Dracula killed his daughter near Bistriks and Renfield doesn't say a word. Lucy is attacked by Dracula while staying at the clinic? The ridiculous and hilarious encounter with the stuffed animals at Dracula's London house? Dracula being burned alive at the end after his disciples are chased away with giant boulders ? None of that was part of the novel. The 1977 BBC version of Count Dracula with Louis Jordan is the most faithful adaption that was ever made, although it was not a theatrical release, it was a miniseries for the BBC
low budget my ass this is way better than hammer horror films it focuses on the story much more, even Christopher Lee himself said it was better than hammer horror
Hammer films were much better with their Gothic settings, they were masters of using a low budget to create believable period films. This movie falls flat with Lee's fake moustache and cheap looking spider webs on the candle sticks
@@robertbishop5357 He did not "Hate" them. They just were not as he envisioned them to be. But no way did he "Hate" them. He also understood their popularity and accepted the role as years went on.
This is awesome -- closer to Stoker than ANY other version (even the 1977 BBC), and pulsating with intrigue. Here is Lee's best performance as the character for which he is best known! Here is Count Dracula **exactly** as described in the novel! Color me an instant fan.
To be fair, in the novel Dracula isn't stated to have an accent, just "strange intonation," which now that I consider it, could be an accent. But he is described as speaking excellent English.
Intonation means pitch during a sentence. How it goes from high to low and everything in between. Dracula taught himself and has never spoken the language with anyone in person. That's why his intonation is likely strange
I often reconcile the novel's lines: "One of my race..." and "This was a Dracula indeed" as the Count recollecting and sharing his own history, but "concealing" his own identity in a manner of speaking by alluding to an ancestor. Bram Stoker's novel "Dracula" has been and remains one of my very favorite books for close to forty years and counting. Christopher Lee is my favorite actor among all to have ever taken the role.
I'm sure you know this but the "ancestor" he praises so passionately, "This was a Dracula indeed!" was actually himself before he became an eeevil thing of the night. He seems to think extremely highly of himself. Of course, later in the book Van Helsing informs us he was also a genius when he was alive and one of the things the movies don't quite bring out is Dracula is smarter than them and is always one step ahead until right at the end...when he's killed, not with a wooden stake, but with two knives, a Bowie knife and another from Nepal that's called a kukri. You're welcome.
I would say he had every right to be proud of his achievements since he was quite formidable in his human life; I remember somewhere in the book, Mina mentioned that Dracula was weary of life, and in the end, when he was killed, she saw a look of peace on his face before he turned into dust.
@PAT123717 Vlad III Beserab aks Vlad Dracula aka Vlad Tepes both the Dracula (which means son of the Dragon and referred to his Father having been made a Knight of the Order of the Dragon) and the Tepes for his impaling people as it means ''Impaler''. He was a genius who raised hell with the Turks but religious differences among the Christians led to his first downfall.
Antonio Yeah there was one window/mirrior like glass that Jonathan was using to shave, but it revealed to him that Dracula has no reflection, which Causes Dracula to shatter it with his powers. He responds with “A foul bauble of man’s vanities.” And proceeds to look deeply at Jonathan’s shaving cut where blood began to slip from.
Artorîas No, that was a mirror Harker had in his luggage, and the Count threw it out of the window after Harker cut himself shaving (he got a fright hearing the Count speak right behind him when the reflection hadn’t shown him come in). Having a mirror in the dining room, or anywhere in a vampire’s home, is daft. No use to them and a giveaway to anyone else. Reminds me of Fred Saberhagen’s neat trick in his modern Dracula stories - he has the Count install a video screen in his bathroom in lieu of a mirror.
The way Christopher Lee portrayed the Count in this adaptation is very different from the Hammer films productions. Unlike the fast paced Hammer movies this version moves at a rather leisurely pace. And it is a bit hard to identify this Count with the Count Dracula from the Hammer Films who perhaps is more aggressive and cold and whose grimacing face in confrontations with Van Helsing(Peter Cushing) is missing in this case...also unlike in this adaptation which is closer to the novel, Lee is shown growing younger like in the novel...only Bram Stoker's Dracula in which Gary Oldman played the Count is this detail shown. Other details find mention in other adaptations...one of the closest adaptations of the novel was Louis Jourdan's Dracula made for BBC in 1977...even though Jourdan does not grown younger in the adaptation...but the incident where Harker see's the Count crawling down the castle wall is shown in it....I think only three other movie versions have shown that detail...Lee in Scars of Dracula(1968) was shown climbing up the Castle Wall in a brief sequence...Frank Langella was shown crawling down the wall in 1979 version..and of course Gary Oldman crawled down the wall in the1992 version.
Just watched it again last night. It’s decent, it’s a bit slow and you could tell they spent all their money on the scenes with Christopher Lee as the production value and overall quality is much improved whenever he is onscreen, but it’s far from a bad film, one of the better Jess Franco films I’ve seen, just needed a bigger budget and a better producer than Harry Towers. Lee is magnificent here, it’s his best performance as the Count!
Ive not seen this version yet. I recently read the novel and all my favourite scenes are not in any version ive ever watched, which baffles me. Looking forward to seeing this.
2:06 I love how the upholstery on the chair and the table cloth are immaculate but the candelabras are completely draped in cobwebs. Dracula, who has no servants, must go to great lengths to keep those delicate webs intact for the ambiance.
When I was in my 20's I use to have this recurring dream about walking through a dark hilly forest heading towards Dracula's Castle, the forest was always full of creatures hiding in the shadows. I never made it to the castle, but I knew I was suppose to kill Count Dracula.
Whatever you are smoking, give me some ! I too want to be lost in carpethin mountains, i too want to be abused by darculya 3 hot brides. And i dont mind living forever too, with every one fearing me saying the undead travel fast, i wud like to see my enemies face turn pale white and bow down b4 me and call me master. Count is si powerful that he escaped the grave.
You can really see how much Lee is loving playing this novel-canon Dracula.
He's openly expressed his dissatisfaction with the Hammer films before. This one gives him the freedom to embody the character of Stoker's novel and hoo boy does he nail it. THAT VOICE reading Stoker's dialogue, and his visual look, the perfect Dracula.
I think it was more that he didn't want to be type casted as Dracula and fall in the same hole Bela fell in when he was Dracula, the only time I knew of his disliking of the Hammer Dracula was with how many sequels were made and how far each one went from the novel, but he was always happy to take on the role because he genuinely loved the comradery that he had with the cast and crew of Hammer, in fact when one of the directors begged him to take on the role again and was so desperate that he told lee everyone's jobs were on the line, he put aside his pride and took it on because he cared that much for them and didn't want to see hundreds of people lose their jobs
It's the role he was born to plat isn't it
Definitely...a born DRACULA
Love this film 🎥. True to the original novel and look of Dracula.
He's talking about himself as the Dracula that stood against the evil Muslims because Dracula was a great Christian warrior I love this version of Dracula awesome
Christopher Lee, Bela Lugosi, and Gary Oldman really are amazing Dracula. They brought their own version of Dracula and they were amazing.
And let's not forget Louis Jourdan from the 1977 BBC miniseries, which is the most faithful adaptation of the book! His Dracula is pure darkness!!
@@casesoutherland4175 💥💥💥💥yes
Jack palance and frank langella both did good jobs too to be honest
@@casesoutherland4175I actually love Louis Jourdan’s Dracula a lot too
RIP Sir Christopher Lee 1922-2015. A legend.
And the one *TRUE* Dracula!
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RIP Christopher Lee. No one could play the Prince of Darkness the way he did.
He was speaking 8 languages including english 😱😱😱😱🤯
@@DirtyGeorge You're speaking from your own viewpoint, mine differs significantly.
God i love that historical monologue, you can see clearly that he only feels "alive" by remembering his past.
I always loved Christopher Lee's melodic voice.
Bela Legusi's Hungarian voice was better
Same here. No matter what his age, his deep voice was like the song in the silence of the night.
Alif Wibisono You love his “me-long-dic” voice? You gay.
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@@crashpal debatable but what isnt is absolutely nothing else was
This monologue gives you the sense that the house of Dracula is truly a proud lineage that has fallen into darkness. Christopher says it was such conviction and passion that he comes off as heroic as opposed to devious and menacing. You truly feel sympathy for him. It's only when he literally sprouts fangs that the audience is reminded of who he is.
Well he is Vlad Tepes, the great warrior who protected the whole of Europe from the Turks for several decades before he became a vampire I guess, we never really learned how it happened, but he definitely was a hero once, cruel, yes, but a hero nonetheless, and I really like that Stoker put some references of that into the story. :) Lee deliveres the lines perfectly, you can just see him remembering things that happened centuries ago :)
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Can the Tepes myth die already?
The Dracula family in the novel was always in darkness. However they were still heroic, albeit in an "the ends justify the means" sort of way.
@@shadowsteed15pity other european kings didnt support him against osmans
@@shadowsteed15 He became a Vampire via the Dark Arts he learned from the Scholomancy which is a hidden detail in the book that never appears in any film adaption at all.
A phenomenal performance by the legendary Christopher Lee. Rest In Peace, Count Dracula, Count Dooku and Saruman The White of our hearts!😑
Don't forget Francisco Scaramanga.
LegendOfLegends19100 he Will be back
@@alifwibisono1000Or Lord Summerisle.
This is the only fully book-accurate Dracula, and this whole sequence is just gold. Unlike Horror of Dracula (which I still enjoy), where Lee hadn't quite developed his sonorous voice and delivers all of his lines really quickly, here he just oozes the ancient, imposing presence.
A lot of people in the comments are discussing the accent and whether or not that's book-accurate. The book does indeed refer to Dracula as "speaking perfect English, albeit with a strange intonation". While that intonation could refer to a regional accent of some kind, I don't think it necessarily has to, and I think Lee's booming voice and biting diction could definitely qualify as a "strange intonation", so it still fits.
Intonation when referring to speaking means pitch. How high and low the voice is in pitch during a sentence and where it goes high and low. Stoker implies that Dracula taught himself English from books (if I remember correctly). He also has lived on his own in a Castle for hundreds of years. It is to show the reader how clever Dracula is but that he has likely never spoken to anyone in English before so he's probably not sure of the natural inflections in the language. I don't think Stoker mentions pronunciation or accent but one would presume it sounds like someone from Romania 150 years ago who had taught themselves English without ever hearing it spoken by a native speaker.
I'd heard that this was supposed to be the most faithful Dracula adaptation but it really isn't. Aside from the opening, it doesn't follow the book all that closely to be honest. It's certainly the most faithful version that Lee starred in, but for my money the 1977 BBC Count Dracula is by far the most faithful and accurate.
"This is the only fully book-accurate Dracula" Nope, the closest to the book is the 1977 BBC version with Louis Jourdan.
Well the 1992 version kind of did that but only the parts when he turns himself to a young man
This is quite a good watch to see which version of Dracula is the most faithful to the book:
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“Count Dracula?”
“No... Christopher Lee.”
*runs away screaming into the night*
Lee: “Every bloody time...” *slams door shut*
Count Dooku
The only movie where Dracula appears as Stoker described it. With a moustache and grey hair. Is also the first movie where Dracula grows younger.
It took that long for Christopher Lee to get the Dracula look right.
He didn't have much say with Hammer. He literally just had to improvise lines from the book in the sequels in the hopes of connecting it in some way to Stoker, but considered this the only one he actually got to "play" the character despite grievances with the film itself.
ADSCP The first yes, but I don't think the only.
With Lee? Yes it was the only. He deserved a "second chance" with a better production. RIP
ADSCP I didn't know that, thanks for the info.
And yes RIP. He was a legend.
- Welcome to my house.
- Count Dracula?
- No, your mom.
No, Santa Claus!!!??
-Count Dracula?
-Yes,and You?
-Not me!
Mommy!
Dracula: Welcome to my house.
J. Harker: Count Dracula?
Dracula: I'm Count Dooku.
No the Easter bunny. Yeah im Dracula. Jeez what a schmuck !!!
christopher lee is such a great actor.he is the best dracula of all time.when he played dracula he was so intimidating,with the fangs soaked with blood and the blood red eyes.not to mention his powerful voice.
I totally agree. I've seen a number of actors playing Dracula, but none of them were as intimidating, or as intense as Christopher Lee. He was my favorite, and the best Dracula of all time...
joseph machol written when he was alive rip
Gary Oldman was the great Dracula as well.
Oh i so agree
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Nearly the entire first act of this film follows the actual novel verbatim. I'm most impressed that they made Christopher Lee actually look like Count Dracula as how he is described in Bram Stoker's original text; an old man with a moustache. This is the ONLY film I've seen so far to ever get it right.
Count Dracula is a shape shifter he doesn't have a single "look" but yeah this is how he would look like in the first act in England he grows a more youthful appearance.
Kinda wish the "Bram Stoker's Dracula Starring Bela Lugosi" graphic novel gave Lugosi a moustache. :P
Outside of a few details, it's probably the most loyal Dracula adaptation out there.
LONG LIVE THE LATE SIR CHRISTOPHER LEE!
Makes no sense. He dead
Oh he"s very much alive so don"nt you worry about that; he"s just not focused in physical reality anymore
And you know, one thing Christopher had that made him more believable as Dracula, besides his acting, was his deep voice. I don't know why, but I find a deep voice fits Dracula
RIP Sir Christopher Lee. The greatest actor to portray Dracula. I miss seeing him already.
Dracula: "Do not be alarmed by that howling it's just my neighbor Eddie Munster complaining about having so much homework to do." Lol!!!!
The only time Christopher Lee truly got to play Stoker's Dracula.
But his Hammer Dracula is a great creation too! A classic.
This was a Dracula indeed what a great line gives me goosebumps
This is as close a perfect representation of the novel as you can get. Nothing over the top. Just incredible acting and an eerie atmosphere.
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The candles are also vampires. That's why you can't see it's reflection in the mirror.
😂 made me laugh so much
@ and the candelabra - yes! Been waiting for someone to mention it. 😜😜😜
Even the camera crew?
@@JPLMONEY23 especially the camera crew.
@The Galactic Senate of the Republic Most likely since apparently the material world refuses to acknowledge Dracula's presence since his soul is so blackened to the point of being null and void almost like a walking black hole...
This was always a great Dracula movie. It’s so calm and laid back with great Stoker dialogue. One of Christopher Lee’s best movies. RIP to a true Legend.
My God that voice ♥️
Bravo to this film for keeping Dracula’s appearance true to the source material.
I love this movie. :) Christopher Lee was always the best Dracula, but this movie is special because it's so faithful to the book. :) Also, he's a bit older here so he definitely fits the role a lot better than in the old Hammer movies and to hear that deep voice of his is always a delight, the way he delivers these lines is amazing. :)
I cannot get over how awesome this is. **This** is the version I've been looking for all these years! So close to Stoker, the words of the novel come alive at last! Moody and artful, and punctuated with Lee's best performance in his iconic role. Superb.
"Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white
moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck
of colour about him anywhere."
Though this movie certainly had its flaws, Lee is just magnificent here. I think this is the best performance of a book-canon Dracula I have ever seen, both in physical appearance and his commanding, intense screen presence. As entertaining as the Hammer films are, THIS is the Dracula of Stoker's novel in the flesh.
Lee's looks with Gary Oldman's accent and voice would be the perfect version of this scene.
I mean, Gary Oldman was kinda doing Bela Lugosi, so I think what we're looking for is Lee's physical appearance, with Lugosi's accent mixed with Lee's "oomph".
As well as Coppola's excellent use of the camera, light and shadow. The shots where Gary Oldman's shadow does whatever it wants like Peter Pan's are some of the best in the movie. And having recently watched Coppola's version, Lee seems stiff and motionless compared to Oldman's more emotional and expressive acting. Not saying one is better, it is just odd to see the same scene with the same character be so different.
The legendary voice!
Would’ve loved for an audiobook read by a full cast with Lee as Dracula to be released. R.I.P. Christopher Lee.
Yeah, it's a shame we're never going to have that, that would be amazing. :)
One of the greatest actors ever.R.I.P. Sir Christopher.👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
As a kid, I loved the old Hammer horror classics featuring the greats like Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Vincent Price and Peter Lorre.
Reading the book for the first time, this was EXACTLY how I envisioned Dracula's look. The hair, the mustache, and the black suit... the only thing missing is the accent.
I have the book right here and this is what it says: "...he said in perfect english , although with an strange intonation". I have to add that my book isn't written in english but I guess it is the same in each one of the translations. What I want to say is that, with that quote in mind, I think that the count did have an accent but still knew very good english
vocaloidmaster1 I think Louis Jourdan did a good job with the accent.
@@jokkemursula8731 was so-so. Bela Legusi's Hungarian accent was phenomenal that it is even used on current kid friendly vampires like Sesame Street's Count Von Count and Hotel Transylvania's Dracula.
he has an accent....he sure the heck is not speaking American English there!!!
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When he says..
".....although with a strange ...'...intonation'..." intonation means ACCENT.
Christopher Lee's presence on screen was like no other💯 I truly miss him and all his classic movies and Lord of the Rings 💯
He lived a very long and blessed life.
I actually really like this scene! Lee is great! His acting is so wonderful in this video, and he makes so much with his voice.
Sir Christopher Lee...my eternal Count Dracula.
I love watching this flick on cold nights when it rains outside. The rain on the roof adds so much to the ambiance of it.
Lugosi the Romantic mysterious Dracula.
Lee the dark terrifying Dracula.
Frank Langella was the romantic mysterious Dracula:)
@@goranvisnjic8888 perhaps for your generation but not mine.
@@jj-tq4hx Just kidding😀Bela was superb as Dracula!!!
"Have you lived here for many years?"
"All my life."
This one seems more faithful to the original story as written by Stoker.
It is at first, but the ending not so much. Also some of the effects could have been done better.
That said, Lee's performance in this movie is one of the best on-screen portrayals of a vampire I've ever seen (except maybe Jonathan Frid as Barnabas Collins).
@@Stardweller1
Look up the 1972 movie "The Night Stalker"
Barry Atwater plays "Janos Skorzeny" Damn good vampire.
The movie is on RUclips.
Although his first Dracula movie, Hammer Films' "Horror of Dracula" (1958), remains as one of my alltime favourite Dracula films, it is true that this is the film in which Lee seems to really be into it.
And Lee is the best Dracula on screen, ever.
Oh that is just glorious! The problems with the film are evident and I think sitting through the whole thing might be a bit of an endeavour, but Lee speaking the count's dialogue makes it all worthwhile!
"True. The shadows of my past remain here. We are the second magias. We have a right to be proud. For in us, flows the blood of many brave races. The blood of a tiller in these veins. To us was entrusted for centuries the guardian of our lands. The Lombard, the Bulgar, the Turk, poured their thousands against our frontiers, we drove them back. The Dracula's have ever been the hearts, blood, the brains, the sword of our people. One of my race crossed the Danube and destroyed the Turkish host. Though sometimes beaten back, he came again and again against the enemy. Then at the end, he came alone from the bloody field, for he alone could triumph. This was a Dracula indeed."
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Spellcheck: Magyars... and the blood of Attila.
@@NyghtDarkwatch correct👍👍
Thanks for writing the dialogue. Except 2 mistakes maybe due to auto type. Correct is: 1. Magyars which is a race of the hungarians and people settled around the Danube; 2. Attila - Attila is the warrior from the Hun Race who is believed to have ruled vast swathes of land in the eurasian plains and Danube region.
The beauty of the Dracula novel and movies is that it's background is so interwoven with actual historic events, besides being a story which talks of a love story which transcends time and death
Superb acting + atmosphere!!!
I’ll seek out the full movie now 🧛♂️🎬🍿
My sister worked at Pebble Mill for the BBC in Birmingham UK in the 1980s. She met Christopher Lee one day on the reception desk. She'd bent down to pick something up, stood up, and he was leaning over the desk. She nearly soiled herself right there.
"This... Was a Dracula indeed..."
"I am Dracula"
yes you are, yes you are.
Christopher Lee a true Legend, although not every film he did was a classic, he had a presence and charisma that would draw you to him and compell you to watch and believe in the character, a quality very seldom seen in actors of today. So many films and numerous roles and what a voice, this great actor could read the back of your gas bill and make it sound like a scene from a shakespearean play. Although he was offered a lot of big budget film roles, some which he turned down, he did confess his regret in doing so. However, he has left us with a very impressive body of work, that hopefully new generations will discover and enjoy. RIP Sir, regrettably gone...but NEVER forgotten..A True British Legend.
2:32 For a hermit vampire who never cleans, the table cloth and upholstery is immaculate. We'll never know how Dracula trained the spiders to only decorate the candelabras. Ancient Transylvanian Secret...😆
BEST VOICE EVER
Christopher Lee in later interviews would refer to franco's version as an indifferent film. He remarked that he knew he was in trouble when he saw all the zoom lenses!
He was truly a gift to cinema. You can see the marks of war etched on his face. And he speaks with such intensity that I can't help but be transfixed.
Christopher lee was my favourite actor in all the world when i was young. I loved these moviez.
I love Herzog's remake of "Nosferatu", one of the best Dracula films made, even when it has nothing really to do with Stoker's book. Kinski was excellent, but Lee will always be THE Dracula to me.
Yes Kinski was truly excellent in his unique bizarre way . Phantom der Nacht Is really a great movie.
DRACULA’S GOT NO MIRROR REFLECTION BUT HE’S GOT SHADOW!
Old mirrors contained silver as the reflective but the walls don't, my guess.
@@sheep1ewe It has nothing to do with that which the reason he's missing his reflection and has no shadow because it's heavily implied that the Devil took his soul as his due when he became the 10th scholar to ride the dragon and control the elements when the attended the Scholomancy which is how he became a vampire in the first place or either that the material world outright rejects him.
@@zonilo1 Ah, yes, that make sense.
(At least in the story)
Dear sir Christopher you brought me many happy times watching you in all those wonderful hammer films growing up thank you sir and rip
Eu cresci assistindo a Lendária Dupla; Cushing e Lee ( ótimos atores )que levavam a Hammer filmes nas costas durante muitos anos, e Lee foi e sempre será o Lendário e Temido Conde Drácula!
“I’ve already dined”
My favorite Dracula portrayal is Gary Oldman in the film, "Bram Stoker's Dracula"(just an INCREDIBLE score composed by Wojciech Kilar). However, Sir Christopher Lee's performance is always AWESOME.
FUN FACT! Producer Harry Alan Towers raised the budget through his Lichtenstein shell corporation, then left Franco with so little cash to actually make and deliver the film that Franco ended up having to pay for part of the production himself!
I love his movie I grew up watching mr Lee best Dracula every
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I love Gary Oldman as Dracula but Christopher Lee remains number ove. I believe it's his heights ,voice and that sinister look in his eyes that gives him that special edge.
he didn't experience the no-reflection-in-the-mirror until a day or two later when he was shaving. the one with Louis Jourdan also attempted to stay more closely with the book. I wish I could see all of this.
So the scene with the stuffed dolls ? Was that in the book ? Or the way they kill Dracula ? I don't think so..
The beginning of this film is mostly faithful to the book, it's true, however by the end it completely strays away from the book. I'm guessing it had something to do with the investors backing out halfway through the filming. Franco, the Director, had to finance it by himself just to finish it.
Actually the plot of this film, in its entirety, ends up being entirely different from the original novel by Bram Stoker.
For example: Van Helsing has a practice near London, a clinic for the mentally ill, where Dr Seward works as his subordinate, whereas in the novel, Van Helsing goes to London from Amsterdam at Dr Seward's request. Jonathan Harker waking up in Van Helsing's clinic after escaping from Dracula's castle rather than Mina travelling to mainland Europe to bring Jonathan back to London. Renfield went mad because Dracula killed his daughter near Bistriks and Renfield doesn't say a word. Lucy is attacked by Dracula while staying at the clinic? The ridiculous and hilarious encounter with the stuffed animals at Dracula's London house? Dracula being burned alive at the end after his disciples are chased away with giant boulders ?
None of that was part of the novel.
The 1977 BBC version of Count Dracula with Louis Jordan is the most faithful adaption that was ever made, although it was not a theatrical release, it was a miniseries for the BBC
Well, at least it has Christopher Lee's own voice, that counts (no pun intended).
Why did dracula stay out of the kitchen he didn't like the steak
Christopher Lee was such a boss.
Sir Christopher is and will always be the king of horror followed only by Peter Cushin and Vincent Price!!!!
They were great! Real masters of the Horror!
@@Darrigrande The trio will be missed.
Ay.. what about Boris Karloff ?
This movie and the 1977 BBC TV movie with Louis Jordan are the only versions of Dracula that got Bram Stoker's story right.
low budget my ass this is way better than hammer horror films
it focuses on the story much more, even Christopher Lee himself said it was better than hammer horror
Hammer films were much better with their Gothic settings, they were masters of using a low budget to create believable period films. This movie falls flat with Lee's fake moustache and cheap looking spider webs on the candle sticks
alucardfu2 he actually hated the hammer films. In an interview he stated they were not his favorite to do.
@@robertbishop5357 He did not "Hate" them. They just were not as he envisioned them to be. But no way did he "Hate" them. He also understood their popularity and accepted the role as years went on.
@@zigomanis18 He also said he was proud of the first Hammer Dracula, as he should have been. That film is one of the all-time classic horror films.
when i invite my girlfriend to my house: @ 1:35
I wonder why Lee hated it when people brought up Dracula so much? This was his best act.
Faithful and atmospheric.
This is awesome -- closer to Stoker than ANY other version (even the 1977 BBC), and pulsating with intrigue. Here is Lee's best performance as the character for which he is best known! Here is Count Dracula **exactly** as described in the novel! Color me an instant fan.
Straordinario Lee ho visto quel film al suo debutto, ottimamente doppiato in italiano. Stupendo.
Thanks.
I love this version
To be fair, in the novel Dracula isn't stated to have an accent, just "strange intonation," which now that I consider it, could be an accent. But he is described as speaking excellent English.
Intonation means pitch during a sentence. How it goes from high to low and everything in between. Dracula taught himself and has never spoken the language with anyone in person. That's why his intonation is likely strange
I’ve always loved Christopher Lee as Dracula, such presence and a truly legendary actor ❤
Set Design / Lighting / Dialogue and Acting : all perfection !
The voice of Christopher...resuena como un trueno " Madre mia".
Very touching classic! And with great actors. Fred Williams as Harker can't be forgotten too
I recognize this in the Netflix series Dracula. Nice to see the origin of scenes as the arrival in something.
Absolute legend.
Well, the dialogue starts out accurately enough. I read the book countless times when I was much younger.
THIS was probably the BEST version of "Dracula" ever done and MOST authentic to the Bran Stoker story.
He was the perfect Dracula actor.
I often reconcile the novel's lines: "One of my race..." and "This was a Dracula indeed" as the Count recollecting and sharing his own history, but "concealing" his own identity in a manner of speaking by alluding to an ancestor.
Bram Stoker's novel "Dracula" has been and remains one of my very favorite books for close to forty years and counting. Christopher Lee is my favorite actor among all to have ever taken the role.
Holy crap what a deep voice he has.
I'm sure you know this but the "ancestor" he praises so passionately, "This was a Dracula indeed!" was actually himself before he became an eeevil thing of the night. He seems to think extremely highly of himself. Of course, later in the book Van Helsing informs us he was also a genius when he was alive and one of the things the movies don't quite bring out is Dracula is smarter than them and is always one step ahead until right at the end...when he's killed, not with a wooden stake, but with two knives, a Bowie knife and another from Nepal that's called a kukri. You're welcome.
I thought only a wooden stake could kill him?
Burntwood76 If you read the book he is actually killed with a knife, although still through the heart.
@Shawn Dominique
yeah there is
I would say he had every right to be proud of his achievements since he was quite formidable in his human life; I remember somewhere in the book, Mina mentioned that Dracula was weary of life, and in the end, when he was killed, she saw a look of peace on his face before he turned into dust.
@PAT123717 Vlad III Beserab aks Vlad Dracula aka Vlad Tepes both the Dracula (which means son of the Dragon and referred to his Father having been made a Knight of the Order of the Dragon) and the Tepes for his impaling people as it means ''Impaler''. He was a genius who raised hell with the Turks but religious differences among the Christians led to his first downfall.
There were no mirrors on Dracula castle!
Antonio Yeah there was one window/mirrior like glass that Jonathan was using to shave, but it revealed to him that Dracula has no reflection, which Causes Dracula to shatter it with his powers.
He responds with “A foul bauble of man’s vanities.” And proceeds to look deeply at Jonathan’s shaving cut where blood began to slip from.
Yes. A bad idea.
Artorîas No, that was a mirror Harker had in his luggage, and the Count threw it out of the window after Harker cut himself shaving (he got a fright hearing the Count speak right behind him when the reflection hadn’t shown him come in). Having a mirror in the dining room, or anywhere in a vampire’s home, is daft. No use to them and a giveaway to anyone else. Reminds me of Fred Saberhagen’s neat trick in his modern Dracula stories - he has the Count install a video screen in his bathroom in lieu of a mirror.
That monologue was brilliant. Took what could have been a cheesy moment and elevated it.
The only Christopher Lee as Dracula movie I haven’t seen yet. I have to have it!
The way Christopher Lee portrayed the Count in this adaptation is very different from the Hammer films productions. Unlike the fast paced Hammer movies this version moves at a rather leisurely pace. And it is a bit hard to identify this Count with the Count Dracula from the Hammer Films who perhaps is more aggressive and cold and whose grimacing face in confrontations with Van Helsing(Peter Cushing) is missing in this case...also unlike in this adaptation which is closer to the novel, Lee is shown growing younger like in the novel...only Bram Stoker's Dracula in which Gary Oldman played the Count is this detail shown. Other details find mention in other adaptations...one of the closest adaptations of the novel was Louis Jourdan's Dracula made for BBC in 1977...even though Jourdan does not grown younger in the adaptation...but the incident where Harker see's the Count crawling down the castle wall is shown in it....I think only three other movie versions have shown that detail...Lee in Scars of Dracula(1968) was shown climbing up the Castle Wall in a brief sequence...Frank Langella was shown crawling down the wall in 1979 version..and of course Gary Oldman crawled down the wall in the1992 version.
Awesome.R.I.P. Sir Christopher.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
RIP MY FAVORITE OLD SCHOOL COUNT HANDSOME HE HAD STYLE
Loved watching Hammer movies when I was a kid
Some people run down this particular version but I quite like it. Brilliant performance's by Lee as Dracula and by Lom as Van Helsing! 🦇🦇
Just watched it again last night. It’s decent, it’s a bit slow and you could tell they spent all their money on the scenes with Christopher Lee as the production value and overall quality is much improved whenever he is onscreen, but it’s far from a bad film, one of the better Jess Franco films I’ve seen, just needed a bigger budget and a better producer than Harry Towers. Lee is magnificent here, it’s his best performance as the Count!
This is the first dracula I've seen with christopher lee and it was really good
Why did I just got this recommended after 11 years. It's 2021 . See ya all in 5 years when this will get recommended again
Ive not seen this version yet. I recently read the novel and all my favourite scenes are not in any version ive ever watched, which baffles me. Looking forward to seeing this.
Christopher Lee scared the shit out of me when I was a kid...
2:06 I love how the upholstery on the chair and the table cloth are immaculate but the candelabras are completely draped in cobwebs. Dracula, who has no servants, must go to great lengths to keep those delicate webs intact for the ambiance.
And the candelabras are silver, no less. I thought silver was anathema to vampires, but I love old silver, so I'm glad to see it as a set decoration.
Classic adaptation of Count Dracula by none other than Christopher lee.
When I was in my 20's I use to have this recurring dream about walking through a dark hilly forest heading towards Dracula's Castle, the forest was always full of creatures hiding in the shadows. I never made it to the castle, but I knew I was suppose to kill Count Dracula.
Whatever you are smoking, give me some ! I too want to be lost in carpethin mountains, i too want to be abused by darculya 3 hot brides. And i dont mind living forever too, with every one fearing me saying the undead travel fast, i wud like to see my enemies face turn pale white and bow down b4 me and call me master. Count is si powerful that he escaped the grave.