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[Powdered Toastman]

Now this I would like to see.

Never seen it myself, but I heard http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0141966/ is quite good.

 

[Fritz]

Yeah the costume in Copolla's is more realistic with what an eastern european aristocrat from the 16th century would wear, updated to the 19th century.

Well, I wouldn't know. From what I hear it's more like something a kabuki actor would wear playing a 16th Century Eastern European aristocrat updated to the 19th Century. BUT, what I know is that it gives me an idea how Harker must have felt entering a world that is completely strange to him, none of the rules he knows apply (not even laws of nature) and he is utterly at the mercy of this monster. Bela is nice and nostalgic but yeah, not even close...

Just imagine Oldman showing up in a tux, lol.

 

[dark_chris]

Because Twilight.

 

[Charles Foster Kane]

I've heard good things about the Spanish Dracula. I wonder if anyone here has seen it.

 

[jett]

Dracula in a tux just looks laughable to me.

 

[Count Dookkake]

I've heard good things about the Spanish Dracula. I wonder if anyone here has seen it.

Probably quite a few. It's been bundled with the English-language version for a while.

It's good.

 

[Not Spaceghost]

All I know is that Coppolas Dracula won the academy award for best costume design and it definitely deserved it!

 

[Kadayi]

You know I think the actual problem that plagues vampires is that they've gone way too far from classic mythology. They're just over powered figures that always have a huge clan or something. I think that vampires as a whole could benefit from going back to the classic Dracula / Carmilla image of the vampire instead of the over powered pretty boy that cannot die at all and can also be the good guy. I think the problem is that Vampires sort of fall to pieces when set in a more modern setting, we really need to keep them in the 1800s.

A possibility but again there would be a need to get away from the traditional tropes. The problem then arises as to what it is exactly though what you want to say/express about them. Personally I think a more interesting avenue of exploration would be the idea of the vampire travelling through time. Say take a single vampire created eons ago and then follow their story through history and explore the idea of what it means to be both immortal but at the same time incredibly vulnerable. How do you survive for countless centuries undetected and more importantly why? What's the motivation?

 

[mantidor]

A possibility but again there would be a need to get away from the traditional tropes. The problem then arises as to what it is exactly though what you want to say/express about them. Personally I think a more interesting avenue of exploration would be the idea of the vampire travelling through time. Say take a single vampire created eons ago and then follow their story through history and explore the idea of what it means to be both immortal but at the same time incredibly vulnerable. How do you survive for countless centuries undetected and more importantly why? What's the motivation?

What you propose has also been done, interview with a vampire? or any of Rice's books for that matter.

And what you mention as a problem with the tropes is exactly why going back to Stoker's book would be ideal, while it certainly was the work that put vampires on the map, modern vampires are as removed from the ones of the book as it possibly can be. I really wish something like what Lucy becomes as a vampire to be brought to cinema, I've seen no vampire like that, vampires that lure children? that do not kill at once? ethereal and ghost like? all the things vampires can do and the things they are restricted by are so varied and interesting in the book, most people would think it's only stakes, wolves or transforming into a bat, which are actually pretty minor things with Stoker's vampires. Coppola's film just gave us a glimpse into all the convoluted rules they have.

 

[bengraven]

Best part of Coppola's? The majority of those weird effects were done practically.

 

[plagiarize]

I've heard good things about the Spanish Dracula. I wonder if anyone here has seen it.

It's okay. Many things are better but it's the inferior film almost solely for lacking Bela.

 

[bonesmccoy]

OP, I love the 1992 adaptation - even with Keanu and Winona's hilariously bad accents.

That's a real Robert-Bruce-charging-the-English-lines-at-Bannockburn look right there

 

[Not Spaceghost]

OP, I love the 1992 adaptation - even with Keanu and Winona's hilariously bad accents.

Haha speaking of Winona's accent, she really managed to get a lot better by the time she did the crucible!