Happy Birthday to my biggest crush as a child, Sir Christopher Lee!!!
Showing posts with label 70's dracula. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 70's dracula. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Watching Dracula 1979 Frank Langella & Donald Pleasance
I haven't seen this version in quite a while with Donald Pleasance as Dr. Jack Seward, who is Lucy's father in this flick, and Frank Langella as Dracula. Its very close to Bram Stoker's Dracula of 1992, but varies in many ways as well. Mina is Lucy's sickly friend and Lucy is actually Dracula's love interest in this film so the roles are reversed from that of the novel and the 1992 Francis Ford Coppola, Bram Stoker's Dracula. Mina's father is Abraham Van Helsing in this adaptation. Its dreary tone is closer to the Victorian England I would think existed and Dracula is much closer to that of the Christopher Lee version of Dracula in the 60's and 70's.
There are small differences in characters, but much of the film is closely related to the original Bram Stoker novel and the movie made from the novel in 1992. I have always thought Frank Langella was really creepy. However, I am really perplexed as to how Dracula knew to draw Mina to him and turn her into a vampire. There isn't much of an explanation of why he infected her since he didn't know or love Lucy yet when he arrived at Carfax Abbey by ship. I'll have to watch it again and see what my thoughts are on the subject after I see it again.
There are small differences in characters, but much of the film is closely related to the original Bram Stoker novel and the movie made from the novel in 1992. I have always thought Frank Langella was really creepy. However, I am really perplexed as to how Dracula knew to draw Mina to him and turn her into a vampire. There isn't much of an explanation of why he infected her since he didn't know or love Lucy yet when he arrived at Carfax Abbey by ship. I'll have to watch it again and see what my thoughts are on the subject after I see it again.
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Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Dracula's Portrayal Through The Ages!
Dracula is obviously a novel penned in 1897 by Bram Stoker, the nutty Irishman who started all the vampire phenomena to begin with in Western Culture. Thank you Bram! We all know that it was a way to talk about sex in the restricted Victorian culture in America and England and elsewhere. Dracula took something from mainly women and submissive men, mainly removed blood from the neck, a sensual area, and did so with his mouth (teeth). Its a metaphor for sexuality, being sexual, or whatever you wish to call it.
Mr. Dracula has been adapted so many times in so many movies, its not even funny. We all have our favorite actors who have played him. I know I have mine! (Christopher Lee). Gary Oldman is actually my favorite actor, but I think Christopher Lee was more suited for the role physically as he looks like what I would expect Count Dracula to look like, but I will say, Gary Olman plays the crap out of that role. He has the best Romanian accent ever, and actually becomes what you would expect the historical Prince Vladamir Tepesh (Dracula) to sound like. The historical character probably looks nothing at all like we expect as he is romanticized, but we all want to see him as an attractive guy in the movies, because its harder to accept him if you don't see him that way.
Mr. Stoker also wrote a short story called Dracula's Guest, in which has become a film a few times. I don't know how much I love that story, but still, you can see the far reach of the character. Its genius!
Above (Left) Christopher Lee As Dracula
Above - Frank Langella as Dracula
Mr. Dracula has been adapted so many times in so many movies, its not even funny. We all have our favorite actors who have played him. I know I have mine! (Christopher Lee). Gary Oldman is actually my favorite actor, but I think Christopher Lee was more suited for the role physically as he looks like what I would expect Count Dracula to look like, but I will say, Gary Olman plays the crap out of that role. He has the best Romanian accent ever, and actually becomes what you would expect the historical Prince Vladamir Tepesh (Dracula) to sound like. The historical character probably looks nothing at all like we expect as he is romanticized, but we all want to see him as an attractive guy in the movies, because its harder to accept him if you don't see him that way.
Mr. Stoker also wrote a short story called Dracula's Guest, in which has become a film a few times. I don't know how much I love that story, but still, you can see the far reach of the character. Its genius!
Above (Right) Bela Lugosi as Dracula
Vampire movies Resulting from Bram Stoker's Dracula
Dracula (1931)
The Horror of Dracula (1958)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Taste The Blood of Dracula
A.D. Dracula (1972)
Rockula
Rockabilly Vampire
The Grave of Dracula
The Lost Boys
Dracula 2000
The Scars of Dracula
Twilight
Nosferatu (1922)
Really, need I say more, the list absolutely could go on forever!
The Draculas
Christian Bale
Willem DeFoe
Dracula & Vampire Movies
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The Wicker Man & Christopher Lee
Ok, first of all, Christopher Lee is the man! Christopher Lee was one of the Draculas. He is in many films that are terrifying, and is going to get his dues credited right now. I love you Mr. Lee!
Christopher Frank Carandini Lee is six foot five. He's hot in a creepy sort of way and quite English. Not only is he the best Dracula EVER..., but he was always "the bad guy", and I like it. I like his deep scary voice (he's not playing), and his ominous, terrifying characters!!! Its like oh snap, Christopher Lee is here, and some bad shizits will be happening!
The ever handsome and debonair, Mr. Lee starred in these killer films!
The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
The Horror of Dracula (1958)
The Mummy (1959)
To the Devil a Daughter (1976)
Tales of Mystery & Imagination: The Black Cat
The Resident
Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland
The Corpse Bride (2005)
Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Howling II
Dracula A.D. 1972
The Satanic Rites of Dracula
Scars of Dracula (1970)
Taste The Blood of Dracula (1970)
Count Dracula (1970)
Crypt of the Vampire (1964)
The City of The Dead (1960)
The House That Dripped Blood
And not to mention, well, yeah, actually I am mentioning it, and talking about it alot in this post, actually. He is Lord Summersdale in The Wicker Man, a creepy as hell culty film. You will be creeped out.
The Wicker Man (1975), not 2006 is a film about a British police officer going to a remote island to investigate the disappearance of a little girl. Pay attention, because there will be a festival going on (for May Day, I gather), and on this little island people do things just a little bit differently here.
MWAH HA HA HA!
Oh, Mr. Lee was also in Season of the Witch, which I watched and blogged recently.
His next masterpiece will be Dark Shadows,
to be released in 2012!!!
YES!!!!!!
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