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No CGI, just clever camera work to make Dracula invisible in the mirror- they did so much with so little and did it so well back in the day when one had to be innovative, and then there were the actors...
Lugosi Béla IS Dracula! He is what David Suchet to Poirot and Jeremy Brett to Sherlock Holmes, etc... He is one if not the biggest filmstar of my country and I'm proud of him.
Dracula (1931) | Dracula vs Van Helsing 2102pm 24.10.23 classic film... as was nosferatu. as are the hammer horror films. never forget the fine collection of universal pictures which centred round horror and began with dracula and ended with the creature from the black lagoon.... p.s mr landau's portrayal of a pissed off and heavily junkiefied lugosi sticks with me - as a very amusing portrayal...
For my money, the 1931 DRACULA is the best overall cinematic adaptation of the Stoker novel. I know it has its detractors, but none of their nitpicking overshadows the merits on display. From Bela Lugosi's iconic portrayal to the potent, eerie atmosphere. I love this movie exactly as it is -- gothic, creepy and dreamlike. No other version that followed ever captured those qualities to my satisfaction more than this black & white classic directed by the great Tod Browning.😊
But the generic Dracula accent is clearly exaggerated, particularly when compared to Lugosi's accent a few years later, after he became fluent in English. He hardly spoke English at all when he did Dracula on Broadway, and wasn't really comfortable even when he did the movie, so he was still doing his lines more phonetically than with full understanding.
My dad was born in 36 and in recent years, I have wondered how kids of that era 1st came to know of Dracula. Maybe when the studio reissued the movies.
@@ChrisConnolly-Mr.C-Dives-In Are you kidding? I was born in the 50s, and EVERYONE knew about this movie when I was a kid. Like Frankenstein, The Bride of Frankenstein, and The Invisible Man, it's a super classic.
@@Woozler554 clarifier: Since my dad was not yet born in 31, I think the theatrical re- release of the movies at the movie house would have been the way that he, as a little kid, learned of Dracula and Frank. He as a grade school kid would have learned of the Wolfman 1st hand.
@alanrogs3990 Thank you , I find too much music spoils the film. A lot of modern films are awful with the constant hyped up soundtracks Dont get me started on CGI lol 😉.
I still swear it was this exact scene that gave inspiration to the writer of “The Usual Suspects”. “The greatest trick the Devil did was to convince people he wasn’t real.”
@@Vox-Multis It comes from the same time period, but not from Mark Twain. There are examples of that thought (if not that exact wording) as far back as 1836 and earlier in different theological writings.
Dracula (1931) | Dracula vs Van Helsing 2106pm 24.10.23 neither did his nibs herbert lom - seemingly eternal... starring in this film and others such as dead zone, pink panther etc etc...
Quoting a friend "Yeah The hugh Jackman movie is Badass But can we talk about the 1931 og novel version where Van Helsing is just a Normal Human Being standing up against the King of Vampires"
Well the original Van Helsing always was an ordinary doctor that was knowledgeable about vampires. He was not originally a vampire hunter from the get-go, but his name has pretty much forever been associated with vampire hunting ever since then. My favorite version of the OG Abraham Van Helsing is Anthony Hopkins. I like to headcanon that Abraham Van Helsing was a mentor and Father figure to Gabriel (Hugh Jackman) years before the events of the Van Helsing movie.
Satan is just a scapegoat to blame all of humanity's evil on An excuse for what's already in the heart of every human Not to mention being a convenient boogeyman by the church to scare people into obedience
I never understood why Van Helsing did not ask/tell Jonathan Harker to look at the mirror when he had the chance. I' know I would have said, WTF look at this!!
I don't know why. But I always felt more on the side of Dracula. He is cursed to be alone, not to partake in companionship, cursed to live from devouring others. An outcast without any freemdom to chose anything else than this way.
It may be from being inundated with the "They're not evil - they're just misunderstood"/romatic/tragic vampires that have been pushed forward since the 90's, starting with "Bram Stoker's Dracula." Vampires in legend and story were nothing even like the one in Bram Stoker's original story; they were horrible blights on the people they terrorized, bringing death and disease wherever they went and needing to be hunted down and destroyed. In the original novel, Dracula wanted to make Mina Harker a vampire as revenge against those who hunted him - not out of any feelings of love or caring, and he callously murdered a woman at his castle by having her devoured by wolves after he stole her child. I can honestly say I never felt any compassion or sympathy for Dracula in any story or form, any more than I would any murderous fiend who preyed upon the weak for their own ends.
Remember, he brought the curse upon himself. Dracula in the book, still, in this movie and in the Hammer films with Christopher Lee, was evil! He was unquestionably the bad guy.
This is indeed quite the classic. On a side note, I can't help but also think Mel Brook's "Dracula Dead and Loving It" movie and the exchanges between Dracula & Van Helsing.there. FUSHTA!
@yer_boi_biggie9666If it is night time, as it appears to be, the three men wouldn't stand a chance against him as he is super human after dark. That is what is stated in the novel. In the daylight, any of them could defeat him. This film goes with the trope that he couldn't be exposed to sunlight, an invention of the original Nosferatu to disguise the fact they were making an unauthorized version of Dracula. Glad to see they got that right in the Gary Oldman film.
@@DannyEastVillage It's interesting. In the early days of cinema and even TV, they did theatre on screen. In fact, in some more smaller, insular societies let's say, far away from the cradle of the entertainment industry, they didn't really manage to shed this tradition until the 80'ies/90'ies, and even then it still took at least another decade before things like on screen dialogue lost the theatrical vernacular/mannerisms. I'm old enough that even today, whenever I see smaller productions that manages to nail that "organic" feel, I'm impressed. Because all through my formative years, theatrics was pretty much all I got.
@@QualeQualeson yeah it did take time for the cinema and television to become art forms of their own rather than filmed plays. this Dracula film has some skillful camera work and editing that makes smart use of the new medium’s potential. I also used to think that the film’s use of score of Swan Lake was hokey and sentimental. I don’t feel that way anymore.
Just an idea. With the 100th anniversary of Dracula coming up and Dracula being what started the Universal Monsters legacy. Why not over the next few years, and slowly begin writing what will become the dark universe. Start with Dracula, close to the Bram Strokers version, or maybe the hammer versions. Don't try to modernize them. Don't try to cram as many easter eggs from other movies in them. Then, move on to Frankenstein, and then each movie as they were originally released. I think the dark universe would actually work that way. Don't try to do the Marvel universe and connect them all. I don't think that would work.
A Spanish version was filmed at the same time as this was filmed using the same sets, ithey would film it at night after the Lugosi version was done for the day. I’ve heard it’s actually better.
I find this film to be inferior, to the Hammer Dracula film. The Lugosi film, was staged in the year it was made, so it is not a true gothic film as indeed were the Frankenstein, Mummy and the Wolf Man. The pace of these films are so slow including the dialogue and the acting is not up to the standard, of actors in the hammer Films. I have seen films, made in America from the same year, which are so much better in all respects. This is a honest opinion, about these films and I hope I have not offended anyone.
@@Vox-Multis That's what I always figured - seems like it would have been easy enough to just have him speak from off camera and not being in the scene.
@erinmoss5959..... because that's how he is in the novel. No tragic backstory, no Mina being his lost love from centuries before, he just wants to come to England for a fresh supply of blood.
