The little girl's mother was laying directly at Sadie Frost's feet, just out of camera range. She actually "drops" the child right into her mother's arms.
@@Sonia39333 Little kids are much tougher than you might think. For example, their bones and skull are still very flexible, unlike old people like me. That's why they can play and "rough house" around without any problem.
This is my all time favourite movie. The “come to me Arthur; leavvveee these others and come to me” sends shivers down my spine. But I still watch it every single week without fail.
sadie just NAILED it, and her portrayal of lucy surprised me as a teenager because as a kid, she featured on t.v. as a narrator for children's stories. i love this "dracula" best. the novel itself is cheesy, but this was high end cheese with a p.d.o. stamp.
I remember them showing the small girl in the Making Of...and when Sadie Frost dropped her, her mom was right there, and she was clapping and smiling with everyone it finally got done.
I wish people would watch that instead of all going on about how cruel it is and childhood trauma and now the kid is scarred for life etc So many snowflakes and Karens on here
@rustyspartan4258 I think I read it years ago, it was okay, but the movie is lame with its fake ass love story. The Aesthetics are UNMATCHED however and it's a COMPLETE inspiration to me as an Artist.
We aren't told whether the child recovered well from this or whether she suffered from longer term trauma. And i think that's the most important thing about using children (or anyone else) in this way. Yes, most of us had at least a few times as children when we were genuinely scared by something like a Halloween-costumed person. And usually we didn't suffer longer term trauma over it but rather got over it right away once we realized the horror-creature wasn't real. But that isn't always the case & i think most children are put through enough trauma from ordinary life events without having to endure trauma that is carried out by adults for kicks or for making a movie, however good the movie is. It reminds me of how horses & other animals were commonly used in Hollywood movies for decades----for example, in most westerns, the horse u see falling & flailing were set up to do that by the use of trip-wires. Most directors apparently thought nothing of using wires to trip the horses, even though many horses were permanently damaged or even killed. Yeah, tripping horses for those movies made them more effective as a rule, made it seem that the horse was falling down from having been shot, and this cruel treatment of animals continued for decades. And in some movies u see animals being shot, as in many old Tarzan movies, & these scenes often were shot from real life, not tricks of filming. True, there were many old stock scenes of lions or elephants being shot down dead, stock scenes that were repeatedly used in many movies. But the killing of elephants & lions & other animals was standard for movies until animal-protection organizations managed to get it stopped. The end of that kind of killing of animals for movies didn't happen till many decades later. I can't remember when the laws were changed to help protect these animals but it was after the mid-20th century. I do recall the public exposure of animal cruelty commonly used for filming movies & TV programs about wildlife in the '70s. A famous maker of wildlife programs had habitually been setting animals up so he could film scenes of animaps being attacked & killed by predators. Old tricks such as tying a goat or a capybara in place so it could not escape the attack of a predator. Usually the animal victims were species considered so common that it didn't matter if some of them were sacrificed merely for wildlife programs. (I'll never forget seeing a capybara devoured alive by piranhas in a David Attenborough film. The capybara is a very common animal in its natural habitat so the killing of a capybara was considered acceptable to most.) Nothing new in filmmaking. But whether it involves knowingly harming or killing an animal or possibly traumatizing a child actor, in my opinion it is very unethical. And i don't care if the resulting film is a masterpiece or not, such things should not be approved. I can't imagine allowing a child to be used in this way, risking longterm damage to the child. This scene from the Coppola film reminds me of what happened to a close friend of mine when he was 5 or 6----he was on top of the state capitol in Baton Rouge with his family, & his grandfather held him by his ankles over the edge of the roof, the grandfather thinking it was hilarious to see his grandchild terrified. What some people think is funny is sick---risking a child's life like that, plus terrifying yhe child, was not classed as abusive back then, in the '50s. And using terrifying tricks on a child in order to film a scene in a film, however great it is, is just as sick.
In the 1960 movie "The Last Voyage" which was filmed aboard an ocean liner that was partially blown up and partially sunk, five-year old Tammy Marihugh had to crawl across a flimsy piece of wood over a pit down to a blown-up boiler room. (A wire was around her waist in case she fell, but her terror was real. Later she was tossed out of a Promenade Deck window to a lifeboat that was being lowered. If her parents would allow Tammy to be abused in a movie, what else was OK for those parents to do to their child or to allow to be done to her? Tammy Marihugh had a very trouble personal life later that included jail time after killing an abusive boyfriend. It would be interesting to know how much of that trouble came from being in "The Last Voyage".
A thoughtful director would have had the actress and child meet many times so the actress could explain to the child: "I'm going to be in scary makeup, but don't worry, it's just me."
One of my all time favourite films. Anthony Hopkins is an amazing actor. The actress that played Lucy was excellent too. It's visually a masterpiece and the theme song by Anne Lennox is so haunting.
I want to know why they didn’t just have the girl there while they were putting on the make-up and costume so she would see it’s not an actual monster?
This was a good idea. Unfortunately, there are laws restricting how much time a child can actually spend on the set. That makeup and costume would have taken at least an hour, which would have put a very tight squeeze on the filming schedule for the scene. That is probably the reason.
Always loved this film, and Annie Lennox’ love song for a vampire at the end, could never understand the constant stream of hate it got when it came out, I was only 12 when I saw it when it came out to rent on VHS, and just remember everyone and their mother slagging it rotten, for years and years an all! Belter movie
Lucy was protrayed more of what a REAL vampire would be like. A hungry bloodthirsty demon thing and not the woman she was in life. Wirh hypnotic power as Bela Lugosi demonstrated in the original Dracula with Dr. Van Helsing. His line...."Commm HERRRR" is utterly blood freezing. "
Aww!😢 That's sad! Poor girl, I LOVE this movie! The only scenes I couldn't handle are the little baby with the brides or the horse k...... By the brides😢
Till today, I still get this very creepy uneasy feeling whenever i watch snippets of this masterpiece for nostalgic reasons. Considering CGI was in its very early stage and yet the late Francis Ford Coppola was able to produce something so realistic as this is simply unmatched! Is anyone with me when I say that they don’t make movies like this anymore?
I think children are not as aware as us of the power of acting. That little poor girl must’ve been terrified even though they tried to be kind and sweet to her, because she felt like the situation was real once they started filming the scene. The result is genuine tho. Although I feel bad for her 😅
I'm truly sorry to hear that. I guess when you are making one of the best movies to ever be filmed some human sacrifice is required. Mel Gibson's The Passion had some devastating effects too
Imagine the one person who's supposed to protect u,Made u do this,many times...n in the takes of this scene the actress wasn't dropping her,in many take she was THROWING the child n a woman was lying down on the floor caughting her ,n each take the girl was crying in fear.
That's what movies do for the real emotions - don't show the child the makeup process because the natural fear is gone - Have it on VHS however, they should have given us the director's cut!!!!
I hope it wasn't the case for this kid, but I've read too many accounts of casual cruelty towards child actors to get something out of a scene, and that's not counting the straight up abuse going on off camera, to ever enjoy seeing one in a movie. Children acting is the ONE thing I'm hoping AI will replace for good.
The children will not be traumatized Here in some parts of germany we celebrate "Nikolaus Tag" every 6th December with Krampus. Krampus (a demon) is always alongside St. Nicholas, he will put the naughty kids in a wool sack, while the good kids receive candies and all kinds of food from St. Nicholas. Me and my siblings and cousins were put so many times in the wool back, yes we were afraid and cried like the child in the video, but after one day everything was forgotten and we were excited for the next year 😂
Eh, I'm sure the child eventually recovered from it. They didn't actually hurt the kid, or I assume they didn't. Little kids have seen worse stuff on Halloween masks.
I knew this, I even said to my husband that little girl is terrified!! they shouldn’t put little ones through this the parents are to blame I felt for her.. it really was obvious she was terrified what child wouldn’t be of that done up face!! And I love this movie but was pissed about that scene!!
One thing that I realized too is that Lucy is carrying a baby and she's upset because she just got married and it's like all right you have fun for a while but maybe she wanted to have a baby like early and it's like all right now that she realizes that she's a vampire she can no longer have a child
Fun Fact: Did you know Francis Ford Coppola is friends with the Jeepers Creepers director who is a convicted phedopile and when he was directing Clownhouse he was abusing the little boy in the move. Once the little boy told on him he went to jail. But they had to do voice overs at coppola’s house and Coppola told the little boy he will never work in Hollyweird and actually sued the boys family for him telling the cops he was sexually abused by the director. Look it up the actors name was Nathan Forrest Winters.
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