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Written 18 July, things so strange happening, that I shall keep accurate note henceforth till we land. (...) On 16 July mate reported in the morning that one of the crew, Petrofsky, was missing.
"Dracula" - Bram Stoker
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Written 18 July, things so strange happening, that I shall keep accurate note henceforth till we land. (...) On 16 July mate reported in the morning that one of the crew, Petrofsky, was missing.
"Dracula" - Bram Stoker
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They should at least consider making an accurate Dracula adaptation because it'd be really funny
I haven't read the book yet but I've seen a lot of posts about it, ironically through Tumblr posts reposted to Pinterest even though I have a Tumblr account but whatever.
It'd be really funny to see an accurate adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula because of the fact that Dracula is so ubiquitous in pop culture that an accurate adaptation of the character would be considered subversive in the same way that Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein is subversive for, while probably not following the events of the book with total accuracy (I haven't read the book and have not watched the movie yet), actually following the emotional heart of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein The Modern Prometheus to a degree that is completely unseen in media because every movie producer in the past 90 years made Frankenstein Jr. out to be the monster.
I can't comment on the exact events in the book because I have no idea how Jonathan got from being trapped in Dracula's castle to teaming up with Mina, Van Helsing, Quincey Morris, and I think Jack Seward to defeat Dracula. But I will say that the epistolary sections of the book could easily be adapted through narration, where each letter that Jonathan writes can be read aloud as he's writing them, cause that's a trope already isn't it?
And some of the more absurd parts of the book I can absolutely see critics tearing apart.
Like, fucking CinemaSins saying "The fact that there are no servants and Dracula has super speed implies that every time Jonathan turns around, Dracula rushes off to go do something. While that's hilarious, my question is why doesn't Dracula just go bite people and make them his servants? It'd be so much easier and lose the risk of him being seen by Jonathan! (Ding!)"
Or Quincey Morris's ENTIRE existence. He's a fucking COWBOY. Do you know how difficult it will be for people to take that part with any degree of seriousness?
Another thing that would be really interesting in an accurate adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula is actually Dracula himself. He's not seductive at all, he's barely a tragic figure, the entirety of Tumblr said "Fuck this bitch specifically", and he has, to my understanding, basically no romantic interest in Mina or Lucy despite the Dead Wife trope that plagues his character and literally was only good in Castlevania and Hotel Transylvania.
So seeing Dracula behave more as a tormentor to Jonathan for the majority of the movie and act like a total creepazoid, I guess some critics might claim he's "more like Nosferatu than Dracula" but that's only because they don't understand his character and what makes him terrifying. Because there's a part in the book where Jonathan escapes a vampire attack and runs into the castle, but he hears a woman and her baby outside and Dracula quickly locks the door because he knows Jonathan will try to save her. This motherfucker was EVIL.
Written 18 July, things so strange happening, that I shall keep accurate note henceforth till we land. (...) On 13 July passed Cape Matapan.
"Dracula" - Bram Stoker
Written 18 July, things so strange happening, that I shall keep accurate note henceforth till we land. (...) On 12 July through Dardanelles.
"Dracula" - Bram Stoker
Written 18 July, things so strange happening, that I shall keep accurate note henceforth till we land. (...) On 11 July at dawn entered Bosphorus.
"Dracula" - Bram Stoker
You might be interested in part of a paper (Unconventional Women In A Conventional Age: Strong Female Characters In Three Victorian Novels) because there's the topic of Mina and the New Woman. About Mina's comments about the New Woman proposing:
Most critics, including Carol Senf, Phyllis Roth, and Rebecca Pope, interpret this as a sarcastic remark intended to criticize the New Woman. However, as Jean Lorrah points out, sarcasm wouldn’t be consistent with the reading of a nineteenth-century text, or with Mina Harker’s character (32). So why would Mina find consolation in the idea of women proposing marriage? According to Stephanie Demetrakopoulos, this remark indicates that Mina sees women’s initiative as a good thing and believes that women should be allowed to choose a spouse (110).
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Although Mina is already engaged and can’t propose, as she imagines a New Woman would, what Mina does is hardly less assertive. After hearing of Jonathan’s “brain fever,” Mina travels to meet him, care for him, and marry him. At the time she receives news of Jonathan’s illness, he is so ill that he cannot write and one of his caregivers writes for him. Mina takes the initiative to not only travel—alone—out of the country to meet him, but she plans their marriage as well (Lorrah 33). When Mina arrives at the hospital in Budapest where Jonathan is being cared for, she immediately arranges for their marriage, which takes place the next day as soon as Jonathan awakens. He is still so ill at the time of their marriage that he takes his marriage vows in bed, “propped up with pillows” (129). Clearly, Mina is in control here.
Ok I ACTUALLY REMEMBER THIS!!!
I don’t believe I got to read the entire essay (I believe I read Mina’s though), but I did read a bunch of it!! I absolutely loved it. Thank you for the rec, Anon. I completely agree here. She IS an assertive woman and I love that about her.
Her unwillingness to be submissive and just let things lie is definitely what helps the group win in the end. If she had just let Jonathan stick it out in the asylum, would he have been able to bounce back fast enough for him to recognize Dracula later?? Or what about her meticulous news-gathering to record all of Dracula’s deeds so they would know everything he’s done? The HYPNOSIS?? Preaching to the choir here but her assertiveness is Dracula’s worst enemy and he knows it.
Also bonus: this essay included Jane Eyre and SHE’S one of my favorite characters too. So yes, amazing recommendation, 10/10. I’m going to go back and reread the whole thing! May leave an addition to this when I’m done, but wanted to answer this now so at least you know I did read most of it!!
