#mina murray

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my character design of Mina🥺

lovely girl…

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Later in the day I got together the whole crew, and told them, as they evidently thought there was someone in the ship, we would search from stem to stern.

"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 17 July, yesterday, one of the men, Olgaren, came to my cabin, and in an awestruck way confided to me that he thought there was a strange man aboard the ship.

"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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Nuestro nuevo torneo 🧟🧛

[youcannotkillmeiamsubhuman]

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.

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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