#rm-renfield

[blookmallow]

rm-renfield replied to your post “velma’s snow outfit is legendary though”

i love that it's literally double d's coat in the holiday special of ed edd n eddy

cinematic parallels

[atundratoadstool]

I apologize if you have talked about this before, but out of curiosity, what has been your favorite portrayal of Seward aside from the book? In films he is often pushed to the background or combined with the other suitors, which is a little sad.

I have not actually talked about this! Possibly because, as you observe, Jack has a habit of getting removed, downplayed, aged up into the character we see in the Deane Balderston play and the works inspired by it, or smooshed into some sort of bizarre composite with Arthur and/or Quincey. As such, there’s really not a lot of versions of him that I’m terribly gung-ho about. As far as films go, the three portrayals that really stand out to me are Richard E. Grant, Tom Burke in the 2006 film, and James Maxwell in the 1968 TV movie. I’m not sure I’d call any of these guys my favorite Seward; two of them are from totally bizarro fanfic versions of Dracula and one is from the godawful Coppola film. Still, all three of them have some of the mix of being very sad and being very awkward that I enjoy so much in book!Seward, so I enjoy all of them to some degree even if they’re all pretty far from what I would consider to be an ideal portraya;

As for non-cinematic versions of Seward, I’m fond of Arthur Seward in the Liz Lochheed play. (That play is full of great moments, beautiful language, and really thoughtful stuff in general even if I’m not always 100% on board with Lochheed’s attempts to offer feminist commentary on the original.) It was one of the few renderings of Seward (or in this case - a composite that’s mostly Seward) where I really felt like somebody was doing a good job offering a sympathetic take on the character while still acknowledging how messed up his conduct towards Renfield was. I’m also very fond of the Seward in the John Heimbuch play I’ve been raving about as of late, and this is definitely because Heimbuch managed to somehow replicate several of my headcanons (like Jack saving a cylinder roll with Lucy’s voice) and to play up a lot of the angsty over-the-top tropes I’m totally into with his Seward. I’m not going to say that it’s the best Seward I’ve encountered artistically, but it’s probably my favorite interpretive rendition I’ve seen on paper.

[inksplit]

rm-renfield replied to your photo

i believe it was changed because in early technicolor film, there were certain requirements filmmakers needed to follow because the technicolor company wanted the colors to POP. so they probably made them red so they would give a more striking impression on film!

!!!!! 

the ruby slippers are certainly beautiful and striking, so this makes sense! 

[1863-project]

Aaah, thank you, everyone!

[lesbianrustcohle]

last night i had a dream my friend and i were walking around and you pulled up in one of those bikes with the carts on the back to give people rides and we hopped in so you could drive us to our car and you were SOO FAST and i was like damn congrats on your leg power. i just thought you should know that

!!!!!! omg! this is so much more athletic than i have ever been in real life so i'm gratified to hear it :) thank you for telling me

[blookmallow]

rm-renfield replied to your post: hi ive been looking at bad halloween costumes ...

When I was a baby the first costume my mom put me in was a prisoner costume. There are pictures of me wearing it and crying lmao

:’  ) prison baby..... i cant say i understand it lmao

my first ever costume was a lil pink mouse and i assume i probably had 0 idea what was going on at all but was very excited about it 

[blookmallow]

rm-renfield replied to your post “did anyone else go through a phase where u were just rly into...”

YES

is the Rainforest Phase an inevitable period of life 

[blookmallow]

rm-renfield replied to your post: spookstermin8r replied to your post: ...

im gonna be real honest the worst of the violence towards children was at the very beginning and i really thought the film was like 10% scary 35% emotional and/or heartwarming and the rest was hilarious

which one are we talkin about tho ‘cause i havent seen either of them 

that sounds like somethin i could probably deal with tho?? idk i might give it a shot sometime and just like. stop if it gets upsetting. ive heard the original is actually a miniseries or something but i forget 

id have to wait for the new one to be out of theaters tho but nobody i know irl wants to go to horror movies with me anyway :V