I Am... Dracula

All Dracula all the time

[shittalkingclassicliterature]

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The thing is... I am so fucking sick of newsletters. So I'm going to show all of you this... and then pass

[madieorally]

I started reading Dracula by Bram Stoker and was disappointing by the lack of memes I found, so I made my own

[gingerhastoomanyobsessions]

I can’t breathe

[vladtsepes]

Adding to my collection of different print editions. I’m currently living in France and I got this one at a book store called La 25e Heure. It’s a different translator than my other French edition so I’m looking forward to comparing any differences. This one also says it has an extract from The Immortal Dracula (or maybe Dracula The Immortal), the sequel to Dracula from the original notes of Bram Stoker

[vladtsepes]

When I find the time I’m excited to read this. I’ll of course post a review when I’m done

[vladtsepes]

I have 3 print editions of Dracula from 3 different countries. The red one my sister got me for Christmas last year from Barnes and Noble in the US. The white one I got for my 20th birthday and it’s French. The bottom one my friend got me in India over the summer. It’s significantly smaller in all ways than the other two so I’m looking forward to see if there is anything left out. I also have a digital version on my phone.

[vladtsepes]

I watched this movie last night and I didn’t like it. It claims to be the most faithful adaptation, and it probably was in 1970, but here are some things I noticed about this version:

The peasant woman didn’t give Jonathan a crucifix

Dracula said he doesn’t dine instead of he doesn’t sup

The complete children of the night quote isn’t there, but he does mention the feeling of hunting later

Dracula doesn’t have hairy palms

Jonathan doesn’t hit him with a shovel

Lucy is engaged to Quincey and has no other relatives

Quincey isn’t American

There’s no Arthur

Van Helsing owns the sanatorium

Renfield only says one word in the whole film: “Varna”

Mina isn’t very important

No comic relief comes from Van Helsing

This Jonathan is not smart at all

They don’t all wear black to dig up Lucy

They killed Dracula by burning him alive

Quincey doesn’t die

Overall I think the 1977 one with Louis Jourdan is the most accurate that I’ve seen so far and I found this one incredibly annoying

[incorrectdraculaquotes]

Van Helsing: Well, despite all our efforts, Lucy died. What did we learn, Jack?

Jack: I don't know, sir.

Van Helsing: I don't fuckin' know either. I guess we learned not to do it again.

Jack: Yes, sir.

Van Helsing: I'm fucked if I know what we did.

Jack: Yes, sir, it's, uh, hard to say

Van Helsing: Jesus Fucking Christ.

[synthetic-ultramarine]

there is a lot of unintentional humor created by the fact that the characters in “Dracula” do not know that they are characters in “Dracula.” 

[synthetic-ultramarine]

“The people in the village are warning me about a local legend called a ‘vampire’. How quaint. When I meet Count Dracula I shall have to ask him if he knows more about this peculiar superstition.”

[highly-radioactive-nerd]

“I never drink…. Wine…”

Some guy in 1893 reading Dracula for the first time: Huh.. What a strange fellow…why doesn’t he drink wine?

Me, reading in a time where Dracula is the most instantly recognizable villain in pop culture: LOL HE SURE DONT

[ronaldcmerchant]

Lugosi as he appeared on stage as Dracula in 1927

[norewardisworththis]

[vladtsepes]

Play poster for the play that the 1931 movie was based on

[vladtsepes]

From what I could find in response to these tags:

It was in 1928, and Ford’s Theatre is in Baltimore, Maryland. This was for the national tour after the original Broadway run

[vladtsepes]

Drawn by @pumpkin--cheesecake

[histxric-archive-deactivated202]

Alone with the dead! I dare not go out, for I can hear the low howl of the wolf through the broken window.

Dracula, by Bram Stoker.

[doc-monster-weirdo-deactivated2]

Dracula: *forcefully turns Mina after having little to none contact with her and probably rapes her in the process, leaving her physically and emotionally scarred*

The guy who is supposed to do an adaptation: Oh dear. Dracula is so obviously in love with her. She loves Dracula more than Harker anyway in spite of them being super sweet to each other through the entire book. Mina has totally dumped Harker for Dracula and she’s also his reincarnated wife. True love. Lovely. Love. Love love love. Dracula wants to be a good guy.

[moveslikekeithrichards]

that part in the 1958 dracula where peter cushing is in the cellar lookin at draculas coffin & dracula comes through the door & is like ‘o shit’ & sprints away is peak comedy

[vladtsepes]

Also in Son of Dracula from 1943 when the guy (I forgot his name) is looking in the cellar and Alucard sneaks up behind him and is like “what are you doing” and the guy is like “oh I thought I heard someone in the cellar” and Alucard is like “I too thought I heard someone in the cellar”

[moveslikekeithrichards]

“why wont you shut up about dracula”