Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dimensional Traveler Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: World Dracula Day Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 11:04:24 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 82 Message-ID: References: <784230795.738410383.969226.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> <244864867.738526426.294995.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> <1435952930.738578916.450844.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> <643283782.738601606.587888.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 20:04:23 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="5c0da79eac0f8d1c459b36dbe4c8c5b8"; logging-data="754218"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/9px9fWurPCUOAu0dgLQ5D" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:gWjfEeVm/IiXii540FwOaBPfTeE= In-Reply-To: <643283782.738601606.587888.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 5252 On 5/28/2024 8:08 AM, anim8rfsk wrote: > shawn wrote: >> On Tue, 28 May 2024 06:54:16 -0700, Arthur Lipscomb >> wrote: >> >>> On 5/28/2024 2:13 AM, anim8rfsk wrote: >>>> moviePig wrote: >>>>> On 5/27/2024 3:22 PM, anim8rfsk wrote: >>>>>> moviePig wrote: >>>>>>> On 5/26/2024 6:04 AM, anim8rfsk wrote: >>>>>>>> May 26, in honor of the publication of the original novel. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> What will you watch to celebrate? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I’ve got the Dan Curtis/Jack Palance version going right now with music >>>>>>>> from dark shadows. It’s a pretty good and a pretty faithful adaptation. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Available on the Peacock, it’s a good copy in 16:9 with the ads front >>>>>>>> loaded so it runs uninterrupted. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Next up, I found the excellent 1977 Louis Jourdon version on the gray. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The key scene in any telling of the original story is the first vision >>>>>>> of transformed Lucy. Notably, Coppola rather blew it (along with the >>>>>>> ending). My vote for that one scene (and I've seen them all multiple >>>>>>> times) goes to John Badham's 1979 version... >>>>>> >>>>>> One of the (many) problems with the 1979 version is that it’s based on the >>>>>> play where they randomly switch characters names for God knows why. So I >>>>>> assume you’re actually talking about Mina? Kate Nelligan as Lucy makes it >>>>>> all the way through to the end. >>>>>> >>>>>> I have no idea what advancing the storyline to 1913 accomplished except >>>>>> that they got to rent some old cars. >>>>>> >>>>>> I first saw it in the theater in the wrong aspect ratio. The moon comes up >>>>>> and it’s twice as tall as it is wide! I went back and complained to the guy >>>>>> selling popcorn and got an explanation I hadn’t heard before. They were 12 >>>>>> screens in the theater and only one projectionist and he would fix it (and >>>>>> eventually did) when he got back to this screen in his rotation. >>>>>> >>>>>> My date bailed early when they clawed the guys throat on the Demeter but >>>>>> insisted her roommate and I stay while she sat in the lobby smoking for the >>>>>> next 90 minutes. >>>>>> >>>>>> Langella was great. I hate the newer desaturated transfers. >>>>>> >>>>>> In the Louis Jourdan version, both girls start growing fangs from the >>>>>> minute they are first bit. They do very little in the way of makeup on them >>>>>> to turn them into vampires, but Lucy in particular is wonderfully >>>>>> animalistic. And it has some of the best fog effects I’ve ever seen. >>>>> >>>>> (Mina... Lucy... Moosey?) >>>>> >>>>> Yeah, Langella is always great, though his take on the Dracula character >>>>> (which earned him raves on Broadway) was that "He's just a man..." >>>>> While that has much to recommend it in a drama, I want something a tad >>>>> more feral. (I pick Christopher Lee in 1958.) >>>> >>>> Palance is pretty feral, as you’d expect. >>>> >>>> I saw Martin Landau on stage in the title role in the roadshow Gorey >>>> production. He was great. :-) >>>> >>>> >>>>> The Louis Jourdan version blew me away at first. But when I saw it >>>>> again a few years ago, I was put off by the really crappy (today) >>>>> "surreal" electronic dreamy sequences, or do I misremember... >>>>> >> >> Those sequences are definitely a bit trippy. >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY1CFCKrMV4 > > There we go! The wall climbing face down is from the book. But I’ve never > figured out why. I mean, why doesn’t he just use the front door. Or fly? > Not as creepy. -- I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky dirty old man.