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From: moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: World Dracula Day
Date: Mon, 27 May 2024 16:26:50 -0400
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On 5/27/2024 3:22 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> 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.)

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...