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From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
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Subject: Re: World Dracula Day
Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 11:04:24 -0700
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On 5/28/2024 8:08 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 28 May 2024 06:54:16 -0700, Arthur Lipscomb
>> <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On 5/28/2024 2:13 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>>> moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>>>> 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.)
>>>>
>>>> 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.

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