#Drakula Istanbul'da

[bush-or-bald]

Güzin Arsoy (Drakula Istanbul'da): Bush or Bald?

This is an interesting adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula set in Turkey instead of England, with character names changed accordingly along with their religion from Christianity to Islam. No crucifixes and communion wafers in this version!

Güzin is the equivalent to Mina from the original. Unlike Mina, Güzin's religion instructs her to remove body hair. Said the Prophet :

"The Fitrah is five things - or five things are part of the fitrah – circumcision, shaving the pubic hair, cutting the nails, plucking the armpit hairs, and trimming the moustache.”

So if Güzin is as devout in her faith as Mina, she's far less furry than her Christian counterpart. This cultural expectation would likely go double for a belly dancer who naturally shows more of her body than most women of her time.

Verdict: bald

[thebibi]

Love how Afif is just as much of a bisexual as Jack is talking about how handsome all his male friends are, and if I'm honest he's more forcoming about it??

Like Afif actually spoke about Resuhi (Van Helsing) and his adventures from medical school when he was deployed together with Touran (Arthur) and Ozdemir (Quincey). He just straight up fanboys "if only there were more mad men like him!" And when the professor gives blood, Afif makes note that now some of his brave and wonderful mentor's blood run through Sadan's (Lucy) veins.

And then with both Touran and Ozdemir, he talks about of course Resuhi would love them because they're just so handsome and brave and cool, it's so much more expressive all at once than how Jack describes them. It's just really unfortunate this intense love for men didn't translate in subsequent future editions.

[weirdlookindog]

Drakula Istanbul'da (1953)

[itsfinalgirl]

Drakula İstanbul'da (1953)

[spacetrashpile]

alright, this is my current list, though i am open to change if anyone has thoughts about different films i should swap in and what film i should swap them out for, or if i can't find a way to watch any of these films in the next month. i am also currently planning to watch these in release order, though i may put them all in a randomizer instead come october.

i am planning to rank each film out of 10 on two scales: 1. how much did i enjoy it and 2. is it actually a good dracula adaptation.

The Death of Dracula (1921)

Nosferatu, A Symphony of Terror (1922)

Dracula (1931) (the Bela Lugosi one)

Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

Drakula Istanbul'da (1953)

Horror of Dracula (1958)

Billy the Kid Versus Dracula (1966)

Jonathan (1969/1970) (I found conflicting reports of when this one is from)

Count Dracula (1970)

Blacula (1972)

Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972)

Jess Franco's Count Dracula (1973)

Andy Warhol's Dracula/Blood for Dracula (1974)

Evil of Dracula (1974)

Dan Curtis' Dracula (1974)

Deafula (1975)

Count Dracula (1977)

Dracula (1979)

Love at First Bite (1979)

Mama Dracula (1980)

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)

Dracula 2000 (2000)

Dracula: Pages From A Virgin's Diary (2002)

Van Helsing (2004)

Blade: Trinity (2004)

Dracula 3000 (2004)

Elvira's Movie Macabre: The Satanic Rights of Dracula (2010)

Bram Stoker's Van Helsing (2021)

Renfield (2023)

The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)

y'know what would be super fun to do for halloween/october... watch one movie adaptation of dracula for each day in october and then rank them all at the end of the month

[atundratoadstool]

Jonathan Harker’s heart might be gladdened to see the Law List, but in the unauthorized 1928 Turkish remix of Dracula where the protagonists hail from Istanbul instead of London, Turkish Jonathan Harker (Azmi) drops the line “When I saw the journal of the Turkish Bar Association, I had the sweet sensation of seeing a close relative.”

[officialempressofhell]

So turkish Mina is an exotic dancer married to turkish Jonathan and she also drives her own car

Jonathan happily picks her up from work and no one is shaming her for her dancing

Idk about 1950s turkey, but this seems progressive fornthe 50s in general

[screamscenepodcast]

Your deadicated hosts travel to Turkey for the country's first horror film, DRAKULA İSTANBUL'DA (1953) from director Mehmet Muhtar! Starring Atif Kaptan as Dracula, Bülent Oran as Azmi (aka Jonathan Harker), and Annie Ball as Güzin (aka Mina).

Hear about the history of Turkey, its film industry, and the Dracula adaptation the film is inspired by, Kazıklı Voyvoda by Ali Riza Seyfi.

Book adaptation and history of Turkey 00:00; Film industry context setting 39:25; Synopsis 51:12; Discussion 1:07:28; Ranking 1:41:33

[uselesstwinkharker]

güzin & şadan (mina & lucy)

[bbcumbercutey]

MINA (MURRAY) HARKER in various Dracula adaptations [Movie Edition]

Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922); Dracula (1931); Dracula - Spanish version (1931); Drakula İstanbul'da (1953); Horror of Dracula (1958); Count Dracula (1970); Dracula (1979); Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979); Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992); Dracula: Dead and Loving It  (1995); Dracula 3D (2012); Dracula Reborn (2012).

*This includes all the versions where Mina's character was renamed for whatever reasons

[thebibi]

You know what's so fascinating is how Afif is way less culturally religious than Jack ever is. I personally love this change. Afif is thoroughly dismayed that the Quran can be used to ward off vampires. He cannot recognize Resuhi pulling it out to recite when they are staking Sadan (This is like the equivalent of Van Helsing reciting from the Bible itself when they stake Lucy).

And then when Resuhi is arming everyone against Dracula when they go to raid his new home, he tells Afif:

For example, take one of these small Qurans I am holding and place it close to your heart. Doctor Afif, do not laugh at what I say; do not laugh. Even if it has no effect, the extra 25 grams will not hurt.

And this is actually so endearing, since Resuhi is more religious than him, yet he isn't offended at all. He basically reasons with Afif's rational side.

Afif is basically agnostic and can't believe he's in a story where monsters are Real. I would kill for an adaption like this.

[ratsandfashion]

Fun fact: The first film to depict Dracula as having fangs is “Drakula İstanbul'da” (Dracula in Istanbul) which is 1953 Turkish film that has the titular vampire come to Turkey instead of England. It’s still mostly a translation of the novel, just with Turkish characters instead of English (and American, in the case of Quincy Morris, but like most film adaptations this one omits him) with a few changes, namely that there’s no Renfield and that Guzin, the counterpart of Mina Harker, is a dancing girl rather than a schoolmistress. I haven’t seen it (I think I’d like to though!) but apparently the film very much draws “an explicit connection” (according to Wikipedia) with Vlad the Impaler, and like. . .from that angle, it honestly makes a lot of SENSE that he would want to go fuck things up for the Turks.

[gellavonhamster]

https://uquiz.com/q83M5d

I made an uquiz in which I assign you one of the Dracula adaptations that I’ve watched (possible results are Dracula (1931), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), Count Dracula (1977), Drakula İstanbul'da (1953), Hrabě Drákula (1970), Dracula's Curse (2002), Dracula: A Chamber Musical, Dracula das Musical, Mina Murray's Journal, and Murray Mysteries) 

[sebastianshaw]

I’m probably not going to be active over the weekend (I’ll be doing fun stuff!) so I’ll reblog some memes to answer on Friday. Also, not done with it yet but I'm watching  Drakula İstanbul'da  (”Dracula in Istanbul”) which is a 1953 black-and-white Turkish film in which Dracula goes to, as you might guess, Istanbul instead of England. And it has a scene I think should be added to all versions of Dracula: When Azmi (the Jonathon Harker character) discovers Dracula sleeping in a coffin, he picks up a shovel and proceeds to start BEATING HIM THE FACE. He does this on TWO separate occasions and it's hilarious. Also when Drac catches one of the lady vamps sucking on Azmi, he shouts HOW DARE YOU TOUCH MY MAN and I appreciate that the subtitles phrased it that way, in keeping with the spirit of the book.

[collinsportmaine]

ACTOR WHO HAVE PORTRAYED DRACULA

(Not a definitive list)

1922 - Nosferatu (Max Schreck)

1931 - Dracula (Bela Lugosi)

1931 - Dracula (Carlos Villarías)

1943 - Son of Dracula (Lon Chaney Jr)

1944 - House of Frankenstein (John Carradine)

1953 - Drakula İstanbul'da (Atif Kaptan )

1958 - Dracula - (Christopher Lee)

1958 - Return of Dracula (Francis Lederer)

1968 - Dracula (Denholm Elliott)

1972 - Blacula (Charles Macaulay)

1973 - Bram Stoker's Dracula (Jack Palance)

1974 - 7 Golden Vampires (John Forbes-Robertson)

1974 - Blood for Dracula (Udo Kier)

1977 - Count Dracula (Louis Jourdan)

1979 - Nosferatu the Vampyre (Klaus Kinski)

1979 - Love at First Bite (George Hamilton)

1979 - Dracula (Frank Langella)

1992 - Bram Stoker's Dracula (Gary Oldman)

1995 - Dracula: Dead and Loving It (Leslie Nielsen)

PART 2:

https://collinsportmaine.tumblr.com/post/185575678160/twenty-more-actors-who-have-played-dracula-on-tv