#also I think it’s so funny that in the spanish one renfield cuts his finger while cutting bread instead of on a paper clip. I love the idea | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

spacepunksupreme · 2 years ago

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Just watched the Spanish 1931 Dracula this morning and it really did hold up a lot better than the English version?

I don’t know that you could call either one “better”, but I think it was just a lot more cinematic than the English version is theatrical. Like the characters spend so much time in English one monologuing about scenes we don’t see, from head-on camera angles. But the Spanish one just had more scenes with more set changes and camera work. Just kinda interesting how that made it more compelling where the English one really drags on despite being 20 minutes shorter lol

#hannah is talking #I liked juan harker better than the english version’s jonathan lol he was less of an asshole.#also I think it’s so funny that in the spanish one renfield cuts his finger while cutting bread instead of on a paper clip. I love the idea #that the spanish writers were reading the english script and were like no one fucking cuts themself on a paper clip that’s stupid lol #also oh my god the actor playing renfield did so much screaming lol. he was honestly terrifying #I also loved the little bit where he scrambled over the porch railing giggling to himself while doctor seward was just like #��bad renfield >:( get over here rn >:(‘ and made him sit down on the couch with like his hands folded in his lap lol #WAIT ALSO when dracula tossed renfield over the stairs to his death there isnt any sound effect of him falling but in the spanish version #*no sound effect in the english version #there’s like this loud ass metalic THUNK like the sound of two metal objects hitting each other and it just killed me. it was like very #violent sounding and effectively scary but it was NOT the kind of sound a man hitting a dirt floor would make lmaoo

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