#bram stokers Dracula

[tookishcombeferre]

What I love about this story is the absolute respect Van Helsing has for Mina's intelligence. He listens to her. He uses her ideas. He understands the value that she provides to the investigation. Her ideas are not lesser because they come from her. Like, event the choice to leave Mina out is not made lightly because they recognize how smart and valuable she is to helping them investigate.

Also, the respect and care Van Helsing shows for Mina after she has been violated by Dracula is just profound. So many men of his time would have cried hysteria and been done with it, and instead he recognizes what he and the other men did was foolish. If I remember the text correctly, Seward says that Van Helsing weeps over the loss before helping convince her that she has to live instead of allowing herself to be killed because of her direct link to Dracula?

(Van Helsing's speech, as recorded by Seward in this scene, is just ... you have to read it. Or listen to it. There are some great audiobook renditions of it. The full cast audio with Tim Curry as Van Helsing and Alan Cumming as Seward is just ... it will wreck you emotionally. I can't remember the actress' names off the cuff who play Lucy and Mina, but my WORD they left me an absolute mess of tears when they wrote back and forth. The purity of their friendship is just ... perfection!)

So, like, to the extent they can, they let Mina back into discussions, and Van Helsing and Mina (if memory serves) work together to use her mind link to Dracula to track him down. It's really incredible how well Mina and Van Helsing work together. It really helps to setup Mina and Jonathan as the children the Van Helsing would have loved to have had and, again my memory is rusty, almost did? I think?

The parental bond between Mina/Johnathan (as a couple) and Van Helsing is just so lovely. (The ending where Van Helsing becomes like a grandfather to the Harker kids ... UGH!!! Be still my heart!)

But, all that to say, so many dudes today could serve to take note from how Van Helsing and the other men act in the scene where they discover that Mina has been bit by Dracula. They grieve *for* Mina and do not blame her for what *Dracula* does to her.

Van Helsing especially is so class about that. He *always* blames people for *removing* the garlic or the other things the put in place to stop Dracula. It's never Lucy's fault. It's never Dracula's survivors'/ victims' faults. The blame is always placed where it belongs - on Dracula and the people who did not follow Van Helsing's explicit medical advice.

How many men *today* can say they have such compassion for women when they find themselves in the same situations to offer that empathy and love? And, again, this book is from the 18-freaking-90s!!!!

Like, it's not the gold standard for anything, by any means, there's A LOT wrong with Dracula. But, to shout misogyny over the way Mina is handled, in particular, is silly. In my mind, certain authors could take NOTE on how to handle certain issues based on how some of these scenes were handled.

I like how the Dracula novel not only shows that the men's decision to exclude Mina (due to the fact that she is a woman and they believe being exposed to their mission to destroy Dracula would be too much for her nerves) is a bad idea that puts her and them at risk and results in tragedy, but also shows that even before she ends up getting hurt, she is made more nervous and unhappy by being kept in the dark. The readers are shown how not being told what's going on makes her worried and sad, and also puts a great strain on her by not letting her feel close to her husband the way they had been when they communicated. And it also shows that it hurts their relationship.

I think this is really striking. Given that the book was written in the 1890s, many readers would probably automatically understand and agree with the men's viewpoints. The book invites us to see the other side - how it negatively affects Mina and her relationships with the other characters and accomplishes the opposite of what was intended. It invites us to see the hypocrisy, and how she is no more sensitive than any of the other characters, and to empathize with the suffering and hurt that being shut out causes her, as well as to see how the lack of communication brings risk on all of them. It's really interesting choice. The book is, of course, still dated, but there are many parts that are surprisingly progressive for the time.

[sprinklysparkle]

okay but literally HOW does someone read dracula then somehow make the decision to create a romance between dracula and mina !!!!???

[vvanillavveins]

I don't think we give Jonathan Harker nearly enough credit for his absolutely unhinged choices. In 1897, that pathetic wet cat of a man was written with enough grit, willpower, and raw human stupidity to rival any of our modern horror podcast protagonists. When faced with a centuries-old vampire, in a coffin, drenched in fresh blood, he really thought the best thing to do was to hit it in the face WITH A SHOVEL. The audacity. The misplaced confidence. The sheer desperation. No plan. No hesitation. Running on fear and spite alone. And i fucking love him for it. Truly the character of all time.

[vivienvalentino]

Bram Stoker’s Dracula — 1992, dir. Francis Ford Coppola

[thedrawingduke]

There’s been so much hype for Nosferatu and confusion over his facial hair, that I had to draw some Novel Dracula and his very canonical mustache. The description of him post-feed, bloated, leech-like in his coffin….golly, still haunts me to this day. I imagine him being very animalistic…with the boyar fur coats giving him a hairy, tarantula/wolf appearance. Maybe his mouth is always a little open…and I just know that guy smells so bad. He’s hardly the debonair Bela-type he’s become.

Anyway, this was fun…I’m snowed in this weekend, so I plan to draw as much as I can <3

[tiffycat]

Felt like drawing a bunch of Dracula memes just to be silly :p

[can-of-w0rmz]

Have a Mina doodle bc I missed drawing her

[mewtwo365]

Poor Jonathan, everyone is having such a good time NOT being trapped in a castle!

this drawing is based off that spongebob squidward meme XD

i hope you enjoy, and have an AWESOME day!!

[vampirecorleone]

"Gary Oldman said that when he first read the script, he decided it would be worth doing the movie just so he could feel what it would be like to say to someone, "I've crossed oceans of time to find you."" Horror Character Appreciation - Gary Oldman as Dracula in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) dir. Francis Ford Coppola

[jensens-ackles]

👻 SARA’S SPOOKTOBER 🎃 ↳ BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (1992) Dir. Francis Ford Coppola

[periodcostumefantasylover]

Mina Harkers red dress in Bram Stokers Dracula in 4k

[bite-me-s]

Some dark fantasy favourites 🎞️📽️🎬

1. Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

2. Sleepy Hollow (1999)

3. Edward Scissorhands (1990)

4. Dark Shadows (2012)

5. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

[dailyflicks]

BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (1992) dir. Francis Ford Coppola

[vvanillavveins]

Is she Lucy Westenra, or is she just a vessel for the writer's barely disguised fantasy of a women being punished for her promiscuity? Is she really"Bram Stoker's" Lucy Westenra: a naive, innocent 19 year old, with a cheery personality and a bright future ahead of her? Or has the writer instead just slapped her name on an OC that behaves nothing like her, and- with none of the grace or decorum that Lucy's tragically short story deserves- sexualized her slow and agonising death as much as possible, whilst very unsubtly doing their best to blame her for being murdered, so that we won't object to her being killed again later in an even more gruesome and sexual manner?

[livefromcastledracula]

Jonathan's slow evolution from mild mannered cinnamon roll to white haired murder eyed baddass whilst somehow not only remaining the ultimate Wifeguy but levelling up in both wifeguy and baddass simultaneously is one of the worst losses from all the adaptations.