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bandaidfingers · 2 years ago

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🩸BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA (1992)🩸

Not a favorite Dracula movie of mine by any means, but a must-watch movie for a lot of non-Dracula related reasons. This movie is an absolute visual treat, the sets and costumes are stunning throughout, and is filled with excellent actors including Gary Oldman as Dracula and Anthony Hopkins as Van Helsing. It really isn’t a horrible adaptation either as it follows the sequence of events in the books fairly accurately, and features narration from the characters in the style of diary entries which I really enjoy as a reference to the epistolary structure of the original novel. This move is also one of the rare few that features the entire cast supporting characters, however I have mixed feelings about their portrayal, particularly Mina Harker’s odd romance with Dracula (another dead-ringer reincarnated wife romance subplot—completely uninspired) which I find to be a distasteful treatment of her character even with her original personality still being somewhat intact in other ways. Ultimately this movie is worthwhile only if I don't actually think of it as a Dracula movie haha.

My favorite scene in this, which I based my little illustration off of, is when Dracula’s shadow is moving behind Jonathan, I love the way it starts out subtle enough that you might not be sure you’re seeing it right, gradually getting more out of sync up to the moment it begins moving completely independent of him. I think it’s brilliant.

Anyway, happy Halloween everyone, and I hope you’ve enjoyed both my artwork and my movie chatter this month :)

#dracula #bram stoker's dracula #dracula 1992 #keanu reeves #inktober #hannah’s dractober #I feel like I should have tried harder to make lil keanu actually look like keanu instead of like the way I drew Jonathan in #jonathan harker's adventures in castle dracula lol but honestly that's the way I envision him when I think about this movie. he brought #such little dude energy to jonathan in this lol #while rewatching this I forgot that #one of dracula's brides bites jonathan's dick when they're like accosting him and man I screamed lmao. the sfx like dear god she BIT him #it like crunches asjfhds poor jonathan lmfao #I have such mixed feelings about this movie making Jack Seward do drugs. on one hand Im like ew it's just to make him seem gritty which is #cheap but on the other hand Jack Seward self-medicater teetering dangerously on the precipice of becoming an addict does actually feel very #in character. I think that's a good and interesting direction to push his personality in #very Stephen Maturin of him actually hahaha

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