Your favorite Dracula ?

Discussion in 'Visual Arts' started by Richard--W, Aug 7, 2019.

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  1. FredV

    FredV Senior Member

    A documentary on the making of the Universal Dracula.

     
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  2. Purple Jim

    Purple Jim Senior Member

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    Bretagne
    Nosferatu (original)
    Coppola's version
    I also love Lugosi and Christopher Lee, although the Hammer movies do drag on with not enough Lee in them (I'm not a fan of Cushing either). I also liked Richard Roxburgh's Dracula in Van Helsing.
     
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  3. smilin ed

    smilin ed Senior Member

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    Durham
    Thanks. I'll keep a look out for them.
     
  4. Tim S

    Tim S Senior Member

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    *faints*
     
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  5. Bluesman Mark

    Bluesman Mark I'm supposed to put something witty here....

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    Though I found the DVD used at CD Tradepost, it's available at Amazon:

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  6. MAYBEIMAMAZED

    MAYBEIMAMAZED Don't think Twice it's alright

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    Christopher Lee the best Dracula going to watch some of these this weekend if I can find them!
     
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  7. Shoes1916

    Shoes1916 Forum Resident

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    Not just the best vampire movie, but one of the greatest horror films of all time AND one of the greatest films of ANY genre ever made.
     
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  8. Michael

    Michael I LOVE WIDE S-T-E-R-E-O!

    Just watched this...Dracula (1973) with Jack Palance

    for me the most authentic...Jack nailed it.
     
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  9. Bluesman Mark

    Bluesman Mark I'm supposed to put something witty here....

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    I rate Palance's Dracula just below Lee's. Jack was great in the role.
     
  10. BwanaBob

    BwanaBob Forum Resident

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    I love Christopher Lee in almost everything he did but I really disliked his portrayal of Dracula. I blame the Hammer Studio's ham-fisted production values. Ridiculously over the top. There was an American version of Hammer's styled Dracula, called Count Yorga. Equally silly.
     
  11. Bluesman Mark

    Bluesman Mark I'm supposed to put something witty here....

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    :eek: :eek: Sacrilege!! :laugh:

    Boo!!! Hiss!!! :laugh:

    Seriously, & like I always say, per Sly Stone, different strokes for different folks, I love the Count Yorga movies. Robert Quarry made an excellent vampire; arch, arrogant, & filled with the hubris that eternal life seems to bring to these creatures. I think the sequel is even a bit better than the first, with the savage attack by the vampires on the family very Manson family like, & the overall pacing is better.
     
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  12. GeetarFreek

    GeetarFreek Forum Resident

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    Any love for Willem Defoe as Nosferatu ?
     
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  13. Bluesman Mark

    Bluesman Mark I'm supposed to put something witty here....

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    There is, & he's been mentioned several times in this thread. The prevailing line of thought is that though he's excellent in the role, he wasn't Dracula playing Dracula, but a vampire playing Dracula, & therein lies the difference. Kinda like my detour in defense of Count Yorga just a few moments ago. ;)

    Very good movie though & a great performance by Dafoe.
     
  14. Bluesman Mark

    Bluesman Mark I'm supposed to put something witty here....

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    One thing I find interesting, no matter who we vote for as our favorite Dracula, is that once you move past the now cliched vision of Lugosi, is how the different & best actors have offered wonderful interpretations of the role.

    Lugosi is the default version of course, & rightly so, but Schreck & Kinski brought a hideous vision of the character to "life", (& in Kinski's case, a superbly world weary viewpoint, one wonders how many centuries he's roamed the world), along with the plague analogy inherent in both roles. Lee was the most feral & fearsome, Palance was also world weary, & a tortured soul in addition to that. Jourdan captured the suaveness as well as Lugosi did, & Oldman perhaps did best at the romantic longing trapped inside the character.
     
  15. Steve Baker

    Steve Baker Forum Resident

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    Willem Dafoe was portraying Count Orlock not Dracula.
     
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  16. Bluesman Mark

    Bluesman Mark I'm supposed to put something witty here....

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    Technically yes, but in the original Nosferatu, Orlock was Dracula. The names & locations were changed to try to avoid the copyright, which they failed to do. There's a great book by David J. Skal; Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen, that covers all this in detail.
     
  17. Anthrax

    Anthrax Forum Resident

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    Thank you for reminding me of that movie! I haven't watched it in ages and I still have the DVD, so I'll line it up for my Halloween marathon this year.

    Murnau's Nosferatu is one of my favourite movies of all time, especially in the horror genre. I used to find it so spooky because it didn't quite look like a movie to me, it was as though I was watching the real thing. The vampire's characterisation is so spot on, the scariest screen vampire ever. Years ago I used to have a VHS with a wonderful solo piano soundtrack, but I know I'll probably never hear that soundtrack again and that makes me sad. I don't even remember who was the player or composer.

    Anyway... Due to my sick love of the old Nosferatu, when I learnt about Shadow Of The Vampire I knew I just had to go watch it at the cinema. I was looking forward to it so much, but then I got very disappointed watching it. I was expecting something like a dramatisation of the whole creation of the original movie, a sort of "making-of", but it wasn't that and I kicked dirt all the way back home. Still, when it sunk in and I accepted the fact that it wasn't what I wanted but something different, I decided to give it another chance. Got the DVD and watched it as though the original Nosferatu had never happened, and watching it that way I could enjoy it.

    I want that Orlok coat.

    PS.
    I once met a girl from Poland, her surname was Orlak. Coolest surname ever.
     
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  18. Michael

    Michael I LOVE WIDE S-T-E-R-E-O!

    Lee is my not my favorite Dracula...so I'd reverse your choice. ; )
     
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  19. Michael

    Michael I LOVE WIDE S-T-E-R-E-O!

    I thought it was brilliant and he has to be the creepiest actor ever! love him! ...always watch any movie he appears in...
     
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  20. Michael

    Michael I LOVE WIDE S-T-E-R-E-O!

    Dracula with a different name who were the same...
     
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  21. Bluesman Mark

    Bluesman Mark I'm supposed to put something witty here....

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    It's almost a tossup for me as to which one's best.
     
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  22. Michael

    Michael I LOVE WIDE S-T-E-R-E-O!

    Indeed...I'm firm on Jack! : )
     
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  23. SteveRes

    SteveRes Forum Resident

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    Max Shreck and Christopher Lee. The original Nosferatu is incredible for it's time, must have absolutely terrified people.
     
  24. Evethingandnothing

    Evethingandnothing Forum Resident

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    I don't know if he's the best Dracula, some of the later sequels weren't great, but my fave is Christopher Lee.
     
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  25. ssmith3046

    ssmith3046 Forum Resident

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    Bella and Gary.
     
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