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Off Topic => Off Topic => Topic started by: Lelygax on April 22, 2013, 07:40:00 PM
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Lets find out other places that resembles the castle keep. :rollseyes:
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Cool topic. Does it have to be a real place?
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Ah I thought I remembered an article like this! Though there might be more than one. Here it is.
http://www.castlevaniadungeon.net/features/castles.html (http://www.castlevaniadungeon.net/features/castles.html)
Maybe there should be an update to include the recent notice of how Cagliostro probably influenced Castlevania 3's castle design as well?
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Cool topic. Does it have to be a real place?[/img]
Not necessarily, this way its more fun. :D
Ah I thought I remembered an article like this! Though there might be more than one. Here it is.
http://www.castlevaniadungeon.net/features/castles.html (http://www.castlevaniadungeon.net/features/castles.html)
Maybe there should be an update to include the recent notice of how Cagliostro probably influenced Castlevania 3's castle design as well?
Good idea.
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I wonder how Mr. Dracula would react to the houses down there... And the electric wires...
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I wonder how Mr. Dracula would react to the houses down there... And the electric wires...
Fast food with a built in refrigerator light.
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Fast food with a built in refrigerator light.
LOL! I was thinking that he would feel wacky before all that technology right near his house but, thanks. :P
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This is a good read.
http://www.budget-travel-tips.com/2011/10/romanian-castles-peles-bran-corvinesti.html (http://www.budget-travel-tips.com/2011/10/romanian-castles-peles-bran-corvinesti.html)
Peles Castle is so pretty.
Dat Library!!!
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Pelé's Castle?! :O
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"I will suck all your blood, understand?/Vou sugar todo seu sangue, entende?"
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Downvote: bad joke
:P
We don't need no stinkin' moat! (Sicilian)
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French style keep
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4 out of 5 Chocobos can't be wrong (Warkworth Castle)
(https://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.totalwallpapers.com%2Fnature%2Fwallpapers%2Fwarkworth-castle.jpg&hash=2aef4535faee4dd3c67f32ff6253cd83)
Another castle fit for a Frog
(https://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dpeck.info%2Fpictures%2Ffrance%2Ffrance2008-b02.jpg&hash=5c8726c33873e061c2adc5a58d55f7fe)
What better place to defend your domain than inside a mountain? (French)
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Day-um! (Froggy went a'courtin')
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Leaving Arundel Castlel Keep, or what a Belmont might see (French)
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Visegrad Castle, Hungary
(https://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffindmeapartment.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F03%2FVisegrad-castle.jpg&hash=3ad7db8cab9593f7c1b6d60fe3f05657)
Spis Castle, with cathedral in fore (Slovak)
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Castlevania was obviously influenced heavily by the Austrian architects, though.
Hohenzollern
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Hohenwerfen
(https://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fkestoryatravels.files.wordpress.com%2F2012%2F09%2Faustria-werfen-hohenwerfen-castle.jpg&hash=9e37748dd1240201ad4d648fee1eef58)
And here are some Polish castles with impressive towers:
Malbork
(https://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.destination360.com%2Feurope%2Fpoland%2Fimages%2Fs%2Fmalbork-castle.jpg&hash=3f267cb8ace2c7ebf001765ce323ba34)
Niedzika
(https://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdn3xvn5nu3tgm.cloudfront.net%2Ffotki%2Fupload%2F30%2F32%2F72%2F3032721265998325s2.jpg&hash=4a3d084339f183c130a56a227601b720)
Krzyztopor (this one just looks cool)
(https://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fplfoto.com%2Fzdjecia_new2%2F2071431.jpg&hash=d0d37c38e34ffc60e2fed4afd9ef5f71)
Moszna
(https://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F_3p3SnbADz3c%2FTUXNI4ybIdI%2FAAAAAAAAAAw%2F-CV07K7AmRo%2Fs1600%2F2amki.png&hash=dee12689e2d159a0d5e5925f6baa3995)
Grodziec
(https://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lokale-wesele.pl%2Fuserfiles%2Ffirmy%2Fzdjecia%2F2324-Zamek-Grodziec%2F%2Fthumb%2F712x500_ratio_width_11.jpg&hash=169476b7ba4ba977e19b433acc178ad3)
Ksiaz
(https://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.poland.travel%2Fen%2Fimages%2Fstories%2Fpolskatravel%2FUSA%2FKsiaz2.jpg&hash=170a10d2ada45b4d68491809c6a52b01)
Kwidzyn
(https://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.polskiekrajobrazy.pl%2Fimages%2Fstories%2Fbig%2F80127kwidzyn.jpg&hash=035dd0736ced4536e7175d57985e750a)
Kraziczyn
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Tenczyn (ruined)
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Radzyn
(https://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg81.imageshack.us%2Fimg81%2F8877%2Fradzyn1jsqq2.jpg&hash=529a5481d144ba52c3a18ea9d369ee5c)
In Germany, there's the beautiful Kreuzenstein
(https://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aeiou.at%2Faeiou.encyclop.data.image.k%2Fk827586a.jpg&hash=c09cea02f71ddba82d7f38bde4bfdf44)
and Coburg
(https://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bad-staffelstein.de%2Fde%2Fimg%2FVeste-Coburg-quer.jpg&hash=4e3aadde8fa982017159c7f67ec7d865)
And of course Nuremburg
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Lauenstein...
(https://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.fotocommunity.com%2Fphotos%2F8725960.jpg&hash=b831ec6118e5ca7485a846b197564074)
and Guiness record holder Burghausen
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And I can't believe, even though it's not technically keeps but still towers, no one brought up Carcassonne
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Some one should dress up as a Belmont and film himself running through a castle's corridors. That would be awesome. :P
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Some one should dress up as a Belmont and film himself running through a castle's corridors. That would be awesome. :P
I think a cosplayer at deviantart dressed up as Maria and did a photoshoot at Kaiser Castle Dusseldorf, Germany.
http://adella.deviantart.com/art/Maria-Renard-Castlevania-SOTN-133507036 (http://adella.deviantart.com/art/Maria-Renard-Castlevania-SOTN-133507036)
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I thank you all for this thread.
It's making planning my Minecraft Castle architecture so much easier. :D
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Some more I found.
Unknown
(https://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fpicturrs.com%2Ffiles%2Ffunzug%2Fimgs%2Ftravel%2Fcastles_amazing_09.jpg&hash=63fa7157e186d3f750ca3055bf9c428c)
http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/travel/castles_amazing_12.jpg (http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/travel/castles_amazing_12.jpg)
Kilkenny Castle (even the Irish wanted to kill Kenny)
(https://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ftiger.towson.edu%2F%7Ecbaben1%2Fkilkenny_castle.jpg&hash=786709fac668933c2d7542747f5bf818)
Castile de la Mota (Spain)
(https://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eupedia.com%2Fimages%2Fcontent%2Fla_mota_castle-1.jpg&hash=3c72f102d49115cae2e53db664577542)
Kasteel de Haar (Netherlands)
(https://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia-cdn.tripadvisor.com%2Fmedia%2Fphoto-s%2F02%2F2a%2F22%2F1d%2Fkasteel-de-haar.jpg&hash=63a9f29ded81825cc50a7e0cb2cb707c)
Guaita (San Marino)
(https://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fharryrowe.com%2Fsanmarino1.jpg&hash=4f223adfffb1830b3e51015ba003e1e9)
Lichtenstein Castle (you just shit yourself, I know)
(https://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffarm2.static.flickr.com%2F1358%2F1107392638_84fb160d36.jpg&hash=552411a57db3e204eea1be889593e78e)
Burg Hochosterwitz (Austria)
(https://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdotnet.get24.at%2Fmedia%2Fppm_3dak_kw_woerthersee%2FSYSTEM_BOX_normal2%2F2217.jpg&hash=37fb9d278f430bdddf7b6c3d5b7c6619)
Alcazar de Segovia (alcazar is a type of castle, this is the most famous one)
(https://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ifimages.com%2Fphotos%2Fo04wdaQOUopGxsOaOI6VPUvryRw%2Fauthor-515%2FSpain-Segovia-Alcazar-Castle.jpg&hash=d2b1dcb7dd76bc693c62920b21c05744)
Burg Eltz (German)
(https://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi1.trekearth.com%2Fphotos%2F13002%2Fburg_eltz.jpg&hash=92c1541b486e38ef5c0d6cd4c3a8feab)
Burg Satzvey
(https://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.madamenoire.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F05%2FBurg-Satzvey-Germany.jpg&hash=50eba6819e069efb56301765c0df8d70)
Burg Altena
(https://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.eupedia.com%2Fimages%2Fcontent%2Faltena-2.jpg&hash=3663f24a336bc6594836180a57423359)
Chateau Frontenac (Quebec) [not a castle per se]
(https://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2F7%2F7f%2FCh%25C3%25A2teau_Frontenac01.jpg&hash=0ada190410895849e6bf1e7b81f382bc)
Alnwick Castle (aka Hogwarts)
(https://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fsharethesepictures.blogspot.com%2F2012%2F09%2FTop-30-most-Beautiful-Palaces-and-Castles-around-the-world.html&hash=51691382ece60385769c1f38f5097f81)
Ashford Castle
(https://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestourism.com%2Fimg%2Fitems%2Fbig%2F1253%2FAshford-Castle_Aerial-view_4724.jpg&hash=5e94a3252991c67807628585614be942)
Hunyad (Romania)
(https://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.1zoom.net%2Fbig2%2F636%2F254140-svetik.jpg&hash=9a7ac8c5497b77517b83673e38152df4)
Leeds Castle (England)
(https://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.leeds-castle.com%2Flanding_images%2Fland2.jpg&hash=a428030a6eeb0a4363ac9fa538faddb6)
Lowenburg (modern)
(https://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.fotocommunity.com%2Fimages%2FKassel%2FBergpark-Wilhelmshoehe%2FLoewenburg-a22792573.jpg&hash=ef3038b3c0ea87153ac756d44e32e884)
Mont St. Michael
(https://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frendezvousenfrance.com%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fabbaye_du_mont-saint-michel_credit_cmn_paris-marc_rapillard_800x576_2.jpg&hash=de9d1f82d43abf7b333e222ce4b247e4)
Chateau de Sully
(https://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fmw2.google.com%2Fmw-panoramio%2Fphotos%2Fmedium%2F75085659.jpg&hash=ff5339a8c1f22df206ab3361d16b5c57)
Chateau de Chenonceau
(https://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gardenvisit.com%2Fassets%2Fmadge%2Fchateau_de_chenonceau_1543_jpg%2F600x%2Fchateau_de_chenonceau_1543_jpg_600x.jpg&hash=10db118c325d220a6cf882aa73f1723f)
Chateau de Challain (because Dracula's castle is essentially a chateau)
(https://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia-cdn.tripadvisor.com%2Fmedia%2Fphoto-s%2F02%2F30%2Fd2%2Fff%2Fchateau-de-challain.jpg&hash=818eeae7acf5872e755b853972a790cd)
Chateau de Chantilly
(https://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.panachetours.com%2F_Media%2Fchantilly.jpeg&hash=c69cf6f3ecd5f4a1aae7ce27b059b25c)
Chateau de Saumur
(https://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia-cdn.tripadvisor.com%2Fmedia%2Fphoto-s%2F01%2F67%2F5d%2Fd0%2Fchateau-de-saumur-a-300m.jpg&hash=4f6dbeffce36dd2407382eaff6443fbd)
Trakai Castle (Lithuania, pre-modern)
(https://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lietuva.lt%2Fuploads%2Fexplore%2Fimages%2F6_2cf5bbb8f65947041a89e3ee1e66f741.jpg&hash=d01cec1e2cc54b16184e97d4d055f8c5)
Dunrobin (Scottish)
(https://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.travelization.net%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F07%2Fscotland-dunrobin-castle-wallpapers-t.jpg&hash=6b53364608d9ec80d05cef2f964e70fc)
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Thanks for these beautiful views!
I will follow this topic!
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Those castles are so beautiful *.*
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Indeed, they are so inspiring to me.
PS: I've just found out my respect went from +97 to +106 in a day.
To whoever did that, thank you very much! :)
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http://myscienceacademy.org/2013/04/14/the-33-most-beautiful-abandoned-places-in-the-world/ (http://myscienceacademy.org/2013/04/14/the-33-most-beautiful-abandoned-places-in-the-world/) (Includes a castle or two.)
There's something undeniably beautiful and sad about abandoned places. Nature reclaiming what man built and in the back of his mind thought would last forever. I always find myself imagining who may have lived or worked there and wondering what drove them away, and feeling an urge to go look for clues and remnants of the lives lived in them.
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The Haunted Palace by Edgar Allan Poe, 1883
In the greenest of our valleys
By good angels tenanted,
Once a fair and stately palace—
Radiant palace—reared its head.
In the monarch Thought's dominion—
It stood there!
Never seraph spread a pinion
Over fabric half so fair!
Banners yellow, glorious, golden,
On its roof did float and flow,
(This—all this—was in the olden
Time long ago),
And every gentle air that dallied,
In that sweet day,
Along the ramparts plumed and pallid,
A winged odor went away.
Wanderers in that happy valley,
Through two luminous windows, saw
Spirits moving musically,
To a lute's well-tunëd law,
Bound about a throne where, sitting
(Porphyrogene!)
In state his glory well befitting,
The ruler of the realm was seen.
And all with pearl and ruby glowing
Was the fair palace door,
Through which came flowing, flowing, flowing,
And sparkling evermore,
A troop of Echoes, whose sweet duty
Was but to sing,
In voices of surpassing beauty,
The wit and wisdom of their king.
But evil things, in robes of sorrow,
Assailed the monarch's high estate.
(Ah, let us mourn!—for never morrow
Shall dawn upon him desolate !)
And round about his home the glory
That blushed and bloomed,
Is but a dim-remembered story
Of the old time entombed.
And travellers, now, within that valley,
Through the red-litten windows see
Vast forms, that move fantastically
To a discordant melody,
While, like a ghastly rapid river,
Through the pale door
A hideous throng rush out forever
And laugh—but smile no more.
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From Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/p (http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/p)
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Beautiful. Just beautiful.
I love E. A. Poe.
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23. Abandoned mill from 1866 in Sorrento, Italy
So that's the structure I saw down in the gorge when I went to Sorrento during my Mediterranean cruise. that scene looked so interesting that i thought it would make an awesome stage starting point for a Tomb Raider game.
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Beautiful. Just beautiful.
I love E. A. Poe.
Yes it's one of my favorites. There's a version read by Christopher Lee on youtube but unfortunately the audio isn't the best. There's another poem by Poe ("The City in the Sea") with a similar theme that I've always thought must have influenced H.P. Lovecraft and writers that followed him in the same vein. Funny because a Lovecraft story ("The Case of Charles Dexter Ward") was turned into a Vincent Price movie in the 60s which took Poe's "The Haunted Palace" name (to tie-in with a series of "Poe" movies) even though the stories are unrelated. But I do see a lot of shades of Lovecraft's old ones and especially the sunken city of R'lyeh in Poe's "The City in the Sea"
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The City in the Sea - Edgar Allan Poe (1835?)
Lo! Death has reared himself a throne
In a strange city lying alone
Far down within the dim West,
Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best
Have gone to their eternal rest.
There shrines and palaces and towers
(Time-eaten towers and tremble not!)
Resemble nothing that is ours.
Around, by lifting winds forgot,
Resignedly beneath the sky
The melancholy waters lie.
No rays from the holy Heaven come down
On the long night-time of that town;
But light from out the lurid sea
Streams up the turrets silently—
Gleams up the pinnacles far and free—
Up domes—up spires—up kingly halls—
Up fanes—up Babylon-like walls—
Up shadowy long-forgotten bowers
Of sculptured ivy and stone flowers—
Up many and many a marvellous shrine
Whose wreathed friezes intertwine
The viol, the violet, and the vine.
Resignedly beneath the sky
The melancholy waters lie.
So blend the turrets and shadows there
That all seem pendulous in air,
While from a proud tower in the town
Death looks gigantically down.
There open fanes and gaping graves
Yawn level with the luminous waves;
But not the riches there that lie
In each idol's diamond eye—
Not the gaily-jewelled dead
Tempt the waters from their bed;
For no ripples curl, alas!
Along that wilderness of glass—
No swellings tell that winds may be
Upon some far-off happier sea—
No heavings hint that winds have been
On seas less hideously serene.
But lo, a stir is in the air!
The wave—there is a movement there!
As if the towers had thrust aside,
In slightly sinking, the dull tide—
As if their tops had feebly given
A void within the filmy Heaven.
The waves have now a redder glow—
The hours are breathing faint and low—
And when, amid no earthly moans,
Down, down that town shall settle hence,
Hell, rising from a thousand thrones,
Shall do it reverence.
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Gotta love the public domain, can get all of his poems here http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10031 (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10031) and his short stories on the same site.
So that's the structure I saw down in the gorge when I went to Sorrento during my Mediterranean cruise. that scene looked so interesting that i thought it would make an awesome stage starting point for a Tomb Raider game.
Neat, it is a beautiful ruin.
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I didn't know about that movie, it surprises me.
Already downloaded all Poe's works! :)
So, we are talking about Poe... I'd like to ask if anyone saw the movie "The Raven". Because I loved that movie, and I see it has low reviews everywhere. Maybe I just fell in love with Poe references and that Victorian London look (although it is Baltimore, but it looks like Victorian London), but I don't think it is a bad movie as everyone says.
The dialogue is very well spoken, also.
And there are a couple of nice touches, like some phrases...
"I felt nothing but release when she died; but that feeling was soon to be replaced by this dark, grim melancholy that has been following all my life like a black dog..."
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I didn't know about that movie, it surprises me.
Already downloaded all Poe's works! :)
So, we are talking about Poe... I'd like to ask if anyone saw the movie "The Raven". Because I loved that movie, and I see it has low reviews everywhere. Maybe I just fell in love with Poe references and that Victorian London look (although it is Baltimore, but it looks like Victorian London), but I don't think it is a bad movie as everyone says.
The dialogue is very well spoken, also.
And there are a couple of nice touches, like some phrases...
"I felt nothing but release when she died; but that feeling was soon to be replaced by this dark, grim melancholy that has been following all my life like a black dog..."
For a second I thought you were talking about "The Raven" movie from the 1960s which was another one of those Vincent Price/Roger Corman "Poe inspired" movies. (I saw it but years and years ago, it was a comedy-horror and the plot involved dueling wizards for some reason.) I haven't seen the recent one but I did hear a lot of bad things, so you do recommend it? I love me some gothic Victorian stories.
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I don't know if to recommend it because I have very special and specific tastes.
I loved the Poe references, poetic well written dialogue, tragedy and Victorian setting.
But I realize many people dislike it.
I usually go around telling people around me about things I like, but sometimes I seem to be the only one to like it. I also heard bad things, but then I saw it and loved it.
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Hey! I know Poe! :D
I've read "The Raven" once... It messes with your head... x|