Topic: NBC's Dracula

[Tuxedo Mark]

I dunno. It looks to have jack to do with the original novel, but it might be good in its own right:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1jVcmDH43Y

[X]

Yep. It's another one of those love sitcoms and obviously so since the director of the Tudors is behind it. I really wish Hollywood would not mess around with fiction or history like they do. They should just do their own thing instead. I'd rather see a Dracula sitcom or movie that actually, and properly depicts the original novel. The 1994 movie Dracula is close but was still more of a love story.

[Inccubus]

Bleh. Too many changes to the original, and don't like the actor they chose for Vlad.
I did like the line about "making her into what I am? That would be an abomination."

[Lone Wolf]

Yep. It's another one of those love sitcoms and obviously so since the director of the Tudors is behind it. I really wish Hollywood would not mess around with fiction or history like they do. They should just do their own thing instead. I'd rather see a Dracula sitcom or movie that actually, and properly depicts the original novel. The 1994 movie Dracula is close but was still more of a love story.

How about the 1931 movie?

[X]

How about the 1931 movie?

Never did see it, but I'll bet my bottom dollar that it is even closer to the novel the 1994 movie was.

[Mooning Freddy]

Well, I wouldn't expect much from NBC.
It's not like it's BBC. 

That Mitchell And Webb Look - BBC Sketch

[Flame]

Never did see it, but I'll bet my bottom dollar that it is even closer to the novel the 1994 movie was.

Not really. The Coppola one is actually pretty close to the novel except for the "I'm a misunderstood creature who just wants love"

the Lugosi movie despite is classic stature, is pretty far from the novel. For one, Johnathan Harker is hardly of the same importance, and Quincy is nowhere to be found. No Lucy either.

[C Belmont]

The Coppola film is only close to the book in that all the characters and most of the major events are present but the treatment of the characters & the themes in the film aren't at all true to the source material.

[Lone Wolf]

Not really. The Coppola one is actually pretty close to the novel except for the "I'm a misunderstood creature who just wants love"

the Lugosi movie despite is classic stature, is pretty far from the novel. For one, Johnathan Harker is hardly of the same importance, and Quincy is nowhere to be found. No Lucy either.

So what would you consider close enough to the novel, if not the novel itself?

[Shiroi Koumori]

So what would you consider close enough to the novel, if not the novel itself?

The BBC radio drama?

[Lone Wolf]

The BBC radio drama?

BBC drama? :/ I never heard of..

[Shiroi Koumori]

I got wind of it because of Tom Hiddleston.
Dracula - November 18 & 25, 2006

[darkwzrd4]

It could always be worse and be a rip off of TWILIGHT. It sucks!!! Vampires are made to be scary anymore. It's all dark love stories now. What ever happened to the truly dark evil monster who would slaughter everyone just because he felt like it and enjoyed doing so. The closest thing we have to that is Alucard in the Hellsing anime/manga. Now that is a vampire!!!!!!  I think that everyone who wants to make a vampire movie/tv show, should watch Hellsing Ultimate series and take notes to what Alucard does and how much he enjoys the carnage.  There is no emo, no love story. Just shear violence. If you are a man and you don't think that Alucard is a badass vampire, you might as well cut off your balls and go watch twilight with all the other pansies.

[Shiroi Koumori]

Twilight and all the Twihards must be burned at the stake.
But that's the trend nowadays.
Wait a few more years and we'll see what happens to the vampire stories, hopefully, all the twilight wannabes are out of the picture.

[Ratty]

The 1931 Dracula was more like the stage plays that had been popular for decades. A good movie for it's time but very slow and tame by today's standards (you don't even see any fangs) and strayed pretty far from the original story in the name of saving time. Nosferatu was pretty faithful for a silent film that was pretending to be unrelated lol.

The trouble with doing a direct adaptation of the book is that Dracula himself is rarely in it after the opening chapters. But even when you get around this you come at the main problem with Coppola's and most other modern versions of the story/character. That being when the Dracula character is incredibly romanticized and what was basically a rape in the original book is turned into "an epic love story that spanned the ages". But this is a trend that has been going on since at least the 1970s. And perhaps it shouldn't be all that surprising, read Bela Lugosi's thoughts on why he got so many female fan letters sometime.