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teenybuffalo

Draculas I Have Loved

Oct 11, 2010 21:16

A love letter, of sorts--and I'm not even all that into vampires (the lady doth protest too much). Under the cut lies a series of photos and film stills depicting filmic Draculas through the decades. If you feel I've missed some good ones, please add them in the comments.
( Nine plus a small bonus vamp. )

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mollyringle October 12 2010, 02:39:30 UTC

Your titles crack me up! I was raised on Disco Dracula, myself. Hee hee.

teenybuffalo October 12 2010, 03:11:06 UTC

Bless him, Frank Langella is a sex symbol in that movie. Puppy dog eyes and all. I can make fun of the psychedelic sex scene all I want, but really I love the guy. (If I had the money I'd go see him live on Broadway--he seems pretty spry for an old fellow.)

mollyringle October 12 2010, 16:34:03 UTC

The main oddness about that film was: why did they switch Mina and Lucy's characters? Possibly just their names. Anyway, it confused me for years.

Don't know if this guy counts, since it was TV and not film, but there's always Heroin-Addicted Rock Star Dracula, from the Buffy episode "Buffy vs. Dracula":

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teenybuffalo October 12 2010, 19:11:15 UTC

Still counts! I liked Buffy's saying that she had staked at least three overweight, pimply teenage vampires who called themselves "Lestat".

I don't get the name switch either. They changed "Mina" to "Nina", too, didn't they? Or perhaps that was another movie. The vampire lit critic Nina Auerbach said approvingly that they changed her name "to the more euphonious 'Nina'." Well, of course she would think that.

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asakiyume October 12 2010, 03:07:42 UTC

I love your titles too! Someone really needs to feed up that poor Riverboat dracula.

teenybuffalo October 12 2010, 03:12:23 UTC

WOO nice icon! And yeah, I never really noticed just how thin and wan he looks till I saw him alongside all the other Draculas. There's nothing like a prominent Adam's-apple to make me get all maternal.

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teenybuffalo October 12 2010, 12:41:49 UTC

I think of you every time I see him (which is actually mostly on your mood theme, now I think of it).

Schllllurp! (<--impalement noise transcription)

here by way of lemonlye pokeystar October 12 2010, 17:00:51 UTC

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Re: here by way of lemonlye mollyringle October 12 2010, 18:13:26 UTC

Heheh. Love it! And to go into complete parody territory, Leslie Nielsen played him too, in "Dracula: Dead and Loving It." Perhaps that's Don't Call Me "Shirley" Dracula.

Re: here by way of lemonlye teenybuffalo October 12 2010, 19:14:21 UTC

Oh yeah! Nobody seems to talk about that movie much anymore. I admit that it's not "Blazing Saddles", but it was pretty funny. The wacky-old-villagers sequence in the beginning is something I remember fondly.

Both that and the Gary Oldman version have Horrifying Bouffant Dracula, although "Dracula: Dead and Loving It" was actually meant to be funny.

Re: here by way of lemonlye teenybuffalo October 12 2010, 19:12:22 UTC

I like the widow's peak plus 1700s-hair plus beauty mark. He looks like Vampire Thomas Jefferson.