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I wish I could have sent this sooner, for on this 13th of November, the movie Bram Stoker's Dracula came out 14 years ago. However, this drawing began last year, making it the 13TH anniversary (not to mention making the novel itself 113 years old).
I had sat down to watch the movie with a few others, and I colaborated on a sketch with the artist, Revan. I began the work, she took over, then I did. I recently did some work on it in Photoshop, and these are the results...
I absolutely LOVE this movie. I love the artistry and creativity of the sets, the costumes, the film style, the music...OH the music! I could listen to Wojciech Kilar's soundtrack forever. The movie brings out so much in me...love of art, love of life, love of ecstasy (and no, not the drug). Bohemian, Victorian, Gothic. There is something so primal about it all. It seduces me, takes me to dark places and awakens me. It says "I'm going to kill you and you're going to love it - and not only that, you're going to want more."
It's so bestial! Mmmmmm! As Dracula said to Mina as she was stroking the wolf in the cinematograph...
"There is much to be learned from beasts."
Oh what a wonderfully symbolic scene, the way she (Mina) was stroking the base of the wolf's ear as if she was stroking his sex. I love the erotic tension of the film. It's absolutely saturated with it! Drentch me in lust and drown me in love, I am so intoxicated by it all!
"Absinthe is the aphrodisiac of the self. The "green fairy" who lives in the absinthe wants your soul. But...you are safe with me."
Every moment is to be savoured, and though the film does have its flaws, it does not replace the raw sensuatlity of Lucy in her weightless bedclothes as she sleepwalks towards the wolfen Dracula, waiting in the cemetary where he then ravages her on the stone bench...Lucy's metamorphasis from vixen to vampire...Dracula's undetermined but anguished seduction of Mina...Tom Waits' portrayal of Renfield, the man who would be immortal ("I am a sane man fighting for his soul!" )...on and on and on I could go...Hopkins as Van Helsing...and, of course, Gary Oldman as Dracula and Prince Vlad of Szeklys.
"I am nothing. Lifeless, souless-hated-feared. I am dead to all the world. Hear me: I am the monster that breathing men would kill! I am Dracula."
I am irresistibly drawn to them...I am doomed by the dark side of nature.
"You will be cursed - as I am - to walk in the shadow of death for all eternity. I love you too much - to condemn you!"
I had sat down to watch the movie with a few others, and I colaborated on a sketch with the artist, Revan. I began the work, she took over, then I did. I recently did some work on it in Photoshop, and these are the results...
I absolutely LOVE this movie. I love the artistry and creativity of the sets, the costumes, the film style, the music...OH the music! I could listen to Wojciech Kilar's soundtrack forever. The movie brings out so much in me...love of art, love of life, love of ecstasy (and no, not the drug). Bohemian, Victorian, Gothic. There is something so primal about it all. It seduces me, takes me to dark places and awakens me. It says "I'm going to kill you and you're going to love it - and not only that, you're going to want more."
It's so bestial! Mmmmmm! As Dracula said to Mina as she was stroking the wolf in the cinematograph...
"There is much to be learned from beasts."
Oh what a wonderfully symbolic scene, the way she (Mina) was stroking the base of the wolf's ear as if she was stroking his sex. I love the erotic tension of the film. It's absolutely saturated with it! Drentch me in lust and drown me in love, I am so intoxicated by it all!
"Absinthe is the aphrodisiac of the self. The "green fairy" who lives in the absinthe wants your soul. But...you are safe with me."
Every moment is to be savoured, and though the film does have its flaws, it does not replace the raw sensuatlity of Lucy in her weightless bedclothes as she sleepwalks towards the wolfen Dracula, waiting in the cemetary where he then ravages her on the stone bench...Lucy's metamorphasis from vixen to vampire...Dracula's undetermined but anguished seduction of Mina...Tom Waits' portrayal of Renfield, the man who would be immortal ("I am a sane man fighting for his soul!" )...on and on and on I could go...Hopkins as Van Helsing...and, of course, Gary Oldman as Dracula and Prince Vlad of Szeklys.
"I am nothing. Lifeless, souless-hated-feared. I am dead to all the world. Hear me: I am the monster that breathing men would kill! I am Dracula."
I am irresistibly drawn to them...I am doomed by the dark side of nature.
"You will be cursed - as I am - to walk in the shadow of death for all eternity. I love you too much - to condemn you!"
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Naw, I was practically raised on slasher flicks. I'd watched all the Friday the 13th movies, up to that point, by the time I was 8,as well as two Nightmare on Elm Street movies. X3 Granted, they're not on par with Bram Stoker's Dracula in any sense, but they did desensitize me a little bit.
Ahhhhh...
See, for me I never saw movies like that, and still haven't. Yup, haven't seen ANY Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Hellraiser, etc etc etc and I don't plan on it either. I can't stand torture and gore like that.
For me my favorite horror films are the classic black and white films, Hammer Horror, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Interview With the Vampire, Army Of Darkness, Buba Hotep, Hellboy, Scream, Residnet Evil, Sleepy Hallow, the original Night of the Living Dead, and Shaun of the Dead kicks so much ass.
I love mood, ambience, creepy, eerie Gothic stuff, and werewolves too (I heart Dog Soldiers and Blood Moon!). There's always exceptions, and what squicks me is hard to put a finger on sometimes since I can watch Evil Dead but not Cabin Fever, for example. I can watch Pitch Black, but not Aliens. The remake of The House on Haunted Hill reeeeealy pushed my limits. Movies like Saw, Wolf Creek, Hostile, The Hills Have Eyes are right out. No way.
See, for me I never saw movies like that, and still haven't. Yup, haven't seen ANY Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Hellraiser, etc etc etc and I don't plan on it either. I can't stand torture and gore like that.
For me my favorite horror films are the classic black and white films, Hammer Horror, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Interview With the Vampire, Army Of Darkness, Buba Hotep, Hellboy, Scream, Residnet Evil, Sleepy Hallow, the original Night of the Living Dead, and Shaun of the Dead kicks so much ass.
I love mood, ambience, creepy, eerie Gothic stuff, and werewolves too (I heart Dog Soldiers and Blood Moon!). There's always exceptions, and what squicks me is hard to put a finger on sometimes since I can watch Evil Dead but not Cabin Fever, for example. I can watch Pitch Black, but not Aliens. The remake of The House on Haunted Hill reeeeealy pushed my limits. Movies like Saw, Wolf Creek, Hostile, The Hills Have Eyes are right out. No way.
Personally, I love it all. I can appreciate the more artistically valid movies that have good plot, good camera work, complex characters, and all that.
And, I can just sit and watch yet another bleach-blond bimbo get shredded limb from limb, too. XD Even at that age, when everyone else was screaming, "Don't go in there, he's waiting for you!" I'd be the one screaming, "Look! She tripped! Get'er get'er get'er!"
I just like horror movies of just about any classification. X3
And, I can just sit and watch yet another bleach-blond bimbo get shredded limb from limb, too. XD Even at that age, when everyone else was screaming, "Don't go in there, he's waiting for you!" I'd be the one screaming, "Look! She tripped! Get'er get'er get'er!"
I just like horror movies of just about any classification. X3
*giggles* If you ever have the opportunity to play a card game called "Grave Robbers From Outer Space" I would not hesitate to get in on that. You basically make your own B-Movie and pit it against your opponents. You have stereotypical settings, characters, monsters, props, and special effects...all of which come with a great quote that you just have to read outloud. It's a ton of fun.
Your quote reminded me of the game, which is why I'm gushing about it. =)
Your quote reminded me of the game, which is why I'm gushing about it. =)
*giggles* Well, ah, well, yes. I am so in love with the scene where Dracula courts Mina on the streets of London. *blushes*
I've given 13 black roses for this Halloween to my love...so I guess I do have a dark romantic side. On our vacation we visited a cemetary where I took pictures of all the different tombstones.
So yeah, I guess yer right...I even get tingly during the scene in The Nightmare Before Christmas where Jack sings to Sally in the moonlight. *^_^*
I've given 13 black roses for this Halloween to my love...so I guess I do have a dark romantic side. On our vacation we visited a cemetary where I took pictures of all the different tombstones.
So yeah, I guess yer right...I even get tingly during the scene in The Nightmare Before Christmas where Jack sings to Sally in the moonlight. *^_^*
It's entirely possible it's the Lugosi version! I know it's got some major flaws, but it was the first one I ever saw, and there's something hypnotic about old Bela. There's also a kind of little-known BBC miniseries version from the 70s which stars Louis Jourdan which might just be the most faithful-to-the-book version so far. I'm VERY fond of that one.
Thanks for sharing. Lugosi will always be classic to me. I do love how artistic the Coppola one is because it made such an impression on me when I was young. I think it's what gave me a passion for such lush backgrounds, design, and costumes. My favorite guilty pleasure Dracula are from novels: One of them is Quincey Morriss: Vampire by P.N. Elrond, and another one I can't remember but it starts out when he was a boy and is captured and later he turns out to be a protector of Transylvania (it's been a long while).
The Count doesn't surprise me at all! I've heard of far sillier origins for interests than that, haha.
As for me, I'm not 100% sure, but the first Dracula related thing I can remember was a Bela Lugosi action figure I had as a kid. I had figures of the Frankenstein Monster, the Wolf-Man, and the Mummy too, but I was always drawn more to Dracula than the others. Once I saw the '31 movie for the first time, he was cemented as my favorite. Although actually, before I even saw that, I might have seen The Halloween That Almost Wasn't with Judd Hirsch...
As for me, I'm not 100% sure, but the first Dracula related thing I can remember was a Bela Lugosi action figure I had as a kid. I had figures of the Frankenstein Monster, the Wolf-Man, and the Mummy too, but I was always drawn more to Dracula than the others. Once I saw the '31 movie for the first time, he was cemented as my favorite. Although actually, before I even saw that, I might have seen The Halloween That Almost Wasn't with Judd Hirsch...
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