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⌈ Secret Post #4346 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'd love a loyal adaptation that actually included all the characters and more of their little interactions. Most of what I loved about the book had nothing to do with Dracula at all, but was all about the teamwork and found family and manly crying as everyone finally started to pull together during/after what happened to Lucy. Jonathan and Mina and Van Helsing, Arthur and Seward and Quincy. All the little moments. Arthur breaking down in Mina's arms while she just hugs him. Jonathan happily listening to Van Helsing burble about how amazing his wife is. Quincy scaring the absolute bejeezus out of everyone by randomly strolling outisde in the middle of a meeting and shooting the window in because he thought he saw a bat on the windowsill (I also like the idea that he did, and it was Dracula, and he scared the absolute bejeezus out of bat!Dracula too). Mina gently pulling Van Helsing's leg with her shorthand notes. Van Helsing having a straight-up fit of cry/laugh hysterics at the graveyard when he realises what's happened to Lucy, and Dr Seward feeling some extremely Victorian discomfort over being stuck in a carriage with him while it happens. Arthur and Seward very stiffly supporting each other over both having lost the woman they love. Mina being kind to Renfield, and that being the reason Renfield helps them. Everyone being madly in love with Mina. Everybody swearing themselves to Mina's protection. Nobody being jealous of anybody else. (Seriously, Jonathan is so chill with everyone around him singing her praises, or weeping in her arms, or dying for her, in fact if he's anything he's delighted that they're all so in awe of her. Not to mention Lucy's three suitors and how not just amicable but downright caring and supportive they are of each other. It's amazing).

I miss all that so much, especially in adaptations that strip out one or more of the suitors, or adaptations that focus on putting Mina and Dracula together for a tragic romance. For real, most of what I actually liked in the book had nothing to do with Dracula himself at all.

[(Anonymous)]

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[(Anonymous)]

The scene where Quincy leaves the meeting to shoot bat!Dracula is my very favorite thing. I love Quincy and any adaptation that does him justice so fucking much.

[(Anonymous)]

I think Quincy tends to be the one most shafted by adaptations. I went into the book expecting to hate him a bit, and then I really, really didn't, because he's genuinely warm and loyal and brave and hilarious, and he goes down like a boss and kind of breaks your heart by counting it worth it to have saved Mina, and it's really, really hard to not to love him by the end of it.

[tabaqui]

I am 100 percent down for this movie.