[ SECRET POST #4612 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4612 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

11. https://i.imgur.com/FmWwzdw.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

SERIOUSLY! More creepy!Dracula, less sexy!Dracula! (More terror/horror in general, actually.) More Mina/Johnathan where they actually love & respect each other instead of Mina tolerating her own husband! More Mina actually thwarting Dracula instead of secretly being in love with him! I need it!

[(Anonymous)]

Tbh I judge adaptations on how they treat Jonathan and Mina's marriage.

[philstar22]

I also judge them by how they treat Lucy. If they turn her into a seductress before she's turned, I know this is going to turn into a bit of a "she deserved it" because she wasn't as wholesome as Mina thing. In the book she's similar to Mina until she's turned.

[(Anonymous)]

Have you read the book sequel by Dacre Stoker? It's nightmarish, and not in a good way.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT - Oh nooo, I have not and I'm both intrigued and don't want to know.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes! More extreme team bonding and people who clearly love and respect each other and fall all over themselves to try and help each other (if, admittedly, not always in actually helpful ways). None of the films ever get the sheer team feeling you get from the book.

[(Anonymous)]

Hell yeah, OP. I enjoyed the Francis Ford Coppola version, but I'd love another adaptation. It's just that people seem to want to put a new spin on it by setting it in a different time period, or making Dracula sexier or whatever.

[tabaqui]

I haven't read the book in ages, but i remember being outraged that the one character who Dracula had bit kept being *bled* to 'cure' her. As if she wasn't down enough pints already.

And the general 'hysterical woman' theme never made me happy. But yes - something a little less...romantic would be nice.

[(Anonymous)]

Er... Was Lucy bled? She was given multiple blood transfusions, iirc.

[tabaqui]

Like I said, haven't read it in ages, so my memory is a bit fuzzy.

[(Anonymous)]

... yeah, I think your memory is letting you down there. Once Van Helsing shows up, he straight up says that Lucy's suffering from blood less and requires transfusions. He doesn't bleed her. And I don't recall any "hysterical woman" theme in the book.

[(Anonymous)]

IIRC, the subject of hysterical women did come up, but it was Dr. Seward pointed at Van Helsing. When they're in the carriage after the funeral and Dr. Van Helsing figures out what Lucy's become, he has a bit of a meltdown and goes into hysterical giggling, and Dr. Seward is extremely Victorian and uncomfortable with this fit of womanish hysterics and wonders if he should slap him like you do with women. They don't actually treat Mina that way, if I remember right. Well, they do ignore her symptoms and connection to Dracula at first, but the subsequent attack on her cures them of that right quick.

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly it's been ages since the last time I tried to read Dracula, but the only thing I came away from it when I DID try it (multiple times) was that it was boring as fuck.

IAWTC

[(Anonymous)]

I've never been able to get through it. Stoker created some great *characters* but the book itself reads like a vampire novel had a baby with a Victorian public health manual and let a train schedule raise it.

[(Anonymous)]

I maintain that Dracula: Dead and Loving It is the most faithful so far.