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Dracula Movie Review & Film Summary (1. Movie lore has it that Bela Lugosi could barely speak English. Universal Pictures to star in . Legend must exaggerate.
Hungarian emigre Lugosi had been living and working in the United. States for a decade by the time the film was made, and yet there is something. English- -perhaps because in his lonely Transylvanian castle, Dracula has had. Advertisement. Certainly. Lugosi's performance, and the cinematography of Karl Freund, that make. Tod Browning's film such an influential Hollywood picture. The greatest of all.
F. M. It was the first talking picture based on. Bram Stoker's novel, and somehow Count Dracula was more fearsome when you could. And here Lugosi's. English were advantages. Lugosi. was by all accounts a strange, deliberately theatrical man, who drew attention.
He made his foreignness an asset, and in. Hollywood and New York used his sinister, self- mocking accent to advantage.
After. the success of . In later life, addicted to. Perhaps it is the joining of eroticism. The vampire's attack is not specifically sexual, but in drinking. Vampirism is like elegant. The. Dracula myth has been filmed so often, in so many different ways (most recently.
Francis Ford Coppola in his . All of the serious later movie Draculas draw from Lugosi's. Max Schreck, whose . Lugosi, with his deep eyes.
Freund with pinpoint lights) and his glossy black hair, created. Draculas for years to come- -especially Hammer. Films star Christopher Lee, who played the character at least seven times. If. the film's look and star performance were influential, so was its dialogue. Children of the night. What music they make. The. story is familiar to every moviegoer.
Renfield (Dwight Frye), an English real. Transylvania to sell a London property to the count. He. really wants to make that sale; he takes no warning from the fear of the. Dracula's name is mentioned.
He survives a terrifying ride in a. And then he plunges into his doom. The establishing shots.
Castle Dracula owe everything to the tradition of. German Expressionism. There is the sinister politeness with which Dracula. Then the overpowering of. Renfield. The return to England on the ship with its deadly cargo of coffins.
The ghost ship that. Renfield, who is.
In. London the vampire feasts on the blood of strangers encountered in the night. Jack the Ripper. Then he introduces. Dr. Seward (Herbert Bunston). The doctor owns Carfax Abbey, which is next. Renfield has been imprisoned.
He meets Seward's daughter Mina. Helen Chandler), her fiance John Harker (David Manners) and her friend Lucy. Frances Dade). They are joined eventually by the vampire hunter Dr. Van. Helsing (Edward Van Sloan), who explains vampirism in more detail than the. The. scenes in Carfax Abbey are an anticlimax after the Expressionist terrors of the. Transylvania and aboard the ship. They're based on the same.
Broadway play in which Lugosi first played Dracula, and owe more to the. Yet even here Browning is able to add. Dracula's presence in the visits. Tod. Browning (1. I saw a restored version.
September at the Telluride Film Festival, with Philip Glass. Kronos Quartet in performing his newly composed score. That is the. version now available on tapes and discs.
Purists. argue that Browning's original decision was the best one- -to enhance the horror. The Glass score is effective in the way it suggests not just. Dracula's vampirism. It. evokes a blood thirst that is 5. Is. the 1. 93. 1 ?
Perhaps that was true in 1. I think. the movie is interesting mostly for technical reasons- -for the stylized. There is a moment, though, when Lugosi.
Lucy, and all of the elements of the material draw. We consider the dreadful trade- off: immortality, but as a vampire. From his. offering an unspeakable gift.