REACTION!!-BRAM STOKERS DRACULA- LEFT ME IN AWE AND CONFUSED! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!!
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Keanus hair was just turning grey from the traumatic experience of being locked up with Draculas brides. Grief and trauma can sometimes have that effect on people.
Also, once Dracula was killed, Mina goes back to being normal human.
I see that others have explained the wolf aspect. It helps to explore the Dracula/Vlad the Impaler lore. It’s incredibly fascinating.
This is one of my absolutely favorite movies of all time.
The Order of the Dragon was a real order, based in Romania, that dedicated its life to opposing the Ottoman Empire and its mission to destroy Christianity. One of its most infamous members was Vlad Dracul III, Prince of Wallachia, better known by history as Vlad Tepes/Vlad The Impaler. This was the film that made “mainstream canon” the idea that Dracula, the Vampire King, was Vlad the Impaler when he was human. It’s an origin story that gets recycled time and time again, but that’s because it’s an origin story that WORKS.
Thank you for this explanation!
Never seen anyone so confused about that film. I fully understood this movie when I was 12. So did my friends. You should work on opening your mind.
Werewolf is just one of Dracula's forms. Mina is perhaps incarnation, or born again, that is why he said that he crossed an ocean of time to find her.
Thank you so much!! I have been hoping someone comments with some kinda explanation 😂
It's completely irritating when someone reacts to a film or video, and doesn't pay attention, talks between dialogues, moves with objects and then says: "I don't understand" "what happened" "why this, why that"..... UNBEARABLE .
I agree with you. She should have done her homework before watching the movie.
And continues to eat instead of paying attention.
“What happened” you talked over it lol.
She's as bright as a blown bulb.
Cut her a little slack, everytime I watch this, I discover something new and that's what makes me enjoy it just a little bit more.
Dracula can transform into mist, a wolf, a bat and rats! He can control animals, the weather and through hypnosis, people! His brides have some of his powers but not all.
Mina is the reincarnation of Elizabetha and shares some of her memories. At least that's how I interpret it. The rest is your journey!
Vampire mythology itself existed LONG before the character of Dracula was introduced. In terms of the “first vampire”, the character that is most often given that title in vampire lore is a woman by the name of Lilith. Lilith appears as early as the Hebrew Bible, where she existed BEFORE Eve as the first wife of Adam. However, because God made Lilith the same way he made Adam, she saw herself as Adam’s equal and refused to be subservient to him, and this resulted in her being banished from Eden (and Heaven). According to some versions of her myth, after her banishment, she fell in love with and married the fallen angel Samael, and they became the mother and father of the vampire race.
Very interesting!!! I need to read up on this! Thank you.
The 2nd most common first vampire is Cain who was cursed for killing able. But the one I thought was the most interesting is the first being Judas cursed for betraying Jesus.
Hence why you can't disconnect "Dracula" or even "vampire" from it's religious context. These stories aren't about undead bloodsucking demons. They are about God vs Satan for control of the human soul. One of my favorite lines from a vampire movie comes from "From Dusk 'Til Dawn": "If there is a Devil and Hell, there has to be a God and a Heaven. There has to be!"
@@davestang5454 that's true of the modern vampire myth but vampires are far older than Christianity. Celtic legends have vampires that are a type of fairy, eastern Europe has the strigoi, even China has the hopping vampires (I forget their name). And to be honest the Chinese vampires are probably the most terrifying of the bunch. They have pretty much no weaknesses and literally cannot be killed. Even if you burn them to ash they will eventually reform. The only thing that can be done is sealing them. Placing a talisman o.nThere head which renderer them unable to move.
Bela Lugosi, Sir Christopher Lee & Gary Oldman all brought their own unique style to Dracula.
This adaptation / interpretation of the story is easily the most visually stunning.
I live not far from Whitby in Yorkshire, which has a very special connection to the story.
Bram Stoker visited Whitby in July 1890 & was working on a new story, set in Styria in Austria, with a central character called Count Wampyr.
The favoured Gothic literature of the period was set in foreign lands full of eerie castles, convents and caves. Whitby’s windswept headland, the dramatic abbey ruins, a church surrounded by swooping bats, and a long association with jet - a semi-precious stone used in mourning jewellery - gave a homegrown taste of such thrilling horrors.
High above Whitby, and dominating the whole town, stands Whitby Abbey, the ruin of a once-great Benedictine monastery, founded in the 11th century. The medieval abbey stands on the site of a much earlier monastery, founded in 657 by an Anglian princess, Hild, who became its first abbess. In Dracula, Stoker has Mina Murray - the young woman whose experiences form the thread of the novel - record in her diary.
Below the abbey stands the ancient parish church of St Mary, perched on East Cliff, which is reached by a climb of 199 steps. Stoker would have seen how time and the weather had gnawed at the graves, some of them teetering precariously on the eroding cliff edge. Some headstones stood over empty graves, marking seafaring occupants whose bodies had been lost on distant voyages. He noted down inscriptions and names for later use, including ‘Swales’, the name he used for Dracula’s first victim in Whitby.
On 8 August 1890, Stoker walked down to what was known as the Coffee House End of the Quay and entered the public library. It was there that he found a book published in 1820, recording the experiences of a British consul in Bucharest, William Wilkinson, in the principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia (now in Romania).
Wilkinson’s history mentioned a 15th-century prince called Vlad Tepes who was said to have impaled his enemies on wooden stakes. He was known as Dracula - the ‘son of the dragon’.
While staying in Whitby, Stoker would have heard of the shipwreck five years earlier of a Russian vessel called the Dmitry, from Narva. This ran aground on Tate Hill Sands below East Cliff, carrying a cargo of silver sand. With a slightly rearranged name, this became the Demeter from Varna that carries Dracula to Whitby with a cargo of silver sand and boxes of earth.
So, although Stoker was to spend six more years on his novel before it was published, researching the landscapes and customs of Transylvania, the name of his villain and some of the novel’s most dramatic scenes were inspired by his holiday in Whitby. The innocent tourists, the picturesque harbour, the abbey ruins, the windswept churchyard and the salty tales he heard from Whitby seafarers - all became ingredients in the novel.
In 1897 Dracula was published. It had an unpromising start as a play called The Undead, in which Stoker hoped Henry Irving would take the lead role. But after a test performance, Irving said he never wanted to see it again. For the character of Dracula, Stoker retained Irving’s aristocratic bearing and histrionic acting style, but he redrafted the play as a novel told in the form of letters, diaries, newspaper cuttings and entries in the ship’s log of the Demeter.
The log charts the gradual disappearance of the entire crew during the journey to Whitby, until only the captain is left, tied to the wheel, as the ship runs aground below East Cliff on 8 August - the date that marked Stoker’s discovery of the name ‘Dracula’ in Whitby library. A ‘large dog’ bounds from the wreck and runs up the 199 steps to the church, and from this moment, things begin to go horribly wrong.
Dracula had arrived …
Every year in Whitby there is a Dracula weekend, along with the incredible Whitby Goth Festival
In much of the Mittel and Eastern European vampire mythology that helped inspire Bram Stoker to write the original Dracula novel, vampires possess the ability to shape shift into various forms, most archetypically including the form of mist, a bat or mass of bats, and a wolf. In the original novel, when leaving the ship Demeter after it is driven by a storm Dracula summons into Whitby harbour, Dracula assumes the form of a giant black furred wolf. The movie simply ran with that imagery and developed it a bit further by giving Dracula a full Lycanthropic form (much as how later in the movie he assumes a hybrid form of man and bat) though interestingly there are many connections between vampires and werewolves in mythology, so much so that one of the ways in folklore that a vampire can come into being is if a werewolf is not killed in the proper manner, or its body is not disposed of properly, causing it to rise again as a vampire. This is the reason why various deceased persons, including people who had died by their own hand and suspected werewolves, were historically often buried at a cross roads across much of Europe in centuries past, in the belief that the giant cross symbol created by the intersection of roads would prevent the body rising as a vampire.
Dracula's ability to appear more youthful and vigorous when he is well fed is also drawn straight from Bram Stoker's novel, and in that novel, as well as in the originating mythology, vampires are typically weakened but not destroyed by sunlight - the whole 'bursting into flames at cock's crow' business was a later invention that came about in the 1920s with the movie Nosferatu and is not part of the original folklore. Indeed, in some vampire myths the creature's powers are at their greatest when the sun is at its zenith at midday and the vampire's shadow is at its smallest. There are a vast variety of vampire myths all across Europe which each put their own spin on the iconic monster, and many aspects of that mythology have filtered down into the movies in some degree or other.
Actually Stoker drew just as much from Irish vampire myth as he did from Eastern European lore. Pretty much every culture on earth has a vampire myth. Honestly one of my favorites are the Chinese "hopping" vampires. Those things make western vampires look like nothing. They are literally impossible to kill and can only be sealed away.
@@markcarpenter6020 Exactly. I have heard of the Irish vampire myths, but I know little about them. Interestingly, Scotland also has myths about blood drinking Undead maidens that lure men to their deaths in dark forests. The British Isles have more home grown vampire mythology than one might expect.
Vampire and vampire-like myths, along with other Undead myths of various kinds - like Revenants and Draugyr - pop up all over the world (there is even one about a head and intestinal tract that detaches from the rest of the body and flies off hunting for blood). The Hopping Vampires (I forget the correct Chinese name for them) are the ones that came about due to a misunderstanding of the role of rigor mortis after death if memory serves, just as most European vampire myths were at least in part caused by a combination of a misunderstanding of the cause of tuberculosis outbreaks and, again, a misapprehension of decomposition processes causing people to think that a corpse's hair and teeth were still growing after death.
Add in the ways that rabies may have helped inspire Werewolf myths (and the classic vampiric inability to cross running water may also be traced back to the hydrophobia rabies can cause in those afflicted), and it may be fair to say that the history of the world's monster myths is also a history of pre-scientific attempts to explain diseases (and other sinister but natural phenomena like natural disasters) and the body's decomposition processes after death in various societies, which also may help to explain the repeated themes and motifs you find in myths from geographically very separate cultures.
@@gregorygreenwood-nimmo4954 the Irish myth I know best is about a maiden who was raped and murdered. And before her body could be cremated she returned as a vampire and ended up slaughtering the people who tried to help her. There is actually a castle (it's now under water) that was in the middle of a lake where she was supposed to live. I think the name of the hopping vampire is jangshi but I'm not sure that's why I didn't say the name. And honestly considering all the unknown and nearly unknown hominid species that existed around the same time and the fact we know they would eat each other. (We have proof neanderthals and homo sapiens would eat each other as well as interbreed). I've often wondered if the legends might have originated with a now extinct hominid species.
@@markcarpenter6020 Interesting stuff on the Irish vampire myths. Shame she didn't get the people who violated and murdered her in that story - that would have been justice at least.
It is certainly is a possibility, given the predatory tendencies of many hominid species, that at some point there might have been a (now extinct, or so we hope) species of hominid that evolved specifically to prey on other hominids that was so severe a scourge that it left such an impression on early homo sapiens that it entered our collective lexicon of mythology in the form of various monster myths. Whether true or not, that would make an interesting premise for a horror novel or movie.
@@gregorygreenwood-nimmo4954 considering how many hominids we only have bone fragments (not even a complete bone let alone complete skeleton) it's possible it's a known species but just one we only know existed but not anything else. They honestly wouldn't even need to be super predatory considering how things become exaggerated in myth and legend they would just need to have been a fairly wide spread group. And yes it would make an excellent story plot.
In legends vampires jave massive amounts of powers. They are shape shifters, have power over nature and nocturnal animals, can command and control the weak minded, etc.
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This movie scared the sh** out of me when I was kid. I watched a lot of HBO stuff…😅
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