2:32 - Bela's acting is very subtle and great here. He goes from being a calm, collected, and aristocratic gentleman to the animalistic and dangerous monster he really is in just the span of just a few seconds. He then regains his composure, but with a menacing glare meant only for Van Helsing. So great.
"For one who has not lived even a single life time, you're a wise man, Van Helsing." And right there, they became two of the greatest adversaries of all time.
Bela Lugosi made ANY & every bit of dialogue sound like music; he turned dull dialogue into the greatest lines ever uttered. I love how he says "We will be leaving tomorrow evening" and in The Raven "You are saying something very profound". God, the man was pure eloquent, musical genius!
If Dracula had no reflection, how did he comb his hair? My favorite Bela Lugosi movie was Suspended Animation with the spiders on a string and his lackey ex convict Rock. And, of course there's always Dwight Fry!
@@crashpal True. Though i feel cartoon versions has never fleshed out what made these movies or actors made them out to be, so whenever i saw those versions it felt more like parodies, but on one positive side when one sees original then its great. One example is Frankenstein movie, which if you know the original film uses grave robbing human organs to make up a real human and giving it life by using electricity from lightning. And in the movie it looks legit interesting and a very distorted look. But in cartoons, it feels more unreal. Same with Dracula, what i like about the actor in the movie is he seems like a normal person, but you can tell something is off with the character or something isnt right. But they are well made movies with great actor
Hollywood never understood the tremendous talent of Bela Lugosi, but then again Bela Lugosi will live as long as time exists. Hollywood, you missed your chance.
+chauxone I've only just recently gotten into the classic horror films, but I've seen many incarnations of Dracula over the years even so. And to me, Bela Lugosi is the true Dracula. He can be sinister, scary and yet suave and even charming at times. You can almost feel what the characters must feel when they fall under his spell. (I bought the Universal Monsters Blu-Ray box. I'm currently watching it, but so far Dracula is my favourite).
Lugosi's reaction to seeing the mirror was a brilliant piece of acting. Notice the eyes and later the sagging shoulders when he begs forgiveness from Dr. Seward.
San Juan: OH FCOL! Would you please SHUT THE FUCK UP! He never slept in a coffin!! He was CATHOLIC all his life, like most Europeans are. He is buried in a CATHOLIC cemetery. YOU ARE SUCH A FUCKING IDIOT! Sadly there's many dumbfucks like you online. All this bullshit was manufactured by the studios! They did for every star.
@@sanjuan1794 Lugosi was never obsessed with his role as Dracula, and he never slept in a coffin, I see that you're an ignoramus who only heeds the hurling legends, and most likely you're a stupid fan of Karloff
@snake3425 quit repeating nonsense! He was drug dependent. There is a huge difference between that and an addiction. Google it. He wasn't a raging party-druggy high on crack! Morphine was medicine back then, not drugs you shove up your nose to get high. His tombstone says "Beloved Father" tells you everything right there.
Now let's be honest, what two actors today could play this mirror scene better! No one, the change in Lugosi's face is supremely effective. Both actors are fantastic.
It really is a shame what happened to Bela Lugosi later in his life, since he was so charming and talented. This film may be old, but everyone does a fantastic job with the material, and proves that sometimes less is more. :-)
That is so true! Im an actris and we lern the really get in the roll. Do not show that you're acting. You must be the caracter. He is me favorite! He creeps you out. But you want to keep watch the movie. Almost like you fall in love with the way he does it ♡
BeautyByEmma505 Don't worry I can understand you just fine ;-) I agree. You can always tell when an actor is phoning it in, versus when it seems like they have seeped into the skin of their character.
Of everyone I pity Lugosi far more then Ed Wood, Lugosi, by the time he met Ed Wood, had already fallen on hard times, and his addiction by then was out of control, Wood took advantage of Lugosi's need for money, but he still managed to get him back on the screen, and got him to seek the help he should've sought years prior for his addiction. When the end came I pity Lugosi for having been reduced to doing Ed Wood's crap film, but at the same time I'm glad he finally found peace and acceptance in death.
Christopher Lee and Frank Langella played good Dracula's, but Bela Lugosi was the best. I think probably more because he was more the traditional vampire.
The range of emotions in the face of Dracula in just the few seconds after seeing the mirror demonstrates Bela Lugosi's skill as an actor. In this scene, the vampire who lives a lie, casts no reflection in the mirror since it can only reflect the truth. The monster exhibits shock and fear, then anger and a threatening glare, and then by an embarrassed expression and a look of apology, and finally a look of hatred toward Van Helsing. He does not have to say how he feels; he has already shown us how he feels. What a talent Lugosi had. I love this scene from the moment someone asks who could to this to Mina and the maid immediately announces, "Count Dracula!", to Dracula's lunge at Van Helsing where he is repelled by Van Helsing's Crucifix. Even then Lugosi's Dracula expresses shock, disgust, and fear in perhaps two seconds. What an actor and what a story!
It is almost criminal that Bela Lugosi was not offered many roles after this.. then again it was 1931 and basically the birth of the golden era of Hollywood. But, they missed out on a big leading man here. What a shame we didnt see him shine in more diverse roles. Id bet hed be great in some romance role 😅😍
Lugosi's performance is even more impressive when you know that, when he first came to America, he spoke almost no English. He had to learn all his lines phonetically! Watching him act, you had no clue that he could barely understand a word he was saying. It was almost all just gibberish to him, but you would never guess that from his performance. What a phenomenal actor!
This is one of my ALL TIME favorite movie. I actually know most of the dialogue. One of my favorites is when Renfield first gets to the castle & he's on the stairs, wolfs bowl " listen to them .... what music THEY make"
As a child, who was raised very Victorian, in the early 80's. I was shocked I got my hands on a copy of Dracula by accident, talk about total horror. I didn't sleep for weeks. It is still the most horrifying book in my list of horror books.
I read it about 40 years ago . Needed a night light for months afterwards . Here is a link to the closest film adaptation to Bram Stoker's novel { voted top one of ten adaptations here on TH-cam and i would have been disappointed had it not } th-cam.com/video/u36VjXirmlY/w-d-xo.html
A simple mirror, a brief verbal exchange, a leering look. The personification of evil. Who needs multi-million dollar "special effects". They can't duplicate the old movies charm and atmosphere.
Look at the part 02:35-02:45. As I watched this movie a few years ago I watched it very carefully and was stunned what a good actor Lugosi indeed was, or maybe he was just so deep in this role that he WAS Dracula and was really offended by the mirror...but going from a more realistic point of view...his look...this look like a wild animal ready to strike at his victim, in this case van helsing, then the thinking, knowing that he cannot show his evil side here in front of three strong men who maybe could be a Danger to him. He thinks...seconds...seconds...you can watch every emotion that goes through this character till he inhales deeply and is peaceful again, but you still know the evil inside him is now on its highest... Gone is the charade of the nice gentleman from abroad...he might be trying to cover his fury but you know that the monster that he really is has now in full control. Lugosi not only does a wonderful job as an actor , I 'm even willing to say that I have hardly seen a better reaction of an actor. Everything is right...he IS truly Dracula. I growed up with Lee and Oldman and Lugosi is my least favourite of the three actors, but by God...he does such a wonderful job here...
***** For a long while I could not for the life of me figure out what would cause such a violent reaction, from a character standpoint. Now that I have seen this again I have a theory to that reaction. While the living may see that a vampire cast no reflection in glass, what if the vampire himself saw something truly horrific (what that something is I don't know) and his reaction was a mix of fright and offense? I am thinking this because to see nothing in a mirror wouldn't really cause that reaction, in my opinion.
That's a good point of view! Well it's either this or maybe the realisation that he is truly DEAD, he is'nt there anymore, he can't see himself. It's fear, sheer panic. He said: There are things more horrible than death. I think he meant eternal life and the inner emptiness that haunts him and shows itself in the mirror where he can't see anything anymore, he is nothing, it's nihilistic I think. Vampires and Nihilism are close together...
@@rickypayne9810 Where the hell do you get that Bela was gay, it's a fucking lie that you've invented, look on the internet, in his biographies and documentaries, and you will not find anywhere where he says Bela was gay, surely you're a disgusting Boris Karloff fan, Karloff fans love to insult and invent things about Lugosi
I am reading Bram Stoker's Dracula. Scary. In the book, each character is very loving towards one another. Mina, Lucy, Jonathan, Jack, Van Helsing, Arthur, and Quincey, all care so much for one another and are able to put that into words. The story is so following and has such a positive attitude despite how scary the Count is with what he can do.
Matt Wedd Truth be told, this is common for the Universal Monster movies. Dracula and Frankenstein as movies are great, but as adaptations of their source material, they fall short in ways. BTW, did you see "Bram Stoker's Dracula" movie starring Gary Oldman?
...... pretty careless for a Vampire with 600 YEARS of experience to let his problem with mirrors be discovered that way. .... still one of the Greatest Movies ever made
Great Dracula and Ygor as well! He could have played other roles as well. His performances in The Black Cat, The Invisible Ray prove that! Also a wonderful Jekyll and Hyde role in The Human Monster! !!
Don't forget his great comedic timing in the comedy Broadminded. And White Zombie, many others. Ninotchka proves he could play non-horror; the photos of his Jesus role are mind blowing. Truly a brilliant actor! He never played Dracula again in this fashion either: not in A&CMF, TROTV nor MOTV. Those vampires act different. So versatile an actor!
Talk about getting into character! I always thought it looked as though Lugosi slapped the mirror out of Van Sloan's hand hard enough to sting. I can imagine Van Sloan saying after the take, "Dammit, Bela, that hurt!!" Lugosi's reply: "Hurt YOU, Eddie?? I think I may have broken my hand!" Harker's comment afterward that Dracula looked like a wild animal was spot on. I think it was Bela Lugosi's finest moment in the film.
The way the music picks up when he slaps the mirror out of his hand and the reaction of Bela Lugosi is phenomenal The original didn't have music, I thought?
Wait wait wait. Ended too soon. I thought for sure Drac was gonna morph and take flight off that balcony. Did you know that Lugosi was Hungarian? Such a terrific actor. Best Dracula EVER.
Dracula is lucky Van Helsing is a scientist and not a historian. A historian would have chained him down and made the vamp recite his centuries of knowledge if it took decades to get it all down.
The great Bela Lugosi, a movie legend, fascinating his charismatic acting, his hypnotizing eyes, the female victim had no Chance again his diabolic Charme. He was the First aristocrate Dracula, He created the style of the classic Vampire Count Dracula what alot of Dracula Actors try to copy later in hundreds of following Dracula movies, some successful, but mostly just a try without success. Just a Few actors play the King of Vampires at his Niveau, one of them Was Christopher Lee, who performance Dracula in another way, even his movies had nothing to do with Bram Stokers Novell, i like them also very much, it was another style as Bela Lugosis Dracula, i like them both. RIP Bela, you was Dracula, we never will forget you. Thankyou for uploading 🧛♀️. Best regards from Austria 🇦🇹
Van Helsing in this scene was not wise, he was lucky to look into the mirror. If he would have never looked in a mirror Van Helsing would have never figured out anything. As years go by Van Helsing becomes more intelligent and more have a greater abecedary to Dracula. It's amazing to see how characters growing become more in-depth as a character. I love and write horror books myself.
I am sure Bela Lugosi left Christopher Lee his ring, correct me if i am wrong, but if its true what an honour, Dracula was Bela Lugosi for me, and lines like the referral to the Wolves howling, his voice, fantastic, Children of the night, haunting, atmospheric, timing, shear professionalism, I salute him.
Gordon Webster if im correct, I recall hearing mr.lee saying that his ring was a reproduction of lugosi's to make a wink to this movie. I think that lugosi died in 1956? and mr.lee did the movie between 1957-58 so I don't think it was possible. kinda wish it was tho.
Ok, correcting. You are wrong: stop by my channel and check out the video I made a year ago The Mystery of Bela Lugosi's Lost Dracula Ring to find out unpublished trivia about the REAL Dracula 1931 ring.
Forrest J Ackerman had the ring until his death and then like so much of his other memorabilia was auctioned off. Let us show a little love to Sir Christopher performance in Franco's Dracula the way he says his lines which were almost lifted from the book is a masterpiece. Concerning Lugosi's reaction remember he had done Dracula on the stage before this and so along with his emotional emoting he had to display body language to get the scene to ressonate with the audience.
Rather, he says, "Listen to them! Children of the night. What music 'THEY' make!". Notice how [Dracula] places the emphasis on "they" and not on music. It changes the entire meaning of the line. Bela Lugosi is a genius! He is inferring that the wolves make better music than "he" does (a vampire) when [Dracula] occasionally changes into a wolf. Pure genius!
Don't know if that really counts as special effects, it's literaly just 2 seperate shots. Even for the time that's not anything special (no pun intended).
The timing, the tones. I wonder how many times Leslie Nielsen watched this before doing "Dracula; Dead and Loving It"?Lugosi, the original and still the best.
2:32 - Bela's acting is very subtle and great here. He goes from being a calm, collected, and aristocratic gentleman to the animalistic and dangerous monster he really is in just the span of just a few seconds. He then regains his composure, but with a menacing glare meant only for Van Helsing. So great.
Awesome Inspector 13th like XD
That stare could have cut glass
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And Van Helsing is face to face with a goddamn vampire and he's just stroking his chin like "yeah, that's what I thought"
His charisma and presence are fantastic
Lugosi, what a smile. So dangerous and charming. You can't stop watching, his performance it's hypnotic.
At some parts especially when he smashed the mirror he seemed to become Dracula
+xLordOfNothingx He once portrayed Christ in a silent movie made in Hungary prior to coming to Hollywood.
that sounds reallly interesting, is it something you can actually watch?
xLordOfNothingx No it was something I read some years back but you could try and find it online, there may be stills of scenes from that movie
If you google/images: "bela lugosi Christ" or "bela lugosi Cristo" you'll find photos of that 1909 Hungarian play.
"For one who has not lived even a single life time, you're a wise man, Van Helsing." And right there, they became two of the greatest adversaries of all time.
They live. We sleep.
One of the best lines in the entire movie. Unforgettable.
Bela Lugosi made ANY & every bit of dialogue sound like music; he turned dull dialogue into the greatest lines ever uttered. I love how he says "We will be leaving tomorrow evening" and in The Raven "You are saying something very profound". God, the man was pure eloquent, musical genius!
Respect your enemies
If Dracula had no reflection, how did he comb his hair?
My favorite Bela Lugosi movie was Suspended Animation with the spiders on a string and his lackey ex convict
Rock.
And, of course there's always Dwight Fry!
“I dislike mirrors, van helsing will explain” Love that line
Made in 1931 and it doesn't feel at all dated. A masterpiece.
In 10 years this movie will become a century old
@@crashpal Think it has been kept in movie preservation library. Since it has made such a huge impact.
@@kejiri3593 the impact is so big they actually made a Muppet version of this Dracula named "Count Von Count" for Sesame Street
@@crashpal True. Though i feel cartoon versions has never fleshed out what made these movies or actors made them out to be, so whenever i saw those versions it felt more like parodies, but on one positive side when one sees original then its great. One example is Frankenstein movie, which if you know the original film uses grave robbing human organs to make up a real human and giving it life by using electricity from lightning. And in the movie it looks legit interesting and a very distorted look. But in cartoons, it feels more unreal. Same with Dracula, what i like about the actor in the movie is he seems like a normal person, but you can tell something is off with the character or something isnt right. But they are well made movies with great actor
That's because what you are watching was not made in 1931. The music was added decades later thus ruining the film.
Hollywood never understood the tremendous talent of Bela Lugosi, but then again Bela Lugosi will live as long as time exists. Hollywood, you missed your chance.
He is big. It's the pictures that got small. ;-)
+YorkistWhiteRose Norma Desmond
+chauxone I've only just recently gotten into the classic horror films, but I've seen many incarnations of Dracula over the years even so. And to me, Bela Lugosi is the true Dracula. He can be sinister, scary and yet suave and even charming at times. You can almost feel what the characters must feel when they fall under his spell.
(I bought the Universal Monsters Blu-Ray box. I'm currently watching it, but so far Dracula is my favourite).
+Gasoline85 you have taste. Mr. Lugosi is Dracula.
Love from Hungary ♥️♥️🥰
His timing is perfect. The walk, turn, internsity-all very well done. You couldnt do that today without it looking exaggerated, lumpy and rehearsed.
why would the first vampire act? he is the alpha after all....lazy descendants like Edward or vitorri wouldn't survive his encounter
Your WILL is STRONG van HELSING
There's a big difference between 1931 and 2018 movies and acting.
"These PEANUTS are making me THIRSTY!!!!!"
He was a fairly prominent stage actor in Europe before coming here. He also starred in this role on Broadway.
Lugosi's reaction to seeing the mirror was a brilliant piece of acting. Notice the eyes and later the sagging shoulders when he begs forgiveness from Dr. Seward.
Sagging shoulders?? At what minute?
Bela Lugosi, the only and true Dracula!
Samantha Black I am agree, he made Dracula inmortal in the cinema world, personally I love the version that Lugosi performanced in this one.
Fuck this, this is soooo primitive, you must be damn old lol, Gary Oldman is way better. In fact the whole movie is amazing
His depiction of Bram Stoker's titular vampire is often shown in pictures and costumes every year around the time of Halloween.
Besides Sesame Street Count
He's alwasy been my favorite Dracula!
no one, even to this day, has equalled Bela Lugosi's portrayal of Dracula.
totally owns it!!
Dio Brando
It's like Heath Ledger playing the Joker nobody else will be able to play the Joker better
Except for Nosferatu which legends says was the real deal !!
They should have retired the role after Lugosi played it.
He was THE BEST. So suave and charming bu at a moments notice he could turn...those eyes!
Lugosi was born for the role became obsessed by it. Slept in a coffin. Really.
San Juan: OH FCOL! Would you please SHUT THE FUCK UP! He never slept in a coffin!! He was CATHOLIC all his life, like most Europeans are. He is buried in a CATHOLIC cemetery. YOU ARE SUCH A FUCKING IDIOT! Sadly there's many dumbfucks like you online. All this bullshit was manufactured by the studios! They did for every star.
@@sanjuan1794 Lugosi was never obsessed with his role as Dracula, and he never slept in a coffin, I see that you're an ignoramus who only heeds the hurling legends, and most likely you're a stupid fan of Karloff
he did the evil eye without any help from makeup
Lugosi is so beautiful and charming.
Amen!
So was dr. Josef mengele rememembered by auschwitz survivors as the angel of death. Search his early 1940s photo.
It's tragic when you realize that when he made this film, and all his other films, he was battling an addiction to painkillers and alcohol
@snake3425 quit repeating nonsense! He was drug dependent. There is a huge difference between that and an addiction. Google it. He wasn't a raging party-druggy high on crack! Morphine was medicine back then, not drugs you shove up your nose to get high. His tombstone says "Beloved Father" tells you everything right there.
Jajjjaajja
Béla is the best. Most captivating actor in this entire film. Still gives me chills, he is the real deal. And so darkly seductive.
spookypatchouli 100% agree
Bella made the vampire beautiful charming and yes hot!!!
Really, some argue Sir. Christopher Lee was the best..no?
spookypatchouli yup
Now let's be honest, what two actors today could play this mirror scene better! No one, the change in Lugosi's face is supremely effective. Both actors are fantastic.
none! This is a perennial Halloween favorite he embodies evil
I cpuld do it even better!
NO ONE embodied Dracula like Lagosi. He was buried in this costume. He is so creepy without makeup or prosthetics you believe he is a vampire.
Spanish version of this scene is better.
Suave, imposing, powerful, charming, cordial, hypnotic, sexual, creepy, dark, mysterious, sinister = Bela Lugosi's Dracula.
u forgot iconic
u forgot iconic
Definitely creepy "May I call later and enquire how you are feeling?"
@@veronicamalmgren6094 me too
Lugosi became a sex symbol after the film premiered and in that same year he received more letters from female admirers than Clark Gable
Some excellent eye acting when he realises he's been busted.
that's exactly what I thought, what a performance.
It really is a shame what happened to Bela Lugosi later in his life, since he was so charming and talented. This film may be old, but everyone does a fantastic job with the material, and proves that sometimes less is more. :-)
That is so true! Im an actris and we lern the really get in the roll. Do not show that you're acting. You must be the caracter. He is me favorite! He creeps you out. But you want to keep watch the movie. Almost like you fall in love with the way he does it ♡
Sorry im from belgium my english sucks :/
BeautyByEmma505 Don't worry I can understand you just fine ;-) I agree. You can always tell when an actor is phoning it in, versus when it seems like they have seeped into the skin of their character.
Ikr ;)
Of everyone I pity Lugosi far more then Ed Wood, Lugosi, by the time he met Ed Wood, had already fallen on hard times, and his addiction by then was out of control, Wood took advantage of Lugosi's need for money, but he still managed to get him back on the screen, and got him to seek the help he should've sought years prior for his addiction. When the end came I pity Lugosi for having been reduced to doing Ed Wood's crap film, but at the same time I'm glad he finally found peace and acceptance in death.
I absolutely love Christopher Lee's work, but Lugosi really is the perfect Dracula
Christopher Lee and Frank Langella played good Dracula's, but Bela Lugosi was the best. I think probably more because he was more the traditional vampire.
Christopher who? ha. For me Lagosi owned that role right to the beyond.
The range of emotions in the face of Dracula in just the few seconds after seeing the mirror demonstrates Bela Lugosi's skill as an actor. In this scene, the vampire who lives a lie, casts no reflection in the mirror since it can only reflect the truth. The monster exhibits shock and fear, then anger and a threatening glare, and then by an embarrassed expression and a look of apology, and finally a look of hatred toward Van Helsing. He does not have to say how he feels; he has already shown us how he feels. What a talent Lugosi had. I love this scene from the moment someone asks who could to this to Mina and the maid immediately announces, "Count Dracula!", to Dracula's lunge at Van Helsing where he is repelled by Van Helsing's Crucifix. Even then Lugosi's Dracula expresses shock, disgust, and fear in perhaps two seconds. What an actor and what a story!
What a great actor Lugosi was. I wish he'd been in more 'big' films.
He was, but he's always the same, and that really angered him to be typecast.
'Ninotchka'
I remember his small roll in the original Wolf Man.
@@Aguanga_cowboy007 As Bela the Gypsy?
@@carolkewley7410 yes.
Edward Van Sloan. Best Van Helsing ever. Played him fearless.
It is almost criminal that Bela Lugosi was not offered many roles after this.. then again it was 1931 and basically the birth of the golden era of Hollywood. But, they missed out on a big leading man here. What a shame we didnt see him shine in more diverse roles. Id bet hed be great in some romance role 😅😍
I think he was forever typecast but in an immortal way.
When someone tries to give me a Twilight Saga DVD 2:34
Exactly, even Dracula agrees.
do you follow that up with "I am sorry. I do not like glittery vampires."
I just laughed outloud. great comment!
I bet you have all of them
LOL
Lugosi's performance is even more impressive when you know that, when he first came to America, he spoke almost no English. He had to learn all his lines phonetically! Watching him act, you had no clue that he could barely understand a word he was saying. It was almost all just gibberish to him, but you would never guess that from his performance. What a phenomenal actor!
And that added to the weird
This is one of my ALL TIME favorite movie. I actually know most of the dialogue. One of my favorites is when Renfield first gets to the castle & he's on the stairs, wolfs bowl " listen to them .... what music THEY make"
What a stunning performance. I could say: "Excellent Mr Lugosi, excellent" 😀
Lugosi is so damn amazing! All the actors I think are incredible. I love this movie.
As a child, who was raised very Victorian, in the early 80's. I was shocked I got my hands on a copy of Dracula by accident, talk about total horror. I didn't sleep for weeks. It is still the most horrifying book in my list of horror books.
I read it about 40 years ago . Needed a night light for months afterwards . Here is a link to the closest film adaptation to Bram Stoker's novel { voted top one of ten adaptations here on TH-cam and i would have been disappointed had it not } th-cam.com/video/u36VjXirmlY/w-d-xo.html
for me it was " Varny the Vampire" kept me up for weeks
And what do you know...
It was written in the Victorian era!
I watched the grudge when I was 10 and have nightmares to this day about her. Im 28 now lol
He was the most scariest Dracula of them all.
Even a B-grade horror movie in the 1930's out classes every big budget Hollywood production today. Love the background music too!
He treated the worst scripts as a work of Shakespeare!!! He always gave one hundred percent of himself!!!!
OMG I love the look on his face lol and his accent is perfection
His accent is perfect for Dracula
That's because Lugosi was the first actor to portray Dracula on film which is why his natural accent is associated with Dracula.
No, Eric: he wasn't the first. He is remembered as first. And it's because Bela was from Transylvania, as is Dracula.
Bela was a stud
Yes. Yes, he is. He is.....divine....
Great Acting, No super special effects ..just great cting. Man I miss the old movies.
woah..I guess..bela Lugosi was THE BEST DRACULA..period
The best part is he's speaking in his real voice which has now become the standard Dracula voice.
This is one of my favourite scenes from Dracula. Bela was fantastic as Dracula.
...the Count was so well groomed. How did he manage without the use of a mirror? Maybe Renfield did the shaving and hair arranging for old Drac.
I have always loved this part of DRACULA.
Lugosi became a sex symbol after the film premiered and in that same year he received more letters from female admirers than Clark Gable
What's amazing is that Bela was almost 50 here.
Outstanding. He will always be the best Dracula....
That’s how it’s done, man. Elegant acting by Bela.👍
i see we all agree he was the best Dracula ever.Children of the night.
One moment please....we don't ALL agree. Sir Christopher Lee caused me to have PTSD for a very long time
No one does Dracula as well as Bela Lugosi. He's the King of Vamps forever. Love that he was buried in his Dracula suit. Classic!
Any truth that European soil also in casket, like Frederic Chopin's?
A simple mirror, a brief verbal exchange, a leering look. The personification of evil. Who needs multi-million dollar "special effects". They can't duplicate the old movies charm and atmosphere.
Look at the part 02:35-02:45.
As I watched this movie a few years ago I watched it very carefully and was stunned what a good actor Lugosi indeed was, or maybe he was just so deep in this role that he WAS Dracula and was really offended by the mirror...but going from a more realistic point of view...his look...this look like a wild animal ready to strike at his victim, in this case van helsing, then the thinking, knowing that he cannot show his evil side here in front of three strong men who maybe could be a Danger to him.
He thinks...seconds...seconds...you can watch every emotion that goes through this character till he inhales deeply and is peaceful again, but you still know the evil inside him is now on its highest...
Gone is the charade of the nice gentleman from abroad...he might be trying to cover his fury but you know that the monster that he really is has now in full control.
Lugosi not only does a wonderful job as an actor , I 'm even willing to say that I have hardly seen a better reaction of an actor. Everything is right...he IS truly Dracula.
I growed up with Lee and Oldman and Lugosi is my least favourite of the three actors, but by God...he does such a wonderful job here...
***** For a long while I could not for the life of me figure out what would cause such a violent reaction, from a character standpoint. Now that I have seen this again I have a theory to that reaction. While the living may see that a vampire cast no reflection in glass, what if the vampire himself saw something truly horrific (what that something is I don't know) and his reaction was a mix of fright and offense? I am thinking this because to see nothing in a mirror wouldn't really cause that reaction, in my opinion.
That's a good point of view!
Well it's either this or maybe the realisation that he is truly DEAD, he is'nt there anymore, he can't see himself. It's fear, sheer panic.
He said: There are things more horrible than death.
I think he meant eternal life and the inner emptiness that haunts him and shows itself in the mirror where he can't see anything anymore, he is nothing, it's nihilistic I think.
Vampires and Nihilism are close together...
***** Interesting. I was always under the impression he was like, "Sh*t! They know I'm a vampire!. Damn mirror!"
well maybe we will never know but what counts is our imagination :)
+RedDeathShinigami I couldn't agree with you more, Lugosi was a wonderful actor in my eyes. Even in his later films he was such a joy to watch
Bela Lugosi "DRACULA " Will forever be my DARK PRINCE!!!!
He had the coolest eyes, his eyes but I could've sat there and listened to him talk all day, that accent of his.
Movie would have been complete shit with out Bella Lugosi. His stage presence is unmatched to this day.
It was at this moment Dracula thought to himself :
*"Finally, a worthy opponent. Our battle will be legendary !"*
The cigar box being shut off-camera at 1:47 sounds like Drac is giving Miss Mina a 'friendly' pat on the butt!
Hands down the best dracula/vampire film ever
"For one who has not lived even a single lifetime, you are a wise man Van Helsing."
It makes you feel how much CGi has destroyed horror
I Loved Dracula ♥ as a young girl 👧 l would stay up just to watch his movies 🎥. Long live Dracula
Goddamn! Bela Lugosi was hot!!!😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
Poor lady he was also gay
@@rickypayne9810 Where the hell do you get that Bela was gay, it's a fucking lie that you've invented, look on the internet, in his biographies and documentaries, and you will not find anywhere where he says Bela was gay, surely you're a disgusting Boris Karloff fan, Karloff fans love to insult and invent things about Lugosi
I get what you're saying but god and damn do not belong together.
Again, I get what you're saying but...
Subtlety, brilliant subtlety. I love it.
I am reading Bram Stoker's Dracula. Scary. In the book, each character is very loving towards one another. Mina, Lucy, Jonathan, Jack, Van Helsing, Arthur, and Quincey, all care so much for one another and are able to put that into words. The story is so following and has such a positive attitude despite how scary the Count is with what he can do.
+Matt Wedd What do you think of the movie?
nothing compared to the book.
"Don't judge a book by its movie" Dr. Ravi Zacharias
Matt Wedd Ever read Frankenstein?
+Awesome Inspector no, but I heard it was great.
Matt Wedd Truth be told, this is common for the Universal Monster movies. Dracula and Frankenstein as movies are great, but as adaptations of their source material, they fall short in ways. BTW, did you see "Bram Stoker's Dracula" movie starring Gary Oldman?
Lugosi was a very attractive man, elegant and charming apart from being a good actor I love him
...... pretty careless for a Vampire with 600 YEARS of experience to let his problem with mirrors be discovered that way. .... still one of the Greatest Movies ever made
He clearly wasn't thinking straight. Possibly his mental capacity was impaired by all that blood he drank. Lots of alcohol in it, I suspect.
Great Dracula and Ygor as well! He could have played other roles as well. His performances in The Black Cat, The Invisible Ray prove that! Also a wonderful Jekyll and Hyde role in The Human Monster! !!
Don't forget his great comedic timing in the comedy Broadminded. And White Zombie, many others. Ninotchka proves he could play non-horror; the photos of his Jesus role are mind blowing. Truly a brilliant actor! He never played Dracula again in this fashion either: not in A&CMF, TROTV nor MOTV. Those vampires act different. So versatile an actor!
when a film actually gives actors time to ACT
Loathed the Kronos Quartet's effect on this film! Silence is golden for a reason.
Kronor has its place...
Just not here
Amazing scene!
Bela Lugosi put so much into this role!
Bela Lugosi the classiest vampire ever
Damn! He bitch slapped that mirror!
Talk about getting into character! I always thought it looked as though Lugosi slapped the mirror out of Van Sloan's hand hard enough to sting. I can imagine Van Sloan saying after the take, "Dammit, Bela, that hurt!!" Lugosi's reply: "Hurt YOU, Eddie?? I think I may have broken my hand!" Harker's comment afterward that Dracula looked like a wild animal was spot on. I think it was Bela Lugosi's finest moment in the film.
Bela Lugosi = The most perfect Dracula.
0:08 , Oooooh Dracula is so beautiful *-* the most spooky and handsome man of all times *-*
The way the creepy music chimes in as Dracula slaps the mirror down with that look he gave van helsing is great.
I love this movie!!! and Bela of course
This is my favorite scene out of all of them!
The way the music picks up when he slaps the mirror out of his hand and the reaction of Bela Lugosi is phenomenal
The original didn't have music, I thought?
Yes it didn't have music when it first shown in 1931, the music is from Philip Glass and the Kronos Quartet which was added to the film
@@MrNoUsername thank you for that information
BelaLugosi is the one and only true Dracula
R Stefanie you say that though for those who watched & enjoyed Christopher Lee or Louis Jourdan who contradict you.
@@theman2017inc Frank Langella?
Aaron The Aguanga Cowboy Langella? Yes, he was a interesting choice
❤️❤️❤️Bela Lugosi per sempre❤️❤️❤️Film fantastico❤️❤️❤️👍👍👍
Wait wait wait. Ended too soon. I thought for sure Drac was gonna morph and take flight off that balcony. Did you know that Lugosi was Hungarian? Such a terrific actor. Best Dracula EVER.
"Dammit! Someone comb my hair! I cannot see!"
What do you think he has the strix harem for?
Dracula is lucky Van Helsing is a scientist and not a historian.
A historian would have chained him down and made the vamp recite his centuries of knowledge if it took decades to get it all down.
The great Bela Lugosi, a movie legend, fascinating his charismatic acting, his hypnotizing eyes, the female victim had no Chance again his diabolic Charme.
He was the First aristocrate Dracula, He created the style of the classic Vampire Count Dracula what alot of Dracula Actors try to copy later in hundreds of following Dracula movies, some successful, but mostly just a try without success. Just a Few actors play the King of Vampires at his Niveau, one of them Was Christopher Lee, who performance Dracula in another way, even his movies had nothing to do with Bram Stokers Novell, i like them also very much, it was another style as Bela Lugosis Dracula, i like them both.
RIP Bela, you was Dracula, we never will forget you.
Thankyou for uploading 🧛♀️.
Best regards from Austria 🇦🇹
thanks for sharing so much i absolute love count dracula :D old clips are amazing and original films of classics
Bela Lugosi was/is the quintessential Dracula. All the others who have tackled the role, are but mere shadows, reflecting on his greatness. ☺
"I dislike mirrors. Van Helsing will explain." Such a subtle indicator of him knowing he has been discovered.
From the very beginning he never denies what he is
Horror always comes off better in black and white...
The casting of this role couldn’t have been better. Whether for good or ill, this role followed Bela Lugosi for the remainder of his life.
My dad wasn't even born til 1937 but Lugosi played the best Dracula no one will take his spot on that.
Van Helsing in this scene was not wise, he was lucky to look into the mirror. If he would have never looked in a mirror Van Helsing would have never figured out anything. As years go by Van Helsing becomes more intelligent and more have a greater abecedary to Dracula. It's amazing to see how characters growing become more in-depth as a character. I love and write horror books myself.
truly classic!
Loved the acting in this scene. Lugosi went from an elegant gentleman to a wild animal to being evil and cunning. 0 to 120 in only a few seconds.
I am sure Bela Lugosi left Christopher Lee his ring, correct me if i am wrong, but if its true what an honour, Dracula was Bela Lugosi for me, and lines like the referral to the Wolves howling, his voice, fantastic, Children of the night, haunting, atmospheric, timing, shear professionalism, I salute him.
Gordon Webster if im correct, I recall hearing mr.lee saying that his ring was a reproduction of lugosi's to make a wink to this movie. I think that lugosi died in 1956? and mr.lee did the movie between 1957-58 so I don't think it was possible. kinda wish it was tho.
Ok, correcting. You are wrong: stop by my channel and check out the video I made a year ago The Mystery of Bela Lugosi's Lost Dracula Ring to find out unpublished trivia about the REAL Dracula 1931 ring.
Forrest J Ackerman had the ring until his death and then like so much of his other memorabilia was auctioned off. Let us show a little love to Sir Christopher performance in Franco's Dracula the way he says his lines which were almost lifted from the book is a masterpiece. Concerning Lugosi's reaction remember he had done Dracula on the stage before this and so along with his emotional emoting he had to display body language to get the scene to ressonate with the audience.
when he knocked the box out of van helesing's hand the word "yeet" went through my mind
listen to the children of the night...what music they made...or
i never drink...wine
Rather, he says, "Listen to them! Children of the night. What music 'THEY' make!". Notice how [Dracula] places the emphasis on "they" and not on music. It changes the entire meaning of the line. Bela Lugosi is a genius! He is inferring that the wolves make better music than "he" does (a vampire) when [Dracula] occasionally changes into a wolf. Pure genius!
incredible scene, in every detail
1:19 Talk about impressive special effects for those days.
Don't know if that really counts as special effects, it's literaly just 2 seperate shots. Even for the time that's not anything special (no pun intended).
For one who has not lived even a single life time, you are a wise man BLEH Helsing...
The timing, the tones. I wonder how many times Leslie Nielsen watched this before doing "Dracula; Dead and Loving It"?Lugosi, the original and still the best.
Dracula wearing a restaurant waiter suit is Epic aswell as he usually wear a cloak,medal and a Cape
Peter Cushing is my favorite Van Helsing!
2:35 , Momento épico de la historia del cine!
■ This remains the greatest horror film ever.! ■
Now Van Helsing knows for sure who the Count is...