Mike and Jay talk about Dracula. No, not THAT Dracula. The other Dracula. No no no the OTHER other Dracula. Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula from 1992.
I'm still waiting for some directors edition hidden in a vault somewhere with Egar Allan Poe. We know he starred with Tom Cruise and Nic Cage in some hidden horror masterpiece.
@@davidgagnon3781 He is joking. There's a long-standing joke where folks give the "little known fact" about Frankenstein, thinking they're God's gift to literary intellect. He's satirising that trope.
Wasn't mean-spirited, was actually relevant to the video, and made me laugh out loud. Congratulations! You have just written the first TH-cam comment I actually liked.
Eh the Gary Coleman Grill was better. It was lean, mean, grilling, rocking tunes playing machine. Combining both a grill with an MP3 Player was a true stroke of genius on their part.
I'm convinced that everyone's assumption that Keanu is such a saint is the work of BRILLIANT PR people who slip little video clips and memes into the Internet that portray him as such. Because he can't last on his acting alone, he needs the people to love him and give him the benefit of the doubt.
@@paulcampbell8696 Nah, thats not it. Keanu is beloved because he has done so many charitable things even if he didn't have to. One of them is that he gave away millions to the VFX team of the Matrix, instead of keeping it as a salary.
Best Keanu moment is on Between Two Ferns: Zach: They say you do an immense amount of research into the characters you play? Keanu: Yes, I do. Zach: Have you ever thought of researching someone who can act?
One of my favorite Keanu Reeves stories was him walking into a 7-11, late at night, and hearing a voice from the dark parking lot yell, "I don't care what anyone says; you were great in Dracula!"
That unknown voice from the dark was wrong but Keanu seems to be such a likable person that I probably would had drunkenly yell the same thing even if I don't quite believe it.
Even when Keanu isn't at his best, I've always felt you could tell he was trying. I haven't watched all his films, but I feel like he always actually tries, which makes me like him. I kinda like him in A Scanner Darkly, too, especially the monolouge
@@TheDrLeviathan "D is for desire, darkness, dreams, and Dracula." It's so weird how RDJ is the one who felt like he was in a school play, in that movie, when he could have just played himself in the 90s. Possibly the weirdest PKD-related media was Californium, a biography that gamified his life.
That movie had Sherilyn Fenn and Charlie Spradling. That is enough reason to endure a Full Moon attempt to mix "Beauty and the Beast" and "Dead Ringers".
@@Corbomite_Meatballs I'm not sure about that. If that's all it took Jay would have watched Enterprise for those decontamination gel scenes. Not enough werewolf love, though.
Pretty sure Jay didnt know what it meant until he started editing so I can just imagine him having to look it up and immediately feeling a little more disappointed inside.
"A blend of camp, 70s exploitation and retro 1920s throwback" has to be one of the greatest descriptions of this movie I have ever heard. Perfectly nails what makes it so wonderful and simultaneously a little frustrating at times.
I think that the most interesting part of this film is just how Catholic it is. Rather than vampirism being a metaphor for disease, or sex, or foreigners, Coppola chose to make vampirism a consequence of profanation of the Eucharist. Dracula renounces God and stabs the Cross, then drinks the blood out of the chalice on the altar while cursing himself. What we see here is vampirism as a shallow imitation/mockery of the eternal life promised by Christ. This comes up later in the scene where Dracula visits Mina at the asylum. Rather than having Mina drink from an obvious place like his wrist, he has Mina drink from a wound in his side. This has to be a reference to the Gospel according to St. John in which blood and water flow from the side of Jesus crucified on the Cross (see Jn 19:34). Then, Dracula bids Mina to drink "to join [him] in eternal life," this time referencing the (traditional) Catholic communion where the giving of the Eucharist is accompanied by the words, "May the body of our Lord Jesus Christ lead you to eternal life" (one does wonder, however, why Coppola didn't use something more similar to the Orthodox formulation since he clearly showed familiarity in Orthodoxy in the way the priest crossed himself in the beginning as well as in the wedding of Jonathan and Mina). Finally, in Dracula's death scene, he says something that is a bit difficult to make out, but I heard the words "God" and "forsaken me." I think that what Dracula is saying is an allusion to Christ's last words on the Cross before dying (at least according to St. Matthew), "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" (Matt. 27:46). Afterwards, Mina says that Dracula's actions had "released us all from the powers of darkness." I don't know why Coppola thought it would make any sense (either theologically or in the logic of the setting), but this line clearly indicates that Dracula's death is somehow salvific, just as salvation comes through the Crucifixion. Coppola has used very Catholic imagery before; I refer of course to the Baptism/multiple homicide scene in the Godfather where the murders occurring intercut with Michael's participation in the Baptismal ceremony not only shows his hypocrisy, but it also symbolizes his full entry into the world of organized crime, as Baptism is a person's entry into the Church. Therefore, all this Catholic imagery in Coppola's Dracula has to be deliberate. I don't think I have seen any other Dracula film take this angle - vampirism as sacrilege.
Great comment. These movies were not to this extent, but Dracula 2000 is saying Dracula is Judas Iscariot and the reason silver can harm him is because of the 30 pieces of silver and then sunlight kills him because he hung himself at sunrise; and John Carpenter's Vampires doesn't include Dracula but the big bad vamp here is the result of a failed religious rite...I don't remember exactly, but it was a religious ceremony and if he gets the special cross and completes the ceremony, then he can walk in sunshine.
People acussed the novel of being a "catholic pamplhet" so your interpretation makes sense considering this movie tried to represent faithfully the book.
I think you nailed it. Makes sense why me being a young Catholic and seeing this movie for the first time sure caused some weird emotions and thoughts....
This was my high school drama teacher’s favourite horror film. We watched in class every Halloween. She died two years ago so I try to watch it around Halloween to remember her
@@fredlabosch5164 Thank you. Anybody who has read the novel realizes that with the exception of having trouble with the British accent, Reeves nailed Jonahan Harker.
Never ceases to amaze me how bulletproof Keanu is as an actor. As an action guy he's great, but in drama he is ALWAYS abysmal. Yet no matter how many awful performances he delivers every one still loves the guy. I do too...can't explain it.
Also Coppola wine is, basically, crap. Whenever anyone famous decides to make their own brand of alcohol it is overpriced crap. See also Conor Micgregors whiskey, Trump's vodka
Oh yes! The scene, where he's with Keanu & Winona Ryder in that tavern and she's asking him: ''What happened to Lucy?'' ''Oh don't worry my dear, we drove a stake through her heart and cut off her head, she didn't suffer...'' That makes me chuckle every time.
the scene where Dracula and Mina lock eyes and quickly walk backwards in the cinema scene followed by "I have crossed oceans of time to find you" is more romantic than anything I will ever experience in my lifetime
Weirdly enough, in the book, Johnathan Harker did spend a lot of his time at the castle trying to justify what he was seeing and not reacting to shit, because he a) didn't want to piss off his host and b) honestly had no idea what the fuck he was seeing and thought maybe shit just was weird like that in Transylvania. I don't think that stress comes through in Keanu's performance though, it would have been cool to see him struggling to hold it together.
@The Sight of Sound To be fair, he reacts like most people in the nineties would react to that kind of shit. He is there as a conduit for the audience of that time, like it or not.
Conspiracy theory: Keanu was intentionally cheesing his acting in the period movie so we wouldn't clock that he's actually that one guy from the 1700s and immortal
Hopkins acting was really good and stuff but after reading the book and rewatching the movie i hated the "horny uncle" vibe van helsing had in the movie.
@@Larsfolstad I get the vibe they where going for a half way in both characters. Neither Dracula is as evil and heartless nor Van Helsing is as wholesome and upstanding as in the book. They are human. Not sure if I like it but I think it would be very hard to make it believable otherwise.
"It is here that we must find him and destroy him utterly." "When do we attack? Dawn? When he's sleeping?" "No, light the torches. We attack at night..."
I wish I hadn't heard that Johnny Depp could have potentially played Johnathan. It feels to me like it would have been perfect for him. I'm not a big Depp fan, but it feels like it would be his sort of role, like in Sleepy Hollow, or Fear and Loathing; and the best of that sort of role.
You should really read the book he played John perfectly through out the book he reacts to everything with a cold numb response , he was played very faithly.
Depp can play the completely out of it character and still give him a sense of character. I didn't mind Keanu, but i can see that, especially with such colourful performances all around, he is just often the most boring person on screen.
This movie is just special to me. The effort into the effects was quite inspiring and passionate. Despite its faults it’s gorgeous and gothic and melodramatic in the best way.
This film is so inexplicably beautiful. The dreamlike cinematography just sticks in my mind even though I don't think I've ever seen the film all the way through.
Yeah, every scene is like a baroque painting. I just saw it in the theater and am going again on Thursday (Fathom Events Halloween thing). The only other movie like this to me is the 1989 Batman, two hour surrealist dreams.
The fact that they did nearly all of the effects in camera helped the film age really well. Up until recently, CGI effects for film were always rendered at 2K (1080p). When films with 2K effects are released on 4K Blu-Ray, those shots suffer in comparison to other shots photographed at nearly 6K resolution. The 4K release of this movie received rave reviews for image quality, in no small part to the effects being created in camera.
I think the first CGI heavy movie to really translate to modern tech is Fellowship of the Ring ( 2001).. and compared to other stuff even during that time it’s way ahead. The 90s relied way too much on CGI way before it was ready.
@@takerdust This. There are actors that are not classicly good but have a quirk about them that can be used by a good director. Think Leslie Nielsen in Airplane! - full monotone, only had experience playing in dramas and to top it all off he didn't think the jokes were funny. Nevertheless, one of the best comedic performances ever not despite all that but precisely because of it.
Can we just take a moment to appreciate Anthony Hopkins? In thirty years, he won an Oscar, found mainstream success, can balance comedy and drama and do both equally, isn’t some weird sex pervert//harasser, and is still putting out great performances in his late 80s and can even carry a movie almost on his own, (Two Popes, The Father). And not for nothing, he’s an awesome Van Helsing here.
Imho he was too much ''over the top lunatic doctor'', like a goofy crazy scientist, book Van Helsing definitely wasn't like that. The BBC 77 version got him right, just as other characters (especially Mina). Coppola's movie should not have been named after Stoker because it's more like a soft porn with some details from the book. The greatest insult would be the antihero characterization of Dracula and also other portrayals of different characters were over the top and genuinely bad (especially Mina, Jonathan, Van Helsing and even Dracula himself).
@@uselessmask3816 Love VERB If you love something, you like it very much. We loved the food so much, especially the fish dishes. I loved reading. ...one of these people that loves to be in the outdoors. I love it when I hear you laughing. Synonyms: enjoy, like, desire, fancy
@@uselessmask3816 and they have lots of words for the differents connotations of love. To desire, to fancy, to cherish, to appreciate, to like, to enjoy.... etc. etc.
How to make inferior wine to good product , put it in a blender and mix the wine for few minutes ... no need to let the wine breathe . ... if they just had that mysterious science guy with his white lab coat there with them , he could have told them that .
It's funny Mike says Dracula wasn't written with a film audience in mind. That's true, but Stoker was also manager of a theater (he knew Oscar Wilde) and actually released a theatrical version of the story just before the book was published in order to establish his copyright, so theatrical adaptations probably were in the back of his mind for the book to some extent. It looks like the book Dracula was actually based on the mannerisms of one of his theater's main actors.
@@travellingshoes5241 Honestly I kind of agree. The beginning in Dracula's castle (which is the original kernel of Stoker's story and supposedly came from a dream he had) I thought was excellent, but then after that the story kinda...gets meh. I thought the epistolary style kind of separates the reader from the story and it kind of feels like a Sherlock Holmes knockoff (which I guess is how the book was more or less received) with some gee-whizz "we recorded this diary entry on a gramophone" technology love. Anyway, the reason the book is really considered important is because of the movies it spawned. Adding the Mina-Dracula love story was probably the only way to keep most of the book story but also make it a compelling movie.
@@travellingshoes5241 i love victorian novels but at least 60% of them have really strong starts and ends and then just fuck around in the middle for 150 pages
_Dracula_ (1974)'s reincarnation love story is in homage to, of all things, Universal Studios' _The Mummy_ from 1932. It's underrated among that era of Universal's monster movies _because_ it's much more an eerie love story than a movie about a guy in bandages chasing people.
Oh man, that Argento movie is so sad. The FMV level special effects alone are shameful. Argento really just lost it at some point, but his early stuff is so great.
In regards to the love story, there's a scene where Mina is on a ship going to meet Jonathan and she's tearing pages out of her diary. Thus they justify the romance not being in the novel. Good stuff by Coppola
@@HkFinn83 nothing shows how much the characters are ruined by the stupid romance subplot than the butchering of Mina. Her insane reaction to Harker when they finally have Dracula cornered turns her from a sympathetic victim of a monster valiantly struggling against the forces of evil into an insane, unsympathetic harlot. "This monster abused and violated my best friend, my husband, AND me, but I love him I guess so fuck you Jonathan." Completely disgusting.
@@jdunnatl I think you're spot on for the movie...but the original comment is about the novel. Because of this the movie isn't really close to the book...Dracula is a purely satanic being and can never be redeemed, only destroyed. I think it is very telling if you have watched the documentary for the movie, FFC explicitly says that evil is made up so you have to cast a good actor in the role. With this belief in the driver's seat there would be no way for the actual character of Dracula from the book to emerge...
The most memorable thing about BS's Dracula for me is that it was the first time I saw a movie where a scene in the preview had been cut from the actual movie. In the preview, there was a shot of Van Helsing standing against the castle wall beside a drawbridge shouting "Kill them all, let God sort them out!" That wasn't in the final cut of movie. The second-most-memorable thing for me is that the first time I saw Dracula, I was home from school with the flu and had a high fever. I thought it seemed really strange and disjointed because of the fever. When I rewatched it later, I realized that no, it was just the movie.
Fun Fact: The extended version of that scene actually has him say, "Upon the horizon lies an odd future. Wolf Gang! Kill them all, let God sort them out!"
i live in sonoma county, about 15 miles from the coppala winery and i have been there many times. the wine is decent and the restaurant is actually pretty good. they also have a small film museum. they have the original desk used in the godfather, the Dracula armor, and some really cool props from apocalypse now. dont plan your whole trip around it, but if you are in the area its a fun thing to see.
I was born the year the movie came out. It will for ever remind me of how old I have grown. I think I'm pleased it's at least a verry good movie doing this to me.
I don't know, I always thought Lucy in vampire form heading back to her crypt with a child was a good actual horror scene. The movie doesn't give you a lot of moments to think about things but when you do...that was pretty great horror. I LOVE this movie.
the idea that the blue flames show you where to dig for treasure is so amazingly silly and videogame-y. makes me think it got transplanted from castlevania instead
I liked *how* the film added the love story bit. As mentioned, this part of the movie strays from the book but the explanation given in the film makes perfect sense given the "rules" of the book. In the novel, everything is told from a perspective of looking back on the events through the reading of ship's logs, newspaper clippings, and journal entries. In the movie, Mina throws the pages of her journal that reference her relationship with the Count into the sea, as she never wants Jonathan to read them. Thus, when all of the information is later compiled in the book we never learn about Mina's infidelity. It's a great addition to the story that doesn't sacrifice any of the original plot.
Though I always remember the finale being very anticlimactic in the book (which makes sense since the "found text" is not written with intent to thrill): "Then we rode after the carriage. The gypsy henchmen made a fuss but luckily we managed to chop off the count's head. PS: I almost forgot: the Texan died."
Yeah, I really enjoyed reading it. Not knowing that it would be in that format for the whole book going in it took me by surprise but the different writing styles of the characters and the pompous language were just adorable and quickly won me over. I can even forgive that it obviously inspired the Paranormal Activity series.
@@derlich09 Epistolary horror novels weren't anything new by 1897 when Dracula was first published. Even Frankenstein used that form and that came out back in 1818. The epistolary novel form dates all the way back to late 15th century, though took proper hold in the 17th century.
The robe he wears at the end of the movie 36:56 is also a reference to a famous painting called The Kiss, and Dracula's castle 39:09 is a reference to a famous painting called The Black Idol
Richard E. Grant’s terrific first book of diaries, With Nails, has a whole section on this shoot. Coppola had everyone at his Napa estate (at his own expense) for a week to bond, spitball, rehearse and carouse. My favourite detail is that he had the three suitors go for a balloon ride in costume, unfilmed, just to get a feel for an experience three young men of that era might have had. Oh, also, this movie had the same rat wrangler as Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Okay one more: the babies used in the scenes freaked out when the actors put the fangs in. Anyway, highly recommend the book for a glimpse of the golden age of 1990s cinema and the backstage of working with some notorious actors and directing greats.
How refreshing that someone recomends a book. I will now have to find myself a copy. NO! i dont order stuff from the internet. It would have made my life a bit easier but I only release cash for goods in hand.
I still think the 'renunciation of God' scene is the best vampire origin scene in any vampire movie ever, and the armor Gary Oldman is wearing in that scene is some of the best fantasy armor in any movie ever.
Of armors of that kind my favorite one is the one the Kurgan uses in Highlander, this one also looks so cool so much so one forgets they would be silly and impractical.
I was blown away by that miss. Coppola and Waits having worked together on One From The Heart. The soundtrack by Waits was nominated for an Academy Award.
Count Strahd von Zarovich, a vampire in the AD&D (Advanced Dungeons and Dragons) Ravenloft Campaign Setting (1983), had a tragic story with a woman, Tatyana, that he loved. He killed his brother (who was marrying her) and she jumped off the balcony to suicide. Then he was tormented by reincarnations of Tatyana, every generation or so, always searching for her, always dying tragically. I remember watching the "Bram Stoker's Dracula" movie when I was in high-school (around 16). We went to the cinema with a couple of classmates and one guy fell asleep cause he was tired by football training. The other guy and me loved the movie though. A few years later, I had moved to another city for University and made new friends and we played "Advanced Dungeons and Dragons" a lot. And this movie was one of our favorites (we watched it again a few times). We had the soundtrack playing during our D&D sessions. Also used soundtracks from "Interview with the Vampire", "Last of the Mohicans", "Conan the Barbarian", "The 13th Warrior" and others. Good times, even though we never played in Ravenloft per se.
I'm stealing that line for a key moment in a Curse of Strahd D&D campaign I'm running (effectively a ripoff of the Dracula story). I've been practicing it for months already.
I'm glad you highlighted the music, because it is absolutely exceptional - probably the best score of its era, definitely the most enduring thing from the film
I watched this film again for the umpteenth time last night and was still wondering, in all ways, how they pulled this world together. It is a dazzling love letter to the cinema of illusion. The range of emotion you feel while watching it is phenomenal. I have loved it since the first time I saw it, in the long gone days of yore. Bravo Mr Coppola & brilliant Co.
It's not a good film by any means but I really enjoyed it as a not-so guilty pleasure since I just like the vampires stories especially if it has something to do with Vlad. The whole anti-hero always works for me.
The Castlevania show on Netflix did a great adaptation of the Dracula character. Very different than the ones from film. But in that you feel that he is this OP unstoppable monster when he was at his peak
@@stevangonzalez5908 Alucard (Dracula) from Hellsing Ultimate > Castlevania Dracula in being OP. And DC Comics Mandrakk = most OP Vampire like being ever > any other Vampire like beings in fiction
I know revisionist history paints Vlad as some kind of Christian crusader but his very first reign was started after he led an Ottoman army and captured Wallachia for them. He continued to pay tribute to the Sultan and didn't actually switch over to the Christian side until he stopped paying for three years and then learnt of a plot by Mehmed II to have him captured by calling him to Constantinople. He seems to have aligned with the Ottomans when needed, aligned with Hungary when he needed to fight the Ottomans and then gone after the Saxons too The myth of Vlad the Impaler also seems to have started in Germany after his raids on Saxon villages, while Vlad was allied with the Ottomans. Tbh just the first page of his Wiki makes him out to be even more of a psychopath than I thought.
@@karry299 I don't know of anyone who consider's Henry VIII a "folk hero". He's viewed more as "the butt of all jokes about monarchy" - a gluttonous, lustful, paranoid, murderous king who changed laws willy-nilly to suit his mood for the day. There was even an urban legend that he died of syphilis - definitely not the sort of demise that would bestowed on "the pride of the UK".
As hokey as Keanu Reeves is, I actually think his lack of response during the early stuff works as he's putting his role as a solicitor before anything else. He's not going to make his client aware of the fact that he thinks he's a weirdo, he's signing the cheques.
At University, this movie was put up for analysis because it refers back to a lot of late German Romanticism, with the travel-motivs, the ever-changing epic music score, and such. This also connects to the changes that Coppola made to the original story. What I missed in here is the amazing find of putting Tom Waits in Renfield's role. A role that is very central to the original book as well, with him being this 'tainted human' that longs to become a vampire and is used by Dracula as his liason into human existence.
Tom Waits is the 3rd great actor that they didn’t mention. He’s definitely the greatest musician/actor ever, with the possible exception being David Bowie.
Romanticism is considerably older than Bram Stokers Dracula and only because theres traveling in Dracula, that doesnt count as influence of romanticism. Im talking about the book. Its a completely different era, completely different writing, completely different ambitions. I dont see any way in which this is supposed to connect to romanticism... Books from that time are pretty much the opposite of horror. Horror didnt even exist yet in the time of Eichendorff etc. It took untill Guy de Maupassant released "le horla" untill this genre kind of started to be existant. German expressionism is something that exists in the form of film and could actually have had an influence here, but I dont see any romanticism.
@@goodtogo2876 I’d contest that: even though Stoker’s book was published in 1897, it relies heavily on romantic themes: embracing imagination, moving away from set values/rationality, focussing on extraordinary human experiences, seeking out unfamiliar and remote settings outside of regular society, bringing in natural elements, imposing landscapes, wild animals (wolves, bats), as well as focussing on socially marginalized stereotypes. Not to mention it being a gothic novel (focussing on the macabre, and largely remote locations). If you’re still unconvinced: take a look at the other publications by Stoker, which include at least 8 or 9 (depending on your exact definition) other romantic or gothic stories.
I read Dracula for the first time during Covid, and I thought it was funny that the journal excerpts are comically like a found-footage movie. In found-footage, you’re like “why are they filming!?” and in Dracula, there are journal entries akin to “I can hear Dracula in the hallway. He is coming for me. I am moments away from death.” X-D
@@memphisgadfly5816 random but there's a epistolary novel from way back in the day called shamela (a parody of pamela) where the main character is constantly writing how she feels, even when she's pretending to be asleep like "oh lord he's climbed into the bed what do I do", so this was weird even back then lol
This was pretty good. It's a shame that Bram Stoker didn't direct more films.
Yeah, shame really. Same thing with Mary Shelley.
Stroker 😂
I'm still waiting for some directors edition hidden in a vault somewhere with Egar Allan Poe. We know he starred with Tom Cruise and Nic Cage in some hidden horror masterpiece.
Funny enough Bram Stoker wrote several other books. One with monster worms if I remember correctly.
Jesus, are you serious? Bram Stoker wasn't a director, he was a producer.
Did you know: Dracula was actually the name of the scientist, not the monster.
Victor Von Dracinstein
@@davidgagnon3781 He is joking.
There's a long-standing joke where folks give the "little known fact" about Frankenstein, thinking they're God's gift to literary intellect.
He's satirising that trope.
Wasn't mean-spirited, was actually relevant to the video, and made me laugh out loud. Congratulations! You have just written the first TH-cam comment I actually liked.
Ha ha ha, good one.
@david gagnon jesus christ what a hard woosh
"We don't do paid sponsorships"
Don't lie to me Jay, I still remember the George Foreskin Grill
Eh the Gary Coleman Grill was better. It was lean, mean, grilling, rocking tunes playing machine. Combining both a grill with an MP3 Player was a true stroke of genius on their part.
wait but actually, they did one for stranger things didn't they?
@@hardy_har and Justin Roiland
One of their most glorious productions.
Rich never felt the same since that day. Also he lost joy in playing with his R2 toy oddly that same day...
I'm convinced that Keanu is such a nice, chill dude that no director is willing to actually direct him.
Coppola didn’t exactly say this but it comes across this way. He said he doesn’t regret casting Keanu and he’s a “prince”
His British accent was pitiful.. Wynona's was no great shakes either 😄
I'm convinced that everyone's assumption that Keanu is such a saint is the work of BRILLIANT PR people who slip little video clips and memes into the Internet that portray him as such. Because he can't last on his acting alone, he needs the people to love him and give him the benefit of the doubt.
@@paulcampbell8696 Nah, thats not it. Keanu is beloved because he has done so many charitable things even if he didn't have to. One of them is that he gave away millions to the VFX team of the Matrix, instead of keeping it as a salary.
Best Keanu moment is on Between Two Ferns:
Zach: They say you do an immense amount of research into the characters you play?
Keanu: Yes, I do.
Zach: Have you ever thought of researching someone who can act?
One of my favorite Keanu Reeves stories was him walking into a 7-11, late at night, and hearing a voice from the dark parking lot yell, "I don't care what anyone says; you were great in Dracula!"
That unknown voice from the dark was wrong but Keanu seems to be such a likable person that I probably would had drunkenly yell the same thing even if I don't quite believe it.
Aw that's so cute to be fair he was genuinely trying his best he was just miscast
Even when Keanu isn't at his best, I've always felt you could tell he was trying. I haven't watched all his films, but I feel like he always actually tries, which makes me like him. I kinda like him in A Scanner Darkly, too, especially the monolouge
@@TheDrLeviathan "D is for desire, darkness, dreams, and Dracula."
It's so weird how RDJ is the one who felt like he was in a school play, in that movie, when he could have just played himself in the 90s. Possibly the weirdest PKD-related media was Californium, a biography that gamified his life.
@@TheDrLeviathan no the issue here is that he doesn't try enough lol
jay's anecdote about mistakenly remembering sherilyn fenn and the wolfman is probably the most jay that jay has ever been
Obscure horror movie - check
Sex perversion - check
David Lynch - check
It's like Jay Bauman doing an impression of Jay Bauman.
Sherilyn Fenn was smoking hot on Twin Peaks...absolutely gorgeous.
That movie had Sherilyn Fenn and Charlie Spradling.
That is enough reason to endure a Full Moon attempt to mix "Beauty and the Beast" and "Dead Ringers".
I really need to see that Meridian movie. Thank you Jay
Mike: Makes a Star Trek reference
Jay: Cricket sound
Mike: Mentions the orgy scene
Jay: "Oh yeah!"
Because there aren't any really good orgy scenes in Star Trek. Then Jay would watch every second of Trek for more of them.
@@Corbomite_Meatballs I'm not sure about that. If that's all it took Jay would have watched Enterprise for those decontamination gel scenes. Not enough werewolf love, though.
Pretty sure Jay didnt know what it meant until he started editing so I can just imagine him having to look it up and immediately feeling a little more disappointed inside.
Jay:… Iggy Pop!
Star trek doesnt have anyone melting into tit puddles.
"Where did you get this, The GROCERY STORE?!" is the second funniest thing Mike has ever said just behind "Rollercoaster into your own grave"
"Ironically they're nothing but bones at this point"
@@alphatrion4365 fuck I came to write this exact same quote. What are the odds?
"We don't do paid sponsorships." Nice try, but you ain't fooling William Shatner.
He knows. The Captain’s breakdown of their earnings is priceless.
I wouldn't be surprised if Coppola paid RLM to trash his wine in front of millions to indulge in his masochism.
Don't mention Shatner, Sporto, if he finds out his girdle will explode in fury
The Californian wine industry hasn't been this disappointed since Orson Welles shot those Paul Masson Champagne commercials.
That's why he called offscreen to Bill
That scene where Dracula steps back into the shadows and turns into rats is perfect special effects. 30 years later, it still looks flawless.
I agree cgi is way to overused nowadays.
Yeah, it's a great shot/effect.
I came here to say this. Best scare of my young life watching this late at night on tnt
Just watched it the other day and went "oh shit!"
I still don’t know how they did that but it works great. Fades to black and all you see are the red eyes then bam. Rats
It's weird how this is simultaneously one of the most accurate adaptations and also the most divergent.
It's weird because it seem the movie wants me to root for the sociopathic baby eater, which I had some trouble with
@@niclasjohansson5992 I mean, they already had me rooting for him with "sociopathic baby eater", but you do you.
Yeah like Hamlet aswell
The key is that it has all the details from the book but each one is cranked up to 11.
@@niclasjohansson5992 They didn't want you to root for him, they wanted you to feel conflicted and they succeeded.
"A blend of camp, 70s exploitation and retro 1920s throwback" has to be one of the greatest descriptions of this movie I have ever heard. Perfectly nails what makes it so wonderful and simultaneously a little frustrating at times.
Gary Oldman was *_so_* drunk during the filming of this movie...
Don't forget opera.
Considering Drac becomes young in the book, I thought it was a daring departure to keep him an oldman the whole time
Gary Youngman had scheduling conflicts
Ah, I see you are a DAD!
;))))
Yousonuva
What a beautiful line. I doff my cap, sir 😀
"Whoa! That dude is a most excellent climber!"
A most bodacious bite!
I think that the most interesting part of this film is just how Catholic it is. Rather than vampirism being a metaphor for disease, or sex, or foreigners, Coppola chose to make vampirism a consequence of profanation of the Eucharist. Dracula renounces God and stabs the Cross, then drinks the blood out of the chalice on the altar while cursing himself. What we see here is vampirism as a shallow imitation/mockery of the eternal life promised by Christ. This comes up later in the scene where Dracula visits Mina at the asylum. Rather than having Mina drink from an obvious place like his wrist, he has Mina drink from a wound in his side. This has to be a reference to the Gospel according to St. John in which blood and water flow from the side of Jesus crucified on the Cross (see Jn 19:34). Then, Dracula bids Mina to drink "to join [him] in eternal life," this time referencing the (traditional) Catholic communion where the giving of the Eucharist is accompanied by the words, "May the body of our Lord Jesus Christ lead you to eternal life" (one does wonder, however, why Coppola didn't use something more similar to the Orthodox formulation since he clearly showed familiarity in Orthodoxy in the way the priest crossed himself in the beginning as well as in the wedding of Jonathan and Mina). Finally, in Dracula's death scene, he says something that is a bit difficult to make out, but I heard the words "God" and "forsaken me." I think that what Dracula is saying is an allusion to Christ's last words on the Cross before dying (at least according to St. Matthew), "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" (Matt. 27:46). Afterwards, Mina says that Dracula's actions had "released us all from the powers of darkness." I don't know why Coppola thought it would make any sense (either theologically or in the logic of the setting), but this line clearly indicates that Dracula's death is somehow salvific, just as salvation comes through the Crucifixion. Coppola has used very Catholic imagery before; I refer of course to the Baptism/multiple homicide scene in the Godfather where the murders occurring intercut with Michael's participation in the Baptismal ceremony not only shows his hypocrisy, but it also symbolizes his full entry into the world of organized crime, as Baptism is a person's entry into the Church. Therefore, all this Catholic imagery in Coppola's Dracula has to be deliberate. I don't think I have seen any other Dracula film take this angle - vampirism as sacrilege.
Wonderful comment.
@@turingmachine7905 Thanks!
Great comment. These movies were not to this extent, but Dracula 2000 is saying Dracula is Judas Iscariot and the reason silver can harm him is because of the 30 pieces of silver and then sunlight kills him because he hung himself at sunrise; and John Carpenter's Vampires doesn't include Dracula but the big bad vamp here is the result of a failed religious rite...I don't remember exactly, but it was a religious ceremony and if he gets the special cross and completes the ceremony, then he can walk in sunshine.
People acussed the novel of being a "catholic pamplhet" so your interpretation makes sense considering this movie tried to represent faithfully the book.
I think you nailed it. Makes sense why me being a young Catholic and seeing this movie for the first time sure caused some weird emotions and thoughts....
Gary Oldman is so fucking good in this movie.
And any movie
I love it when he says "Dragoola"
@@linusdn2777 yes.
@@honorafox4709 He's hamming it here and it works stunningly. Greatest actor of his generation.
Gary Oldman is good in every movie he’s in. He’s very under-appreciated in the era of this movie, and he was amazing as Sirius Black.
This was my high school drama teacher’s favourite horror film. We watched in class every Halloween. She died two years ago so I try to watch it around Halloween to remember her
If it didn’t have Keanu and Wynona in it, it could have been really good
@Magnum Dong trashing on Twilight has become more lame than Twilight itself. Move on already
That’s thoughtful of you. Seems she’s had a pretty great impact on your life.
Really? Even with all the sex?
@@cash4goldteeth Still a better love story than Coppola's Dracula
I love how Mike acts so serious when he really loves the movie he’s talking about.
Don't you dare make fun of the effect, Jay!!
well u love pretty insignificant things in life, as most of braindead yt commenters
@@grigorijijebaczydov just try to relax Grigor
@@grigorijijebaczydov I hate TH-cam comments too but fuck right off
To be fair, I think Keanu reacting with a poker face to all the insane shit that happens in the movie is comedy gold
One of his character's traits is total resilience, come what may.
He's numb.
It is pretty funny
@@fredlabosch5164 Thank you. Anybody who has read the novel realizes that with the exception of having trouble with the British accent, Reeves nailed Jonahan Harker.
@@brannon5311 Whether by accident or intent, he plays actually a quite convincing Victorian.
@@Dacre1000 He just kept a stiff upper lip
Never ceases to amaze me how bulletproof Keanu is as an actor. As an action guy he's great, but in drama he is ALWAYS abysmal. Yet no matter how many awful performances he delivers every one still loves the guy. I do too...can't explain it.
It's Keanu, man, everyone always loved and still love Keanu. And those who don't are jerks.
He has some dramatic moments in action movies that I think he does pretty great in.
@@redpillnibbler4423 Wayne doesn't hold up lol
@@d3l3tes00n lets be real neither does a lot of Keanu's work
"I. WANT. ROOOOOOOM SERVICE!" - Keanu in the pinnacle of his acting career
The thing about not doing paid sponsorships directly contradicts what I've heard from Captain Kirk.
Yeah, also this is a pretty bad podcast. These gosh darn hack frauds
That miniature train chugging through those red-lit mountains evokes more atmosphere than any multimillion computer generated nonsense.
Agree
It doesn't evoke quite as much terror as that CGI T-Rex though...
It's just genius
Cue arrogant George Lucas chuckle…
a sort of old worldlyness . Now that you pointed it out.
Mike: “creepy pervert porn”
Jay: “yeah...”
That’s the best kind, 😜
WHY did I immediately know they were gonna spit the wine out? I’m so jaded with these guys.
Because everybody knows their favourite drink is cheap beer? :D
Also Coppola wine is, basically, crap. Whenever anyone famous decides to make their own brand of alcohol it is overpriced crap. See also Conor Micgregors whiskey, Trump's vodka
@@sursurrus notable exception being Aykroyd’s vodka
That's like watching a performance of The Aristocrats and complaining you knew what the punch line was going to be.
Anybody sampled Bob Dylan's whiskey??
"Old timers Gary Oldman and Anthony Hopkins blowing away the young cast"
Gary Oldman is 7 years older than Keanu.
And Anthony Hopkins is only 2 years older than the actual Dracula
They ate ALL the scenery
@@onlineenglish7065 They are still FULL
@@milton7763 I died in 1476.
And younger than Richard E. Grant
Wish they had talked more about Hopkins performance as mad bastard Van helsing, he really raises up the 2nd half of the movie
Tom Waits deserved a mention too, in my opinion.
Oh yes! The scene, where he's with Keanu & Winona Ryder in that tavern and she's asking him:
''What happened to Lucy?''
''Oh don't worry my dear, we drove a stake through her heart and cut off her head, she didn't suffer...''
That makes me chuckle every time.
True.
That’s my main gripe! He is almost outdoing Keanu there...
@@GulfTrash Ahh, Tom Waits, yes of course. Totally forgot about him. He's brilliant in this as Dracula's servant!
Hopkins casually describing how they decapitate the girl and drive a stake into her heart *as he eats* is absolutely glorious.
*"Doctor! Please!"*
the scene where Dracula and Mina lock eyes and quickly walk backwards in the cinema scene followed by "I have crossed oceans of time to find you" is more romantic than anything I will ever experience in my lifetime
Brainless girl falling in love with psychopath is my favourite type of romance! It's the story of my marriage.
In that scene it looks like Dracula is floating across the floor pulling her along.
@@parallaxview2143 Not just a psychopath, a baby eating psychopath.
@@விஷ்ணு_கார்த்திக் I've never once had baby for tea so please don't insinuate otherwise.
Finally Redlettermedia becomes a wine tasting channel.
That didn't last. C'est la vie.
Mike: "Rich Evans, a full-bodied wine, sensibly priced at a dollar a jug. And now for a little magic, I will make this jug disappear."
@@DellDuckfan313
Rosebud. Yes, Rosebud frozen peas. Full of country goodness and green pea-ness
It all started when Rian Johnson did a wine tasting for RLM.
Thank you Rich Evan's for subverting my expectations.
instead of a beer binging channel
Weirdly enough, in the book, Johnathan Harker did spend a lot of his time at the castle trying to justify what he was seeing and not reacting to shit, because he a) didn't want to piss off his host and b) honestly had no idea what the fuck he was seeing and thought maybe shit just was weird like that in Transylvania. I don't think that stress comes through in Keanu's performance though, it would have been cool to see him struggling to hold it together.
Just terrible acting. Most of the other Harkers I have seen were experienced older actors also and I think it needed that.
I actually liked how Keanu didn't really react to the weird stuff going on. It added to the surreality of what's going on.
All he needed to say was, “whoa!”
@@imcallingjapan2178 😂
@The Sight of Sound To be fair, he reacts like most people in the nineties would react to that kind of shit. He is there as a conduit for the audience of that time, like it or not.
"It's so thin, every single image has only a couple of in-camera effects going on..."
At least it rhymes
Fuck you, Rick Berman.
Ha ha ha
Conspiracy theory: Keanu was intentionally cheesing his acting in the period movie so we wouldn't clock that he's actually that one guy from the 1700s and immortal
@Not Given much more believable, imo
Tom Waitts as Renfield was also a great performance.
Tom Waits is always hella underrated in everything he's in. What a talented guy
was disappointed they didnt mention Tom
@@Pattamatt1998 Did you see him in "Ballad of Buster Skruggs"?
@@robertleeluben maybe my favorite role from him ever. Not the best segment from that movie, but I think it's by far my favorite
Thanks I had forgotten that!
Aw man sad they didn't talk more about how great Van Helsing is in this film. Hopkins absolutely kills it
Even though it is a radically different, much more energetic take on the character, Hopkins definitely bats it out the park and into the stratosphere.
They did, but briefly.
Hopkins acting was really good and stuff but after reading the book and rewatching the movie i hated the "horny uncle" vibe van helsing had in the movie.
@@Larsfolstad I get the vibe they where going for a half way in both characters. Neither Dracula is as evil and heartless nor Van Helsing is as wholesome and upstanding as in the book. They are human. Not sure if I like it but I think it would be very hard to make it believable otherwise.
@@Zeburaman2005 jj
Gary Oldman's Dracula looks the modern-day John Travolta
I can't unsee it
*goes down on Winona Ryder* "THE MOOSE IS ON THE LOOSE!"
@@harbingerofsalt was waiting for someone to reply with this, thank you
"It is here that we must find him and destroy him utterly."
"When do we attack? Dawn? When he's sleeping?"
"No, light the torches. We attack at night..."
If you want true gothic horror, listen to Keanu Reeves' British accent.
😂😂😂
I've had Keanu saying "Bloody wolves chasing me!" In his British accent playing repeatedly in my mind for most of the day.
As his head bobbles up and down like a Bobblehead
Hard to believe anyone mentions “Mary Poppins” anymore after Reeves in “Dracula”.
He did it very briefly in Cyberpunk and boy lemme tell. he's still got it!
I wish I hadn't heard that Johnny Depp could have potentially played Johnathan. It feels to me like it would have been perfect for him. I'm not a big Depp fan, but it feels like it would be his sort of role, like in Sleepy Hollow, or Fear and Loathing; and the best of that sort of role.
You should really read the book he played John perfectly through out the book he reacts to everything with a cold numb response , he was played very faithly.
@@Chevalier_knight I did read the book. It's not that Keanu was wrong, it's just I think it would have fitted great to Johnny.
Keanu accidentally was perfect for the role. His cold composure and indifference is exactly what the character needed.
I should add that the only problem is Keanu's horrible attempt at a British accent
Depp can play the completely out of it character and still give him a sense of character. I didn't mind Keanu, but i can see that, especially with such colourful performances all around, he is just often the most boring person on screen.
This movie is just special to me. The effort into the effects was quite inspiring and passionate. Despite its faults it’s gorgeous and gothic and melodramatic in the best way.
What faults?
Same. It got me interested in movie-making.
@@SukhberS it rhymes with schmeanu schmeeves
@@stefanfilipovits21 pee on new trees?
Still my favourite vampire movie... even with the weird, absolutely miss casting of Keanu Reeves.
This film is so inexplicably beautiful. The dreamlike cinematography just sticks in my mind even though I don't think I've ever seen the film all the way through.
Yeah, every scene is like a baroque painting. I just saw it in the theater and am going again on Thursday (Fathom Events Halloween thing). The only other movie like this to me is the 1989 Batman, two hour surrealist dreams.
I think it's the music. Super underrated soundtrack that makes everything feel epic.
You've never seen the movie all the way through? I must have seen it a dozen times 🤪
it's not really inexplicable the credits are right there
The fact that they did nearly all of the effects in camera helped the film age really well. Up until recently, CGI effects for film were always rendered at 2K (1080p). When films with 2K effects are released on 4K Blu-Ray, those shots suffer in comparison to other shots photographed at nearly 6K resolution.
The 4K release of this movie received rave reviews for image quality, in no small part to the effects being created in camera.
image quality...
I think the first CGI heavy movie to really translate to modern tech is Fellowship of the Ring ( 2001).. and compared to other stuff even during that time it’s way ahead. The 90s relied way too much on CGI way before it was ready.
I recently watched it on blueray and maybe my eyes fooled me but I had no problems with the visuals. 🤗
Yeah it was all practical effects except for one optical shot.
1080p isn't 2k.
I am very sad that no time was spent on Tom Waits’ performance as Rendfield.
They also didn't spend much time on Anthony Hopkins.
Wait what? I never knew! Cool >
honestly, one of the reasons one should watch the movie. Waits is a master thief of any scene he is featured in and this movie is no different
I was looking for this comment, definitely a missed opportunity. So many memorable lines by Waits: "Oh YES - A BIG cat! My salvation depends upon it!"
Those metal hand restraints he wore in the film were a nice touch. Impractical, but perfectly cinematic.
It's funny Mike says Oldman is light years ahead of the "young cast" - he's only 5 years older than Keanu!
Indeed! It’s more like Keanu travelled at light speed while Oldman stayed on earth and learned how to act.
Oldman is 63, Keanu is 56. Math is a bit off.
Yes, but he’s five times more talented. 🤣
I think you missed the joke..
It's a play on words.
Oldman
Young cast..
🤣
I think you missed the joke..
It's a play on words.
Oldman
Young cast..
🤣
"Everything works together...except for Keanu Reeves." Jay, that is the best review of the film I have ever heard.
Yup!!
Keanu Reeves' performance was so wooden, they used him to stake Dracula.
Why does everyone suddenly like him? The zoomers haven’t actually seen him ”act”?
@@servadac42 He's a nice, likeable guy. Nothing wrong with that.
@@servadac42 he's an A+ wooden actor tho.
@@takerdust This. There are actors that are not classicly good but have a quirk about them that can be used by a good director. Think Leslie Nielsen in Airplane! - full monotone, only had experience playing in dramas and to top it all off he didn't think the jokes were funny. Nevertheless, one of the best comedic performances ever not despite all that but precisely because of it.
@@servadac42 they like him as a person and action performer more than as an actor.
My girlfriend genuinely asked me "Who wrote Bram Stoker's Dracula...Was it Mary Shelly?"... I do love her.
Please don't let her be a blonde. Kudos for knowing Mary Shelley.
Well she tried. Lol
“Coppola wine is the key to all this.”
Oh hi George
Enjoy your food court meal you sweet, sweet man.
We’ve never had a wine this funny.
@@dillystacatto32 I can’t. The food’s too dense.
Is the food like poetry in that rhymes?
Can we just take a moment to appreciate Anthony Hopkins? In thirty years, he won an Oscar, found mainstream success, can balance comedy and drama and do both equally, isn’t some weird sex pervert//harasser, and is still putting out great performances in his late 80s and can even carry a movie almost on his own, (Two Popes, The Father).
And not for nothing, he’s an awesome Van Helsing here.
Imho he was too much ''over the top lunatic doctor'', like a goofy crazy scientist, book Van Helsing definitely wasn't like that. The BBC 77 version got him right, just as other characters (especially Mina).
Coppola's movie should not have been named after Stoker because it's more like a soft porn with some details from the book. The greatest insult would be the antihero characterization of Dracula and also other portrayals of different characters were over the top and genuinely bad (especially Mina, Jonathan, Van Helsing and even Dracula himself).
You two critics need to get new jobs. The movie was great. Have more wine.
@@karllieck9064 Well, if you write so, then yes, the movie was great, what other movies were great? please, enlighten me...
One thing to add Hopkins is a composer. He has written waltzes.
I love how Mike turns the bottle so the logo is facing the camera...
@@uselessmask3816 Love
VERB
If you love something, you like it very much.
We loved the food so much, especially the fish dishes.
I loved reading.
...one of these people that loves to be in the outdoors.
I love it when I hear you laughing.
Synonyms: enjoy, like, desire, fancy
@@uselessmask3816 Actually, English is the language with the largest vocabulary in the world, at least today. Look it up
@@uselessmask3816 and they have lots of words for the differents connotations of love. To desire, to fancy, to cherish, to appreciate, to like, to enjoy.... etc. etc.
How to make inferior wine to good product , put it in a blender and mix the wine for few minutes ... no need to let the wine breathe .
... if they just had that mysterious science guy with his white lab coat there with them , he could have told them that .
@@uselessmask3816 What’s a podcast?
It's bittersweet seeing these ads in RLM. I know they're just doing them to fund Rich Evans' terrible meth addiction.
Well he actually sells the meth to fund his diabetes medication.
@@brkn613 what does he do with the diabetes medication?
@@space_cadet2174 Snorts it.
@@space_cadet2174 he sells the diabetes meds to pay for hookers.
@@squabbbb give them AIIIIDSS
Lucy's costume in the crypt was amazing. The monsters and costumes in this movie haven't been surpassed yet.
It's funny Mike says Dracula wasn't written with a film audience in mind. That's true, but Stoker was also manager of a theater (he knew Oscar Wilde) and actually released a theatrical version of the story just before the book was published in order to establish his copyright, so theatrical adaptations probably were in the back of his mind for the book to some extent. It looks like the book Dracula was actually based on the mannerisms of one of his theater's main actors.
The book was a chore to get through unfortunately.
@@travellingshoes5241 Honestly I kind of agree. The beginning in Dracula's castle (which is the original kernel of Stoker's story and supposedly came from a dream he had) I thought was excellent, but then after that the story kinda...gets meh. I thought the epistolary style kind of separates the reader from the story and it kind of feels like a Sherlock Holmes knockoff (which I guess is how the book was more or less received) with some gee-whizz "we recorded this diary entry on a gramophone" technology love. Anyway, the reason the book is really considered important is because of the movies it spawned. Adding the Mina-Dracula love story was probably the only way to keep most of the book story but also make it a compelling movie.
@@johnbrown1860 I agree. The first few opening chapters were enthralling.I thought I was in for a real treat.
@@travellingshoes5241 i love victorian novels but at least 60% of them have really strong starts and ends and then just fuck around in the middle for 150 pages
The “Geisha Robes” is also a reference to the painter, Gustav Klimt and his most famous work, The Kiss.
I thought it looked familiar
_Dracula_ (1974)'s reincarnation love story is in homage to, of all things, Universal Studios' _The Mummy_ from 1932. It's underrated among that era of Universal's monster movies _because_ it's much more an eerie love story than a movie about a guy in bandages chasing people.
"There haven't really been any Dracula movies after this one"
Congratulations on successfully blocking Dario Argento's Dracula 3D from your memory.
Oh man, that Argento movie is so sad. The FMV level special effects alone are shameful. Argento really just lost it at some point, but his early stuff is so great.
Also 2014's Dracula Untold, which I am pretty sure was a Dracula adaptation.
And also Dracula 2000, with Gerard Butler. That one was a thing, were it turned out Dracula was Judas Iscariot all along... for some reason.
@@CesarGarcia-lg7nm And if you want to go to the low budget "made for SyFy" level, there was Dracula 3000 as well.
@@CesarGarcia-lg7nm And it seems Gatiss and Moffat did a Dracula adaptation in 2020 as well, though I have yet to see it.
Keanu saying "Doctor, please!" really sounds like "Dude, not cool!".
It wasn’t cool !
I've always thought this too! lol
"Wooah dude you're like so old and creepy and your hair looks funny, that's rad"
Well that's gonna live rent free in my head now
In regards to the love story, there's a scene where Mina is on a ship going to meet Jonathan and she's tearing pages out of her diary. Thus they justify the romance not being in the novel. Good stuff by Coppola
@@HkFinn83 no it doesn't
@@HkFinn83 I would also disagree. It's the fundament of the movie, it's Dracula's motivation till the very end.
@@HkFinn83 In what way doesn't it make sense?
@@HkFinn83 nothing shows how much the characters are ruined by the stupid romance subplot than the butchering of Mina. Her insane reaction to Harker when they finally have Dracula cornered turns her from a sympathetic victim of a monster valiantly struggling against the forces of evil into an insane, unsympathetic harlot. "This monster abused and violated my best friend, my husband, AND me, but I love him I guess so fuck you Jonathan." Completely disgusting.
@@jdunnatl I think you're spot on for the movie...but the original comment is about the novel. Because of this the movie isn't really close to the book...Dracula is a purely satanic being and can never be redeemed, only destroyed. I think it is very telling if you have watched the documentary for the movie, FFC explicitly says that evil is made up so you have to cast a good actor in the role. With this belief in the driver's seat there would be no way for the actual character of Dracula from the book to emerge...
The most memorable thing about BS's Dracula for me is that it was the first time I saw a movie where a scene in the preview had been cut from the actual movie.
In the preview, there was a shot of Van Helsing standing against the castle wall beside a drawbridge shouting "Kill them all, let God sort them out!" That wasn't in the final cut of movie.
The second-most-memorable thing for me is that the first time I saw Dracula, I was home from school with the flu and had a high fever. I thought it seemed really strange and disjointed because of the fever. When I rewatched it later, I realized that no, it was just the movie.
Lol!
Fun Fact: The extended version of that scene actually has him say, "Upon the horizon lies an odd future. Wolf Gang! Kill them all, let God sort them out!"
Bs is full of bacteriophage...
Now we got Slender Man, where almost none of the trailer is in the final movie.
You know Mike loves a movie when he remembers the characters' names
i live in sonoma county, about 15 miles from the coppala winery and i have been there many times. the wine is decent and the restaurant is actually pretty good. they also have a small film museum. they have the original desk used in the godfather, the Dracula armor, and some really cool props from apocalypse now.
dont plan your whole trip around it, but if you are in the area its a fun thing to see.
That clip with Gary Oldman and Coppola invokes that scene in Spinal Tap when Nigel is complaining about the sandwiches.
Hahaha yes sandwich folding
As someone who lives in NorCal wine country, that intro was spot on lol.
Coppola wine is what trashy young single moms drink while they watch the bachelorette and ignore their illegitimate children
Is the wine that bad?
So is Francis's 🍷 that bad huh? Guess I'll just stick to Mad Dog 20/20.
@@ChrisisisB Nah it's actually pretty good. Definitely up there with the "solid wines around twenty bucks" group
@@Viraus2 Exactly, it's cheap but not terrible. You could def do better though lol
This movie came out almost 30 years ago? Lord I'm getting old...
Getting?
Why did you have to remind me?
I was born the year the movie came out. It will for ever remind me of how old I have grown.
I think I'm pleased it's at least a verry good movie doing this to me.
@@zelenilum290 Old at 29? Dude, you have twice as long still
It’s as old as me!
I don't know, I always thought Lucy in vampire form heading back to her crypt with a child was a good actual horror scene. The movie doesn't give you a lot of moments to think about things but when you do...that was pretty great horror. I LOVE this movie.
When the candles light as she walks down the stairs???
Absolute genius film making moment!!
"We don't need his 50 bucks."
We don't believe you. Those "Dick the Birthday Boy" shirts aren't free.
as seen on rich evans. known seductrice.
Imagine Shatner decides to give them one more shot and doesn't make it to the spit take before calling them shills again.
I always loved that the blue flames weren't explained in the movie. It just added to the mystique of the bizarre world around Dracula and his castle.
the idea that the blue flames show you where to dig for treasure is so amazingly silly and videogame-y. makes me think it got transplanted from castlevania instead
@@MisterTTG haha Zelda TWW had rings of light on the water at night that marked treasure. never thought of that as a Dracula nod
I liked *how* the film added the love story bit. As mentioned, this part of the movie strays from the book but the explanation given in the film makes perfect sense given the "rules" of the book. In the novel, everything is told from a perspective of looking back on the events through the reading of ship's logs, newspaper clippings, and journal entries. In the movie, Mina throws the pages of her journal that reference her relationship with the Count into the sea, as she never wants Jonathan to read them. Thus, when all of the information is later compiled in the book we never learn about Mina's infidelity. It's a great addition to the story that doesn't sacrifice any of the original plot.
You can’t really show Drac feeding a baby to his three wives while laughing and expect to pull off a love story.
In the book, Mina contracts vampiric syphilis.
Sofia Coppola should direct Frankenstein where he stares out of windows a lot and thinks about how boring it is to be rich.
Oh, is she making an autobiography?
The only film adaption bold enough to have the author's name in the title.
Well, this and pretty much every Stephen King movie
Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein withstanding
There’s also Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein “starring” Robert DeNiro from 1994.
Jane Austin's Mafia
@@LindsayWashburn Honestly DeNiro is a highlight of that film for me.
Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula:
One of the original “found footage” stories.
I think that’s cool!
"Telling the story through journal entries" is a Lovecraft staple, but Stoker did it first.
Though I always remember the finale being very anticlimactic in the book (which makes sense since the "found text" is not written with intent to thrill): "Then we rode after the carriage. The gypsy henchmen made a fuss but luckily we managed to chop off the count's head. PS: I almost forgot: the Texan died."
Yeah, I really enjoyed reading it. Not knowing that it would be in that format for the whole book going in it took me by surprise but the different writing styles of the characters and the pompous language were just adorable and quickly won me over.
I can even forgive that it obviously inspired the Paranormal Activity series.
@@derlich09 Epistolary horror novels weren't anything new by 1897 when Dracula was first published. Even Frankenstein used that form and that came out back in 1818.
The epistolary novel form dates all the way back to late 15th century, though took proper hold in the 17th century.
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Dos Passos did it too iirc
"We don’t do paid sponsorships"
Yea, right. You just REALLY enjoyed eating chunckys chicken, you hacks?
Ofcourse, best chicken you can get!
The robe he wears at the end of the movie 36:56 is also a reference to a famous painting called The Kiss, and Dracula's castle 39:09 is a reference to a famous painting called The Black Idol
Best comment so far.
Yes, very few people notice these two little references, well done, sir!
Never forget that the legendary, brilliant Tom Waits is in this movie!!.
Glad someone brought this up!
Can’t believe they didn’t mention this:( he’s incredible in it, and I figured Jay would say something about it:/
Same! That’s my only disappointment. Lol He was the third best actor imo
@@madiipaii6274 third best? i guess that’s a way to put it. i would’ve said he’s one of the 3 who are actually trying to act in this movie😅
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Tom Waits acts like, in this movie, how i'd imagine he would be from the persona of his music lol now thats brilliance to me
Richard E. Grant’s terrific first book of diaries, With Nails, has a whole section on this shoot.
Coppola had everyone at his Napa estate (at his own expense) for a week to bond, spitball, rehearse and carouse. My favourite detail is that he had the three suitors go for a balloon ride in costume, unfilmed, just to get a feel for an experience three young men of that era might have had.
Oh, also, this movie had the same rat wrangler as Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Okay one more: the babies used in the scenes freaked out when the actors put the fangs in.
Anyway, highly recommend the book for a glimpse of the golden age of 1990s cinema and the backstage of working with some notorious actors and directing greats.
I didn't know this even existed but I really want to read it now richard e grant is a treasure
There is also an audiobook of Dracula read by Grant from 1992.
How refreshing that someone recomends a book. I will now have to find myself a copy. NO! i dont order stuff from the internet. It would have made my life a bit easier but I only release cash for goods in hand.
What fucker said that?
Would like to see a review of withnail and i, although im not sure how popular it was in the states, genius film
It makes me so happy to see this film get so much love.... I have done my duty in showing this movie to as many people as possible over the years.
I still think the 'renunciation of God' scene is the best vampire origin scene in any vampire movie ever, and the armor Gary Oldman is wearing in that scene is some of the best fantasy armor in any movie ever.
I don't know if the movie came first, but a lot of fantasy games like Warhammer have an item called "The Bloody Hauberk" that reference it.
While not really an origin SCENE, I've always had a soft spot for the origin story in Dracula 2000 where Dracula is literally Judas Iscariot.
Of armors of that kind my favorite one is the one the Kurgan uses in Highlander, this one also looks so cool so much so one forgets they would be silly and impractical.
That scene was like nothing I’ve ever seen . It’s incredible.
@@Poopscipade I like that origin story too. I really do. I think it works great as the origin of the ultimate evil.
No mention of Tom Waits as Renfield, one of the greatest cameos.
I was blown away by that miss. Coppola and Waits having worked together on One From The Heart. The soundtrack by Waits was nominated for an Academy Award.
@@RandomWalker39 He´s in Rumble Fish too
This movie is pure genius. I love it from start to finish. Every frame a work of art. Oh how I wish Hollywood would make movies like this again…
Haha are you serious? 😂🤣
@@spencerstevens2175 fuck cornbread
I agree, this movie is so gorgeous. Also I recommend The Lighthouse if you haven't seen it. Beautifully shot
@Odysseus Monte Cristo what about the original comment warranted bringing Hitler into this
Count Strahd von Zarovich, a vampire in the AD&D (Advanced Dungeons and Dragons) Ravenloft Campaign Setting (1983), had a tragic story with a woman, Tatyana, that he loved. He killed his brother (who was marrying her) and she jumped off the balcony to suicide. Then he was tormented by reincarnations of Tatyana, every generation or so, always searching for her, always dying tragically.
I remember watching the "Bram Stoker's Dracula" movie when I was in high-school (around 16). We went to the cinema with a couple of classmates and one guy fell asleep cause he was tired by football training.
The other guy and me loved the movie though.
A few years later, I had moved to another city for University and made new friends and we played "Advanced Dungeons and Dragons" a lot. And this movie was one of our favorites (we watched it again a few times). We had the soundtrack playing during our D&D sessions. Also used soundtracks from "Interview with the Vampire", "Last of the Mohicans", "Conan the Barbarian", "The 13th Warrior" and others.
Good times, even though we never played in Ravenloft per se.
This movie turned 12 year old me goth.
Dracula: "I have crossed oceans of time to find you."
Me: Mom, I need more black clothes.
💀💕🦇
I’m straight and felt the same thing.
Your old wrinkly old man fetish is showing.
Wassup Detective Dixon Hill
I'm stealing that line for a key moment in a Curse of Strahd D&D campaign I'm running (effectively a ripoff of the Dracula story).
I've been practicing it for months already.
same :)
As Jay is such a huge Winona Rider fan, I can't wait for the inevitable Beetlejuice re:View.
She was actually good in Beetlejuice
@@reikun86 and heathers
I would love re:View episodes on all the 90s Burton films they haven’t yet done
@@tubeguy4066 She was really good in Heathers.
Have they done Edward Scissorhands yet?
My first thought seeing this video: "When was Supreme Chancellor Palpatine a vampire?"
I'm glad you highlighted the music, because it is absolutely exceptional - probably the best score of its era, definitely the most enduring thing from the film
This movie in 4k with HDR is a work of art visually
This movie feels like a dream. Beautiful, surreal, disturbing.
The trailer for Bram Stoker's Dracula is honestly one of the best 90's movies trailers.
Agreed. It helps that there was so many money shots to use for the trailer.
I watched this film again for the umpteenth time last night and was still wondering, in all ways, how they pulled this world together. It is a dazzling love letter to the cinema of illusion. The range of emotion you feel while watching it is phenomenal. I have loved it since the first time I saw it, in the long gone days of yore. Bravo Mr Coppola & brilliant Co.
I’m glad that Mike mentioned the soundtrack. It and the production/costume design make this movie more overblown and yet melancholic than most others.
Eurythmics
Wojiech Kilar was such a fantastic composer (and not just for film). I definitely recommend checking out his other work if you are interested
Funny, how "Dracula Untold" was so bad that everybody including these two guys forgot about it. And it's not even been 10 years....
It's not a good film by any means but I really enjoyed it as a not-so guilty pleasure since I just like the vampires stories especially if it has something to do with Vlad. The whole anti-hero always works for me.
@@dgas5904 I just want a film about Vlad that doesn't have any of the vampire bullshit in it. He was a scary enough dude as it was
To be fair, that's one that's probably best forgotten anyway
One might say it was... 'Untold'. Yeah I'll see myself out.
I'm surprised Jay didn't mention Dario Argento's Dracula 3D.
Vlad Tepes (the impaler) fought against ottoman invasions and was brutal in doing so. He is generally considered a hero in Wallachia (Romania today).
The Castlevania show on Netflix did a great adaptation of the Dracula character. Very different than the ones from film. But in that you feel that he is this OP unstoppable monster when he was at his peak
@@stevangonzalez5908 Alucard (Dracula) from Hellsing Ultimate > Castlevania Dracula in being OP.
And DC Comics Mandrakk = most OP Vampire like being ever > any other Vampire like beings in fiction
I know revisionist history paints Vlad as some kind of Christian crusader but his very first reign was started after he led an Ottoman army and captured Wallachia for them. He continued to pay tribute to the Sultan and didn't actually switch over to the Christian side until he stopped paying for three years and then learnt of a plot by Mehmed II to have him captured by calling him to Constantinople.
He seems to have aligned with the Ottomans when needed, aligned with Hungary when he needed to fight the Ottomans and then gone after the Saxons too
The myth of Vlad the Impaler also seems to have started in Germany after his raids on Saxon villages, while Vlad was allied with the Ottomans. Tbh just the first page of his Wiki makes him out to be even more of a psychopath than I thought.
@@utkarsh2746 Psst. Have you heard of this Henry 8 character ? Now THAT was a psycho killer. A pride of UK, apparently, a folk hero even.
@@karry299 I don't know of anyone who consider's Henry VIII a "folk hero". He's viewed more as "the butt of all jokes about monarchy" - a gluttonous, lustful, paranoid, murderous king who changed laws willy-nilly to suit his mood for the day. There was even an urban legend that he died of syphilis - definitely not the sort of demise that would bestowed on "the pride of the UK".
I held on to a bottle of King Kong wine for years, finally opened it and the cork disintegrated into the bottle. Thanks, Francis
Ugh
@@mojrimibnharb4584 hey at least most of his films are good
@@vampsith Right? Can't be good at everything...
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*war flashbacks to Captain's Holiday
Those flashbacks can be soothed by drinking some Crystal Skull vodka
@@lorddevilfish5868 it's incredibly smooth with ZERO acetone!
*points to Jay*
"It is the man himself! Look, he's grown young!"
As hokey as Keanu Reeves is, I actually think his lack of response during the early stuff works as he's putting his role as a solicitor before anything else. He's not going to make his client aware of the fact that he thinks he's a weirdo, he's signing the cheques.
Something tells me Jay has seen more movies than just Dracula and Meridian with Wolf Men having sex with women
The gay version was in The Shining
"Interview with A Vampire, here's my take: Not gay enough." - Norm
It's all in Norm's delivery.
And you know who was responsible for that nonsense?
You guessed it, Frank Stallone
honestly making it a gay love story would've made it a lot less bland, so in a way he's right
@@danielstavroff1535 that joke was all I could think of on the last BOTW, with the Frank Stallone movie.
Tom Cruise owns a doghouse.
The closing credits song by Annie Lennox is one of the most beautiful songs ever written.
Word! Still mesmerizing today.
Appropriately called Love Song for a Vampire. Jamie Lenman does an excellent cover of it, I highly recommend anyone checking it out.
At University, this movie was put up for analysis because it refers back to a lot of late German Romanticism, with the travel-motivs, the ever-changing epic music score, and such.
This also connects to the changes that Coppola made to the original story. What I missed in here is the amazing find of putting Tom Waits in Renfield's role. A role that is very central to the original book as well, with him being this 'tainted human' that longs to become a vampire and is used by Dracula as his liason into human existence.
Tom Waits is the 3rd great actor that they didn’t mention. He’s definitely the greatest musician/actor ever, with the possible exception being David Bowie.
Romanticism is considerably older than Bram Stokers Dracula and only because theres traveling in Dracula, that doesnt count as influence of romanticism. Im talking about the book. Its a completely different era, completely different writing, completely different ambitions.
I dont see any way in which this is supposed to connect to romanticism... Books from that time are pretty much the opposite of horror. Horror didnt even exist yet in the time of Eichendorff etc. It took untill Guy de Maupassant released "le horla" untill this genre kind of started to be existant.
German expressionism is something that exists in the form of film and could actually have had an influence here, but I dont see any romanticism.
@@goodtogo2876 I’d contest that: even though Stoker’s book was published in 1897, it relies heavily on romantic themes: embracing imagination, moving away from set values/rationality, focussing on extraordinary human experiences, seeking out unfamiliar and remote settings outside of regular society, bringing in natural elements, imposing landscapes, wild animals (wolves, bats), as well as focussing on socially marginalized stereotypes. Not to mention it being a gothic novel (focussing on the macabre, and largely remote locations). If you’re still unconvinced: take a look at the other publications by Stoker, which include at least 8 or 9 (depending on your exact definition) other romantic or gothic stories.
I read Dracula for the first time during Covid, and I thought it was funny that the journal excerpts are comically like a found-footage movie. In found-footage, you’re like “why are they filming!?” and in Dracula, there are journal entries akin to “I can hear Dracula in the hallway. He is coming for me. I am moments away from death.” X-D
It's years since I read it. You've made me want to read it again!
Lovecraft has this effect too.
Why are you still writing as reality breaks down and insanity starts to seep in, man? Are you paid by the word?
@@memphisgadfly5816 random but there's a epistolary novel from way back in the day called shamela (a parody of pamela) where the main character is constantly writing how she feels, even when she's pretending to be asleep like "oh lord he's climbed into the bed what do I do", so this was weird even back then lol
@@memphisgadfly5816 At least Lovecraft you can argue that writing is a way holding these people slipping hold on reality together.
Last time I was this early, Rich still had his balloon.