4:34 fun fact, vampires don't show up in mirrors because back in the old days mirrors were made of silver, which was a no-no for most supernatural creatures
Some modern things now claim it's because Mirrors are reflections of the Soul... Although I think there's a Heath Ledgers Joker quote about that somewhere about how that would be a pile of Bullshit....
That is very interesting, doesn't the silver thing come the witch finder manual. If silver is a no no then why not us a tin based mirror, don't tell me he cares about the mercury poisoning affecting the worker?
Dracula can turn into a werewolf because he's a strigoi. In Romanian mythology, a strigoi is a troubled spirit that comes back from the dead and has the ability to shape-shift into animals and turn invisible.
I think it's also just a vampire thing he can take the shape of a wolf/hound, a bat and even mist. I feel like cinema sins has not actually read Bram Stokers Dracula with a lot of the sins being done, many are actually things from the book like the whole sunlight thing. In the book Dracula had no problem walking about in the sun he just lost his ability to transform but retained his heightened senses and super strength. He goes after Lucy in the book as well because Dracula likes having a harem. He did not go to England specifically for Mina that's the whole reason Jonathan was in his castle was to finalize the sale of an estate to him.
@@NiC0L317 And everyone knows we shouldn't take sins seriously Everytime I come to the comments I feel the urge to recommend "Everything wrong with CinemaSins" to everybody
@@zombiedemon1762 I'm guessing he becomes incorporeal when he turns into mist though perhaps if he was exposed to high heat one might be able to kill him vaporizing him. Though who knows maybe he'd still be able to reconstitute from that after a time.
#BradHartliep's acting is three million times Greater than Gary Oldman's .. Brad Hartliep can play every single role Gary Oldman has ever done Greater than Gary Oldman .. there isn't an actor in the world better than #BradHartliep ..
it's the worst line ever and it's so fucking creepy. people keep quoting it as a bram stoker quote when it never appeared in the book, ESPECIALLY that the whole "romance" thing between dracula and mina was coppola's awful idea. seriously, their whole relationship is so shitty and rapey.
@@jerzysielicki-baryka9652 golly gee willikers, you sound awful mad. Sorry this popular movie made you so upset. I'm interested to hear what you think about Calm down, maniac.
But the travel was a mirror, so I'm confused as to how there were no mirrors in the books? That was the moment Dracula destroyed Jonathan's mirror, because he realized his lack of reflection was suspicious.
@@CaitMcKi In the book, he's less theatrical about it, makes it look like an accident. In all the films where he suddenly smashes a large mirror on the wall, he attracts even more suspicion on himself, it's always absurd. Like, at the very least, he looks like a madman. :)
The mirror thing is a combination of reasons. Mirrors often contained silver and silver was a common supernatural weakness, not just for vampires. Reason two, a persons reflection was seen as the representation of someone’s soul and since vampires were already dead, they didn’t appear in mirrors. Boom
Dracula: She has to fall in love with me of her own free will. Also Dracula: Excuse me while I tame wolves and be an independently wealthy prince from Transylvania,
No, I always figured that at the beginning when Dracula was in the older version of himself, he cried normal tears because he had no blood to spare; he was able to cry bloody tears later because he was flush with it after all the people he'd been eating. That's what I figured, anyway.
"after all the people he'd been eating" Who exactly did he eat in the film, though? He sips a bit of Jonathan, enough of Lucy, and some Mina at the end, but that's it, isn't it? There's no streak of unsolved vampiric murders plaguing the streets of London that Dracula is responsible for. That's more about Lucy eating children.
I never knew a peacock's tail was called a train. If they actually went from peacock train to actual train on purpose... That should be a sin OFF. That's pretty cool.
I'm torn. In the original Bram Stoker's Dracula Dracula could actually move around during the day. It's more modern (by comparison) adaptions that have added the whole sunlight things. But everyone knows that Cinemasins rules state the books don't matter, and therefore sin 104 must stand. Curse you Cinemasins!
Murnau came up with the "sunlight kills the vampire" idea for 1922's Nosferatu. It really stuck, especially considering his film was considered lost for half a century.
love it how "during the day a vampire strenghts is weakened" and show dracula crashing through a coffin to get up. If thats how dracule gets up everytime, thats a ton off coffins needed every day
Cand pula mea a insemnat dragon? Si chiar daca a însemnat dragon In film Dracula se distanteaza de dumnezeu si toate prostiile alea si devine creatura a intunericului Deci in film Dracula e personificarea diavolului Nu are treaba cu imbecilitatile alea medievale de care tot aud ca au loc la Sighisoara
@@szekesfehervar2230 nu cred ca era nevoie sa vorbesti urat. Drac, dragon, balaur etc sunt similare morfologic, religios. Pana la urma si filmul asta e facut dupa o carte scrisa de un englez care a adunat ce a stiut din toate partile.
@@blueismylove3128 In the scene where Jonathan and Mina get hitched they used a real Romanian priest and Coppola didn’t tell the guy that it was just a movie so by Romanian customs they’re still married.
The one weak spot I can find in this movie is not the fact that they cast Gary Oldman, but the fact that they didn't try to make him look more attractive. What I mean is, if a man's true form is either an elderly albino or a gigantic humanoid bat, you'd think he'd come up with the most handsome avatar he could think of to walk around in. But the "handsome" Dracula in this movie? I'm sorry, but he looks like a cross between a hippie and a Wild West cowboy. Yes, I'm aware that Balkans are a very hairy people, and that Dracula did have a mustache in the novel. But did they really have to make him look "accurate" when they had a reasonably good-looking man to work with in Oldman?
@@SeasideDetective2 He looks quite attractive as his "young" version who takes Mina on a date at the movies. It's just, he changes shape so frequently, you lose track of who saw him in what form.
Fun fact: there's nothing "up with the effects in this movie" because there are no effects in this movie. Everything was actually filmed. Really. Look it up.
Technically, those are still effects. According to Wikipedia: "Coppola was insistent that he did not want to use any kind of contemporary special effects techniques such as computer-generated imagery when making the movie, instead wishing to use antiquated effects techniques from the early history of cinema, which he felt would be more appropriate given that the film's period setting coincides with the origin of film. He initially hired a standard visual effects team, but when they told him that the things he wanted to achieve were impossible without using modern digital technology, Coppola disagreed and fired them, replacing them with his son Roman Coppola. As a result, all of the visual effects seen in the film were achieved without the use of optical or computer-generated effects, but were created using on-set and in-camera methods. For example, any sequences that would have typically required the use of compositing were instead achieved by either rear projection with actors placed in front of a screen with an image projected behind them, or through multiple exposure by shooting a background slate then rewinding the film through the camera and shooting the foreground slate on the same piece of film, all the while using matting techniques to ensure that only the desired areas of film were exposed. Forced perspectives were often employed to combine miniature effects or matte paintings with full-sized elements, or create distorted views of reality, such as holding the camera upside down or at odd angles to create the effect of objects defying the laws of physics."
@@muesli_snipes I struggle to understand what you thought "special effects" meant. Like, you thought that for 1933's King Kong they found an actually giant gorilla to "actually film"? Because they sure didn't use digital effects. :)
@@Kumagoro42 You'll notice IMF's reply specifies that what was used were "technically" still effects, to point out that they're different from modern effects. I don't know much about cinema, but I'm not sure I've said anything weird. Technically, closing a window to pretend it's nighttime is an effect, but that's not what people usually mean by 'effects'. When I say "actually filmed", I mean exactly what I say, and it's not my own observation, but that of people who know what they're talking about and who point it out with surprise. As for King Kong, yes, I thought, and think, and it's true, as far as I know, that it was "actually filmed" (just not a giant gorilla, but a puppet).
I read this book recently and the most amusing part was Harker complaining about how slow the trains were and that there was always a delay. It has been more than 120 years since this book has been published, the trains are still slow and there are frequent delays here.
Vampires used to be the ultimate monster of folklore, they used to transform into all sorts of things, including werewolves. Nowadays they barely even turn into a bat for some reason. I guess fiction just felt like slowly nerfing Vampires into a mild annoyance.
I think they also needed to keep vampires in their lane when werewolves started getting featured in vampire movies and games more prominently. Otherwise, a vampire's just a better werewolf.
If I remember the novel correctly (it's been a while), it's only Dracula who is so powerful, he's portrayed as almost a demi-god. Lesser vampires, like his brides or Lucy, are not that versatile.
4:37 Victorian mirrors were made with silver nitrate, silver, being a holy metal, didn't allow the reflections of unholy things like vampires to appear. This is only the case for very old mirrors though as modern mirrors are made with aluminium
thats not really the actual explanation. in fact back in those days in vampire stories and lore they could be seen in mirrors there were in fact no mention of invisible to mirrors
Birdman I know sometimes that it could be possible for you to comment on the videos but I never saw your comments until now this is the first time is this going to be a clue for your next video and although you don’t take request from your commenters or your subscribers could you give thought to reviewing tenet and doing either Toy story four or doctor sleep
Nothings wrong This movie is a masterpiece…..Anthony Hopkins narration at the beginning sets the tone straight away *The fact this movie was done with so many camera tricks makes this MOVIE such a wonderful and frightening watch…….pure camera mastery I loved it…….
Interesting fact: the wedding scene with Jonathan and Mina was done for real because Coppola didn't feel it was coming across as authentic enough so he brought in a real priest to conduct a real ceremony, Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder are still technically married to this day
Not legally, unless One of them got a marriage certificate. You perhaps mean in the eyes of the Orthodox church, although I'd like to see an actual church official comment about that before believing it.
If that's true (and I'm not doubting you) then technically their characters would be married, not them, as it was done in the name of Jonathon and Mina Harker.
Being Dutch myself, I think Van Helsing's accent is... OK. Sometimes it is just a bit too German. Love this movie btw, but can agree with a lot of the sins.
that's actually a pretty accurate version, since Van Hellsing's accent was a bit messy since Bram Stoker wasn't as good at dutch accents as he claimed to be.
I’ve always wanted to see 50 sins get added for Keanu’s accent in this movie, but I never knew it before today. Also that Bill & Ted wild stallion joke was so top rate. I’m ready for Halloween now. Thanks homie.
Missed satire opportunity: Mina in Dracula’s arms: “Hold me.” “I can’t.” Also: Mina: What are you? I must know! You must tell me. “Notorious mass murderer, Sirius Black!”
Death by sunlight only entered the lore of vampires in 1922 when it appeared in the film Nosferatu. Originally vampires could walk around during the day looking like humans, and as shown here from the novel Dracula is weakened in the sun.
Gary Oldman is the kind of actor that if you ask him to portray a table, he will be the best table you've ever saw*. Movie is corny af, but still remains in the 90s style of romantic horror bs. Even the Batman and Robin styled shots are included.
YES! Oldman is a phenomenal catsuit wearing Satan in that one BMW commercial directed by Tony Scott. If you haven’t seen it...Go NOW!!! FLY LIKE THE WIND BULLSEYE!!! 😋
@G M Yup. I thought it was great. His take on the devil is one of the best as far as I’m concerned. Also, the part where he is hiding out from Marilyn Manson...hysterical! 🙃
In the book he is petrified of fear seeing Mina drink blood from Draculas chest (he forced her, there is no love story in the book). His hair turned gray...
Also you should have noted how Keanu’s character hardly gets freaked out upon his arrival at the castle, with all the weird supernatural things and Dracula’s demeanor.. The special effects are silly, but the fact that this completely ordinary guy doesn’t flinch while witnessing such bizarre, extraordinary things, deserves 10 sins at least 😂
I Love this Movie and Coppelas tribute to the early cinema's special effects and techniques. Keanus' accent is horrendous but can be overlooked by all the other performances and stunning art. There is no other performance that shines like Gary Oldman!
"My dearest Mina, I am like totally trapped in Dracula's castle. It is most heinous!" Also since LITERALLY nobody but me is gonna appreciate it, nice W.C. Fields impression.
Dude, the special effects are supposed to look like that because they're all done in-camera. There's no CGI or postproduction. The ones that look obviously fake to our eyes are supposed to evoke the special effects used in early silent films, such as those of the Lumière brothers, who started out as stage magicians. Seriously, for a film buff like you not to know this, that breaks the Sin Meter.
@Iafiv Iv I agree, I never liked the movie that much, aside from some of the visuals. And Gary Oldman is always good, especially when he was at that stage of his career. I think overall the visuals are basically just Coppola being true to his arthouse roots.
The thing is, effects don't always have to look realistic. Unrealistic effects don't necessarily make you think "FAKE", not if you have any imagination, anyway. If the style is consistent, it can make you feel like you are in another world, a different reality. Movies are at their best when they are able to truly transport you from dreary, trivial, everyday life. I love the unique visuals in this movie.
In the 25 Things You Didn't Know about this film claimed that the only post production effect was the blue flames the coach traveled through when they arrived at D's castle. Just saying.
It's honestly kind of underrated. Super influential, thematic, and gorgeous to look at, even though Keanu makes me laugh my ass off sometimes with his accent.
Lol it's a mystery as old as time! Why English actors can nail American accents without trying, yet American actors are horrible at trying to do english accents. And Keanu Reeves has some great movie roles that I'm a big fan of, but his accents, even his Southern, Floridian or what have you accent from the Devil's Advocate, are absolute shite.
I'm mary popping y'all. Brits?? A loose term for stereotypical English people.. funny yeah. But no.. being scottish. Don't include us into that stereotype 😂
Earlier in the movie, Dracula tells Harker, "I never drink... wine." He should've followed up with, "That sh1t is WEAK! Absinthe, now, THAT'LL put hair on your chest."
Fun fact, in the original novel Dracula doesn't come to London because he has a weird thing for Mina, he comes to London because he has a weird thing for Johnathan, and he knows that is where Johnathan is heading so he starts picking off Johnathan's friends to try and punish him for leaving. I'm not even joking the original is a kinda homoerotic Transylvanian 50 Shades where Johnathan meets a mysterious rich stranger with all the red flags.
I'm so glad that I'm not the only one who saw that subtext. Johnathan x Dracula forever. But Drac didn't go to London for him, he was going there anyway and johnathan was back at Drac's home as far as he knew.
I mean, the reason Jonathan even goes to Transylvania is to help Dracula move to England. He wouldn’t even know Jonathan existed unless he wanted to go to England.
That's one interpretation but Dracula was planning his trip for four years, before he ever met Jonathan. The novel tells you he was planning for four years. If you read the novel, don't leave out important details to make a theory work. Dracula probably is bi but that's beside the point. He said "I want to be part of the whirl and rush of humanity."
Aside from the forced love story, this movie sticks pretty close to the novel and the cinematography is absolutely gorgeous. This is one of my favorite movies. Also, everyone brings up the forced love story between Dracs and Mina, but was I the only one picking up sexual tension between Dracula and Johnathan when they were alone together in the castle at the beginning? Or have I just been reading too much fanfiction? 🤔
Bram Stoker was heavily theorised to have been a closeted gay guy based on various letters he sent, and the Dracula Daily series where people read dracula novel entries in real time on tumblr are making rounds and people write ship fics. But that goes out the window because of how POPULAR Jonathan x Mina is, Jonathan is absolutely over the moon about Mina and when she gets attacked by Dracula, he outright says he's willing to become a vampire too if she becomes one. Despite the hell he's gone through. And they absolutely love each other, everyone writes about their romance all the time
@@theoscout9205 Hmm interesting, didn't know that. Though I guess when you think about it, vampires could be symbolic of what life was like if you were a gay man in the 19th century. (Hated by the church, hiding who you truly are in order to be seen as "normal", only being able to show your true self late at night when you're with your own "kind", etc) So that does make sense. Oh I know Jonathan loves Mina and he would absolutely give his life to save her's if need be, I'm just saying at the beginning of the movie, it looked like Dracs wanted to penetrate Jonathan in more ways than one if you catch my drift. 😉 Then again I'm queer myself, so I could just be projecting my own fantasies on the movie lol. 😅
When you take a second to think about the way that literally every man with a POV in the novel talks about Quincey P. Morris' "perfect, rugged masculinity," the Gay Bram rumors start to make a little more sense.
In the novel, Dracula has the power to turn into a wolf. And you don't know why Renfield is in the movie? Maybe because Renfield is a character in the novel? Just throwing that out there.
Books don't matter. It's been a staple rule since they started this show. They judge the movies on their own merits. Even then they aren't really judging them. It's all for fun and many of the sins are jokes and jokes only. The sins are also not a real score either as they've said. Many movies they've loved and/or were exceptionally well made have earned more sins than trite garbage films that deserve to be dragged through the mud.
Yeah, the options vampires have in regards to their shape-shifting is pretty diverse. Bats, wolves, rats, mist, vapor, fog, moonlight, and that’s just off the top of my head.
The first time I came across this movie and realized Gary fucking Oldman, Tom Waits and Winona Ryder were in the movie I got really excited. Then I watched the movie and had to call one of those special hotlines every night for a year.
I saw this movie years ago before reading the actual book, and I always assumed, that the three woman vampire/succubus orgy with Keanu, was Francis Ford Coppola's idea, given the amount of random boobage just casually sprinkled in the film. Turns out they were his actual ethereal minions that served under him and did all his evil harem bidding, so, oddly enough, those scenes which seem all too gratuitous, were actually accurately portrayed. Of course, the scenes where Lucy is nearly orgasming her way into death, were not in the book, but they did confirm my bisexuality at a very young age, so 🤷🏻♀️
15:25 Soooo... Romania became a country in 1859, when Wallachia and Moldavia united. They gained independence from the Ottomans in 1877. Transylvania joined Romania in 1918. But none of this actually matters, since Varna is part of Bulgaria, not Romania. There is no Romanian port of Varna!
Romanians were the majority in Transylvania and Vlad the Impaler was Romanian, so they took some liberties in this movie. Since Romanians called themselves români and their language românește, a port being Romanian or not did not depend on the political existence of a unified country. If it was controlled by Romanians, it could simply be called a Romanian port. But Varna, indeed, is Bulgarian.
I know it's corny but I still love this damn movie. Btw, the whole thing about the 'blood is the life' is a biblical reference. In both the old and new testaments, Christians are forbidden from drinking blood. I believe he stabbed the cross out of anger towards God and when it started bleeding, he drank it in an act of defiance, which in turn curses him with a life of perpetual mourning and sorrow.
I didn't know about this and looked it up because I thought it was so funny. Apparently Keenau said Winoa Ryder messages him from time to time saying "Hello Husband" 😆
when I first saw that scene, it did strike me eerily accurate to what a regular Romanian priest would say. as it turned out he was a priest and he performed the wedding, so in the eyes of the Orthodox church, Winona and Keanu are married.
"Ok, so now Drac is a werewolf. Might as well make him the Leprechaun, Mr. Oogie Boogie, and Satan while you're at it." Well Castlevania has done two of those things so...
@Danny Stowers What? No? The novel came out in 1897. People turning into animals is old as fuck, the case of Peter Stumpp happened in the 1589 and the Aztecs had Nagual (were-jaguars, more or less) way back in the 1400s. Dracula is no responsible for werewolves anymore than it is vampires.
@Danny Stowers werewolf legends have been around for many centuries before the book was written, the book was from 1897 and werewolf legends were around since at least the ancient greeks with the myth of Lycaon
I guess Twilight got a lot of it's ideas here from trying to somehow make the vampire sympathetic and trying to paint it as romantic while he's just a creep.
Romantic/sexy vampires were a trend in the 1990's. You could hardly walk through the sci-fi/fantasy section at a bookstore without seeing a cover with hot pale people licking blood off each other. I blame Anne Rice.
I call that necrophilia :D I never could and never will understand the appeal. Even as a teen. That's why I prefer the silent Nosferatu movie - ugly af vamp full on creepy and it gets killed without any pretence of 'Love forever... How romantic!'
@@stevenscott2136 There's no romance in Interview with the Vampire, though. It's more about family. I think Coppola's Phantom of the Opera-like romance is more responsible for the romantic/sexy vampires that followed than anything else in pop culture.
Yeah, this film did a lot of damage, while also not getting at all the essence of Bram Stoker's book, despite posturing as the one that would finally get it right. It just reinstated a ton of superfluous elements, like the trio of suitors and the logistics of Dracula being chased through Europe, which previous films trimmed down because you got to lose something when adapting a 500-page book into a 2-hour movie. It might as well be the parts that don't matter much and require more space to even make sense (like, what purpose do the three suitors have if none of them is developed beyond a broad stereotype? "There's a lord, a doctor and a cowboy!" "What are they like?" "Well, they're a lord, a doctor and a cowboy.")
This is my type of “horror” movie... cheesy enough I can watch but without having nightmares, but still good enough to watch! A perfect balance for me! I also like sleepy hollow with Johnny depp! 🥰
@@stefanfilipovits21 They wanted Christian Slater, not Depp. Coppola was fine with Keanu because he wanted a "matinée idol" for the role, somebody young girls would like.
4:35 because the backing of mirrors was traditionally a thin layer of silver was considered a pure metal. This is why it does not cast a vampire's shadow in that vampires have an allergic reaction to it to varying degrees depending on the folklore. And now you know.
@@KEVMAN7987 Not...that coincidental? I mean, it's not like her birthday changes, so any gothic or horror movies that she does will end up getting the CinemaSins treatment at some point proximate to 10/31. It's basically a 2/7 chance of hitting her birthday. It's not that amazing.
It's a W.C. Fields reference, actually. Making pop-culture references isn't a new thing, and they appeared even way back in Looney Tunes cartoons. I only know a couple of them, most of the references are completely lost on me.
4:47 fun fact, Vlad Tepes or Vlad the Impaler or Dracula's dad used to sign as Vlad Dracul or Vlad the Dragon as he was made a member of the Order of the Dragon by Sigismund of Luxembourg.
"What's up with the effects in this movie?" Since the movie was set in 1897 at the dawn of cinema, Coppola wanted it made using turn-of-the-century effects techniques, although ironically the shot of the blue flames you're showing while complaining about the effects was one of the only shots made using modern compositing - the other big modern effect was the CGI "morphing" of his face at the end, which I'm disappointed they couldn't do via some older technique. But, the old-school FX were one of the reasons I consider this "Coppola's last masterpiece".
There is an audio book of Dracula. It has Tim Curry in it,idk who he plays as I haven't listened to it. Might be the closest to an accurate adaptation.
This channels whole gimmick in the beginning was pointing out ACTUAL mistakes in editing and inconsistencies in movies. But since that gimmick ran out he has to resort to just making “jokes” about EVERY scene of a movie. Even GOOD movies like this one.
@@hanng1242 moldavian language uses Cyrillics. Romania and Romanian language only came to be after Turks were kicked out and the territory was divided. One part became part of Russian Empire, the other part became Romania. so old time Romanian (or old Modavian) did use Cyrrilic, which is not surprising because it is the alphabet in amost all Orthodox Christian Coutries.
@@hanng1242 Romanian was in fact written in Cyrillic for much of history. The earliest written example of Romanian dates from 1521, a letter warning of an attack by the Ottomans, is written using the Cyrillic alphabet. It wasn't until the 18th century that scholars noticed the Romance (Latin) origin of Romanian, and gradually switched to the latin alphabet. In 1860 Romanian was standardized using the latin alphabet, but in some areas, particularly Transnistria, the cyrillic alphabet is still used today. Turkish was written using the arabic script, and only switched to the latin alphabet after the fall of the Ottoman Empire after WWI, and the beginning of the modern Turkish republic. However, as the Ottomans probably wanted to trick the people in the castle that their prince was dead, it wouldn't have made sense to write it in Turkish using the arabic script.
I need a 6 hour Dracula adaptation with intermission breaks (/suggestions) every 90 minutes. If it stretches to 10.5 hours, no complaints. FUCK the cinematic runtime, we live in Netflix/streamer-of-choice world, now.
The love triangle between Lucy and the men was in the book. It really didn't amount to anything there either, unless you count when, after she died and turned into the vampire one of them, I think Arthur, cut off her head.
He puts a stake through her heart, since they were engaged to marry,, thus freeing her from the curse of walking perpetually out of God’s Mercy as one of the undead. John Seward and Van Helsing are the ones who cut off her head and then filled her mouth with garlic.
In the book, it's just to introduce a group of characters that later become Van Helsing's Scooby gang. They also have different functions in the gang: Lord Holmwood provides money and connections; Dr. Seward the scientific knowledge, the hospital as headquarters, and the direct link to Van Helsing; and Quincey is the firepower. Then Jonathan has the first-hand knowledge of Dracula and the keys to his lairs, and Mina the psychic connection. They make quite the team.
4:34 fun fact, vampires don't show up in mirrors because back in the old days mirrors were made of silver, which was a no-no for most supernatural creatures
Some modern things now claim it's because Mirrors are reflections of the Soul... Although I think there's a Heath Ledgers Joker quote about that somewhere about how that would be a pile of Bullshit....
Wow. Neat!
@@jayb0g Okay, it was one that was still holding up modern. I aint a proffessor.
Came looking for this!
That is very interesting, doesn't the silver thing come the witch finder manual. If silver is a no no then why not us a tin based mirror, don't tell me he cares about the mercury poisoning affecting the worker?
"Is Dracula crying wine?" No, he's wine-ing!
lol
I love you for this
He never drinks... wine...
@@tuavu2023 shut up
Patrick great pun though
Heh. It was RIGHT THERE, huh? Well played.
Dracula can turn into a werewolf because he's a strigoi. In Romanian mythology, a strigoi is a troubled spirit that comes back from the dead and has the ability to shape-shift into animals and turn invisible.
I think it's also just a vampire thing he can take the shape of a wolf/hound, a bat and even mist. I feel like cinema sins has not actually read Bram Stokers Dracula with a lot of the sins being done, many are actually things from the book like the whole sunlight thing. In the book Dracula had no problem walking about in the sun he just lost his ability to transform but retained his heightened senses and super strength. He goes after Lucy in the book as well because Dracula likes having a harem. He did not go to England specifically for Mina that's the whole reason Jonathan was in his castle was to finalize the sale of an estate to him.
@@DarkYuy You must be new, everyone knows the books don’t matter
@@NiC0L317 And everyone knows we shouldn't take sins seriously
Everytime I come to the comments I feel the urge to recommend "Everything wrong with CinemaSins" to everybody
@DarkYuy. How can he turn into mist? Actually how can someone with the power to become mist still be killed?
@@zombiedemon1762 I'm guessing he becomes incorporeal when he turns into mist though perhaps if he was exposed to high heat one might be able to kill him vaporizing him. Though who knows maybe he'd still be able to reconstitute from that after a time.
I can't believe you couldn't take at least one sin off for Gary Oldman's performance. His acting is incredible.
It saved the movie.
#BradHartliep's acting is three million times Greater than Gary Oldman's .. Brad Hartliep can play every single role Gary Oldman has ever done Greater than Gary Oldman .. there isn't an actor in the world better than #BradHartliep ..
In fact he is the only good thing about this mess
I don't know that I'd say it was good. But you can definitely tell he was having fun while doing the role
I'd take off 5 for his syrupy accent in that Gray suit!! d*** that defined my team years...
"I have crossed oceans of time to find you." Such a great line.
No shit.
@@pretenderxxx2385 ead
It reminds me from that one line from Moana
it's the worst line ever and it's so fucking creepy. people keep quoting it as a bram stoker quote when it never appeared in the book, ESPECIALLY that the whole "romance" thing between dracula and mina was coppola's awful idea. seriously, their whole relationship is so shitty and rapey.
@@jerzysielicki-baryka9652 golly gee willikers, you sound awful mad. Sorry this popular movie made you so upset. I'm interested to hear what you think about
Calm down, maniac.
Van Helsing: “So Jonathan...how were the women?”
Mina: “YES, JONATHAN, HOW WERE THEY!?”
So was he under a spell like she was with lucy or what?
I think Coppola shipped Drac and Mina so hard, that he had Jonathan get swept away by vampire thots to make him look bad.
I basically only paid attention to Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves this entire film
Your name 😂😂😂😂
Awkward!
"For someone who's never given a blood job before, Mina looks like she's pretty f*cking good at it" LMAO!
That association is completely intentional...
@@monmothma3358 The novel does establish a parallel between sucking someone's blood and having sex.
🤣😂😂
This movie has NO CGI ,no computers think about that. They did amazing in camera shit in this movie.
coppola claimed they only used silent movie filming techniques
No computers huh, sounds like a lie
@@27Killermike it's true, every shot is in camera. I'm obsessed with this movie and researched all the fx techniques used.
@@27Killermike You may not believe it but there was a time when computers didn't exist, and movies had to be made without them.
Once upon a time, movies had to be made without computers. And they were better movies.
There were no mirrors in the book, and Dracula legit smacks a travel mirror out of Jonathan’s hand, and goes “whoopsie-doodles, my bad!”
But the travel was a mirror, so I'm confused as to how there were no mirrors in the books? That was the moment Dracula destroyed Jonathan's mirror, because he realized his lack of reflection was suspicious.
@@CaitMcKi In the book, he's less theatrical about it, makes it look like an accident. In all the films where he suddenly smashes a large mirror on the wall, he attracts even more suspicion on himself, it's always absurd. Like, at the very least, he looks like a madman. :)
I’m pretty sure he actually threw the mirror out the window. in the book
@@lavinialadlass9432 you’re right, he legit does!
"there is no mirrors in the book" .. "Dracula legit smacks a travel MIRROR out of Jonathan's hand" .. you see the problem here, right?
The mirror thing is a combination of reasons. Mirrors often contained silver and silver was a common supernatural weakness, not just for vampires. Reason two, a persons reflection was seen as the representation of someone’s soul and since vampires were already dead, they didn’t appear in mirrors. Boom
And in the book, they brought up lots of werewolf stuff and Lucy lovers and dracula being able to be in the sun
Dracula: She has to fall in love with me of her own free will.
Also Dracula: Excuse me while I tame wolves and be an independently wealthy prince from Transylvania,
him being awesome doesn't mean she doesn't fall in love on her own free will, does it?
Heck, I would marry him if he was a wealthy prince. Blood drinking? Well, at least he's not an alcoholic.
No, I always figured that at the beginning when Dracula was in the older version of himself, he cried normal tears because he had no blood to spare; he was able to cry bloody tears later because he was flush with it after all the people he'd been eating. That's what I figured, anyway.
I wish we could see a dracula film start with black Magick
"after all the people he'd been eating"
Who exactly did he eat in the film, though? He sips a bit of Jonathan, enough of Lucy, and some Mina at the end, but that's it, isn't it? There's no streak of unsolved vampiric murders plaguing the streets of London that Dracula is responsible for. That's more about Lucy eating children.
He ate the entire crew of the boat he took to London
Vampires,don't Cast Reflections in Mirrors,Because They Don't Have a Soul.
I never knew a peacock's tail was called a train. If they actually went from peacock train to actual train on purpose... That should be a sin OFF. That's pretty cool.
Agreed!
Though we like puns, they are sinworthy.
I'm torn. In the original Bram Stoker's Dracula Dracula could actually move around during the day. It's more modern (by comparison) adaptions that have added the whole sunlight things. But everyone knows that Cinemasins rules state the books don't matter, and therefore sin 104 must stand.
Curse you Cinemasins!
Murnau came up with the "sunlight kills the vampire" idea for 1922's Nosferatu. It really stuck, especially considering his film was considered lost for half a century.
love it how "during the day a vampire strenghts is weakened" and show dracula crashing through a coffin to get up.
If thats how dracule gets up everytime, thats a ton off coffins needed every day
It's actually just one coffin every day...
4:50 Transylvanian here: In modern romanian, "dracul" means "the devil", but in old romanian it did in fact mean "the dragon".
Cand pula mea a insemnat dragon?
Si chiar daca a însemnat dragon
In film Dracula se distanteaza de dumnezeu si toate prostiile alea si devine creatura a intunericului
Deci in film Dracula e personificarea diavolului
Nu are treaba cu imbecilitatile alea medievale de care tot aud ca au loc la Sighisoara
In the Revalation of John, they are the same.
@@szekesfehervar2230 nu cred ca era nevoie sa vorbesti urat. Drac, dragon, balaur etc sunt similare morfologic, religios. Pana la urma si filmul asta e facut dupa o carte scrisa de un englez care a adunat ce a stiut din toate partile.
Fun fact: Keanu Reeves and Winona got married by accident in this movie.
??? Tell me more.
@@blueismylove3128 In the scene where Jonathan and Mina get hitched they used a real Romanian priest and Coppola didn’t tell the guy that it was just a movie so by Romanian customs they’re still married.
@@li-limandragon9287 Oh that's hilarious.
@J H Well people record marriages all the time bro.
@@li-limandragon9287 the priest wasn’t tipped off by the cameras and stuff?
I love the costumes in this movie. Eiko Ishioka is one of the best costume designers ever...!!! RIP
The one weak spot I can find in this movie is not the fact that they cast Gary Oldman, but the fact that they didn't try to make him look more attractive. What I mean is, if a man's true form is either an elderly albino or a gigantic humanoid bat, you'd think he'd come up with the most handsome avatar he could think of to walk around in. But the "handsome" Dracula in this movie? I'm sorry, but he looks like a cross between a hippie and a Wild West cowboy. Yes, I'm aware that Balkans are a very hairy people, and that Dracula did have a mustache in the novel. But did they really have to make him look "accurate" when they had a reasonably good-looking man to work with in Oldman?
@@SeasideDetective2 He looks quite attractive as his "young" version who takes Mina on a date at the movies. It's just, he changes shape so frequently, you lose track of who saw him in what form.
They were gorgeous
I dislike the costumes because they're so inaccurate for 1897, but at least they look nice.
@@MsAngelique are you the costume expert?
Fun fact: there's nothing "up with the effects in this movie" because there are no effects in this movie. Everything was actually filmed. Really. Look it up.
Technically, those are still effects. According to Wikipedia:
"Coppola was insistent that he did not want to use any kind of contemporary special effects techniques such as computer-generated imagery when making the movie, instead wishing to use antiquated effects techniques from the early history of cinema, which he felt would be more appropriate given that the film's period setting coincides with the origin of film. He initially hired a standard visual effects team, but when they told him that the things he wanted to achieve were impossible without using modern digital technology, Coppola disagreed and fired them, replacing them with his son Roman Coppola. As a result, all of the visual effects seen in the film were achieved without the use of optical or computer-generated effects, but were created using on-set and in-camera methods. For example, any sequences that would have typically required the use of compositing were instead achieved by either rear projection with actors placed in front of a screen with an image projected behind them, or through multiple exposure by shooting a background slate then rewinding the film through the camera and shooting the foreground slate on the same piece of film, all the while using matting techniques to ensure that only the desired areas of film were exposed. Forced perspectives were often employed to combine miniature effects or matte paintings with full-sized elements, or create distorted views of reality, such as holding the camera upside down or at odd angles to create the effect of objects defying the laws of physics."
@@imfsresidentotaku9699 Thank you for your elucidation! That's all very interesting.
@@muesli_snipes You're welcome. I'm glad I could provide it. Coppola truly is a force to be reckoned with.
@@muesli_snipes I struggle to understand what you thought "special effects" meant. Like, you thought that for 1933's King Kong they found an actually giant gorilla to "actually film"? Because they sure didn't use digital effects. :)
@@Kumagoro42 You'll notice IMF's reply specifies that what was used were "technically" still effects, to point out that they're different from modern effects. I don't know much about cinema, but I'm not sure I've said anything weird. Technically, closing a window to pretend it's nighttime is an effect, but that's not what people usually mean by 'effects'. When I say "actually filmed", I mean exactly what I say, and it's not my own observation, but that of people who know what they're talking about and who point it out with surprise. As for King Kong, yes, I thought, and think, and it's true, as far as I know, that it was "actually filmed" (just not a giant gorilla, but a puppet).
I read this book recently and the most amusing part was Harker complaining about how slow the trains were and that there was always a delay. It has been more than 120 years since this book has been published, the trains are still slow and there are frequent delays here.
Vampires used to be the ultimate monster of folklore, they used to transform into all sorts of things, including werewolves. Nowadays they barely even turn into a bat for some reason. I guess fiction just felt like slowly nerfing Vampires into a mild annoyance.
I guess it was necessary when authors decided to make them a larger group so the heroes still have a chance.
It coincides with trying to make them "romantic" characters. It would seem that turning into a bat isn't particularly sexy...
I think they also needed to keep vampires in their lane when werewolves started getting featured in vampire movies and games more prominently. Otherwise, a vampire's just a better werewolf.
If I remember the novel correctly (it's been a while), it's only Dracula who is so powerful, he's portrayed as almost a demi-god. Lesser vampires, like his brides or Lucy, are not that versatile.
@@_XR40_ nobody talks about furries & teratos
4:37 Victorian mirrors were made with silver nitrate, silver, being a holy metal, didn't allow the reflections of unholy things like vampires to appear. This is only the case for very old mirrors though as modern mirrors are made with aluminium
So modern-day vampires could start a lucrative career, determining if a mirror is actually antique or not?
@@asnowballinhell what a perfect comment I'm dying
@@asnowballinhell Actually, yes...
thats not really the actual explanation. in fact back in those days in vampire stories and lore they could be seen in mirrors there were in fact no mention of invisible to mirrors
From now on my vaporizer shall be named "vlad the inhaler" thanks for this one jeremy
"Mabel, you got my gun?"
😂😂😂😂
I can't wait to see your video
This is gonna be good
"Noah, you got the boat?"
uh
Birdman I know sometimes that it could be possible for you to comment on the videos but I never saw your comments until now this is the first time is this going to be a clue for your next video and although you don’t take request from your commenters or your subscribers could you give thought to reviewing tenet and doing either Toy story four or doctor sleep
Nothings wrong
This movie is a masterpiece…..Anthony Hopkins narration at the beginning sets the tone straight away
*The fact this movie was done with so many camera tricks makes this MOVIE such a wonderful and frightening watch…….pure camera mastery
I loved it…….
Exactly it's a great movie
As a dutch person I can confirm that Hopkins' dutch accent is way worse than Reeves' british one
That was supposed to be a Dutch accent? 😬😬
to be fair, he's actually doing a great job of Bram Stoker's "dutch" accent. (that's actually mostly german).
There are some particularly bad line reads, but at least it isn't overly aggressive like in a lot of films. I don't mind it 🤷
Interesting fact: the wedding scene with Jonathan and Mina was done for real because Coppola didn't feel it was coming across as authentic enough so he brought in a real priest to conduct a real ceremony, Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder are still technically married to this day
Not legally, unless One of them got a marriage certificate. You perhaps mean in the eyes of the Orthodox church, although I'd like to see an actual church official comment about that before believing it.
If that's true (and I'm not doubting you) then technically their characters would be married, not them, as it was done in the name of Jonathon and Mina Harker.
Yeah I heard Anthony Hopkins is still wanted for a triple murder in Romania to this day.. that Ford Coppola and his insane realism
Apparently Keanu and Wynona still jokingly call each other “Hubby” and “Wifey” to this day.
And it took them until Destination Wedding to finally consummate it!
Being Dutch myself, I think Van Helsing's accent is... OK. Sometimes it is just a bit too German. Love this movie btw, but can agree with a lot of the sins.
Well, that's fair. Van Helsing in the book is usually way too German too, so it works out!
that's actually a pretty accurate version, since Van Hellsing's accent was a bit messy since Bram Stoker wasn't as good at dutch accents as he claimed to be.
North German dialects and dutch are so similar to each other that it really doesn't matter if the accent sounds too German.
I’ve always wanted to see 50 sins get added for Keanu’s accent in this movie, but I never knew it before today. Also that Bill & Ted wild stallion joke was so top rate. I’m ready for Halloween now. Thanks homie.
Missed satire opportunity: Mina in Dracula’s arms:
“Hold me.”
“I can’t.”
Also:
Mina: What are you? I must know! You must tell me.
“Notorious mass murderer, Sirius Black!”
Actual cannibal
Sirius Black
Holy sh*t LMAO
Shut up
That's where I have seen you before
Death by sunlight only entered the lore of vampires in 1922 when it appeared in the film Nosferatu. Originally vampires could walk around during the day looking like humans, and as shown here from the novel Dracula is weakened in the sun.
Gary Oldman is the kind of actor that if you ask him to portray a table, he will be the best table you've ever saw*. Movie is corny af, but still remains in the 90s style of romantic horror bs. Even the Batman and Robin styled shots are included.
YES!
Oldman is a phenomenal catsuit wearing Satan in that one BMW commercial directed by Tony Scott. If you haven’t seen it...Go NOW!!!
FLY LIKE THE WIND BULLSEYE!!! 😋
@@bloodysweetzombiegirl Clive Owen, James Brown Danny Traju and Garry Oldman. Explosions at the end like a Michael Bey film.
@G M
Yup. I thought it was great. His take on the devil is one of the best as far as I’m concerned.
Also, the part where he is hiding out from Marilyn Manson...hysterical! 🙃
@@gm2407 Traju.. do you mean Danny Trejo?
@@habitsrabbit Yes, thanks for that.
THANK YOU for addressing the fact that no one addresses Harker's suddenly grey hair. That has bothered me for years.
In the book he is petrified of fear seeing Mina drink blood from Draculas chest (he forced her, there is no love story in the book). His hair turned gray...
@@soundsofdjsjava634 even so Keanu does look pretty ridiculous, they could’ve made the wig a bit better. That being said I still love this movie.
Then u haven’t read the book I presume….all is explained
Also you should have noted how Keanu’s character hardly gets freaked out upon his arrival at the castle, with all the weird supernatural things and Dracula’s demeanor.. The special effects are silly, but the fact that this completely ordinary guy doesn’t flinch while witnessing such bizarre, extraordinary things, deserves 10 sins at least 😂
He was trying to close a deal 😂
I Love this Movie and Coppelas tribute to the early cinema's special effects and techniques.
Keanus' accent is horrendous but can be overlooked by all the other performances and stunning art.
There is no other performance that shines like Gary Oldman!
John Wick Meets Dracula, Dracula found with a pencil in his heart, movie over.
Vlad the Inhaler, I'm crying laughing 😂
"My dearest Mina, I am like totally trapped in Dracula's castle. It is most heinous!"
Also since LITERALLY nobody but me is gonna appreciate it, nice W.C. Fields impression.
Dude, the special effects are supposed to look like that because they're all done in-camera. There's no CGI or postproduction. The ones that look obviously fake to our eyes are supposed to evoke the special effects used in early silent films, such as those of the Lumière brothers, who started out as stage magicians. Seriously, for a film buff like you not to know this, that breaks the Sin Meter.
@Iafiv Iv I agree, I never liked the movie that much, aside from some of the visuals. And Gary Oldman is always good, especially when he was at that stage of his career. I think overall the visuals are basically just Coppola being true to his arthouse roots.
The thing is, effects don't always have to look realistic. Unrealistic effects don't necessarily make you think "FAKE", not if you have any imagination, anyway. If the style is consistent, it can make you feel like you are in another world, a different reality. Movies are at their best when they are able to truly transport you from dreary, trivial, everyday life. I love the unique visuals in this movie.
In the 25 Things You Didn't Know about this film claimed that the only post production effect was the blue flames the coach traveled through when they arrived at D's castle. Just saying.
Thank you.
I think this is one of the best movies to use so little CGI despite how much would be used by today’s standards.
As a film buff, I find this one is a masterpiece.
One of my all time favorites.
It's honestly kind of underrated. Super influential, thematic, and gorgeous to look at, even though Keanu makes me laugh my ass off sometimes with his accent.
Same
😂😂😂 cinemasins feeling every Brits pain when hearing a bad British accent 😂😂😂😂 its Mary Poppins all over again! 😂😂🙈🙈🙈
‘Orl wight Maori Parpens!’
Lol it's a mystery as old as time! Why English actors can nail American accents without trying, yet American actors are horrible at trying to do english accents.
And Keanu Reeves has some great movie roles that I'm a big fan of, but his accents, even his Southern, Floridian or what have you accent from the Devil's Advocate, are absolute shite.
I'm mary popping y'all. Brits?? A loose term for stereotypical English people.. funny yeah. But no.. being scottish. Don't include us into that stereotype 😂
Just like when people try to do Southern/Texas accents. Its just painful
this is exactly how I feel about Benadryl Cucumberpatch's horrific fake American accent in Doctor Strange.
Some guy: 'Absinthe is the aphrodisiac of the self."
Me: Don't you mean "Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder"? 😀
*The Lispth, the Lispth*
I don't know how but I found your idkhow reference.
best song on the ep...change me mind
Earlier in the movie, Dracula tells Harker, "I never drink... wine." He should've followed up with, "That sh1t is WEAK! Absinthe, now, THAT'LL put hair on your chest."
Absinthe makes the tart grow fonder.
Missed opportunity: The room full of candles scene should've been playing Wrapped Around Your Finger by The Police.
This !!!!
Drat! You beat me to it!
Sorry for repeating your comment -.-
I've always thought the same thing
Fun fact, in the original novel Dracula doesn't come to London because he has a weird thing for Mina, he comes to London because he has a weird thing for Johnathan, and he knows that is where Johnathan is heading so he starts picking off Johnathan's friends to try and punish him for leaving. I'm not even joking the original is a kinda homoerotic Transylvanian 50 Shades where Johnathan meets a mysterious rich stranger with all the red flags.
I'm so glad that I'm not the only one who saw that subtext. Johnathan x Dracula forever. But Drac didn't go to London for him, he was going there anyway and johnathan was back at Drac's home as far as he knew.
I mean, the reason Jonathan even goes to Transylvania is to help Dracula move to England. He wouldn’t even know Jonathan existed unless he wanted to go to England.
Dracula never went to London he went to Whitby
I’d pay to see that version of events. Lol sounds awesome! Then Jonathan and Dracula elope into the sunset 😂🥰🤩
That's one interpretation but Dracula was planning his trip for four years, before he ever met Jonathan. The novel tells you he was planning for four years. If you read the novel, don't leave out important details to make a theory work. Dracula probably is bi but that's beside the point. He said "I want to be part of the whirl and rush of humanity."
"He's grown young ... Duuude!" This is what I hear every time
Drac saw some graffiti that said, "For a good time call Lucy."
I'm gonna add 50 sins for not adding an epic guitar solo after mentioning the WYLD STALLYNS.
Or at least yell it. EXCELLENT!!!
@@montypeno1495 That Too
"Tom Waits for an answer from his master."
😆
Tom Waits for no man...
@@CycolacFan I was thinking that too man.
Aside from the forced love story, this movie sticks pretty close to the novel and the cinematography is absolutely gorgeous. This is one of my favorite movies. Also, everyone brings up the forced love story between Dracs and Mina, but was I the only one picking up sexual tension between Dracula and Johnathan when they were alone together in the castle at the beginning? Or have I just been reading too much fanfiction? 🤔
Bram Stoker was heavily theorised to have been a closeted gay guy based on various letters he sent, and the Dracula Daily series where people read dracula novel entries in real time on tumblr are making rounds and people write ship fics. But that goes out the window because of how POPULAR Jonathan x Mina is, Jonathan is absolutely over the moon about Mina and when she gets attacked by Dracula, he outright says he's willing to become a vampire too if she becomes one. Despite the hell he's gone through. And they absolutely love each other, everyone writes about their romance all the time
@@theoscout9205 Hmm interesting, didn't know that. Though I guess when you think about it, vampires could be symbolic of what life was like if you were a gay man in the 19th century. (Hated by the church, hiding who you truly are in order to be seen as "normal", only being able to show your true self late at night when you're with your own "kind", etc) So that does make sense. Oh I know Jonathan loves Mina and he would absolutely give his life to save her's if need be, I'm just saying at the beginning of the movie, it looked like Dracs wanted to penetrate Jonathan in more ways than one if you catch my drift. 😉 Then again I'm queer myself, so I could just be projecting my own fantasies on the movie lol. 😅
When you take a second to think about the way that literally every man with a POV in the novel talks about Quincey P. Morris' "perfect, rugged masculinity," the Gay Bram rumors start to make a little more sense.
In the novel, Dracula has the power to turn into a wolf. And you don't know why Renfield is in the movie? Maybe because Renfield is a character in the novel? Just throwing that out there.
In fact, Renfield is an essential character in the novel because he invites Dracula into the asylum.
Renfield is the original victim
This guy has no idea about anything. It's like watching a less funny MST3000.
Books don't matter. It's been a staple rule since they started this show. They judge the movies on their own merits. Even then they aren't really judging them. It's all for fun and many of the sins are jokes and jokes only. The sins are also not a real score either as they've said. Many movies they've loved and/or were exceptionally well made have earned more sins than trite garbage films that deserve to be dragged through the mud.
I did not know that Dracula could turn into a wolf! Thanks for letting us know.
There's a scene when Renfield bits the doctor on the neck. When he gets pulled away the doctor grabs the opposite side of his neck.
Ding
Sentence while sins were at 69: "I am anxiously expecting you."
There is no way that was a coincidence.
Next do "Dracula: Dead and Loving It".
Or Bubba-hotep
That is the only movie which exists, that has no sin.
Any Leslie Neilsen movie would be great
and if he doesnt we can "give him a you know what" lol
Please!!!!
I thought that Van Helsing cut her head off joke was intentional AND hilarious, sin removed
Fun fact the ability for vampires to transform goes beyond just bats
Yep, Vampires are furries
Yeah, the options vampires have in regards to their shape-shifting is pretty diverse. Bats, wolves, rats, mist, vapor, fog, moonlight, and that’s just off the top of my head.
@@stefanfilipovits21 and owls.
"His Hairdo looks so Queer"
"I HEARD THAT!"
"It was the Boy!"
I know TV Sins covered it yesterday, but that reference was low-hanging fruit.
Cinema sins is all about the low hanging fruit. The last few years they just got boring
i love when homer stabs vampire burns in the dick lol
The first time I came across this movie and realized Gary fucking Oldman, Tom Waits and Winona Ryder were in the movie I got really excited. Then I watched the movie and had to call one of those special hotlines every night for a year.
I saw this movie years ago before reading the actual book, and I always assumed, that the three woman vampire/succubus orgy with Keanu, was Francis Ford Coppola's idea, given the amount of random boobage just casually sprinkled in the film. Turns out they were his actual ethereal minions that served under him and did all his evil harem bidding, so, oddly enough, those scenes which seem all too gratuitous, were actually accurately portrayed. Of course, the scenes where Lucy is nearly orgasming her way into death, were not in the book, but they did confirm my bisexuality at a very young age, so 🤷🏻♀️
one weird book. up there with dorian grey
Good for you!
Nice to read this film touched someone else's life in a little way as well. :-)
Please...
Continue....
👀👀👀
@@screambluemurder101 When I find the right words to do it....:-)
15:25 Soooo...
Romania became a country in 1859, when Wallachia and Moldavia united. They gained independence from the Ottomans in 1877.
Transylvania joined Romania in 1918.
But none of this actually matters, since Varna is part of Bulgaria, not Romania.
There is no Romanian port of Varna!
Romanians were the majority in Transylvania and Vlad the Impaler was Romanian, so they took some liberties in this movie.
Since Romanians called themselves români and their language românește, a port being Romanian or not did not depend on the political existence of a unified country. If it was controlled by Romanians, it could simply be called a Romanian port. But Varna, indeed, is Bulgarian.
And here I was watching Castlevania thinking Wallachia was some made up country 🤦🏻♀️
I know it's corny but I still love this damn movie. Btw, the whole thing about the 'blood is the life' is a biblical reference. In both the old and new testaments, Christians are forbidden from drinking blood. I believe he stabbed the cross out of anger towards God and when it started bleeding, he drank it in an act of defiance, which in turn curses him with a life of perpetual mourning and sorrow.
Tom Waits really deliver a great performance as Renfield in this movie though and his character does add a lot to the tone of the film.
I'm a little surprised you didn't call out how the wedding scene inadvertently REALLY married Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves
I didn't know about this and looked it up because I thought it was so funny. Apparently Keenau said Winoa Ryder messages him from time to time saying "Hello Husband" 😆
It doesn't seem that well known. TIL.
when I first saw that scene, it did strike me eerily accurate to what a regular Romanian priest would say. as it turned out he was a priest and he performed the wedding, so in the eyes of the Orthodox church, Winona and Keanu are married.
and then she gave him a beagle puppy named Daisy... :)
@@eclipsehorse8693 No
I came here for the Keanu Reeves accent shade, and 50 points did not disappoint.
For a Coppola movie that's quite highly rated, this movie is RIDICULOUS
The Wyld Stallyn joke 🤣
"Ok, so now Drac is a werewolf. Might as well make him the Leprechaun, Mr. Oogie Boogie, and Satan while you're at it."
Well Castlevania has done two of those things so...
@Danny Stowers What? No? The novel came out in 1897. People turning into animals is old as fuck, the case of Peter Stumpp happened in the 1589 and the Aztecs had Nagual (were-jaguars, more or less) way back in the 1400s. Dracula is no responsible for werewolves anymore than it is vampires.
@Danny Stowers werewolf legends have been around for many centuries before the book was written, the book was from 1897 and werewolf legends were around since at least the ancient greeks with the myth of Lycaon
Keanu’s accent was funny.
For all the wrong reasons
I guess Twilight got a lot of it's ideas here from trying to somehow make the vampire sympathetic and trying to paint it as romantic while he's just a creep.
Lollll
Romantic/sexy vampires were a trend in the 1990's. You could hardly walk through the sci-fi/fantasy section at a bookstore without seeing a cover with hot pale people licking blood off each other. I blame Anne Rice.
I call that necrophilia :D
I never could and never will understand the appeal. Even as a teen. That's why I prefer the silent Nosferatu movie - ugly af vamp full on creepy and it gets killed without any pretence of 'Love forever... How romantic!'
@@stevenscott2136 There's no romance in Interview with the Vampire, though. It's more about family. I think Coppola's Phantom of the Opera-like romance is more responsible for the romantic/sexy vampires that followed than anything else in pop culture.
Yeah, this film did a lot of damage, while also not getting at all the essence of Bram Stoker's book, despite posturing as the one that would finally get it right. It just reinstated a ton of superfluous elements, like the trio of suitors and the logistics of Dracula being chased through Europe, which previous films trimmed down because you got to lose something when adapting a 500-page book into a 2-hour movie. It might as well be the parts that don't matter much and require more space to even make sense (like, what purpose do the three suitors have if none of them is developed beyond a broad stereotype? "There's a lord, a doctor and a cowboy!" "What are they like?" "Well, they're a lord, a doctor and a cowboy.")
This is my type of “horror” movie... cheesy enough I can watch but without having nightmares, but still good enough to watch! A perfect balance for me! I also like sleepy hollow with Johnny depp! 🥰
Funnily enough Johnny Depp was who Coppola wanted for Harker but the studio insisted on reeves
@@stefanfilipovits21 They wanted Christian Slater, not Depp. Coppola was fine with Keanu because he wanted a "matinée idol" for the role, somebody young girls would like.
You like From Hell and Sweeney Todd too?
15:26 - DING - Varna was not in Romania, back in the 1890s - only from 1913-1918 and 1919-1940. Got you!
"No lucy, it's mina's fiance' that's the wyld stallyn. " lol
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4:35 because the backing of mirrors was traditionally a thin layer of silver was considered a pure metal. This is why it does not cast a vampire's shadow in that vampires have an allergic reaction to it to varying degrees depending on the folklore.
And now you know.
I agree with EVERYTHING. But that line, 'I have crossed oceans of time to find you.' Awesome line.
Missed opportunity: At the beginning when you see one if the priests ... discount Anthony Hopkins. ... oh shit it IS him 🙈
100 points for you. But the priest comes from a line of Ottoman killers and anything anti-catholic. Yes, Hellsing is a distant ancestor.
He does the narration as well.
Did y’all upload this because it’s Winona Ryder’s birthday today or was that just coincidence
Halloween?
@@sergiocampanale3882 It's still quite the coincidence they chose a "spooky" movie *starring* Winona Ryder on her birthday.
@@KEVMAN7987 Not...that coincidental? I mean, it's not like her birthday changes, so any gothic or horror movies that she does will end up getting the CinemaSins treatment at some point proximate to 10/31. It's basically a 2/7 chance of hitting her birthday. It's not that amazing.
Nice Looney Tunes reference with the "Get away kid, you're bothering me."
I wondered where that came from!
It's a W.C. Fields reference, actually. Making pop-culture references isn't a new thing, and they appeared even way back in Looney Tunes cartoons. I only know a couple of them, most of the references are completely lost on me.
I knew that sounded familiar! Crap I feel kind of old now. 😅
I think he meant it as a reference to this Tom Waits tune (Waits plays Renfield in the film).
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It's a reference to Tom Waits' Step Right Up, one of the best and funniest songs ever written.
Adding the Monty Python bits at the end was just icing on the cake. That was funny AF 🤣😂😅🤣
Simon Belmont. LMFAO.
That one was bloody briliant! 💎🤣
it’s mina’s fiancé that’s the wyld stallyn fucking killed me
Now you need to do Mel Brooks’ parody “Dracula: Dead and Loving It”.
Also, points for the Tenacious D reference!
“ I saw eeeeeverything” 😅😂🤣💀
"...And we got Anthony Hopkins for the narration. Spared no expense!"
"Hold on to your butt!"
4:47 fun fact, Vlad Tepes or Vlad the Impaler or Dracula's dad used to sign as Vlad Dracul or Vlad the Dragon as he was made a member of the Order of the Dragon by Sigismund of Luxembourg.
3:40 Excellent Castlevania reference!
"What's up with the effects in this movie?" Since the movie was set in 1897 at the dawn of cinema, Coppola wanted it made using turn-of-the-century effects techniques, although ironically the shot of the blue flames you're showing while complaining about the effects was one of the only shots made using modern compositing - the other big modern effect was the CGI "morphing" of his face at the end, which I'm disappointed they couldn't do via some older technique. But, the old-school FX were one of the reasons I consider this "Coppola's last masterpiece".
"Tom waits for an answer from his master."
I want to hate you for that...god do I want to hate you for that. But I laughed...
Does anyone else watch Cinema Sins so that they don’t have to watch the actual movie?
Yeah guilty! Lots I didn't know existed until it's been sinned
I already watched the movie, twenty plus years ago.
For sure, especially when it's one I'm not sure I wanna spend my time on.
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What else do you watch Cinema Sins and like? XD
Having read the book, this movie has as many sins as the book has pages
I reread it recently and had forgotten how goddamed long it was. Still a masterpiece though
How poetic
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There is an audio book of Dracula. It has Tim Curry in it,idk who he plays as I haven't listened to it. Might be the closest to an accurate adaptation.
The book has as many sins as it has pages 😂 I'll always love it though.
I always said this moving was basically one REALLY long 90s goth rock music video.
Lmao video was hilarious. I don't see you get enough credit. Keep up the great work!!!
In terms of Anthony Hopkins' accent, it's meant to be Dutch.
As for leaving Johnathan with the Brides, he got what he needed so Harker is expendable.
25 sins off for showing Winona Ryder running in a see-through nightgown !
Play that scene where she runs down the steps in slo-mo. You’ll thank me later.
Thirstier than Dracula I see. LOL! I'm with you!
Eeewww is the first thing that came to my mind
Now do the Leslie Nielsen parody of this.
Yes! Please do it!
Dude, this movie is a masterpiece!! where is your heart?
This channels whole gimmick in the beginning was pointing out ACTUAL mistakes in editing and inconsistencies in movies. But since that gimmick ran out he has to resort to just making “jokes” about EVERY scene of a movie. Even GOOD movies like this one.
This video: *exists*
Patrick H Willems: "So you have chosen...death."
Exactly.
Who's Patrick H Willems
@@ironfist1094 This video essayist who hates CinemaSins (though he doesn’t talk about them too much, like some other channels).
Hotel Transylvania!
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To be fair, Cary Elwes has been here so long, even by the 90s, that his accent got jacked up years ago.
The letter, written by the Turks, wouldn't have been written in Cyrillic.
Also, Romanian doesn't use the Cyrillic alphabet.
@@hanng1242 moldavian language uses Cyrillics. Romania and Romanian language only came to be after Turks were kicked out and the territory was divided. One part became part of Russian Empire, the other part became Romania. so old time Romanian (or old Modavian) did use Cyrrilic, which is not surprising because it is the alphabet in amost all Orthodox Christian Coutries.
@@hanng1242 Romanian was in fact written in Cyrillic for much of history. The earliest written example of Romanian dates from 1521, a letter warning of an attack by the Ottomans, is written using the Cyrillic alphabet. It wasn't until the 18th century that scholars noticed the Romance (Latin) origin of Romanian, and gradually switched to the latin alphabet. In 1860 Romanian was standardized using the latin alphabet, but in some areas, particularly Transnistria, the cyrillic alphabet is still used today.
Turkish was written using the arabic script, and only switched to the latin alphabet after the fall of the Ottoman Empire after WWI, and the beginning of the modern Turkish republic. However, as the Ottomans probably wanted to trick the people in the castle that their prince was dead, it wouldn't have made sense to write it in Turkish using the arabic script.
@@GumaroRVillamil I stand corrected, then.
If it was written in Turkish, she wouldn't have been able to read it.
I need a 6 hour Dracula adaptation with intermission breaks (/suggestions) every 90 minutes. If it stretches to 10.5 hours, no complaints. FUCK the cinematic runtime, we live in Netflix/streamer-of-choice world, now.
This is actually a great movie. If we want we could tear apart any movie.
True, but terrible ones are much easier: and this one is terrible.
@@RobertJonesWightpaintIncorrect.
I understand that iteration and adaptation is a thing…but fuck this movie lmao.
The love triangle between Lucy and the men was in the book. It really didn't amount to anything there either, unless you count when, after she died and turned into the vampire one of them, I think Arthur, cut off her head.
She was going to be married to Arthur before she died.
He puts a stake through her heart, since they were engaged to marry,, thus freeing her from the curse of walking perpetually out of God’s Mercy as one of the undead. John Seward and Van Helsing are the ones who cut off her head and then filled her mouth with garlic.
In the book, it's just to introduce a group of characters that later become Van Helsing's Scooby gang. They also have different functions in the gang: Lord Holmwood provides money and connections; Dr. Seward the scientific knowledge, the hospital as headquarters, and the direct link to Van Helsing; and Quincey is the firepower. Then Jonathan has the first-hand knowledge of Dracula and the keys to his lairs, and Mina the psychic connection. They make quite the team.
@@Kumagoro42 I kinda adore the bond between these people. All the members of team "kill Dracula" love and respect one another to some degree.