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Post by shaxper on Sept 13, 2024 23:21:50 GMT -5
I'm a Youtube video-making machine this week, and I'm always psyched to spin wild theories about Bela Lugosi.
I hope you like!
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Post by Yasotay on Sept 14, 2024 9:45:38 GMT -5
I'm a Youtube video-making machine this week, and I'm always psyched to spin wild theories about Bela Lugosi. I hope you like! I will go to my grave believing Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein was the true, classic Dracula movie. |
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Post by shaxper on Sept 14, 2024 15:32:45 GMT -5
I'm a Youtube video-making machine this week, and I'm always psyched to spin wild theories about Bela Lugosi. I hope you like! I will go to my grave believing Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein was the true, classic Dracula movie. Love that film, but he's so not Dracula to me in that one. Why in the world would Dracula's primary obsession be controlling the Frankenstein monster? He felt more like a B film mad scientist in a cape to me. |
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Post by commond on Sept 15, 2024 2:19:33 GMT -5
Regarding Lugosi not reprising his role as Dracula, Lugosi made some poor career choices after Dracula, and there has been plenty of speculation over the years about how relationship with Universal, but I think there were other elements at play such as sequels not being that common at the time (and prequels unheard of), as well as the fact that Dracula dies at the end of the Browning film. Univeral's idea for a sequel was to have Lugosi appear in a flashback sequence and have Dracula's son be the main character in the film. Hollywood had yet to come up with the idea of removing the stake from the vampire's heart in order to revive him. Ironically, if I'm not mistaken, that idea is first used in Return of the Vampire. Some people have argued that they could have come up with a way to bring Lugosi's Dracula back from the dead if they'd really wanted to. Perhaps there's some truth to the Stoker widow story. It's worth noting that Lugosi was paid more for Dracula's Daughter than the original film.
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Post by shaxper on Sept 15, 2024 15:37:20 GMT -5
as well as the fact that Dracula dies at the end of the Browning film. Univeral's idea for a sequel was to have Lugosi appear in a flashback sequence and have Dracula's son be the main character in the film. Hollywood had yet to come up with the idea of removing the stake from the vampire's heart in order to revive him. I've heard that the original plan for Dracula's Daughter was to begin with a prequel that explained how Dracula became a vampire in the first place. Considering how much German influence pervaded these Universal Horrors, they most certainly would have been aware of The Golem, where he died in the first film and then the prequel became far more famous. |
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Post by commond on Sept 15, 2024 15:59:28 GMT -5
as well as the fact that Dracula dies at the end of the Browning film. Univeral's idea for a sequel was to have Lugosi appear in a flashback sequence and have Dracula's son be the main character in the film. Hollywood had yet to come up with the idea of removing the stake from the vampire's heart in order to revive him. I've heard that the original plan for Dracula's Daughter was to begin with a prequel that explained how Dracula became a vampire in the first place. Considering how much German influence pervaded these Universal Horrors, they most certainly would have been aware of The Golem, where he died in the first film and then the prequel became far more famous. Whoops, I got Dracula's Daughter and Son of Dracula mixed up. Wrong offspring. I wonder if the Bela scenes were as wild as people claim. I also wonder about the cut scenes from Mark of the Vampire for that matter. |
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