My favorite WTF vampire weakness (introduced in later interpretations) was that if someone spilled a bag of small objects (usually seeds or stones) they would be forced to stop whatever they were doing and count everything that was spilled. This explains everything about The Count from Sesame Street.

@Grim_Sister

3 жыл бұрын

I actually heard this one too! Though in Middle Eastern culture, it is more common to use uncooked rice, grain or lentils

@milchreis9554

3 жыл бұрын

Are you sure it was introduced in later interpretations? I thought it was in older Eastern European lore.

@asiabrew81

3 жыл бұрын

I remember they highlighted this on an episode of The X-Files

@Ribbons0121R121

3 жыл бұрын

vamps are a fucking joke arent thaey

@renthewerecat

3 жыл бұрын

w h a t

Red in 2016: "That summary was half an hour long. That's obviously not happening." Red in 2021: "Here's half an hour summarizing werewolf mythos!" Character development!

@whinycat4438

Жыл бұрын

Never forget what we lost those extra 17+ minutes of vampire stuff

@timothymclean

Жыл бұрын

@@whinycat4438 Maybe we'll get a general vampire folklore review this October?

@whinycat4438

Жыл бұрын

@@timothymclean don’t do that don’t give me hope

@positivelink6961

Жыл бұрын

I wanna see that extended one

@spino-ace

Жыл бұрын

OMG GUYS ITS HAPPENING

I saw a post that said; “Describing the actual plot of Dracula to someone sounds like lying about the plot of Dracula. Dracula gets stabbed to dead by a cowboy”

@mirjanbouma

2 жыл бұрын

Explain a [plot, movie, book] poorly! I love those. Either I recognize it and get to feel good, or I don't and it's funny.

@erinfinn2273

2 жыл бұрын

@@mirjanbouma My favorite one of those is "Batteries go BAD." (hint: Keanu Reeves)

@mirjanbouma

2 жыл бұрын

@@erinfinn2273 omg that has to be the Matrix 😂👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@mirjanbouma

2 жыл бұрын

@@erinfinn2273 woohoo! 😁

@RogelioALoya

2 жыл бұрын

Here’s another one Rich billionaire realizes he’s a jerk so he resorts to police brutality

I feel like one of the things I've found most disappointing that's been lost in adaptation is how genuinely in love Jonathan and Mina are. Jonathan wants to tell Mina everything but is basically gaslit into thinking he shouldn't, as soon as Mina is attacked he chases Dracula with a Kukri, tells Mina everything, assures her that nothing could change his love for her, and privately admits that if she's stuck as a vampire, than he'll turn too so she won't have to suffer alone. Meanwhile Mina sees how traumatized Jonathan has been and immediately goes into "destroy the fucker that hurt my husband" mode. Like, all those adaptations that have Jonathan leaving Mina for what happened, or shipping Mina with Dracula are missing out on so much with this absolute ride or die "will walk into hell for you" couple.

@matthewmuir8884

Жыл бұрын

I agree. Not only are those adaptations missing out on a truly heartwarming and interesting couple, but the adaptations that ship Mina and Dracula are honestly rather vile for doing so considering that, in the book, Dracula attacking Mina and draining her blood is a very blunt rape allegory; how does someone read a book where a predatory sociopath attacks a happily married woman and think that the movie adaptation should ship the happily married woman with the predatory sociopath?

@R0-83-RT

Жыл бұрын

I mean I don't think Johnathan Harker was all too interesting as a character in the book, but the one consistent trait he had is how much he adores Mina. Its basically his one defining character trait, so its weird to think this trait is sort of ignored when it was basically the thing that defined his character.

@limit1770

Жыл бұрын

@@R0-83-RT We're gonna have to agree to disagree on whether or not Jonathan is interesting, since I personally find him actually one of the more interesting characters in the book, especially with how his PTSD is portrayed. But yeah, it makes zero sense for him to not love Mina in any adaptation, and vice versa, since she loves him just as vocally in her entries.

@averyfineloafer

Жыл бұрын

@@limit1770 THANK YOU for not thinking Jonathan is boring! I've loved Jonathan and Mina as a couple since I first read the novel in my teens. I dislike/hate all the inaccurate movie adaptations as a result.

@juliastrawn2113

Жыл бұрын

Also Dracula, like, essentially rapes Mina.... How is shipping a rapist with his victim a good thing?

3:30 To anyone who's curious, the old lady with the cross is saying 'You're too young for death you poor idiot.'

@adamdao4826

3 жыл бұрын

Amazing

@anastasianicolaenco4476

3 жыл бұрын

That's hungarian right?

@Larissawesome

3 жыл бұрын

Ana Nic it looks like it!

@alduril2882

3 жыл бұрын

@@anastasianicolaenco4476 It is Hungarian, yes

@Astrum_Deus

3 жыл бұрын

@@alduril2882 oh yeah I think this story happened back when transylvania was still under Hungarian occupation

my teacher is Romanian, and one time when we asked her how old she was, she responded, “I’m from the land of Count Dracula, we keep ourselves young”. With a creepy smile g r e a t

@michaela644

4 жыл бұрын

*run*

@silviasanchez648

3 жыл бұрын

"We keep ourselves young" Now that's a comeback.

@flamingpi2245

3 жыл бұрын

I’d wear a cross necklace Put some holy water in your water bottle Eat plenty of garlic

@danny_decheeto8300

3 жыл бұрын

Ah

@infoniwceniocwdhvredidhave8126

3 жыл бұрын

Vampires are endangered because everyone likes garlic bread

Dracula's solicitor's wife's best friend's former suitor's mentor just *happens* to be an expert on vampires!

@heedictated9856

Жыл бұрын

like that 6 degrees of separation theory lol

@Xalerdane

Жыл бұрын

Count Dracula’s secret identity: Kevin Bacon.

@legomaniac213

Жыл бұрын

Dracula: "So what does that make us?" Johnathan: "Absolutely nothing! Which is what you are about to become!!"

@kitty-danger

Жыл бұрын

​​@@legomaniac213 I see your schwartz is as big has mine

@AnArtistDoesThings

Жыл бұрын

That was confusing to read.

Love how all the men are saying “oh, a *woman* shouldn’t hear this-“ And then John’s just: no mortal should see what i have seen

@matthewmuir8884

Жыл бұрын

It's quite accurate to the book; where the rest of the men want to leave Mina out of the Dracula hunt for sexist reasons, John only agrees because he doesn't want his wife to go through the horrors he went through, and even then, he starts thinking that leaving her out might be a bad idea; part of him can't help but feel that leaving her out will backfire (and that part of his mind is proven correct when it does indeed backfire horribly).

@erin8050

9 ай бұрын

It feels like they're kinda projecting their love and grief over Lucy onto Mine and want to double down on protecting and keeping her safe since they failed with Lucy. Then Johnathan's just straight up DONE with being in Bram Stoker's novel and doesn't want anyone to ever experience ANY of the hell he had to go through just to keep his job/get a permanent promotion (his boss dies at some point and leaves John and Mina all his stuff including the business cause they're his surragate kids and he wants to set them up for life), and marry the love of his life. He straight up has a panic attack when he sees young Dracula walking around the city and Mina helps him through it. This is what makes her think she should really read his diary, when they got married she sealed the bag/wrapping it with wax that she stamped with her wedding and engagement rings becuase she knew that if it affected John enough to have brianfever for like a solid month and a half, it was pretty messed up and that he needed some reassurance that she loved him regardless of how much of his life he's shared with her.

@liamjm9278

6 ай бұрын

@@matthewmuir8884 She's a schoolteacher. What could a schoolteacher contribute to hunting a monster?

@matthewmuir8884

6 ай бұрын

@@liamjm9278 For just one example: be able to correctly recognize the signs that she was being targeted by said monster. In the book, because she was left out, she didn't realize her symptoms were from Dracula biting her until the night that Dracula force-feeds her some of his blood.

@liamjm9278

6 ай бұрын

@@matthewmuir8884 She wasn't left out. She was there at the meeting and contributed to it. She even directly helped Hellsing whilst he was explaining everything by acting as a secretary. It's even her journal entry that records this meeting. She knows as much about Vampires as they do. They just didn't want her to come along when they did the hunting part. Would you bring your small schooltecher along to hunt a grizzly bear with magic powers, armed with melee weapons and a pistol? You haven't read the book; don't pretend you have. I've read that chapter last week so it's fresh in my mind.

“The mom throws out the garlic flowers and opens the windows” Ah just like those AskReddit stories of family members completely ignoring Doctor’s orders

@yeunmin2306

4 жыл бұрын

R/entitledparents

@Rabijeel

3 жыл бұрын

Anti-Vacc^^

@holden_7597

3 жыл бұрын

Rabijeel Anti Mask*

@j.jnerdamy320

3 жыл бұрын

Fricking Karen

@dynamicworlds1

3 жыл бұрын

All of the above and more....unfortunately.

When i read Dracula, I literally laughed out loud and had to put the book down for a minute when Jonathan whacks him in the face with a shovel.

@jeissonjaimes8189

3 жыл бұрын

I did that too when they threw his box out of the carriage at the end. Don't know why, just found it funny xd

@metroplexprime9901

3 жыл бұрын

*_B O N K_*

@Grim_Sister

3 жыл бұрын

Good to hear I’m not the only one amused by Loony Toons slapstick in horror

@MrImastinker

3 жыл бұрын

@@jen.kj7 Fire and Ice

@Ribbons0121R121

3 жыл бұрын

good job comment for making me wheeze like a banshee before i even watched the vid

this was literally the world´s first "found footage horror"

@Archon3960

Жыл бұрын

Written Footage Horror. B)

@averyfineloafer

Жыл бұрын

I thought the same thing!

@Jennythecatgirl

Жыл бұрын

Hey, you’re right! Cool!

@katehuber4974

Жыл бұрын

Oh my gosh- you’re totally right

@willmfrank

Жыл бұрын

"Found Manuscript Horror."

My favorite line from the book: "Let us hope that the strength of four good men is equal to one malevolence of the devil" - Everyone's favorite quirky dutch doctor, Abraham Van Helsing

@user-mp4gz6xs3w

2 жыл бұрын

That’s a raw fuckin line

@lxckystars__

2 жыл бұрын

i almost hear snark in that line. then again, i hear snark in everything. maybe i should not be trusted to judge this.

@pandoratheclay

Жыл бұрын

Ahh AVH is dutch, even better than when they are depicted as german

@zoroearc2582

7 ай бұрын

This is paraphrased, but my favourite Van Helsing quote comes from when Lucy is slowly dying, “Why is it that Methuselah lives 900 years, but Lucy cannot live one night with the blood of four men in her!”

@mikeyassbutcg

6 ай бұрын

Mina:

That Van Helsing serious face has to be one of the funniest gags you’ve ever had.

@akhion1005

4 жыл бұрын

That's the face everyone has made at some point in our lives. XD

@harrisono.324

4 жыл бұрын

nice to meet you in the digital flesh, Dr Bright. how are things at the S.C.P foundation?

@brendanswain939

4 жыл бұрын

Your not allowed to post on KZread Dr Bright

@paulangelopineda2534

3 жыл бұрын

I would like to know what song did they use for that

@spidercraft7854

3 жыл бұрын

I think the only funnier one i can think of is "mysterious colors etc etc"

Theres a part where Mina says, and I quote, "I am the train fiend." Because she has committed all the train schedules to memory. Where's my modern au where Mina has a model train set in her basement?

@unitl3mn1-cte90

2 жыл бұрын

EVERYTHING IS FINE 🙂

@JaelinBezel

2 жыл бұрын

Giving her a nerd hobby adds so much to her character

@dakkarnemo1094

2 жыл бұрын

As a model train enthuiast, I support this.

@elipticalecliptic481

2 жыл бұрын

she actually bought that Lots and Lots of Trains book series from the infomercial as a child

@scorp-ion-battery

2 жыл бұрын

mina: i am the train fiend, fiend of trains lucy: dracula quivers before her! mina with a cross: *fuck off!*

One thing that always bothers me about Dracula is how they make Harker either really boring or an asshole to Mina. When he is constantly supportive of her, talks endlessly about how much he adores her and is willing to face damnation and become a vampire so she doesn't have to face it alone. Sure he still has victorian attitudes about stuff, but he's really quite progressive for his time.

@floricel_112

2 жыл бұрын

you mean in the book itself or adaptations?

@Attaxalotl

2 жыл бұрын

@@floricel_112 Adaptations

@Tortferngatr

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed. I think my personal reading on him over the novel might have been influenced by a certain other Jonathan who faced a vampire in England, but he’s a good dude.

@Attaxalotl

2 жыл бұрын

@@Tortferngatr **

@Tortferngatr

2 жыл бұрын

@@Attaxalotl Jojo Part 1 is a Dracula reference. (…seriously, though, Jonathan’s name probably is a reference to Dracula.)

Shame that Quincy gets left out so much, you'd think more action oriented works would want to include the guy who managed to hold off Dracula with nothing but a bowie knife, but apparently not.

@swordofstabbingold

2 жыл бұрын

I imagine if dracula gets cut he starts desparately drinking it back up to keep it in.

@godlyuchis

2 жыл бұрын

he's a very underrated character and deserved more screen time !!!

@maucazalv903

2 жыл бұрын

someone please make an adaptation where he survives turned into a vampire or zombie or something and joins Hellsing in the hunt of vampires now with EVEN MORE EXAGERATED strength(?

@Andrewtr6

2 жыл бұрын

Someone said that the book isn't politically correct enough to be adapted faithfully in modern day. I think a film studio should just not care, make the film, and cast Chris Pratt as Quincy for good measure. After thinking that, I really want to see it.

@wildcardjoey4776

2 жыл бұрын

@@maucazalv903 I've actually thought about this and imagined a scenario where Helsing resurrects Quincy as a Jiangshi, the least involved Necromancy form he knows of, for the purpose of Lucy survived, he's struggling to kill her again, and needs to keep her occupied while he finds a solution. And of course it helps to have the extra muscle when fighting vampires.

Red: "That summary was half an hour long. Needless to say, that ain't happening" Red, but two years later: makes a half hour long video on Lovecraft Character development!

@AsdfAsdf-mi6ks

4 жыл бұрын

Sara Johnsson lol then she goes back tho

@AnInkStick

4 жыл бұрын

Sara Johnsson to be fair she was covering five stories XD

@Grim_Sister

4 жыл бұрын

Growth!

@TTeuio6969420

4 жыл бұрын

I am the one that made 999 into 1k so np

@bartonpaullevenson3427

4 жыл бұрын

I would definitely watch your half-hour Dracula video.

I demand the half hour summary.

@pishposh1504

7 жыл бұрын

I'm sure the reason she didn't record the half hour summary is because that is more time needed to draw more panels. which is what takes up most of the time between videos.

@orangemanatee39

7 жыл бұрын

I would also accept pure audio

@pishposh1504

7 жыл бұрын

orangemanatee39 well it wouldn't be an OSP video without red's drawings.

@iandemoraes610

7 жыл бұрын

Me to

@RukoHanaji

7 жыл бұрын

This is an amazing summary. And you're absolutely right. It's the structure of the novel that makes it so effective.

Someone needs to adapt Dracula into a road-trip/buddy comedy focused on the dude squad who only know each other because they all thought this one girl was hot and now have to kill a vampire Edit: It is also important that Van Helsing and Dracula are played completely serious the entire time with a healthy dose of Victorian dramatics

@donaghwilson7715

Жыл бұрын

In the actual text the suitor squad have been friends for years. And then Jonathan is also on the roundtrip I guess

@Archon3960

Жыл бұрын

So, Saiyuki, but it's victorian vampires instead of _Journey to the West,_ and with one female main character? xD

@dragenfire68

Жыл бұрын

Does jojo count? Cuz the entire plot of stardust crusaders is cuz Suzy caught mysterious fainting women disease.

@Archon3960

Жыл бұрын

@@dragenfire68 _Yare, yare daze._

@saidi7975

Жыл бұрын

Holly, not Suzy. But yeah, part 3 is actually somewhat inspired by Dracula. Considering how much of a senile imbecile Dio is in SDC, he is rather similar to the book Count. A far cry from the awesome Kurt Barlow figure he was in Part 1....

I'm now super offended we never see a crazy Texan with a bowie knife killing vampires in any of the movie adaptations. Seriously I've never seen Quincy appear in any adaptation?

@GrosvnerMcaffrey

Жыл бұрын

He was in the 90s Coppola movie

@willmfrank

Жыл бұрын

@@GrosvnerMcaffrey Played by Billy Campbell, no less.

@willmfrank

Жыл бұрын

Also, the BBC "Count Dracula" had a kinda-sorta version of Quincy mashed up with Arthur as a character called "Quincy Harwood."

@GrosvnerMcaffrey

Жыл бұрын

@Will Frank point is Coppola had the actual character he even kept the honor of Dracula's heart stab

@charlottemarsh4325

10 ай бұрын

The new renfield movie has a nod to Quincy with one of the main characters literally being called officer Quincy.

"And these two dudes are happily married" *gasp* "Although not to each other" "DANG IT"

@Alchemy818.

4 жыл бұрын

Squirrely Studios lol. My exact thought the first time I saw this video. And no I am not watching this for the 100’th time...

@theshoes7488

4 жыл бұрын

You guys are both seriously disappointed/upset that they haven’t been turned gay?

@Alchemy818.

4 жыл бұрын

The Old Shoes not really disappointed or upset. More of a “hey wouldn’t it be cool if these people were happily married back then even though it wasn’t allowed back then.”

@theshoes7488

4 жыл бұрын

Ahh... well that’s most definitely understandable. I dislike absolutes, people that claim to hold a perfect truth should (and damn well better) be able to explain such. Thanks for the response.

@wickederebus

4 жыл бұрын

@@theshoes7488 here is an absolute. Objects are gravitationally attracted to the strongest gravitational force affecting said object.

Vampires becoming sexier over time actually makes sense from an evolutionary point of view. Assuming that the vampire's main source of survival is drinking blood of course..... They would have to get this blood from a human. But if your vampire was a monstrous disgusting monster.... Any human who sees the vampire would flee and run away making dinner a chase and more difficult to get. But if vampires evolved sexiness and beauty, then any human who saw them wouldn't run away, rather they would be attracted to your vampire. Like some some carnivorous plants evolved ways to trap insects for food, the new vampire's beauty and sex appeal gives them a much easier time getting food,guving them an edge in survival.

@lx4half751

7 жыл бұрын

Skeptical Chris Not too sure the theories of natural selection can be applied to fictional creatures /`^π^ cool idea though

@laraa739

7 жыл бұрын

Skeptical Chris It was in the original novel kinda because of the ladie vampires I guess so it didn't evolve only after that. But yeah Stoker probably added it because of that. And because I guess if he had to choose someone to bite it would make sense to choose someone you would want to see around for a while

@Armendicus

7 жыл бұрын

I think some of the seductive traits comes fro ideas in Christianity in which the devil tries to appeal to human desires.

@teragram38crows49

7 жыл бұрын

Skeptical Chris at the risk of being a big nerd, let me tell you of an interesting plant I learned about a long time ago. there is a carnivorous plant that has a special stem that looks similar to a bug. it gives off a scent that smell terrible to people, but to insects it's like axe body spray. the plant lures it hapless victims with this stem, once a bug lands on it to mate with the bait, it's dinner time! I can't remember the name of the plant since it was a really long time ago. but that some wining and dining I'd like to say. I paid attention in biology class, don't judge me. 😑

@farhanaashraf6940

7 жыл бұрын

Skeptical Chris but from an evolutionary perspective, humans should all be divas too, for reproductive purposes. because evolution doesn't work that fast and shouldn't apply to vampires anyway as vampires aren't born, i declare your theory wrong.

Fun Fact: When it was time for this book to come to Iceland, the translator apparently decided that he could write a better story, and subsequently published his own significantly different version of the novel. No one in Iceland had any idea they WEREN’T actually reading Bram Stoker’s Dracula until over a century later, by which point the translator was obviously long dead. One of the best hustles you’ve ever heard of.

@StellaStarfall

7 ай бұрын

And apparently it's GREAT. Better than the original is arguable, but it's apparently an absolutely fantastic rendition of the vampire story in general.

@DimaJeydar

7 ай бұрын

How is it different?

@StellaStarfall

7 ай бұрын

@@DimaJeydar It's literally not even the same story. The guy threw out the original and wrote his own. It's hilarious.

@fabianschobinger2765

7 ай бұрын

@@StellaStarfallcould you give me the name of this version if it‘s still available?

@jeannel3207

6 ай бұрын

​@@fabianschobinger2765It was published in English as "Power of Darkness: The lost version of Dracula"

I love how the novel develops into Mina Harker and “da boys” towards the end of the books.

@Vinemaple

9 ай бұрын

Four good men apparently barely equal one Mina Harker

@liamjm9278

6 ай бұрын

@@Vinemaple Don't shit-talk those heros.

@daviddaugherty2816

6 ай бұрын

The Boyfriend Squad(tm) are great, don't get wrong, but she has more brains than all of them put together.

The things that struck me when reading Dracula for the first time: * The amount of detail (and perfect grammar) that everyone puts in their letters and journals, even when facing imminent death. * How often people are absolutely horrified and repulsed by sexiness. * How much people go out of their way to say how amazing Mina is.

@DeHerg

4 жыл бұрын

1&2: basically victorian England. 3: OMG SHE'S A MARY SUE, CRUCIFY HER!

@kevinforbesofficial

4 жыл бұрын

@@DeHerg I don't think that 1 is just Victorian England. You notice a similar thing in Civil War letters in the US.

@Grim_Sister

4 жыл бұрын

Mina WAS amazing. She rose above the constraints placed on her gender and still kicked ass

@zerogbot23

4 жыл бұрын

The English in this book is very weird to read for someone like me who is very new to old novels for instance "Ahh I see you have made it to my castle, before dinner would you like to do toilet?" (Paraphrasing here) that threw me of a bit because it seemed kinda funny to me. And reading the dialogue from characters like Van Helsing and the cockney old englishmen was super hard.

@AlashiaTuol

4 жыл бұрын

Bram Stoker was apparently a self-hating homosexual working through some things while desperately trying to repress them; of course sexiness was evil and his main villain's most developed attraction is to a man.

The entire town of Bistritz: holds a mournful vigil for Jonathan, knowing well that his journey to the castle of the feared Count Dracula would likely be his last. Jonathan: oh how *picturesque*

@junelogalbo9740

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for bringing up the excessive use of the word Picturesque in the book. I’m surprised Red did include that in this video

@joedavies9621

3 жыл бұрын

@@junelogalbo9740 it's alarming

@thornless_flora

3 жыл бұрын

@@joedavies9621 -ly picturesque

@joedavies9621

3 жыл бұрын

@@thornless_flora I'm wheezing

@barryallen2240

3 жыл бұрын

@@joedavies9621 in a picturesque way

My favorite part was- my memory is awful, so sorry if I get this a bit wrong- when Van Helsing was talking about the plan or something to Jonathan and Mina and he gets interrupted by the window being shattered because Quincey SHOT HIS GUN at a bat (Dracula most likely, Idk if that was ever cleared up for sure) that was sitting on it.

@Andrewtr6

2 жыл бұрын

I think the scene was meant to depict what Quincy is like. I'm not sure if he was just scouting the area, trying to chase after Dracula, or just noticed the bat and didn't want to take a chance.

@timothymclean

2 жыл бұрын

@@Andrewtr6 Given that he's a walking Texan stereotype, there's at least a 35% chance he just wanted an excuse to shoot something.

@calebleach7988

Жыл бұрын

I'd like to thin that was just a bat. Not even Dracula, heck, not even another vampire. Just a random bat.

@JoyAndAgony

Жыл бұрын

@@calebleach7988 Quincy does say that ever since the incidents began he’s been shooting (or trying to) every bat he sees out of discomfort.

@odditycat2716

Жыл бұрын

peak american representation

Dracula: "Sparkling? Bursting into flame? Seriously? I just turn into a normal person during the day." Modern Vampires: "Then why does no one kill you during the day?" Dracula: "Well that's why I'm always in a very public place during the day, so that no one can do that without very obviously being murderer. Plus, no one is going to look for a vampire in the middle of busy street in broad daylight. It's called hiding in plain sight."

@user-vu4yv2yd9d

19 күн бұрын

... why was Ed Sheeran more right about vampires in a music video than 99% of vampire adaptations

@41217beingbored

Күн бұрын

I'll be honest, I was completely surprised that being affected by sunlight wasn't a vampire weakness that originated from Dracula. Before reading it, I always thought that was the case. Even when I watched the movie adaptation, I thought they were just taking liberties with an old character.

@Rukdug

Күн бұрын

@41217beingbored Up until I read the book I was in the same boat.

Do you think Dracula could work as a found footage film? John’s iPad diary and then shifting to Mina and Lucy’s FaceTime call, to Van Hellsing recording to study Lucy’s mystery illness/recording strange phenomena, then to boyfriend squad recording the hunt for Dracula?

@crazygirls9000

3 жыл бұрын

wow that's amazing!!!

@Br-kc2jy

2 жыл бұрын

You know, that could actually work, because the Ford Coppola movie sucked, don't @ me. Yours is a very interesting idea, but I don't really think a lot of people ( Twitter) would like an adaptation in our modern day and age

@chidaluokoro9104

2 жыл бұрын

that's genius!!!!!!!

@xfakelucid6504

2 жыл бұрын

The hunt should totally be like cringey finding bigfoot footage with the shaky cam and night vision and everything.

@trevorrussell40

2 жыл бұрын

I’d watch that!

One thing I really love about this book was that every single main character is just like completely willing to die for every other main character. They just...they love one another so much.

@calitreesweet

4 жыл бұрын

Fit for any orgy

@AlashiaTuol

4 жыл бұрын

It's also super thematically relevant! Like, various forms of true love are central to the book. The vampire women who serve Dracula openly mock him for being unable to love. Dracula's inability to love and inability to perceive or value a difference between love and lust is in thematic contrast with the sincere love shared by the group of friends that defeat him, and in particular with the healthy and mutually respectful relationship between the Harkers. (There is a slight homophobic tinge to it, as Dracula, coded as unable to feel _real_ love, only ever implies current romantic interest in one person and that's Jonathan (despite attacking the women around him instead). But... Stoker was a self-hating gay man working through some things, soooo...

@lenapines3532

4 жыл бұрын

That’s the kind of character relationships I love

@delcidkidv250

4 жыл бұрын

That makes me think of a version of the story where they're all highschoolers who've been friends since childhood. Idk maybe there's something there

@strangepineapples3375

4 жыл бұрын

@@delcidkidv250 That sounds awesome! I really want that adaptation now.

My absolute favourite thing in the book is when Jonathan tries to shave with a pocket mirror and Dracula comes up behind him. At this point Jonathan already knows that he's a prisoner and recognizes that Dracula is a weird monster of some kind. He notices that he can't see him in the pocket mirror, gets distracted and cuts himself on the face. Dracula is kind of panicking because he *really* wants to suck him dry at this point but instead he says "That mirror is bad, it made you cut yourself", takes it out of Jonathan's hand and fully yeets it out of the window. Funniest shit I've ever read in any book :)

@AshyAvocado786

Жыл бұрын

My favorite part is basically “oh here buy house”

@willmfrank

Жыл бұрын

Don't you just love how Coppola's film completely deflates the horror of the situation by having Gary Old Man tell Keanu "Perhaps you should grow a beard...?"

@lightsideofsin8969

11 ай бұрын

@@willmfrank It certainly wasn't as funny as it was in the book. Gary Oldman is a great actor but his performance couldn't salvage the awful script.

@cam4636

7 ай бұрын

And he plays it so chill too, like just walks up and chucks it out the window while speaking *v e r y c a l m l y* while Jonathan's like 😳

@DDlambchop43

7 ай бұрын

@@lightsideofsin8969 the BBC version from '77 keeps it smooth and a little unsettling.

Funny thing with Quincy coming off as written by someone who'd never actually met an American, in reality Bram Stoker was close friends with Teddy Roosevelt and traveled the US extensively so he was quite familiar with the culture and it's quirks. It's just that at the time, the Rugged Texan/Cowboy was a popular stock character in English fiction occupying the role for when you needed a source of plain-spoken, weather-beaten wisdom and simultaneously still half wild and rather more enthusiastic when events called for a man of action and violence.

@samreid6010

Жыл бұрын

I want to write a screenplay for a modern Bram Stoker’s Dracula where everyone is modern except for Dracula and Quincey Motherf-ing Morris. I want him to continue to be a 19th century American written by someone who has never actually spoken to an American. I want him to continue to make up words that sound kind of American. I want him to still use words that make no sense in the context and I want his dialect to continue to swing wildly and violently back and forth between cowboy hick and schooled gentleman. I want the rest of the posey to just go along with it because that’s just Quincey, and I want the only person to be bothered by it to be Dracula himself. He’s an immortal being. It makes sense he speaks that way, but why is this strange man claiming to be from America despite sounding like his only exposure to American culture was from watching cowboy movies and trying to extrapolate what the upper class must sound like speaking in such a manner? It disturbs the Count so much that halfway through the movie he just straight up stops preying on women to find out what the hell is happening

@MrVoyeurific

Жыл бұрын

Neat

@Oturan20

Жыл бұрын

The more I learn about Theodore Roosevelt, the cooler he becomes. PS: The man hated being called Teddy, he preferred Theodore or TR.

@mistertea603

Жыл бұрын

Well, that explains it...if you only had Teddy MUTHERFUCKING ROOSEVELT TO GO OFF OF i would think we were superheroes too.

@willmfrank

Жыл бұрын

Stoker was Henry Irving's personal assistant; he had a theatrical background. He was playing to, and/or exploiting, theatrical stereotypes.

Ah, yes, the dynamic duo: Jonathan and his HUGE KNIFE

@CompactCowboy

2 жыл бұрын

Big knife > Angry fang boi

@dubsquad156

2 жыл бұрын

Shouldn’t he know how to harness the power of the sun by breathing a certain way?

@vimalkumar-gb3mh

2 жыл бұрын

@@dubsquad156 where is this from

@dubsquad156

2 жыл бұрын

@@vimalkumar-gb3mh Jojos Bizarre Adventure

@foldabotZ

2 жыл бұрын

@@dubsquad156 we can re-interpret the knife as a giant, medieval sword.

I love how Van Helsing uses a German greeting instead of a Dutch one, much like Stoker’s American is super over the top

@willmfrank

Жыл бұрын

Stoker's notes identify van Helsing as a German professor, although it's never stated in the published version. I like to think that van Helsing is a German immigrant, living and working in Amsterdam, rather than a native Dutchman.

Dracula definitely had a thing for Jonathan. I'm 100% certain he preyed on Mina specifically to hurt Jonathan and it made him furious that Jonathan escaped him.

@iliketea1427

Жыл бұрын

I thought so too

@kyrab7914

10 ай бұрын

Honestly from this and the comments, it kinda seems like most any pairing would work, altho Jonathan and Mina are the only like explicitly ride or die. Altho tbh I kinda forgot about Lucy's actual fiance like half the time, so maybe I should go read it

@liamjm9278

6 ай бұрын

No he didn't.

I love this at 9:11 Stewart: Noo you're too precious Arthur: My wife would want you safe and content The State of Texas: Wouldn't want to worry your pretty head Jonathan: *no mortal should face the horrors I have known*

@otterzrkuhl

2 жыл бұрын

“The state of Texas” I’m cackling!

@yoda2495

2 жыл бұрын

The only one who actually has the right to say so was Jonathan

@riverstein7251

2 жыл бұрын

As a Texan everything Red put in for the State of Texas’ dialogue is extremely accurate

@jasondobbins9735

2 жыл бұрын

So her fiancé is the only one who is not sexist and it’s actually worried about the horse he has seen

@josephscott1292

2 жыл бұрын

@Jason Dobbins I’m fairly certain he is also sexist (it was the Victorian Era after all) but that wasn’t his focus I don’t think.

3:44 I have to say, having read Dracula, one of my favorite vampire-powers-that-pop-culture-forgot-about is their ability to Spider-Man climb. The way the book describes it, with him scurrying inhumanly out of sight across the wall like a lizard, is honestly creepy.

@fardareismai4495

4 жыл бұрын

Yes! This

@captainbirch9835

4 жыл бұрын

Spider count Spider count Sucks your blood Right on out Can't survive In the day Wants to take Over the UK watch out Here comes the spider count

@frostedfirefly

3 жыл бұрын

Not gonna lie, when it was described as "lizard-like", that made me chuckle. I have a very warped sense of humour.

@oliveragag8576

3 жыл бұрын

Oddly enough Hotel Transylvania actually adapted that

@eyesofthecervino3366

3 жыл бұрын

@@frostedfirefly To be fair, don't lizards sort of . . . squiggle their way around? Like, their body wiggles back and forth while they run and climb. That would be a pretty hilarious thing for a full grown Victorian count to do :)

I recently read the book, and one of my absolute favorite parts was when Johnathan touches base with Van Helsing, who confirms to the former that his nightmarish experience really did happen and he's not crazy. After that validation, Johnathan's mental health and self-confidence skyrockets.

I love messing with people by telling them that Dracula was killed by a cowboy. No one ever believes me

"Lucy is sick" *gasp* "But not in a hot way" *choke*

@bobmcguffin5706

2 жыл бұрын

Later: "Lucy is dead!" *gasp* "But in a hot way!"

Starting a band called Lucy's Boyfriend Squad, anyone interested?

@alnu8355

3 жыл бұрын

You need a Texan...I'm in...

@carlosvalois8966

3 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah

@orphicurania3295

3 жыл бұрын

I’m in

@DubbleOboyz

3 жыл бұрын

You sob I’m in

@JT_Lich

3 жыл бұрын

Depends on the genre you wanna play. Either way.... Sure why not

When I watched this the first time I thought that the “Van Helsing serious face” was an exaggeration but it’s on like every page for a couple of chapters.

“Not many people have actually read Dracula” Dracula Daily: “Fine. I’ll do it myself.”

*chants* SUM-AR-RIE *chants* HALF HOUR, HALF HOUR

@sarahzhang7843

7 жыл бұрын

yep

“These two guys are both happily married...but not too each other” Me: I’m gonna pretend I didn’t here that last part.

@uh8300

3 жыл бұрын

I let a gasp of surprise and a squel of excitement in the few mili seconds before she said the last part

@WilczycaCzarownica

3 жыл бұрын

I'm agree.

@fl1cksfish94

3 жыл бұрын

It’s also hilarious to read the book, because Mina and Lucy are REALLY good friends so for a while they would sleep in the same bed because Arthur and Johnathan were away. Also Lucy would sleep walk and Mina would have to get her. 10/10 totally just roommates

@freshbread4039

3 жыл бұрын

@@fl1cksfish94 yep 100% just gals being pals

@somedragonbastard

3 жыл бұрын

@@fl1cksfish94 plot twist: dracula is just really, really bad at trying to join the polycule

A funny thing about vampires that I think is really cool! The origin of the “vampires can’t see themselves in mirrors” is because, back in the day, mirrors were backed with silver -and since silver is considered holy- they couldn’t see themselves. So, technically speaking, VAMPIRES SHOULD BE ABLE TO SEE THEMSELVES IN MIRRORS NOW! Thank you for coming to my TedTalk. UwU

@daviddaugherty2816

Жыл бұрын

They couldn't cast shadows, either. If I recall, the reason for that is because they didn't have souls.

@derimperator3847

Жыл бұрын

@@daviddaugherty2816 *taking notice of the shadow cast by the chair i hit my toe on every other day* " ... you know, you could at least stop pretending."

@daviddaugherty2816

Жыл бұрын

@@derimperator3847 Just because it's pure evil and plotting against you doesn't mean it doesn't have a soul. I can see why the Inanimate Object Illuminati want you gone so badly...

@Vinemaple

9 ай бұрын

This fixes this trope so much, it has always frustrated me, and you are doubly a rock star because you alerted me to the original version of "vampires can't see *themselves* in mirrors." I think you may have added a year to my life, because I have never been able to deconstruct or handwave that particular impossibility.

@cam4636

7 ай бұрын

The reason for the silver is that silver has purifying/antibacterial properties (possibly why it was used for eating utensils) and vampires are in no small part a monster-version of disease. Same with garlic and holy water/running water.

I hope everyone is signed up to draculadaily ^^ This might be the most authentic way to read dracula in the modern day and I love the daily emails from my good friend Jonathan Harker

@f_mva

2 жыл бұрын

MEEE eagerly awaiting my dear friend jonathan's correspondence

@eclipse7393

2 жыл бұрын

jonathan our bestie jonathan

@goldogwolly

2 жыл бұрын

I was scrolling through the comments looking for this! Dracula daily squad!

@Kat-gp6gj

2 жыл бұрын

What is it and how do you sign up for it?

@madmanvarietyshow9605

Жыл бұрын

I'm so sad I didn't hear about this until recently. Because now that it's been going on for two months I do and don't want to start it because I'll have to get caught up instead of the constant drip feed and it saddens me. So I'm hoping they maybe do it again in the future and I hear about it before it starts.

No one: Jonathan: *bleeds* Dracula: REeEeEeEeE

@n-extrafries-surprise

4 жыл бұрын

Dracula: WRRYYYYYYYYYYY*

@jonathanjoestarwithpluck4930

4 жыл бұрын

DIOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

@thatjojolesbian

4 жыл бұрын

why is this applicable to jojo?

@masterklaw4527

4 жыл бұрын

MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA!!!!!!!

@ianbailey4213

4 жыл бұрын

ZA WARULDO!

Jonathan: It was so scary and they were horrible creatures Mina: Than why did you wrote down “three sexy vampire ladies” Jonathan: … I can explain

@juliastrawn2113

Жыл бұрын

I've always pictured her as the Dignified Bisexual (maybe that's just because I'm also bi), so she might also find them attractive! Aside from the murder part

@erin8050

9 ай бұрын

@@juliastrawn2113 Fun tidbot for you; Mina as bi has been basically made canon by Tumblr. Everyone noticed that how much she comments on Lucy's hotness was a bit to much for them to be roommates.

@juliastrawn2113

9 ай бұрын

@@erin8050 Oh, I know! The tumblr Dracula fandom is so wonderful to see. And yeah, most straight women don't talk about their female friends the way Mina talks about Lucy. And there's the fact that she first noticed Dracula because they were checking out the same cute girl. Mina Harker: Bi Icon of classical literature

@stephennootens916

8 ай бұрын

I have to read the book I don't remember that. Mina was really close to Lucy but I never thought about it that way.

@Skip6235

7 ай бұрын

@@juliastrawn2113I don’t remember fully, but doesn’t at one point Mina say in her journal that she wishes she could be one of Lucy’s suitors? Or am I making a false memory? I know that Lucy says she wishes she could marry all three men, and honestly, given what we know of them, and how much they all “respect” one another, if it weren’t Victorian England they probably would have been down for a polycule.

They left out my favourite part, the one where Dracula yeets a wolf trough Lucy's window

I started laughing my ass off in the middle of class when we covered this book, because I read Dracula having hairy palms and immediately thought of that old wives tale about how you get those.

@d.tsukuyomi1869

2 жыл бұрын

He is a very lonely vampire in a mostly empty castle.

@juliastrawn2113

10 ай бұрын

Disregarding the fact that he might be gay (he definitely has a crush on Jonathan), he has *three sexy vampire ladies* that just live in his castle for no reason.

@cam4636

7 ай бұрын

@@juliastrawn2113 Biphobia among the vampire population has to stop

@liamjm9278

6 ай бұрын

@@juliastrawn2113 He isn't.

Something vanpiric: happens Van Helsing: I AM HERE!

@adzilabidin6136

3 жыл бұрын

Watashi wa ga Kitaa....

@mr.potato2223

3 жыл бұрын

HERE I COME TO SAVE THE DAAAAAAAAAAAAAY

@silentshadow9983

3 жыл бұрын

It’s fine now: I am here Van Helsing is Allmight confirmed (head canon

@shinypikagaming

3 жыл бұрын

He’s not just placing garlic flowers randomly! Each and every flower is more than 100% of his focus!

@bobmcguffin5706

2 жыл бұрын

Since he's Dutch rather than American, maybe his attacks are named after provinces from the Netherlands. Limberg Smash!!

6:00 "Mina, darling, your hands are so warm." That's just priceless. Also, Lucy clearly has Type AB+ blood ("universal recipient" type), though Stoker himself clearly didn't know that.

@szaboluca5536

3 жыл бұрын

@@jen.kj7 Yepp, since they have all 3 types of markers in their blood, they can get all types of blood, but can only give blood to others with type AB+ blood. On the other hand we have O-, who don't have any of the markers, so they are the universal donors, they can give blood to everyone else, but they can only receive blood from pthers with an 0- blood type.

@szaboluca5536

3 жыл бұрын

@@jen.kj7 Yepp, exactly! It's all about the markers! And if they gave her the wrong type of blood, her immune system would have attacked because of the unfamiliar markers. For example, if she had B+ blood type, she can get O- (no markers), 0+ (+ marker) B- (B marker) or B+ (B and + marker) since those would be familiar, but if they in this case tried to give her A+ for example, her immune system would have attacked because of the unfamiliar A markers. (Of course this is just what I learned in my high school bio class, and AFAIK there are even more blood types with different indicators that we don't really learn about? I'm not sure it was an offhand comment. But this is the gist of blood transfusion rules as I know it)

@kisassa

3 жыл бұрын

@@szaboluca5536 There are a bunch of other, minor Blood Types, but they seldom count because the immune system only starts reacting to them after a cuple of transfusions. The rest is pretty accurate.

@szaboluca5536

3 жыл бұрын

@@kisassa Thank you! Yeah I know there's more, we learned about 3 of them in bio, but others were mentioned (our teacher was really passionate about his subject) but I didn't want to cause any confusion, and I don't really remember the other ones. But thank you for the correction, it did remind me that I wanted to look something up about this :)

@redgoldcrown3990

3 жыл бұрын

ohhh. so that way it doesn't matter what the donors' types were. great reasoning.

So fun thing to offer. There's a thing called Daily Dracula going at the mo the sends the chapters to your email, on the listed dates. So like, the first couple of Jonathan's journal entries

@snarkywallflower5829

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve finally managed to catch up on it, and I can wholeheartedly recommend it. Great way to experience the novel.

@strategicgamingwithaacorns2874

Жыл бұрын

@@snarkywallflower5829 Is it possible to catch up or do I need to wait for May 3rd next year? Or should I go read my hardcover copy instead?

@snarkywallflower5829

Жыл бұрын

@@strategicgamingwithaacorns2874 I think it's probably possible!

Red: "Not many people have read it." Tumbler/Dracula Daily, years later: "And I took that personally."

@FandomLife687

19 күн бұрын

Re: Dracula, the year after THAT: "Did you say 'podcast material'?"

I love how modern people have made every single scary thing in the past into a sexy trickster

@Blaze-xe8cl

2 жыл бұрын

Frankensteins monster?

@seagullseagulls7502

2 жыл бұрын

@@Blaze-xe8cl just wait a few years more

@ArthurKH358.2

2 жыл бұрын

@@Blaze-xe8cl Fate/Apocrypha made Frankenstein’s monster well… surprisingly cute

@katr37

2 жыл бұрын

@@Blaze-xe8cl look up monster high

@flameconvoy7424

2 жыл бұрын

@@Blaze-xe8cl I, Frankenstein has a very handsome Frankenstein’s monster

Red: There wasn't a victorian vampire romance novel Carmilla: let me introduce myself

@arianewinter4266

3 жыл бұрын

The original womanizing vamp gets so often forgotten

@kimberlynorris338

3 жыл бұрын

And not only that, it's a Lesbian Vampire Romance Novel!

@Cia_M1986

3 жыл бұрын

Joseph LeFanu had it going on and people diSresPecT my dude so hard by forgetting about Carmilla.

@catherineblack2438

3 жыл бұрын

Been looking for this comment!

@yonatanbeer3475

3 жыл бұрын

_Carmella_ is such a strange work. Like, the horror only works if "woman passionate for another woman" is a horrifying concept to you, so it doesn't really work in the modern age. Carmella actually comes across as kind of romantic and tragic.

Wonder if Red had fun drawing the "baby I'm a monster, just leave me" panel. Looks like she did 😂

sometimes i forget about john obsessively sharpening a kukri for like the last third of the book and i love it even more each time i remember it

Lucy's boyfriend squad would be an awesome name for a band

@Jellied_Slime_Games

5 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@mothersandfuckersofthejury5416

5 жыл бұрын

I want merch

@mitchfletcher2386

5 жыл бұрын

@@mothersandfuckersofthejury5416 ORDER THE SHIRTS

@wickederebus

5 жыл бұрын

Other awesome band names Green Gadget Lightning Vortex The Dark World Cyber Dragon Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon One Day of Peace Drastic Drop Off Also, any Yugioh card name ever. Seriously.

@rizzolaroux

5 жыл бұрын

Redisalive Nothing can beat this. Ever

If someone wanted to do a modern adaptation of this it should be done as a found footage/ webcam type thing

@absolite6

4 жыл бұрын

Didn't know I wanted this.... Someone needs to get on this.👍🏻

@edisonlima4647

3 жыл бұрын

I can already imagine it, and I love it! Vlogs, Mina's bridal blog where she discusses her upcoming marriage (with entries getting darker as her maid of honor and friend, Lucy, gets sicker), Sewards' "Ask an Alienist" KZread channel and sweet naïve Lucy Westenra would 100% be a shy TikToker.

@CJCroen1393

3 жыл бұрын

@@edisonlima4647 I want this too omg.

@CJCroen1393

3 жыл бұрын

@@edisonlima4647 Ooh, ooh! Count Dracula himself would definitely be a sort of "Villain With Good Publicity" celebrity or something.

@theradioactiveplayer3461

3 жыл бұрын

Alternatively, if you're not a fan of found footage movies, you could make it so that - at some point - every single character featured in the story meets at least one of the other characters on screen. Then, simply focus on their face and swing the camera around to be behind _them_ and not whoever had the focus before, or flash back to summat they were doing earlier

3:45 when I first saw this I thought this drawing was a joke. Like Jonathan saw something creepy and what’s more creepy than Spider-Man Dracula! But after receiving today’s email from my good friend Jonathan Harker I learn that no, this is exactly what happened.

@matthewmuir8884

Жыл бұрын

The Spiderman comparison just made me think that an alternate-universe version of Spiderman where Spiderman is a Victorian Londoner named Peter Harker and all his villains are modified to fit archetypes from Victorian literature could be brilliant.

my absolute fav part is the count basically becoming a house husband, but in secret. he does all the chores around the castle, puts away dishes and cleans the bed in 5 secs while johnny is washing his hands or smth, cooks and cleans and everything and johnny is like "hm, the servants are very diligent but seem kind of shy" personally, that part when drac cleans the table and puts away the dishes and lays on the couch to read a train time table all "i am being so normal rn", while johnny is away for like 15 secs. i laughed so badly.

I agree that Lucy x Mina is the best paring because when Mina is describing Lucy 60% of it is ‘she looked so sweet and beautiful’

@gabssza8569

4 жыл бұрын

For real tho, amount of gay confusion over her narration (LIKE CONFESS ALREADY) slowed me reading it so much Fact that Stoker was inspired by Carmilla doesnt help, lol

@AlashiaTuol

4 жыл бұрын

There's also a surprising amount of one-sided tension between Dracula and Jonathan. I'm reading the book now and honestly I know it probably read differently when it was published, but... (Edit: Changed "ho yay" to "tension" because apparently the term ho yay confused people? Ho yay is tvtropes slang for homoerotic tension between male characters. Its female counterpart is les yay.)

@AlashiaTuol

4 жыл бұрын

Also, apparently Stoker is heavily, heavily suspected of being a self-loathing homosexual. Apparently there's been people reading into Dracula's and Jonathan's relationship in this way for a long time because of this, and interpret Dracula's attacks on women to be displacement for his sexual desire, frustration, and anger at himself and Jonathan. It doesn't help that the "brides" (who are actually implied to be his relatives) randomly bring up whether or not someone like Dracula can really sincerely love someone... after Dracula stops them from biting Jonathan by literally calling him "mine." Honestly I think people have shipped Mina and Dracula for so long because they were more comfortable shipping a woman with her implied rapist than with the fact that the closest thing to a love interest Dracula has is a guy. The subtext is strong with this one.

@macoy3943

4 жыл бұрын

Then there was the time when Mina saw Lucy sleeping and was like “if Arthur fell in love with her in the drawing room, imagine what he would say now”

@cmanrulesal

4 жыл бұрын

Disagree. The best pairing is Jonathan Harker and the Kukri Knife.

"... the ghost ship Demeter..." *the frickin farm goddess. farming relies on having soil (aka earth).* *ill admit, im way more amused then i probably sound.*

@chadbrown6595

4 жыл бұрын

And of course how her daughter was taken by the God of the Underworld.

@thorinsonofthran1053

4 жыл бұрын

embarrassingly i forgot who Demeter was so i didn't see how hilarious that line was until i read your comment thank you for reminding me LOL

@iceluvndiva21

4 жыл бұрын

@@chadbrown6595 So does that make Dracula Hades in this story?

@willieoelkers5568

4 жыл бұрын

@@iceluvndiva21 Nah, Hades was actually pretty well adjusted and safe as long as you didn't try to cheat death without asking for permission first. It's an older sibling thing.

@dionysusxian

4 жыл бұрын

OH MY GOD I DIDNT THINK OF THAT IM- fucking stoker you madlad

What most readers today fail to appreciate is that Dracula was the techno-thriller of its day. The diaries are done by typewriter or dictation onto wax cylinders, they travel across Europe by steamboat and steam train, they perform blood transfusions, it's all very high-tech for the Victorian era! If you want a fun take on the story after you finish reading the book, go read Saberhagan's "The Dracula Tapes". This was the first place I ever saw it pointed out that Van Helsing gave Lucy Westerna transfusions from four different men, *nine years* before blood types were discovered, and then blamed the vampire when, surprise! she died.

@Estarile

Жыл бұрын

"Its not MY fault she died. Those humans gave her incompatible blood transfusions...that she only needed because I was drinking her blood. But clearly this is in no way my fault." (Side Note: I personally find it unfair to hold authors to scientific knowledge that was unknown at the time. So I just assume Lucy was like type AB+.)

I know it's silly, but the image of Vampire!Lucy smirking after the crucifix is stolen gave me legitimate chills.

Huh. Mina actually has a lot of agency in this. Sucks how in every other “hot vampire guy” story the women have no agency and are just used for sexies.

@flaminyawn

2 жыл бұрын

At least there's her treatment in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (the comic, NOT the awful, awful movie).

@NA-AN

2 жыл бұрын

*self insert.

@rimfire8217

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah especially considering the book was written in the 1890s. You wouldn’t expect the female characters to have any agency.

@whytheheckarewedoinginhere1886

2 жыл бұрын

I think the only I would like to see is Mel Brooks "Dracula" because I heard it's very funny.

@whafflete6721

2 жыл бұрын

Definitely a better love story than Twilight

There’s a reason Mina is the one in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

@AlashiaTuol

4 жыл бұрын

Let's not talk about that. I _hate_ what Moore did to the Harkers. *shudders*

@joedavies9621

4 жыл бұрын

I wasn't aquainted with the LoEG so I did a Google for a plot synopsis. What I gathered is that someone Frankensteined every classical novel ever into one barely-functioning conglomerate begging for death whilst somehow managing to exclude Frankenstein himself.

@AlashiaTuol

4 жыл бұрын

@@joedavies9621 And then had them all gang up against Harry Potter for some reason, yes.

@joedavies9621

4 жыл бұрын

@@AlashiaTuol terrifying

@michaeldaniels642

4 жыл бұрын

@@joedavies9621 I think the idea the had was basically Supernatural Avengers but, didn't know how to make that work completely.

Dracula, in a nutshell: Power of Friendship vs. Creepy Vampire Man

I read Dracula and my favorite character is Quincy Morris because I laughed every time he talked about Texas lmao.

Van Helsing Serious Face. I never laughed this hard in my life XD

@dakotafrisbie2033

5 жыл бұрын

I am not alone! Why is it so hilarious?!

@Silver_light77

5 жыл бұрын

*bwoooommmm*

@dakotafrisbie2033

5 жыл бұрын

@@Silver_light77 God dang it! why did it make me laugh thinking about it!

@Herrscher-of-Autism

5 жыл бұрын

@@dakotafrisbie2033 she's incredibly pale (Inception noise)

@dakotafrisbie2033

5 жыл бұрын

@@Herrscher-of-Autism BWOOOOOOM

Is Van Helsing the first recorded 'Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass' in literature? If so, that's something else we need to thank Stoker for! :D

@randomtechpriest2644

4 жыл бұрын

MetalGlitch holy- your right

@RutraNickers

4 жыл бұрын

@@randomtechpriest2644 why it's his right instead of his left though?

@randomtechpriest2644

4 жыл бұрын

RutraNickers first off, because a there’s a blood sucking humanoid mosquito on his right and he is right about it

@RutraNickers

4 жыл бұрын

@@randomtechpriest2644 .... I was making fun of your grammar when you used "your" instead of "you're"

@randomtechpriest2644

4 жыл бұрын

RutraNickers just cause you said that, your right

Fury of Dracula, the board game where you're the group at the end of the book trying to hunt down Dracula. Mina Harker is kind of op in the board game because you can basically force Dracula to tell you where he is.

Mina and Johnathan's little gap-toothed child was the cutest thing I've ever seen. ♥

"...my god, does the book like talking about how hot Lucy's corpse is...!" I laughed at that line for a solid minute or so, the deadpan delivery was absolutely perfect!

@crowfee2910

5 жыл бұрын

Same thing in Romeo and Juliet: 27 lines of Romeo getting frisky with Juliet's assumed corpse

@Herrscher-of-Autism

5 жыл бұрын

I mean it makes sense because apparently vampirism (Is that how you spell it?) causes sexiness to triple.

@iceluvndiva21

4 жыл бұрын

Seriously what is it with literature and describing a corpse as beautiful or artists, particularly Greek, depicting guys with huge dongs and girls being allergic to clothes?! XD ( *don't need to answer the later because I get it on a symbolic meaning. So that was rhetorical. But the foremost still confuses me.* )

@greywalker505

2 жыл бұрын

@@iceluvndiva21 I think the point is to say something along the lines of, “As beautiful in death as they were in life.” Still, weird.

anyone else kinda wanna see her do a redo of this video where she tells the half an hour long version now that she's okay making videos that long?(this video inspired me to read the book for myself and so far, the suspense part has gone over my head)

@iliketea1427

9 ай бұрын

Yes

"a case of vampiritis" you say. Well, now we have the verb "draculated" to save time

Helsing: *is Dutch Also Helsing: *speaks German

@isnotmimi

4 жыл бұрын

It actually happens in the book - Stoker wasn't always the best at consistency.

@dubuyajay9964

4 жыл бұрын

And Dutch and German are similar languages. I have a Dutch friend who says he can speak and German just fine because how similar the languages are.

@TheBoringEdward

4 жыл бұрын

K. I haven't been so often in the Nederland's. I've heard, that its similar, but I wouldn't have thought, to be that similar. Tho I can read a good chunk of it.

@dubuyajay9964

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheBoringEdward Yeah, it's similar en par on how so many words are interchangeable in Spanish and Portuguese.

@janinave7729

4 жыл бұрын

Eh it's more like reading a bunch of words that are a couple letters off from the german version and very Confusing stuff in between. You can kind of make out what it means if you read it but i went on vacation in the Netherlands and oh my god i barely understood anything

When I red the book I was screaming inside all the time: WHY IS MINA THE ONLY ONE WITH A BRAIN.

@wandanemer2630

3 жыл бұрын

Bless that woman.

@Br-kc2jy

2 жыл бұрын

She's so cool

@mollsgreys5827

2 жыл бұрын

The keeper of the sacred braincell

@jillianh7565

Жыл бұрын

Honestly I can relate. My D&D group is running Curse of Strahd, which is about as blatant of a Dracula reference as you can get in the game, and my character seems to be the only person in the party with a brain.

@nimnimn6930

Жыл бұрын

Eh, I felt it was pretty natural that most people wouldn't be able to figure out the plot if they were in the story. Mina was just smart in a way the rest weren't. The only seriously stupid decision on their part was cutting her out of the Dracula research club, which was informed by their victorian worldview and the fact the stress and pain brought about in trying to research and counter Dracula probably caused them to assume their life would be better without it, forgetting that Dracula's MO is preying on the ignorant.

Final finished Dracula, so I’ve allowed myself to watch this video and it’s so good! Dracula is one of the few books that has genuinely made me set it down and go “oh bleep, that was creepy” particularly when Dracula was stealing Jonathan’s clothes and crawling out the window

@Br-kc2jy

2 жыл бұрын

My "oh bleep, that was creepy" moment was when Lucy got bitten for the first time, and also the one you said

@absolite6

2 жыл бұрын

Mine was Lucy's sleepwalking trip to the graveyard...

@Pandie2828

Жыл бұрын

Why did he steal Johnathan's clothes?

@danielhamilton5862

Жыл бұрын

@@Pandie2828 Im pretty sure it was so that people could see “Jonathan” leaving Dracula’s Castle. That way anyone looking for him would think he disappeared after leaving Dracula rather than the last sighting being him climbing into the carriage to go to the castle.

@Pandie2828

Жыл бұрын

@@danielhamilton5862 ah ok that makes since and thanks for the quick reply

oh also, the entire book is transcribed from various diaries to typewritten BY MINA. she really is the og girlboss

I always thought vampires were “sexy” because their attractiveness causes their victim’s blood to flow more (cause, you know, their aroused or whatever) making it easy to drain the blood

@JaelinBezel

2 жыл бұрын

It’s also probably easier to get close to someone’s neck if you look like Leonardo DiCaprio as opposed to Igor.

@Br-kc2jy

2 жыл бұрын

But would it flow more with fear?

@Burning_Dwarf

2 жыл бұрын

@@Br-kc2jy fear makes your body react the same as with cold, everything narrows and bloodflow get focused on the vitals Being hot, figurative as well as literal makes it much easier to draw blood That is why donation locations usualy have their thermostat quite high

@Br-kc2jy

2 жыл бұрын

@@Burning_Dwarf Good to know

@junesmind7325

2 жыл бұрын

@@JaelinBezel Fear can bring the same effect. Actually it's probably more effective so I guess it was just about preference.

The fact that she says "holy symbols" instead of crosses gives her away as a DnD nerd!

@mr.potato2223

3 жыл бұрын

I mean she knows jocat Also whats it like having a head bigger than your entire body?

@giacomoromano8842

2 жыл бұрын

Crosses are super overused... imagine how could would it be to have a vampire hunter who possess a actually, 100% true reliquary, like a bone or a martyrdom tool of some saint... that would hella hurt a vampire more than any cross.

@RiverRapids11235

2 жыл бұрын

there was actually one, kind of old joke about containing a vampire by luring it into a multi-faith chapel or any other place where there are lots of different religious symbols, whereupon the vampire would have a seizure. so it has never been specified that it has to be crosses, any symbol with religious significance works

@elenafriese891

2 жыл бұрын

@@giacomoromano8842 I know one book where the main character uses a lamb partially due to a younger experience with an overly graphic sculpture of the crucifixion. She explains her reasoning pretty well, but the rest of the cast still makes jokes about protecting yourself from a den of vampires with a wooly animal.

@swordofstabbingold

2 жыл бұрын

She literally calls dracula seeing in the dark "darkvision"

I want Red to serenade me for half an hour with a summary of Dracula

What I learned from this: This is why Johnathan is named johnathan in hotel transylvania

Was just rewatching this on a post-Halloween binge and had a thought: a modern movie adaptation could be made...if it was a Found Footage genre consisting of a video diary by Jonathan, skype conversations between Mina and Lucy, snapchats and twitter posts of the more random scenes or news stuff, and vlogs of the main action. Like, Blair Witch but with more variety in media footage and also vampires.

@abbyj8915

4 жыл бұрын

Oh my god I have tried to pitch this idea to all of my friends that want to go into film production- the catch is that vampires cannot be caught on camera unless they're in night vision mode or with a particular filter (i.e instead of the not being able to see Dracula in the mirror, Harker can't see him on the camera)

@mollybirdgrace9955

4 жыл бұрын

@@abbyj8915 Oh my god, the camera trick is genius. You spread the word girl! Maybe if we tell everyone we can think of, someone will come back to the idea once they've got a career and go: imma do this, good idea.

@arisamwell2190

4 жыл бұрын

I'd watch that

@coldghost86

4 жыл бұрын

This would be fascinating to watch!

@Lh0000

4 жыл бұрын

If I recall cameras use silver as a component in the circuitry, and they used to use silver bromide if I remember in old fashioned cameras. Soooo they might not actually show up in them. Depends really.

Lucy: "Retellings always turn me into a slut." Me: I know, right? **stares at Netflix/BBC's Dracula**

@jenniferschillig3768

2 жыл бұрын

And Francis Ford Coppola's. I mean, I know Coppola probably wanted to distinguish more between Lucy and Mina, and to avoid the "Victorian ingenue" cliche, but would a sheltered upper-class Victorian lady even KNOW about some of the stuff Lucy talked about? Of course it was all talk and it was probably meant to come off as more like a teenage girl trying to come off as more worldly and sophisticated than she really is, but considering the time period it's rather ridiculous.

@TitusVarus

2 жыл бұрын

@@jenniferschillig3768 If memory serves he also had Sadie Frost dye her hair because he didn't want audiences confused by the two main women having the same hair colour. I've often suspected that they chose red hair for Lucy because they wanted to push the old "redheads are sex demons" trope. On a more amusing note, Winona Ryder is naturally blonde, while Sadie Frost has black hair. In the book Mina is fair haired and Lucy has black hair. Assuming my memory is solid, which it might not be.

@rafmeinster

2 жыл бұрын

@@TitusVarus I don't believe Mina's hair color was ever specified in the book.

@TitusVarus

2 жыл бұрын

@@rafmeinster Ah well, there you go. I probably picked that up from somewhere along the way and my brain blended it in.

The portions with the Demeter are always my favorite part of this book. Just the idea of being trapped at sea with freaking Dracula eating the crew one by one then slinking up a completely depopulated ship to the dock really works for me.

Coming here after the highly successful 2022 run of Dracula Daily, and I want to reimagine the story as a vlog series. Jonathan's diary would start off as a fun travel log, getting darker and less slickly produced as the story goes on, Lucy has a cute and quirky editing style, but the effort takes a nosedive along with her health, Seward has low-production talking head vlogs in his bedroom with bad lighting, Mina's style gets more serious after Lucy's death, but production quality never wavers, and the log of the Demeter is shaky horror Tiktok style. Also, I think modern Lucy's trademark fashion should be floral sundresses. She just has those vibes.

“Van Helsing serious face” Dying of laughter

@lplayz605

6 жыл бұрын

BooCakeSenpai IKR!? I almost couldn’t stop laughing 😂

@demi-femme4821

6 жыл бұрын

S Get equipped with Serious Face

@Vangooter

6 жыл бұрын

BooCakeSenpai I had to pause the video every time he does it just to laugh

@plutoandpolaris

5 жыл бұрын

Honestly same I was dying every time.

@rachaelstewart1383

5 жыл бұрын

Actually it's helpful for the doomsday , weirdmmagedon

"...and that Arthur and Stuart are both happily married, although not to each other." And this is how you start ship wars, Bram Stoker.

@CJCroen1393

4 жыл бұрын

I for one wholeheartedly support an adaptation of Dracula where the last remaining members of Lucy's Man Harem find comfort in each other and fall in love after her death.

@ninjabluefyre3815

4 жыл бұрын

@@CJCroen1393 I've had an idea for a found footage style Dracula film released in two versions, one that stays as close to the book as possible, and one to play around with interesting ideas like this one.

@CJCroen1393

4 жыл бұрын

@@ninjabluefyre3815 A found footage Dracula film would be really cool! Especially since it would fit with the story's original format!

@carolinemcgovern4488

4 жыл бұрын

@@CJCroen1393 Yes. I know the found footage phase of Horror has faded, but come on guys! Dracula's just perfect for that style! And it would modernise the story without taking away the horror.

@monhunterz5430

4 жыл бұрын

@@carolinemcgovern4488 The only problem is, how do you get a film camera in the Victorian era?

Count Dracula would really make for a wonderful housewife. He's an amazing host and cook.

Honestly, the slow paced horror ambiance of Dracula being some other wordly evil and the dude squad hunting him down sounds like such an awesome adapation. They should cut the shit with Dracula being a sexy brooder and make him him more the unnerving mysterious evil.

@justasoulsfan9805

7 ай бұрын

They already did this in the Hammer Horror films, the Dan Curtis movie, the BBC 1977 adaptation and both Nosferatu movies (1922 and 1979). Plus how the book presented it was so dry and drawn out, one forgets Dracula was actually a thing in the story. Plus he does practically nothing that makes you fear him in particular. And if he manages to do something it feels more like the "guy squad" are just a bunch of fools, despite consisting of two doctors, one solicitor, one lord and an experienced texan hunter. For real, the people who love the book make it sound like an epic journey to conquer evil, but actually it's just a hamfisted story about a foreign guy invading england and stealing away the girls. And everyone (including the villain himself) is as infuriatingly dumb as the scientists in Ridley Scott's "Prometheus".

I would watch the 30 min version of this.

@thezentrader

7 жыл бұрын

or the 120 min :)

@tobender4ever

6 жыл бұрын

gph.is/1G3WGvv

@Elizabeththegreatest

6 жыл бұрын

Me too!

@NemeyukoP

6 жыл бұрын

Graham Ryder the problem is that she probably is that’ll take forever to draw. She draws it and it’ll take forever. This coming from a noob artist.

@Matheus-ql7mn

5 жыл бұрын

Me too! Still wishing for it...

Quincey being left out of most adaptations always seems weird to me. I mean, a badass gunslinging American hero sounds like the kinda thing Hollywood would put INTO a movie adaptation of a book, not take out.

@cayreet5992

5 жыл бұрын

It's often a quesion of money, I guess. There have even been versions, like the one with Bela Lugosi, where Jonathan Harker and Lucy's three suitors are combined and Mina and Lucy are fused as well - to save on roles to play.

@ninjabluefyre3815

5 жыл бұрын

In the first BBC adaptation, even though it's the most book accurate, still combines Quincey and Arthur into a single character called Quincy Holmwood.

@crocuslament9680

5 жыл бұрын

@@cayreet5992 How do you... that... how does... no sense... HOW DOES THAT WORK? HOW DO YOU DO THE ENTIRE BOOK WITH THREE CHARACTERS?

@loridragon1118

5 жыл бұрын

Quickly and confusingly, that's how.

@JackSilver1410

5 жыл бұрын

They did. They called it Van Helsing... Nothing else matched.

“Welcome to my house! Enter freely. Go safely, and leave something of the happiness you bring.” - Count Dracula

Good to know you also misinterpreted the Seward and Arthur line even before Dracula had a fandom

"After a run-in with 3 sexy vampire ladies, Jonathan decides he needs to get the heck out of there." Which is weird because I know a lot of guys who would look at 3 sexy vampire girls and think "I'm staying here".

@wppb50

4 жыл бұрын

"Leela, I never thought I'd die like this... but I always really hoped."

@greensun0008

4 жыл бұрын

ah, victorians

@AlashiaTuol

4 жыл бұрын

Jonathan's #1 defining characteristic in the book (besides Determination) is that every cell, tissue, and organ of his body and every spark and crevice of his soul belongs to Mina and he wouldn't have it any other way. The feeling is mutual (at least in the book). They're basically an OG power couple.

@AlashiaTuol

4 жыл бұрын

I literally don't think there's a single entry of his journal without some mention of how much he loves her. Heck, it's uncommon to find a _page_ of his journal where he doesn't mention her. Even though she doesn't actually show up for like, a third of the book. That's how much Jonathan loves to gush about his wife. There's a part where the other men are all talking about how great and talented Mina is and instead of getting all jealous Jonathan's like "I could sit here and listen to them compliment the love of my life all day because she 1000% deserves it."

@barbatosmcmurderton4209

4 жыл бұрын

Remember that he already saw said women eat a baby. Just saying.

“Mr. Bram Stoker has never spoken to an American in his life” *Bram Stoker has entered the chat* (EDIT: I was making a joke from part of the video. You can stop commenting that he did meet americans because I know that already. The quote is from the video on overly SARCASTIC productions. 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️)

@dubuyajay9964

4 жыл бұрын

Except he had a friend from Pennsylvania. Which was ironically the inspiration for the "Texan" Quincy Morris.

@jojocircus9818

4 жыл бұрын

Dubuya Jay you’ve been wooshed

@zerogbot23

4 жыл бұрын

@@dubuyajay9964 He also met 2 presidents

@lorendaemon7945

3 жыл бұрын

He fucked Walt Whitman I think he spoke to at least one

@crowthewicked8344

3 жыл бұрын

@@lorendaemon7945 Pics or it never happened, show me the receipts!