Riley ,'Lessons'
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Totally. I own the book by the costume designer. This gives me all the best parts of the movie, without the plot, acting, or dialog.
The big coffee table book? Yep, I have it too. Someday, when I am fabulously wealthy, I will have Mina's red dress made for me.
Fair enough. I'll freely admit I get a little turned on by the hairy beast sex in the rain scene, but only because of the mostly nekkid chic.
And now I'm sure I've just skeeved out a bunch of people.
Not nearly as much as if it were because of Gary Oldman in hairy beast prosthetics.
I actually think the opening act in Transylvania is the finest depiction of Dracula that I've ever seen. It just goes to hell when the setting switches to London and we get Dracula as a Victorian Mack Daddy chasing after Mina.
The wee little train steaming across the map pretty much clued me into the joke. That and the licking of the straight razor. (thehthehthehtheh...)
There was a kerfluffle in the past about this very issue
Oooooh. Gotcha. Quickly moving on, then...
Dracula is astonishingly pretty. I always think he should have gone another half-step, eliminated the dialogue, and just made it a crazy baroque silent film. It's a terrible big-budget extravaganza, but an interesting art-house experiment. Er, in my head.
Wow.
I just caught a quick preview/behind the scenes thing on HBO's upcoming Life and Death of Peter Sellers, and....
Wow.
Just.... wow.
In makeup and costume, Geoffrey Rush's resemblance to Peter Sellers was un-fucking-canny.
Dracula is astonishingly pretty. I always think he should have gone another half-step, eliminated the dialogue, and just made it a crazy baroque silent film. It's a terrible big-budget extravaganza, but an interesting art-house experiment. Er, in my head.
I heard about a silent Dracula ballet movie that was made in Canada (I think) about a year or two ago. It sounded really cool, but I can't remember the title. Maybe someone around here has seen it?
I heard about a silent Dracula ballet movie that was made in Canada (I think) about a year or two ago. It sounded really cool, but I can't remember the title. Maybe someone around here has seen it?
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I've seen a performance of the Dracula ballet, and it was gorgeous. If there is a movie of it, I must own it.
Okay, I think it's called Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary directed by Guy Maddin and it is indeed a filmed version of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's performance of Dracula turned into a silent film.
eta: I'm not sure it's for sale anywhere, though.
It's out on DVD.
I heard about a silent Dracula ballet movie that was made in Canada (I think) about a year or two ago. It sounded really cool, but I can't remember the title. Maybe someone around here has seen it?
eeeeeeeeeeiieeeee!
Yeah, Guy Maddin did this. Haven't you seen his movies, Jilli? He did Tales From the Gimli Hospital which I'd expect to be current on the goth circuit.