Dracula reboot described as faithful yet different.
Jun 16, 2020 15:03:13 GMT
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Post by Salzmank on Jun 16, 2020 15:03:13 GMT
Heh, I’m not really that big a fan, masterofallgoons…though I did get into the monster stuff as a kid and still remember a fair amount of it.
Amen to her for not making the Count a romantic hero.
As for the play… This may be a bit embarrassing, but I wasn’t really trying to mount a play-production: I was actually writing my own Dracula script for a high school filmmaking class. In that class I wanted to make real movie-movies, as close as I could get with one camera in the backyard and my friends as actors, rather than short videos, and I tried making movies in tons of genres. Two westerns, one ghost story, one noir-mystery, etc. So I wanted to make a monster movie too, and for a while I really wanted to adapt Dracula as best I could on no budget, and I read the play for background.
Ironically, I ended up adapting Frankenstein instead—just for the camera to poop out on me after I’d shot all the footage, goddamnit. Will always regret not filming on a better camera. (My parents gave me one for Christmas that year.
)
Amen to her for not making the Count a romantic hero.
As for the play… This may be a bit embarrassing, but I wasn’t really trying to mount a play-production: I was actually writing my own Dracula script for a high school filmmaking class. In that class I wanted to make real movie-movies, as close as I could get with one camera in the backyard and my friends as actors, rather than short videos, and I tried making movies in tons of genres. Two westerns, one ghost story, one noir-mystery, etc. So I wanted to make a monster movie too, and for a while I really wanted to adapt Dracula as best I could on no budget, and I read the play for background.
Ironically, I ended up adapting Frankenstein instead—just for the camera to poop out on me after I’d shot all the footage, goddamnit. Will always regret not filming on a better camera. (My parents gave me one for Christmas that year.
)