Dracula

[Dracula Girl]

The real Bela Lugosi was supposedly born in Transylvania, lived in an area where townspeople came down from the hills to sell their goods and brought with them stories of the undead. It is thought by some that this is why playing Dracula came so well to Lugosi. He was actually the second choice for the movie but previously stared in the play Dracula.

[Y'hoshua]

I prefer my vampires to not be pretty-boys : P

Vampires should be more like how Count Orlok is depicted in Nosferatu: ugly, rat-like and a bringer of diseasenosferatu_door_in_the_castle.jpg

[Rushing Jaws]

Stoker's main contribution was in the conceptual arena, not implementation. By modern standards, he doesn't engage in much character development; he's writing more of a potboiler. He's also not much for dialogue, whether compared to 19th century wits (Austen, Eliot, etc.) or 21st century ones (Whedon). As for whether "popular with teens" is a mark of low quality, I happen to like Star Wars.

## Stoker, in contrast to Lucas, knew how to tell a story - "Dracula" proves that. The age of the audience is no indication of a work's value - there is more theological value in the Narnia stories than in the works of most modern theologians.

[RBerman]

## Stoker, in contrast to Lucas, knew how to tell a story - "Dracula" proves that. The age of the audience is no indication of a work's value - there is more theological value in the Narnia stories than in the works of most modern theologians.

I wouldn't be the one to defend George Lucas as a master storyteller. He's more of a synthesist, drawing Kurosawa's "The Hidden Fortress" and pirate movies and WW2 fighter plane movies and King Arthur into a reasonably coherent mythology. There were some good lines in the original Star Wars movie, but Lawrence Kasdan and John Dykstra were responsible for the good parts of The Empire Strikes Back, and the rest of the movies were just an entertaining mess.

As for Narnia, it too is a mix of good and bad. I don't read "most modern theologians" so I won't defend them, but the theologians I do read, I find more helpful than Narnia on the whole.

[thescarsthatfol]

I'm kind of interested in the dark side of life and such. I love vampires and evil spirits. I think this may be a good check in point for me.

[RBerman]

I'm kind of interested in the dark side of life and such. I love vampires and evil spirits. I think this may be a good check in point for me.

That's interesting. Why are you drawn to darkness?

[Rushing Jaws]

40 Days of Night wasn't that bad

"40 Days of Night" sounds like March 14 - the Dawnless Day during the War of the Ring.

There's a bat-woman in the Sil - Tolkien's monsters are usually better than most. The Ring-wraiths are undead.

[Dracula Girl]

The real Bela Lugosi was supposedly born in Transylvania, lived in an area where townspeople came down from the hills to sell their goods and brought with them stories of the undead. It is thought by some that this is why playing Dracula came so well to Lugosi. He was actually the second choice for the movie but previously stared in the play Dracula.

Woops. He was born in Hungary. (What was I thinking???) That town is now in Romania.