Dracula poll

[beer_good_foamy]

Right. So since I failed epically at inserting this poll into the Dracula vs Buffy meta post, I thought I'd try to post it separately. At which I failed even more epically, so here's hoping third time's a charm - apologies to those who had time to fill it out first time around.

This is mostly for my own amusement, but there might be a point to it. We'll see. Anyway, ticky boxes and long black capes, how can you go wrong?

[Poll #1152952]

Comments

[menomegirl.livejournal.com]

This one's staying, right?

I remember reading Dracula. My dad told me it was really scary when I brought the book home.

Heh. Maybe back in the 50's it was.

I thought it was one of the most boring things I'd ever read.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Heh. As a horror novel, it was pretty much outdated even back in 1897, yeah. I liked it, but I'm not sure it scared me.

(And again, sorry about the poll mix-up. LJ hates me.)

[pfeifferpack.livejournal.com]

Aside from the obvious that the novel was a way of addressing sexuality to a Victorian audience...the real Vlad Tepes is fascinating though not a vampire. I chose Frank Langella because of the importance of sexuality to the character and he did a bank up job of it playing it for seduction rather than horror.

Kathleen

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Oh, absolutely. I used to know this Romanian guy who hated Bram Stoker with a passion for what he did to Vlad Tepes. Thanks for participating!

[jgracio.livejournal.com]

No Eddie Murphy?

Oh, wait, he didn't play Dracula.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

...and thank the FSM for that. :-)

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

Personally, I'm quite fond of Louis Jourdan 's interpretation of the Count.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

I've never actually seen that one. Starting to think I probably should. Thanks!

[ruuger]

Personally, I've always preferred Arnold Paole over Dracula ;)

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, that's fascinating. Hadn't heard of him before. Thanks!

[novin-ha.livejournal.com]

Walt Whitman. It's all about Walt Whitman...

I started reading the novel but it was boring.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

For which you get the LolWalt! :-)

[novin-ha.livejournal.com]

Meeeep. I love that quote.

[thepadre.livejournal.com]

While I enjoyed Frank Langella's Dracula, I always got a kick out of seeing George Hamilton's in Love at First Bite (1979).

Not to mention the fact that he'd be quite popular at The Bronze.

And ol' Drac should ship with Vamp Willow, lol! She could teach him a thing or two about being...um...naughty.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Dracula/VampWillow... now THERE'S a crossover pairing. I have a feeling Dracula wouldn't be the one wearing the pants in that couple. :-)

[http://users.livejournal.com/peasant_/]

Best onscreen Drac: I rather liked Marc Warren

I see Drac as: a coded interpretation of various aspects of Victorian sexuality that could not be expressed openly in print due to the social censorship of the time.

I ship Drac with: both of the Harkers.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

You know, I had Jonathan Harker in the poll originally, but I figured... nah. Shows what I know. :-) Thanks!

[partri65.livejournal.com]

Actually, I really liked the BBC's "Dracula" with Louis Jourdan, particularly for its adaptation of the story.
All Dracula movies strike me as fairly ludicrous, since I am more of a Stoker purist.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

I really need to see that one, don't I? And yeah, it's funny how nobody's really managed to make a movie that follows the book. Thanks for participating!

[mortalwombat731.livejournal.com]

Here via petzipellipingo, because I can never resist Dracula: I'm a dissertating Victorianist writing on, among other things, Dracula, I have an Edward Gorey Dracula tattoo (not the user pic--him swooping around Lucy) on my bicep, I own at least ten difference copies of the novel, numerous comic books, and most of the movies (none of which are that good, but the worst of which was probably the recent BBC one, which was appalling). Yes, I know they are bad, but I own them. I also do tie ins, like LXG, and I have a Bela Lugosi as Dracula action figure.

Anyhow, hope I didn't skew your poll--I really liked your BvD post--I have used the ep as a teaching tool (I teach Dracula, naturally, and it's short enough to show all of, and none of the movies are good enough or close enough to the book to justify using more than one class) so I like it for that reason, and I also agree that it is a good ep, with a lot to do with the season arc, as well as a great time!

^v^

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Thanks! And yay for another Klaus Kinski vote! :-) Herzog's Nosferatu is a funny kind of vampire movie; it's like he doesn't really know how to make a horror movie, so he does something ... but I really like the way he ties it back to the plague (I've seen more than one theory that blames the whole vampire myth on the Black Death) and Kinski is just... a demon.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

*...he does something completely different, I meant to say. D'oh.

[zanthinegirl.livejournal.com]

I read Dracula at about age 12 and it gave me nightmares for months. I refused to sleep with my bedroom windows open, and insisted on putting a crucifix on the wall over my bed. I think my parents were just amused!

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

LOL! Well, at least it's better than if you'd thought it was kinda cool and started hanging out at cemeteries. That never ends well. Not in the movies, anyway. :-)

[spikendru.livejournal.com]

I remember attempting to read the book several times before I actually did. Talk about dull as dishwater! It was damn near as boring as Lad, A Dog which I was supposed to read in 4th grade and never quite managed to make it through the book. Talk about boooring!

As for on-screen Draculas, I have to go with Frank Langella. He upped the seduction factor by the power of ten, and made me view old Drac in a whole new way. Although not actually playing Dracula, I also really liked George Chakiris in Pale Blood. As for shipping Dracula? Who else but Darla, hmm?

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Darla/Dracula? Hmmm... I get the feeling that would end up a bit like VampWillow/Dracula; I give it three days, tops, before Dracula's hopelessly whipped. :-)

[readingchampion.livejournal.com]

I cast Johnny Depp as Dracula because I believe that he is the only actor that is strong enough to take the Count somewhere new, be that the long awaited true to the book-tale of the new edgy thing. Although, now that I think of it, I think Christopher Lee has another movie in him...