Aw, you're welcome! I'm kinda glad I waited a year to post this. It's like a whole fresh experience. I think I'm gonna make some popcorn and watch it this weekend. I wish someone would hire Adam to score a film because holy heck it adds so much...
Thanks for sharing this! I wish I had discovered your stack in time for that book club — the perspectives you incorporated sound fascinating. I watched Coppola’s Dracula last night, and now I can make the weekend into a vampire double feature.
You bet! I wish you'd been in the Dracula club too. It was a fun one. It was also fun to write this post because it was an excuse to remember all the things that happened. It's nearly impossible to describe what kinds of things go on in book club, considering they're always different, based on who signs up for a given club. If/when you do watch this, I'd love to know what you think of Adam's music.
Meanwhile, I've never seen the Coppola "Dracula" (!!) — I need to get on that. I've heard it's quite different than other interpretations.
I highly recommend Coppola’s version! There’s so much to enjoy, despite the few lapses in acting quality.
It’s total aesthetic porn — Eiko Ishioka’s costumes are lavish, Wojciech Kilar’s score is wildly unsettling in the best way, and all of the special effects were executed with old-timey techniques of film manipulation. Oh, and Tom Waits plays Renfield!
This is an odd coincidence, but I watched the Coppola last night as well for the first time in ages. It’s a gorgeous film with such a curious aesthetic. And it’s simultaneously closer to the Stoker novel than most adaptations but also overlaid with a framing device (a love story across space and time) that has nothing to do with any other version I’ve seen. Definitely not perfect, but we’ll worth a watch
Very cool, thank you, I enjoyed that very much I first read Dracula 60 + years ago in a tiny monastery room outside Rome, Italy. The thick walls kept it cool and a small window that looked out on the monastery garden and its walls. I was wandering through Europe with Frommer's $5 dollars a day and Eurail pass in my pack. I needed a travel break. I picked up some used books (in English) and retired for a few days in the monastery to recharge. I had found it listed in Frommer's book. One of the books was Dracula---a riveting read. I am sure that I remember the room so vividly, because of the book.
I know exactly what you mean about really getting to know a room because you’re captivated by something you’re reading in it. I have a similar vivid memory of a cafe in Paris when I was reading Nabokov. I haven’t been to Paris in more than a decade, but I could draw a map of that cafe exactly, and give you a list of the characters who worked there. Thanks for calling up this memory for me! I need to get to Rome, I’ve still never been
Yay! Thanks for sharing this! Definitely worth a re-watch.
Aw, you're welcome! I'm kinda glad I waited a year to post this. It's like a whole fresh experience. I think I'm gonna make some popcorn and watch it this weekend. I wish someone would hire Adam to score a film because holy heck it adds so much...
Thanks for sharing this! I wish I had discovered your stack in time for that book club — the perspectives you incorporated sound fascinating. I watched Coppola’s Dracula last night, and now I can make the weekend into a vampire double feature.
You bet! I wish you'd been in the Dracula club too. It was a fun one. It was also fun to write this post because it was an excuse to remember all the things that happened. It's nearly impossible to describe what kinds of things go on in book club, considering they're always different, based on who signs up for a given club. If/when you do watch this, I'd love to know what you think of Adam's music.
Meanwhile, I've never seen the Coppola "Dracula" (!!) — I need to get on that. I've heard it's quite different than other interpretations.
I highly recommend Coppola’s version! There’s so much to enjoy, despite the few lapses in acting quality.
It’s total aesthetic porn — Eiko Ishioka’s costumes are lavish, Wojciech Kilar’s score is wildly unsettling in the best way, and all of the special effects were executed with old-timey techniques of film manipulation. Oh, and Tom Waits plays Renfield!
This is an odd coincidence, but I watched the Coppola last night as well for the first time in ages. It’s a gorgeous film with such a curious aesthetic. And it’s simultaneously closer to the Stoker novel than most adaptations but also overlaid with a framing device (a love story across space and time) that has nothing to do with any other version I’ve seen. Definitely not perfect, but we’ll worth a watch
Just wow -- I think I say this on all of your posts.
That’s what *I* say whenever you talk in book club!
Very cool, thank you, I enjoyed that very much I first read Dracula 60 + years ago in a tiny monastery room outside Rome, Italy. The thick walls kept it cool and a small window that looked out on the monastery garden and its walls. I was wandering through Europe with Frommer's $5 dollars a day and Eurail pass in my pack. I needed a travel break. I picked up some used books (in English) and retired for a few days in the monastery to recharge. I had found it listed in Frommer's book. One of the books was Dracula---a riveting read. I am sure that I remember the room so vividly, because of the book.
I know exactly what you mean about really getting to know a room because you’re captivated by something you’re reading in it. I have a similar vivid memory of a cafe in Paris when I was reading Nabokov. I haven’t been to Paris in more than a decade, but I could draw a map of that cafe exactly, and give you a list of the characters who worked there. Thanks for calling up this memory for me! I need to get to Rome, I’ve still never been