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Snake5555555555 07/11/20 11:41:32 PM #50:	Shonen_Bat posted... Jack the Ripper if that doesn't count as a "character", then Bela Lugosi's Dracula (NOTE: I will do Jack the Ripper if you want to specify a fictional source he has appeared in. Doesn't really count otherwise imo.) He wasn't the first. He certainly wasn't the last. But, he was the best. And that's not even because he was the catalyst for damn near every portrayal to follow. Lugosi's Dracula was purely magnetic, an aristocrat, a well-spoken antagonist that could enjoy engaging in polite conversation just as much as he would enjoy feasting on your blood. Even among his other Universal children of the night, Lugosi's Dracula had a peculiar sophistication to his character, and if all the Universal monsters are different reflections & insights into the human mind, I would definitely mark this version of Dracula as representing our deceitfulness and willingness to betray others through faux-politeness and ulterior motives. I liken his place in the canon to Freddy Krueger's among slashers, a jovial, humor-spouting killer belaying truly sadistic tendencies & sickening methods. Lugosi would go on to avoid the role like a plague however, only reprising it once in Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein, despite playing similar vampiric characters in other films & even other roles in the Unversal Monster series. I think that was for the best; after all, you only need one legendary film to cement your place in permanent pop culture history forever. Rating: 9/10 --- The dead are not quiet in Hill House. https://imgur.com/LAzHE1a - https://imgur.com/a/dwC3Dfu <cite>Snake5555555555 posted [p:941996083] in Snake Rate... [t:78833004]...</cite> <quote>Shonen_Bat posted... </cite> <quote>Jack the Ripper if that doesn't count as a "character", then Bela Lugosi's Dracula</quote> (NOTE: I will do Jack the Ripper if you want to specify a fictional source he has appeared in. Doesn't really count otherwise imo.) He wasn't the first. He certainly wasn't the last. But, he was the best. And that's not even because he was the catalyst for damn near every portrayal to follow. Lugosi's Dracula was purely magnetic, an aristocrat, a well-spoken antagonist that could enjoy engaging in polite conversation just as much as he would enjoy feasting on your blood. Even among his other Universal children of the night, Lugosi's Dracula had a peculiar sophistication to his character, and if all the Universal monsters are different reflections & insights into the human mind, I would definitely mark this version of Dracula as representing our deceitfulness and willingness to betray others through faux-politeness and ulterior motives. I liken his place in the canon to Freddy Krueger's among slashers, a jovial, humor-spouting killer belaying truly sadistic tendencies & sickening methods. Lugosi would go on to avoid the role like a plague however, only reprising it once in Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein, despite playing similar vampiric characters in other films & even other roles in the Unversal Monster series. I think that was for the best; after all, you only need one legendary film to cement your place in permanent pop culture history forever. Rating: 9/10 --- The dead are not quiet in Hill House. https://imgur.com/LAzHE1a - https://imgur.com/a/dwC3Dfu</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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