In this one, Jayme Antrim swings by to discuss Dracula (1931). We have a terrific time, so good in fact that we decided to do a big fat two parter!
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Possible show titles:
Shouting Dracula
A Year of Dracula
Be a Hunky Dracula
Why is There a Bug Coffin, Guys?
Bag Baby
Brooklyn Slumlord Dracula
Chicken Blood Soup for the No-souled
Take That, Great Britain!
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The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold
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Links
Vampire Anthology with Jayme's Dracula story
The Hammer Brothers from Super Mario Bros
(pic of Jayme as Dracula?)
Ragtime by ER Doctorow (CORRECTION: nominated for Nebula but didn't win)
Extended Notes
pretty canyon painting
among the peaks bygone age
five passengers in coach
tourist lady reading from the book
local says tonight is bad news
nosferatu
to the virgin we pray
geese in the yard!
working people come out to see the coach
ladies hide behind windows
porter starts unloading all the luggage
this dude sounds American
he says not to take down his luggage
innkeeper wants him to wait
hes meeting another coach on Borgo pass at midnight
count draculus
count draculas name scares the hell out of these rubes
"no. you mustn't go there.
we people of the mountains believe that at the castle there are vampires, dracula and his wives, they take the form of wolves and bats. they leave their coffins at night and feed on the blood of the living."
fancy lad is unmoved, he is set on meeting the other coach
(this dude kind of reminds me of my brother - his bright-eyed desire to gain secret knowledge and meet interesting people)
innkeeper's wife gives him her crucifix
everyone is sad that hes going
foreboding clifftop castle
this crypt looks like state of decay
these shots are real arty, like a fellini joint
slow drac and his three spooky wives
we got us a real eye gore (is it Dracula? the implication in the book is that it was)
this dude has a real penetrating stare
spooky af
great fogslashdust effect as carriage rolls up the hill
wtf theres a bat over the horses and no driver
i dont think you could pay me to go through with this
this dude walks smoothly and silently
this dude has real elijah wood face
its mister renfield
every shot hes in makes him small and weak
its so 3D
real black lodge motherfucker right here
drac cant resist blood
but the crucifix freaks him out
renfield not looking too good
dracs fingers are so scary
renfields spooky smile after drac kills crew
renfield now at sewards sanitarium
drac lookin fly
cop whistles and pleather capes
drac mind controls lady at theater
introduces himself to rich moustacheman
his daugter Mina, miss lucy weston, and mina's husband Jonathan
drac compares his castle in transylvania to carfax abb
"to die, to be really dead. That must be glorious." mh: "oh but count dracula." dr: "there are far worse things awaiting man than death."
Lucy tells Mina shes hot for drac. Mina thinks she should chase someone normal
outside Westons place, drac hangs out like a creep
28:00 lucy in bed reading, bigass bat at the window. she doesnt notice it, drifts off. then bat enters and drac advanced with his scary claw fingies
he gets his face right up near lucys neck. so rapey
at seward sanitarium we see an auditorium where they examine Lucy's corpse.
"on the throat of each victim, the same two marks."
Martin the orderly chucks Renfields spider out the window. He is real weird about it
we see oldman doing experiences
gentlemen, we are dealing with the undead. yes nesferatu
professor tells mustache drac is def a vampire
renfield comes in, oldman tries to touch his hand. he recoils
"keep your filthy hands to yourself!"
someone thinks they heard a wolf
annnoying comedy orderly says
"ee thinks theyre owlin back at him! hes cryzy!"
Van Helsing shoves wolfsbane in Rs face, hes like
"you know too much to live Van Helsing"
Renfield doesnt want to do something to Mina but doesnt explain what it is
Drac enters Mina's room, makes the grimace and leans forward
Mina talks about her dream thing the next day
room full of mist
lamp "a tiny spark in the fog"
"And then i saw two red eyes starinf at me and a white livid face came down out of the mist"
Harker tells her it was a dream
"it seemed as if all the life had been drained out of me"
Harker gaslights her
Van Helsing taps in
Harker claims she's hiding something
"is there anything the matter with your throat"
van helsing checks her neck
consent means nothing in 1931 apparently
bite showed up the morning after
"what could have caused them, Doctor?" "Count Dracula." interesting mashup
Mina isnt afraid of Drac?
Drac recognizes Van Helsings name
Count claims to have told her vampire stories
Harkers seems jealous of dracs attention
Van Helsing realizes Drac has no reflection
Dad tells her to go to bed, she objects
Drac reiterates, she goes with no complaint
VH shows Harker the mirror. Hes stunned
Van Helsing asks drac to look at the mirror. Drac reacts with fury and knocks it away
are dracs afraid of seeing themselves? are they ashamed of having no reflection? does it remind them they have no soul?