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Modern Day Dracula Fan Cast

Whether your particular poison is Sherlock, Elementary, or Watson and Holmes (which is a comic that’s worth looking at if you like Sherlock Holmes) you can’t deny that the idea of modern day Sherlock Holmes really works. I think the reason for that, beyond just having strong, archetypal characters, is that the original Sherlock Holmes stories were very modern at the time. It was a scientist applying the latest methods to crime solving in a world where the police ran like that John Mulaney bit about getting away with murder in olden times.

Somewhere along the way we got stuck in the Victorian conception of it, but it’s got the soul of modernity to it. Another novel that has the soul of modernity to it but has been locked to the period, Bram Stoker’s Dracula (not to be confused with the film Bram Stoker’s Dracula, which I do not care for the most part, though I bear no ill will to those who do). The world has sort of latched onto it as a Romantic era story about a brooding vampire and swooning maidens, but it really is more of an enlightenment story. I’d compare it to Pacific Rim or Ghostbusters which are films about regular folk (primarily young folk in the case of the former) who apply science and friendship to defeat old world evil (admittedly among other uncomfortable Victorianisms).

That’s the adaptation I want to see, where a band of young people join together with science and friendship to defeat the avatar of an outmoded, parasitic medieval worldview.

So here’s the cast….

Mina Murray(-Harker): Saoirse Ronan

Stoker was Irish, Murray is an Irish name, and so I think that it’s fitting for the co-star of this movie to be Irish as well. I don’t think anybody can doubt Ronan’s acting chops at this point so I’ll just say that I think she’s got the ability to be kindly and strong, and be the one to take charge of the Crew of Light (which is the badass name the heroes call themselves in the novel).

John Harker: John Boyega

I don’t think I’m the first person to say Boyega would be a great Johnathan. Based on Star Wars alone Boyega can pull off Harker’s mix of “what the F—k is happening” and “touch my friends and I’ll put a Kukri through your neck.” This character has been done wrong throughout decades of film and stage shows and I think Boyega would be perfect to make the character the active, brave, down to earth, kind and loving husband of the novel.

Lucy Westenra: Lily James

Lucy, another character that has been, in my opinion at least, misinterpreted by most adapters. I picture Lucy as Mina’s upper class best friend. A little more deliberately glamorous but a total sweetheart who we believe the Crew of Light would band together to avenge. The idea of an actual Disney Princess in the role of Lucy is a pretty solid way of looking at the character.

Doctor Jackie Seward: Hannah John-Kamen

Yes, I think Seward should be a woman. The cast needs to an overhaul so it’s not all dudes and one Mina once Lucy dies. Kamen has the capability to play a sort of brooding badassery that works for Seward. Seward is a character who is dealing with rejection, being overworked, and probably dealing with some kind of clinical depression but rises to occasion and teams up with the man her ex-girlfriend was going to marry to make sure nobody has to go through it again.

Arthur Holmwood: Tom Felton

As much as I don’t want this to be a total angst-fest, I think Arthur doesn’t really have much of an arc in the novel. Felton can obviously play upper class Englishman and sort of dorky friendly guy (watch his later episodes of the Flash). I think he could also play an Arthur that slowly breaks down at all the loss until he lets the rest of the Crew of Light support him and ends the movie a little more world weary, but ultimately standing upright.

Quincey Morris: Lucas Till

Guy’s actually Texan, which is fun. I’m mostly basing this on his role as Havoc, but I do think he’s got it in him to play Arthur’s supportive, adventurer best friend, who bonds with everyone and sacrifices himself for John and Mina. Just a fun, friendly action hero in the middle of a survival horror thriller.

Abraham Van Helsing: Mark Hamill

I’m sure he can do the accent, and he’s definitely got the look. I imagine him doing a variation on old Luke Skywalker in TLJ. Someone who knows more than the young people around him, who’s hurting from loss and past mistakes (remember book Van Helsing lost a son and has a wife struggling with mental illness) and ultimately gives his charges the tools they need to save the world on their own.

RM Renfield: Bill Skarsgard

I know Renfield should be older, but I have two points. Firstly, I think it’s fun if Dracula ends up enthralling more of an impressionable young person. Second, just look at that picture. That’s Renfield.

Count Dracula: Hugo Weaving

Credit for this one to my friend Ed. Picture him doing Agent Smith crossed with Elrond in Red Skull’s voice. No sexy Dracula (nothing against Mister Weaving), just a dark, menacing, towering figure with a powerful voice looking down on everyone around him.

I’ve decided that my contribution to the Dracula fandom in this site will consist of me telling Hollywood and everyone else who adapts Dracula to back the fuck away from the Harker’s because if you wanted to write an angsty vampire love triangle you already have one with Seward, Lucy, and Arthur. Seward literally spends the whole book mourning the fact that he can’t be with Lucy because she is either with Arthur, dead, or a vampire. Meanwhile, Arthur almost caves to vampire Lucy twice and this would be a great way to give him some characterization outside of ‘rich boy’. There is seriously so much potential, you cowards!

I’m broke but I will rob five banks to fund you if that counts for anything

BBC dracula pissed me off so much that I'm considering writing my own adaption to give us those wholesome found family tropes and healthy gay relationships that we all deserve

These are all incredibly accurate and I love them

dracula characters as inspirobot quotes

dracula:

jonathan harker:

van helsing:

renfield:

jack seward:

mina murray:

arthur holmwood:

quincey morris:

lucy westenra:

I have to watch the first 30 minutes of Bram Stoker’s Dracula for a film class and JIMINY CHRISTMAS THIS IS SO PAINFUL ALREADY

ITS NOT EVEN PRETENDING, IS IT? WHAT IS THIS? WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS? I haven’t even seen the title what is this

why is Lucy a slut

WHY IS LUCY A SLUT

Why is Lucy a slut

Why is Lucy a slut

Why is Lucy a slut

I have to watch the first 30 minutes of Bram Stoker’s Dracula for a film class and JIMINY CHRISTMAS THIS IS SO PAINFUL ALREADY

ITS NOT EVEN PRETENDING, IS IT? WHAT IS THIS? WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS? I haven’t even seen the title what is this

Hey wtf??

Has anyone read the Manga Classics Dracula?!?! Because it’s the best fucking adaptation of the book I’ve seen and NO ONE is talking about it???????

WHEN I TELL YOU I FUCKING C H O K E D-

@animate-mush Your kissing question got me curious and I made an ms paint chart hopefully involving everything recorded. Kisses that are not having blood drinking intent (unless you count the Count's June 29 blown kiss to Jonathan as a promise for later tonight).

It seems like the real craven seductress is Van Helsing Van Helsing gets his hand kissed by the most people. In one scene he gets both hands kissed by the Harkers at the same time. Jack is the only one who gives nor receives any, even the journal gets kissed. I put the one Mina gives to the exhausted Jonathan at the hospital as unspecified location, but I personally assume it was on the lips, since they are engaged. Lucy and Mina kiss Quincey at an unspecified location on their first written interactions, but given the etiquette, it is likely on the cheek. Other fun fact, whenever the Harkers kiss mutually Jonathan takes Mina in his arms.

Lucy: Y’all.

Arthur: All y’all.

Mina: All’a y’all.

Jack: Y’all’s.

Jonathan: Y’all’ll.

Quincey, in tears: I’m so proud.

Lucy's Wedding

(this is in my language, but it is the wedding date of our dear Lucy Westenra) imagine this day, being marked yesterday, beautiful and sunny with flowers and lots of joy, if it weren't for that damned walking leech

Bram Stoker's Dracula

Warning: Spoilers to the ending of an 1897 novel.

Artwork: The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters by Francisco Goya

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After having finished reading the Gothic horror classic that is Bram Stoker's Dracula, it must be said that the ending was, to say the least, not expected.

The original story of Dracula is of the hero group (Jonathan, Mina, Seward, Arthur, Quincey, and Van Helsing) discovering the evil deeds of Dracula and putting an end to said vampire.

The premise is a group of good doers taking down the almighty evil. So, it comes to no surprise that the entire novel was building up to the group's final encounter with Dracula. From the beginning when Jonathan first went to his castle to the end where they trailed Dracula on his path home; it has always been about them putting an end to Dracula's reign of terror.

Previous situations involving Dracula such as the turning of Lucy, and even the planning phase of his demise were several chapters long. Yet when the anticipated moment of Dracula's end comes to fruition, it was less than four pages in length.

In storytelling, the moment being built-up to is expected to be grander than any previous plot point. The three-act structure of the hero's journey (a story structure seen even in the earliest of narratives) has everything in act one and two projecting the story upwards towards the climax. That climax being the highest and most dramatic point of the story.

In a novel called Dracula about the terror and downfall of Dracula, it is safe to say that the climatic point is meant to be Dracula's demise. It is also safe to assume that a novel, constantly discussing the mass array of supernatural and insanely powerful powers Dracula possesses, would have the climax be a grand standoff between the group of heavenly mortals and the great hellish immortal. Yet when they come across the cart transporting the said 'great evil', he doesn't even wake from his slumber let alone fight against them.

Remember watching a movie and asking, "Why didn't they do that and have everything be immediately solved?"

It's because mistakes are entertaining.

Perhaps over the decades since its initial publishing, society has become more drama and action craved. Perhaps that is why this frustration came to be. But if 200+ pages are leading to the death of the evil and powerful Dracula, then is it wrong to be disappointed with this anticlimactic, but ideal outcome.

Perfection is not drama.

Drama comes from the conflict created by opposing forces. Now while that conflict has to resolve at some point, in a story full of drama, the climax is the most dramatic part. Yet somehow Stoker made the most interesting part record-keeping.

In short, Bram Stoker's Dracula is legendary in how it was able to be remembered and praised for countless generations even with its disappointment of an ending.

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I still enjoyed it.

Lord Arthur Adam Someguy, of Household Hall, east of Blandings.

We finally got our first detail about Arthur. He isn't just Some Guy. He's Lord Some Guy.

I love Dracula because it really shows that the age old tradition of giving men random but identifying nicknames when you’re just talking shit with the girlies™️ dates all the way back the Victorian era

Gasp, is Dracula a big thing on tumblr, I fucking love Dracula

I told her I should ask you to see her, and though she demurred at first—I know why, old fellow—she finally consented.

Lucy Westenra: very demure

Arthur Holmwood: very mindful

Favorite thing about Dracula Daily so far is that yesterday I read a post that had in-depth, well-researched analysis that could easily be mistaken for a published literary criticism of Dracula, except it casually makes a passing reference to "the polycule" without feeling the need to elaborate

Godalming and Seward married to each other so true

People in Hollywood are cowards because you could totally do a book accurate Dracula movie and it really wouldn’t be that hard.

Johnathan is just vloging his trip to Draculas castle but the castle doesn’t have any service or wifi so he can’t post anything or send it.

Lucy and Mina’s letters are now text messages or voice memos that are super long.

Dr. Steward voice dairy is wouldn’t have to be changed or it could be changed to him filming himself talking. Or even recorded sessions of him and Renfield

The newspaper clippings could become morning news stories.

All the diary entries are now them just filming themselves talking about what happened in like a video diary format.

It would be so easy! Can you see the vision?

Made this with much consideration (worked off vibes)

As I said in a previous post, I played Lucy in my middle school's production of Dracula. Now, this was sixth grade, and I am autistic, so to say I felt awkward and behaved in cringey ways towards the boy who was Arthur is... putting it mildly. He did not take it well and got vocally frustrated with me. So I didn't like him, and as a result, I have lingering hostility towards Arthur! 😂

Today's entry did nothing to soothe my feelings towards him:

"When Arthur came to lunch he looked quite grieved when he saw me, and I hadn't the spirit to try to be cheerful."

So I may be overreacting but fck that guy. *He* was grieved? Like, come on, man. Her mom is dying, her friend is gone, and she's sick. Step tf up, Art. You're it. Be the change you want to see, my dude.