tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32528082.post7149383555851561670..comments2023-08-11T04:33:49.146-04:00Comments on Books, beer and barbarians: 100 Days of Fantasy: Day 55Tyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09192814826756623212noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32528082.post-23024592307496139952010-10-04T13:59:02.525-04:002010-10-04T13:59:02.525-04:00(sorry - wanted to get the link right. hate that ...(sorry - wanted to get the link right. hate that comments can't be edited!)<br /><br />OK - memory is faulty. One Bowie knife and one gypsy knife. (according to the differences listed on this page.)<br /><br />Here is a Wiki page about the adaptation. I will also note that this 'Count Dracula' should not be confused with the 1973 'Count Dracula' - which was a NON-Hammer Christopher Lee appearance - though that also tried to stay closer to the novel.<br /><br /><a href="http://tinyurl.com/2bucafy" rel="nofollow">Count Dracula ('77)</a>Paul R. McNameehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13498380385001618758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32528082.post-350103497416881042010-10-04T13:56:31.456-04:002010-10-04T13:56:31.456-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Paul R. McNameehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13498380385001618758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32528082.post-66718010804983551052010-10-04T13:54:37.515-04:002010-10-04T13:54:37.515-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Paul R. McNameehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13498380385001618758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32528082.post-24637293485463730272010-10-04T13:30:55.397-04:002010-10-04T13:30:55.397-04:00Paul, thanks for letting me know about the '77...Paul, thanks for letting me know about the '77 BBC version. I'll have to look for it.<br /><br />"Watershed" is the right word. Too many seem to think vampires started with Anne Rice (not that she's the worst author in the world). Truthfully, even Stoker didn't kick of vamp literature, but he definitely got the ball rolling big time.<br /><br />And for the record, I hate, hate, hate vampires that sparkle. They should all be staked. Or, um, Bowie knifed.Tyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09192814826756623212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32528082.post-85665315806384877722010-10-04T13:25:25.679-04:002010-10-04T13:25:25.679-04:00Even better, it was TWO knives - Bowie knives, no ...Even better, it was TWO knives - Bowie knives, no less. Decapitation and through the heart.<br /><br />Probably more thorough than any movie vampire killers managed, when you consider all the sequels ;)<br /><br />A lot of people like Coppola's 'Dracula' and site it as close to the book. I didn't and don't. Large liberties were taken by adding a reincarnation love story.<br /><br />The closest adaptation I have ever seen was the 1977 BBC television version, 'Count Dracula' with Louis Jordan. For years I raved about it - because it was so close to the novel. Now that I look back, I realize books and screen are two different mediums. Clinging to the novel so closely might not have been the best move.<br /><br />Still, it's out there on DVD if you've never seen it and it's worth viewing. Though, it has the usual 1970s BBC drawbacks of a jolting switch between videotape interiors and film exteriors - and a horrible 'American/Texan' accent on Quincy Morris. (In the early days, the BBC actors seemed to believe all Americans spoke like John Wayne.)<br /><br />I still think the novel was a watershed of horror, in many ways. Like Tolkien, too many people confuse the later imitators' material with the original stuff.<br /><br />It's good to go back and see (read) for oneself.Paul R. McNameehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13498380385001618758noreply@blogger.com