There’s two parts in the movie where Ridley Scott has the balls to just put the creature on screen for a WHILE and you don’t notice it because it’s so still
Dracula: "I do not drink....wine." 1897 reader: "What a curious thing to say. I wonder why he doesn't drink wine?" 2020 reader: "OHOHOHO I BET HE FUCKING DOESN'T"
I remember osp did a thing on Dracula about how it had so many different stuff to it, like letters and news articles and things like that, which is harder to convey in, like, a movie, and that's a genuine part of the experience
Maven from Vampire Reviews has talked about this when discussing seminal old stuff like The Vampyr, Dracula, and Carmilla, the idea that at the time people had an idea of what "a vampire" was that these charming aristocrats didn't fit, and so they were genuinely surprising and subversive to their contemporary audience
yeah, Vampires if they knew it were basically what we'd think of Ghouls - hideous cunning corpses and corporeal plagues on towns, not cunning aristocrats capable of blending in and planning.
1897 reader: "What a curious thing to say. I wonder why he doesn't drink wine?"
2020 reader: "OHOHOHO I BET HE FUCKING DOESN'T"