Monday, October 06, 2014

Television and Cinema Verities: Dracula Edition


“I didn’t play him as out and out evil. It’s a delicious cocktail because you know he is like the devil. But I’ve tried to show the good and bad paralleling one another – there’s a dynamic there. The film image I can’t get away from is Bela Lugosi. He was really onto something: the way he moved, the way he sounded. I based my voice on his a little.”

- Gary Oldman discusses playing the famous vampire count, in The Making of Bram Stoker's Dracula.


Posted by JKM at
Labels: ,

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

30 Years Ago: Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (1995)

To the uninitiated -- or perhaps the un-converted -- my next sentence may read as silly. But I’m writing it anyway. Godzilla vs. Destoroyah ...

  • Robots of the 1970s: A Gallery
    Last year at around this time (or a month earlier, perhaps), I posted galleries of cinematic and TV spaceships from the 1970s, 1980s, 1...
  • Robots of: the 1950s (A Gallery)
    The robots of the 1950s  cinema were generally imposing, huge, terrifying, and of humanoid build.  If you encountered these metal men,...