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i've always thought it strange how the count has almost always been depicted as an aristocrat from lugosi onwards. how did that happen?
in the book we first see dracula as a grey old man who lives in a ruin of a castle and sleeps in coffins full of of earth. even when he travels to england he stays at carfax abbey, again a ruin. Shreck got this pretty close, even lugosi and lee got the coffins and castles more or less spot on, but somewhere along the way lugosi,lee and all decided he should be a tall dark and suave count.
however, not wanting to sound as though i am sitting on the fence here, but i am a great fan of all the counts more famous portrayals.
the only thing that does surprise me is that after nearly 100 of film there has yet to be one that is truly faithful to the book.
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