You see how the theme changed? It used to be a pretty good story—that savagely illicit passion that might land you with a uniquely bad STD for which the cure was drastic.
I didn’t quite feel the heat with Bela Lugosi though I admired the talent, but I saw Frank Langella live in the theater version of Dracula before seeing him onscreen, and never being a morning person anyway I can’t deny he’d fit many of my criteria for a guy with all the right stuff. Even more so for Jack Palance in the TV movie which preceded Langella in the role by several years.
But these portrayals have always been about reasonably mature women surrendering themselves to men who, if they’d been properly alive, would’ve made interesting husbands.
These days Dracula prefers his own synthetic little children who will never ever grow old, and towards whom he won’t deny himself the more dreadful predations of his nature.
Anne Rice started this I think, but it was most dangerously shown in the original, Swedish filming of Let the Right One In, and now the creation of eternally stunted adolescents is actually being legislated into mainstream medical practice.
This is a pretty bad thing. Sick people want it to happen, and parents such morons that they can be persuaded into allowing and facilitating it are springing up like toxic amanitas everywhere, willingly injecting their kids with cross-sex hormones and signing consent forms for mutilating surgeries, and being praised for these expressions of their love.
Why not? Drag queens as superior parents is the hand-in-hand elder twin to the new vampire ethos in movieland and it’s been plowing the field of our acceptance since La Cage aux Folles in 1978. Mrs. Doubtfire, and Holiday Heart; more than forty years of public and profitable contempt for real mothers.
I’ve loved all the movies I name here except the last which I haven’t seen, but I didn’t recognize the pattern till now. Anyone wondering how we got here, I think I solved the mystery.
Yes, you did solve the mystery! I just didn't know that it would be a big problem for our civilization to deal with. Kinda like the Roman empire. They couldn't survive the decay of society either so the barbarians came in,took over and the dark ages commenced.
Frank Langella! 💓💗 Should have been in more movies. Very good actor. Gorgeous!
Jack Palance❣Great actor! Studly! Miss him a lot!
If boys had been raised to be GOOD men, and that had continued until now, we MIGHT be a little better off. Most, NOT all, the men I've known are spoiled, entitled, little brats, that want their mommies (and wives) to support them. I don't mean morally and emotionally, I mean by doing everything around the house, taking care of the kids, AND working a full time job, PLUS overtime. With NO help from them. Just to be badmouthed by these "men" to every single person they meet about how horrible they are, then they screw around on them (the wife/girlfriend) to top it off.