People new to the channel are presented with the endearing, fairly inclusive, and accessible inside joke of “Blue Harvest”, which is immediately followed by the puzzle box in an escape room that is “Rodney”. The explanation of which is destined to sink deeper and deeper into obscurity every week. Incredible. As someone who spent months passively confused about “Westworld”, it feels good to be on the other side of this one
All of this encompassed within the confusingly often appropriately titled segment "Green Trivia". It's a chorus line of inside jokes that are somehow perfectly coherent a lot of the time if you don't know they're supposed to be non sequiturs. How have they done this.
Anthony Hopkins plays two characters. He's the priest in the intro, wearing a fake beard! Also shoutout to the unbelievable soundtrack. Every time someone just screams their head off straight at the camera to a choir and bombastic horn section. Still my favorite movie to this day.
I do kinda like that Lucy’s suitors became this Victorian era monster squad, complete with an American cowboy, a posh English gentleman and a wily mad scientist Doctor. I would loved a movie of that crew rolling heads with Van Helsing.
Having read the book, I love da Lucy boys. John Seward in particular is the most devoted to her even though she chooses Arthur aka Wesley. Their group makes so much of the story.
It’s so sweet, Winona has had mental problems and anxiety thus Gary being a weirdo and Coppola yelling crap at her couldn’t of have been great, so the idea Keanu brightening up her day is heartwarming.
Between the title "Green Trivia," the Blue Harvest gag, and the Rodney supercut, the trivia section is slowly Ship of Theseus-ing itself into an insane parade of ludicrous inside jokes, and I am all here for it
Polish composer Wojciech Kilar's score for the film is beyond gorgeous; probably the finest music ever written for any of the 'classic monster' films ever made.
If I had a nickel for every movie in which Monica Bellucci played a vampire hitting on Keanu Reeves, I'd have two nickels - which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
@@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep Yes, I was sad because I really liked that joke. They brought back the X-via segments though, and I also find it hilarious, so there's that
Having recently read the book, the film Van Helsing is around 70% as kooky as the one in the book. Also the idea that Mina would in any way reciprocate feelings for Dracula is insane. Finally it’s Jonathan that kills Dracula with the assistance and sacrifice of Quincy Morris the most cowboy cowboy to ever cowboy.
You get it, people really tend to let a particular adaptation define the story, the Mina x Dracula stuff is just so backwards it was supposed to an allegory for rape in the book with Mina only drinking his blood under the threat of Dracula killing Jonathan sleeping beside her. So seeing so many people latch onto the ship is real gross. Even when you explain the difference like with Phantom of the Opera with o’l Gerry Butler vs the book, I still met people who are like “I prefer it that way”.
I hate the Dracula X Mina love story so much, it's so awful and misses the point entirely. This film is a wild horny mess that's fun but it's an awful adaptation.
Totally agree. But, the one scene the movie does incredibly well compared to the book is the scene where they are chasing Dracula back to his castle. In the book it is rushed and brushed over quite quickly and isn't given the intensity and gravity the movie gives the scene.
Yeah, while this movie looks beautiful, I had so many problems with this movie, like Dracula has zero sense of subtly when he encounters Jonathan Harker, how Van Helsing acts when he finds out that it is a vampire that they are after really rubs me the wrong way. Plus the Mina in this movie is a real downgrade from the book, especially with the fact that the movie just carries on the whole reincarnated lover angle for Mina, when Mina (despite living in the confines of the time) was actually a real MVP in the book. She deciphers Harkers journal, she comes up with plans with Van Helsing, and she even outwits Dracula in the book, and there is also Reinfeild's redemption in the book where he tries to attack Dracula to protect Mina. Plus the book is full of ideas that I wish people would expand upon in the film, like Lucy and the children that she feeds upon. What if she turned them into vampires and she tries to tempt Arthur with the idea of a family if he joins her? Or if Dracula manipulated more people in London, and when the group is destroying his boxes of earth, and dracula had the children that Lucy bit sleeping in them and forcing the group to attack them? So much potential and they always waste it by making a love story between the wrong people.
I actually looked it up when reading the book Dracula because I was curious after Van Helsing gives Lucy like four blood transfusions from different people. Blood types were first discovered three years after Dracula was published.
If you want to see some more great practical effects involving trains and period settings, I highly recommend the early Lars von Trier film "Europa" (very different to the later stuff he is known for).
I remember I was in 6th grade when this came out and it was the "cool" thing to be able to see it in the theater because it was rated R. Man... those vampire foursome scenes sitting next to Mom at age 12 were extremely uncomfortable.
To this day it's still uncomfortable to watch sex scenes with My parents. You end up looking somewhere else just like ah yes the floor is Indeed Made of floor.
@@skeletor6573 I feel the same way. I recently watched Outlander with my mom and they have sex almost every episode in it and had a man rape another man. I kept wanting to fast-forward and my mom said no, I started leaving the room, and in the end she said it was the favorite thing she watched this year.
I have given up on watching new movies with my mom and dad. Too much sex and cussing. Thank you woke, imaginationless, propaganda Hollywood for giving me a reason to stop watching any movie after 2010.
I love this movie, as a big fan of the book I think this film is the closest we will ever get to a truly faithful adaption without it being to faithful it drags on to long. It's a balance you need between staying true to the book but also changing things up where it's needed, and the sets and imagery and music is all so spot on.
Yeah, I know Reeves’ accent isn’t the best but this is still the best Dracula adaption, IMO. Gary Oldman carries this film as Dracula, and the various Dracula transformations just suit Oldman’s own acting abilities to disappear into a role. Winona Ryder is great too, Anthony Hopkins seems like he enjoyed playing Van Helsing and the general aesthetic of the film just suits the story’s tone. Plus the opening prologue is one of my favourite film openings.
This movie was a big favorite of mine because of how insane and ridiculous it is, and yet it's also enjoyable on a totally unironic level as well. Sometimes beautifully crafted films just happen to be insane and ridiculous.
This is one of my favorite versions of the Dracula, because of how weird and sexy it is at the same time. It is one of the more notable versions that tap completely into the themes of women and sex that one can find in the book.
The best part of Green Trivia is learning how the working title of Star Wars, Blue Harvest, has inspired so many other things to be titled Blue Harvest.
"Angst angst angst angst, thank god for Keanu Reeves. Thank God I'm going to see Keanu." -me sad before seeing John wick 2 in theaters after my terrible day in high school
Favourite line delivery in the film is Van Helsing explaining cutting off Lucy's head to Johnathan and Mina, and Keanu's exasperated response of "Doctor!" is incredible.
I originally saw this in the theater and hated it at first. But years later, I started studying film and I watched it again and was completely amazed by it! It’s still on my favorites!
11:43 _"At the time it was the most direct adaptation that we'd seen."_ I still think that may be the case. It certainly is if your _"iPad version"_ is the _Steven Moffat_ and _Mark Gatiss_ *_Dracula._* If that's the only competition, it is far less like the book. The behind the scenes making of goo is terrific. The amount of rehearsing and experimentation they did prior to princpal photography simply isn't done now. *EDIT:* I read elsewhere here that *Cinemassacre* has a great video whuch tried to determine the closest adaptation.
Why does Steven Moffat feel the need to adapt every single British property imaginable. Sherlock. Doctor Who. Dr. Jekyll\Mr. Hyde. And I think some more but I can't remember.
I love how clueless Mason is about dating apps. He confused Grindr for Tinder, and doesn't even know which swiping is Like or Pass. All feeds in to my theory that Maso has had a secret family this whole time, and that Nick Mason isn't actually his real name
Fun fact for the demon bat scene, none of the actors had seen him in the makeup so once in position they were all told to shut their eyes and Oldman went around and whispered horrible things in their ears so when he is 'revealed' apparently that shot is them first seeing him and their horrified reactions are genuine.
Redlettermedia has video that dives into the in camera effects a bit more. I watch it fairly often because it is just fascinating stuff. Great video as always fellas!
Winona’s journey about always being overjoyed when getting to work with him on the film melts my heart. Ironic given the film pushes her and Dracula so hard.
Ive heard differently, it's a common myth that hes a "nice guy" he actually manufactures this persona of being sad to gain popularity, otherwise known as his "blue harvest"
The special effects work is fantastic. Coppola himself said that there are some effects in the film that they have no clue how they did anymore, as they hadn't documented it during filming. Crazy to know that some of the most amazing 90's practical effects are now lost to time. Also, on the note of "watch it at night and fall asleep and wake up to weird shit" - When DVD took off, and I had gotten a PS2 in high school, Dracula was one of the first DVD's I bought. It quickly became one of my favorites to put on to help me fall asleep, because it - along with Interview with the Vampire and a small handful of others - was from that special era where DVD's would auto-start after so long on the menu. So eventually, I'd wake up and see a Keanu getting triple-teamed by vampire ladies, Anthony Hopkins acting like an insane person, or Tom Waits munching on bugs. Good times.
There is maybe 5 movies that I watch every year. Sometimes couple times. This is one of them. I don't know why, maybe the weirdness of the movie, but every time I rewatch this, it feels like I have never seen it before. It's like a fever dream and I love it.
It was Return of the Jedi that was called Blue Harvest...New Hope they didn't give a shit about, but after the success of Empire they were worried that locations were going to try and charge 10x what it was worth if they knew they were filming Return of the Jedi so they called it Blue Harvest...... Considering George Lucas funded both Empire and Jedi on his own without getting much money from Fox, it would make sense that he might want to save as much money as possible. He knew that he could get money from Fox but he wanted full control so he self funded them
The most high brow movie done on this channel with probably the most low brow edits and running jokes. This is the best CoG for Heath Ledgers performance alone !
When I was kid back in school, we had a class where everyone had bring any book to the classroom and read it, which I remember perfectly because I was reading the novelization of Hulk 2003 (100% honest) But one day I forgot the book at home so the teacher lend me some really *I mean REALLY* old books the school had, so I choose Dracula by Bram Stocker But being such a old version the title was a little different, it read *BLUE HARVEST* which is coincedentally the working title for War of the Stars
I love this movie. A period piece shot in the 1990's makes it SO PERIOD but also SO 90'S (those little glasses, the hornyness, the cast). Its like you're watching not one but two period piece movies.
Tbh the same goes for any period drama not taking historical accuracy 110% seriously- it's most evident in films made in the 40s and 50s but set in Victorian times, the dresses are built like 50s dresses but longer, and the hair and makeup is almost always 'modern' too, on the main cast at least.
In the Caravan of Garbage for the Super Mario Movie, James and Maso were incredulous that Tom Waits was wanted for Toad, but after seeing him here as Renfield, it makes complete sense for that movie. He can tone down the husky voice and do some crazy stuff lol
I saw this for the first time in theatres this year and was astonished at how horny it was 😂 All I knew about it going in was Keanu's bad accent and the Mr. Burns parody of Dracula. Nothing could have prepared me for the sheer horniness of this film.
I can't believe you missed the Green Trivia that Gary Oldman in this movie plays a very old man, which are the same letters as his last name. And that man sometimes appears very gray, which are the same letters as his first name, unless you spell it the other way.
One of my film profesors was an AC on this film. He was telling the class how one of his sugestions actually ended up on screen. The thing is most of the class had not seen it and the few who did had just glimpses of it in our minds. So he started going on about his idea and how Francis Ford Coppola liked it and it ended up on screen. He then goes around asking the few of us who actually saw the film if we remember the exact scene. None of us did and he got pissed lol.
So I wasn’t hallucinating when I saw this video pop up in my notifications list about a week ago. You just took it down minutes before I went to watch it lmao.
I can't believe you looked at this one before the one with the late great Sir Christopher Lee! Which, ironically, is part of the name of one of the guys who worked on this film. Which is clearly a sign that you should do the Christopher Lee version.
I remember this film not just for the horniness, but the excessive blood too. I could practically feel the filmmakers shaking me by the shoulders shouting "This is an R rated Dracula film. COULD YOU TELL?" It being bloody and horny makes sense to a point, but the film skirts dangerously close to parody at times lol
This is one of my favs. I was fully expecting you guys to dump on this movie, so I was surprised to hear you loved it too. And mad props to figuring out yet another scheme to work in the Blue Harvest gag.
To be fair, the original novel was EXTREMELY horny (for the time period it was released in). So much so that readers were scandalized by the idea of a man standing by the side of a woman's bed biting her on the neck. Oh my... I've got the vapours... I need to have a lie down on this fainting couch. Coppola just masterfully updated the horniness to a level that would shock modern audiences as much as the source material shocked the Victorian audience. I wrote an undergraduate English thesis on this specific topic back in 94 and got an A on it.
This movie is arguably the second best vampire film ever made. Despite the horrible acting on the part of Reeves and Rider the film is still pretty amazing.
It’s called Bonfire of the Vampires as a reference to another huge box office bomb called Bonfire of the Vanities starring Tom Hanks. One thing many people don’t know is it also went by the working title of Blue Harvest. Strange coincidence
Already listened to the extended edition of this twice on big sandwich and now I finally come to the glorious visual medium… good to see you guys did everything in camera. But genuinely I’m so happy you chose to do this. This is absolutely one of my favourite films. I was 16 when this came out and already a geeky vampire tragic. I saw it three times at the cinema and I remember literally cleaning out my change jar and actually having to the actual last cent enough money to watch it the last time. I rode my bike into town cos it was the last money I had for weeks. At that time you still paid for things in cash and and I gave the cashier a couple of fistfuls of change in gold, silver and even bronze coins! (Those who remember Australian currency at the time know) wow, I was a completely cool jock at that age. Anyways, it was totally worth it. I. Friggin. Love this film. Cheers guys. PS I have no words for how much I hate the Green Trivia music.
@@liamfitzgerald7217 I figured there might be some obscure version out there that was closer to the novel. Thanks for pointing to that video. I'm interested in discovering which that may be. Particularly given I have (very) vague memories of just such a TV production. And I don't mean the *Curse of Dracula* segment from the TV show _Cliffhangers!_ 😋
I really disliked this movie, because they had the nerve to call it Bram Stoker's Dracula and then pack it with all manner of crap that Bram Stoker had nothing to do with. This is Coppola's Dracula and no one else's.
Yeah apparently Coppola went all Kubrick-Shinning on Winona Ryder and yelled and abused her and encouraged all the actors to wind her up like that to make her emotionally battered but Keanu refused to. Because he is an angel.
Accidentally watched this after Robocop 3 Garbage and forgot this was old and got so excited at Green Trivia, Blue Harvest, AND RODNEY being back, only to then remember and become heartbroken again.
I watched this for the first time on Monday and loved it. The movie just oozes charm like blood oozing from the neck of a Dracula's victim. I think Keanu works well as a milquetoast guy (despite being cast due to being a heartthrob) opposite the hamtastic Gary Oldman performance. Can't believe I hadn't seen this before.
People new to the channel are presented with the endearing, fairly inclusive, and accessible inside joke of “Blue Harvest”, which is immediately followed by the puzzle box in an escape room that is “Rodney”. The explanation of which is destined to sink deeper and deeper into obscurity every week. Incredible.
As someone who spent months passively confused about “Westworld”, it feels good to be on the other side of this one
Oh brother
Westworld better
RODNEY! Rodney! Rodney. RODney! Rodney! RODNEY! AAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!
All of this encompassed within the confusingly often appropriately titled segment "Green Trivia". It's a chorus line of inside jokes that are somehow perfectly coherent a lot of the time if you don't know they're supposed to be non sequiturs. How have they done this.
Just wait till someone mentions corn of coblin
Dracula had to continually harvest weird blue synthetic blood to live, giving the movie the working title “Morbius”
He do be morbin tho👀👀😳😳
It's Dracula Time
Subversion of expectations. Nice.
This is going too far
Morblue Harvest, you mean?
James' amazing tax time joke is still going strong
I'm not proud of the involuntary laugh-gasp that I made at the seamless Blue Harvest joke. It was like a jump scare
It’s the best and hardest work James has ever done, and possibly, probably; will ever do. This is his magnum opus.
"Hollywood does not recognise the eyes of God" is an all-time Maso line.
He's full of bizarrely profound bullshit ❤
Anthony Hopkins plays two characters. He's the priest in the intro, wearing a fake beard! Also shoutout to the unbelievable soundtrack. Every time someone just screams their head off straight at the camera to a choir and bombastic horn section. Still my favorite movie to this day.
I'm glad someone else saw that. I wasn't entirely certain, and it's not credited anywhere.
He's also the voice of the captain of the Demeter.
I do kinda like that Lucy’s suitors became this Victorian era monster squad, complete with an American cowboy, a posh English gentleman and a wily mad scientist Doctor. I would loved a movie of that crew rolling heads with Van Helsing.
Having read the book, I love da Lucy boys. John Seward in particular is the most devoted to her even though she chooses Arthur aka Wesley. Their group makes so much of the story.
the VAN HELSING movie that eventually starred Hugh Jackman began as a follow up to this movie, actually.
Imagine the Mummy "Van Helsing" movie with Anthony Hopkins....Dare to dream.
@@Psilocybin77 perfect era for it too.
In other words the plot for Penny Dreadful.
I unapologetically love this movie. Gary Oldman in his Prince Vlad form was one of my first movie crushes.
The Rodney supercut directly after what may be the most flawlessly executed Blue Harvest joke to date sent me to the fucking floor. Incredible stuff.
The running gags just keep expanding and I'm thriving 😆 Rodney gets me every time
The fact that James is laughing so hard at the Blue Harvest joke just makes it 1000x funnier. Never stop
If this movie wasn't so horny, we might never have got Laszlo in What We Do in the Shadows.
Who's Laszlo, I just know this cool guy Jackie Daytona
@@mathiaswalker350 Jackie’s the best. Great guy and just your average Yankee Doodle from Tucson, Arizonia.
@@johansmallberries9874 and a hell of a volleyball coach!
@@HarryBuddhaPalm Let’s Go Bucks!
Dracula walked, so that Laszlo could run?
I think, at some point, these videos are going to have half of its runtime with only inside jokes and I am here for it!
Then they'll call the channel Cinema sins
@@SamTomMillerMusic How depressing.
I wonder how many people's journals say "Thank God I'm going to see Keanu today."
It’s so sweet, Winona has had mental problems and anxiety thus Gary being a weirdo and Coppola yelling crap at her couldn’t of have been great, so the idea Keanu brightening up her day is heartwarming.
Between Blue Harvest, Rodney, and Green trivia this show is becoming completely unintelligible to new viewers… _and I love it._
By this time next year caravan of garbage will just be 20 minutes of recurring bits
Can someone please link me the origin of rodney because every time i hear it i crack up and i need to see the original video
@@nklin6 swamp thing CoG episode
Actually, I totally meant the "Man-Thing" episode, there must be some error in UA-cam, I blame it on tiny James. It's not old, you'll find it quick.
@@johnnyperozo2987 merci beaucoup
Fun fact: the costume designer, Eiko Ishioka, was also responsible for the creation of the costumes used in Spider-Man’s broadway show
This sentence was amazing until the apostrophe
Fun fact: Caravan Of Garbage was originally named Blue Harvest.
And I will crush, that Spider-Man
Really, fuck I hated those costumes
@@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep yeah everyone knows it's Spider's Man Broadway Show
Between the title "Green Trivia," the Blue Harvest gag, and the Rodney supercut, the trivia section is slowly Ship of Theseus-ing itself into an insane parade of ludicrous inside jokes, and I am all here for it
Polish composer Wojciech Kilar's score for the film is beyond gorgeous; probably the finest music ever written for any of the 'classic monster' films ever made.
Kudos to the editors for throwing in a scene from Transformers Rescue Bots as dinosaurs!
If I had a nickel for every movie in which Monica Bellucci played a vampire hitting on Keanu Reeves, I'd have two nickels - which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
Wait whaaaaat
@@allancolorado2080 I'm assuming The Matrix Reloaded in which she and the Merovingian were relics of the old Matrix.
Bodyguard werewolves m8!
@@KageTsuki220 oh that's riiiiight! I had forgotten about the whole motif thing in Reloaded, love that movie, love Monica too 😅
Anyone normal would
Goddammit, this is the first time he REALLY got me with the Blue Harvest. It sounded exactly like IMDB trivia.
He's getting better by the week. I predict that we'll be screaming "HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT" within 2023
@@guillaumelagueyte1019And he did stop eventually
@@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep Yes, I was sad because I really liked that joke. They brought back the X-via segments though, and I also find it hilarious, so there's that
Having recently read the book, the film Van Helsing is around 70% as kooky as the one in the book.
Also the idea that Mina would in any way reciprocate feelings for Dracula is insane.
Finally it’s Jonathan that kills Dracula with the assistance and sacrifice of Quincy Morris the most cowboy cowboy to ever cowboy.
Good, I'm not the only one who hated that stupid romance subplot.
You get it, people really tend to let a particular adaptation define the story, the Mina x Dracula stuff is just so backwards it was supposed to an allegory for rape in the book with Mina only drinking his blood under the threat of Dracula killing Jonathan sleeping beside her. So seeing so many people latch onto the ship is real gross.
Even when you explain the difference like with Phantom of the Opera with o’l Gerry Butler vs the book, I still met people who are like “I prefer it that way”.
I hate the Dracula X Mina love story so much, it's so awful and misses the point entirely. This film is a wild horny mess that's fun but it's an awful adaptation.
Totally agree. But, the one scene the movie does incredibly well compared to the book is the scene where they are chasing Dracula back to his castle. In the book it is rushed and brushed over quite quickly and isn't given the intensity and gravity the movie gives the scene.
Yeah, while this movie looks beautiful, I had so many problems with this movie, like Dracula has zero sense of subtly when he encounters Jonathan Harker, how Van Helsing acts when he finds out that it is a vampire that they are after really rubs me the wrong way. Plus the Mina in this movie is a real downgrade from the book, especially with the fact that the movie just carries on the whole reincarnated lover angle for Mina, when Mina (despite living in the confines of the time) was actually a real MVP in the book. She deciphers Harkers journal, she comes up with plans with Van Helsing, and she even outwits Dracula in the book, and there is also Reinfeild's redemption in the book where he tries to attack Dracula to protect Mina. Plus the book is full of ideas that I wish people would expand upon in the film, like Lucy and the children that she feeds upon. What if she turned them into vampires and she tries to tempt Arthur with the idea of a family if he joins her? Or if Dracula manipulated more people in London, and when the group is destroying his boxes of earth, and dracula had the children that Lucy bit sleeping in them and forcing the group to attack them? So much potential and they always waste it by making a love story between the wrong people.
I actually looked it up when reading the book Dracula because I was curious after Van Helsing gives Lucy like four blood transfusions from different people. Blood types were first discovered three years after Dracula was published.
I watched this too many times on VHS as a pre-teen. It’s still my favorite Dracula.
The best damn Dracula ever made! Truly a classic!
Gary Oldman was gold in this. The man is one of the finest actors out there; a real chameleon.
This movie is still fucking incredible 30 years on everyone realy put out maximum performance and the special effects are so great
If you want to see some more great practical effects involving trains and period settings, I highly recommend the early Lars von Trier film "Europa" (very different to the later stuff he is known for).
Also, don't let's forget Wojech Kilar's *amazing* score!
I love this movie because how faithful it is to the source material, excluding the romance part and the sympathetic villain arc it is spot on.
I remember I was in 6th grade when this came out and it was the "cool" thing to be able to see it in the theater because it was rated R. Man... those vampire foursome scenes sitting next to Mom at age 12 were extremely uncomfortable.
I developed a life long lust for Monica Bellucci after that movie
To this day it's still uncomfortable to watch sex scenes with My parents. You end up looking somewhere else just like ah yes the floor is Indeed Made of floor.
Exactly the same situation when I saw this in the theater with my mom
@@skeletor6573 I feel the same way. I recently watched Outlander with my mom and they have sex almost every episode in it and had a man rape another man. I kept wanting to fast-forward and my mom said no, I started leaving the room, and in the end she said it was the favorite thing she watched this year.
I have given up on watching new movies with my mom and dad. Too much sex and cussing. Thank you woke, imaginationless, propaganda Hollywood for giving me a reason to stop watching any movie after 2010.
I'm still convinced the Coppola family is a bit obsessed with vampires...
"Dracula's Widow", "Renfield", "Shadow of the Vampire"...
I love this movie, as a big fan of the book I think this film is the closest we will ever get to a truly faithful adaption without it being to faithful it drags on to long. It's a balance you need between staying true to the book but also changing things up where it's needed, and the sets and imagery and music is all so spot on.
Yeah, I know Reeves’ accent isn’t the best but this is still the best Dracula adaption, IMO. Gary Oldman carries this film as Dracula, and the various Dracula transformations just suit Oldman’s own acting abilities to disappear into a role.
Winona Ryder is great too, Anthony Hopkins seems like he enjoyed playing Van Helsing and the general aesthetic of the film just suits the story’s tone. Plus the opening prologue is one of my favourite film openings.
One day, you’re going to wake up and realise your entire life was just one long Gary Oldman performance. That’s how good he is.
This movie was a big favorite of mine because of how insane and ridiculous it is, and yet it's also enjoyable on a totally unironic level as well. Sometimes beautifully crafted films just happen to be insane and ridiculous.
This is one of my favorite versions of the Dracula, because of how weird and sexy it is at the same time. It is one of the more notable versions that tap completely into the themes of women and sex that one can find in the book.
One of my favorite Dracula movies. I was Glad it was rated R. The movie was so good.
The best part of Green Trivia is learning how the working title of Star Wars, Blue Harvest, has inspired so many other things to be titled Blue Harvest.
"Angst angst angst angst, thank god for Keanu Reeves. Thank God I'm going to see Keanu."
-me sad before seeing John wick 2 in theaters after my terrible day in high school
I love this weird horny movie, to me it feels like the World's most expensive and well-made high school drama dept production.
Favourite line delivery in the film is Van Helsing explaining cutting off Lucy's head to Johnathan and Mina, and Keanu's exasperated response of "Doctor!" is incredible.
I originally saw this in the theater and hated it at first. But years later, I started studying film and I watched it again and was completely amazed by it! It’s still on my favorites!
Blue Harvest was the original working title for Bram Stoker's book!
11:43 _"At the time it was the most direct adaptation that we'd seen."_
I still think that may be the case. It certainly is if your _"iPad version"_ is the _Steven Moffat_ and _Mark Gatiss_ *_Dracula._* If that's the only competition, it is far less like the book.
The behind the scenes making of goo is terrific. The amount of rehearsing and experimentation they did prior to princpal photography simply isn't done now.
*EDIT:* I read elsewhere here that *Cinemassacre* has a great video whuch tried to determine the closest adaptation.
Why does Steven Moffat feel the need to adapt every single British property imaginable.
Sherlock.
Doctor Who.
Dr. Jekyll\Mr. Hyde.
And I think some more but I can't remember.
I love how clueless Mason is about dating apps. He confused Grindr for Tinder, and doesn't even know which swiping is Like or Pass. All feeds in to my theory that Maso has had a secret family this whole time, and that Nick Mason isn't actually his real name
MASON USES GRINR????? 👁️👄👁️
@@scottreacher No, my point is that he's so clueless about it that he confused Grindr for Tinder
Fun fact for the demon bat scene, none of the actors had seen him in the makeup so once in position they were all told to shut their eyes and Oldman went around and whispered horrible things in their ears so when he is 'revealed' apparently that shot is them first seeing him and their horrified reactions are genuine.
Redlettermedia has video that dives into the in camera effects a bit more. I watch it fairly often because it is just fascinating stuff. Great video as always fellas!
Keanu Reeves seems like a sweet guy to work with by all accounts so far!
Winona’s journey about always being overjoyed when getting to work with him on the film melts my heart. Ironic given the film pushes her and Dracula so hard.
"I have crossed oceans of time."
By all accents so far?
Ive heard differently, it's a common myth that hes a "nice guy" he actually manufactures this persona of being sad to gain popularity, otherwise known as his "blue harvest"
And much like dracula he's grown younger
James is so old he accidentally published this on Tuesday by accident as well. We must support James in his old age
"I'm in incredible shape for a man my age!"
"How old do you think you are?"
"....54?"
"Yes, James absolutely correct."
The best part of the Coppola family nepotism is they’re all ridiculously talented so every time they do it it works out.
Sofia acting in the Godfather 3
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I saw this on vhs shortly after it came out. Monica Bellucci to a 14 year old boy is....devastating. There went my Saturday!
Same.
The amount of inside jokes in these videos is crazy now, I'm here for it since I've been watching for so long now.
You guys should have mentioned the most epic villain laugh in all of Cinema.
The one two punch of Blue Harvest and "RODNEY!" got me harder this episode then either has ever before. Beautiful episode
Freaking masterpiece, this movie will stay no. 1 dracula movie for a long long time.
Top-tier editing with the SpongeBob image for when James inhaled
The special effects work is fantastic. Coppola himself said that there are some effects in the film that they have no clue how they did anymore, as they hadn't documented it during filming. Crazy to know that some of the most amazing 90's practical effects are now lost to time.
Also, on the note of "watch it at night and fall asleep and wake up to weird shit" - When DVD took off, and I had gotten a PS2 in high school, Dracula was one of the first DVD's I bought. It quickly became one of my favorites to put on to help me fall asleep, because it - along with Interview with the Vampire and a small handful of others - was from that special era where DVD's would auto-start after so long on the menu. So eventually, I'd wake up and see a Keanu getting triple-teamed by vampire ladies, Anthony Hopkins acting like an insane person, or Tom Waits munching on bugs. Good times.
Tbh some of the imagery and cinematography in this movie are some of the best I’ve ever seen
There is maybe 5 movies that I watch every year. Sometimes couple times. This is one of them. I don't know why, maybe the weirdness of the movie, but every time I rewatch this, it feels like I have never seen it before. It's like a fever dream and I love it.
i never see the blue harvest thing coming and it cracks me up every time!
It was Return of the Jedi that was called Blue Harvest...New Hope they didn't give a shit about, but after the success of Empire they were worried that locations were going to try and charge 10x what it was worth if they knew they were filming Return of the Jedi so they called it Blue Harvest......
Considering George Lucas funded both Empire and Jedi on his own without getting much money from Fox, it would make sense that he might want to save as much money as possible. He knew that he could get money from Fox but he wanted full control so he self funded them
@@lutherheggs451 we know
The most high brow movie done on this channel with probably the most low brow edits and running jokes. This is the best CoG for Heath Ledgers performance alone !
When I was kid back in school, we had a class where everyone had bring any book to the classroom and read it, which I remember perfectly because I was reading the novelization of Hulk 2003 (100% honest)
But one day I forgot the book at home so the teacher lend me some really *I mean REALLY* old books the school had, so I choose Dracula by Bram Stocker
But being such a old version the title was a little different, it read *BLUE HARVEST* which is coincedentally the working title for War of the Stars
The more you know ! You had me hooked to your story and just laugh out loud at work !
Dammit you got me. I did not see that coming 😹
LOL. 👍
I love this movie. A period piece shot in the 1990's makes it SO PERIOD but also SO 90'S (those little glasses, the hornyness, the cast). Its like you're watching not one but two period piece movies.
Tbh the same goes for any period drama not taking historical accuracy 110% seriously- it's most evident in films made in the 40s and 50s but set in Victorian times, the dresses are built like 50s dresses but longer, and the hair and makeup is almost always 'modern' too, on the main cast at least.
‘He’s done it again folks.’
😭😭😭😭
All I’m thinking now is Horn-bius. Also the picture of little james is always great.
In the Caravan of Garbage for the Super Mario Movie, James and Maso were incredulous that Tom Waits was wanted for Toad, but after seeing him here as Renfield, it makes complete sense for that movie. He can tone down the husky voice and do some crazy stuff lol
This C. of G. has reminded me just how much I flippin' love this film....
I saw this for the first time in theatres this year and was astonished at how horny it was 😂
All I knew about it going in was Keanu's bad accent and the Mr. Burns parody of Dracula. Nothing could have prepared me for the sheer horniness of this film.
Straight to Horny Jail with this film!
Are we talking The Mask levels of horny
Dracula was a Victorian Age metaphor for sex. How has that escaped everyone?
It's still the definitive Dracula movie.
I can't believe you missed the Green Trivia that Gary Oldman in this movie plays a very old man, which are the same letters as his last name. And that man sometimes appears very gray, which are the same letters as his first name, unless you spell it the other way.
One of my film profesors was an AC on this film. He was telling the class how one of his sugestions actually ended up on screen. The thing is most of the class had not seen it and the few who did had just glimpses of it in our minds. So he started going on about his idea and how Francis Ford Coppola liked it and it ended up on screen. He then goes around asking the few of us who actually saw the film if we remember the exact scene. None of us did and he got pissed lol.
There's probably a clause in Keanu Reeves' contract where he has to play character named John.
I'm not watching this. It's the best Dracula movie ever made, and can never be topped.
I would put Gary Oldman up there on the Mount Rushmore of Dracula’s, alongside Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, and Max Shreak
The Coppola Family’s greatest art form is nepotism.
The Morbius cameo in Bram Stoker's Dracula was a surprise to be sure. But a welcome one.
So I wasn’t hallucinating when I saw this video pop up in my notifications list about a week ago. You just took it down minutes before I went to watch it lmao.
"Dude he ate a kid........it was knarly man"
Johnathan Harker Dracula.
That scene where Dracula fades into the shadows, his red eyes glowing in the darkness, before transforming into a pile of rats, is outstanding.
I can't believe you looked at this one before the one with the late great Sir Christopher Lee! Which, ironically, is part of the name of one of the guys who worked on this film. Which is clearly a sign that you should do the Christopher Lee version.
I remember this film not just for the horniness, but the excessive blood too.
I could practically feel the filmmakers shaking me by the shoulders shouting
"This is an R rated Dracula film. COULD YOU TELL?"
It being bloody and horny makes sense to a point, but the film skirts dangerously close to parody at times lol
Google'd the movie to get to imdb only to see that several movie theaters near me have this playing tonight. Might have to go now
I'd gladly become a vampire if it meant getting to live forever with 21 year-old Winona Ryder. She's stunning in this film.
That scene with the 3 brides 😮
This is one of my favs. I was fully expecting you guys to dump on this movie, so I was surprised to hear you loved it too. And mad props to figuring out yet another scheme to work in the Blue Harvest gag.
Vlads armour at the start is flawless
It’s so fucking rad.
@@li-limandragon9287 soooo rad, and just found out that's why they picked the one they did in dracula LET THE GAMES BEGIN
It shows up in the Blood Omen games a bunch as a homage too
@@hollandscottthomas is that a film bro? The uwe boll one?
@@saintniccage2818 Lol no that’s Blood Rayne! There’s hasn’t been any Blood Omen/Legacy of Kain movies.
Keanu's Acting aside this is a great film and one of the best Dracula movies. Oldman deserved a oscar nomination for this.
To be fair, the original novel was EXTREMELY horny (for the time period it was released in). So much so that readers were scandalized by the idea of a man standing by the side of a woman's bed biting her on the neck. Oh my... I've got the vapours... I need to have a lie down on this fainting couch. Coppola just masterfully updated the horniness to a level that would shock modern audiences as much as the source material shocked the Victorian audience. I wrote an undergraduate English thesis on this specific topic back in 94 and got an A on it.
Coppola's son went on to direct The Strokes and Arctic Monkeys videos? Hell yeah.
This movie is arguably the second best vampire film ever made. Despite the horrible acting on the part of Reeves and Rider the film is still pretty amazing.
It’s called Bonfire of the Vampires as a reference to another huge box office bomb called Bonfire of the Vanities starring Tom Hanks. One thing many people don’t know is it also went by the working title of Blue Harvest. Strange coincidence
Already listened to the extended edition of this twice on big sandwich and now I finally come to the glorious visual medium… good to see you guys did everything in camera. But genuinely I’m so happy you chose to do this. This is absolutely one of my favourite films. I was 16 when this came out and already a geeky vampire tragic. I saw it three times at the cinema and I remember literally cleaning out my change jar and actually having to the actual last cent enough money to watch it the last time. I rode my bike into town cos it was the last money I had for weeks. At that time you still paid for things in cash and and I gave the cashier a couple of fistfuls of change in gold, silver and even bronze coins! (Those who remember Australian currency at the time know) wow, I was a completely cool jock at that age. Anyways, it was totally worth it. I. Friggin. Love this film. Cheers guys.
PS I have no words for how much I hate the Green Trivia music.
I was waaaay too young when I watched this movie for the first time 😅
I’m glad to hear I’m not the only one 😂
Great Job on the Edit Laurence.
I absolutely love this movie. It’s the best Dracula movie imo - it’s pretty true to Bram Stoker’s original novel, and Gary Oldman kills this role
James Rolfe actually did a video about which Dracula movie was the closest to the book. I think the winner was a 70s BBC made for TV movie.
@@liamfitzgerald7217 I figured there might be some obscure version out there that was closer to the novel. Thanks for pointing to that video. I'm interested in discovering which that may be. Particularly given I have (very) vague memories of just such a TV production. And I don't mean the *Curse of Dracula* segment from the TV show _Cliffhangers!_ 😋
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Aside from the Drac x Mina stuff and Lucy being turned into a thot. Yeah it’s pretty dead on.
The SpongeBob breathing edits are absolute savage and I love it. Thank you Ben and/or Laurence.
I saw this as a teenager. A group of friends and I all walked out during the werewolf rape scene
@john george - That’s odd... Most teens would try to sneak into a theater with the promise of a werewolf sex scene.
Apparently Winona Ryder sends her "husband" Keanu Reeves a card on their "anniversary".
I really disliked this movie, because they had the nerve to call it Bram Stoker's Dracula and then pack it with all manner of crap that Bram Stoker had nothing to do with. This is Coppola's Dracula and no one else's.
The idea that this movie is faithful to the book, deserving the accreditation "Bram Stoker's" is ridiculous.
Yeah apparently Coppola went all Kubrick-Shinning on Winona Ryder and yelled and abused her and encouraged all the actors to wind her up like that to make her emotionally battered but Keanu refused to. Because he is an angel.
Accidentally watched this after Robocop 3 Garbage and forgot this was old and got so excited at Green Trivia, Blue Harvest, AND RODNEY being back, only to then remember and become heartbroken again.
I watched this for the first time on Monday and loved it. The movie just oozes charm like blood oozing from the neck of a Dracula's victim. I think Keanu works well as a milquetoast guy (despite being cast due to being a heartthrob) opposite the hamtastic Gary Oldman performance. Can't believe I hadn't seen this before.