What Badham’s film finally proves—and it is a useful thing to have demonstrated—is that it is time for our culture to abandon Dracula and pass beyond him, relinquishing him to social history. The limits of profitable reinterpretation have been reached (as Frank Langella’s Dracula remarks, “I come from an old family—to live in a new house is impossible for me”). The count has served his purpose by insisting that the repressed cannot be kept down, that it must always surface…
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Nosferatu 2024
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In anticipation of this I watched and rewatched at least 10 Dracula films, Nosferatu '22, Nosferatu '79, and started reading Bram Stoker's original novel. But instead of a Dracula adaptation, or even a remake of either Nosferatu, what I get is a freaked-out remake of The Exorcist with shades of Possession and The Evil Dead. To say I'm "confused" would be an understatement.
All the elements are there, and it does feel distinct from the numerous adaptations I watched which…
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Pygmalion 1938
Heinous, abominable insult to filmmaking, if you even dare call it a "film." No surprise Shaw had supervision over this adaptation. I don't know how closely it corresponds to his original text but it has that playwright stink all over it. Not visual-minded. Too many words. Too much talking. Yes, you can have too much speaking in a film about speech. And there's not to say there's no decent visual aspects at all (though, per Wikipedia, it's due to David…
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Barbie 2023
Ken is basically the main character. In part because he actually does things and changes and develops throughout the film. Despite the title and marketing campaign, Barbie is nothing and does nothing. She cries, gives up, and runs away. Allan is a more active participant in the narrative than Barbie is.
And the "diversity" is pointless. All the other Barbies and Kens are background characters, glorified cameos. And Skipper are Midge are in it even less than them, why were…
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