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''"I bid you...welcome."
''"Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make!"
''"[[I Do Not Drink... Wine|I never drink...wine.]]"''
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'''''[[Dracula]]''''' is a [[Universal Horror]] film from 1931, which made [[Bela Lugosi]] famous as ''The'' [[Classical Movie Vampire]]. His portrayal of Dracula is the one most people think of when they hear the characters name (or even just the word "vampire"), even those that have never seen the movie.
Here's a summary:
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In 1936, it was followed by a direct sequel entitled ''[[Dracula's Daughter|Draculas Daughter]]''.
For the 1958 [[Hammer Horror]] adaptation go to ''[[Horror of Dracula]]''.
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* [[Adaptational Attractiveness]]: Apart from making the disgusting Dracula from the book into a sex symbol, the 60-years old Renfield is played by the 31-years old, [[Stupid Sexy Flanders|stunningly handsome]] [[Dwight Frye]]
* [[Adaptational Badass]]: Inverted with Harker. His role in the film is limited to Mina's [[Love Interest]] and [[Agent Scully|the skeptic]] to Van Helsing's advice.
* [[All in the Eyes]]: The classic example.
* [[Answer Cut]]: Used after Mina is bitten by Dracula for the first time.
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** Also, Dracula's dying moans were removed by censors, and not heard for decades until the film's DVD release.
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: The peasants at early parts of the film speak authentic Hungarian, including praying The Lord's Prayer.
* [[Blood Lust]]: Dracula's bloodlust is demonstrated in a scene where Renfield accidentally cuts his finger, causing Dracula to stare hungrily at the blood.
* [[Cardboard Prison]]: Dr. Seward's asylum can hardly keep Renfield in. He manages to get out of his room to wander around the premises even without his master's help.
* [[Charm Person]]: Dracula's hypnotic powers are between this and [[Hypnotic Eyes]].
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* [[Melodramatic Pause]]: Dracula's speech patterns are filled with these.
* [[Misplaced Wildlife]]: Armadillos in Transylvania. Yeah, we know. Also, if you look closely, you'll notice the "rats" in Dracula's crypt were being played by opossums, which are also native to the Americas. Then again, so are vampire bats and nobody seems to complain about that...
* [[Only Sane Man]]: What Martin believes himself to be, said in a humorous exchange.
{{quote|'''Maid''': "He's crazy!"
'''Martin''': "They're all crazy. They're all crazy except you and me. Sometimes I have my doubts about you."
'''Maid''': "Yes."
''Martin slowly backs away'' }}
* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]: Dracula is a largely emotionless bloodthirsty [[Humanoid Abomination|abomination]] that passes itself off as human, and there are plenty of cracks in that [[The Masquerade|masquerade]] that make him seem more than merely eccentric to ordinary people; for example, Castle Dracula looks as though its been abandoned for centuries, with Renfield surprised that anyone actually ''lives'' there; Carfax Abbey is in a similar state of disrepair, and he bluntly informs his bewildered neighbors that he has no intention of fixing it up. He also doesn't seem to like or be able to keep up his facade of normalcy for long periods of time, and he will leave, enslave or kill you within minutes of any meeting. In addition, his idiosyncratic speech patterns make it seem like he hasn't used his mouth for speaking in a long, long time. He's less like a cursed man than some kind of malevolent, primitive, pre-programmed robot that doesn't fully understand how it should interact with human beings. Quite creepy indeed.
* [[The Power of Blood]]: As Dracula puts it:
{{quote|"The spider spinning his web for the unwary fly... The blood is the life, Mr. Renfield. "}}
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* [[Vampire Vords]]: [[Ur Example]]
* [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]]
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: What happened to Lucy and her victims?
* [[You Have Failed Me...]]: Dracula kills Renfield when he unwittingly leads Van Helsing and Jonathan to him.
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