“Dracula” is one of the most anticipated films of the year because it involves two talents as Luc Besson (“Perfect murderer” with Jean Reno and the debut of Natalie Portman; “The fifth element”, “Lucy”, “Danny the Dog”) and Christoph Walz (“Django without chains”, “Bastards without glory”). These are times to humanize the monster or villain as in the last versions of Joker or now to the vampire “Dracula “. It can be seen in cinemas since August 14.
This new film adaptation of the classic of Bram Stoker combines the visual style of Besson With the acting intensity of Waltzall crowned with the specialist’s soundtrack Danny Elfman (Almost all of Tim Burton as “The young hands of scissors”, “Charlie and the chocolate factory” either “Beetlejice” but also “In search of destiny”, “Men in Black” either “The Great Fish”).
This version of “Dracula” Reinterpret the vampire myth through an emotional narrative where a fifteenth -century prince, after losing his wife, challenges God and transforms into a vampire. Centuries later, in the London of the nineteenth century, he finds a woman who seems to be the reflection of her beloved lost, starting a persecution that will seal her destiny.
This film adds to the new wave of adaptations of romantic terror, to the level of recent productions such as “Nosferatu” (2024) and “Crimson Peak” (2015). About the movie, Besson He commented: “I was more interested in his artistic dimension than his darkness. The enthusiasm for Dracula arose, I read the novel again, which reinforced my desire to embark on this project. The book, in essence, is a love story, although in its time fascinated more for its fantastic and bloody dimension. Over time, the character became a mythical monster. of a man who is able to wait 400 years to see the only woman who has loved and was taken away by God.
The director adds that he did not want a character with “super powers” in the American style, but one with more plausible skills. “For example, use a perfume to attract young women to him, since he can’t go wherever he wants. He also reminds me of the eccentric tycoon William Randolph Hearst: like him, my Dracula is a estheta, lover of beautiful things, silk fools, rings and trips. I inspired myself more on that side Dandy than in Nosferatu.”
In that line, a is unavoidable to remember “’interview with the vampire” or “Let me enter’ or“ Dracula of Bram Stoker ”, the fantastic adaptation of the work of the Irish writer by Francis Ford Coppola.
The look of Besson He goes in search of a particular depth: “From the beginning, Count Dracula has a real aura: he is the prince of the region, and although young, he is a born leader. He wanted to show that he does not necessarily like war: he struggles in the name of God, but he would prefer to keep his wife. In fact, he says: It will be a bloody battle. Does God really want this? It is understandable that, when returning from the war, he feels betrayed. ”
Besson Set the story in Paris. “The English are not bother to convert ‘the miserable’ into a musical, why would they be bothered because I took Dracula to Paris? A vampire goes unnoticed in Paris: the police and the population are occupied with other things.
Dracula is embodied by Caleb Landry Jones Meanwhile Waltz It makes the priest. “I organized an early projection of” dogman “for him, because I know that the great actors are more interested in the player than the game. And when he saw Caleb, he said yes immediately, even before reading the script. Both actors are very precise and are always looking to overcome. Personally I am open to the actors ask me He took the time to place his voice and gestures and for the third or fourth shot he was already ‘hot’. In the assembly, you have an incredible amount of material and the luxury of being able to refine the scene as you want. ”
It is undoubtedly an intimate, brutal and human version, the resignification of one of the most persistent myths of the collective imaginary. Besson neglects the digital artifice of their past productions to enter the most human and monstrous field of the tragic.
Caleb Landry Jones It is a fragile vampire that hides contained violence as Waltz It brings a halo between perverse and tragic far from embodying evil, “Dracula” is a man hurt by love, loss, time, a ruine creature. Far from the seductive predator, Besson It seeks emotional intimacy, trauma and melancholy in this gloomy and hurt version, which dialogues with Gothic romanticism, in tune with current sensibilities.
Source: Ambito
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