Happy I got to watch Renfield with my family yesterday and they got to have a good laugh from it.
Maybe I worked too hard on prepping for the film. Let's see, I reread Dracula and even analyzed how they were going to rework the characters and his environment to accommodate any changes.
IDK why some were down in the dumps on the new portrayal of the Dark Prince, but I believe Cage did the vampire justice. Sharpening his teeth really gave the chill he was hopefully aiming for.
Renfield did a wonderful action movie take to the submissive character. It was a great touch.
I miss when Batman villains were all based off something like a random movie poster an artist saw on his way to work. That kind of loose popculture osmosis that inadvertantly captures the zeitgeist. I feel like it's why all the Gotham C-listers never stuck, they're just one guy's random halfbaked idea, and not a reflection of a publically shared idea. And it makes me want to retrofit a bunch of 90s and 00s villains to align with recognizable popculture icons of their respective years of introduction.
And incidentally I want Film Freak to make a comeback as a George Lucas inspired slightly hippydippy pretentious, "Cinema is the Mythology of a new generation, man..." type, channeling the collective consciousness of modern popculture into metaphysics, and unknowingly tapping into straight up Sourcewall Energy, albeit extremely weak strains of it. Just accidentally becoming a medium of the New Gods, like a shaman of storytelling itself, to get flickering bursts of power when his genre savvy and grasp of archetypes come just a little too close to understanding something legitimately cosmically universal.
the way he unhinges his jaw as he watches felix in full awe and astonishmemt is just so 😵💫 like you can’t get as voyeuristic as this mf right here. FUCK. imagine the process for filming this scene. like barry what the fuck. your ass got a little to into the role…
Haha... I've listened to enough Dracula on Audible to get the gist on Renfield. Going with my sisters to check out its comedic film when released should be a blast.