This blog contains spoilers till the last book for The Wheel of Time (And if you are not reading the books instead of watching the inaccurate show, you SHOULD)
While the crew may be confined to a ship, trapping them in place with Dracula, their voyage is long and vast. The director elaborates, “It’s definitely meant to be a horror epic. It’s a big journey across Europe from Varna to the English coast, and it’s a haunted house at sea, like Alien on the ocean in 1897, but with Dracula as the Alien. That’s the feeling we were going for. It is a bigger, broader story for a horror movie.
Øvredal confirms, “We’ve put a lot of effort into making the movie as unpredictable and as varied as possible in certain aspects. I always wanted to be very close to what the original text was, and I tried to embrace that as much as possible when making the movie. Of course, there are liberties taken because it’s just that’s the way it works. It’s a different medium, but I think we’re still very close to Stoker’s intent, the feeling, and the story. Generally, you’ll recognize many, many solid, clear plot points from the original text.”
the last voyage of the demeter is the best adaptation of dracula we have ever had — and maybe ever will have. this is a clear love letter to the novel; it is remarkably effective at creating the same sense of dread as the captain's log, and where it deviates from the book or makes additions, it's in service of feeling more like the book, foregrounding more of the book's themes, its moral heart, widening the scope of the world and bridging the gap between the old ways of transylvania and the new confidence in science and industry. the way they brought the demeter's crew to life felt familiar, and although the crew members don't get much characterization in the novel, here they felt like echoes of mina, arthur, seward, van helsing -- the stoker versions that have been lost to the popular imagination, the ones willing to bleed and plan and struggle against the unknown. it was everything i wanted, and it kept giving me more than that. it rips. god, i love dracula.
Thank you for everything that you’ve done for us, for creating the work that has been our good childhood friend, our comfort as adults and the beginning of the creative journey for most people who are walking on this planet.
The love and passion you poured into Dragon Ball was phenomenal, you’ve worked hard, please rest in peace, Akira Toriyama.
man i love how dynamic and easy to follow rumiko's fight scenes are
im never confused as to whats happening and every pose just conveys so much. the fact that she manages to be so good at humour AND fight scenes too? queen of manga