I agree that someone like James Whale would have made Dracula's Daughter a much more dynamic film.
Or even just more coherent. All the elements are present in Hillyer's version, but there's no sense that he's drawing them together in any conscious fashion, or that he even understands the existence of the symbol-set he has to work with. Whale, whatever else he might have done or not done with the movie, demonstably knew how to play the Code.
I'm still very fond of it--probably partly because I first saw it when I was around ten years old, but also because of the queer content and Gloria Holden's performance.
Those are completely valid reasons to be fond of a movie.
That is hilarious. I'd forgotten just how many billowy drapes there were in The Hunger. Now I want to watch that film again.
There are so many billowy drapes! 1983 New York! Eighteenth-century Europe! Ancient Rome! Pharaonic Egypt! Who knew blowing curtains were such a constant across cultures and time?
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Or even just more coherent. All the elements are present in Hillyer's version, but there's no sense that he's drawing them together in any conscious fashion, or that he even understands the existence of the symbol-set he has to work with. Whale, whatever else he might have done or not done with the movie, demonstably knew how to play the Code.
I'm still very fond of it--probably partly because I first saw it when I was around ten years old, but also because of the queer content and Gloria Holden's performance.
Those are completely valid reasons to be fond of a movie.
That is hilarious. I'd forgotten just how many billowy drapes there were in The Hunger. Now I want to watch that film again.
There are so many billowy drapes! 1983 New York! Eighteenth-century Europe! Ancient Rome! Pharaonic Egypt! Who knew blowing curtains were such a constant across cultures and time?
I've put Nadja at the top of my Netflix queue!
Enjoy!