How to Fix Dracula

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Hello everyone where I give suggestions to make movies and stories make any other you’d like me to do.

Mina and Lucy are sisters, Van Helsing is there
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Make Dracula not into a real vampire but a troubled man who thinks he is certainly people. But has his supernatural powers from Demonic Possession and can be easily exorcised.

Dont make him sparkle and walk in light
Make a PG-13 version of the 1992 version .

To be honest I love that version that is he only version where I can find he is redeemed. And the musical.

By the way I love redemption Arcs and mercy mercy mercy
I love justice but I love DIVINE MERCY
And no matter want kind of sins you commit God will forgive you. You have til your death

One of my final oppions (sorry for my spelling)
Is to make Dracula Theologicaly make sense.

What are your thoughts do you have a favorite version and what would you do to me it different?

What should i do next?
 
Just for your own background information, it might be useful for you to read some of the pre1800s vampire lore.
There have been stories of undead creatures preying on humans in nearly every culture in the world.
Some folk tales almost seem like a mash up of vampire and werewolf lore.

It might give you a departure point for your stories.
Happy writing!
 
”Theologically make sense”:

Van Helsing is Dutch, right? And Dracula is from Roumania. So you have the fun interplay between the Reformed and the EO to expand on. (If you want to make either Catholic, you have to come up with a reason for them belonging to a minority denomination, which is always possible).
 
The original black & white Dracula has a fluent, coherent, quality story and a beneficial message for Christian audiences, which is why it comes recommended by the Vatican film review.
 
Force Nintendo to make a remake of the original Paper Mario and put more Christian themes
 
TK421 said:
The original black & white Dracula has a fluent, coherent, quality story and a beneficial message for Christian audiences, which is why it comes recommended by the Vatican film review.
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Yes!!! I was surprised of this when I read the original back then. It was heart touching and deals with several important themes in a christian way.
 
I wish that a group of wealthy Christians would make a Dracula film following the Bram Stoker novel exactly instead of inserting other plot lines and changing characters.

It’s the classic “heroic quest,” with God’s followers vs. Satan’s followers. If it were done well, it would be a thrilling film.

OTOH, there are plenty of other good causes for wealthy Christians to support. Oh, well.
 
Well the 1992´ dracula film was surprisingly close to the book, even if there was some oversexualization within, so, not a a general “good”. But I liked that they kept the diary style in the film.
 
Read the original book. I’d actually call it a classic Catholic novel.
 
Dracula doesn’t need fixing. The way Bram Stoker wrote it is as good as it gets. “Fixing” it would only make it a second-rate copy of the original – unless it’s done for laughs, like the Mel Brooks movie.
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The original black & white Dracula has a fluent, coherent, quality story and a beneficial message for Christian audiences, which is why it comes recommended by the Vatican film review.
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Vatican film review?
 
Forcing heavy-handed Christian… Propaganda, for lack of a better word, into stories is how you get claptrap like God’s Not Dead.

There are lots of themes and ideas and emotions and situations that art can explore. Of you want something that deals with your religion, make new art with that as the subject. Don’t ruin classics for the rest of us.
 
Dracula is very good. It’s an excellent reflection of societal and cultural norms when it was written. It doesn’t need to be ‘fixed’ in anyway, like how Shakespeare didn’t need to be ‘fixed’ by Bowlder. If you want to write a book about vampires by all means, do so, lots and lots and lots of people have, but don’t try to ‘fix’ classic literature by interjecting your own opinions.

What’s next? Fixing the Iliad and the Odyssey by removing all those heathen gods and goddesses?
 
You judge a book Catholic or not by its content, not the profession of its author.
 
Swapping the character names and relationships around is a thing most Dracula adaptations do that annoys me, so I am not on board with your Mina/Lucy/Van Helsing changes.

The 1992 version actually includes all the hunters, which is awesome, but also sticks in that “reincarnated romance” plotline that belongs in The Mummy, not Dracula. Dracula is a murderer and a rapist, not a romantic leading man.

Redemption arcs are good things, but for Dracula I think we can achieve that by emphasizing that Dracula, like Lucy, has his soul saved when he is “killed” and freed from vampirism by the hunters. He is described as having a look of peace on his face after the knives strike home, before he crumbles to dust and blows away.

As for his religion, the historical Vlad Dracula (the epithet he preferred; his enemies came up with “Tepes” or “Impaler”) was Catholic, Orthodox, and even Muslim at different times, as it benefited him politically. Of course, Dracula in the novel is only loosely based on Vlad, though Van Helsing surmises that he was once the prince who fought against the Turks.

Oh, and Van Helsing in the books is specifically Catholic, not Dutch Reformed (most of the other characters being Anglican). He even has special permission from the Pope — Stoker calls it an indulgence because he is not terribly clear on Catholicism himself — to employ the Eucharist as an anti-vampire weapon in ways that would ordinarily be sacrilegious. (Sticking the Host in grave dirt to “spoil” Dracula’s boxes of earth, or mixing it into a paste to seal the cracks in Lucy’s tomb that she uses to enter and exit in mist form.) I once asked Jimmy Akin of Catholic Answers, who has a reputation for answering the weirdest and geekiest of Catholic questions, whether such uses of the Body of Christ could ever not be utterly sacrilegious, but sadly I did not get a reply.)
 
A distant dream
My other life seemed
As I sunk through the shadows
of the death of the day.
Barely remembering,
That fateful evening of May,
When darkness swallowed all of the light.
Its force pumping through me,
As twilight consumed me,
I looked at what swooned me,
And these are the words that it said:

“O Creature of night,
Take heart,
Take flight.
You’re free now to do what you will.
No morals, no life,
To live out in strife,
Your pleasure is yet to come still.”

But living
I longed for the day of release,
And in each waking moment it grew.
The feeling of spite
For all not right
As my soul frosted over anew.

So now in the dark
I wait for the spark
Of hope on this path I am taking.
I long for the day
And I can’t get away
From this trance that’s not sleeping or waking.

Lonely I wonder if only
The rays of the sun might bring peace,
And so, one day’s dawning,
Despite instinct’s warning,
I’ll lie down in its gaze
to slumber and cease.
 
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