Ep 239
Ep 239 Bram Stoker's Dracula
Following our Muppet version of the film, and in the spirit of not doing too much work over Crimbo, we’re looking at “Bram Stoker’s Dracula”. A film in which Ted goes on a less than excellent adven…
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Francis Ford Coppola
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The hosts on Francis Ford Coppola
Adam has cooled on Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula. Adam says he became fascinated by Coppola's process on the film but gradually fell out of love with it and does not think it is that good a film.
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He finds it a weird choice to call it Bram Stoker's Dracula when it is technically Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula. Adam also suggests Coppola may have wanted it to look like an old film, deliberately avoiding model shots, and calls the shoot's setup very unusual, with actors living at Coppola's house and doing drama games.
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Adam So it was the sort of thing that would crop up like, I remember I had on video somewhere a making of Batman Returns, same sort of thing, 25 minutes, a few talking heads, a few clips, and that was it. And, but, so that in my head was kind of an integral part of it. And I became fascinated with how they sort of Coppola's process of how he made the film. But also I have gradually just really I just gradually fell out of love with it. I don't think it's that good a film.
Ep 239 Bram Stoker's DraculaAdam And yeah, it's sort of so, but yeah, and and it's obviously Francis Ford Coppola, it's like fucking, you know, got the Godfather and Apocalypse Now. These are, you know, and then it's like, and he wants to do Dracula.
Ep 239 Bram Stoker's DraculaAdam No. So it's kind of it's a weird choice to then call it Bram Stoker's Dracula. Especially because it's technically Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Ep 239 Bram Stoker's DraculaAdam See, I think I think it's the I think it's the choice as well. Because there's a part of me that feels that maybe Francis Ford Coppola was even going or or Coppola, was going, you know, almost wanted to make it look like an old old film. If you see what I mean. He it was deliberately like, no, I want to do I don't want to do it as a model shot.
Ep 239 Bram Stoker's DraculaAdam How fucking unusual a setup it was, where it was like, Come to my house. This is Coppola, come to my house. Live here. I'll just put you up bed and bored, we'll fuck around, do drama games.
Ep 239 Bram Stoker's DraculaAdam element that comes into it. When I was watching it actually, because because obviously Francis Ford Coppola was like, oh, we want to do the book. You know, and the book's not been done properly.
Ep 239 Bram Stoker's Dracula
