Costume Analysis: Bridal Gowns - Ellen / Nosferatu 2024 vs Lucy / Bram Stoker's Dracula 1992

[earthspirits]

SORRY, EVERYONE! This morning, I thought I was deleting a duplicate of this post on my own journal, but instead accidentally deleted my original post here, and all of the comments that were made.

I've now re-posted my original essay - and good news! I was able to retrieve the deleted comments bleodswean and smokingboot made, along with my responses, and have added them all back to the comment section.

Again, sorry for the mix-up!

___________________________________________________________________________________________________

Victorian era wedding gowns, as envisioned for two different films, and for two very different characters. Evocative for any vampire's bride.

( Spoilers for both films / discussion of plot violence / character death + Lucy at her most scarily vampiric )

Stoker's Novel vs. Film - Lucy

[bleodswean]

I would love to be able to write a long-from meta-analysis of Stoker’s Lucy versus film interpretations, but in the interest of timeliness and my own impacted schedule out here, I ask you to suffer a shortened muddle of observations and perhaps in the comments we can hold forth more loquaciously.

( Read more... )