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Jan 25 12 8:50 AM
happydude33 wrote: HalLane wrote: And it will also be great to have these digital restorations sitting neatly on a hardrive where you won't have to fiddle with clumsy disks and dusty packaging, which is even nicer.I like your style. Totally agree.
HalLane wrote: And it will also be great to have these digital restorations sitting neatly on a hardrive where you won't have to fiddle with clumsy disks and dusty packaging, which is even nicer.
todmichel wrote:Melford's version has better ambiance/atmosphere, better use of the sets, better editing (I know it's not Browning's fault, but it's a fact), far better photography and effects, far more impressive violence (the mirror's scene, Dracula's death, etc), more coherence, best casting, etc. All together, for many people outside of the Lugosian fan club it makes a superior version. And all the rest, including this strange American idolatry for Bela Lugosi, is just popular belief based on faith, and not facts. Including this legend about Melford's staff watching the rushes of the US version. It was maybe true at the beginning, but the Hispanic version was "in the can" AND previewed far before Browning - or Freud - finished the other version. In other termes, the Hispanic Dracula is "the real thing" and the US version its pale copy, not the contrary.
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