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[eruvadhril]

Is there anyone, besides me, who has both read Dracula and seen Van Helsing? Because I'm watching it, here, and it's dodgy. Stoker fans expecting deeper insight into the character, or whatever, are gonna be disapointed. I think it's supposed to be something about the whole Harker and Mina and Lucy and Reinfield all them happened four hundred years ago, and Dracula didn't actually die, and Van Helsing has lost his memory and is working for this secret churchy organization or something. And now his name is Gabriel, not Abraham. I guess they figured that if they still use a biblical name, no one will notice. And Dracula can't turn into a werewolf anymore, he is killed by a werewolf. And they work in Frankenstein and Mr Hyde. And Daisy. And the princess lady going "I always wanted to see the sea," and Van Helsing going "Whatever, Legolas."

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[willo-kenobi.livejournal.com]

alas i have no idea what you're talking about.

[nazgul-number-7.livejournal.com]

See, that's why I didn't want to see Van Helsing (before I knew Daisy was in it, anyway). I knew they'd be doing so uber-literature mangling (and know that I know what they've done, I'm just...gah).
I have no idea where the hell they pulled that plot from, 'cos it's barely related to anything Stoker wrote.
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The name "Legolas" is actually used in the movie? WTF?

[eruvadhril.livejournal.com]

No, that's just a joke from Cleo's Van Helsing in 15 Minutes. In the movie the princess goes on about how she's 'never seen the sea and I bet it's beautiful and blah blah blah', and Van Helsing looks at her kinda weirdly. The look on his face is a bit 'well, we're hunting down a werewolf here, so...' Hence the 'Whatever, Legolas' line.