"My land is dry and desolate. The soil is red with the blood of a hundred races. There is no life left there. Here you have a young and vital race."
I think this line might very well be a jab at Nazism and its "pure race" obsession. Likely, this being a wartime era movie, and the Siodmaks being Germans that flew away from the country when Hitler took the power.
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Possibly, it is interesting how this and the Chaney Mummy films are the only classic Universal Monster films to come to the States. Well besides some of the Abbot and Costello parodies.
"It's not about money.... It's about sending a Message..... Everything Burns!!!"
I think He is talking about the Human race . He sucked the life out of
his own country . More fresh blood for him .
I don't think that Dracula's commentary was meant to reflect upon any of the Nazi doctrine, but the threat of invasion was certainly timely enough as World War II was well underway by this point.
shareQuite right, Skye. That's why my (admittedly somewhat hypothetical) timeline places the in-story setting at five years earlier. No way could she have been _vacationing_ in Hungary in 1943!
"It's not familiarity that breeds contempt. It's over-frequency of visitation...and increasingly overdue departure!"
The quote from the movie is also a paraphrase from Bram Stoker's book.
"I told you a million times not to talk to me when I'm doing my lashes"!
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Knowing it was a Robert Siodmak film, I wondered that. It sounds like a type of Nazi 'living room' invasion of other countries to further his vampire race.
shareRidiculous. Dracula was not a member of the nazi party
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