Best Incarnation Of Dracula

bela Lugosi is overrated

You've established in your previous posts that you're not the fastest car on the lot, and this laughable assertion of yours is additional confirmation of that.

besides Lee didnt need much dialogue his actions spoke for himself a mark of a great actor

It's not a question of what Lee "needed." It takes little-to-no acting talent to do scenes with no dialog, which is why non-actors often play roles that have no dialog, such as the various stunt men who have played Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees.

Lee was a good actor but his acting talents were wasted in this movie, because he had few lines and the lines he did have were easy ones that required only a basic delivery that any actor could give. Had he at least done an Eastern European accent, and done it well, that would have been something, but he just used his native English accent which is wrong for the character of Dracula, who, in the source material, speaks with a foreign accent and wants help from Harker with his English:

Dracula tells Harker that he may go anywhere he wishes in the castle, except where the doors are locked. Then he changes the subject and reveals that he greatly fears his proposed journey to England. He feels that his mastery of the English language is insufficient. In addition, he has grown so accustomed to being a master in his own land that he dreads going to England and suddenly being a nobody. For that reason, he wants Harker to remain in the castle as long as possible in order to perfect Dracula's English pronunciation.

Bela Lugosi, on the other hand, was from Lugoj, Romania, which is in, or very close to (depending on who you ask), the region of Romania known as "Transylvania." That means Lugosi had the right ancestry and accent for the role right out of the gate. He also had hundreds of critically-acclaimed performances (playing Dracula on stage) under his belt, prior to playing Dracula in the 1931 movie. It was a rare case of perfect casting from Hollywood. There's a reason that Lugosi's Dracula is the most iconic by far, and it isn't because he's "overrated."

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