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Frank and Kate hated each other??

posted 13 years ago by hinebabe8
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I saw on a site tonight that John Badham had to try and "pry the chemist from the two leads because they hated each other".
Is there any truth in that??

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[–] 13 years ago

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[–] hinebabe8 13 years ago

Sounds like a woman who knows what she wants! My kind of idol! lol
Yeah, he didn't really discribe her very romantically, and thought that Jan should have been cast as Lucy instead for awhile until he realised that she was perfect for the part.

!!!MEAN *MAORI* MEAN!!!
!!!!TINO RANGATIRATANGA!!!!

[–] ekmyers 12 years ago

Link...?

ekm
Writer/Director -- ROULETTE
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1294794/combined

[–] Adler-99 12 years ago

The "very, very strong and determined" comment is from Langella in the DVD's "making of" featurette, which is very interesting in several respects.

[–] kaskait 12 years ago

Hilarious!

Its sounds as if she was too much woman for him! lol

[–] bron-tay 11 years ago

No, they eated each other.

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[–] Mimapopaluck 10 years ago

Kate seems like a bit of a head strong woman. I don't know, she just gives off the vibe that she'd be difficult to work with.

[–] spookyrat1 10 years ago

I agree and I think they wanted a headstrong woman for the part, because this Lucy is definitely not a wimp.

I've never heard about Frank and Kate hating each other before. If they did, they disguised it well on-screen.

I did read that for a relatively unknown actor at the time, he had a great deal of say into how the Count was portrayed onscreen. This was part of his contract, as he'd come from a very successful Broadway production of Dracula with similar themes to this movie.

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[–] KatharineFanatic 10 years ago

Thing is, though... he didn't need to show his fangs.

We know he has them, and they left marks, therefore there's no need to remind us of that, by showing them to us. His Dracula goes in for subtly rather than overt horror. (The longer you think about him, and how he treats Lucy and Mina, the more interesting the horror aspect becomes.)

[–] kaskait 9 years ago

The longer you think about him, and how he treats Lucy and Mina, the more interesting the horror aspect becomes.

Yes, this is definitely the horror of it. Because he was using both women against the men. It was the men that Dracula was attacking in this film and the women were only tools.

He took this version's Mina because everyone loved and felt sorry for her. He wanted to destroy that love. He envied Jonathan because he won Lucy without having to resort to mind control. So he planned to turn her than watch as she "raped" her former fiance.

Langella isn't against god so much as he is against love. He hates it and wishes to twist any form of it into an abomination.

[–] michael-abatemarco 8 years ago

Yes!!! He's pure menace in this. Corrupt and predatory. Gives me chills.

''It's a lonely way, you know, the way of the necromancer.''

[–] !!!deleted!!! (67931553) 8 years ago

This was the best dracula ever made.