(no subject)
Mar. 5th, 2012 10:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreListening to Dracula on my way home from choir:
If there any film adaptation that has adapted the sequence on the Demeter? I can't think of one and that's really a shame because it could nearly be a gorgeous horror film all by itself. I mean, it has everything: isolation, paranoia, a secret hidden monster, people disappearing, other people going crazy, external dangers from the storms at sea, and then that final beautifully horrible image of the dead captain lashed to the wheel. You could start with loading the cargo and end with it being offloaded at Whitby and not touch the rest of Dracula at all - you needn't even name the monster if you didn't want to. It's a perfectly self-contained little story.
I wonder why no one has done that - it has obvious potential. It's understandable that it wouldn't get put in a lot of adaptations: a lot goes on in the novel and getting most of the important bits on the screen is hard enough. But I would love to see a film of the story of the Demeter, wouldn't you?
If there any film adaptation that has adapted the sequence on the Demeter? I can't think of one and that's really a shame because it could nearly be a gorgeous horror film all by itself. I mean, it has everything: isolation, paranoia, a secret hidden monster, people disappearing, other people going crazy, external dangers from the storms at sea, and then that final beautifully horrible image of the dead captain lashed to the wheel. You could start with loading the cargo and end with it being offloaded at Whitby and not touch the rest of Dracula at all - you needn't even name the monster if you didn't want to. It's a perfectly self-contained little story.
I wonder why no one has done that - it has obvious potential. It's understandable that it wouldn't get put in a lot of adaptations: a lot goes on in the novel and getting most of the important bits on the screen is hard enough. But I would love to see a film of the story of the Demeter, wouldn't you?
