Creaky old gifs, some ships, some vampires

[thisbluespirit]

As I said, I've made a lot of gifs over the last couple of months and I have not inflicted them on you shared them with you yet! (Part One of...??)

So, very importantly, even if tumblr did not care, I finally managed to make gifs of Anne and James Onedin from The Onedin Line, which I watched over half of via Drama a couple of years ago and which was a ride (in Devon) but you might recall that Anne was the best, and her marriage of convenience with James where they married for a ship and then were both too practical and northern to know how to deal with feelings was all the things. And here they are (played by Peter Gilmore & Anne Stallybrass):






"Oh, Anne, why d'you put up with the likes of me?" ♥

(Anne is upset in the last one because Peter Jeffrey got burnt alive again for the second time that year, but at least he was evil that time and with fake hair that almost merited such a fate. Still, it's a bit distressing.)


Also I finally managed to gif Bram Stoker's Dracula for my Dracula adaptations I have watched series, so I am up to date with what I have watched so far. (It was much overdue because I was posting collected gifsets of the various versions of each character from each one and they had been sitting in my drafts for a year, awaiting one last gif for each set. Now I have hardly any drafts at all, it's amazing.)

But I thought I'd share this set, as it interests me. The 1992 film seems to share a lot of little things with the 1968 TV Dracula that aren't present in the others. It seems an unlikely influence on the face of it, but it does seem nevertheless to be lurking somewhere in BSD's DNA. (Mystery & Imagination was shown in the US, or certainly the 6 surviving Thames episodes, so it's certainly possible.)


Parallels:









(They both have colder versions of Van Helsing).





(A bit less obvious, because the context is different, but they both end with the focus on Mina and Dracula's inheritance.)

Whereas I don't see the same level of influence or shared elements between it and any of the others that came before it (of the ones I've seen). (The 2006 definitely is in conversation with BSD in some way, but I'm not sure I could pin it down to gifs, but that's fairly inevitable, as it was the previous version at that point.)

Anyway, I think it's interesting!

Comments

[theseatheseatheopensea]

Ohh, those are some good parallels indeed! Did you know that the dark glasses pop up again? (in the Moffat-Gatiss version that came out earlier this year!)

[thisbluespirit]

I haven't seen that version, because I guessed with Gatiss behind it it would be too full-on horror for me, but I'll probably have to brave it one day! But knowing Mark Gatiss, I'm sure it riffs on probably every other adaptation ever made - and I'm quite sure he'd know the 1968 as well as BSD!

[theseatheseatheopensea]

Yeah, some bits are pretty bloody... and some are pretty silly, I guess... but still worth watching, to complete the whole Drac experience, haha!

[sovay]

Anne was the best, and her marriage of convenience with James where they married for a ship and then were both too practical and northern to know how to deal with feelings was all the things.

Have you talked to me about The Onedin Line? Marriages of convenience that turn into the real thing are definitely a trope I will read, or, when relevant, watch.

The 1992 film seems to share a lot of little things with the 1968 TV Dracula that aren't present in the others. It seems an unlikely influence on the face of it, but it does seem nevertheless to be lurking somewhere in BSD's DNA.

That's neat!

[thisbluespirit]

Have you talked to me about The Onedin Line? Marriages of convenience that turn into the real thing are definitely a trope I will read, or, when relevant, watch.

It is one of my favourite tropes, too, and The Onedin Line hit me right in the id with it, because apparently it's even better if they are both stoic northerners who did it for business and then spend most of their time on a sailing ship. XD

I don't think we talked specifically, but I checked my tag for it, so yes, insofar as you were around these parts when I watched it. Unless it was in the period when Dreamwidth unsubscribed you from me!! I don't know if you'd enjoy it or not, but I think the tag probably says everything you'd need for a decent overview of it's faults and virtues. Anne & James are only in the S1-2, though.

(I was trying to think if old telly had given me some other relationships like this, but probably only the obvious one of Henry/Elizabeth from Shadow of the Tower, about which I've said more than enough over the years. But that one hit me even more squarely in the id.)

[liadt]

Knowing facial hair of doom got crispy fried would take out the sting yes;p

It's a rip off! Sue for 5p ITV! Anthony Hopkin's hat is quite nice.

[singe]

Agreed. The hat deserves its own fandom.

[thisbluespirit]

Knowing facial hair of doom got crispy fried would take out the sting yes;p

They should have had a giant bonfire of Terrible Fake Facial Hair!! XD

I'm sure even ITV could pay Sue more than 5p. ;-p

[liadt]

If only we could get a TARDIS and go back to make the terrible fake hair bonfire a yearly thing, move over Guy Fawkes:D

Bu-boom!

[thisbluespirit]

A bonfire that terrifying would have to be held on Halloween instead!!

[jhall1]

I have a theory that any film that calls itself "So-and-So's Such-and-Such" will be exceptionally unfaithful to So-and-So's book. :)

[thisbluespirit]

It's weird, but to be fair to it, it's by no means as unfaithful as some of the other Draculas; it just has the big reincarnation addition. Whcih I don't like, but it does actually have all the characters and the basic events as well.