How To Write A Vampire Movie

One of the most popular vampire characters of all time is Count Dracula. In Dracula, the Count is the definition of the 'vamp'.

While not the most intelligent or cunning creature, Dracula's ambitions and his cruelty make him a sympathetic, relatable character. His numerous beheadings are frightening and his confessions to his greatest enemy, Jonathan Harker, are full of emotion and heart.

Is Dracula a true vampire?

Dracula was in fact, in the context of Bram Stoker's novel, a vampire. However, he was in no way an original vampire character.

The vampire has been around for a long time, having been invented by Bram Stoker himself. Dracula was an adaptation of a popular, long-running literary character, Harker's Journal. As well as Stoker's novel and the film adaptations of it, the original novel of Harker's Journal inspired the Dracula stories.

If Stoker's first short story was adapted as Dracula, it is safe to assume that Stoker's second short story was adapted as "The Journal of Dracula".

Furthermore, it is obvious that Bram Stoker's Dracula is a well-known character; it is known as one of the most famous vampire characters ever. From being the basis for a comic book character, to a man in our favourite action movie series, Dracula has become a significant part of modern pop culture.

Understanding the archetypal character of the Vampiric Vampire

Vampires as a group are known to be a group of humans, somewhere between the ages of five and thirty. While they are blood-sucking, most vampires are not particularly glamorous, nor are they necessarily glamorous.

Vampires are more often characters in novels, films and television than they are in real life. Their goals and lives are about just as much about the pursuit of power and unrequited love as they are about blood-sucking.

Dracula was portrayed as a handsome gentleman, who wears cravats and vests, used corsets and suspenders. From his perfect posture and a slicked back mane, Dracula looks as much like a gentleman as you would expect from a movie vampire. He is known for his thirst, which is heightened by his bloodlust, a rare, almost animalistic emotion.

Dracula is a product of the Victorian era, so you can be sure that he had good manners.

Similarities between the Vampiric Vampire and a killer

Dracula has characteristics that can be likened to a killer. Most would-be killers have a blank face and empty, lifeless eyes. Vampires are actually blood-suckers, like vampires.

While Dracula's servants, the gypsies, look a lot like the FBI and look human-like, they are monsters who do not have a corporeal form. Although vampires have no physical bodies, they can do many things such as moving about in an immaterial form.

Vampires seem to be able to create any illusion or illusion that they desire. This is in a way, a similar ability to vampirism, which leaves the non-vampire as almost completely oblivious to their existence.

Where does Dracula come from?

In our society, we have the vampire played in the film version of Dracula by David Naughton, played by Gary Oldman. This new version of Dracula is very different to the original Bram Stoker character.

He is rather grand and likeable, which makes him much more appealing and understandable. However, the same cannot be said for the Stoker character.

Perhaps most bizarrely, the Dracula character from the Stoker novel is definitely not the same character as the one in the film version of Dracula. Dracula in Stoker's novel is rough and ready, to put it mildly.

Bram Stoker was evidently quite taken by the old horror film genre. In his novel, the last line of his description of the vampire reads:

"I do not believe that I could die in peace until one of those blasted creatures had sucked the blood from my lily-white throat."

Therefore, Stoker does not seem to mind the character at all. He probably thought that it was quite natural for a human to get attached to someone who had the ability to have sex with them.

Dracula is just as much of a man in Stoker's novel as he is in the movie version, and so the description in the book is much more fitting to the Stoker character.

Historical background

According to the historian of vampires, the historic Dracula, Vlad III, or Vlad the Impaler, was actually Vlad the Good. He was never married and had no children, and devoted his life to saving his people from invaders such as the Goths.

He is known as "The Impaler" because he made a wooden stake that he called a "impaler" and used to impale the heads of his enemies. The impaler's wooden stake was sharpened at both ends, and if a person was lucky enough to avoid death, their death was followed by a visit to the rabies infected area of the body.

This has led some to believe that Vlad Dracula might have used a wooden stake to impale his victims as well as to insert them into the bodies of animals.

However, the historian who has written on this point, Francis King, says that this is impossible, and although such a wooden stake is mentioned in the original Vlad the Impaler novel by Stoker, it is not in the real-life Vlad Dracula.

The impaler used animal victims, not people.