bela lugosi makes dracula seem like the highly intelligent, gentlemanly, and purely evil vampire so much more than anyone else who has played him. when i think drac, i think bela
Yes well he was a count that's why he dressed the way he did etc. People associate the suit and cape with vampires now but it was because he was a count that is how a count would have dressed.
This is a great scene, and shows how acting, not special effects, defined movies of earlier generations. Bela Lugosi definitely defined the Dracula image like no one else could.
But this movie does use special effects. It's not like special effects wasn't a thing in 1931, it was. I would argue what's more powerful about this scene is the absence of music. While music from a soundtrack can make a positive impact for a scene some people, including some film school professors, I argue feel it's a necessity and I don't think that way. Scenes like this show me that sometimes music isn't always necessary for a dramatic scene like this.
@@herr_crustovsky, no, he was Hungarian. Blaskó Béla (to use his given name) was born in Lugos, Hungary in 1882, when it was still part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. Lugos, Kingdom of Hungary did not become Lugoj, Romania until after World War I. Or, more accurately, after the subsequent Hungarian-Romanian War, which ended in 1919-the same year that Blaskó left the country. You'll notice that he took the name Bela Lugosi, not Bela Lugoji 😉
@Costea Bogdan He was born in Austria-Hungary... And what's more similar to stealing, conquering the land or getting it for free from the French? But it's not like it was conquered from the Romanians in the 9th century anyway, since there was no such thing as a "Romanian" back then.
+Alice DeLarge Gary D. Rhodes has a new book out on the movie with eye opening details about cast and production. It's called TOD BROWNING'S DRACULA. They even have their own Facebook page: facebook.com/todbrowningsdracula/
+sub azgalor Gary D. Rhodes has a new book out on the movie with eye opening details about cast and production. It's called TOD BROWNING'S DRACULA. They even have their own Facebook page: facebook.com/todbrowningsdracula/
+Astro Girl Arts Gary D. Rhodes has a new book out on the movie with eye opening details about cast and production. It's called TOD BROWNING'S DRACULA. They even have their own Facebook page: facebook.com/todbrowningsdracula/
Boris Karloff was a vicious man who had Bela Lugosi blacklisted. Pretty much after SOF, jealous of his Ygor success, BK's mission of destruction started. Twitter for details: @IreneBoroff. If you think he stopped at compulsive lying and serial cheating, you thought wrong. It got much worse from thereon. I expose it all, FOR FREE! :)
0:24, this part right here. When I was looking through the different incarnations of Dracula for an art project I was stunned by just how bat-like this particular actor's gestures were, and to do so in an age long before special effects when cinema was essentially theatre shows a mastery of physical acting. Look at this part though! It looks as if his cape is a bats wing being unfurled. The unease that that one gesture put me in was incredible, Bela Lugosi truly defined the character in his own right.
Van Sloan's acting was also incredible here. The way he enters a stupor, mindlessly entranced by Dracula's hypnotic gaze, then gathers his willpower together and begins fighting to step away. Amazing storytelling told through expression and body language.
One of the best scenes in DRACULA (1931), the showdown of wills between Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi) and Professor Van Helsing (Edward Van Sloan). Two great actors and some of the best dialogue in the film. This scene gets an A-plus!!!
Bela was almost 50 years old when he made this movie and certainly didn't look it considering the era it was in. It's so horrible that in reality he didn't have much as a Hollywood star and the last 10-15 years of his life he lived in a lower middle class neighborhood and had a drug addiction due to his backbreaking work in some of his movies. And from the interviews I've seen, he was very friendly and personable.
He had serious injuries during WWl and spent quite a long time in a hospital. Back and leg I believe. Hollywood treated him terrible. I don't get it. He was beyond tall dark and handsome. He would have made a superb leading man! I wish he were alive today to see how loved he still is...he would be making a fortune!
We don't know the ethnicity of the character for sure, but in reality the name "Dracula" is derived from a Chivalric order called the Order of the Dragon, founded by King of Hungary Sigismund of Luxembourg (to uphold Christianity and defend the Empire against the Ottoman Turks) and only Hungarians held the noble title "Count" in Transylvania through history. On the other hand it's fiction and ethnicity is not the main focus of the story so let's just enjoy it.
I still crack up a little bit the second time he says “come...heRRE”. Something about that delivery is humorous. That being said, still my favorite vampire movie along with Nosferatu and Bela is easily the best Dracula.
Lord Assface he was born in Szekelföld, he served in the Hungarian army, his name was Béla Ferencz Dezső but he took up Lugosi because he was born in the Székely town of Lugos...
Boris Karloff was a vicious man who had Bela Lugosi blacklisted. Pretty much after SOF, jealous of his Ygor success, BK's mission of destruction started. Twitter for details: @IreneBoroff. If you think he stopped at compulsive lying and serial cheating, you thought wrong. It got much worse from thereon. I expose it all, FOR FREE! :)
The very image of Dracula today was created by Bela Lugosi. His performance in this movie is still of supreme quality. Made in 1931, he has never been surpassed in the role because he is Dracula in the minds of all even if they have never seen the movie. One of the strongest performances ever put on film.
Lugosi is simply the eternal cinematic Dracula. There will never be another like Lugosi never. You will be remembered Mr. Lugosi and your fans grow every day. An actor like no other.
Who needs sparkly vampires or Kiefer Sutherland with too much hair lacquer for that matter, when you can have Slavic accents, a cape and almost a minute's silence?
Indeed. The thing with Bela Lugosi he was trying to learn english well when he went to america in the 1920s. He is originally from Austria-Hungary (now Romania). which explain why he had that exotic look to him and the accent. I think its cool me and Bela almost share our bdays together, only 2 days apart,i think october is one of the coolest months with halloween and all that stuff.
Mark Oglesby He had hungarian accent because he was hungarian. And the hungarians are not slavic people. But yes, you have right, Lugosi Béla was the best vampire in the history of hollywood.
Rock Barbie Johansson I was reffering to the original post, yes he is from Transylvania, what lies in Romania now. BTW neither Romania nor Hungarian language has Slavic origin.
Best scene in Lugosi's stagy and turgid movie. His reading of the command, "Come here! Come ... here." is as perfect a delivery as a line ever received. Hail Lugosi, *the* Dracula for all time.
I dont understand how Bela Lugosi didnt get many roles after Dracula? or even before Dracula. He was 50 years old when this was released. Lugosi was tall, dark and handsome (even at 50).. he easily should have been leading man material in the 30's. Instead after Dracula his career never took off and he was stuck in roled that were FAR FAR beneath him. Its just sad... id love to see him in more better movies.
Bela Lugosi always wanted to play romantic and hero roles as he did in his acting career in Hungary and Germany but Hollywood made his life miserable and they don't appreciate his talent as an actor and they just wanted to give him evil roles
Watch carefully Edward, THIS is what a REAL vampire is like. Notice the sophisticated attitude, the serious tone, and the lack of sparkles. You want a real vampire? Then Bela Lugosi is your man; the man who played Drcaula to perfection.
No actor could do this today. Superb performances by both. Lugosi is simply the eternal cinematic Dracula. He deserves all the acclaim his performance has and will produce. Mr. Lugosi you are eternal.
Ah yes, surely NO ONE alive today on the entire planet compares, actors back in your day were just on a whole other level right I'm 26, this is my first time seeing this scene. The acting is good, but it's nothing special. They are just giving a calm level headed simple delivery of the script. Acting is most challenging when trying to convey authentic emotions, especially crying. Nothing in this scene points to these actors being bad. But at the same time, there's also nothing in this scene pointing to them being god tier actors without rival
YES...Bela Lugosi...THE true Dracula. He and later...Lee...those were screen vampires. Nowadays vampires are college aged hunks and babes with emotional problems wanting to get married and have kids, sharing apartments, and whining like little wusses when not flying around like superman or engaging in other super powers. TV and the movies have destroyed the vampire like no stake or sunlight ever could. Pathetic. Bela...you are missed.
@@scorpionnetherrealm8937 no, it's a type of plant. " Though a man be pure in heart and says his prayers by night, can become a wolf, when the wolfbane blooms and the Autumn moon is bright."
Ninety years after its filming and this scene still captures the drama of the Holy vs evil. As a child I never noticed much Sloan's performance as Van Helsing falls under Dracula's power and then resists it. I just love it when Dracula says with sarcasm,"more wolfbane?" and then lunges at Van Helsing whose crucifix both repels and terrifies him.
His voice so hypnotic!! Hes handsome and a vampire . Bella lugosi!!! Id be his bride no questions asked. Ha ha! I love that he just has that power to draw you in. I melt!!! Lol!!
bela`s accent is BIG part of his great charisma,and makes him sounds scary and magnetic.he did a great job for film industry,thank you mr.lugosi R.I.P.
***** He was actually from Austria-Hungary, and was Hungarian. Nothing to do with Romania with the exceptions that he is portraying Hungarian vassal of wallachian origin in this movie.
Dracula (Vlad Tepes) was a Wallachian (Romanian) lord, whose father was in the Order of the Dragon, a knightly order created by Sigismund King of Hungary.
Surokh That is correct. Modern potrayals often go for Count Dracula=Vlad Tepes (such as the Gary Oldman version or the new Dracula Untold) despite the fact that in the book they are explicitly not the same person. Count Dracula was a transylvanian noble of szekler origin (he even identifies himself as one) who supposedly learned black magic from the Devil in Scholomance (a rumored school underneath a lake near Nagyszeben, Transylvania) when he was alive and he became a vampire due to his evil. He also speaks hungarian with his brides. Why then, does he have a romanian name? My personal theory that his peasants were most likely romanian (hungarian nobles with romanian peasants were quite common in pre-Trianon Transylvania) who called him Dracula because of his evil personality and fiendish powers. After centuries, he presumably forgot/abandoned his original szekler name and adopted the moniker that the peasantry gave him.
Marvellous scene between an Irresistible Force and an Immoveable object - van Helsing. The film as a whole looks its age by now but these two characters have never been beaten
You have every right to be. He was, is and always will be the iconic cinema Dacula. A very fine actor as he showed again in "The Black Cat" with Karloff.
I love his tux and cloak. I've tried for years to find a tux identical to his and a cloak as long and wide as his. But it's hard to find one that fits a 6 ft 6in 290lb behemoth
I agree. I love old movies like this because they lived and died on the acting, direction and cinematography. Special effects, music, and everything else Hollywood focuses on today can be fantastic, but if you really want to be immersed, old movies are where it's at!
Bela Lugosi is to Dracula is what Robert Englund is to Freddy Krueger, and James Earl Jones is to Darth Vader. He embodies the character, to the point where it's hard to imagine anyone else in the role. Several actors might have portrayed Dracula within the 130+ years of the character's existence, but Lugosi's portrayal of the Count will always be the most iconic version of the character and the Lugosi Dracula wii always be one of the greatest movie villains of all time.
Wow calm down. I'm half Hungarian and it's a very important part of me. I loved Lugosi and I didn't find out he was Hungarian until recently. I thought it was awesome that I had a little something in common with him. Calm down!
Awesome voice, commanding presence, handsome, but evil incarnate. Bela is the VERY BEST Dracula there ever was. I love Christopher Lee's Dracula, but for me, Bela was incredible, and the very best there ever was. R.I.P. to the great Bela Lugosi.❤️
EVERY Vampire looks like the "Lugosi" Vampire, that was him, that was his REAL voice, he was friggin BORN near Transylvania, he was BORN to play this, He was BURIED in the fuckin cape!
I was in first grade, from Busan, and my friends and I absolutely loved him. He was funny, we loved emulating him and he made us laugh. Kids just loved him. He wasn't too real too spooky or scary, border line camp, that we weren't scared of him and that is an art when we feel later we grew up with him and he has fans of many generations. Something about his accent does appeal to many immigrants and Halloween we all jump around with capes and sleepovers. There's something about his worldwide appeal to all ages that shouldn't be overlooked.
Lugosi's Dracula is what one thinks of when they think of vampires he's polite and elegant, yet at the same time had a cold sinister look in his eye like one would expect of a vampire (same goes for Chris Lee and Gary Oldman's own takes on Dracula) but what made Lugosi's preformance so definitive was his accent, he sounded like one would expect Dracula to sound like
A classic scene, from an immortal horror classic. I LOVE this confrontation between Van Helsing and Dracula. Both Bela and Edward van Sloan are so perfect in their parts. And look at Van Helsing when he manages to resist Dracula's hypnotic powers! Now that's badass!
The acting is a little hammy, but it sets the tone for a successful horror film. And the fact that they can get away with a full 30 seconds of silence and keep the plot moving is a testament to what cinema used to be.
The iconic image of Dracula was created by the power of Bela Lugosi's performance. It is the quintessential cinimatic performance and always will be. Of course it is not the Dracula of the book it is the REAL DRACULA and that is Bela Lugosi. He is the icon and that icon has become Dracula. His performance still stands to this day as the best.
The idea that Lugosi learned his lines phonetically is a great story, but I've come to think it's a myth. He'd been living in the US 5 years and playing Dracula on stage for 3 years. It's hard to imagine he wouldn't have picked up some English by that time. Lugosi would later explain his odd inflection in dialogue readings as something Browning specifically directed him to do and that it was not the way he played the character on stage. A great performance, whatever the truth may be.
What really surprises me is that it's not too much, perfect lyrics and smooth acting, not bad editing (bc of the technology back then). Nobody could do better nowadays than that.
Lugosi had a great deal of experience on the Budapest stage and in Hungarian and German films! In the wide body of films he made in this country, it shows!!!!
LegacyKnight3000 Well said, my friend, well said. Everybody can't do this. This is skill with a capital 'S'. Even the way he holds his fingers is worth a look. He may have had long fingers but the way he holds them when putting someone in a trance and let's not FORGET the look in his face when Van Helsing shows him the mirror.... Now that's ACTING!!!!!! EVERYBODY CAN'T DO THAT!!!!!
bela lugosi makes dracula seem like the highly intelligent, gentlemanly, and purely evil vampire so much more than anyone else who has played him. when i think drac, i think bela
Yeah, he's very noble but also sinister.
What about Christopher Lee?
I think woody Harrelson can be good dracula
Yes well he was a count that's why he dressed the way he did etc. People associate the suit and cape with vampires now but it was because he was a count that is how a count would have dressed.
a trick : you can watch series on flixzone. Been using it for watching loads of movies during the lockdown.
Bela will always be THE Dracula.
:) u should see the film " ed wood" Col
www.imdb.com/title/tt0109707/
ye i seen it mate, good film
What about Christopher lee
What about Vlad Dracula
@@jimmykray9583 Christopher Lee IS Dracula.
With the hand and finger gestures, and the ‘Come Here’, that’s exactly how my wife calls me.
your will... is not strong...
This is a great scene, and shows how acting, not special effects, defined movies of earlier generations. Bela Lugosi definitely defined the Dracula image like no one else could.
@AmishRiot I believe a good performance has to leave a certain impact in the audience.as you can see his role is still remembered.
...who else before? Nosferatu?... perhaps my mom.
But this movie does use special effects. It's not like special effects wasn't a thing in 1931, it was. I would argue what's more powerful about this scene is the absence of music. While music from a soundtrack can make a positive impact for a scene some people, including some film school professors, I argue feel it's a necessity and I don't think that way. Scenes like this show me that sometimes music isn't always necessary for a dramatic scene like this.
I love this scene
Hungary can be proud of the finest actor who ever played Dracula or who ever will. A great Hungarian without question. Mr. Lugosi is Dracula forever.
*Romanian
@@herr_crustovsky How is he romanian?
@@symax4921 he was born in Lugoj, Romanian territory
@@herr_crustovsky, no, he was Hungarian. Blaskó Béla (to use his given name) was born in Lugos, Hungary in 1882, when it was still part of the Austro-Hungarian empire.
Lugos, Kingdom of Hungary did not become Lugoj, Romania until after World War I. Or, more accurately, after the subsequent Hungarian-Romanian War, which ended in 1919-the same year that Blaskó left the country.
You'll notice that he took the name Bela Lugosi, not Bela Lugoji 😉
@Costea Bogdan He was born in Austria-Hungary...
And what's more similar to stealing, conquering the land or getting it for free from the French? But it's not like it was conquered from the Romanians in the 9th century anyway, since there was no such thing as a "Romanian" back then.
I love his 'come here'.
+Alice DeLarge Gary D. Rhodes has a new book out on the movie with eye opening details about cast and production. It's called TOD BROWNING'S DRACULA. They even have their own Facebook page: facebook.com/todbrowningsdracula/
Very nice, thank you!
Alice DeLarge
The second time with THAT pause
"come........ here" is awesome!!!
He knew how to get mileage using his voice.
Lugosi is Hungarian actor! I am so proud of this man.
+sub azgalor Gary D. Rhodes has a new book out on the movie with eye opening details about cast and production. It's called TOD BROWNING'S DRACULA. They
even have their own Facebook page: facebook.com/todbrowningsdracula/
+Astro Girl Arts Gary D. Rhodes has a new book out on the movie with eye opening details about cast and production. It's called TOD BROWNING'S DRACULA. They even have their own Facebook page: facebook.com/todbrowningsdracula/
+sub azgalor Awesome! i just left a post about it on another video.. i'm so proud to be 1/3 hungarian especially because of bela lugosi
+sub azgalor He came from a town called Lugos, and therefore was called Lugosi!!!
+Arthur Yagami and?
Lugosi's interpretation of the count still resonates today. Such an iconic character, it's a wonder why his performance was not academy nominated.
Because the academy are dumbasses.
The true iconic legend the true master of horror the best actor that has ever play the best Dracula ever.
Grendel Vertrue A Hungarian, like me.
Jung Bálint nem csak magyar hanem mint csoma Sándor székely/magyar!!
Boris Karloff was a vicious man who had Bela Lugosi blacklisted. Pretty much after SOF, jealous of his Ygor success, BK's mission of destruction started. Twitter for details: @IreneBoroff. If you think he stopped at compulsive lying and serial cheating, you thought wrong. It got much worse from thereon. I expose it all, FOR FREE! :)
He is actually was a Hungarian communist
@@monarchyofvietnam that doesn't make dracula a good guy. you've got to separate an actors politics from his role
0:24, this part right here. When I was looking through the different incarnations of Dracula for an art project I was stunned by just how bat-like this particular actor's gestures were, and to do so in an age long before special effects when cinema was essentially theatre shows a mastery of physical acting. Look at this part though! It looks as if his cape is a bats wing being unfurled. The unease that that one gesture put me in was incredible, Bela Lugosi truly defined the character in his own right.
Van Sloan's acting was also incredible here. The way he enters a stupor, mindlessly entranced by Dracula's hypnotic gaze, then gathers his willpower together and begins fighting to step away.
Amazing storytelling told through expression and body language.
"Come…….here…"
Wow.
Me: "Okie Dokie!"
More like "Komm ... her."
Come here?? Fuck you !!!🤣😂🤣
One of the best scenes in DRACULA (1931), the showdown of wills between Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi) and Professor Van Helsing (Edward Van Sloan). Two great actors and some of the best dialogue in the film. This scene gets an A-plus!!!
They had plenty of practice playing the same parts on Broadway together.
Everybody shut up! I'm talking.
Bela Lugosi Szevasz Béla! Hogy ityeg?
Whahahaha still alive?? Jk
Sexy, cape waving, hottie
Really
Ha!
Bela was almost 50 years old when he made this movie and certainly didn't look it considering the era it was in. It's so horrible that in reality he didn't have much as a Hollywood star and the last 10-15 years of his life he lived in a lower middle class neighborhood and had a drug addiction due to his backbreaking work in some of his movies. And from the interviews I've seen, he was very friendly and personable.
He had serious injuries during WWl and spent quite a long time in a hospital. Back and leg I believe. Hollywood treated him terrible. I don't get it. He was beyond tall dark and handsome. He would have made a superb leading man! I wish he were alive today to see how loved he still is...he would be making a fortune!
@@karenhummel49 He was a leading man on the Hungarian stage, and wanted to be one again in American films. I agree it was a lost opportunity.
Damn that's sad. Never knew such a thing
@@crappyaccount watch ed wood movie
The greatest Dracula ever!
Bela Lugosi.
Very fitting to have a Hungarian actor play as Vlad Dracula who was also Hungarian.Best Dracula this man is in my opinion.
Dracula was not a hungarian, he was a romanian!
We don't know the ethnicity of the character for sure, but in reality the name "Dracula" is derived from a Chivalric order called the Order of the Dragon, founded by King of Hungary Sigismund of Luxembourg (to uphold Christianity and defend the Empire against the Ottoman Turks) and only Hungarians held the noble title "Count" in Transylvania through history. On the other hand it's fiction and ethnicity is not the main focus of the story so let's just enjoy it.
@@DoubleV741 both the real vlad and lugosi were born in transylvania, which was both hungarian and romanian at different points i believe.
@@kshdorii dracula was a wallachian so romanian.
"oh Bela, Bela's undead." whether on screen or in goth music (think Bauhaus) The lines are iconic and memorable.
I still crack up a little bit the second time he says “come...heRRE”. Something about that delivery is humorous. That being said, still my favorite vampire movie along with Nosferatu and Bela is easily the best Dracula.
One of the most epic and badass rivalries ever depicted.
he is and always will be one of the best actors that portrayed dracula
The first vampire was from Hungary. He was called " Count Bella lugosi"
*Béla
Bella is a female name
@@balintkristof8442 bella is from twilight, she is not welcome here
The place he came from in Austria-Hungary is actually in Romania now soooo you could say that he “was” Romanian xD
Lord Assface he was born in Szekelföld, he served in the Hungarian army, his name was Béla Ferencz Dezső but he took up Lugosi because he was born in the Székely town of Lugos...
@@lordassface8810 That's just as dumb as saying that a 19th century German born in Königsberg was actually a Russian...
NOBODY will EVER play Dracula like Lugosi did. NOBODY.
Boris Karloff was a vicious man who had Bela Lugosi blacklisted. Pretty much after SOF, jealous of his Ygor success, BK's mission of destruction started. Twitter for details: @IreneBoroff. If you think he stopped at compulsive lying and serial cheating, you thought wrong. It got much worse from thereon. I expose it all, FOR FREE! :)
Thank the gods, he was a hack.
This performance by Bela Lugosi is one of the classic cinema performances of all time. His Dracula is Dracula.
The very image of Dracula today was created by Bela Lugosi. His performance in this movie is still of supreme quality. Made in 1931, he has never been surpassed in the role because he is Dracula in the minds of all even if they have never seen the movie. One of the strongest performances ever put on film.
COME.... hyur
sp33kz
love the way you spell here, with a
y, u and an r.
The Force is strong in you, Van Helsing :P
one of the most badass actors of all times, he defined the vampire movie.
Lugosi is simply the eternal cinematic Dracula. There will never be another like Lugosi never. You will be remembered Mr. Lugosi and your fans grow every day. An actor like no other.
I still get chill bumps watching Lugosi play the sinister one! He was born to play the role of "Dracula."
Who needs sparkly vampires or Kiefer Sutherland with too much hair lacquer for that matter, when you can have Slavic accents, a cape and almost a minute's silence?
Indeed. The thing with Bela Lugosi he was trying to learn english well when he went to america in the 1920s. He is originally from Austria-Hungary (now Romania). which explain why he had that exotic look to him and the accent. I think its cool me and Bela almost share our bdays together, only 2 days apart,i think october is one of the coolest months with halloween and all that stuff.
Mark Oglesby He had hungarian accent because he was hungarian. And the hungarians are not slavic people. But yes, you have right, Lugosi Béla was the best vampire in the history of hollywood.
Mark Oglesby To say Hungarian is a slavic is like an insult to our people. We are proud to be NOT slavic.
I didnt intend to say that, i was just saying time had change you know :P Originally Hungary which is now Romania.
Rock Barbie Johansson I was reffering to the original post, yes he is from Transylvania, what lies in Romania now. BTW neither Romania nor Hungarian language has Slavic origin.
Best scene in Lugosi's stagy and turgid movie. His reading of the command, "Come here! Come ... here." is as perfect a delivery as a line ever received. Hail Lugosi, *the* Dracula for all time.
I dont understand how Bela Lugosi didnt get many roles after Dracula? or even before Dracula. He was 50 years old when this was released. Lugosi was tall, dark and handsome (even at 50).. he easily should have been leading man material in the 30's. Instead after Dracula his career never took off and he was stuck in roled that were FAR FAR beneath him. Its just sad... id love to see him in more better movies.
Bela Lugosi always wanted to play romantic and hero roles as he did in his acting career in Hungary and Germany but Hollywood made his life miserable and they don't appreciate his talent as an actor and they just wanted to give him evil roles
He was a leading man on stage when he played Dracula. But yeah, Hollywood treated him terribly. 😣
There are more movies....and great movies with Bela....
Watch carefully Edward, THIS is what a REAL vampire is like. Notice the sophisticated attitude, the serious tone, and the lack of sparkles. You want a real vampire? Then Bela Lugosi is your man; the man who played Drcaula to perfection.
No actor could do this today. Superb performances by both. Lugosi is simply the eternal cinematic Dracula. He deserves all the acclaim his performance has and will produce. Mr. Lugosi you are eternal.
Ah yes, surely NO ONE alive today on the entire planet compares, actors back in your day were just on a whole other level right
I'm 26, this is my first time seeing this scene. The acting is good, but it's nothing special. They are just giving a calm level headed simple delivery of the script. Acting is most challenging when trying to convey authentic emotions, especially crying.
Nothing in this scene points to these actors being bad. But at the same time, there's also nothing in this scene pointing to them being god tier actors without rival
@@whirlwind872 have you ever compared this scene with that is Frank Langella and sir Lawrence Olivier in the 1979
Version of Dracula?
That face...that voice...Bela Lugosi is one of the most sexiest actors I've ever known. Same goes to Boris Karloff and Christopher Lee.
Thank you!
@@KPSS12 you're a vampire
@@KPSS12 you have to supposed to be dead in 69'
@@badgalandrea
So sorry to report that the rumors of his death have been greatly exaggerated.
1931. Bella Lugosi is still THE Dracula that all others are judged against.
Bela, the only true Dracula. Now we have too many shitty remakes and it is tarnishing Dracula's bloody good name!!
I was recently cast in the play of this for my college's Fall Show as Dracula, trying to study up on the master himself.
YES...Bela Lugosi...THE true Dracula. He and later...Lee...those were screen vampires. Nowadays vampires are college aged hunks and babes with emotional problems wanting to get married and have kids, sharing apartments, and whining like little wusses when not flying around like superman or engaging in other super powers. TV and the movies have destroyed the vampire like no stake or sunlight ever could. Pathetic. Bela...you are missed.
Why would you call today's "vampires" vampires. If anything they're pixies
True that.
+Michael Lucas I just realized that I offense pixies
Ever heard of Vampire: The Masquerade or Vampire: The Requiem? Maybe True Blood? Not all today's vampires are pixies.
Arbaaz Shaw nowdays vampires are junk, copy shit. this is real, pure real eternal classic
Ultra-classic Hollywood! This film is by far my favorite Dracula production!
Come... here...
I love you, Dracula! Master!
he kinda makes your panties wet huh? Samantha?? :)
Rexx Daly Yes :)
Samantha Black
kinda thought so..it"s a good thing huh girl..he is rather sexy many women have said it..and he is the best Dracula there ever was...
Okay same!
✋ಠ_ಠ
Elegant, high quality scene. No screaming or flashy nonsense. I adore this.
Dracula :Come.. Here.
Van Helsing:Nope!
Van Helsing: Mesmerize level needs to be at level 50
This was a great scene. Van Helsing was strong enough to resist Dracula's immense powers. The cross did it.
I haven’t seen this film, but now I certainly want to. This guy is menacing and charming at the same time.
"More wolfbane?" "No thanks, had some."
Is wolfbane an american word for garlic just curious
@@scorpionnetherrealm8937 no, it's a type of plant. " Though a man be pure in heart and says his prayers by night,
can become a wolf, when the wolfbane blooms
and the Autumn moon is bright."
Bella Lugosi's Dracula performance has never been matched. This movie still scares the crap out of me.....and I'm almost a senior citizen now.
Ninety years after its filming and this scene still captures the drama of the Holy vs evil. As a child I never noticed much Sloan's performance as Van Helsing falls under Dracula's power and then resists it. I just love it when Dracula says with sarcasm,"more wolfbane?" and then lunges at Van Helsing whose crucifix both repels and terrifies him.
He's forever Dracula, no one else can ever compare in this role.
His voice so hypnotic!! Hes handsome and a vampire . Bella lugosi!!! Id be his bride no questions asked. Ha ha! I love that he just has that power to draw you in. I melt!!! Lol!!
bela`s accent is BIG part of his great charisma,and makes him sounds scary and magnetic.he did a great job for film industry,thank you mr.lugosi R.I.P.
There can be only one. I loved Christopher Lee, but he will always be the #2 Dracula.
Oh don't worry, Christopher Lee would have admitted this himself.
That "oh crap" face when he sees the cross.
Ah, the days when people actually had to ACT to be vampires...I miss those days.
Only real Bela Lugosi's fan understand this classic value, movie is very old but eternal and classic value only raise all the time!
Best Dracula actor ever! It's criminal how badly Universal studios treated this man, read about it, it's sad
Bela Lugosi was a perfect fit for Count Dracula.
Bela lugosi was Dracula
*****
He was actually from Austria-Hungary, and was Hungarian. Nothing to do with Romania with the exceptions that he is portraying Hungarian vassal of wallachian origin in this movie.
Dracula (Vlad Tepes) was a Wallachian (Romanian) lord, whose father was in the Order of the Dragon, a knightly order created by Sigismund King of Hungary.
Oh, Dracula in the bookwas a Szekler, not a Magyar, but yeah, that makes him Hungarian.
Surokh That is correct. Modern potrayals often go for Count Dracula=Vlad Tepes (such as the Gary Oldman version or the new Dracula Untold) despite the fact that in the book they are explicitly not the same person. Count Dracula was a transylvanian noble of szekler origin (he even identifies himself as one) who supposedly learned black magic from the Devil in Scholomance (a rumored school underneath a lake near Nagyszeben, Transylvania) when he was alive and he became a vampire due to his evil. He also speaks hungarian with his brides.
Why then, does he have a romanian name? My personal theory that his peasants were most likely romanian (hungarian nobles with romanian peasants were quite common in pre-Trianon Transylvania) who called him Dracula because of his evil personality and fiendish powers. After centuries, he presumably forgot/abandoned his original szekler name and adopted the moniker that the peasantry gave him.
@@Surokh but lugosi and vlad tepes were both born in transylvania.
Marvellous scene between an Irresistible Force and an Immoveable object - van Helsing. The film as a whole looks its age by now but these two characters have never been beaten
I literally watched this movie this morning. You gotta love Bela Lugosi . What a genius
We Hungarian-Americans are proud of good old Bela Lugosi
He was Romanian
You have every right to be. He was, is and always will be the iconic cinema Dacula. A very fine actor as he showed again in "The Black Cat" with Karloff.
jrmetmoi No. He was a Hungarian man, who was born in Romania. It's not the same, please don't say bullshit :)
A Hungarian man born in Romania..... A ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha haaaaaaaaaaaaaa XD
exact :) there are many Hungarians in Romania. Go,check it on Wikipedia :)
I love his tux and cloak. I've tried for years to find a tux identical to his and a cloak as long and wide as his. But it's hard to find one that fits a 6 ft 6in 290lb behemoth
I agree. I love old movies like this because they lived and died on the acting, direction and cinematography. Special effects, music, and everything else Hollywood focuses on today can be fantastic, but if you really want to be immersed, old movies are where it's at!
Master at work!
Still way better than any of the Twilight movies.
No one else like Lugosi...
Bela Lugosi is to Dracula is what Robert Englund is to Freddy Krueger, and James Earl Jones is to Darth Vader. He embodies the character, to the point where it's hard to imagine anyone else in the role. Several actors might have portrayed Dracula within the 130+ years of the character's existence, but Lugosi's portrayal of the Count will always be the most iconic version of the character and the Lugosi Dracula wii always be one of the greatest movie villains of all time.
Wow calm down. I'm half Hungarian and it's a very important part of me. I loved Lugosi and I didn't find out he was Hungarian until recently. I thought it was awesome that I had a little something in common with him. Calm down!
Awesome voice, commanding presence, handsome, but evil incarnate.
Bela is the VERY BEST Dracula there ever was.
I love Christopher Lee's Dracula, but for me, Bela was incredible, and the very best there ever was. R.I.P. to the great Bela Lugosi.❤️
EVERY Vampire looks like the "Lugosi" Vampire, that was him, that was his REAL voice, he was friggin BORN near Transylvania, he was BORN to play this, He was BURIED in the fuckin cape!
Born IN Transilvania you mean.
Can you say TENSE and BADASS at the same time? This scene was it!
Subtle, deep, amazing.
He was indeed a very handsome man!!!
I was in first grade, from Busan, and my friends and I absolutely loved him. He was funny, we loved emulating him and he made us laugh. Kids just loved him. He wasn't too real too spooky or scary, border line camp, that we weren't scared of him and that is an art when we feel later we grew up with him and he has fans of many generations. Something about his accent does appeal to many immigrants and Halloween we all jump around with capes and sleepovers. There's something about his worldwide appeal to all ages that shouldn't be overlooked.
Edward Van Sloan is a pretty badass Van Helsing, too.
Sure beats the one in Hotel Transylvania 3, that's for sure.
This is the most amazing Dracula movie. Bella lugosi is a genius.
Lugosi's Dracula is what one thinks of when they think of vampires he's polite and elegant, yet at the same time had a cold sinister look in his eye like one would expect of a vampire (same goes for Chris Lee and Gary Oldman's own takes on Dracula) but what made Lugosi's preformance so definitive was his accent, he sounded like one would expect Dracula to sound like
I was waiting for him to say "Bleh bleh bleh"
*I do not say "Bleh bleh bleh!"*
I searched "Dracula bleh bleh bleh" and this came up
😂😂😂😂😂😂
A classic scene, from an immortal horror classic.
I LOVE this confrontation between Van Helsing and Dracula. Both Bela and Edward van Sloan are so perfect in their parts. And look at Van Helsing when he manages to resist Dracula's hypnotic powers! Now that's badass!
My favorite actor of all time...the one and only Bela Lugosi
Still one of the most powerful scenes ever
1:03 - "Come here."
My response: "Yes SIR!"
My response: "Are you batty? You're becoming a pain in the neck!"
he reminds me of the dracula in Sesame Street
he sure does! haha
"I am de Count! I love to count things."
+blueaspen Well who do you think they based the Count on?
"One Nipple! Ah! Ah! Ah! Two! Two Nipples! Ah! Ah! Ah! Three.....Oh My God i'm Getting Out Of Here"
The acting is a little hammy, but it sets the tone for a successful horror film. And the fact that they can get away with a full 30 seconds of silence and keep the plot moving is a testament to what cinema used to be.
Such an intense scene. No makeup needed. Thamk you for sharing this.
Still the best Dracula! Louis Jourdan a close second.
You never see Bela's teeth or any blood. Just two small wounds on the throat...
Bela's spell worked on me.
The way Bela did it, he didn't need to yell, didn't need to look angry, you just KNEW he was powerful and you wouldn't want to mess with him.
The iconic image of Dracula was created by the power of Bela Lugosi's performance. It is the quintessential cinimatic performance and always will be. Of course it is not the Dracula of the book it is the REAL DRACULA and that is Bela Lugosi. He is the icon and that icon has become Dracula. His performance still stands to this day as the best.
The idea that Lugosi learned his lines phonetically is a great story, but I've come to think it's a myth. He'd been living in the US 5 years and playing Dracula on stage for 3 years. It's hard to imagine he wouldn't have picked up some English by that time. Lugosi would later explain his odd inflection in dialogue readings as something Browning specifically directed him to do and that it was not the way he played the character on stage. A great performance, whatever the truth may be.
If you play the "swan lake" song just when this clip starts it fits in realy good..
Bela Lugosi is the BEST Dracula, no questions asked.
What really surprises me is that it's not too much, perfect lyrics and smooth acting, not bad editing (bc of the technology back then). Nobody could do better nowadays than that.
Lugosi had a great deal of experience on the Budapest stage and in Hungarian and German films! In the wide body of films he made in this country, it shows!!!!
Belá is so attractI've *-*
Lady Steel Béla*
simply the screens greatest ever Count Dracula. Bela Lugosi has never been equalled in this role.cheers
Woo! My favourite actor of all times!!!
Hey, I just found out that I am exactly TO THE DAY 100 years younger then Bela :-)
How can people act this well?
That's old-school acting my friend. It's all spectacular
LegacyKnight3000
Well said, my friend, well said.
Everybody can't do this.
This is skill with a capital 'S'.
Even the way he holds his fingers
is worth a look.
He may have had long fingers but the way he holds them when putting someone in a trance and let's not FORGET the look in his face when Van Helsing shows him the mirror....
Now that's ACTING!!!!!!
EVERYBODY CAN'T DO THAT!!!!!
That's what I call A VAMPIRE!!!
Bela Lugosi could lure me any day. Really, just listen to the man! He has such a silky voice.