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[adiva_calandia]

F-list poll:

Scorsese's Coppola's (oh my god how did I get that wrong) Bram Stoker's Dracula. The scene where Monica Bellucci and the other brides of Dracula are all over Keanu Reeves as Jonathan Harker. Is Harker consenting or not?

(I would ask about Dracula in general, but I, er, have never read the book. I know, I know, I'm a terrible vampire fan.)

Comments

[adiva_calandia]

vampire magic doesn't make you any more consenting than a roofie does, imho.

VERY good point. I will take this to my roomie who was arguing that he was into it. (All three of us who were debating this agreed that no matter what, Harker definitely withdraws consent about halfway through when Monica Bellucci is like "Here are my fangs! There is your cock!" and Keanu Reeves is like "OH MY GOD WTF GTFO," so the debate is now just "Was he into it at the beginning?")

I've been meaning to read it! Epistolary style doesn't bother me; I confess to having trouble with general Victorian writing style sometimes, though.

[gethenian.livejournal.com]

Monica Bellucci is like "Here are my fangs! There is your cock!" and Keanu Reeves is like "OH MY GOD WTF GTFO,"

...I think I have to see this movie now. XD

In the book, though, Jonathan thinks he's dreaming. He wakes up in the middle of the night with three freaky chicks standing over him apparently intent on having their way with him, but the Count shows up and shoos them away (he gives them a live kid in a sack, if memory serves... or something equally "WTF??"-inducing). Jonathan falls asleep again and wakes up the next morning in his own room and, since the story is being told from his POV at that point, there's no really good way to know EXACTLY what happened. As he tells it, the impression you get as the reader is that being almost gang-raped by feral undead females is one of the unintended consequences of pretending to be Belle in Beauty and the Beast and breaking into locked places in the castle and falling asleep there after being specifically warned not to do so. If there was ever any willingness expressed on his part, it was because in addition to being under the control of vampire magic, he didn't think what was happening was real anyway.



As the reader, you also get the impression that Jonathan is by no accounts the brightest crayon in the box. I'd call him a mauve or a periwinkle in terms of intellectual aptitude. A lot of his narration goes along the lines of "Well, I knew this was a bad idea, but I did it anyway, because hrr de durrr oh look a vampire D:"

[mercuriazs.livejournal.com]

A lot of his narration goes along the lines of "Well, I knew this was a bad idea, but I did it anyway, because hrr de durrr oh look a vampire D:"

*cracking up*