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Post by Zagreus on Feb 5, 2020 23:28:26 GMT
No worries Scott, I don't think anyone was honestly expecting him to pop up. We just love your work so much! <3
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Post by pawntake on Feb 6, 2020 7:52:01 GMT
'Enter freely, and leave something of the happiness you bring...' "Velcome to my home"
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Post by mark687 on Feb 6, 2020 11:05:33 GMT
Much as I love that people love Dorian, it's a bit disheartening that people expect us to pop him into everything. There's honestly no plans for Dorian to pop up again in any form - not even more Lost Confessions. Sorry. Well I certainly don't! I Enjoy the performance and production, hate the character, reminds me of the friend of friend everyone loves but you. Have Mr Viahos back for anything else anytime by all means (DW Villain Companion, Vampire, Mortal Victim) Regards mark687
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2020 14:16:22 GMT
Much as I love that people love Dorian, it's a bit disheartening that people expect us to pop him into everything. There's honestly no plans for Dorian to pop up again in any form - not even more Lost Confessions. Sorry. Which just goes to show there really is only so long you can keep lightning in a bottle. And if that is the case then thank you Scott for giving us (and Dorian) one last hurrah with The Lost Confessions. Even though I still haven't got round to listening to it yet...😳
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2020 16:37:38 GMT
On a slight tangent and not remotely Big Finish related, Jonathan Barnes (who wrote the Adaptations of Dracula, Dracula's Guests and Dracula's War) has a new book out in May...a sequel to the original Bram Stoker novel.
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Post by frisby78 on Feb 10, 2020 23:31:11 GMT
Well recieved Draculas Guests in the post this morning and I've ended up blitzing it in one evening. Brilliant. Excellent writing and acting all round and the music was gorgeous.
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Post by Zagreus on Feb 12, 2020 21:30:08 GMT
Finished up listening to Dracula's Guests. Good stuff, good stuff. I can very much see how it sets up both Dracula, as well as presumably some stuff for Dracula's War later on down the road, while still being a good prequel in and of itself that builds on the original excised chapter.
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Post by elkawho on Feb 13, 2020 0:05:59 GMT
I enjoyed Dracula's Guests very much. Mark had much more to do than in Dracula and he seemed to relish every moment. Especially when he got to kill, maim and torture people. LOL
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Post by pawntake on Feb 13, 2020 11:27:32 GMT
Can only really agree with all the above comments,the wonderful music,the sinister tones of Mark Gatiss,and a great example of how to combine narration with the spoken word.More Dracula please Big Finish!!!
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Post by lidar2 on Feb 20, 2020 9:36:36 GMT
About halfway through this. Enjoying it immensely
One comment so far:
Dracula is described as an older man with a white moustache in it, whereas on the cover he looks like Mark Gatiss with red eyes.
It's a minor niggle, but the mismatch between the cover and the content bugs me and comes across as a teensy bit sloppy. I love the covers and let them give my imagination a bit of a steer while I listen and visualise the story in my mind, but it doesn't really work in this case Either go with a red-eyed Mark Gatiss and describe Dracula as such in the content, or else go with the content and get Mark Gatiss to don a bit of make-up and a false moustache for the cover
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Post by frisby78 on Feb 20, 2020 9:52:26 GMT
About halfway through this. Enjoying it immensely One comment so far: Dracula is described as an older man with a white moustache in it, whereas on the cover he looks like Mark Gatiss with red eyes. It's a minor niggle, but the mismatch between the cover and the content bugs me and comes across as a teensy bit sloppy. I love the covers and let them give my imagination a bit of a steer while I listen and visualise the story in my mind, but it doesn't really work in this case Either go with a red-eyed Mark Gatiss and describe Dracula as such in the content, or else go with the content and get Mark Gatiss to don a bit of make-up and a false moustache for the cover I imagine the youthful picture is from the 2nd story when Dracula was in his prime.
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Post by lidar2 on Feb 25, 2020 9:39:25 GMT
After the prequel last week, I am listening to the story itself this week for the first time. I am not familiar with the novel and I have not watched a "faithful" adaptation, so it all new to me*.
What can I say? Not finished it, but what I have heard so far really is the very toppest of top notch - kudos to all involved
* Actually that's not true - I remember being scared out of my wits by the Ladybird version when I was about 7 or 8 - so scared I stopped going to sleep on my side or stomach and lay on my back so Dracula couldn't sneak up behind me. That lasted for years, but I don't remember much about the actual story
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Post by frisby78 on Feb 25, 2020 10:43:50 GMT
After the prequel last week, I am listening to the story itself this week for the first time. I am not familiar with the novel and I have not watched a "faithful" adaptation, so it all new to me*. What can I say? Not finished it, but what I have heard so far really is the very toppest of top notch - kudos to all involved * Actually that's not true - I remember being scared out of my wits by the Ladybird version when I was about 7 or 8 - so scared I stopped going to sleep on my side or stomach and lay on my back so Dracula couldn't sneak up behind me. That lasted for years, but I don't remember much about the actual story I think the most faithful on screen version is the Louis Jourdan BBC version. Its brilliant.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2020 11:48:05 GMT
After the prequel last week, I am listening to the story itself this week for the first time. I am not familiar with the novel and I have not watched a "faithful" adaptation, so it all new to me*. What can I say? Not finished it, but what I have heard so far really is the very toppest of top notch - kudos to all involved * Actually that's not true - I remember being scared out of my wits by the Ladybird version when I was about 7 or 8 - so scared I stopped going to sleep on my side or stomach and lay on my back so Dracula couldn't sneak up behind me. That lasted for years, but I don't remember much about the actual story I think the most faithful on screen version is the Louis Jourdan BBC version. Its brilliant. It's certainly the most faithful to the events, (most of) the characters and the locations but I don't think a visual Dracula could ever be truly faithful to the source because of the narrative structure, being told with so many POVs and devices like letters, wax cylinders and records. Some books, like Dracula and War Of The Worlds, have massively cinematic ideas but the structure and characters need to be changed to work in a visual medium. Then there's the fact that truly repels producers from going too faithful - Dracula is not present very much at all if you do it like the book, and the film producers want their Dracula front and centre in events. They don't want a story about a wet drip Englishman, a middle aged Doctor and a cowboy with a bit of Dracula at the start and end. Along with the Jourdan version, Franco's Count Dracula with Christopher Lee was pretty faithful - with Lee pushing for more and more Stoker (even getting a moustache for Dracula) as Hammer obviously wasn't giving him anything like the book version. I always thought it was a bit odd that Chris had such a fetish over being faithful to the book as if they were....he wasn't getting 7 movies out of it and all his scenes would be used up in one. I'm of the school - and I was glad to hear Mark Gattis agree with the notion on his documentary after the BBC series last month - that Stoker's book is actually quite poorly written. Some wonderful ideas but that those ideas have lit the flame of better adaptations later on. I'd argue Jimmy Sangster wrote a better, more visceral, Dracula than Stoker ever did.
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Post by frisby78 on Feb 25, 2020 11:52:05 GMT
I think the most faithful on screen version is the Louis Jourdan BBC version. Its brilliant. It's certainly the most faithful to the events, (most of) the characters and the locations but I don't think a visual Dracula could ever be truly faithful to the source because of the narrative structure, being told with so many POVs and devices like letters, wax cylinders and records. Some books, like Dracula and War Of The Worlds, have massively cinematic ideas but the structure and characters need to be changed to work in a visual medium. Then there's the fact that truly repels producers from going too faithful - Dracula is not present very much at all if you do it like the book, and the film producers want their Dracula front and centre in events. They don't want a story about a wet drip Englishman, a middle aged Doctor and a cowboy with a bit of Dracula at the start and end. Along with the Jourdan version, Franco's Count Dracula with Christopher Lee was pretty faithful - with Lee pushing for more and more Stoker (even getting a moustache for Dracula) as Hammer obviously wasn't giving him anything like the book version. I always thought it was a bit odd that Chris had such a fetish over being faithful to the book as if they were....he wasn't getting 7 movies out of it and all his scenes would be used up in one. I'm of the school - and I was glad to hear Mark Gattis agree with the notion on his documentary after the BBC series last month - that Stoker's book is actually quite poorly written. Some wonderful ideas but that those ideas have lit the flame of better adaptations later on. I'd argue Jimmy Sangster wrote a better, more visceral, Dracula than Stoker ever did. I totally agree. I find the Stoker novel a chore and dreadfully tedious. As you say Sangster cut away all the fat and made a far more exciting story.
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Post by lidar2 on Feb 25, 2020 12:11:55 GMT
It's certainly the most faithful to the events, (most of) the characters and the locations but I don't think a visual Dracula could ever be truly faithful to the source because of the narrative structure, being told with so many POVs and devices like letters, wax cylinders and records. Some books, like Dracula and War Of The Worlds, have massively cinematic ideas but the structure and characters need to be changed to work in a visual medium. Then there's the fact that truly repels producers from going too faithful - Dracula is not present very much at all if you do it like the book, and the film producers want their Dracula front and centre in events. They don't want a story about a wet drip Englishman, a middle aged Doctor and a cowboy with a bit of Dracula at the start and end. Along with the Jourdan version, Franco's Count Dracula with Christopher Lee was pretty faithful - with Lee pushing for more and more Stoker (even getting a moustache for Dracula) as Hammer obviously wasn't giving him anything like the book version. I always thought it was a bit odd that Chris had such a fetish over being faithful to the book as if they were....he wasn't getting 7 movies out of it and all his scenes would be used up in one. I'm of the school - and I was glad to hear Mark Gattis agree with the notion on his documentary after the BBC series last month - that Stoker's book is actually quite poorly written. Some wonderful ideas but that those ideas have lit the flame of better adaptations later on. I'd argue Jimmy Sangster wrote a better, more visceral, Dracula than Stoker ever did. I totally agree. I find the Stoker novel a chore and dreadfully tedious. As you say Sangster cut away all the fat and made a far more exciting story. I was actually thinking about reading the novel … now I'm having 2nd thoughts.
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Post by Trace on Feb 28, 2020 23:43:08 GMT
I totally agree. I find the Stoker novel a chore and dreadfully tedious. As you say Sangster cut away all the fat and made a far more exciting story. I was actually thinking about reading the novel … now I'm having 2nd thoughts. I couldn’t get into it as a teen, but tried again 10 years later and LOVED every word. I’ve since re-read it about 5 times! I think the journal/diary/letters/cylinder recordings format is brilliant, and extremely effective. In fact, I may do it again soon! Give it a try...you may be surprised.
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Post by number13 on Feb 28, 2020 23:53:00 GMT
I was actually thinking about reading the novel … now I'm having 2nd thoughts. I couldn’t get into it as a teen, but tried again 10 years later and LOVED every word. I’ve since re-read it about 5 times! I think the journal/diary/letters/cylinder recordings format is brilliant, and extremely effective. In fact, I may do it again soon! Give it a try...you may be surprised. Seconded! There's a good reason that Dracula is undead I mean undying as a novel.
I think it's a great read with its "found footage" style and many of the scenes in print are better and more exciting to read than I've ever seen (or heard) them done. I've lost count (yes of course that was a pun ) of the times I've read it but it must be 5 or more times over the years for me too. It's a true Victorian classic.
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Post by iainbenson on Mar 4, 2020 15:39:10 GMT
Well recieved Draculas Guests in the post this morning and I've ended up blitzing it in one evening. Brilliant. Excellent writing and acting all round and the music was gorgeous. I've just finished listening to it, and really enjoyed it also, but was somewhat puzzled by the voicing of Sabine; she sounded to me almost as if Apple's Siri was playing the part. Was this an intentional artistic choice, or is it just the way Hannah Arterton always sounds?
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Post by frisby78 on Mar 4, 2020 23:42:21 GMT
Well recieved Draculas Guests in the post this morning and I've ended up blitzing it in one evening. Brilliant. Excellent writing and acting all round and the music was gorgeous. I've just finished listening to it, and really enjoyed it also, but was somewhat puzzled by the voicing of Sabine; she sounded to me almost as if Apple's Siri was playing the part. Was this an intentional artistic choice, or is it just the way Hannah Arterton always sounds? I took it as deliberately ethereal. It worked for me.
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