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2009-10-04 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Fred 2009-10-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Cruel is pretty subjective.

He did a pretty good job keeping the turks at bay.

Posted by James Carville 2009-10-04 01:20|| 2009-10-04 01:20|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm a Prince but don't get the publicity this guy gets - perhaps I should impale several thousands like this guy did in 1450 - after allthey were only captured MOOOOOSLEMS

Posted by KNAZ BUTOP ALKSANDR 2009-10-04 01:37|| 2009-10-04 01:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Hey they likely beheaded his guys just like the Jihadist of today so he just up'ed the ante.

I see the head and raise you a tared and ignited elevator shaft.

Posted by 3dc 2009-10-04 04:13|| 2009-10-04 04:13|| Front Page Top

#4 I was told the word Dracula was their word for "Count", so "Count Dracula" was Redundant.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2009-10-04 11:27|| 2009-10-04 11:27|| Front Page Top

#5 I have long thought that the Dracula mythos needs a rewrite. Either they try to be true to the original novel, which has some serious problems; or they just use cheesy pulp plots.

Instead what they need to do is to go the way of 'The Company of Wolves' for the werewolf concept. Blended with the story of Little Red Riding Hood, you needed hip waders to get through the symbolism and psychology. A great movie even if you didn't understand the nuances--you still knew that they were there, and they were kinky.

More than anything else, Dracula is a symbol of severe romance and sexuality. Women find him sexually irresistible, and men find him sexually threatening. This is why he fits in so well in sexually repressed Victorian England.

Today this seems outdated, but only because there is confusion between sexuality and sex. The truth is that we are just as repressed as the Victorians, but in a different way.

But Dracula needs to be rewritten to reflect that.

Posted by Anonymoose 2009-10-04 13:33|| 2009-10-04 13:33|| Front Page Top

#6 "Women find him sexually irresistible"

Not this woman.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-10-04 15:48|| 2009-10-04 15:48|| Front Page Top

#7 The Victorian women in the Count Dracula story, Barbara. Such characters, like their counterparts in the pulp romance novels and films of today, are completely unlike real, live, adult female humans.

Posted by trailing wife 2009-10-04 20:42|| 2009-10-04 20:42|| Front Page Top

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