Dracula

Dracula (1931)

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Maid: He's crazy.
Martin: They're all crazy. They're all crazy except you and me. Sometimes I have my doubts about you.
Maid: Yes.

Martin: Aren't you ashamed now? Aren't you? Spiders now, is it? Flies ain't good enough.
Renfield: Flies? Flies? Poor puny things! Who wants to eat flies?
Martin: You do, you loony.
Renfield: Not when I can get nice fat spiders.
Martin: All right, have it your own way.

Renfield: No, no, master. I wasn't going to say anything, I told them nothing. I am loyal to you master.

Count Dracula: The spider spinning his web for the unwary fly... The blood is the life, Mr. Renfield.

Van Helsing: Gentlemen, we are dealing with the undead.
Scholar: Nosferatu.
Van Helsing: Yes, Nosferatu.

Van Helsing: You'll die in torment if you die with innocent blood on your soul.
Renfield: God will not damn a poor lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those with weak minds.

Van Helsing: What have you to do with Dracula?
Renfield: Dracula?.. I never even heard the name before.

Doctor Seward: But, Professor Van Helsing, modern medical science does not admit of such a creature! The vampire is a pure myth, superstition.
Van Helsing: I may be able to bring you proof that the superstition of yesterday can become the scientific reality of today.

Renfield: I'm loyal to you Master, I 'm your slave, I didn't betray you! Oh no, don't! Don't kill me! Let me live, please! Punish me - torture me - but let me live! I can't die with all those lives on my conscience, all that blood on my hands.

Renfield: Rats. Rats. Rats! Thousands! Millions of them! All red blood! All these will I give you if you will obey me.

Count Dracula: For one who has not lived even a single lifetime, you're a wise man, Van Helsing.

Count Dracula: Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.

Count Dracula: To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
Mina Seward: Why, Count Dracula.
Count Dracula: There are far worse things awaiting man than death.

Other mistake: In the scene where Renfield enters Dracula's castle, it is past midnight and on the outside, it is dark. But there is a LOT of bright light streaming through the windows into the castle, throwing well-defined shadows. (00:09:10)

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Trivia: To accommodate all sorts of viewers, the studio also made a silent version of the film (for cinemas without sound equipment) and a Spanish-speaking version (to be shown in Latin America). The Spanish version is considered a better film, because it was filmed after the English takes each day, so the Spanish director and actors would watch the English takes and decide how to improve on them.

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Answer: Pretty sure this qualifies as a mistake, just like the llamas in Troy. Armadillos only live in the Americas. Later on, they have opossums too! So the story about not wanting to show rats could very well be true. Nevetheless, if this isn't a mistake, I don't know what is.

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Chosen answer: If memory serves, that version was filmed in Mexico and they used the same sets to film the Spanish version AT THE SAME TIME. English crew on days, Mexican crew at night. Being the desert there would be armadillos and I'm sure the crew thought they'd make good rats or something. Wouldn't you find some sort of exotic wildlife living in Castle Dracula?

Answer: Actually, in that time period, rats were deemed too "gross" to show so armadillos were substituted. I got this answer straight from David Skal, the noted horror film historian.

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