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Dracula: Dead and Loving It
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Dracula: Dead and Loving It is a Mel Brooks movie which was released in 1995 and starred Leslie Nielsen as Dracula.The story begins as a young solicitor from London, Thomas Renfield (Peter MacNicol), meets the mysterious Count Dracula. He begins to suspect that something is amiss, but the Count hypnotizes him before he can escape. The pair then travel to London, where the Count has purchased a manor next to an insane asylum. He meets his next-door neighbors at an opera: Dr. Seward (Harvey Korman), his daughter Mina (Amy Yasbeck), her friend Lucy (Lysette Anthony), and Mina's fiance Jonathan Harker (Steven Weber). Shortly thereafter, Lucy becomes mysteriously ill. This prompts Dr. Seward to seek advice from his old friend Dr. Abram Van Helsing (Brooks).Van Helsing informs Jonathan and Dr. Seward that they have "entered ze realm of ze supernatural!" and that Lucy is the victim of a vampire attack. It is imperative that the vampire is stopped before Lucy dies, or she vill become vun herrself! Sadly, Lucy does indeed die and rise again as a member of the evil bloodsucking undead. This finally convinces Jonathan Harker and Dr. Seward that there is a vampire in their midst. They set off to stop him...just as Mina begins to develop the same symptoms that Lucy had before she died.All along the way, Hilarity Ensues (literally, in this case). | |
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Creator Cameo: Taken to its Logical Extreme with Van Helsing played by Mel Brooks. | |
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Comedic Work, Serious Scene | |
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Comedic Work, Serious Scene: This is a pretty typical Mel Brooks parody, but Lucy's funeral is appropriately somber and serious. The discovery of Lucy's first victim as a vampire is also played for horror, but her attempt to seduce Harker and subsequent staking go back into comedy. | |
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I Am Very British | |
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The movie dips into this early, when the rather obviously British Renfield stops in a small village outside the Count's castle, in a hurry for directions, as not to be late. Most of the villagers are horrified at his new boss, but... | |
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Vampire Dance | |
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Vampire Dance: Van Helsing and co. set up a party for the high society. Dracula begins an elaborate dance with Mina. Then the cover is pulled off of the floor-length mirror, revealing that Dracula has no reflection. Hilarity ensues when he spirals her in the air, and in the mirror it looks like she's flying in circles. His first scene with her after hypnotizing her leads to a dance in which he compliments her technique, and his Living Shadow starts humping hers. | |
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Cleavage Window | |
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Cleavage Window: Seen on the outfit worn by the woman Dracula hypnotizes at the opera. | |
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Vampire Vords | |
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Vampire Vords: Even Mel Brooks, as Van Helsing, plays with this trope, but it's mostly Dracula who does it. | |
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Small Name, Big Ego | |
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Small Name, Big Ego: Dracula says at one point, "They are fools to think they can match wits with me! Me who can control the forces of darkness! Me who has commanded the creatures of the night to do my bidding!" Says the guy who got knocked out of his hiding place by an old Englishman slamming a door. This is the same ancient evil who cannot rise from his coffin without banging his head on the chandelier. And he crashes into Lucy's bedroom window as she closed it. | |
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Catapult Nightmare | |
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Catapult Nightmare: Dracula wakes up screaming and kicking from his "daymare". | |
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Cobweb Jungle | |
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Cobweb Jungle: Carried over from Dracula (1931) and Played for Laughs. Reinfield sees Dracula go through a cobweb without disturbing it. He thought he could go through the webs themselves until it starts covering him. | |
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Even Evil Has Standards | |
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Even Evil Has Standards: Dracula is quite appalled when he spots his Living Shadow's more perverted side during his first dance with Mina. "NISHTAI!" | |
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Super Window Jump | |
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Super Window Jump: How Dracula escapes the ball after being revealed as a vampire. | |
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Overdrawn at the Blood Bank | |
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Overdrawn at the Blood Bank: Jonathan Harker is instructed to hammer a stake through the heart of a vampirized Lucy Westenra. At the first blow, he is utterly drenched over several seconds by a geyser of blood from the coffin (which is why Van Helsing took cover behind a pillar). Van Helsing handwaves it by saying she just ate and directs Harker to hammer the stake again. And Jonathan does so. With the exact same result. Understandably, he declines to repeat the process a third time: Renfield gets a paper cut that results in a fountain of blood erupting from his finger. | |
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Adapted Out | |
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Adapted Out: Due to mostly being based on the 1931 film, Arthur Holmwood and Quincey Morris are both absent. There are also only two vampire brides as opposed to three. | |
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Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping | |
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Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Leslie Nielsen briefly drops his Transylvanian accent when Dracula receives an Eye Poke during the film's climax. | |
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Sick and Wrong | |
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Sick and Wrong: Renfield's initial reaction to Dracula's brides trying to seduce him. It doesn't last long. | |
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Compelling Voice | |
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Compelling Voice: Played with, as Dracula attempts to give instructions, but has difficulty getting people to do exactly what he wants and controlling multiple people at the same time. Usually results in general goofy chaos, which is par for the course in a Mel Brooks flick. Dracula seems to do this randomly as well, like when he tries to use it to get an usher to relay a (not in any way secret) message. | |
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Actor Allusion | |
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Actor Allusion: While this is the first time Peter MacNicol had ever played Renfield, this isn't the first time he's ever played The Renfield, having played Vigo's brainwashed minion Janosz Poha in Ghostbusters II. Especially ironic since Vigo the Carpathian was an Expy of Vlad the Impaler, Dracula being the most famous example. Steven Weber's character in a relationship with Amy Yasbeck's? where have we seen that before? | |
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The Renfield | |
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The Renfield: The Trope Namer appears, and Peter MacNicol (who had previously played a Renfield in Ghostbusters II) plays the role as hammy as possible. | |
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Vampires Hate Garlic | |
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Vampires Hate Garlic: At one point, Van Helsing tries to protect Lucy from vampiric attack by filling her room with so much garlic that the smell would drive anyone away whether they're undead or not. It works in the short term - Dracula is unable to enter her room, and has to resort to alternative methods to get to Lucy. | |
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Inadvertent Entrance Cue | |
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Inadvertent Entrance Cue: The movie gives a Shout-Out to Dracula (1931) when Dr. Seward expresses his incredulity by asking who could possibly be a vampire, at which point the maid announces, "Count Dracula!" | |
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Eye Poke | |
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Eye Poke: Used by Jonathan in the climax against the title vampire (who had just tempted fate). | |
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You Have Failed Me | |
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You Have Failed Me: When Renfield accidentally leads the heroes to Dracula (who's about to feed on Mina), Renfield insists that Dracula invoke this on him. Dracula wasn't even going to bother, but eventually just kicks him down the stairs to shut him up. | |
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And Now You Must Marry Me | |
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And Now You Must Marry Me: Dracula's plans for Mina. He even says thusly with this line (though he ends up mistaken her with the maid he was carrying and retrieves Mina and repeats the line at rapid-fire pace): | |
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I Just Want to Be Normal | |
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I Just Want to Be Normal: Big lipped alligator moment aside; Dracula's daymare, where he can walk in the sunlight and apparently cured of his vampirism, suggests that he secretly wishes to become a human again, as he is overjoyed when apparently drinking Lucy's blood has cured him. | |
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Gory Discretion Shot | |
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Gory Discretion Shot: At one point, the protagonist has to drive a stake into a vampire whose body is obscured by a coffin, but in doing so he gets sprayed with a ridiculous amount of blood. He complains by telling Van Helsing "You never told me there'd be this much blood!", to which Van helsing replies: "Of course there is! She just ate recently! Why do you think I'm behind the wall!?" | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Here and there, as expected. | |
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Trick-and-Follow Ploy | |
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Trick-and-Follow Ploy: The heroes release Renfield from the asylum in hopes that he will fall victim to this and lead them to his master. Renfield is somewhat wise to this, having been warned by Dracula not to fall for it. However, he's not quite wise enough, and just shuffles around for a minute in a small square, believing that will be enough to throw them off. | |
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You Are the Translated Foreign Word | |
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You Are the Translated Foreign Word: Played with. Van Helsing tells Harker that Lucy has become Nosferatu. Harker's response: "She's Italian?" | |
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Profane Last Words | |
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Profane Last Words: Dracula has escaped the vampire hunters, and is hiding in the rafters when Renfield throws open a trapdoor in the roof so his Master can escape. Only one problem: it was daylight. And there was nothing to block full sun from hitting Drac, either. | |
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Ambiguous Syntax | |
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Later, he tries to get to Mina in her bedroom but has to also "steer" her maid, and — thanks to Ambiguous Syntax — the two women end up running right into each other, leading to a hilarious facepalm from Dracula. | |
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Graceful Landing, Clumsy Landing | |
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Graceful Landing, Clumsy Landing: When Dracula needs his mortal servant's aid to clear out the garlic from Lucy's bedchamber, he bends the bars on the window of Renfield's cell on the upper floor of Seward's asylum, then flies to the ground. Renfield attempts to follow, landing in a heap at his master's feet. | |
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Bloody Hilarious | |
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Bloody Hilarious: Lucy's corpse spews a veritable fountain of blood when she is staked. | |
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Dream Sequence | |
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Dream Sequence: Dracula has a "daymare", where he believes his vampirism is cured and goes out to enjoy the beauty of the light. Then he bursts into flame and wakes up screaming and running. | |
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At the Opera Tonight | |
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At the Opera Tonight: Where we (and Dracula) first meet Dr. Seward, Mina, Lucy, and Jonathan. | |
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A Foggy Day in London Town | |
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A Foggy Day in London Town: Played for Laughs; the Establishing Shot of London is simply a impenetrable cloud of white fog, and the plaque of the opera house where the next scene takes place only becomes visible when the camera is two feet from it. | |
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Creatures by Many Other Names | |
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Creatures by Many Other Names: Parodied You Are the Translated Foreign Word for "vampire": | |
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No Ontological Inertia | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_704d7e91 | comment |
No Ontological Inertia: Double-subverted. After Dracula's death, Renfield cries and continues to call him his Master, and only snaps back to normal after Dr. Seward reminds him that he's now his own man. Renfield then follows Seward out, calling him "Master". | |
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-0.3 | |
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Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_736d791f | type |
Adaptational Badass | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_736d791f | comment |
Adaptational Badass: In the original 1931 film, Van Helsing stakes Dracula while he's asleep and vulnerable. In the film, he fights off Jonathan, Dr. Seward, and Abraham Van Helsing at the same time despite knowing his weakness, and it takes the sun rising (and Renfield's incompetence) to finally finish him. | |
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Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_7453bc5b | type |
Spared by the Adaptation | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_7453bc5b | comment |
Spared by the Adaptation: Renfield survives in the film. Funnily enough Reinfield wanted Dracula to punish him for his failure, and the latter just lifts him by his throat. | |
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Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_7679475 | type |
Bungled Hypnotism | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_7679475 | comment |
Bungled Hypnotism: Happens a couple times: First, Dracula glamours a theater usher into calling Dr. Seward to the lobby so he can "coincidentally" meet him, but after telling the usher what he wants her to do, he adds, "You will forget everything I told you." Needless to say, she approaches the group and completely forgets what she was supposed to say. Later, he tries to get to Mina in her bedroom but has to also "steer" her maid, and — thanks to Ambiguous Syntax — the two women end up running right into each other, leading to a hilarious facepalm from Dracula. | |
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Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_7679475 | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_7a32312a | type |
Rain of Blood | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_7a32312a | comment |
Rain of Blood: Parodied. Upon the first blow of the mallet, a jet of gallons and gallons of blood soaks the entire room for about twenty seconds, the one who used the matter complains, and Van Helsing (who already hid behind a corner beforehand) tells him to keep hammering the stake in, it happens again with even more blood. And after the second shot, Van Helsing tells him to keep hammering, declaring that she can't have much blood left, resulting in another ridiculous Rain Of Blood. Van Helsing then says, "She's almost dead!" The main character replies, "She's dead enough." | |
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Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_7a32312a | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_7efe1c56 | type |
Critical Psychoanalysis Failure | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_7efe1c56 | comment |
Critical Psychoanalysis Failure: Used as a throwaway gag. Renfield is sitting in his cell at the asylum, when another man speaks to him through the slot, saying he can't take it there anymore, the screams, the crazy faces, that the walls are closing in on him, etc. Then his boss tells him to get back to work. Turns out he's a security guard, not a patient. | |
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Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_7efe1c56 | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_823c6e3e | type |
Large Ham | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_823c6e3e | comment |
Large Ham: Several members of the cast but none more than Renfield. After he's hypnotized, it's amazing there's any scenery left by the end of the movie. Van Helsing (played by Mel Brooks himself) is also no slouch in this department. | |
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Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_823c6e3e | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_82a64c4b | type |
Adaptational Nice Guy | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_82a64c4b | comment |
Adaptational Nice Guy: Vampire Lucy never goes hunting for children here. | |
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Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_82a64c4b | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_83445b04 | type |
Pun | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_83445b04 | comment |
Pun: "Yes, we have 'Nosferatu.' We have 'Nosferatu' today!" note In case you didn't know, this is a play on the song "Yes! We Have No Bananas". | |
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Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_83445b04 | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_863fa679 | type |
What Happened to the Mouse? | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_863fa679 | comment |
What Happened to the Mouse?: The two brides back in Dracula's castle are never seen after their one scene. | |
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Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_863fa679 | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_86b21114 | type |
Badass Boast | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_86b21114 | comment |
Dracula's unnatural power in the final confrontation leads to him defeating all of the heroes, and grabbing Jonathan by the throat. He begins a pretty damned scary and badass speech about how he is utterly invincible, everyone is going to die, and there is nothing in the world that they can do to stop aaaaaaand then he gets poked in the eyes, by Johnathan, Three Stooges style. | |
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Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_86b21114 | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_8a7f47c7 | type |
Pivotal Wake-up | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_8a7f47c7 | comment |
Pivotal Wake-up: Parodied, as the Count does the wakeup... and ends up hitting his forehead on a metal chandelier. | |
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Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_8d0785d5 | type |
Didn't Think This Through | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_8d0785d5 | comment |
Didn't Think This Through: Jonathan and Dr. Seward during the final confrontation; they already know they are dealing with a vampire, yet they don't bother to properly prepare themselves when confronting the count (like bringing stakes and garlic along) but instead try to fight him with their bare hands and whatever objects they find in his lair. It's even worse since they put plenty of time into setting up a dramatic reveal that Dracula was a vampire. | |
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Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_8d0785d5 | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_9273464f | type |
A Glass of Chianti | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_9273464f | comment |
A Glass of Chianti: Dracula says, "I never drink...wine. Ah, what the hell. <sip> It's good!" | |
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Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_9273464f | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_a1b141f4 | type |
My God, What Have I Done? | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_a1b141f4 | comment |
My God, What Have I Done?: Harker has this reaction upon staking and killing the newly vampiric Lucy. Van Helsing assures him that he did the right thing, releasing her from her torment and allowing her eternal rest. | |
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Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_a1b141f4 | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_a32c747d | type |
I'm Okay! | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_a32c747d | comment |
I'm Okay!: Dracula falls down a flight of stairs, then tosses off an "I'm fine!" A moment later, you can see his shadow limping up the stairs behind him. | |
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Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_a32c747d | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_a4c37cbe | type |
Mood Whiplash | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_a4c37cbe | comment |
Mood Whiplash: The opening credits consist entirely of an incredibly foreboding and dramatic orchestral score playing over increasingly disturbing images of how vampires were depicted throughout history. It very effectively sets the mood...for a far more terrifying and serious movie than the silly comedy it actually is. Many viewers, even those who do not like the movie, often consider it the best and most memorable part, mostly because of how out of place it seems and how surprisingly well-done it is (James Rolfe has said it might be the greatest opening to any vampire movie ever). When Lucy bites the cemetery night guard, it's a surprisingly effective Jump Scare for a Mel Brooks movie. Dracula enlists Renfield to remove the strands of garlic in Lucy's room, but Renfield decides he's more interested in sneaking a peek at her under the covers. After he's discovered and dragged back to his cell, Dracula summons Lucy outside and kills her. The scene briefly cuts to her somber funeral. Dracula's unnatural power in the final confrontation leads to him defeating all of the heroes, and grabbing Jonathan by the throat. He begins a pretty damned scary and badass speech about how he is utterly invincible, everyone is going to die, and there is nothing in the world that they can do to stop aaaaaaand then he gets poked in the eyes, by Johnathan, Three Stooges style. | |
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Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_a4c37cbe | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_a679184b | type |
Due to the Dead | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_a679184b | comment |
Due to the Dead: After he accidentally kills his master, a mournful Renfield gathers the ashes of Dracula, puts them in the coffin, and then forms a smiley face out of them to make Dracula "look like his old self again" before shutting it. | |
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Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_a679184b | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_a9de8105 | type |
Dangerously Loaded Cargo | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_a9de8105 | comment |
Dangerously Loaded Cargo: Count Dracula's coffin is loaded onto a ship bound for England. During a storm, the coffin slides back and forth across the cargo bay with the Count yelping inside as it slams into the walls. Renfield tries weighing it down with his own body and eats a couple slams for his effort. | |
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Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_a9de8105 | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_ab729e43 | type |
Disappointed in You | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_ab729e43 | comment |
Disappointed in You: After Dracula catches his wives trying to seduce Renfield, he chews them out and asks "If that make him proud of them". | |
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Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_ab729e43 | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_abfcd50d | type |
Breaking and Bloodsucking | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_abfcd50d | comment |
Breaking and Bloodsucking: Played for Laughs, of course. Dracula in bat-form attempts to fly into Lucy's open window just in time for her to close it. Dracula is lurking outside Mina's window, but she has an inconvenient nurse inside with her. He's got them both under his spell, but they're mindlessly following his commands, and Dracula can't get the nurse to leave the room and Mina to let him in. | |
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Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_acf33d00 | type |
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_acf33d00 | comment |
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: At the end, Renfield attempts to save Dracula by opening an escape route for him in the attic where Van Helsing and the heroes have Dracula cornered. But since morning has come and the sun is out, all he does is shine sunlight onto his master, killing him once and for all. | |
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Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_acf33d00 | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_ad62678e | type |
Living Shadow | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_ad62678e | comment |
Living Shadow: Parodied in several scenes as a goof on Bram Stoker's Dracula. In one, Dracula falls down the stairs and claims to be perfectly fine. His shadow is then seen limping up the stairs behind him. | |
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Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_ad62678e | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_b26477dc | type |
Reactive Continuous Scream | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_b26477dc | comment |
Reactive Continuous Scream: Renfield is sent into Lucy's room to remove the garlic protecting her. He sees the sleeping girl and lifts up her bedspread to peep at her. Lucy awakens and screams, causing Renfield to emit an even higher pitched scream. | |
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Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_b26477dc | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_b486877f | type |
Squick | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_b486877f | comment |
Squick: In-universe, the autopsy scene, with Professor Van Helsing deliberately making his students pass out via ickiness. | |
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Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_b486877f | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_c04b1231 | type |
Jump Scare | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_c04b1231 | comment |
When Lucy bites the cemetery night guard, it's a surprisingly effective Jump Scare for a Mel Brooks movie. | |
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Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_c04b1231 | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_c0d598fe | type |
Evil Gloating | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_c0d598fe | comment |
Evil Gloating: Dracula does a bit of this during the film's climax. | |
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Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_c0d598fe | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_c2c80ef | type |
Neck Lift | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_c2c80ef | comment |
Neck Lift: Jonathan gets this treatment by the title vampire', but he counters with an eye poke. | |
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Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_c2c80ef | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_c505d6ec | type |
Missing Reflection | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_c505d6ec | comment |
Missing Reflection: Used in the dancing scene, when a huge mirror is produced and Dracula shows no reflection. Particularly hilarious when Dracula is spinning the woman in the air. | |
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Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_c5821f0e | type |
Ghostly Glide | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_c5821f0e | comment |
Ghostly Glide: Dracula's wives do this. Both lampshaded and subverted when he stops them from feeding on Renfield and tells them to leave. They start to do so by gliding away... before he tells them to knock it off and the women walk off normally instead. | |
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Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_c6c5ce4 | type |
Bedlam House | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_c6c5ce4 | comment |
Bedlam House: Renfield is kept in one of these and his insanity is treated by a combination of solitary confinement and lots of enemas. | |
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Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: Prof. Van Helsing conducts an autopsy to first year students but gets all of them to faint and give him the rest of the day off. In Quincy, M.E., Jack Klugman's character did the same to a group of rookie (first-year) policemen, and got them to all faint in order to continue with his investigation. | |
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Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_d1c8f2b3 | type |
Vampires Are Sex Gods | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_d1c8f2b3 | comment |
Vampires Are Sex Gods: Upon turning into a vampire, Lucy changes from a proper upper-class Victorian English lady into a lusty temptress. Even being bitten is enough to make the equally patrician Mina more frisky than usual. Neither of their charms work on Jonathan. Count Dracula himself, on the other hand, is the more traditional "gentlemanly vampire" (although his shadow is far more horny). | |
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Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_d34cbda2 | type |
Implausible Deniability | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_d34cbda2 | comment |
Implausible Deniability: Renfield eats bugs in front of Dr. Seward, and pretends he's not doing anything. | |
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Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_d500b978 | type |
Adaptational Wimp | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_d500b978 | comment |
Adaptational Wimp: Dracula still has his shapeshifting, and Compelling Voice hypnotic powers, but lack's the novel Drac's ability to walk out in the daytime, hence being exposed to sunlight will (and did) kill him. | |
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Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_d5a1770a | type |
British Stuffiness | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_d5a1770a | comment |
British Stuffiness: A main source of humor in the film. Jonathan Harker attempts to fend off the lustful advances of new vampire Lucy by politely reminding her, "We're British." However, his reserve crumbles utterly when she presents her breasts (which, she reminds him, are also British). | |
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Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_d8f6a563 | type |
Good Night, Sweet Prince | |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It / int_d8f6a563 | comment |
Good Night, Sweet Prince: The movie does this only to have the graveyard keeper find Lucy 'awake' having turned into a vampire. | |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here | |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When Van Helsing begins to brandish the cross at Dracula in the final battle, Dracula's shadow decides it's had enough and bugs out. | |
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Jonathan Harker is instructed to hammer a stake through the heart of a vampirized Lucy Westenra. At the first blow, he is utterly drenched over several seconds by a geyser of blood from the coffin (which is why Van Helsing took cover behind a pillar). Van Helsing handwaves it by saying she just ate and directs Harker to hammer the stake again. And Jonathan does so. With the exact same result. Understandably, he declines to repeat the process a third time: | |
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High-Pressure Blood | |
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High-Pressure Blood: Midway through, Van Helsing has the hero pound a stake into vampirized Lucy Westenra. At the first blow of the hammer, the hero gets drenched with about 30 gallons of blood rocketing out of the coffin with the force of a fire hose. Van Helsing is safely out of the way, having taken shelter behind a pillar. Another example is when Renfield gets a "paper-cut" and an obnoxious fountain of blood shoots out of his finger, much to the delight of Dracula. | |
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Decoy Protagonist | |
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Decoy Protagonist: The film seems to set Renfield up like this — he is the solicitor from London who meets up with Dracula in the beginning, as opposed to Jonathan Harker from the novel. Then Renfield is made into Dracula's servant, and the focus of the film shifts to Jonathan, Mina, and eventually Van Helsing. | |
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Bloodlust | |
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Blood Lust: Best demonstrated when Renfield cuts his finger during the contract signing (causing a truly ridiculous amount of blood) and Dracula is... very bad at hiding how badly he wants to lap all that up. | |
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Vampires Sleep in Coffins | |
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Vampires Sleep in Coffins: Parodied. There's a scene where Dracula levitates majestically from his coffin only to bang his head on a low-hanging chandelier. | |
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The Ditz | |
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The Ditz: Renfield. He gleefully eats insects and spiders in front of Dr. Seward, leads the heroes straight to where Dracula is hidden even while knowing that they were following him, and exposes his master to sunlight in a bid to rescue him, finishing Dracula off. | |
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Composite Character | |
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Composite Character: Brooks dispenses with all of Lucy's suitors except Seward, who becomes her much-older guardian instead. Harker takes over the role of all the four younger men. It's mentioned that he liked Lucy, while being Mina's suitor. Liked, not LIKE-Liked. Meanwhile, Harker's Transylvania adventures are given to Renfield. | |
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The Load | |
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Dracula enlists Renfield to remove the strands of garlic in Lucy's room, but Renfield decides he's more interested in sneaking a peek at her under the covers. After he's discovered and dragged back to his cell, Dracula summons Lucy outside and kills her. The scene briefly cuts to her somber funeral. | |
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Staking the Loved One | |
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Staking the Loved One: Parodied, since Van Helsing tells Harker Lucy has to be staked by someone who loved her in life. Jonathan replies that he only liked her. Helsing tells him it's close enough. To be fair, "liked" actually works too. | |
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All Just a Dream | |
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All Just a Dream: Dracula wakes up in the middle of the day, finds that he's unaffected by the sun's rays, and thinks that it must have something to do with feeding on Lucy's blood. He deduces that she must've cured his vampirism, and he then takes the opportunity to take a stroll through the park, asking a picnicking couple for their chicken and trying their wine. When Renfield arrives on the scene wondering why Dracula was out in the daytime, Dracula assures him that he's been cured, only to start smoking from his armpits, which Renfield points out. Dracula realizes his mistake, then starts running in place back to his coffin, only to wake up running and screaming inside of his coffin at night. He then realizes that everything that happened was all a dream. | |
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Groin Attack | |
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Groin Attack: In the climax, Renfield's gets stepped on three times each by Jonathan, Van Helsing, and Seward. Helsing is the one who stomps on his junk while the trio chases after Dracula. | |
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Silver Fox | |
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Silver Fox: Lucy shows an immediate attraction to Dracula who has a head full of white hair (Nielsen was 69 at the time the film was released). | |
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Distracted by the Sexy | |
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Distracted by the Sexy: Vampire Lucy attempts this on Harker, to seduce him into vampirism. | |
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Ceiling Cling | |
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Ceiling Cling: Dracula uses this to escape detection. A slamming door causes him to come loose. | |
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Verbal Backpedaling | |
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Verbal Backpedaling: Played with. When Dracula leaves the ball with Mina, Renfield runs after him calling "Master! Master!... I mean... Mister! Mister!" Shortly afterward: | |
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Anything but That! | |
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Anything but That!: Renfield when being subjected to another enema: | |
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I Do Not Drink Wine | |
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I Do Not Drink Wine: In Dracula's dream sequence, he thinks Lucy's blood cured him of his vampirism, and as he's enjoying himself, a couple offers him him a glass of wine. He starts to phrase the line, then subverts it by drinking it. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: Dr. Seward would give Reinfield enemas once he finds him outside of his holding cell. | |
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Comically Missing the Point | |
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Comically Missing the Point: The movie dips into this early, when the rather obviously British Renfield stops in a small village outside the Count's castle, in a hurry for directions, as not to be late. Most of the villagers are horrified at his new boss, but... Likewise when the vampire brides come to seduce him and suggestively rub against the bedposts. | |
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Evil Is Hammy | |
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Evil Is Hammy: This Dracula leans a bit more Cold Ham than Bela Lugosi's. Leslie Nielsen emphasizes him as The Charmer. | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: Van Helsing has to get the last word. Dracula gets in the last word himself at the very end of the end credits, making this even more hilarious because at that point he was DEAD.note The current home video release from Warner Bros., the film's current North American owner, have their logo plastered over the Columbia Pictures logo at the end apparently to preserve the joke as only the Castle Rock Entertainment logo appears at the front of that version. | |
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Blood-Splattered Innocents: Played for Laughs when the main character has to stake his fiancee's vampiric sister. The resulting blow causes a geyser of blood that coats him and everything in the room in copious amounts of blood. But wait, she's still not quite dead yet... Time for another whack. | |
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