I honestly didn't think Gary Oldman was good in the role - one of his rare misses, a very good actor but just horribly miscast (and bad film to boot).
Great costumes, which is what I remember it for. It’s not a great film but visually it had a good punch. Gary oldman is a brilliant actor. I’m not really into vampires, I know that’s a whole thing but it’s not for me
You can’t cast a ginger as vlad, it’s just wrong. Although I guess enough sunlight is lethal both to Wampyre and Glaswegians …
could they not find someone with good cheekbones?
I don’t get the murder twink thing either. I do not find the Timmy Chalamey (sp?) types at all attractive, even though I’m fond of lanky nerdy idiots
I think the casting used to be done by straight men or men who understood what straight men think, and now it’s done by spiteful mutants.
What’s attractive isn’t always the muscles type. My own taste in men is more esoteric, but it certainly isn’t murder twink or these creepy fish faced mutants and I wouldn’t be inserting myself or my taste into a movie.
I think people’s personal weird tastes are getting put into casting choices when they should be not doing that. If you’ve got a thing for sickly looking twinks then fine, each to their own, god knows I like some very perhaps not classically handsome and odd men, lol.
but if I was casting die hard, I’d not be casting what I personally found attractive. I’d want an Everyman who looked good in a vest and could run around with a gun. Bruce was perfect for that. He looked just real enough to be believable as an Everyman, but he was masculine. If I was casting Dracula I’d be thinking tall, pale, dark hair, kind of ageless with good cheekbones.
Stoker’s description of him at first (he looks younger later) is this;
His face was strong — a very strong — aquiline, with high bridge of the thin nose and peculiarly arched nostrils; with lofty domed forehead, and hair growing scantily round the temples, but profusely elsewhere. His eyebrows were very massive, almost meeting over the nose, and with bushy hair that seemed to curl in its own profusion. The mouth, so far as I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth; these protruded over the lips, whose remarkable ruddiness showed an astonishing vitality in a man of his years. For the rest, his ears were pale and at the tops extremely pointed; the chin was broad and strong, and the cheeks firm though thin. The general effect was one of extraordinary pallor.
They got the pallor I suppose
