Took Alexandria Neonakis' Schoolism class on costuming, and the main assignment was to design the costume for a character in a book, movie, etc. Her example was Tom Bombadil and Goldberry, so I designed Mina Harker from the book Dracula! I tried to make her outfits as close to 1880/1890's designs as I could. Her clothes are of an older style, as she was a school teacher and Jonathan had only just been certified, so in my mind they didn't have a lot of money, and then...Dracula happened.
Very informative class, would recommend!
It'd be interesting to make a chart of various Dracula adaptations and how they deal with certain issues. Things like:
Dr. Seward is:
Lucy's ex
Lucy's father
Lucy AND Mina's father
some rando
non-existent
Renfield is:
Just some guy (old)
Just some guy (young)
Jonathan Harker
Jonathan's employer
Jonathan escapes the castle by:
Dying immediately
Getting killed by the Girlies
Getting turned into a vampire
Becoming Dracula's thrall
He just leaves
He was never in the castle in the first place
This character does not exist
Seriously the options are WILD. I haven't consumed nearly enough adaptations to do it myself but I think it would be a very funny group project
Things that Adaptions have robbed us from #5829:
Van Helsing having red hair! He doesn't have gray hair yet, which should tell you he's on the younger side of being "old"!
“Awk sure I did feel while bad for the poor wee critter asking her to marry him the wee pet he was while civil :(” –my very Northern Irish mother about Seward proposing to Lucy after my gothic-literature-obsessed dad and I peer pressured her into reading Dracula
Honorable mentions were her calling Dracula’s Brides “those three bitches” and calling Seward “the hospital boy”
"love is what makes us human" actually it's 'select all images with boat' but go off I guess