Bram Stoker's Dracula - Prologue (extended)

[Hastaj00]

I'll take the theatrical cut.

[SirindeArtemis]

I must admit that when I first saw Dracula's armor, I thought of a an angry red ant.

[Acig1981]

For those that don't know the history of this part of the world, let's tell them that current Romania was formed basically by the union of 3 historical regions: Transylvania, Wallachia and Moldova. Vlad Dracula was Transylvanian, but he ruled in Wallachia.

[Acig1981]

Winona's Romanian is a bit terrible :) And it's ironic because she has Romanian roots on her father's side.

[runsaber1]

that must of been 0bama's blood he drank not christ's... because he turned into a braindead zombie 0bamabot that wants to spread communism across the earth and have gay sex with arab children. *lulz*

[joesoap81]

Gary Oldman has a serious reserve of anger.

[thehonorablereese]

His "muscle armor" is badass.

[astoli1]

Gary Oldman was unbelievably SUPERB in this entire scene

[Yemmuh4444]

He kind of reminds me of the angry german kid, except with a lot more blood and tragedy.

[BrutalBattaglia]

Batte scene is epic, even though they didnt show much. They shouldve really extended it, more blood!

[Ferrychick1]

I would never blame God for damning my loved one who took his/her own life away. I would blame only my loved one for hurting me so by killing him/herself.

[satanicinternational]

@Ferrychick1 pssh. Cry me a river .

[forrykid]

@Ferrychick1

Uhhh, she thought her "loved-one" was DEAD...remember?

[Ferrychick1]

@forrykid Yeah, but the priest told him that she has taken her own life; therefore, she was damned to Hell. Suicide is a sin, in case if you haven't noticed.

[mattrockcrazy]

@VredesStal he wasn't the voievode of transylvania. but of Walachia, bram stoker and the producers that made this movie can suck my fat cock, fucking idiots with no true historical knowledge

[Acig1981]

@mattrockcrazy I think they did it on purpose. They really wanted to say Voivode of Transylvania and not Voivode of Wallachia, probably because Transylvania is more popular and more associated to Dracula's legend. It's a very notorious inaccuracy and it's hard to believe they didn´t know about it.

[rhugghed]

That priest is a troll. Vlad Tepes wouldn't have turned into Dracula if the priest didn't do that epic trolling while he was mourning. "Hey, your biatch is going to hell because she killed herself! She won't be allowed to be buried in sacred ground. Suck it up!" Good job, priest! LMAO!

[chillydogification]

@rhugghed Loool

[runsaber1]

what kind of is weird about this movie is... dracula sort of has power over the undead.... he can create them... why couldn't he just bring his lover back to life..

shouldn't there be some power of resurrection that he has?

[firthan]

@runsaber1 Dracula didn't create the undead from the dead. That's why he couldn't save his lover. And after many centuries of being undead he understood that this is not the faith he would want for his wife. See the scene where Mina tells Dracula that she wants to be like him.

[LexeconKiddo]

How did I miss this clip? Need to crack those extras back out.....thanks for the transcription below in Romanian. I came across the word "strigoi" last night & recognized it from this film (Dracula says it to the escaped wolf in the cinematograph scene later, don't know the 2nd word he says) and now am on another kick of watching. Damn, I love this film.

[LexeconKiddo]

How did I miss this clip? Need to crack those extras back out.....thanks for the transcription below in Romanian. I came across the word "strigoi" last night & recognized it from this film (Dracula says it to the escaped wolf in the cinematograph scene later, don't know the 2nd word he says) and now am on another kick of watching. Damn, I love this film.

[MrKillaDonut]

epic!! masterpiece

[jiac1125]

powerful scene! i love this Oldman truley dispayed the pain of someone deeply in love after losing his true love. his rage was on point.

[artemis20001000]

amazing actor!!!

[feuervogel2011]

freaking epic

[itzjoeymac]

All the ancient, true Kings were proud and arrogant.

[zm2520]

@VredesStal YES! WE ARE! AND MUCH MORE YOU CAN EVER IMAGINE! Bram Stoker : "I read that every known superstition in the world is gathered into the horseshoe of the Carpathians, as if it were the centre of some sort of imaginative whirlpool"

YOU CAN WALK THE WHOLE WORLD BUT YOU WILL NEVER FIND ANOTHER PLACE WHERE IS SO MUCH JUSTICE AND LOVE IN ONE'S HEART!

[Shonaripa]

isnt the priest Anthony Hopkins? it doesn't say in credits

[DarkWazaman]

this was intense!

[coreliandude76]

Gosh!!! I love this scene!!!!

I am going to buy the collectors edition just for this secuence. Amazing!!! The characterizations are magnificient. Gary Oldman and Tony Hopkins are the best!!!!!!!!!!

I hope they are performing their lines in Rumanian with proper ponunciation. I see there are some Romanian people here commenting. Please let me know if they are speaking their lines flawlessly.

[AmurgAprins]

@coreliandude76 No they are not, the accent is bad.But it still is one of the greatest movies ever :)Oh yes and like other said , the real Dracula never ruled in Transylvania but Wallachia another region of Romania.

[BibleJoker2Face]

@Acig1981, thank you.

[Seddius]

it's more haunting with the scenes of the cross falling from the priest's hands and Mina getting drenched in all that blood...you didn't mean to cut those just for timing Coppola, say you didn't :p

[keandu]

waw great hounour to hear Anthony Hopkins and Gary Oldman talking Romanian such a beautiful and powerful language we have would.ve been a shame for the scene to be in English..........Proud to be Romanian

[DarkAdonisVyers]

So can you really become a vampire just by stabbing a cross and yelling really loudly? I gotta go try that...

[MDkid1]

@DarkAdonisVyers well no lol...he became immortal/vampire after he sold his soul to the devil...ie stabbing a cross (rejecting God), and of course....yelling really loudly! ;)

[TechNoirReplicant]

@DarkAdonisVyers It's metaphorical... he is furious against 'God' for killing his loved one and stops worshipping... I think we're seeing a birth of an Atheist here.

[MDkid1]

this scene is scarier than the one in the movie!

[wheelman2003]

@MDkid1 Man, that DID creep me out worse than the cut version. WOWWWWW !!! That was freakin' creepy. They should've put THAT freakin' scene in and cut out the "cut up" bullcrap version. WOW. I hope they remake it and put this scene in it's entirety HERE !! WOW, cool.

[MDkid1]

@wheelman2003 I know, but the thing is directors are forced to cut even good scenes for timing, pacing etc. Unfortunately, a good scene such as this has to end up on the cutting room floor, and its doubtful if they will make another version of the movie with this in it. :(

[hecateschild666]

@VredesStal hi! The romanian they are speaking is very "badly spoken" for me, because of the pronounciation. Furthermore, Romanian is such a difficult language to speak, as well as Croatian or Russian, because they have so many letters which can only be perfectly pronounciated with the use of the throat, completely different to English! For someone who hasn't that experience it's almost impossible. And yes, I can understand it, but sometimes I also have my difficulties with that. ;-)

[legendz21]

@hecateschild666 Also think of this, they are pretty pissed off, distraught and emotional, the pronunciation shouldnt be expected to be too well...

[hecateschild666]

@VredesStal hi there! I would say that Gary Oldman was perfectly cast for being Dracula/Vlad Tepes in this movie.....

I would not say that Romanians are "proud, arrogant" in general, but this specific character, Vlad Tepes, the Voivode of Transilvania could be seen as proud of himself, because he did very much for the Romanians in ancient times. And they are still proud of this national hero nowadays. Walking through Romania you can barely visit any town without getting across a statue of him.

[foxmakeba]

@hecateschild666 Also you have to remember this is a VERY melodramatic drama with our main protagonist being actually the film's main villain. In the classic scene of story telling we should be seeing the story from Van Helsing or (Frankly, if desperate) Harker's story. Zzzzz... But what I love about this text is our main focus is the anti-hero in Dracula.

@VresesStal I'm not sure where you read 'proud' and 'arrogant' from but please note, Religion has been the focus point of war 4 centuries.

[mamonasoqtcagas]

Could someone please transcribe the dialogue in Romanian? I would be very grateful. I've been looking online but I haven't found anything about it.

Thank you!

[hecateschild666]

@mamonasoqtcagas here you are:

Cesare:

Mesaj, vârful unei săgeţi turceşti, scria că ai murit, nu am putut să o oprim. Ultimele ei cuvinte:

Elisabeta:

Domnul meu a murit, nu pot să trăiesc fără el. Dumnezeu să ne unească-n ceruri

cesare:

şi-a curmat singură viaţa fiul meu, sufletul ei nu mai poate fi salvat este blestemată, asta e legea lui dumnezeu!

cesare:sacrilegiu

Draculea: Asta este rasplata mea pentru apararea bisericii lui Dumnezeu?

[hecateschild666]

@hecateschild666 

[hecateschild666]

@mamonasoqtcagas and the last part:

Cesare: Sacrilegiu! Nu întoarce spatele lui Hristos, El te-a ales pe tine ca să pedepsească...[that is were dracula interupts him]

draculea: Renunţ la dumnezeu şi la voi toţi ipocriţii care v-aţi hrănit de prin urma lui. Dacă iubita mea va arde în iad aşa voi face şi eu. Eu, Draculia, voievod al Transilvaniei ma voi ridica din mormant. si voi razbuna moartea ei cu toata puterea intunericului. Sangele este viata, si va fie si viata mea.

Hope it helped!

[mamonasoqtcagas]

@hecateschild666

Hey!! A lot of thanks!!!! Thank you!!!!

I have been looking for it... oceans of time :)

[krull88]

i do like this movie so much!!

[Elanhyer]

I am romanian, and I must admit, gary oldman and antony hopkins speak very well!

[lilbutter94]

Wat language r they speakin it sound like latin however if there is an actual word for i it cant be because latin uses no pronouns

[hecateschild666]

@lilbutter94 the language they r speaking is Rumanian (quite frankly, very badly spoken Romanian)!

[TheIntenseIndieGamer]

@hecateschild666 haha yeah I know nothing about the language and could still tell Winona was just barely getting that shiz out.

Also, I can see why they cut this down, it was a bit much :P

[BibleJoker2Face]

@TheIntenseIndieGamer, I think the blood on Elisabeta was a bit too much. Everything else was just right.

[pelotillox]

@BibleJoker2Face she happened to be on her period.

[itzjoeymac]

super cool

[kopileegh16]

This is the kind of scene Slayer would jerk off to...

Simply amazing and fucking epic...

[TheThordir]

Umm...wasn't Vlad "Tepes Dracula" voievod of Wallachia ?

[Kamadeva01]

@TheThordir yes but he was born in Transilvania

[ty85207]

@TheThordir-- The real, historical Vlad Tepes Dracula was the ruler of Wallachia; however, Bram Stoker loosely based the titular antagonist of his novel based on Vlad Tepes, and in the novel (where this prologue is not mentioned AT ALL), the vampire lives in a castle in the Carpathians overlooking a small village in Transylvania.

[vampiricmalice]

@TheThordir

the real one was but this is the fictional character

[Avankiri]

@TheThordir Yeah, but for some reason, people have always referred to Dracula's territory he ruled over as "Transylvania". Perhaps it's a mistranslation, or perhaps there's a reason for it.

[AnimePrayer]

Did you know, that the priest is played by Anthony Hopkins? ;)

[chicoplateado]

Yeaph ... and then he was playing Van Helsing ... ironic isn´t it?

[ty85207]

@AnimePrayer-- Oh wow, it is him. Only to later show up as Abraham Van Helsing... coincidence?

[AnimePrayer]

@ty85207 To say it with the holy words of Leeroy Jethro Gibbs (NCIS): I don't believe in coincidence.

[Avankiri]

@AnimePrayer Yeah, I just thought about that. he kinda had the same facial features as van Helsing, but I guess I didn't notice it till now.

[alanvamp]

@AnimePrayer yep I learned that at the third time I saw it lol I was like wtf? isnt that antony too? lol

[foxmakeba]

@AnimePrayer This is a form of story telling I've seen before (Peter Pan, Hook, etc) but not sure what the techinque is called... Help anyone?

[Seigu007]

@AnimePrayer you wish

[AnimePrayer]

@Seigu007 Why should I lie? But look again at various websites for. But for people like you it is even on wikipedia.

[forrykid]

@AnimePrayer

Yes, and it's even hinted-at that Van Helsing is the decendant of that priest, who was partially responsible for Vlad's fury and transformation.

[pastorizzato1]

the film one was much better, it had a better atmosphere...this is too splatter, there is too much blood, is quite ridicoulos....the typical coppola's scene....

[Shadowhawk28]

As Mortanius from Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain would say, "You will have the blood you hunger for. . . "

[DarkAdonisVyers]

@Shadowhawk28 Perhaps the same could be said of all religions.

[Rhademanthus]

Aww you missed out the bit at the beginning, that music was epic.

[Acefrehleykiss1]

Cool

[Acefrehleykiss1]

great scene

[ShakespeareHamlet]

I think I can see why this extended prologue was deleted: too much blood as the end (ie. a deleted scene from "The Godfather" where the actor playing Fabrizio was covered in so much fake blood that Coppola thought the scene looked ridiculous. Though I LOVE the additional shots of blood pouring out from the statues and the blood spurting from the cross in Dracula's face.

[ShakespeareHamlet]

could you please post the deleted scenes?

[Peuplierjaime]

Esta escena está mucho mejor que la quedó en la película! Impacta mucho más!

[jjobie]

I can see why they cut this. The version in the movie is a lot tighter and it still gets the point across.

[MessengeroftheNight]

OMG!!! Could you please upload more deleted scenes from the collector's edition? PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!! ^_^

[Jal8919536]

It's missing the part where, after Vlad is told Elizabeth is damned, he quietly sobs when he realizes there would be no afterlife reunion for them, seeing his reflection in a pool of his wife's blood before breaking down.

[wheelman2003]

@Jal8919536 WHOA, they have a scene of that????? Whoa freaking cool jal9819536. I didn't realize that.