hello everyone and welcome back to another video we're going to be looking at the three-part
Dracula mini-series that was released on Netflix and BBC it received good reviews from fans and
critics personally it's one of my favorite renditions of Dracula the count himself is
played by clay's bang who absolutely knocks it out of the park being able to come off suave
or extremely menacing he is the first Danish actor to win the European film award for best
actor for his role in the 2017 movie The Square sister Agatha Van Helsing and her descendant is
played by dolly wells Jonathan Harker is played by john Heffernan and I really liked Lucy Westenra
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series is only three episodes but they are quite long the first episode starts off in 1897 at St.
Mary's convent and we are hearing Jonathan Harker retelling the horrific events that took place at
Dracula's castle while he was held there he is telling these events to Agatha Van Helsing a nun
who has a fascination with dark creatures and the occult the second episode takes place on a Russian
ship traveling to Whitby England and Dracula is on board this episode kind of feels like a murder
mystery because people are trying to figure out what's in this mysterious room on the ship
the final episode takes place in the modern day involving Agatha's descendant Zoe Van Helsing
she's a scientist at the Jonathan Harker foundation a place that studies vampires
we're going to look at Dracula the undead his maze-like castle and all his unique abilities
Jonathan Harker is a lawyer sent from England to help the count acquire some land back in England
however the count forces Jonathan to stay for a month so that Jonathan can teach him better
English and the customs of England before he travels there during that time the count begins
to feed on Jonathan at first he appeared to be a feeble old man but eventually he's as young
as Jonathan not only did Dracula become younger but he's also learned how to speak better English
almost perfect according to Jonathan when Dracula feeds on people he not only takes their blood but
he also takes part of their skills and personality he says blood is lives a saying that Agatha found
very strange she asked Jonathan if he really said lives instead of life like she knew there
was something more to that sentence Dracula wants to travel to the new world England he
wants more intelligent people to feed on because as he says you are what you eat Jonathan tried
to escape the castle every day when Dracula was sleeping but as Dracula told him the castle is
a prison without locks it was designed by a man named Petruvio after his wife died he made the
castle like an impossible maze meant to drive you insane with endless hallways and corridors
while searching the castle Jonathan comes upon some wooden boxes nailed shut he opens one up and
there's a bunch of flies they seem to be filled up with junk but then he realizes they're filled
with bodies these people aren't dead though these are the undead victims of Dracula most of the time
when a vampire feeds on someone and they die they become undead while the shambling creatures are
chasing and grabbing at Jonathan they keep saying "omoara-mă" he later finds out from sister Agatha
that this means kill me in Romanian they were begging to be put out of their misery Agatha
says they have lost their divine ability to die life is now an incurable disease for the undead
their bodies rot but their consciousness persists even as dust their pain goes on it's a secret that
all gravediggers keep that some of us are meant to scratch at our coffin lids for all eternity
when we see this exact scenario when a scientist in the second episode retells when he unearthed a
body for research and found the coffin lid had scratches on it the creature attacked him and
killed two others scarring the scientists for life and giving him horrific nightmares of the incident
Dracula travels to a random graveyard and tells Lucy to put her hand on the ground
and they can hear the undead knocking on their coffin lids and speaking in their graves
Lucy asks if they're vampires but Dracula says nothing so evolved they're just undead
the unfortunate few that remain sentient as they rot so this means that people must
be able to catch the virus or curse that makes people undead without being bitten by a vampire
Dracula refers to these undead as children of the night an undead child is seen watching them from
a distance in the graveyard Dracula says some of the smaller ones wiggle their way to the surface
Agatha mentions that there are other cases of the undead around the world
it also seems like not everyone that is bitten by a vampire becomes one Dracula had a vampire bride
wanted Johnny to be a bride and Lucy as well he never outright stated Johnny was a vampire but he
had fangs and said he was craving blood so there's a good chance that he was Dracula did however
confirm that Lucy was a vampire Dracula said Lucy was the finest bride he had created in 500 years
and when Lucy survives being cremated Dracula says to Agatha you have underestimated the
resilience of the vampire it's possible only some humans can become vampires or Dracula has to do
something extra to make them become a vampire instead of just undead because we can see from
all those people that were in the wooden boxes what happens to people that he usually feeds on
it's revealed that the virus that creates the undead predates Dracula which means that there was
vampires and undead before him he probably caught the virus just like others but for some reason
his body reacted differently Agatha suspects this is because who Dracula decides to feed on
I'll talk more about this later though people can catch this affliction like a virus but it's
implied that it is supernatural in origin since it grants extra ordinary abilities no person in
the show is ever turned into a vampire exactly like himself other than the one in the castle
but we don't see how he turned her he might have showed her some secret way to keep her humanity
Agatha says most vampires end up becoming completely feral beasts
so Dracula must have found some way to avoid this when Jonathan is turned he says that he's
starting to crave blood and his teeth become sharper like fangs so possibly Jonathan would
have eventually become more like Dracula or his bride if he were to feed on blood
when Dracula feeds from someone and they die shortly after they will twitch around
and then come back to life according to Dracula Jonathan did this remarkably fast
so it can possibly take anywhere from hours to days for someone to come back
Dracula also praises Jonathan for still having his own will after coming back because he says
most that come back have nothing more than hunger yet Jonathan still tries to escape it's also worth
noting that even though Jonathan is undead or possibly a vampire sunlight and the cross he's
wearing does not affect him so these weaknesses are more specific to Dracula himself and not all
undead the virus of vampirism is spread through a simple bite not the giving of blood however
the undead virus seems a little different because totally random people seem to be able to catch it
and it's not exactly clear how it does seem like only some people are capable of becoming full
vampires while some others will only become undead so there's a good chance that it's the exact same
virus and it just reacts differently to different people the woman in the castle was a vampire for
sure and she is one of the only other undead we see that doesn't look like a rotting corpse
Agatha says it's a possibility that since Dracula is very particular on who he feeds
on that this could be how he has retained his human looks and mind and if his wife was
feeding on the same thing that he was she would also remain much more human than most undead
Dracula himself has some special weaknesses but as for the undead and all the other vampires there's
only one thing that can kill them a stake through the heart you can also not commit suicide Johnny
tries to stake himself but Dracula says don't you think the undead have tried that Johnny a steak
works but it has to be put there by someone else Agatha said before that the consciousness of the
undead can carry on even after they turn to dust so I guess in that case they could never be staked
let's take a look at Dracula himself and how he became immortal
Dracula is 523 years old at the end of the first series he is similar to the undead and that he
does not age and cannot die but is a little more complicated because he can regenerate and has
many unique abilities feeding on blood keeps him strong and his body from decaying when he hasn't
had fresh blood for an extended period of time he will start to age it's unclear if he would ever
actually die from lack of blood though Agatha says blood to him is more of an addiction than
sustenance other undead might be able to feed on blood as well but we don't see that in the
first season when Dracula feeds on blood it's much more than just satisfying as hunger when
drinking blood Dracula can learn new languages memories and possibly any skills or talents the
person possessed he says every person I've drank from lives on in my veins when Jonathan Harker cut
his finger Dracula then somehow knew the name of Jonathan's wife even though he never mentioned it
so even the smell of blood has some information in it Dracula enjoyed feeding on Lucy because she
had no fear of death Dracula said she almost loved it where he on the other hand was terrified of it
so by feeding on her blood this allowed him a reprieve from his fear of death but he also
provided her with something in return when Dracula feeds on someone he can put them into a kind of
hypnosis or dream state that he can control while Jonathan was staying in the castle he had vivid
dreams every night of his wife and this turned out to be Dracula feeding on him and creating these
fantasies it's also important to note that not only does Dracula gain someone's memories among
other things when feeding on someone but that person he's feeding on also loses those memories
by the time Jonathan escaped Dracula's castle he could not even recognize his own wife
Dracula must have some kind of connection with those he turns into vampires because
he was able to communicate with Lucy through a mirror and she was able to sense where he
was after Jonathan escaped Dracula's castle he wrote a journal of what happened there
or so he thought he was confused by Agatha wanted to hear the story from him rather than
just reading his journal but she shows him what he wrote down I will serve Dracula Dracula Dracula
he filled the entire journal with ramblings and praises of Dracula he is shocked having no idea
he wrote this he swore he wrote the account of his stay at the castle but Dracula must
have played a trick on his mind somehow or would not allow John to tell the secrets of the castle
animal and human blood seems to be fine for vampires to consume because we see
bite marks on a bird when they are at sea but the blood of someone with cancer is poisonous
to Dracula and will kill him when Dracula sees blood he has a hard time controlling
himself and usually goes into a temporary feral state where his eyes turn red and he attacks
Dracula does not have any bodily functions as he jokes about not needing a toilet
it's a toilet I'm a vampire why have you given me a toilet he also only consumes blood we never
see him eat any regular food or drink Dracula is said to have the strength of 20 men in super speed
he can climb sheer walls fly and we see him shapeshift into a wolf
and possess another human after possessing the wolf and the human he crawls out from inside them
Dracula can possess another human's body but his eye color will always remain his own we see Johnny
has bright blue eyes but when Dracula was inside him they're not blue anymore even Johnny's wife
notices and asks him what's wrong with his eyes to which he replies they're not my eyes
he can also control bats and wolves and make them attack people not only is he super strong but he's
basically invincible bullets and knives are seen going through them causing what seems like no harm
is Dracula doesn't even react even his skin seems to be stronger than normal when Agatha attempted
to take his blood she couldn't penetrate his skin with the needle he also has the ability to create
mist this mist can block out the sunlight allowing him to walk outside if he needs to
what sort of fog follows a ship he must sleep during the day and he does so in a coffin with
his native soil this is why when he travels in the boat they find 50 boxes filled with dirt
sleeping in his coffin allows him to heal from wounds and regenerate when the ship sunk with
him on it he was able to climb into one of the coffins and stay in a kind of hibernation for
123 years until he was awakened so he can also use his coffin to go into a kind of hibernation
Dracula has the ability to use mirrors he says mirrors are a much deeper and darker
magic than most people understand he was able to let Dorabella see what her future would have
been like with her husband before Dracula kills her he was also able to come to Lucy in a mirror
after she died and talked to her this part is very interesting when Dracula looks in a mirror
he sees his true self old and withered like a corpse however when Lucy is turned into a
vampire and looks in the mirror she sees herself as beautiful when in fact she looks like a corpse
so it's like the complete opposite effect mirrors could potentially work different for all vampires
depending on their mindset now let's take a look at Dracula's weaknesses and their origin
as i said before the undead only have one weakness a stake through the heart but Dracula has a few
weaknesses cancerous blood sunlight crosses certain holy objects and needing an invitation
when the cross is used against Dracula and makes him recoil and look away it also seems to weaken
him making him unable to attack the person holding it however the wolves and bats he controls are not
affected by the cross and that's how he manages to get away even after being surrounded by crosses
light is shown hurting them and a cross or bible pages nailed to the floor can stop them like a
barrier all of these weaknesses have the same origin and they have something else in common
they aren't real remember how Dracula can pick up new languages and memories by feeding on someone
well it turns out he can also pick up superstitions he fed on many people that
believed the legends of count Dracula and so eventually over time he came to believe them too
the cross however is a little different Dracula's father died in battle his grandfather his sons and
their sons Dracula dreamed of a warrior's grave but fears death which is why he is afraid of the
cross he thought he feared the cross because he fed on Christians and religious people that feared
the cross but it was actually because of faith and the cross represents the courage it takes to die
Agatha while in Zoe's body prove this to Dracula by pulling the curtain away and nothing happens
for the first time in over 500 years Dracula stands in the light
I want to briefly talk about the van housings their bloodline might have special properties
because Agatha was bitten by Dracula multiple times but never came back as the undead or a
vampire and the same was Zoe although she did have cancer so that might change things
after speaking with Dracula Zoe drank a file of Dracula's blood and since Dracula had fed
on Agatha they were able to connect to each other Agatha said this is because their DNA
was compatible so possibly other relatives could do this as well like Dracula said blood is lives
well that's my video on the Dracula 2020 mini series I would give this series a nine out of
ten it's not only a great vampire show but just a great show period
I kind of think of it more as like three movies rather than a show I tried not to spoil too much
from the story and explore the things that aren't talked about too much in the show
if you haven't seen this series it's a must watch and it should be available for everyone on Netflix
because it's a Netflix original if not it's also on BBC all the episodes have great characters
drama and horror which I love if there's any other movies or tv shows you'd like me to
cover please leave them in the comments if you enjoyed leave a like and if you haven't maybe
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