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Originally Posted by pwalker8
There has always been a level of seduction in the Dracula story. Bela Lugosi, who played Dracula in 1931 movie (and in the theater version starting in 1927), was quite the lady's man in real life.
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Oh, absolutely. But, generally speaking, the long series of Dracula films with Lugosi, Christopher Lee, etc., pretty much emphasized the horror aspects of the story and not the seduction. Then in the mid-70s there were reinterpretations of the vampire that swung toward the seductive--Frank Langella and Louis Jourdan, e.g., were both enormously attractive actors and romantic figures who played the noble count with a lot of sex appeal. And of course at the same time you had Anne Rice's
Interview with the Vampire.
But these still didn't disregard the underlying evil; they just made the evil seductive.