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Post by daniel1976 on Aug 9, 2016 13:02:32 GMT
true.
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Post by daniel1976 on Jul 19, 2016 10:23:19 GMT
much obliged! unless i'm wrong, the penguin book of vampire stories contains the fake vampire story, and the mammoth book of vampire stories contains "hungarian raphsody". i am aware, however, that the entire extent of bloch's short stories is yet to be catalogued, and of course to be printed in a definitive edition. again my thanks.
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Post by daniel1976 on Jul 10, 2016 14:49:50 GMT
life is indeed too short, and for that reason i have no time to repeat earlier answers. the same is also true for provocations, which seem to be the rationale behind your strategy in this discussion.
i have no need of anything from you. i gave you far too much attention already.
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Post by daniel1976 on Jul 10, 2016 12:41:02 GMT
concerning umslopogaas and conan, i already accepted, twice, the errenous nature of an observation made elswhere, and that i happen to have quoted. i already know that conan is not a zulu, that he is white, and that chronologically the works of haggard preceeded his creation. i will not repeat myself. as for your observations regarding haggard's influence, as well as other writers, on burrough, the matter is well-known to me (i have both a B.A. and M.A. in comparative literature) however, i do not share your negative view of burroughs, simply because i'm aware of the fact to which you yourself have alluded, which is that authors developed ideas created by earlier authors. to my mind, as a practitioner of the scientific romance (the genre that became science fiction from 1950 on) burroughs has done sufficiently well, to the extent that his interpretations of earlier ideas stand well on their own.
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Post by daniel1976 on Jul 8, 2016 19:50:42 GMT
i'm afraid you misquoted me. i wrote that elswhere someone said that umslopogaas can be viewed as a black conan. i accept that this observation in itself is wrong but as for myself i could never say that umslopogaas is a black conan simply because umslopogaas first appeared in print in 1886 in haggard's "allan quatermain" which was about 40 years before conan.
rider haggard's influence also extends to edgar rice burroughs, and the solomon kane story "moon of skulls" also by howard, though the variation on haggard's "she"| in that story is much darker.
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Post by daniel1976 on Jul 8, 2016 15:39:26 GMT
this thread seems like the right place to ask about the three novelisations of revenge of frankenstein, which i've watched just now before posting:
in the film itself it's not shown that the baron has created a body in his own image to be used as a replacement should the need arise, and yet according to wikipedia he somehow had the foresight to do just that. did i miss anything or does any of the novelisations explain what happened? the more likely explanation would be that dr. cleve resurrected the same baron, although the assumption that baron von frankenstein in london is now "a frankenstein monster" himself is appealling. as for his presence in london, hammer should have followed that plot-line, as i see it. for all we know, he could have run into dracula there...i always felt that hammer missed an opportunity to creat a film in which peter cushing as van helsing finds out he's somehow related to baron von frankenstein and resorts to creating a monster as a weapon against vampires. in the absence of dracula, the von karnsteins would do just as well...
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Post by daniel1976 on Jul 3, 2016 19:15:36 GMT
thanks for your reply. as for caroline munro, check the documentary i mentioned. they even have a neat scene that could have been the begining of the unmade film logically to have been set between "taste the blood of dracula" and "scars of dracula".
as for the hammer version of king kong, the year 1976 started for kong in a long and complex legal battle between universal studios and dino de laurentiis, which the latter won, tpo the chagrin of fans of the original, myself among them. however, kong remakes and proposals for them have a history as long and elaborate from as early on as 1933, when films such as king kong vs. frankenstein (you can see sketches for it on the web) were proposed but not made. hammer wanted to recruit ray harryhausen, but he ewas doing the last sinbad movie, so he was'nt available. a volkswagen commercial featuring kong has that model of kong which was supposed to feature in the hammer version. it too is on youtube.
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Post by daniel1976 on Jun 27, 2016 18:49:46 GMT
i accept this point, though it's possible that i misinterpreted the eventual role that umslopogaas did have in howard's career. i remember someone saying on a howard-related forum that "conan is a black umslopogaas" this may be the source of my misinterpretation.
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Post by daniel1976 on Jun 27, 2016 16:40:38 GMT
is there a specific collection of them, or has anyone compiled a list of bloch's vampire stories?
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Post by daniel1976 on Jun 27, 2016 16:38:56 GMT
as i understand , a list of all his short stories is yet to appear, or has one been compiled anywhere?
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Post by daniel1976 on Jun 27, 2016 12:27:26 GMT
as well as being known as the founder of the british school of adventure stories, and the "lost world" genre, haggard also wrote an excellent sequel to homer's odessy, a science fiction novel, and as a whole, magic, telepathy, reincarnations, etc. form a considerable part of his works. tolkien was influenced by him, as well as michael moorcock. his african warrior umslopogaas was the inspiration for howard's conan. fans of hammer probably know their versiobn of "she" with lee and cushing. i enjoy many of his works to this day.
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Post by daniel1976 on Jun 27, 2016 12:17:13 GMT
thanks. as for house of hammer, i learned about it first here, and apparently it was the place for all those "best hammer movies never made. by the way, did they adapt king kong? it was considered for a remake by hammer and i'd love to see if the comics version was theversion they intended to make. is there a contents list or an omnibus edition of this magazine?
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Post by daniel1976 on Jun 26, 2016 12:23:17 GMT
caroline munro mentioned in a three-part documentary, titled "the legend of hammer vampires" which can be found on youtube, that captain kronos found further adventures in a comics series, in which it was revealed that he was a time traveller, hence his chosen nickname. is anyone familiar with it?
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Post by daniel1976 on Jun 25, 2016 12:58:09 GMT
i've searched the site for a hammer dracula thread, since i've watched some of the films over the last four years, and while they made the late sir christopher lee and peter cushing into childhood heroes (same as lugosi and karloff|) the most interesting aspect of them is their continuity as a series, with it's implications on the role of dracula as a force of evil in human society. note: 1: horror of dracula, dracula prince of darkness, dracula has risen from the grave, and taste the blood of dracula, form an internal series, since the count's resurrections are visibly related to his demise in each film. 2: in horror of dracula, and dracula has risen from the grave, he is unintentionally brought into contact with civilized society , either by jonathan harker who agreed to work for him as a librarian (not a lawyer as in stoker's novel) and in "risen from the grave" by the blood of the wounded priest. in both "prince of darkness" and "taste the blood" he is resurrected by willing accomplices |(klove and lord courtley|) 3: as i recall, within this internal series, dracula either wishes to control his would-be victims, or to avenge wrongs done to him or his accomplices, either directly or indirectly, though their friends and family. 4: thus, this cycle of destruction and resurrection is apparently the price that dracula has to pay for his desire to subjugate others to his will, or his vindictive nature. as for the people who believe that they can win anything from him |(women, lord courtley, klove, his slavish servant|) suffer for their hubris and trust of his evil. 5: i guess that this is what sir christopher lee referred to when he said that these films are "modern morality plays" similar to the mediveal ones/
i did'nt mention brides of dracula, scars of dracula or the two modern ones, since they are not part of the continuity, and the plot structure that i referred to is repeated in them, with the exception of dracula's desire to destroy humanity in "satanic rites"
a book series that reflects a similar relationship between a vampire and the morales of humanity around him, for better or for worse, is the don sebastian series by les daniels. it began in the heyday of hammer studios, and i would'nt be at all surprised to find out that it was heavily influenced by them. by my personal understanding they provide us with an understanding of a dracula-esque vampire's mind during those cycles of resurrection and destruction.
another support for my speculated connection between hammer and don sebastian, is the fact that hammer planned a dracula film titled "kali blood bride of dracula" for which a poster was made featuring british red-coats, which would set the plot in the 19'th century, not unlike "no blood spilled" by les daniels. i wonder if the film would have featured a scene with the stop-mption model of the godess kali from "golden voyage of sinbad" manipulated by dracula, or destroying him with her sabres. perhaps tom baker would have accepted the role? we will never know.
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Post by daniel1976 on Jun 11, 2016 18:27:51 GMT
my mistake about the last name. any impressions?
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