Mina Harker

Mm-hmm.

And he kind of admits that the love, which I have not gotten to this part yet, but he says even though he admits that the love and reincarnation story is absent from the novel, and that Dracula actually targe- targets Mina in order to punish the men who oppose him.

Oh.

So I haven't gotten there yet.

Ooh.

Yeah, he's super baby, and I always love watching that film and seeing him in that.

We have Zoë Blu as Eli- Elisabeta/Mina Murray.

[laughs]

They said...

Because I said to them, you know, Mina cannot possibly be happy.

Oh, because I was saying how vampires are sexy.

And they're like, Dracula was not sexy.

Hot as fuck.

Freedom of their own sexuality.

I said, how do you think Mina Harker felt? He's gone.

Now she's got to be Jonathan Harker's wife.

And then I saw the trailer for Bram Stoker's Dracula, and I was like, "Well, this is, like, just a better version of Phantom of the Opera," in my head when I was 13 with very little life experience.

And I vaguely knew about Dracula and vampires and whatever, but I mostly was interested in the love story between Mina and Dracula because, like, Gary Oldman was super hot and Winona Ryder was very cool.

[laughs]

And I was like, "This movie looks amazing." So I can't quite remember, probably nobody needs to know how I snuck into the movie theater.

And it...

I say I've never considered it, but yet when you, when you wrote it, I was like, "Oh, it's obvious that that's true.

How did I not ever, like, say that?" One of the interesting things about this film is Mina, Mina, uh, Mina Murray, she's not Mina Harker yet in the, in the-

Mm-hmm

Blank ain't got nothing on you.

I mean, Nosferatu's based on Dracula, more or less, and Mina Harker is probably

based on Carmilla.

maybe not

Chapter 6.

Mina Murray's Journal.

24th July.

Whitby.

Work, work.

If I could only have as strong a cause as my poor mad friend there, a good unselfish cause to make me work, that would indeed be happiness.

Mina Murray's Journal.

26th July.

Anyway, he sadly passed away.

Um, but yeah, on the commentary, he points out that after they meet Dracula for the first time, when it's Lucy and Mina hanging out in the bedroom, Mina does an impression of him.

Yes.

And he, and he says, this might be the first recorded Bela Lugosi impression, which is pretty fun.

not being any sound.

Because you're just kind of quietly watching this guy sneak into someone's room and then, you know, do that hand thing.

I was thinking of that scene, too, where, or at least one of those scenes where he sneaks into Mina's room.

I think it's Mina.

she playing

Mina Harker? Nobody has, besides Count Dracula, nobody has the names from the novels.

I imagine she's playing the Mina Harker character.

Does that make

sense? She is just in 10 billion Canadian shows that were syndicated to the Disney Channel in the United States.