White and translucent black shawl
put it back on the hanger
Bela Lugosi is dead
The bat has left the clock tower
The victim has been bleeding
red velvet thread black box
Bella Lugosi is dead
dead and alive dead and dead
The virgin bride passes by his grave
Scattered flowers of death
alone in a dark space
count
Bella Lugosi is dead
- "The Death of Bela Lugosi"
In August 1979, the British post-punk band Bauhaus recorded the single "The Death of Bela Lugosi" in the Beck studio in Wellingborough, with a cold rhythm and a paradoxical atmosphere. It was as if hundreds of bats were circling head-on.
Later, this piece created a modern music genre called "Gothic rock", and the Bella Lugosi mentioned in its title is the character we are going to introduce today. His occupation is ,vampire.
In 1955, the vampire Bella Lugosi was 73 years old, and his appearance was still the same as when he was young, melancholy, noble, personable, wearing a black cloak, like the dark master of this world. Among all the creatures that came out of the depths of hell, only Bella is so arrogant and cold, which makes people obsessed.
However, the lonely and cruel life for many years and the painful experience of participating in the war when she was young have also made Bella an intractable drug addiction. He has been taking morphine for 20 years, which has caused Bella's mental state. Irreparable effects, even multiple attempts to end his own eternal life with a gun.
After being kicked out of rehab because he couldn't pay for his medicine, Bella walked down the street with his friend Ed Wood. Bella's 42-year-old Ed is a young but unpopular film director. All of his works have failed without exception, and he has even been described as a director who has no talent and only makes bad movies.
But Ed was an optimistic man, and that afternoon, Ed took the hand of Bella, who was delirious after a drug addiction, and said to him: "Bella, I have good news for you, the doctor said you are all well. Well, let's go home now."
Hearing Ed's words, Bella slowed down and became happy: "I still want to act, when will we make the next movie?"
Ed said, "Right now."
The vampire Bella Lugosi has made many movies in his long life, many spooky scenes, flying bats, deep castles, dripping blood... But the last scene in his life is in front of his house, a An outdated hand-cranked camera, no stage, no crew, just the two of them.
Bella in the picture gently picked a flower with trembling hands, took it to her nose and smelled it, and it was over.
Bella Lugosi died not long after the scene was filmed at the age of 74.
His wife and son put on Count Dracula's black cloak for him, tied a snow-white bow tie, combed his hair meticulously back, and finally placed Bella in the wooden coffin that he had laid down countless times in his life. A kiss and the lid closed.
The bat has left the clock tower
The victim has been bleeding
red velvet thread black box
Bella Lugosi is dead
The film he left behind to cooperate with Ed Wood is the famous "Outer Space Program 9" in film history, known as the worst movie, zombies, vampires, aliens, soldiers, big octopus, all kinds of inexplicable Elements mixed into a pot. The filming process was also a disaster. There was a scene where a zombie played by a fat actor was about to crawl out of the tomb, but because he was too fat, he got stuck in the middle, so two crew members ran into the camera and pulled him out.
Even so, Ed Wood didn't call CUT to reshoot, he said, the first shot is the most perfect!
When Bella died, before the filming was over, Ed had found a double to play him.
Looks, completely, not like.
Therefore, in the second half of the film, "Bella" always raised her hand and covered her face with a cloak, covering her speech and walking, which was very funny.
Bella Lugosi, who entered the late stage of her career as an actress, was too down and out to play, and could only play with the "worst director".
But who would have guessed that just over a decade ago, people would also call Bella and Boris Karloff, the first actor of Frankenstein in Frankenstein, the king of horror films. .
Born in Lugosi, Hungary, when Bella first came to the United States, he didn't know English at all and didn't know where to send it. He stood on the streets of New York with his worn-out suitcase full of everything. No, there is only one heart that wants to be an actor.
After nearly ten years of obscurity, Bella worked in various theaters and played tricks until 1930, when he had a chance to star in "The Vampire" for Universal.
Director Todd Browning is a famous American director of noir and horror films. He took a fancy to Stoker's not-so-first-class novel "Dracula". took him.
The main actor was originally set to be the actor Lon Chaney in "The Phantom of the Opera". Who knew that Lon Chaney died unexpectedly before the film started, so they thought of having performed more than 200 plays "Dracula". Hungarian Bela Lugosi.
The performance was stunning, and some say Bella Lugosi's rendition of Dracula ushered in an era.
Before him, the German expressionist master Murnau also made a version of the vampire, and because of copyright issues, Count Dracula was renamed "Nosferatu". The vampire in that film was quite horrific, wretched, An ugly figure that almost looks like a mouse.
The vampire played by Bella is completely like an Eastern European aristocrat, well-dressed, elegant and decent, with sad eyes, and even the evil smile when he sucks blood is extraordinarily charming.
It is said that Bella never speaks English, and can only memorize the lines according to the pronunciation of the words, which is why, when he said the phrase "I am De~gu~" in his deep voice, word by word Pull, welcome", people feel that there is a mysterious exotic hidden in it.
He made the character complex and heavy, and it almost really has the vicissitudes and slowness of people who have experienced four centuries of ups and downs.
Vampires are no longer pure evil and animal nature, from "The Heavenly Master to Catch the Demon" in the 1960s, to "Four Hundred Years of Fright" and "Interview with the Vampire" in the 1990s, until today's idols "The Vampire Diaries" and "Twilight" "City of Light", vampires not only become more beautiful and more charming, but also learn to love - this has almost become the biggest theme of vampire movies: the yin and yang are separated in front of time, vampires and people's doomed love.
Bella Lugosi, who was on the verge of reaching the top, enjoyed only a short-lived glory and then declined.
In 1931, Universal filmed "Frankenstein" adapted from Mrs. Shelley's novel, and asked Bella to play the role. Bella refused because she was dissatisfied with the lack of a line in the whole film.
He was replaced by Boris Karloff, who became famous in the first battle.
The square-faced weirdo with the steel bar through the neck attracted all the attention, and Bella began to be neglected by Universal. She could only play a few supporting roles, often with poor modeling and pitifully low pay.
Forced to make a living, Bella returned to the stage of the drama, but at this time people were tired of seeing his solemn appearance, and booed and scolded him from the audience.
"I was kicked out of my country 20 years ago, I was labeled a lunatic, a nonsense, wandering in other tech countries, and I was considered a genius before. Now here, this abandoned hell In the jungle, I can still prove that I am good. Home? I have no home. Hunted, despised, living like an animal, the jungle is my home. But I still have to show the world that I can become the master". Years later, 70-year-old Bella recited such a line in a movie.
Let's jump back in time to Bella Lugosi at the age of 20, when he was handsome, confident, and like all rebellious teenagers who love performance and art, he left home alone, taking his hometown of Lugosi as his new life. name, onto the stage.
At the age of 20, Bella had already made a name for herself in the field of drama and became the head of the Hungarian theatre. Seeing the promising moment of the actor's career, war broke out and Bella joined the Austro-Hungarian Army as a lieutenant. The war left him with soreness and a bad leg, and doctors gave him an overdose of morphine for the pain.
He never got off the drug again.
"I'm a cripple, my life has no meaning."
"Ed, I'm almost done, I don't know what to do."
Bella Lugosi (Martin Landau) grabs the hand of Ed Wood (Johnny Depp) after a drug addiction in Tim Burton's Ed Wood Crying, the once proud and cold Count Dracula finally fell into the torrent of the times.
October 20, Bella Lugosi's birthday. We've been 135 years since the birth of the great vampire-player, stubborn and crazy movie actor, 61 years since he was gone, and the Bauhaus wrote a song about him dead but never dead (Undead ).
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