The movie
Hotel Transylvania highlights some interesting facts throughout the film. In the beginning
of the movie, the home that Dracula lives in with his daughter looks like a normal,
if slightly large, cottage. In the movie, Dracula builds a new castle as a safe
haven for himself and his daughter. There was another castle mentioned near the end of the movie. They mention that while living with his wife, Dracula
lived at Les Baux Castle, in France, which is owned by the Grimaldi Princely Family. Bran castle in Transylvania and Les Baux Castle are the only castles
even remotely brought up during the movie Hotel Transylvania.
The image of the castle that Dracula builds at the
beginning of the movie looks a lot like Bran Castle. The castle in the film,
the hotel, does have some differences from Bran castle, though. It is slightly larger
in appearance than the actual Bran castle, and it is also slightly squarer than the
actual Bran castle, with more straight lines. This could just be due to the
Hotel Transylvania castle being animated; the straighter lines would have made their job a little easier. Bran
Castle is also known, colloquially, as Dracula’s castle in today’s culture. This is thanks to
Bram Stoker, the author of the novel Dracula, published in 1897.
Stoker chose Bran Castle as Dracula’s
castle because of its architecture. It is known to have narrow hallways and is maze like.
To have the film writers bring up Les Baux castle is a little
interesting. Les Baux castle is located in Provence, France. When I researched this castle, I didn't find any legends about two lovers. What I did find in the history of Les Baux castle is that the lords who ruled it
were some of the most powerful men in France during the Early Middle Ages. They
ruled over 79 fiefs in the prime of their power. They were very strict rulers
and ruled with an iron fist. The rulers who lived in Les Baux knew a thing
or two about balance. They never allowed those who served them to rebel, and they had a lot of culture in
their courts. It was in the French courts that the thought of courtly love came
into popularity. With courtly love came the love ballads, knights courting the
court ladies, and all the fun that followed. There was nothing in the history of Les Baux castle to link
it to the legend of Dracula.
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