I’ve posted about this many times before on other threads. His world is the “fictional” Transylvania, the Transylvania from monster movies. When we hear the name Transylvania, that’s where our minds are automatically transported. Doesn’t matter if there is a real Transylvania. The writers can take anything real and make it fictional. I brought up Jane Espenson’s tweet about this, last night in live chat. Someone asked Jane how could Dr. Whale be Dr. Frankie when he was based on a real character. She answered this. “Dracula based on real person. Hook certainly drew from legends of real pirates. Alice in wonderland was Alice Lydell.”
Why would she throw out the name Dracula? Probably because we’ll be seeing him. In my Frankenstein theory, I’ve mentioned the Christopher Lee, 1966 movie, Dracula: Prince of Darkness. Dracula, Frankenstein & the Wolfman have been in 4 classic horror movies. Dracula always controls Frankenstein.
So Victor’s world, is a classic horror world, one of which the 1930 movies were made, a world in black & white only, a fictional Transylvania, where Dracula is their Prince/Ruler and where most likely, Ruby’s family migrated from.
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