Life is full of pain, my pain is the pain of fleeting joy.
Nadja
We have come for the body of Count Voivoida Armenios Ceauşescu Dracula. I believe there is a wooden stake in the heart. You will take us to him.
Nadja
At the morgue. And possibly a reference to Nicolae Ceauşescu the leader of communist Romania overthrown a few years earlier.
Nadja
He was like Elvis in the end. Drugged, confused, surrounded by zombies.
Van Helsing
Describing the Count. See wikipedia on Elvis Presley.
Van Helsing
He tried to change, tried to resist the usual pattern. He managed to show some restraint. But she, she died in childbirth. [...] And after that he didn't care about anything. It was back to basics.
Van Helsing
Describing the Count. Back to basics could have been read by British audiences as a reference to that policy of the Conservative Party the previous year, and a derogatory reference given the context. But this could have been accidental, given the film was an American production
Van Helsing