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Stoker, c. Trinity College Dublin. Victorian era , Edwardian era. Gothic fiction , romantic fiction. Dark romanticism.
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Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper London. And that is what the titular character of this novel is. The word novel is not used lightly, as one could also write that this is a collaboration of journals, letters and papers.
For that is how Bram Stoker chose to fashion his famous novel in epistolary form. While the different viewpoints through each journal serve to create suspense which suits the gothic tone of the novel perfectly.
In all, it is a macabre novel that serves to make the reader reflect upon good and evil. Who, unless he is delivered, must suck the life from others around him.
Ultimately only the righteous can destroy the darkness that serves to drain life. That is the lesson which Bram Stoker's timeless classic unswervingly conveys.
View all comments. But under the fabric of late Victorian society lay wide ranges of change; the increased marriage rate and idea of the domestic sphere for women giving way to the New Woman, the upper class vs.
With the growth of the economy came new ideas of English excellence; with the growth of scientific thought, scientific racism.
Literature, as is usual, struggles to react. With a growing counterculture in literature came the reaction to such; at the trial of author Oscar Wilde, passages from his only novel were read to prove that he liked men.
Soon after, Bram Stoker, formerly his acquaintance , began writing Dracula. Mina is absolutely iconic on every way.
Also, this bechdel test passes, although just barely, as Mina and Lucy talk about men a lot more than their very lesbian natures would imply.
She was too iconic for Victorian literature, clearly. Even side characters like Quentin are endearing - oh, by the way, Quentin is an actual unironic parody of Americans, and I find that hilarious.
The atmosphere is absolutely spellbinding, the epistolatory narrative perfect to create a sense of tension and foreboding.
While all of the characters have some amount of common sense, we are given information they often are not - we see the dark side in otherwise innocuous details.
How dare you cast eyes on him when I had forbidden it? Back, I tell you all! This man belongs to me!
Well, now I promise you that when I am done with him you shall kiss him at your will. Now go! I must awaken him, for there is work to be done.
Bram Stoker waffles back and forth between finding Dracula terrifying and finding him fascinating; the characters both fear him and pity him.
As with a previous influential vampire of the time , he represents the fear of reverse colonization and the fear of sexuality at once.
I find this alternately sad and interesting. Queercoding does not mean a character is gay, necessarily, or villainized specifically because they are gay - it simply means that the character falls into audience stereotypes of queer people.
This happens with the character of Dracula… a lot in this novel. Dracula is thin-bodied, often associated with sexual imagery, and definitely does not have platonic feelings for Jonathan Harker.
In this context, Dracula seems to be expressing attraction to women as a means of getting to their men. In the time Bram Stoker was writing, the audience would have associated gender noncomformity with gayness; thus, a character who presented as gender noncomforming would typically be presented as bad.
Gay, bad, straight, good. Yet while Stoker certainly plays with the trope of the queercoded villain, the message of Dracula is not quite so black-and-white.
Mina and Lucy each, despite often having roles in the domestic spheres, end up wielding far more power within the books than male characters, and Mina especially is often coded as breaking away from gender norms of the time.
She is presented more as the more practical member of her relationship with Jonathan and the better planner, a role that would typically go towards the male partner.
The audience expectation is surely that she will fight against her inner darkness [read: queerness] in order to defeat Dracula.
While Dracula is too far gone to live a happy life, perhaps characters like Mina, and for that matter Jonathan, are not. Mina Harker is sapphic and I do not accept slander.
NBC I am horrified TW: villain queercoding, sexual assault, and uh… everything that comes with vampires existing, basically.
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Shockingly, not a whole hell of a lot of vampire stuff up in this bitch. Mostly, it read like a dull travelogue with lots of emotions - bro love everywhere!
All the men loved all the women platonically or otherwise to the point they were willing to give their lives for whichever lucky lady was getting snacked on by Dracula at the time.
It was quite the love fest. And Dracula? Not since Gary Olman's beehived old woman portrayal have I been less scared of this character Shockingly, not a whole hell of a lot of vampire stuff up in this bitch.
Not since Gary Olman's beehived old woman portrayal have I been less scared of this character. Welcome to my home. Allow me to get you some Entenmann's coffee cake whilst you peruse my garage sale knick-knack collection and trip over my cats So, I've come to realize that very few of the classic characters or stories even remotely resemble what you think they will based on their modern counterparts.
And in my uneducated opinion, most classics just aren't all that much fun to read. They're boring and filled up with tedious shit that I don't care about, and certainly don't want to read about.
I guess back in the day it was high fun to take walks, look at the landscape, and then go back home and write about it in your diary. And while I'm sure that sounds like heaven to some people who yearn for simpler times, the idea of reading about the nonsense of someone else's daily life makes me want to scratch my eyes out.
Something I was surprised by, although in retrospect I shouldn't have been, was all the religious undertones in the story. Ok, yes.
I knew Dracula was evil and couldn't be near crosses and whatnot, but I didn't think about this being a casually religious story about saving souls from damnation.
Which, I mean, it's not like it was any fault of the vampires that they were dammed. At one time or another, they had all been humans who were targeted by another vampire as a snack.
Vicious cycle and all that. And poor Lucy seemingly ended up a chew toy simply because she was a sleepwalker.
Perhaps the moral of the story is that you need to make sure you aren't wandering around on moors at night so you don't get spotted by anemic monsters?
Speaking of Lucy, did anyone else notice how incredibly fucking lucky she was that every single guy in their group was a compatible blood type for her?
All those blood transfusions! None of them even remotely hygienic or safe. Forget supernatural demons who turn into bats - those transfusions were the scariest shit in this entire book.
There were a lot of characters and POV switches. Again, most of what they were saying wasn't all that interesting, so it made me doubly happy that I decided to go with the audiobook version of Stoker's tale.
But this is one of those books with a lot of superfluous information, so I don't think it hurt anything. I got the gist of it all ok without hanging on every word.
Be warned, the first half of this book is unbelievably dull. The second half of the book was only slightly more engaging to me, but at least there was a bit of urgency to it at that point.
Van Helsing was onto Dracula, so garlic was being thrown over everything, stakes were being handed out like candy, and anything pertinent was being kept from Mina so as not to upset her delicate sensibilities.
And then when that backfired spectacularly, they cut her into the loop and she was able to do an old-timey version of what a competent woman looked like.
They even compared her brains to that of a man! And what about Dracula? Well, he was sort of this shadow figure that lurked around the edges of the book.
You never really meet him. I know, right?! What about the whole Vlad the Impaler thing? Ok, get this: Dracula had been sort of like a special needs zombie who was finally learning stuff - like math Apparently, up to this point, he had just been harassing his neighbors and nibbling on Romanian women.
Thank god for Van Helsing and his wacky foreign-man knowledge of urban legends. Like, that was how you could tell they were creatures of the dammed.
The men got all freaked out and weepy because their sweet, mild-mannered gals lost their wholesome looks and became wanton hussies with throaty voices and pouty lips.
Holy shit. If that doesn't say something about how wackadoo things used to be, I don't know what will. Innocence or else!
This wasn't really a fun read but I'm glad I can finally say I've managed to put it behind me. Plus, it's one of those weird little windows into the past that reminds you things aren't as bad as they could be.
The entire voice cast of this one really helped make it palatable for someone like myself who doesn't have the fortitude to read classics on their own.
Believe it or not, I am still considering how to best write a 'review' for this, one of my very favorite novels of all time.
I annotated this most recent time reading, in the hopes that it would help when it came to composing my final thoughts. What I am really struggling with is the idea of little ole' me 'reviewing' a masterpiece.
I guess my goal is more to compel people to pick up this amazing piece of world literature and give it a shot, as opposed to providing an analysis of Stoker's work.
Let me compose myself a while longer. In the meantime, have a gander at this The Lost Boys gif, a movie greatly inspired by Dracula : Full review or not, I am so happy to have reread this for the 3rd time.
Dracula is a book I will continue to reread periodically for the rest of my life. If you haven't read this yet, please give it a go , it may surprise you.
You may think you know this story View all 14 comments. Apr 17, Caz littlebookowl rated it liked it Shelves: school , owned.
Managed to finish this : Second time studying, but first successful read-through. I enjoyed it more this time around, mainly because I actually read the last quarter or so of the book, which was the most enjoyable in my opinion.
View all 33 comments. Feb 21, Sean Barrs rated it it was amazing Shelves: classics , darkness-horror-gothic , 5-star-reads.
Dracula is, of course, one of the most renowned horror stories, and the most well-known vampire novel. Bram Stoker set the ground rules for what a vampire should be, and set the benchmark for all other writers of the vampire afterwards.
Indeed, if tyrannical villains are a necessity of Gothic fiction then Count Dracula is the father of all gothic villains, in spite of it being one of the last Gothic fiction novels to be written.
His eyebrows were very massive, almost meeting over the nose, and with bushy hair that seemed to curl in its own profusion. The mouth, so far as I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth.
These protruded over the lips, whose remarkable ruddiness showed astonishing vitality in a man of his years.
For the rest, his ears were pale, and at the tops extremely pointed. The chin was broad and strong, and the cheeks firm though thin. The general effect was one of extraordinary pallor.
The atmosphere of the novel is unmistakably gothic. It is impossible to talk about Dracula without mentioning the Gothic; the two are one and the same.
The decaying castle in which the book begins is testimony to the eeriness that follows. The "damsel in distress" motif appears quite often in Gothic literature, and none so much as Dracula.
On initial inspection the plot of the book can be summed up in a few short sentences: Dracula wishes to create more vampires in Victorian London; his attempts are thwarted and he and his kind are exterminated.
But, the novel is so much more than that. It suggests a struggle between modernity and science with religion and superstition.
Each one of these has been a topic for commentaries on Dracula, and academic essays. Indeed, the extrinsic value of this novel is incredibly high.
Bram Stoker also explores the theme of sanity with many of his characters, not just Renfield. At some point, every character wonders whether their dealings with the Count are born from some mental deficiency rather than a paranormal encountering with the villain.
This clashes the Victorian realism view with the paranormal events that occur in the novel. There are also issues of identity, and how this is affected by transgression.
It can further be seen as an allegory for religious redemption and a comment on colonisation. I might even write my dissertation on it and Gothic Literature.
Dracula rules!!!!!!!!!!!!!! View all 42 comments. Aug 13, S. Parham rated it did not like it Shelves: horror. I was rather disappointed by this classic.
It started out with promise, especially the Jonathan Harker bits. Then all the male characters descended into blubbering worshippers of the two female characters, and by the end of the novel, I was wishing Dracula could snack on all of them and be done with it.
I kept having to put it aside and read chapters in between other books, but I managed to finish it at last. View all 21 comments.
May 15, Ahmad Sharabiani rated it really liked it Shelves: horror , vampire , 19th-century , irish , classics , fantasy , gothic , literature.
It introduced Count Dracula, and established many conventions of subsequent vampire fantasy. The novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so that he may find new blood and spread the undead curse, and of the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and a woman led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing.
The story is told in epistolary format, as a series of letters, diary entries, newspaper articles, and ships' log entries, whose narrators are the novel's protagonists, and occasionally supplemented with newspaper clippings relating events not directly witnessed.
I believe this may be the edition I read "first". This is an amazing book. I've read reviews by those who disagree and reviews by those who hated the format.
But I was swept up in it the first time I read it as a teen and have been every time since. My advice is don't worry about all the psychological baggage that has been tacked on over the years It doesn't remotely resemble the I believe this may be the edition I read "first".
It doesn't remotely resemble the book and the title has galled me since that movie came out. The book is far, far better. I believe it's worth noting that a lot of the psychological baggage that has been attached to this volume probably tells you more about the ones attaching it than the book.
This book creates a horror atmosphere that has been copied constantly over the years but never quite captured again.
You'll be experiencing with Harker the castle and what he faces there. Battling the Count in England Again let me urge you no matter how well any movie has been done, if the movie Dracula is the only one you know, you haven't met the proto-vampire who resides in this book.
This isn't Twilight, nor is it Buffy the vampire Slayer, there aren't any friendly, helpful, romantic vampires here.
None sparkle either There is quite probably a reason or maybe more than one why we wish so badly to laugh at this book.
It does what it does very, very well This book is a classic that has been around for over a hundred years.. View all 41 comments. Come freely.
Go safely. And leave something of the happiness you bring! Within a few days of his arrival, Harker will find himself talking of the Count' 'Welcome to my house.
Within a few days of his arrival, Harker will find himself talking of the Count's 'wickedly blazing eyes' and 'new schemes of villainy' and have some hair-raising encounters with the man who is now the world's most famous vampire: 'The last I saw of Count Dracula was his kissing his hand to me, with a red light of triumph in his eyes, and with a smile that Judas in hell might be proud of.
The above quotations should make it abundantly clear what kind of book Dracula is. It's sensation fiction, written nearly half a century after the heyday of that genre.
It's a cross between an epistolary novel, a detective novel and a save-my-wife story, and it's full of scares, horror and disgust, all described in a lurid tone that befits the subject: the living dead.
Or the Un-Dead, as the book's other hero, my countryman Van Helsing, calls them. Sadly, Van Helsing is one of my main problems with the book.
While I love his heroism, his 'Let's-do-it' attitude and his unceasing struggle for Mina's soul, I find him entirely unconvincing as a Dutchman.
I wish to God with a crucifix and everything! I'm aware this is not a problem that will bother many readers, but I for one dearly wish Stoker had listened to some actual Dutchmen before making the hero of his story one.
Then perhaps he also would have refrained from making the poor man mutter German whenever he is supposed to speak his mother tongue.
I mean, really. Linguistic inaccuracies aside there are many in the book , Dracula has a few more problems. For one thing, the bad guy doesn't make enough appearances.
Whenever Stoker focuses on Dracula, the story comes alive -- menace drips off the pages, and the reader finds himself alternately shivering with excitement and recoiling in horror.
However, when Dracula is not around which is most of the second half of the book , the story loses power, to the point where the second half of the book is actually quite dull.
In addition, the story seems a little random and unfocused. Remember the film, in which Dracula obsesses about Mina Harker Jonathan's wife because she is his long-lost wife reincarnated?
That conceit had grandeur, romance, passion, tragedy. And what was more, it made sense. It explained why Dracula comes all the way from Transylvania to England to find Mina, and why he wants to make her his bride despite the fact that she is being protected by people who clearly want him dead.
In the book, however, Mina is merely Jonathan's wife no reincarnation involved , a random lady Dracula has sunk his teeth into, and while this entitles her to some sympathy, it lacks the grand romantic quality the film had.
I guess it's unfair to blame an author for not thinking of an improvement film-makers later made to his story, but I think Stoker rather missed an opportunity there.
And then there's the fact that Stoker seems to be an early proponent of the Robert Jordan School of Writing, meaning he takes an awful lot of time setting the scene, only to end the book on a whimper.
The ending to Dracula is so anticlimactic it's rather baffling. Did Stoker run out of paper and ink? Did he want to finish the story before Dracula's brides came and got him?
I guess we'll never know. Still, despite its many flaws Dracula is an exciting read well, the first half is, anyway , and Stoker undeniably left a legacy that will last for centuries to come.
In that respect, Dracula deserves all the praise that has been heaped on it. I still think it could have been better, though. Much better. View all 25 comments.
Or so they say Isn't it a wonder that, once, there "There is reason that all things are as they are, and did you see with my eyes and know with my knowledge, you would perhaps better understand.
Isn't it a wonder that, once, there was this great and noble race, full of humanity and yet they become a blight upon the land, transforming into the deadly scourge that blots out all hope and becoming the very figure that we dread and detest?
Is it enough that we create our own monsters or that we are monsters ourselves? For if humans were to be given these: immortality, power, youth, and ever-lasting beauty, the world would eventually plunge into never-ending darkness.
Acquire the lot of them and what you will find is a soul devoid of humanity, only to be filled eventually with malice and greed.
Stare at the mirror and one would hardly see any reflection at all. Monsters exist and they do come in many seductive forms, one of them is but the nosferatu.
Soon you'll be mesmerised by its gaze that you'll eventually drop everything your pants or knickers included and submit yourself as a tasty little morsel that robs you of your very essence.
Yet again, some fancy the modern version of the vampir like the shining, ever so shimmering Edward Cullen.
Hoomans are curiouser and curiouser indeed! View all 74 comments. Oct 25, Matt rated it it was amazing Shelves: audiobook.
This is a classic monster tale I have enjoyed before, but could not wait to revisit as the season is rife with haunted ghouls and bloodthirsty readers!
Young solicitor Johnathan Harker finds himself travelling through the Hungarian countryside and into Romania, on his way to a castle in the heart of Transylvania.
There, one Count Dracula awaits Harker and proves to be an odd, yet amenable, host. Seeking to finalise a land deal in England, Harker and Dracula talk long into the night, though the fo This is a classic monster tale I have enjoyed before, but could not wait to revisit as the season is rife with haunted ghouls and bloodthirsty readers!
Seeking to finalise a land deal in England, Harker and Dracula talk long into the night, though the former feels that there is something odd about his host.
It is only when numerous unsettling things occur that Harker realises that Count Dracula is nothing like any man he has met before and eventually escapes the confines of the castle.
Lucy Westenra suffers through significant bouts of sleepwalking. The two women travel to the seaside to clear their heads, but Lucy encounters someone the reader knows to be Dracula during one of her nocturnal jaunts and is eventually discovered with two minuscule puncture holes on her neck.
Unsure of what to do, Westenra is sent to see Dr. Johnathan Seward, one of her suitors and director of the local mental hospital.
When Dr. Seward cannot deduce all of these symptoms, he calls upon the renowned Dr. Abraham Van Helsing in Amsterdam to consult. The Dutchman arrives and begins some of his early queries.
He is highly interested, though cannot be completely sure that he has a diagnosis of yet. Slowly, Lucy begins to fade from this mysterious neck injury and eventually died of her injuries, though her body transforms into a vampire of sorts, paralleling some of the actions Count Dracula is known to have been committing.
Van Helsing works with Seward to locate the body and it is at this time that the Dutch doctor deduces that there is something eerie at work.
Done with that issue, but still needing to resolve the larger concern at hand, Van Helsing gathers a group to hunt down the Count, who seems to have taken up residence in England, and drive him back to Transylvania.
Lurking in the dark and gloomy areas of Eastern Europe, Van Helsing prepares for the fight of his life, armed with only the most basic medicaments, in hopes of slaying this monster once and for all.
Stoker lays the groundwork for a truly bone-chilling tale that has stood the test of time. I would highly recommend this to anyone who has the wherewithal to delve deep into the heart of a sensational 19th century story of horror and mayhem.
I am still kicking myself that I waited so long to read this sensational piece of fiction. With a cast of powerful characters, Stoker weaves his tale in such a way that the story never loses its momentum.
Harker, Seward, and Van Helsing are all well-crafted and provides powerful contrasts throughout the narrative, while Count Dracula is not only eerie in his presentation, but also one of the scariest villains in 19th century literature.
There need not be outward descriptions of gore and slaying to get to the root of the suspense in this novel, which seems to differ from much of the writing in the genre today, where gushing blood and guts pepper the pages of every book imaginable.
The narrative is also ever-evolving, helped significantly by the journal-based writing that Stoker has undertaken.
The reader is transported through the story using these varied perspectives and some press clippings , rather than a straight delivery of the story from a single point of view.
This surely enhances the larger package and does much to provide the reader with even more fright, at certain times.
There are surely many stories taking place here, some of which deal directly with the issue at hand read: Dracula , while others seem to solve themselves throughout the numerous journal entries.
I wish to add for those who wish to take the audiobook approach, as I have done, the Audible version, with a full cast including Alan Cumming, Tim Curry, and John Lee , adds yet another dimension to this story and should not be discounted.
Kudos, Mr. Stoker, for such a riveting piece. I can only hope to find the time to read some of your other work, as well as that of your descendants, who seem to want to carry the torch and provide more Dracula for the modern reader.
View all 48 comments. Jaidee Happy Halloween Matt! What is your adorable son dressing up as? Matt Jaidee wrote: "Happy Halloween Matt!
He's going as Harry Potter and let me know I have Jaidee wrote: "Happy Halloween Matt! I have a new series to begin. What started out as a simple real estate deal by an English solicitor and a foreign nobleman, becomes a blood sucking nightmare.
The shell shocked Jonathan is imprisoned by the creepy Count, a " person" you wouldn't want to see in a dark alley on a moonless midnight walk.
Three strange , bizarre , but v "Children of the night what music they play" ; Jonathan Hawker hears those chilling, famous words from the inhuman appearing Count Dracula, in the remote Castle Dracula , Transylvania Romania.
Three strange , bizarre , but very beautiful women, brides of Dracula, the weird sisters, are in his room looking not quite real. When Dracula arrives also, they fade away Next day the Englishman can't decide if what he saw last night was a dream or fact Either way the terrified Mr.
Hawker escapes , as if his life depended on it, not caring about those eerie wolves , surrounding the building and disappears Back in "civilized", safe England his fiance Mina on vacation in Whitby, is visiting her sick, good friend Lucy Westenra, she becomes very pale too, almost like ill Lucy who is losing blood, why?
Seward with the help of Dr. Van Helsing an expert in little known diseases, gives her Lucy, four transfusions, still she becomes weaker, and small punctures are spotted on Miss Westenra's neck, what can they be?
A gruesome Bat is seen flying outside the window, lurking about waiting for who knows what Seward, the head of an insane asylum, has a star inmate named Renfield he likes keeping busy, by eating flies and spiders.
Something unnatural is disturbing the disturb man. Renfield even attempts to kill the good doctor. On the continent the dazed Jonathan, is found in a hospital in Budapest, disclosing events, in his journal, read by Mina when they get him back home..
Dracula is seen by Hawker in England, or was this man, the undead fiend , actually the Count? Better speak to Dr.
Van Helsing, who they say has read about vampires and is an expert on the subject. This old Dutchman doesn't mind getting his hands dirty The novel has inspired countless films, books and television shows There is an obvious reason for this phenomenon It still scares people The historical figure was a Romanian Prince, Vlad or Dracula, son 0f Dracul, the Dragon , known as the Impaler, an alias he acquired , and well deserved too View all 8 comments.
Sep 02, Luffy rated it it was amazing Shelves: 5-star. Dracula, the book, struck a chord with me. In it was a fight between good and evil.
Modern vampires have great seduction powers. I never liked that. I also didn't like vampires in many Urban Fantasy books. The Hollows series spring to mind.
The greatest change in the villainous vampires arises in Anne Rice's books. It was a perfect case study of an idea done to the death.
In Dracula, several people record their impressions. I 'pretend' to know that the women in the books, Lucy and Mina, have the Dracula, the book, struck a chord with me.
I 'pretend' to know that the women in the books, Lucy and Mina, have the same voice. Maybe the men are slightly different. They possess greater vocabulary, such as Lord Godalming's, and Jonathan Harker's recollections.
Van Helsing, being a foreigner has his mistakes in grammar, and therefore has the most unique voice. Throughout the book, we don't see the vampire Dracula triumph much.
Except maybe when he turns Lucy into an undead. But even then, through the guiding hands and the knowledge of van Helsing, she is freed from her shackles.
But Jonathan escapes from his imprisonment. And the vampire cannot settle in London. He was found out by our 'A-team' and had to flee for his life.
He expresses baffled malignity. It is the testament to Bram Stoker's neatness that I could follow most of the story. And I'm in awe of his mind, which chronicles the entire story via journal entries or phonograph recordings in the case of John Steward , all of which are dated.
I don't mean outdated, but dated, day after day. And I mourned the death of Quincy Morris, gallant to the end, dying with a smile on his lips.
The entire book defies what happens in movies and series of which latter I've watched only True Blood. Most people don't read books regularly.
So their idea of the vampire comes from horror movies. And Boris Karloff and especially Bela Lugosi as vampires are etched in the minds of most people.
I don't think cinephiles will get any influence from the movie directed by Francis Ford Coppola. That was a mess.
The book still stands proud. In London, Dracula emerges as a wolf-like creature amid a fierce thunderstorm and hypnotically seduces, then bites Lucy Westenra , with whom Mina is staying while Jonathan is in Transylvania.
Lucy's deteriorating health and behavioral changes prompt former suitors Quincey Morris and Dr. Abraham Van Helsing who recognizes Lucy as the victim of a vampire.
Dracula, appearing young and handsome during daylight, meets and charms Mina. When Mina receives word from Jonathan — who has escaped from the castle and recovered at a convent — she travels to Romania to marry him.
In his fury, Dracula transforms Lucy into a vampire. Dracula enters the asylum, where he kills Renfield for warning Mina of his presence. He visits Mina, who is staying in Seward's quarters while the others hunt Dracula, and confesses that he murdered Lucy and has been terrorizing Mina's friends.
Confused and angry, Mina admits that she still loves him and remembers Elisabeta's previous life; at her insistence, Dracula begins transforming her into a vampire.
The hunters burst into the bedroom, and Dracula claims Mina as his bride before escaping. As Mina changes, Van Helsing hypnotizes her and learns via her connection with Dracula that he is sailing home in his last remaining box.
The hunters depart for Varna to intercept him, but Dracula reads Mina's mind and evades them. The hunters split up; Van Helsing and Mina travel to the Borgo Pass and the castle, while the others try to stop the gypsies transporting Dracula.
At night, Van Helsing and Mina are approached by Dracula's brides. Mina succumbs to their chanting and attempts to seduce Van Helsing.
Before Mina can feed on his blood, Van Helsing places a communion wafer on her forehead, leaving a mark. He surrounds them with a ring of fire to protect them from the brides, then infiltrates the castle and decapitates them the following morning.
Dracula's carriage arrives at the castle, pursued by the hunters. A fight between the hunters and gypsies ensues. Morris is stabbed in the back during the fight and Dracula bursts from his coffin at sunset.
Jonathan slits his throat with a Khukri knife while the wounded Morris stabs him in the heart. As Dracula staggers, Mina rushes to his defense.
Van Helsing and Jonathan allow her to retreat with the Count. Morris dies of his wound, surrounded by his friends. In the chapel where he renounced God, Dracula lies dying in an ancient demonic form; he and Mina share a kiss as the candles adorning the chapel light up and the cross repairs itself.
Dracula reverts to his younger self and asks Mina to give him peace. Mina thrusts the knife through his heart and as he dies, the mark on her forehead disappears as Dracula's curse is lifted.
She decapitates him and gazes up at a fresco of Vlad and Elisabeta ascending to Heaven together. Ryder initially brought the script written by James V.
Hart to the attention of Coppola. He was so consumed with Godfather III. As I was leaving, I said, 'If you have a chance, read this script.
It was one of his favorite stories from camp. Mina, like many women in the late s, has a lot of repressed sexuality. Everything about women in that era, the way those corsets forced them to move, was indicative of repression.
To express passion was freakish". To accomplish this he filmed on sound stages to avoid potential troubles caused by inclement weather.
Coppola chose to invest a significant amount of the budget in costumes in order to showcase the actors, whom he considered the "jewels" of the feature.
Coppola also asked the set costume designers to simply bring him designs which were "weird". He wanted something different; a new Dracula without the widow's peak, cape, or pale-white skin.
Coppola brought in acting coach Greta Seacat to coach Frost and Ryder for their erotic scenes as he felt uncomfortable discussing sexuality with the young actresses.
Coppola stated, "they got along and then one day they didn't—absolutely didn't get along. None of us were privy to what had happened.
He's a good friend of mine now Gary Oldman himself thinks that Dracula was never a " bucket list " role for him in the first place. He said that about the main reason why his younger self said yes to the role: "It was an opportunity to work with Coppola, who I consider one of the great American directors.
That was enough, really. It was my first big American movie, made on a big set with lots of costumes. For a young actor, that was a tremendous experience.
Christian Slater was offered the role of Jonathan Harker, but he turned it down a decision he later regretted. If we all were to go to the airport Keanu is the one that the girls would just besiege.
Coppola was insistent that he did not want to use any kind of contemporary special effects techniques such as computer-generated imagery when making the movie, instead wishing to use antiquated effects techniques from the early history of cinema, which he felt would be more appropriate given that the film's period setting coincides with the origin of film.
He initially hired a standard visual effects team, but when they told him that the things he wanted to achieve were impossible without using modern digital technology, Coppola disagreed and fired them, replacing them with his son Roman Coppola.
As a result, all of the visual effects seen in the film were achieved without the use of optical or computer-generated effects, but were created using on-set and in-camera methods.
For example, any sequences that would have typically required the use of compositing were instead achieved by either rear projection with actors placed in front of a screen with an image projected behind them, or through multiple exposure by shooting a background slate then rewinding the film through the camera and shooting the foreground slate on the same piece of film, all the while using matting techniques to ensure that only the desired areas of film were exposed.
Forced perspectives were often employed to combine miniature effects or matte paintings with full-sized elements, or create distorted views of reality, such as holding the camera upside down or at odd angles to create the effect of objects defying the laws of physics.
The site's consensus reads, "Overblown in the best sense of the word, Francis Ford Coppola's vision of Bram Stoker's Dracula rescues the character from decades of campy interpretations—and features some terrific performances to boot.
Everyone knows that Dracula has a heart; Coppola knows that it is more than an organ to drive a stake into.
To the director, the count is a restless spirit who has been condemned for too many years to interment in cruddy movies.
This luscious film restores the creature's nobility and gives him peace. Production designers Dante Ferretti and Thomas Sanders have outdone themselves.
The cinematographer, Michael Ballhaus , gets into the spirit so completely he always seems to light with shadows. Empire ' s Tom Hibbert criticized Keanu Reeves's casting [39] and was not the only critic to consider the resultant performance to be weak.
In a career retrospective compiled by Entertainment Weekly , Reeves was described as having been "out of his depth" and "frequently blasted off the screen by Gary Oldman".
He mentioned it in a list of the "50 Performances That Ruined Movies", and wrote: "You can visibly see Keanu attempting not to end every one of his lines with 'dude'.
The result? A performance that looks like the young actor's perpetually constipated. Painful for all parties. The two Oscar nominees ran circles around the poor Canuck , exposing his lack of range, shoddy accent and abysmal instincts for all to see.
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