Film: Bram Stoker’s Dracula – briefly

[narcasse]

Just three things:

1) Vampire women really seem to like eating babies.
2) The dialogue is amazingly bad.
3) Winona Rider’s chest bounces way too much.

Why do I keep watching this film anyway? I have no idea how many times I’ve seen it already.

Comments

[lanithro.livejournal.com]

It was done in a really weird way. Like Coppola wanted to dredge up every cliche he could and fling them at the audience. Well, that's what my flatmate said, anyway. I suggested that it might be because at the time it was written, Dracula wasn't cliche at all- people read it and had a similar reaction to the reaction people were supposed to have to the Blair Witch Project more recently. I thought that Coppola could have been incorporating cliche into a film of the book which founded a lot of the cliches.

I think I might just have been contrary that day though.

[reichsfreiherr.livejournal.com]

I think I’m going to have to re-read the book to do a proper comparison since what seems to stick in my memory from that was the bit towards the end where they kept going on about Mina Harker being unclean or at least Mina kept going on about how she was now unclean.

And there’s almost something about Lucy Westenra being the stereotypical girl ‘who’s asking for it’, at least in the film that I want to check against the book too.

[nekonexus.livejournal.com]

*snickers* It's not Bram Stoker's Dracula, really. It's Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula, and as long as you keep that in mind, it's entertaining enough.

The orgy in the pit really needed to go on longer. ^_^;

[reichsfreiherr.livejournal.com]

True. The whole thing being essentially angsty vampires looking for true love anyway. ^_~

The one thing that gets me, which I’m going to have to check against the book, is whether there was ever a reason given for why Dracula had to go crawling around on the walls of his castle. Even Strahd von Zarovich from the Ravenloft books had an actual reason for doing it.

[http://users.livejournal.com/ishtar_/]

The book is much better than the film...in my opinion.
And I think that the treatment given in the film is unfair when related to the 'feelings' of Dracula...

If you get tired of Dracula, get Interview with the Vampire...I love it! I love Anne Rice, and Armand, and Lestat...

Already fully recovered? I hope so!
Hugs!

[reichsfreiherr.livejournal.com]

I haven’t watched Interview with the Vampire in years but then again I’ve pretty much given up on Anne Rice as things stand. I liked the second and fourth of the Vampire Chronicles, pretty much didn’t mind Pandora and The Vampire Armand and then just gave up on the rest. If she ever writes a book about the Talamasca I’ll probably pick it up though.

On the way to recovery mostly. Now I just need to sleep out my sleeping cycles. ^_^;