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Post #368338

Author
Bingowings
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Dracula (1992)
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Date created
3-Jul-2009, 10:16 AM

No Golden Krone, a blink and miss it first coach ride, the killing of the baby's mother missing, most of the Demeter voyage and arrival missing, most of the Whitby scenes missing, Lucy's mother missing, Lucy's silly innocence missing, Lucy's first encounter with with the vampire hunters missing, Mina's oral rape scene inverted so she is almost attacking him, and there was so much in the film that made no sense at all.

Lucy being a saucy strumpet before getting bitten (if she acted like that in real life she would have been Seward's patient not the object of his suit), Mina walking around and meeting strange men unchaperoned (she is engaged), Whitby being in London.

Some of the material usually unseen from the novel is put back but lacking any purpose (like the gas plumes that the Count uses to find buried treasure to fund his activities being nothing more than window dressing).

Almost every actor did a terrible job even Oldman who seems to be playing six different characters, none of them the Count.

As I say take the name Bram Stoker off it and you will have a lush looking but rather silly, not really Dracula, Dracula film.

But with it on it's a bloody disgrace (I actually saw someone on the telly at the time saying she never knew that the original story was meant to be a romance, well it wasn't as you know and that title is part of the problem).