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Dracula (Work): Bram Stoker
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With Dracula in the public domain, there was no need to continue the attempted disguise of the novel perpetrated by F. W. Murmau in his silent version. The names in Stoker’s novel were returned to the characters in the movie, though both the alterations of the plot and Dracula’s horrific appearance as originally portrayed by Max Schreck were retained. The movie had its high moments but seemed to move much to slowly for sophisticated 1970s moviegoers. It came off poorly against its 1979 rivals—Dracula with Frank Langella and the comedic Love at First Bite.
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Bram Stoker’s Dracula is an entertaining film, so long as one doesn’t require conclusive meaning along with their vampire epics. The players manage to look pretty without providing much substance. One exception is Gary Oldman’s transformations within the Dracula character, who repeatedly morphs from young lover to creepy, decrepit vampire to wolf to demon. Throughout all of these aliases, Oldman infuses Dracula with a mournful, yearning spirit. Sadie Frost is ... quite endearing as the 19th century tart, and Anthony Hopkins does well enough as the eccentric Van Helsing. Keanu Reeves is, of course, awful as Jonathan Harker, but Coppola probably hired him for box-office draw of teenage admirers rather than his mad thespian skills.
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In the 1920s the play Dracula so deeply impressed the audience that one night at the Little Theater in London 29 people fainted during the show. Later, when the same play was presented in New York City, many journalists and even cast members had the feeling that Bela Lugosi, Dracula’s most famous interpreter and himself a native of the region that Prince Vlad once ruled, had a kind of Satanic power. They attributed to this power a host of inexplicable accidents that affected the presentation of the play. On opening night the theater manager suffered a severe case of anemia, possibly due to Dracula’s blood - sucking. He was taken to the hospital, though his medical records never showed such a condition in the past. Dorothy Peterson, the actress who interpreted the role of Lucy Harker, a Dracula victim in the updated version inspired by Stoker’s novel, lost her voice during the third performance.
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Later interest was sparked in discovering the real Dracula and later books and documentaries have given more information on Vlad Tepes than Bram Stoker knew of him. Vlad Tepes has almost become as famous as vampire alter-ego.
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Long before Bram Stoker’s classic novel Dracula was written, people were certain vampires or “nosferatu” existed. The word “nosferatu’ itself is a derivative of the Greek word nosophoros whose definition is “plague-carrier.”
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Even before Dracula was published as a novel, the text began to be adapted for other purposes, in this case for dramatic one. Stoker staged a dramatic reading of his work in order to secure various rights to his story and characters (rights which later proved of great value to his widow). Through the years, Stoker and then his widow authorized various adaptations of Dracula for the stage and the cinema, and for translation into various foreign languages.
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