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Bram Stoker's Dracula
Directed By Francis Ford Coppola
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What can one say when confronted by drivel such as this? Who cares if it's Francis Ford Coppola? The man deserves no special hushed reverence. He's not Stanley Kubrick. The movie is unnecessarily erotic. Mina and Lucy become lesbians when the Demeter arrives; Jonathan Harker - portrayed to fantastic wooden perfection by the bewildered Reeves - gets bitten in the wrong places by topless bitch vampires; Van Helsing, my only favourite thing in Stoker's collective oeuvre, is as lusty as the rest of the crazies when he slobbers all over Mina's non-existant boobs. I could go on. Eroticism aside, what's up with the misleading title? It's Coppola's Dracula not Stoker's. What the director did was simple and effective - in toppling the integrity of Dracula's profusions of blood spewing adoration of his wife. If the Prince became an undead out of love for that special ninny portrayed by the ninny incomparable, Ryder, what was he trying to prove to her by raping her best friend in bat/wolf mode? Like, what was that for?