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- From: wbg@mtek.com (W. Brewster Gillett)
- Subject: Re: bram stoker's dracula
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 17:40:05 GMT
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- donnell@squid.micro.umn.edu (BogusMan) writes:
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- >>Well, the cinematographer and production designers sure did their jobs for
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- >Why do some people find plague carriers <which is essentially what vampires
- >are, IMHO> irresistably attractive and sexy? Couldn't Coppola find a
- >more interesting subtext? Hasn't this been beaten to death already?
-
- > --Judex--
-
- It's always seemed obvious to me (even though book & film reviewers rarely
- acknowledge it for some reason) that the chief attraction of the whole
- vampire mythos is the immortality, or long-life, element. Everything else
- including the sexual irresistibilty is secondary, IMO.
-
- Production designers??! My six companions at our screening were all in
- accord that the sets were some of the cheesiest ever, particularly for a
- Coppola offering. The toy trains and hokey painted backgrounds were almost
- embarrassing. Hopkins' performance did stand out, and WR was exceptionally
- decorative as always; the morphing was pretty decent, and the light levels
- appropriate for the mood. Beyond that .... Yawn!
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