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- From: nelson@soliton.physics.arizona.edu (Jeffrey J. Nelson)
- Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
- Subject: Coppola's DRACULA (NOT spoiler)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.223114.18061@galileo.physics.arizona.edu>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 22:31:14 GMT
- References: <1e0mbcINNcr4@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <BxK7un.608@acsu.buffalo.edu> <1e12nvINNm33@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
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- Reply-To: nelson@soliton.physics.arizona.edu (Jeffrey J. Nelson)
- Organization: University of Arizona Physics Department
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- In article <1e12nvINNm33@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, wxs@po.CWRU.Edu (W.charles Simciak) writes:
- |> In a previous article, eah4@po.CWRU.Edu (Elizabeth A. Hlabse) says:
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- |> >They had a free sneak of the movie at CWRU last night. Needless
- |> >to say, the place was packed to the gills. Yours truly had
- |> >second row center and was entranced. FFC has done it again.
- |> >Great visuals. Fantastic costuming. The pacing was perfect--
- |> >I don't care what the local reviewer said about it. There
- |> >was angst, love, gore, the usual stuff for a vampire movie.
- |> >And well worth it, as far as I'm concerned. I'd even pay money
- |> >to go see it again.
- |>
- |> I was there as well, but I didn't really enjoy the movie. The pacing was
- |> erratic, the movie's style veered in several different directions, with
- |> so many characters no one really had time to develop themselves (some of
- |> whom seemed to add nothing to the story, i.e. Reinfield) ...
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- Dracula by Stoker contains such a rich plot that I though
- adapting it to the standard Hollywood "Get-em-in-and-out" format
- would be tough. What is needed is a serious epic style like
- the old Ben Hur, Gone With the Wind, etc.
-
- - Jeff
-