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- From: rji@trellis.cs.nott.ac.uk (Rob Ingram)
- Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
- Subject: Re: Coppula's DRACULA
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.115442.6215@cs.nott.ac.uk>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 11:54:42 GMT
- References: <1992Nov12.210202.12648@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> <92317.223522JAL137@psuvm.psu.edu> <BxnBC6.AHA@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <BxnBC6.AHA@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, tdlg9831@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Tracey Dianne Layng) writes:
- |> Jon Leistiko <JAL137@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
- |> [Stuff Deleted]
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- |> In response to all the vampire movies out and about at this time, especially
- |> Coppola's _Dracula_, I deicded to reread Stoker's original. In looking at the
- |> movie clips on TV, I fear that this movie is again nothing like the book.
- |> I have always wondered why people take a :classic: and then change it so it is
- |> almost unrecognizable as a movie. I mean, the structure and content of the book
- |> is what made it a classic, so why change it? I realize that some things in
- |> books cannot be adequately reproduced in movies, but I have seen a tendency to
- |> also alter those things which were perfectly filmable.
- |>
-
- I agree. BTW there was a program on British TV last wednesday called Behind The
- Headlines which was discussing the recent spate of vampire films and books.
- Christopher Lee was one of the panel (as well as Nik Fiend :-) and said he
- would only be tempted to replay the part of Dracula if it was a very faithful
- adaptation. But then he's a bit old now anyway.
-
- Rob.
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