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- From: gordons@coopsol.com (Gordon Storga)
- Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
- Subject: Re: Coppula's DRACULA
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.020221.18306@coopsol.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 02:02:21 GMT
- References: <92317.223522JAL137@psuvm.psu.edu> <BxnBC6.AHA@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Nov16.115442.6215@cs.nott.ac.uk>
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- <1992Nov16.115442.6215@cs.nott.ac.uk> rji@trellis.cs.nott.ac.uk (Rob Ingram) :
- ><BxnBC6.AHA@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, tdlg9831@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Tracey Dianne Layng) writes:
- >|> Jon Leistiko <JAL137@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
- >|> [Stuff Deleted]
- >
- >|> 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.
- ...
-
- I used to think this way too. But if you look at Stoker's original
- work you'll see lots of narrations about the countryside, descriptions
- of people and their expressions, detailed descriptions of Renfield's
- *thoughts*, Harker's *thoughts*, Dracula's *thoughts* and memories.
- Addressing detailed descriptions of peoples thoughts by acting alone or
- visual effects, or even dub-over narration would be tedious and drag
- on. Reread some of the passages of Renfield thinking to himself and
- then imagine how that would play on the big screen (Renfield sits there
- either narrating his thoughts *yech*, or going through elaborate facial
- expressions in an attempt to convey what's on his mind to the audience).
-
- The bottom line for Hollywood is to generate a money-maker. You do this
- by appealing to a broad range of people, most of whom do not read the
- classics before going to see the movie. While I don't like it either,
- it's the only way you get to see *some* good movies. Hopefully they don't
- change too much, but it will always be too much for some people.
-
-
- Gordon
- --
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- of whatever company you think I work for. So there, thhhbbbt!
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