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- Subject: Re: Review of FFC'c _Dracula_ (small spoilers)
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:34:58 GMT
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- Alright now. Everyone has to make something clear from now on.
- When you say it is not in the book, which book do you mean?
- Do you mean *Dracula* as written by Bram Stoker?
- Or do you mean *Bram Stoker's Dracula* as written by the screenwriters?
- And when you say it doesn't follow the book, exactly what do you mean?
- Who gives a rat's ass whether Mina Harker was an integral part of the
- original book written by Stoker? She is an integral part of FFC's movie,
- and without her, we could not have seen a love story where we pity/cheer
- the vampire at the end. We would have seen a horror film where we cheered on
- the good guys as they hunted and destroyed the evil vampire. I for one like
- the movie. If I wanted anything near faithful to Dracula as written by
- Stoker, I would just rent Christopher Lee's or that other one. There, the
- vampire was a fiend, and we liked his dying at the end (or at least that was
- the aim of the writers...they don't tend to cheer the villain until 1989
- in Hollywood.)
- Sorry this is rambling, but too many people are saying they didn't like
- the movie for this reason or that, saying the book was better, not identifying
- which book, and then giving no relevant reason for us to agree with them. I
- never judge a movie by the book. If one did that, all of Steven King's movies
- would suck. After all, the mind can build far more suspense than a movie can
- anyday. When we get images in our head that contradict the scene we see
- playing on the screen, we cannot say our images are wrong. Ask a
- psychologist--it is cognitive dissonance or something like that. So we, as
- vampire fans, Anne Rice fans, Stoker fans, etc, have images that we expected to
- see on the screen. If FFC didn't capture those images exactly, then we would
- be somewhat disappointed.
- Now for the spoiler.
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- The shadow was not Dracula's shadow as cast by the spectrum, it was the
- shadow of his soul. He hated Harker, and wanted him dead, but he would not
- act upon this hatred/hunger. So he merely committed the acts against Harker
- in his soul.
- As far as Dracula becoming a werewolf, I see no problem with it. He can
- become a man, and he can become a wolf. Why not something in between? In
- European folklore, a werewolf, when finally killed, would rise as a vampire
- unless he was decapitated. Besides, who are we to tell FFC what he can and
- cannot do with his tribute to Stoker, honoring of Winona Ryder, and all round
- attempt to make money with pop culture? Don't criticize because things are
- different. Fair comments of criticism should only reflect the generally bad
- nature of many of the effects...i.e. the blood looked far to red to be real.
-
- That is my opinion, and as such must be accepted by all, for although
- I am not God, He consults with me on many occassions. Remember the flamingo
- and his backwards kneecaps? My idea...ask any priest!
- Glenn
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