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- From: covin@tartarus.uchicago.edu (David Covin)
- Subject: Re: Coppula's DRACULA
- In-Reply-To: flar@iastate.edu's message of Wed, 18 Nov 1992 03:04:57 GMT
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 21:30:33 GMT
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- In article <flar.722055897@vincent2.iastate.edu> flar@iastate.edu (Bradley M Armitage) writes:
-
- Oh, I hate to ask, but what in the bloody heck was Dracula doing turning
- into a werewolf????? I just don't get it.....
-
- In the actual legends (as opposed to subsequent fiction), the
- distinction between vampires and werewolves (and sorcerors, for that
- matter) is rather unclear. In a few regions, the word used to refer
- to vampires actually means something like "wolf-man."
-
- Maybe Coppola did his homework, and added bits that weren't in the
- book but (he thought) worked well in a movie and were consistent with
- the original myths.
-
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- David Covin covin@despair.uchicago.edu
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