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- From: branwen@sage.cc.purdue.edu ( )
- Subject: Re: Dracula Criticism
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- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 05:35:11 GMT
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- Someone has just said that they did not feel the movie was acurately
- titled by calling it Bram Stoker's Dracula. I beg to differ. Let's get to
- the actual semantics of the wording.
- First, there can be no Dracula other than Stoker's. You see, Stoker
- copywrited his book and, consequently, the nam,e of the title character.
- Dracula is and always will be Stoker's. Therefore, the movie is acurately
- titled as Bram Stoker's Dracula.
- Second, the movie is in fact about Bram Stoker's Dracula. It is not about
- a vampire created by Coppola. He used Stoker's creature in creating his
- movie character. So calling it FFC's Dracula would have been both inaccurate
- and illegal, in the sense of copywrite laws.
- I will accept the claim that Coppola was not entirely faithful to the
- Dracula and the storyline that was created by Stoker, but since he did not
- title his movie *Dracula by Bram Stoker* he does not have to. The movie is not
- by Stoker, it is by Coppola. It is about Stoker's Dracula.
- Nuff said.
- Glenn
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