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- From: flar@iastate.edu (Bradley M Armitage)
- Subject: Re: Dracula Criticism
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 19:46:44 GMT
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- In <By3rIn.GHu@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> branwen@sage.cc.purdue.edu ( ) writes:
-
- > 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.
-
- I guess my first question is, how long does a copyright stay in
- existence????
-
- Plus, there have been other dracula movies of that title that did not
- have Bram Stoker attached to it......hmmmmm
-
- > Second, the movie is in fact about Bram Stoker's Dracula. It is
- ^^^^^^^
- not about
- You certainly mean fiction don't you?????
-
- >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.
-
- yeah, this dude that pisses of the Church and is cursed, ok, that's
- about the only similarity I see.....
-
- > 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
-
- how about, not even close to the original Bram Stoker story, I mean not
- even close!!!!!!
-
- >by Stoker, it is by Coppola. It is about Stoker's Dracula.
- > Nuff said.
- ^^^^^^^^^
- > Glenn
-
-
- GUESS NOT!
-
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