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- From: ahughes@jarthur.claremont.edu (The Fool)
- Subject: Re: Dracula Criticism
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.003532.24677@muddcs.claremont.edu>
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- Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 00:35:32 GMT
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- In article <flar.722548004@vincent2.iastate.edu> flar@iastate.edu (Bradley M Armitage) writes:
- >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?????
- Sir. If you are going to criticize people about their diction, please learn
- to properly read a sentence. The phrase "in fact" means "in truth" and is thus
- quite correct in this context as the movie is indeed "about Bram Stoker's
- Dracula" in that the character Dracula (the vampire, not the historical figure)
- was in fact created by Bram Stoker.
-
-
- >> Glenn
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- >* Can you hear me crying out for life? Can you tell me, where's the glory? *
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- The Fool
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