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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 20:21:07 -0500
- From: "Douglas J. Brook" <db6l+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: Re: Favorite Vampire one-liners
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- Hi.
- In the original stage version that the Lugosi original was pretty
- much based on (I directed it a couple years back) my favorite lines were:
-
- (After Van Helsing intentionally cuts himself and Dracula lunges at
- the cut but stops himself.) The cut is not deep, I -- looked.
-
- Dracula: "I love England and the great London - so different from my
- own Transylvania, where there are so few people and so little --
- opportunity."
- Van Helsing : "Opportunity, Count?"
- Dracula: (Bowing slightly) For my investigations, Professor."
-
- Also Renfield quotes from the poem: "Would you walk into my parlor,
- said the spider to the fly."
-
-
- It is interesting to note that Coppola's Dracula is the first to
- treat him as a tragic, romantic character, which fights common
- misconception. Also, his is the first, I believe, to have the
- characters of Arthur and Quincy in it.
- On the subject of stage versions, did anybody know that there are
- two Dracula musicals (in addition to as many stage plays as movies)
- called "Dracula: The Musical" and "The Dracula Spectacula"? If you have
- music or anything about those I'm interested, for nostalgia.
-
- later.
- dj
-