She lives again.īack in London, we meet other principals, including the fearless vampire killer Prof. Count Dracula ( Gary Oldman) waits here as he has for centuries for the return of his dead bride, and when he sees a photograph of Reeves' fiancee, Mina Murray ( Winona Ryder), he knows his wait has been rewarded at last. There, everything is more or less as we expect it, only much more so. Reeves' carriage, driven by a man whose hands are claws, hurtles at the edges of precipices until he is finally discharged in the darkness to be met and taken to Dracula's castle.

The previous man who was sent on this mission ran into some sort of difficulties. We meet a young attorney ( Keanu Reeves) who has been asked to journey out to Dracula's castle to arrange certain real estate transactions.

Hart, exists precisely between London, where this modern age is just dawning, and Transylvania, which still sleeps unhealthily in the past. (Vlad is apparently not a student of the Book of Job.) He embraces Satan and vampirism, and the action moves forward to the late Victorian Age, when mankind is first beginning to embrace the gizmos (phonographs, cameras, the telegraph, motion pictures) that will dispel the silence of the nights through which he has waited fearfully for centuries.Ĭoppola's plot, from a screenplay by James V. He has marched all the way to the Holy Land on God's business, only to have God play this sort of a trick on him. And not just killed herself, but hurled herself from a parapet to a stony doom far below, in one of the many spectacular shots which are the best part of this movie.

It begins, as it should, with the tragic story of Vlad the Impaler, who went off to fight the Crusades and returned to find that his beloved wife, hearing he was dead, had killed herself. The film is inspired by the original Bram Stoker novel, although the author's name is in the title for another reason (Another studio owns the rights to plain 'Dracula').

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