From: billd@cray.com (Bill Davidson)
Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
Subject: Upcoming Dracula from Coppola
Date: 5 Sep 92 19:30:25 GMT
Organization: Cray Research Superservers Inc., San Diego CA, USA


Here's a summary of the more important portions of the discussion in
rec.arts.movies over the last couple of weeks.  Hopefully this will
help.  BTW, I was at the Comicon and heard Coppola speak and saw the
previews.  They also showed some stuff on the making of the film.  It
looks good.  The cast looks very good.  If it really does the book
justice, it will be a hell of a movie.  Given the fact that it's
Coppola and the fact that Stoker has such a good cinematic sense (in
spite of writing prior to the existence of the cinema ;-) there seems
to be a good chance of it.

From: bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Greg Bole)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Cast of Dracula
Summary: Dracula FAQ
Date: 31 Aug 92 22:12:37 GMT

In article <Btu3FG.Fu9@agora.rain.com>, hopkins@agora.rain.com (Scott Hopkins) 
 
> 	I was wondering if someone can post the cast of Bram Stoker's
> Dracula, and if anybody knows, the characters they portray?  
Sure.

> Does anyone know how similiar it is going to be to the novel?
Yep...very.
 
> 				-Casey Hopkins
> 			Sorry, if this is a FAQ!
I've put together a _Dracula_ FAQ from various posts.  Thanks to all who
contributed!  I'll post it periodically.  This looks like it's shaping up to be
the movie of the year...


Count Dracula/Vlad Dracul: Gary Oldman  
   (_JFK_, _Rozencrantz and Guildensten Are Dead_)

Dr. Van Helsing: Anthony Hopkins
   (_Silence of the Lambs_, _Howards End_)

Jonathan Harker: Keanu Reeves
   (_Point Break_, _Dangerous Liaisons_)

Mina Harker: Winnona Ryder
   (_Heathers_, _Beetlejuice_)

Renfield: Tom Waits
   (_At Play in the Fields of the Lord_, _Down By Law_)

Dr. Seward: Richard E. Grant
   (_The Player_, _Warlock_)

Quincey Morris the Texan: Bill Cambell
   (_The Rocketeer_)

Lord Holmes: Cary Elwes
   (_The Princess Bride_, _Glory_)


From: ACPS1072@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca (ACPS1072@RYERSON)

Here is something I found in our newspaper a while back here in Toronto and I
now use it as a bookmark while I am reading Bram Stoker's Dracula :

     'Francis Coppola's long awaited, much discussed Bram Stoker's Dracula
      will go onto the U.S. marketplace in late November with no stiffer a
      rating than Restricted, says Columbia Pictures chairman Mark Canton.
          Reports have surfaced that scenes in the picture are so gory that
      they moved people at a test screening to vomiting.  An absolute lie,
      insists Canton, who says, "I was at the screening -- there was only
      one screening -- and I can tell you people sat through it on the edge
      of their seats, eating their popcorn."
          Some have labeled Winona Ryder's relationship with Dracula (Gary
      Oldman) as "ultra-erotic"'


From: kaufman@eecs.nwu.edu (Michael L. Kaufman)

In the book, Vlad and Dracula are the same person.  Stoker has taken the real 
events of Vlad's life and made them part of his character's history. While 
there are no actual scenes in the book from Vlad's "youth", one could be added 
without straying too far from the book.

BTW, for people interested in the book, I would highly recomend _The Annotated 
Dracula_. I don't remember the name of the publisher (it is the same company
that did the Annotated Alice) or the name of the annotater, but I can look it
up if anyone is interested. As well as the complete novel, the book contains
detailed notes about the book, history of the characters, a calender of the
events in the book, map of England showing locations of things, as well as 
other stuff that I can't think of right now.


kathyli@sdcrsi.cray.com (the Rev. Mom) writes...

Oldman makes a great giant bat, old Dracula, young Dracula, prince
Dracul, Vlad the Impaler, mist and about a gazillion other forms. :-)
 
The script had been brought to Coppola by Winona Ryder, and it
differs from the book mostly in that it ties in Vlad the Impaler
and his wife's death in an initial scene (Winona Ryder gets to lie
like a corpse while blood pours down all over her.)

Greg Bole                                    "The ants in the grass, they
bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu                  were just doing their thing."
                                            Matt Dillon in _Drugstore Cowboy_
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