Vampires From Bram Stokers Dracula Explained

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Timestamps
0:00 Intro
1:11 How the curse began
3:59 Dracula's Castle
10:37 Dracula's Abilities
19:17 Van Helsing
21:10 Trying to kill Vlad
31:43 Final Thoughts

[dumoulin]

Gary Oldman gave such a memorable performance as Dracula, definitely Oscar worthy.

[eldiablo]

Draculas shadow moving independently of Dracula while hes interacting with Jonathan is one of the coolest scenes in the movie.

[coogancreativemedia]

The book heavily implies the person riding the carriage is Dracula himself. Lugosi even plays him in the '31 version. There's also a whole backstory to the blue flame.
The book is worth reading...especially for a vampire guy.

[akotostotos]

As a Romanian I'm glad Gary Oldman imitates a Romanian accent very well. And he also speaks some Romanian phrases in this movie. He looks alot like Vlad.

[toscadonna]

The scene with Lucy in her bridal gown floating down the stairs of her crypt with the baby is unlike any other. Absolutely frighteningly ethereal and really made an impression.

[crazyralph]

That wolf and bat creature costume and makeup was absolutely amazing. Better than anything CGI nowadays.

[KeithMoon]

Pretty sure Dracula didn't shape shift into his younger form. I always assumed the trip on the boat let his get more human blood, and it was this increased supply of blood that made him appear younger.

[Ravuun]

The coachman was supposed to be Dracula. The idea was that this ancient noble lord has no servants, but it is unseemly for a lord to give service to a peasant like Jonathan so he disguises himself. The blue rings, if I recall correctly, were in the novel and were supposed to be a clue to where treasure was hidden.

[Atlan]

This is the best Dracula's movie ever in my opinion, the fact that Gary Oldman didn't won the Oscar it's a crime.

[dockbabington]

As a D&D guy for over 45 years. I always thought the opening scene would be a perfect backstory for the "birth" of an anti-paladin.

[TetsuShima]

Despite its inaccuracies, this film deserves a lot of recognition for trying to be genuinely faithful to Stoker's novel and respect its themes, especially if we consider the fact the Hammer Company previously made 500 films in which Dracula is killed by a random lightning bolt, ends up in the 70s, forms a James Bond-type terrorist organization, etc.

[TetsuShima]

To think that all this sh*t with Dracula happened because of this dialogue:
Ottoman 1#: "Wanna send some fake news to Vlad's girl and see what happens, bro?"
Ottoman 2#: "Cool!"

[TheHiddenHand]

I think Johnathan's mirror breaking was Dracula shattering it telekinetically to keep him from finding out the truth. It makes sense, he was still trying to puppet Johnathan and lull him into a false sense of security.

[FergusScotchman]

Despite Keanu's stiffness, Gary Oldman was incredible. He can completely transform himself into all kinds of characters.

[ILikeSkulls]

The mural on the ceiling depicted his pain over her death and the final scene is her over his body, a reversal. Probably one of the best films ever made

[matthewstoneback]

One of the many things I love about Coppola's film is how it fleshes out Dracula making him
a fully three dimensional character.
We get Count Dracula, the prince, the patriot, the lover, the monster, the scourge of God and above all...the warrior! Throughout the film, there are many callbacks to his past life as a warrior, perhaps a tyrannical one, but a warrior all the same. And even Dracula himself eludes to this when he meets Jonathan Harker as though even after four centuries spent terrorizing his own people as a vampire, he still likes to perceive himself as a kind of legendary hero, almost like an aging war veteran left alone with only his medals, his honors and his memories, just sort of lost in the past. I don't mean to come off as pretentious, but it's just something that I find fascinating. It makes him very relatable.

[EternalRoman]

The priest that speaks to Dracula about his wife's fate is played by Anthony Hopkins as well. The Carriage driver is actually Dracula himself, for in the novel it clearly explains this as when they arrive at the Castle, the driver goes to put away the carriage and in the stables he removes his helmet revealing that is indeed Dracula. Dracula fast proceeds to through a secret entrance to change at high speeds to then greet Jonathan Harker. Also the deleted Scenes of the film does show Old long hair Dracula without a Helmet as he removes it after appearing to arrive at the Castle or before picking up Jonathan, but for timing purposes it was cut from the film. The Blue Ring of Fire almost at the entrance of the Castle, in the novel is explained that in local Transylvania folklore, This Blue Fire Ring appears once a year at a specific night to signal where a vast treasure is buried, and it is implied that this treasure belongs to Dracula himself, whom buried it there centuries before.

Also though Dracula on the film does not have pain from the Cross, he does get hurt by Holy Water. Suffice to say too that Elizabetha is the one that pushes the knife to end Dracula but Mina is the one that decapitates him. When she looks at the ceiling art and see both Vlad and his Wife, I believe that she sees them as themselves as she had regained herself. Meaning that Elizabetha had awakened within Mina for the time that Vlad was after her and turned her, but then as Vlad dies, Elizabetha is released from Mina, and the latter had shared memories with Elizabetha before Vlad is killed. Eventually in death Elizabetha and Vlad are reunited in the after life as depicted in the ceiling art. This is my personal favorite DRACULA film, even with the bad acting from Keanu Reeves, everyone else was just great.

[lmoorerd]

I saw Dracula '92 in the theatre when I was 12. I asked my mom to take me to see it because it was R rated and she agreed. It was an awesome experience. One of the last great movies that used practical special effects. Dracula's eyes in sky while Harker was on the train was both awesome and eerie, I heard my mom gasp and say look at the sky. My favorite scene was when they chopped off Lucy's head and it immediately transitions to cutting a roast beef where Van Helsing was rather crass about the process.

[nicholascauton]

I just really love the trope of “it ends where it all began” which the story literally comes full circle. Best of all, this movie executes that trope extremely well. Making it one of my all-time favorites.

[heloisavillela]

That last image of Vlad and Elisabeta on the ceiling has been stuck in my mind for years since I first watched this movie as a small child.