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The original work, the mother of all bloodsuckers, the holy grail of vampirism, the genius masterpiece of Bram Stoker that for better or worse spanned an infinity of books, movies, series and any vampire-like machination. The story of the intrepid Jonathan Harker and the delicate Mina, the gentlemanly Arthur and the angelic Lucy, the charismatic Doctor Seward and the wise and audacious Van Helsing. And of course, how to forget him, the all-father of anything undead, the quintessential vampire, the immortal, machiavellian and all powerful Count Dracula.
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Read 28 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. A fifteenth century crusader finds immortality as a vampire in order to be reunited with hi…
Bram Stoker’s Dracula lore
Van Helsing pretty much lists them out around pg 337-344 (Mina Harker’s Journal 30 September) Strength of twenty men, control weather and animals, vanish, grow and shrink, communicate with the dead, see in the dark Can’t enter uninvited, has to drink blood, has to sleep in unhallowed ground, casts no reflection and has no shadow, can’t cross running water, can’t get out of his coffin if there in a branch of wild rose on the lid, stair through the heart and beheading kills him, as does a “sacred bullet,” can only change himself at noon, sunset and sunrise (sunlight killing vamps was added to mythology via Nosferatu), repelled by garlic and crucifixes. More on reddit.com
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September 25, 2023"Dracula", the original novel by Bram Stoker: What's Dracula's grand plan?
This is just my interpretation remembering back to when I read it a few years ago. I think he had multiple reasons for wanting to come west. 1.) He was bored--> Eternal Life + Ruling over everything in his land = Boredom after hundreds of years 2.) He wanted to experience new things. His life in a castle was growing old for him. I believe he states this a few times. 3.) More people more victims. 4.) The challenge of it all --> Bored 5.) More flexibility --> At some point he stated that he is very limited and has to rely on his "Agents" to do some of his work. He says it in more of a threatening way, "I have many agents. Eyes and Ears all over the world..." (not a direct quote, paraphrased from memory). I can imagine moving would allow him to do more of what he wanted to do. Especially given the historical setting of England at the time. More on reddit.com
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January 18, 2021What's your thoughts on 'Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)'?.. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola Did you find it scary or not?
I loved it. Didn't find it scary at all, but I didn't have expectations of it being frightening, either. I thought the mood/setting/musical score/acting were all absolutely sublime and made for a very entertaining depiction of Stokers classic. Great movie, I still watch it every October. More on reddit.com
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April 22, 2024Is the original Dracula novel by Bram Stoker worth reading?
Definitely! And there’s a website called Dracula Daily that sends you the novel in “real time” as the characters experience it. So on May 18 you’ll get Mina’s letter dated May 18 and the next email could be on May 21, which is entry by Jonathan. More on reddit.com
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r/moviecritic on Reddit: What's your thoughts on 'Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)'?.. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
December 16, 2023 -
Personally, I like it and I find it a scary movie, but I really didn't like the (Dracula/ Mina) arc (their love story) because it was so different from the novel, as far as I remember, Mina felt that Dracula was violating her soul and body and she felt nothing but pity for him, I don't know why this love story was included in the movie and the whole movie was built on it?
Also, the sex scene between the Count, who is in the form of a wolf, and Lucy was... Bizarre.
As for the acting, Anthony Hopkins and Gary Oldman were brilliant, the others were OK, also, Keanu Reeves' accent seemed weird and a little fake to me.
What do you think?
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Beautifully shot. Atrociously acted. Loved it.
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Keanu is a great guy, and he’s excellent in many other roles, but he really was like a turd in a punchbowl with this one. His super terrible accent and hammy delivery utterly broke the beautiful gothic spell of this movie.
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December 16, 2024 - The suggestion of a possible reversal of the ageing process appears for the first time in Dracula’s castle, when Jonathan Harker sees the Count in his box “but looking as if his youth had been half renewed” (D 59). When Jonathan relives the experience on English soil later on, the Count has “grown young” (D 184) – an oxymoron of sorts, as it includes two meanings with conflicting arrows of time. Immortality in Dracula is a matter of understanding precisely what “not to die” entails
SLUG Magazine
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The Malady of Immortality: Bram Stoker’s Dracula - SLUG Magazine
January 29, 2025 - They do not merely satiate our human blood-lust but study human reactions to the supernatural and the spiritual. Through the responses of the actors in Dracula and the character in Anne Rice’s novel, we can examine our own attitudes toward death and immortality and vicariously see how we might choose if given the opportunity.
Wiley Online Library
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The “Curse of Immortality”: Some of the Philosophical Implications of Bram Stoker's Dracula and Anne Rice's Interview With the Vampire - Branson - 1994 - Popular Culture Review - Wiley Online Library
August 1, 1994 - Smith, Malcolm. “Dracula and the Victorian Frame of Mind.” Trivium. 24 (1989): 76–97. ... Stoker, Bram.
Metacritic
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November 13, 1992 - The greatest of the Dracula movies, Bram Stoker’s makes its timeless narrative clear, even while carefully treading the line among the many meanings of the myth. What does Dracula represent? Is it old age? Disease? The greed of the wealthy? The animalistic predator? Sexual desire or the drive for immortality?
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Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Count Dracula, a 15th-century prince, is condemned to live off the blood of the living for eternity. Young lawyer Jonathan Harker is sent to Dracula's castle to finalise a land deal, but when the Count sees a photo of Harker's fiancée, Mina, ...
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August 20, 2020 - Dracula’s Immortality No horror novel has achieved the fame of Dracula. Bram Stoker’s imaginative battle between a motley crew of characters and a centuries-old vampire is one that has captivated for over a century. This longevity cannot be attributed to the plot alone.
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November 16, 2023 - Even Lucy was condemned the second ... by a demon they promptly sought to eradicate it. All human characters see Dracula's immortality as unclean; nobody wishes for it....
Roger Ebert
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Bram Stoker's Dracula
Think of the monstrous ego of the vampire. He thinks himself so important that he is willing to live forever, even under the dreary conditions imposed by his Think of the monstrous ego of the vampire. He thinks himself so important that he is willing to live forever, even under the dreary conditions imposed by his condition. Avoiding the sun, sleeping in coffins, feared by all, he nurses his resentments. In "Bram Stoker's Dracula," the new film by Francis Ford Coppola, the vampire shakes his fist at heaven and vows to wait forever for the return of the woman he loves. It does not occur to him
Bram Stoker
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DRACULA by Bram Stoker 1897 edition CHAPTER 1 Jonathan Harker's Journal
Count Dracula, jumping to his feet, said, "Why there is the morning again!
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Release date Nov 13, 1992
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Hey guys just wanted to ask a question. What are all of Draculas powers from the original novel. I know he can turn into mist, bats, drink blood etc. But what are his powers strengths and weaknesses in the novel exactly? It’s hard to find everything online and I don’t want to reread the book again. Thanks for the help guys.
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Van Helsing pretty much lists them out around pg 337-344 (Mina Harker’s Journal 30 September) Strength of twenty men, control weather and animals, vanish, grow and shrink, communicate with the dead, see in the dark Can’t enter uninvited, has to drink blood, has to sleep in unhallowed ground, casts no reflection and has no shadow, can’t cross running water, can’t get out of his coffin if there in a branch of wild rose on the lid, stair through the heart and beheading kills him, as does a “sacred bullet,” can only change himself at noon, sunset and sunrise (sunlight killing vamps was added to mythology via Nosferatu), repelled by garlic and crucifixes.
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I'm going off of memory and it's been a few years but he can turn into mist, a wolf, and a bat. He can also control certain animals like wolves, bats, or rats. He can crawl on walls and ceilings. He doesn't have a reflection or shadow and is hurt by religious imagery like crosses and can't cross hallowed ground. He can't be harmed by normal means, if you tried to stab him it would just go through his body like he's made of smoke. He's super strong and fast. He has a minor teleportation ability, but he has to already know how to get where he's going, he can't just teleport anywhere. He can't cross moving water at low or high tide, but can be carried across. Drinking blood sustains him and makes him look younger. He can move in the sunlight, but it negates all or most of his abilities. When he rests, he has to sleep on the soil from his home land and once he's asleep he can't move until the sun sets. He can also communicate telepathically with those he's bitten or those with a weak mind and put them under a sort of hypnosis and influence their behavior.
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October 16, 2011 - He ends up locked up in a madhouse without being much use for Dracula and complains how his master is willing to make Mina immortal, but not him, so he tries to alert Mina of his presence.
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3 weeks ago - Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. The narrative is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles. It has no single protagonist and opens with English solicitor Jonathan Harker taking a business trip to stay at the castle of a Transylvanian ...
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January 18, 2021 -
Hey,
Question's in the title, I guess. :) It's been a while since I read the original novel, but this has been something I've been pondering for a while since I read a very good thread here about what the best vampire stories might be.
Why exactly does Dracula leave Transylvania for England? Had he stayed home, had he done better research, and so on, he would not have put himself in any danger. Now, it's convenient for the story that he apparently has no self-control and is really bad at planning things out, but for a supposedly villainous mastermind, he's making a lot of really obvious mistakes, along the way.
Now, I know how different movies, games, and comic books rationalize Dracula's behavior. But does Stoker himself actually give us an idea why Dracula decides to move West? Apart from that it makes a for a good story, that is? :)
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This is just my interpretation remembering back to when I read it a few years ago. I think he had multiple reasons for wanting to come west. 1.) He was bored--> Eternal Life + Ruling over everything in his land = Boredom after hundreds of years 2.) He wanted to experience new things. His life in a castle was growing old for him. I believe he states this a few times. 3.) More people more victims. 4.) The challenge of it all --> Bored 5.) More flexibility --> At some point he stated that he is very limited and has to rely on his "Agents" to do some of his work. He says it in more of a threatening way, "I have many agents. Eyes and Ears all over the world..." (not a direct quote, paraphrased from memory). I can imagine moving would allow him to do more of what he wanted to do. Especially given the historical setting of England at the time.
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At some point in the story, van Helsing mentions that Dracula was like a child, but that he was learning, and could become more and more dangerous in the process. He may have been asleep for decades, lying in wait for the best oportunity, and one of the fears of van Helsing is that, being exposed, he might again outsleep them to death. The vampiric nature of Dracula is not what motivates him, I mean, he does not go to England to "spread vampires over the world" or to pursue an evil plan. Dracula goes to England because he was a noble (a voivod) in a decadent kingdom and he wanted to be at the centre of the world again, which happens to be the British Empire in the 19th century, the way to integrate is to buy land in England. From there he could then seek power, but not in terms of bringing the reign of evil upon earth, but secular power by becoming a very rich and powerful aristocrat. His vampiric nature, in this sense, is what damns him. I think his original plan, much like Lord Ruthvens's, was just to go on with his life without being exposed as a supernatural creature. His nature, however, and his incontrollable desire for blood and sex get the best of him and lead to his downfall. Very Victorian.
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National Review
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The Immortal Dracula | National Review
October 31, 2020 - Why Bram Stoker’s vampire tale endures, despite its flaws.
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November 13, 1992 - ... 3.5/5 No matter how grinding and dull the story gets, we are, genuinely, never more than about 45 seconds away from some eye-popping visual. ... To put it simply, Bram Stoker’s Dracula has a bad case of style over substance.