WTF Happened to Bram Stoker's Dracula?
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Hollywood has had its fair share of historically troubled productions. Whether it was casting changes, actor deaths, fired directors, in-production rewrites, constant delays, budget cuts, or studio edits, these films had every intention to be a blockbuster but were beset with unforeseen disasters. Sometimes huge hits, sometimes box office bombs. Rarer still are the movies that, while they're shooting, seem like disasters in the making but wind up being classics.
Francis Ford Coppola crafted a unique and gorgeous twist on the legendary vampire with the 1992 horror-romance BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA, starring Gary Oldman (an an iconic performance), Winona Ryder and a controversial Keanu Reeves. But the director certainly didn’t make it easy for himself, with an intensely method lead actor, personality conflicts, overly ornate costumes, studio squabbles, and all the challenges of using obsolete practical effects. Grab your crucifix and sharpen your stakes as we look at “WTF Happened to BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA!”
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The soundtrack of this movie is absolutely phenomenal. It is insane how well this composer brought the feelings the movie trys to convey to life. When you listen to it, its a movie on its own.
The soundtrack is amazing! One of the greatest of all time. I used to listen to it all the time!
Ya. Whenever you hear some film student dropout say 'The best soundtrack is the one you don't remember' just look at him like he fell out of a well and keep going.
Wojciech Kilar.. Also the costumes were amazing in this. Done by a Japanese costume designer - the armors look nothing like the Romanian ones of the time yet all costumes fit the fairy tale reinterpretation of the story perfectly..
The same guy composed the score to The Ninth Gate, I believe... incredible music!
@@danymalsound He composed music to dozens of Polish films over the decades.
“I have crossed oceans of time to find you.”
Quite possibly the most romantic line in cinema history. 🦇🦇🦇
@@RobertIsraelKabakoff You are overly judgmental. The theme of the move is redemption.
That is the line that gets you wet, huh?
Quite cheap actually...and I said exactly the same to the OZ Racing Alloy wheels.
I’m gonna use it when I get a gf lol which will be never if I used it I’m fuckin around I’ll probably get a gf one day
I've used a variation of it on occasion.. women love it.
I can't imagine how awful this would look now if they'd gone with late 90s cgi.
Wait for the remake 😂
Or early 2000 CGI 😂 man Blade CGI doesn't hold up anymore
@@Jerry4050 but Blade II does !!!!
@indytbird Wtf are you talking about? Bram Stoker's Dracula is great, and it's one of the most accurate adaptations of his book ever made.
They used some cgi if i remember
Here in Europe Coppola's Dracula remains a highly admired classic and considered a masterpiece worthy of a great master. And I of course agree. I never liked any movie about Dracula (although I loved the novel!) Until I saw Coppola's. I left the theater in shock and then I have watched the movie more than 10 times. Its baroque style, its music, the costumes, the setting, the narrative, the actors, fascinate me. And the vampire in all his manifestations, especially that of a decrepit noble prisoner of his past.
They did it all with Barnabas Collins in "Night of Dark Shadows" 1971
@@RobertIsraelKabakoff You're right. I read the novel long ago, but it makes no mention of Vlad, or how and why Dracula became undead. Dracula himself is radically different from the one we see in Coppola's film: he does not depend on the night to do his misdeeds, he is simply stronger at night. And his physical appearance is very different: he is an unpleasant being to look at, bald (if I remember him correctly), he wears black and his breath stinks. Instead he has a cultured and interesting conversation that fascinates others, who invite him to the best tables. The vampire closest to what I imagined when reading the novel is Murnau's Nosferatu.
Vlad the Impaler is mentioned in Coppola's movie because Stoker was inspired by that character to write the novel, simply. I agree with what you say about Renfield and Van Helsing, they are very interesting characters.
Vlad the Impaler's real name was Vlad III Dracula, also spelled Draculyea, meaning "Son of the Dragon," "the Dragon" being his father Vlad II Dracul. Both were Princes of Wallachia, an area south of Transylvania that is now part of Romania. At the time, Transylvania was actually part of Hungary, and both Vlad and his father were sometimes allies with Hungary against the Ottoman Empire, and sometimes allies with the Ottomans against local rivals. There is some debate about just how much Stoker really knew about the historical Dracula; most scholars seem to think he was only aware of the name and chose it for its meaning of "Son of the Dragon" or also "Son of the Devil." There is an oblique reference to the historical figure in Chapter 3 of the book:
"Who was it but one of my own race who as Voivode crossed the Danube and beat the Turk on his own ground? This was a Dracula indeed! Woe was it that his own unworthy brother, when he had fallen, sold his people to the Turk and brought the shame of slavery on them! Was it not this Dracula, indeed, who inspired that other of his race who in a later age again and again brought his forces over the great river into Turkeyland, who, when he was beaten back, came again, and again, though he had to come alone from the bloody field where his troops were being slaughtered, since he knew that he alone could ultimately triumph!"
It's not entirely clear which members of the Dracula family the Count is referring to here. Vlad's younger brother Radu did indeed ally with the Turks and usurped the throne from his older brother at one point, but I'm not sure who the "other of his race" from "a later age" is. Stoker's history isn't exact, but there is evidence of familiarity with general contours of Vlad's history.
@@clavicleofcernunnos I just reread that passage a couple days ago and attempted to put this in context with some amateur/poor historical research. My take was similar to yours in that Stoker used the dracula title "(son) of the dragon". I speculate that mostly it was because it sounded badass. But Stoker understood enough of the historical region and personages to write that specific passage describing some real people and events. Stoker doesn't outright claim vlad but geez we can easily see Hart/Coppola being spot on here! As far as the romance/love aspect, we'd have to ask Hart about that since he wrote the screenplay that Coppola used. i found the reincarnation elements a bit interesting even though it wasn't in the book. I think i read somewhere that coppola and ryder (apparently introducing coppola to the screenplay) that there was some hidden meaning of sorts that was to be found in Hart's version. Presumably the romance stuff. I personally think the hidden elements are more or less of the nature of nationalism (foreign element introduced to our safe bubble) and sexual suppression of the roman catholic and victorian age sort. Let's not forget who Stoker was and his primary audience. All in all i think Hart's romance bit was as an interesting plot mechanic for our beloved Dracula but definitely overdone by Coppola in several scenes. If anyone knows of a Hart interview describing his screenplay then please respond here!
Ironically, I only watched this version after having read the book - and I absolutely hated the movie because of how it just shat on the book.
This was basically an art film, and I love the visuals. It's so gloriously weird.
It is indeed “gloriously weird”...and makes no apologies for it! I think it’s a masterpiece. It’s one of the few films for which I bought a book that explained precisely how it was made. I just had to know every facet of this beautiful, amazing film.
@@scottmoore1614 Same!
You really have to rewatch the movie to appreciate the various visuals. Coppola truly appreciated the old horror movies from the Silent Era as well as British Hammer films and it shows.
Me too the same 😊🤗
Thank you.
One excellent result, Dracula seems to have a reality distortion field.
Oldman's old man makeup was great.
HA!
Meant to be
Johnny Depp and Keanu Reeves where considered nobodys and Christian Slater was the big deal? Wow, how times have changed!
Slater's doing well these days though, it's good to see his career getting a second wind.
I think this guy doesn't know wtf is he talking about. Depp was already famous because of 21 Jump street and Edward Scissorhands
Slater was the fill in for River Phoenix after he died before filming started on Interview with the Vampire.
Johnny Depp had already been in Nightmare on Elm Street Edward Scissorhands and Cry Baby and right after this What's eating Gilber Grape. Keanu had already been in both Bill and Ted movies, point break, and My own private Idahoa. Definently not nobodies. No idea what you're talking about.
You mean YOU considered them to be that. I've never ever heard anyone else say that.
One of my favourite vampire films ever next to The Lost Boys and Interview With The Vampire.
@GOD of FUCK For sure; see if Pedowood can't fuck these up too much.... Now is the time; the stench of Twilight series no longer lingers....
@BACK2BLACK IDK... remember Queen of the Damned? I'd love to see another quality Rice project.....but.....did I mention Queen of the Damned?
Nosfaratu was creepy for the time .
@BACK2BLACK honestly, I hated the QotD movie. The Queen herself is great. Everything else is a mess imo. I still have the first 5 or so chronicles in hardcover, including a signed Interview anniversary edition. If they do make more films they need to look to Interview for direction. Neil Jordan made it so very good. That film really captures the atmosphere of the novels. Queen has some bad casting, terrible wigs and wardrobe, and just all round terrible direction. That movie made me sad. I knew after that, Rice would avoid films like the plague. I was right on that one.
@@spottheturtle9568 QOTD was the best vampire movie ever.
I'm so sad Sadie Frost didn't go on to better things. She was a stand-out for me in this movie.
She can’t act if you’re completely honest.
@@pussycats456 neither can Keanu, but he still found his niche.
I used to work in an aesthetics clinic in Primrose Hill. One day, Sadie came up to me in reception and I (not noticing her as a old woman) asked who she was and how I could help her. She glared at me and responded “Sadie, you know?”
Arsehole 😂
Creepiest bit in a film ever: the coachman’s stretching arm.
Still can’t get over Keanu’s acting and accent in this film: could have been so much better with an actor more suited for the role.
Johnny Depp would've worked
Keanu is a nice guy but not really a good actor in any movie. Like the guy above me said, Depp would of been a great choice.
Everytime I cringe at Keanu in the film, I like to think Coppola purposefully chose a bad actor to underline how lame the character is in the novel... Or maybe I try to find excuses for the movie just because it's my all times favourite film lol
@@PizzaPartify I disagree and think he comes off and naive which made him perfect for this hole. Just my opinion
@@PizzaPartify Johnny Depp is more popular now a days, then the early 90's. Too bad Dracula came before Tim Burtons Edd wood. I think that film is when Johnny became more popular.
Count Dracula dude, I must commend on your totally bodacious castle...(air guitar)
Sir Anthony: Bogus....
Bill and Ted's Transylvanian Adventure
Like...whoa Count Chocula!
😂🍿
🤘🎸
Let me get this straight: They thought Johnny Depp wasn’t talented enough for the part but Keanu was?! Now I love me some Keanu but in this movie?
It makes me sick to my ever-loving stomach to think how close we were to Depp portraying Harker...!!! He would've been utterly perfect. Instead, we get "woah" as Harker. I love Reeves in films like The Matrix and John Wick, but my goodness, he nearly ruined Bram Stoker's Dracula.
And, no: it's not "easy" to see why the studio picked him (as stated in this video). It's a prime example as to why "suits"---- corporate executives---- shouldn't be directly involved in artistic decisions. Coppola wanted Depp. He insisted. But, the greed mongers only cared about the potentiality of money...aaaaaaand it really paid off didn't it? Oh, yes: the decision has stood the test of time. Lol. It's THE single most criticized element of this entire movie.
I absolutely adore this film. But, Reeves remains a sore spot for me. From an artistic perspective; it's particularly arduous to overcome. It's difficult to justify, or make excuses for this film when Reeves was SO horrifically miscast. But, nevertheless, it seems the positives far outweigh the negatives. In light of Reeves laughable performance----this is a testament to just how extraordinary this film is.
Now, just imagine how tremendous its legacy would be if Depp we're cast...
Ontologically Stephen amen
From their viewpoint, we had Keanu coming off of Bill and Ted and you had Depp coming off of more artsey films and horror.
With pretty much only Bill & Ted to go from, you'd think Reeves had a lot more range and star power than Depp at the time. Just goes to show how wrong you can be.
Marcus Walters I don’t think that’s it. I honestly think they didn’t hire him because he was dating and then engaged to Winona at the time and I’m sure Coppola didn’t want the added stress of having this young couple and all the drama involved. If they get in a fight or worse-break up then that’s a bad and awkward experience all around. And it was a good call (not hiring Keanu over Johnny because he sucked) but Johnny and Winona DID break up and she was a mess. I just hate that he worked around Winona 🙄. He should have fired Winona, hired Depp and casted a different, better actress. Would have made a much better movie.
I was wondering why they threw over Johnny Depp for Keanu Reeves. I guess Keanu was ok but a little bit too stiff or should I say too Victorian for his attitude.
I was 11 years old when this was released and I was of course not allowed to watch it then. But I saw trailers and clips. I cannot describe how the imagery spoke to me. It awakened something in me. When I finally saw it a few years later, it blew my mind. It is still one of my alltime favourite movies.
Coppola: "Keanu, what accent is that?"
Keanu: "Yes."
Coppola: "They speak "yes" where you're from mf?!"
Keanu: "Yes"
Most
@@thestoicwhinger Great name Ted lol
I will love this movie to the end of times.
@ Unlikelysp...
YT LOVES your comment.
For this movie -
me, too!!!
I still prefer Nostferato compared to this sometimes originality is the best.
@@Thespeedrap Originality? Lol!!! Nosferatu is literally plagiarized from Stoker's "Dracula". What you call "originality" I call "copycats trying to avoid a lawsuit... and failing".
Behold originality: theclearancelab.com/nosferatudracula-film-lawsuit/
@zain mudassir I hope you're right but wrong.
@zain mudassir Jesus said the end was near 2000 years ago. It's one of the most embarrassing stories in the bible. Don't get me started on Islam.
This movie was masterpiece...
hardly....
And still is a masterpiece
This film is a masterpiece! I can't believe it was all filmed on a set! Wow!!!! One of the most beautifully shot films I've ever seen ❤
Dracula: "Come with me and we will live forever in my castle."
Mina: "That would be most good, Dracula. Most good."
I understood that reference
Her acting is just awful....can we at least get her to show her boob? Yes? Alright! Now we’ve got a movie!
Lol. Yeah, it wasn't just Keanu that was bad. Winona wasn't exactly great either. As someone from the UK, the accents were awful! Hilarious, but awful. :D
@@FunZies. I say these things all the time 😃
@@greenkoopa Haha. "Car-farx Abbeh." The poshest of posh people wouldn't even pronounce Carfax Abbey like that. XD
Christ. Depp would have smashed it as Jonathan Harker. It was the only part that was poorly cast.
Yeah he would have for sure
1,OOO times better. RDJ has a pretty good English accent, not sure how old he was at the time this was made and if he was going through his heroin addiction at the time. So glad he turned it around. Still Depp #1 and RDJ #2
Holy crap I said the same thing.
I don't really agree. I feel like Depp would have been a swing and a miss at that role.
@@Sharkman19D You do? Why's that? He was just getting started in his career and so his approach wouldn't overwhelm the production. He'd turn in a competent and solid performance.
I was 17 when this came out. Instant classic. God, the 90s were good.
I miss the 1990s alot 2020 sucks badly WTF happened.
me too...maybe 16
The 80s were even BETTER!!!
@@richardclifford003 I wasn't in the 80s only good thing is Scarface Prince and MJ
Yes they were, very good.
It does not surprise me in the least that Gary Oldman can win out over competition. He is a phenomenal talent. Some actors are merely a personality, the same character in every role they play. We don't know any more of Oldman than his name. Each of his characters is an entirely different personality and often within the same film as the character within the story. This film remains a favorite. It is gorgeous to the eyes and ears. And who would ever guess that a vampire film could have such a romantic and spiritually uplifting ending for the villain?...."I have crossed oceans of time to find you."
Dspite Ryder and Keanu 's performances, its arguably the best version of Dracula..underpinned by Oldman's performance being so utterly mesmeric. Finest screen actor of his generation by a country mile
Ryder was fine in the role
Keanu spoiled the whole film for me . And yes Oldman is one of the greatest actors of all time.
Nothing against Winona! To me she's the best Mina ever.
I was ok with Ryder. Keanu didn't really do it for me. But I agree, this movie was amazing
wrong
I’m not necessarily a Winona fan, but poor chick. God forbid a young, overworked girl gets sick and collapses. It leads to her making somewhat enemies in the industry?
Hollywood sucks.
Despite the controversy, Winona continued to get good roles through the 1990s, although she was eventually overshadowed by Angelina Jolie in Girl, Interrupted. After seemingly forgotten by Hollywood for about a decade, she returned to prominence because of Stranger Things, I’m happy to write.
I highly doubt it was due to exhaustion. I have a strong feeling a certain white powder was taking over her life and they used exhaustion as the excuse
@@austintrousdale2397 There was big scandal involving her being a massive kleptomaniac back in the late 90's, early 2000's that also hurt her career.
They really should find more actors instead of working the shit out of one.
God forbid she shoplifts also
I actually felt sorry for Dracula in this movie. It was such a sad and tragic story. Although the ending was a bit sad it was very fitting. Keanu did ok but it would have been interesting to see Dep play the part.
Oldham's version of Dracula was a masterpiece.
I love Keanu, but CHRIST...he was awful in this movie.
He was awful in many movies but you can't help but like the guy for some reason.
@@tylerdordon99 I'm with you...I love Keanu, whilst likeable and charming, he is not a good actor, although he seems to have gotten better in the last decade
@Ram Attack I think Johnny can deliver his lines better and he proved to be good in films with Gothic settings with Tim Burton. the problem with Keanu is that he struggled with delivering the dialogue.
@Ram Attack I digress. Johnny Depp will fare better than Keanu, he loves his quirky gothic movies like no other.
@Ram Attack I don't really like Johnny but he's way better than Keanu.
"It was nice of Mr. Burns to invite us to his mansion in... Pennsylvania." [dun dun dunnnn]
I loved this surrealistic version of Dracula. It proved to me just what a creative artist Francis Ford Coppola is. Not to mention his Claret is one of the best wines you can drink for under 20 bucks.
So true!
And...nice plug for the wine! 😆
Obsolete or not I'll take these practical effects every single damn day over what we have now. And why should we as audiences be encouraging productions to "make it easy on themselves?" Look at the results here. I'd rather see movies go above and beyond to create quality.
Although, now that you mention certain vampire movies that were inspired by this depiction, maybe Coppola didn't do such a wonderful thing after all...
It’s a judgment call, not a hard and fast rule. Even Nolan will do things digitally when its called for. Heck, this movie had a morph in the end.
Terry Gilliam is the master of in-camera, practical effects. Either method is great when performed by a competent artist, or awful when not. It often is determined by time and budget.
I agree, it’s why the original Star Wars films have aged so well compared to the new ones.
They were seamlessly added into the film and at times gave it a strange, dreamlike quality. I love it.
Can we talk for a second about Annie Lennox's theme song? It's brilliant. Somehow contemporary and having a 19th century feel to it. Lyrically, it could be in either era. I imagine a singer belting this out in a music hall as the crowd sings along with it.
I'd love to hear a version with all the modern instruments swapped out with 19th century ones
Truly one of the best interpretations of Dracula, and gorgeous to look at.
@UCU5wp9B7-cYnmDpCo6QarQQ It's far better than the goofy disco-haired Frank Langella version from 1979, which was the last American remake before this. That version also cut out the entire Transylvanian part of the story (which IMO is the best part of the novel and any movie adaptation better do it justice) and has that ridiculous flying death scene on the boat. Coppola's is a drastic improvement and uniquely artistic version compared to that mess.
The sets and practical effects are gorgeous. Some of the costuming choices are great, but some are so over the top they are distracting. Old Dracula's bouffant is one choice I would have urged Coppola to nix. Also give him a mustache like the younger version (and like in the novel, and like Vlad the Impaler). Not least because Harker is supposed to somehow recognize the young mustachioed Dracula as the clean-shaven old corpse with the butt-shaped hair he met in the castle. Vlad's armor should have looked closer to functional armor from the 1400s.
The love story angle kind of ruins the horror of the story, but it does give a unique center to this version. Aside from that aspect, the script follows the events and characters of the book more faithfully than any other theatrical version since the Jesus Franco adaptation (which is far worse than Coppola's in production values, acting, and overall fillmmaking competence). Some other casting choices could have been better. But I can't call this "one of the worst" when any of the 70s versions would rank lower, with far less interesting stuff to look at.
Coppola is cursed with having at least 1 bad actor in all his films.
who's bad in godfather and apocalypse now?
My exact thoughts. The only person that comes to mind is James Caan. He's alright, but he doesn't shine as bright as others around him. Apocalypse Now=Perfect
@@kevintesar6748 James Caan was the best.
@@Jutrzen I respect your opinion but I do think it's wrong. Brando, DeValue, and Pacino were the best. Caan was secondary.
@@Molimo95 Sophia Coppola in Godfather 3 lol
"I've crossed oceans of time to find you.." instant moist... lol! But I really do love that scene and this movie...
So that is the line that gets you, huh?
....ew!
This movie is a masterpiece. Whatever happened in production stayed there because the final product is outstanding.
One of the best lines in cinema was in this movie- women absolutely swoon over it. “I’ve traveled oceans of time to find you”
Gary Oldman really shines here. One of the great talents of our generation when given the chance...
Winona bouncing in blue see through down stairs is awesome
A man of culture as well, I see
This is the comment I was looking for.
It's a gorgeous feast for the eyes from the beginning to the end.......I just wish Coppola had gone just a tad more for the horror element.
More?
@@PizzaPenguin650 Way more.
No one can be indifferent to this movie. Masterpiece.
lol.
Gary Oldman also played Mason Verger in Hannibal.
Yes!!!
He was fantastic in True Romance as well...and anything else he's in🤓
@@LuluLaRue Yeti!
What was left of him at least.
@@LuluLaRue I absolutely hate the movie with him, Bruce Willis, Chris Tucker, I can't think of the name of it.
@@giraffesareselfish9563 5th Element? 🤓 his choice of accent was so weird...
Reeves almost killed this movie.
Blame the suits, not the Dude!
His casting did, yes.
It's stood the test of time and earned a place at the top tier of adaptations. Fair play
I saw this move in the theater as a 17 year old. Never felt like I needed to see it again ever. Not that it was bad but it burned it images into my soul.
One of my faves. "I LOVE YOU TOO MUCH TO COMDEMN YOU."
FWI - Winnoday Ryder cannot be blamed for the failure of Godfather 3. *if anything she was lucky to have missed out on the project. The fact that Sophia Coppola couldn't act doesn't change the fact that no actress *no matter how great they are* could have saved that role or movie. The films dialogue was badly written and the character of Michael's daughter was a poorly written character from the dialogue to the God Awful subplot involving the incense relationship.
GF3 sucked regardless!
GF3 had several problems, but Winona Ryder's skills would have made it considerably better. I don't blame her for having to drop out, though, I blame Coppola for not finding a better replacement.
That series was worn out by the time the 3rd film came out.
yeah nobody should date incense
The stabbing of the cross looked hilarious on set. The way that hand creeped in to hold the sword really cracked me up
Bram Stoker's Dracula remains one of the most beautiful films I've ever seen! I didn't like it as much as a kid when it came out because I couldn't understand all of Oldman's dialogue but when I watched it with closed captioning as an adult, the film has become one of my favorites!
Oldman should have won an Oscar
to this day, my favorite Dracula movie.
All this talent (Coppola, Oldman, Hopkins, Oscar winners all) could elevate a straightforward telling of the Stoker novel, but look what we were left with. I was barely in my 20's when I saw this film and of course I thought it was wonderful. Having since seen Max Schreck in 1922's "Nosferatu" I know what truly unsettling cinema can look like. And that damn movie was in black & white and had title cards.
And let's not forget Mary Shelley's Frankenstein 1994 also who deserve a WTF episode because it was supposed to be direct by Francis Ford Coppola but steps down from director chair and said he regretted his decision. Can you guys believe it Dracul and Frankenstein both movies by Coppola and side note, I kinda like Frankenstein, but it is obvious that miss his touch !
I'm sure Coppola's version of Frankenstein would have been a masterpiece but I didn't hate the version we got either.
Who knows he could have done his of the Wolfman, The Mummy, & The Creature From The Black Lagoon.
Nice video but it should be noted that the whole "Dracula searching his one true love" is not from the book, in which Dracula is just an evil villain, but is an addition of the movie industry. This wasn't even the first time Dracula was looking for love in movies, "Love at First Bite" did it already in 1979.
Actually, even further back, to a production with Jack Palance as Dracula.
@@DanieleMulas-up7np That's right!
thank you.
"LOOK HE"S GROWN YOUNG!" - Keanu Reeves terrible British accent
It would have been better if Keanu just spoke in his ordinary accent.
"Whooooaaa...." - Keanu's trademark catch phrase.
I've seen movies with just as lush and stylized looks, but never combined with such a soundtrack as this one.. Together, the look and soundtrack created an atmosphere like I've never experienced with any other movie. In terms of mood and atmosphere, this movie is unique. And I love it to bits.
I've had a soft spot for this film ever since I first,secretly, saw it as a child.I still vividly recall how terrifying,yet captivating,it felt to my 7yo self! Furthermore, Gary's remained both my fave actor&my celebrity crush to this day💙💜❤️😁
I had read the script the year that this came out, and I loved the teaser posters. Opening night I had a friend who was the manager of a theater showing it, so I was lucky to have seen it opening night because every other theater showing it had sold out. I cried so much while watching it, and decades later I still cry. Yeah Keanu Reeves kind of brought it down a little, the rest of the cast made up for it.
It's been 18 years.....where do you get decades?
@@alwaysopen7970 What??? 27 years. Use your calculator.
This film is still in my top 10, Despite Reeves and Ryder. It is still one of the most beautiful films I've ever seen, and the soundtrack is one of the greatest, up there with Requiem for a Dream and TGTBATU.
Requiem for a Dream is a worthless piece of shit
Why "despite Ryder"? I always adored Winona as Mina. That beauty and charisma she brings to this movie..
@@stefanie3831 She was awful in this.
@@87dramarama Requiem for a Dream is objectively not a piece of shit. It was extremely innovative, from the hip hop montages, the it's many subtle uses of cgi which most people don't even notice. Anyway, I was talking about the score by Clint Mansell, which is undeniable one o the greatest scores ever written, along with Dracula, as both have been reused countless times in other movies and trailers.
@@augustgreig9420 it's innovative only to children who don't know better
One of my all-time favorite movies!
Gary Oldman is so good in this movie his role more than makes up for his supporting cast.
Johnny Deep would be such a great fit
Any thoughts on "Mary Shelly's Frankenstein: WTF Happened to this Movie?"
That movie is very underrated
@Move_I_Got_This Loss of memory does not reflect on how good a film is smh
@Move_I_Got_This But it does go in your interest,which your comment shows it either has been awhile since you've seen it and you were obviously not interested.
Yes; it really sucked.😕
It's on Amazon Prime. I just watched it last week. Love it. DeNiro was pretty darned good in it.
This movie was gorgeous and I loved it
Copolla was totally on point with his film technique here. Knew he had to hit hard on the nostalgic and did it brilliantly. Add Oldman at his best against a polar opposite icy Winona and you have a great film. Just add the world class thesp as Van Helsing and you get a version that shits on anything else to this day. Bravo.
I went out and saw this movie when it came out during my senior year in high school.....I took a girl with me who I was friends with on a date that night. She kinda failed "the test"........When I was younger I would often take "first date" to horror movies like this. Usually sorted them out quickly. My wife of 25 years passed that test, I don't even remember what movie I took her to (I think it was Seven). A week or so before I had gone out with gal from Indiana who was in town with her college volleyball team that was playing our college......it was a fun time, and i got to be surrounded by a dozen good looking girls for the evening (perks of being a mascot) haha. I met my wife on campus a few days later by chance, she survived the dead guy popping up and came back for more....and still does, haha. This movie is one of our favorites we both have fun "date night" stories with this one......her date didn't "level up" after this one either, haha. Take notes kids.....you want to test a date to see if they can hack it.......take them to a good horror movie on the first date, haha.
Love this movie! Gary Oldman is epic in this one!!!! Love the art design and modern influence of this movie!
one of the best intros of a movie ever. i often rewatch just the intro. and then the entire movie. lol.
One of my absolute favorites! Its so over the top. People may not know this but he designed a lot of it off the Pre-Raphaelites and the most famous of those painters, Dante Gabriel Rossetti was the nephew of John Polidiri who was the doctor for Lord Byron, and on that dark and stormy night in Switzerland, he write the first vampire novel.
Gary Oldman is an amazing talent. Best Dracula movie by a mile.
I was 10 and this movie scared me so bad. I woke up my mom screaming in panic when I was walking down the dark hallway and admitted to watching it.
One of my all time favorites, will watch this weekend. Keanu did suck but was endearing, he didn't need to be good because everyone else around him was so stellar.
Hardly WTF, I think this film was well done, particularly given all the various versions that had come before.
The WTF doesn't mean that the movie was necessarily bad, just that there was something interesting or complicated about its production.
Perhaps too many versions.. all lacking important elements in the novel.. this one included..
@@Vesnicie Look at the episode of The Shining it's a good example.All things should be a WTF life is WTF for good and bad shit.
Wait, there's a 151 minute version of this?!
And I keep waiting for the original edit to surface; let's hope we see a 30th anniversary 4K release. Just to piss The Suits off, if nothing else...
@@thedys70 Ooh, yes please. Though, I love Keanu Reeves, but if the extra 20 minutes is him monologing I'll be pretty pissed off.
@@gingerg85 Seriously though, I think some of the deleted scenes appeared on the recent bluray release; which I keep missing
@@thedys70 you could be right there, I have a DVD copy from years ago, probably the 20th anniversary ed, but watched it on Netflix a little while back and was a bit jarred at the differences.
@@gingerg85 The Australian [where I live] R4 DVD release was bare-bones; no extra features, thus I never bought it. I might try the torrent sites to see what turns up there
It's still the best Dracula 🎥 ever made! And let's not forget about Interview with the Vampire!
Beautiful cinematography, costuming, film score and selection of acting talent.
I've seen Oldman in many movies, but I'm not sure I'd ever heard his ordinary accent before.
As much as I like this movie (i like it very much) and the fact that he made us see Dracula on another light, sometimes I just wanna see a monster. Christopher Lee did that. Bela Lugosi too. Nosferatu is the pinnacle of scariness. I miss that experience in today’s movies
Yep. No real intimidating presence from Oldman. Lee could just stand there and point and you felt it.
Suggestion: Ken Russell's Lair of the White Worm.
one of my treasures on Blu ray
Bram Stoker's Dracula is one of my favorite movies and I've watched it many times. I love everything about it, including the look of it, the music, etc. I've read Bram Stoker's book and this is one of the rare times, that adding things not in the book to a film actually made it even better.
I'm just now reading the book and I like it more that Mina isn't his long dead wife.
The most amazing thing is that they are all still alive.
Gary Oldman is my favorite Dracula, and this is one of my all time favorite films.
In Finland it is referred to as "Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula", to distinguish between the director and the author.
LOL! That is so ridiculous. It's like saying Stuart Gordon's H.P. Lovecraft's Reanimator. Or Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven.
I get it. Bram Stoker never intended Dracula to be a sympathetic character and the book is definitely not about some doomed eternal love story between him and Mina. In the book, Dracula's attack on Mina is sadistic and violent, akin to rape. He is focused on her only because she presents the most danger to him (perhaps aside from Van Helsing) as she's the one putting the pieces together, and turning her into a vampire would demoralize the men. So the movie is NOT Bram Stoker's Dracula, but Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula. I would just call it Coppola's Dracula.
Gary Oldman is an underrated smoke show.
I have always been a fan of practical effects over digital... I can compromise with a well done blend but only if the digital is only used to help enhance the practical effect and not BE the main effect. Something that sadly does not happen too often anymore.
I love this film and it will always be my favourite! So beautifully made and Gary Oldman was the perfect choice for me
"Vampires have now gained respect with style!"
And then the "Twilight Saga" happened...
This is one of my favorite movies.
One of my all time favourite movies
I thought the whole movie was excellent.
No dumb jokes throughout the video... Great video!
I've never understood why they called it "BRAM STOKERS DRACULA" as the main narrative has very little to do with the original book. The film is a tale of love across the centuries with a dash of reincarnation thrown in in. In the original text Dracula seeks to conquer and the two women are a means to an end. The most accurate adaptation is the BBC version from the 1990s
LOVE this movie. Always have. I watch it every October and find something new to appreciate in it every viewing.
The exclusion of Depp for Reeves goes to show movie executives don't know anything about movies, movie bussines, physical attraction, casting, etc. Great video as usual, Thanx!!!
Oh Anthony Hopkins with no problem on set. A true professional
So many years later, this is still in my top ten all time favourite films, despite Keanu's abysmal performance.
They really thought Keanu Reeves has a broader range of acting than Johnny Depp? LOL!
Wow . . .
Keep in mind, Depp started out as the guy that would drive his friends to auditions and just hang around. At this time he'd barely started coming away from that image thanks to A Nightmare on Elm Street and 21 Jump Street. Nobody could have predicted his meteoric rise thanks to his breakout roles like Edward Scissor Hands happening at roughly the same time as this film.
@@Dream0Asylum What? I love the original "A Nightmare on Elm Street." It's most certainly one of the most creative, successful and interesting independent horror films ever made & is a genuinely scary movie. Anyway, yeah, Reeves had certainly done more by then. I didn't realize how much until I looked up right now. However, it's still funny in hindsight. The "blue inferno" delivery is somewhere between "Bill & Ted's" & a really cliche interpretation of an Englishman. However, there are other bad performances in this. Winona Ryder is just as bad in some scenes.
Wow I cant believe Gary oldman got the role of Dracula over daniel day Lewis
I love how Liam Neeson was up for Dracula in The Monster Squad AND Van Helsing in this.
@@JnEricsonx wow haha
I love this film and watch it at least a couple of times a year.
It doesn’t really get much better than Gary Oldman’s performance in this.
Winona Ryder had just broken up with Johnny Depp at the time and the real reason she left the project was because she was depressed over the break-up to which she also drank her pain away and was taking sleeping pills. She almost died when she had fallen asleep with a cigarette in hand and almost burned her house down. Honestly, I don't think Ryder could had even saved Godfather III, given how small the role was and how many one liners that character was handed.
Love this film - even with Keanu ( and agree he is the weak link). But it’s Gary Oldman’s film.
Johnny Depp would've killed it. That was a missed opportunity.
It is by far one of thee most GROUNDBREAKING Dracula Films of all time ever made!!