Great post! I enjoyed Bram Stoker's Dracula, and most of this information I had not heard before. In particular I loved the armor design and effective use of practical effects.
Ha ha! Those jug wines were all before my time as a drinker, but I remember seeing them around back in the day. I'm glad I didn't get into wine until I was living in big coastal cities and had better stuff available to me.
I wasn't a fan of the movie at all back in the 90's, but I've since come around to it. This was Anne Rice / David Bowie's THE HUNGER era. Vampires were pure sex by the 90's, and there was no going back!
Love the movie, and was unaware of much of this backstory! I think both Reeves and Ryder were weak links here (despite liking them otherwise). Just simple miscasting. But not devastating enough to ruin the movie at all, somehow.
Yeah, I actually like Winona's performance for the most part, but Keanu struggled. Coppola tried to convince him not to do the accent, or just relax and not try so hard with it, and apparently Keanu was so hardcore about nailing the accent it just came across and horribly stiff and weird. It also didn't help that the character of Jonathan Harker IS kind of a non-entity bore.
Great post! I enjoyed Bram Stoker's Dracula, and most of this information I had not heard before. In particular I loved the armor design and effective use of practical effects.
That jug of French Colombard was the jump scare I didn't know I needed. Loved getting behind the scenes of Coppola's film (and wine) legacy!
Ha ha! Those jug wines were all before my time as a drinker, but I remember seeing them around back in the day. I'm glad I didn't get into wine until I was living in big coastal cities and had better stuff available to me.
Great film (though not the biggest fan of the Mina/Dracula romance)
I wasn't a fan of the movie at all back in the 90's, but I've since come around to it. This was Anne Rice / David Bowie's THE HUNGER era. Vampires were pure sex by the 90's, and there was no going back!
Love the movie, and was unaware of much of this backstory! I think both Reeves and Ryder were weak links here (despite liking them otherwise). Just simple miscasting. But not devastating enough to ruin the movie at all, somehow.
Yeah, I actually like Winona's performance for the most part, but Keanu struggled. Coppola tried to convince him not to do the accent, or just relax and not try so hard with it, and apparently Keanu was so hardcore about nailing the accent it just came across and horribly stiff and weird. It also didn't help that the character of Jonathan Harker IS kind of a non-entity bore.