Dracula Of Bram Stoker

I am looking forward to seeing this film again tonight, for the 3rd time. Not that I am normally a fan of horror films. My addiction is more for classic and serious dramas, where the story and the way it's presented is artistic and dramatic, with impeccable direction and acting. This one though is not just a horror movie like most others of the same theme.

It's directed by Francis Ford Coppola, no less. Featured in the leading rolls are Gary OLdman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, and Keanue Reeves, all Ace actors. It's one of the most brilliant adaptations other movie makers have done, before or since, of this immortal literary classic of terror, of the highest esthetic category of Nosferatu de Murnau, or Dracula of Fisher, voluntarily faithful to the letter and with absolutely dazzling visual art.

It was filmed entirely in the studio, Coppola succeeded in a spectacle both fascinating and mesmerizing, in the atmospheric setting, the most beautiful costumes and the combinations of the most eye catching red and black colour theme, with the right dose of gothic undertone and charm throughout.

Gary Oldman's Dracula is enthrallingly romantic, hypnotic, his presence in the incipient scene is one the most beautiful and memorable of the film, so very beautiful as that captivating ethereal scene of the tail of the peacock, extending and spreading the chains of dreamy colours. All that irrigated with the majestic music arrangements of W. Kilar.

Coppola orchestrated a miracle. His film seduced us to a story we all know so well by heart, yet to be enticed by it all over again as if seeing it for the first time

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