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...Bram Stoker's Dracula"? Though the screenplay is more faithful than most vampire movies to the book's plot, its Dracula is light-years from Stoker's. The novel's count was no demon lover; he was a pestilence, the lord of bats and rats, and his touch was not romantic but rabid. He represented unseductive evil. Bram Stoker's Dracula proposed that English innocence could be sucked dry by European decadence, until English common sense drove a stake through its lurid heart...
...AIDS. Dracula (Gary Oldman) is a warrior-wooer impaled on the cross of his love; he must track his obsession until he is released from it. His misery gives him mesmeric mastery. The wretched Renfield (Tom Waits -- terrific) bays to do Dracula's bidding. Flowers wilt at the count's passage, and maidens burn at his touch. A young woman's tears turn to pearls in his hand...
Date rape statistics reveal the vulnerability of otherwise self-sufficient women. Whether they consider themselves students of Harvard or of Radcliffe, Democrats or Republicans, pre-meds or pre-laws, each of them faces the reality that one day her intelligence, strength, independence and self-assurance may count for nothing. And that her trust in another student may be brutally violated. If it doesn't happen to her, it will happen to one of her closest friends...
...have to major in [drama] to get [extensively] involved in it and to be dedicated to it. There are people I know who put in as much time into [drama] as any concentrator would. It would be nice, though, if courses like the dramatic arts courses counted for more. It is very hard to get them to count for concentration credit even if you're an English major," she says...
Dracula. The name conjures a multitude of disparate images. Bela Lugosi. John Carradine. Count Chocula. Innumerable ghouls of the silver screen, and a muppet. Ever since F. W. Murnau's great 1921 silent film, "Nosferatu," Dracula and cinema have evolved together...