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TITLE: BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA...
...centuries for an incarnation of the woman he loved. He is Death, transmitting a venereal plague in his blood, in his kiss. He is even Jesus, speaking Jesus' last words as he dies, a martyr whose mission is to redeem womankind. Husband, seducer, widower, murderer, Christ and Antichrist, Dracula contains multitudes. He is every mortal man and every mortality with which man threatens women...
Likewise, the film itself comments on the very process of filmmaking. The aesthetic of Coppola's Dracula reaches into the past for vintage camera tricks like motion reversal and in-camera multiple exposures, smoke and mirrors from a bygone era of cinema. Roman Coppola, cinema scion and visual effects director, explained, "There were a lot of Victorian parlor amusements that were optical tricks that developed into film. A lot of stage magicians were the first to buy projectors and cameras. Our inspiration was the fact that it would be unique to use techniques that are inexpensive and fresh and that...
...enough egghead commentary. There's also lots of blood and guts and campy overdone sex scenes in the film, most of which involve poor Lucy (Sadie Frost), the character who is ravished by Dracula in some of his less appealing forms. Meanwhile, back at the castle, a bevy of vampire harem girls keep Keanu Reeves, er, too weak to escape. Like Anne Rice's Interview With a Vampire, "Dracula" gives vampirism an allegorical overtone of sexuality out of control. Periodic shots of blood cells under a microscope underscore the linkage of vampirism, sex, corruption, death, and, you guessed it, AIDS...
...verdict on "Dracula?" It's a worthy addition to the vampire genre. With exemplary casting and nifty vintage special effects, you don't vant to miss...