Word: victorians
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Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula, to call it by its rightful name, powerfully reimagines this Victorian myth for the age of 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...
...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 no one has really seen...
Earlier this fall, University administrators announced plans to convert the historic Victorian building into a student activity center ready for use in September, 1995. The plans include moving the first-year dining hall to Memorial Hall and transforming the Harvard Union into a center for humanity studies...
Beguiled by psychology, incapable of being shocked, you bourgeois Americans have lost the pleasure gained in contravening rules, and subtly undermining censorship. The one good thing about repression and Victorian sexual mores is that they are fun to transgress. Once they are gone, you can only thrash about in a pool of uncertainty, kept afloat by dedication to the significance of your psyche. Can anyone be truly satisfied with such frankness? Revelation and disguise can be much more entertaining than display...
...20th century began slowly, to the ticking of grandfather clocks and the stately rhythms of progress established by high Victorian seriousness. Thanks to science, industry and moral philosophy, mankind's steps had at last been guided unerringly up the right path. The century of steam was about to give way to the century of oil and electricity, new and transforming sources of power and light. Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, only 41 years old in 1900, proposed a scientific basis for the notion that progress was gradual but inevitable, ordained by natural...