Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
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I've thought of a couple more points that might be of interest: Dracula mentions the order of the dragon - as a matter of history, the king of Hungary conferred the order of the dragon on Dracula's father, Vlad II, which is why he became known as Vlad Dracul, Vlad the Dragon. So naturally his son, even before coming to the throne, was known as Dracula, the little dragon or son of the dragon. As Stoker mentions in his novel, the word dracul can mean either dragon or devil; he clearly never bothered to research Dracula's actual history on this point, but simply seized on the term to connect Dracula symbolically with the devil, as he already certainly wanted to do. And Mina mentions in the movie a vision of a land beyond a great dark forest: this is a reference to the fact that "land beyond the forest" is the English translation of the name Transylvania.
Richard Zinns
2025-10-15 03:44:35 +0000 UTCTo answer some of the questions you seem to have about vampires: Folkloric belief in vampires goes back several centuries at least, but the earliest work of vampire fiction is the 1819 short story The Vampyre by John William Polidori, whose vampire villain, Lord Ruthven, is a thinly disguised portrait of Polidori's resented employer, Lord Byron, and is the origin of the literary and film tradition of the vampire nobleman. Ruthven was to the nineteenth century what Dracula became to the twentieth: there were numerous literary and stage works about him, even a ballet. When Bram Stoker wrote Dracula in 1897, he knew almost nothing about the historical Dracula whom he portrayed as returning from the grave as a vampire; no literary or film versions of the story prior to the early 1970's made any use at all of the historical facts about the man. Stoker introduced several of the now familiar tropes about vampires, such as the ability to transform into bats or wolves, but his Dracula can still walk in the sunlight, though with weakened powers, just as in this film; the idea that sunlight can destroy a vampire derives from the 1922 German silent movie Nosferatu (of which last year's Nosferatu is the second remake), and must surely be inspired by troll, rather than vampire, folklore. There is no romantic element in Stoker's novel, though by 1897 standards there is plenty of sexual suggestiveness; the first use of which I'm aware of the idea of a vampire pursuing a woman because she seems to him to be a reincarnation of a lost love is in the 1972 movie Blacula, and the same device was used one year later in a television adaptation of Dracula. Hope this helps.
Richard Zinns
2025-10-14 05:38:46 +0000 UTC1:05:25 LOL.....Asia "Does it hurt or does it feel good?" BJ then laughs!! πππ
KimM
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