Adaptation Expansion: Dracula's Back Story as a self-cursed vampire because his wife committed suicide is entirely absent from the original novel.In this film, it occurs during the scene where Van Helsing wards off the Brides in the snow, with the wafer burning Mina and snapping her out of her frenzy.
Mina's forehead holy-wafer burn in the book was a shocking moment that revealed she was further gone in her transformation than anyone believed and occurred in London. Here in the film, the attacks are far more seductive, and the scenes come across as Lucy and Mina giving into their forbidden desires. Dracula's biting Lucy and Mina in the original book parallels rape on account of Victorian London's fears about "swarthy decadent foreigners who want to steal our women". Adaptational Consent: In the original book, vampire attacks seemed to be metaphors for rape, so while this trope is averted with Lucy it is played straight with Mina as she is Promoted to Love Interest. Though this may be attributed to the fact that he manages to get out of his coffin before they reach him. Adaptational Badass: Dracula is still alive when Jonathan slashes his throat and Quincey stabs him, even throwing both of them across the courtyard. That trio of films may have also indirectly led to Universal Pictures choosing to revive their Mummy franchise in 1999-although the critical and commercial failure of Mary Reilly may have influenced their decision to take it in a Lighter and Softer direction, framing it as an action-packed pulp throwback rather than a "serious" period drama. The film's similarly-titled Spiritual Successor Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (which Francis Ford Coppola produced, but didn't direct) was the first of them, soon followed by Tristar Pictures' 1996 Jekyll and Hyde adaptation Mary Reilly. Grant as Seward, Cary Elwes as Arthur, Billy Campbell as Quincey Morris and Monica Bellucci as one of Dracula's brides.Īmong fans of the horror genre, the film is considered rather notable for helping to spark a brief wave of adult-targeted classic horror revivals in the 1990s, many of which tried to replicate its relative faithfulness to the source material and period drama aesthetics. Other actors in the cast include Anthony Hopkins as Van Helsing, Richard E. A clerk named Renfield ( Tom Waits) is gibbering in his asylum cell while his replacement, Jonathan Harker ( Keanu Reeves), travels to Transylvania to complete the sale of various properties around London to a certain Count Dracula who is extremely intrigued when he sees a picture of Harker's bride-to-be, Mina Murray ( Winona Ryder), as she looks remarkably like a certain lost love. Sadly, this minor moment of rebellion is undercut by an ending that seems to hand too much credit back to Percy, essentially letting him off the hook for all his mistreatment of his wife/wives.Flash forward to England, 1897. And only for a brief, glimmering moment, Al-Mansour seems to understand that Mary had some real blood pumping through her veins, and Elle Fanning is allowed to really tear into the role in ways she was previously unable to. Only then does she confront publishers about prejudice. Only then does she confront Percy for all his lazy, obnoxious behavior. It's only when Mary finally completes Frankenstein – an event the audience has been patiently waiting to see – that Mary is finally allowed to express something akin to actual human passion. The filmmakers wanted to tell a story of a life of art and hedonism, but were too shy to depict the lusty savor and poetic confrontation that the life implies. And while there are several scenes in Mary Shelley of Mary and Percy (the obnoxiously handsome Douglas Booth) canoodling in public, stealing wine from churches, and touting the benefits of atheism, none of it feels particularly daring or even all that interesting. Coppola wine frankenstein free#
Mary, raised on the ideas of her philosopher father and feminist mother (A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is a must-read) sought to live the way she always wanted, free from the strangling social norms of the time and brazenly defiant of the old-fashioned religious strictures that would force her into a loveless marriage.
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