History Film / BramStokersDracula

* RecursiveAdaptation: The film was adapted into a novelization by FredSaberhagen.

* AdaptationalHeroism: Dracula gets this treatment in the film. He becomes a vampire for renouncing God after his bride kills herself and then falls in love with Mina because she is her reincarnation. Yeah, it didn't make much sense.

* InNameOnly: One reviewer quipped that it should have been called ''Bram Stoker's Dracula, If Francis Ford Coppola Had Been Standing Over His Shoulder Telling Him How It Should Be Written''. Whilst it certainly takes inspiration from the book, it is clearly Coppola's take on the Dracula mythos.
* ImpossiblyLowNeckline: [[http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgg2vvntxu1qh1urno1_500.jpg Lucy's "snake dress"]].

Despite the title, the film strays from the original novel considerably at times, with the most significant alterations made to the nature of the relationship between Dracula and Mina.

** One reviewer quipped that it should have been called ''Bram Stoker's Dracula, If Francis Ford Coppola Had Been Standing Over His Shoulder Telling Him How It Should Be Written''.

* HollywoodCostuming: The ladies' outfits follow the basic tenets of late-1890's fashion, but details are just a bit off, like Lucy's unusually low neckline or Mina's decade-out-of-style bustle dress.
** This was done to show that Mina couldn't afford the latest fashions, since she is "only a schoolmistress".

* {{Deconstruction}}: The film uses many of the book's ideas about vampires, including the fact that the original book stated ''vampires are not killed by sunlight''. (Rather, they are depowered.)

* LicensedGame: Interesting in that the available versions barely resemble each other. The NES version plays like a horror-themed [[SuperMarioBros Mario]] (complete with ? blocks!), the SNES/Genesis version is a more generic action platformer, and the Sega CD version injects the previous with at-the-time high tech 3D rendered backdrops... [[WhatWereYouThinking and injects context-less clips from the film that suffer from house-sized artifacts.]] There is also a PC game played from the first person perspective as well as an Amiga version that fell somewhere between the Megadrive/Genesis, SNES and Sega CD versions gameplay-wise.

* ReligeousHorror: Vlad's FaithHeelTurn.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Somewhat. The undead here are portrayed as much more monstrous and making growling and otherwise inhuman sounds. Dracula also never fully changes into animals when he shapeshifts, keeping a humanoid form when he goes wolf or bat. These vampires also have more supernatual powers -- they can send people flying with an invisible force and, if powerful enough, burn or melt crosses. Lastly, while it's stated that vampires are weaker during the daytime (but can go out in it if they choose), Dracula hypnotizes and nearly bites Mina during their first day together -- though it's late in the day when they headed to the cinematograph, so it may already be after dark when he tries to turn her.

* LicensedGame: Interesting in that the available versions barely resemble each other. The NES version plays like a horror-themed [[SuperMarioBros Mario]] (complete with ? blocks!), the SNES/Genesis version is a more generic action platformer, and the Sega CD version injects the previous with at-the-time high tech 3D rendered backdrops... [[WhatWereYouThinking and injects context-less clips from the film that suffer from house-sized artifacts.]] There is also a PC game played from the first person perspective and an Amiga version that fell somewhere between the Megadrive/Genesis, SSNS and Sega CD versions gameplay-wise.

* LicensedGame: Interesting in that the available versions barely resemble each other. The NES version plays like a horror-themed [[SuperMarioBros Mario]] (complete with ? blocks!), the SNES/Genesis version is a more generic action platformer, and the Sega CD version injects the previous with at-the-time high tech 3D rendered backdrops... [[WhatWereYouThinking and injects context-less clips from the film that suffer from house-sized artifacts.]] There is also a PC game played from the first person perspective.

* BlatantLies: It was promoted as ''[[BlatantLies 'The Most Accurate Retelling of the original Dracula ever done']]''...but departed so drastically from the original novel that it needed its ''own'' {{Novelization}}! (That said, apart from the 1977 TV adaptation and the 1922 CaptainErsatz classic {{Film/Nosferatu}}, it ''is'' more faithful to the original novel than many prior adaptations, most of which were [[LostInImitation closer to the Lugosi movie and the play that it was based on]].)

* BlatantLies: It was promoted as ''[[BlatantLies 'The Most Accurate Retelling of the original Dracula ever done']]''...but departed so drastically from the original novel that it needed its ''own'' {{Novelization}}! (That said, apart from the 1977 TV adaptation and the 1922 CaptainErsatz classic Film/Nosferatu, it ''is'' more faithful to the original novel than many prior adaptations, most of which were [[LostInImitation closer to the Lugosi movie and the play that it was based on]].)

* BlatantLies: It was promoted as ''[[BlatantLies 'The Most Accurate Retelling of the original Dracula ever done']]''...but departed so drastically from the original novel that it needed its ''own'' {{Novelization}}! (That said, apart from the 1977 TV adaptation, it ''is'' more faithful to the original novel than many prior adaptations, most of which were [[LostInImitation closer to the Lugosi movie and the play that it was based on]].)

--->'''Dracula:''' You think you can destroy me with your idols? I who served the cross!?

** Dracula's brides, all of whom are gorgeous and topless, and one of whom is played by a young MonicaBellucci.

The 1992 movie directed by Creator/FrancisFordCoppola from James V. Hart's script.

It features GaryOldman playing a vampire, and WinonaRyder playing a DamselInDistress. AnthonyHopkins plays a [[LargeHam hammy]] Van Helsing.

Flash forward to [[VictorianLondon England, 1897]]. [[TomWaits A clerk named Renfield]] is gibbering in his [[BedlamHouse cell]] while his replacement, [[KeanuReeves Jonathan Harker]], travels to Transylvania to complete a sale to a certain Count Dracula...who is ''extremely'' intrigued when he sees a picture of Harker's bride-to-be, Mina Murray, as she looks ''remarkably'' like a certain lost love...

* FakeNationality: Over half of the main cast, with the exceptions of Dr. Seward, Lucy, Arthur and Quincy. (Since Dr. Seward's presumably not [[RichardEGrant Swazi/British colonial]] in this adaptation, he sort of qualifies as well.)

*** Gary Oldman, who is British in real life, plays Dracula, who is Transylvanian.

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* BlatantLies: It was promoted as ''[[BlatantLies 'The Most Accurate Retelling of the original Dracula ever done']]''...but departed so drastically from the original novel that it needed its ''own'' {{Novelization}}! (That said, apart from the 1977 TV adaptation, it ''is'' more faithful to the original novel than many prior adaptations, most of which were [[LostInImitation closer to the Lugosi movie and the play that ''it'' was based on]].)

* BlatantLies: Advertising for the film implied it was faithfully adapted from the book. Which it was...[[{{NOT}} except for all the other stuff they put in]].
** Made worse by the fact that is was promoted as ''[[BlatantLies 'The Most Accurate Retelling of the original Dracula ever done']]''...but departed so drastically from the original novel that it needed its ''own'' {{Novelization}}!
** Not entirely untrue. Apart from the 1977 TV adaptation, it is actually more faithful to the original novel then the movies preceding it, as most of them was [[LostInImitation closer to the Lugosi movie and the play that it was based on]] than to the novel.