History Film / BramStokersDracula

It features Creator/GaryOldman playing a vampire, Creator/WinonaRyder playing a DamselInDistress, and Creator/KeanuReeves who, despite being an immortal according to the Internet, plays Jonathan Harker. Creator/AnthonyHopkins plays a [[LargeHam hammy]] Van Helsing.

** In general, Coppola's film is far more faithful to the novel than the majority of Dracula adaptations, both in tone and in structure. For example, it is the only adaptation that does not composite the characters of Lord Holmwood, Dr. Seward, and Quincy into a single man. ''Nosferatu'', Browning's ''Dracula'', and Badham's Dracula also have different character roles and relationships from the book; for example, in Badham's Dracula, Lucy is the final girl instead of Mina, and Mina is Van Helsing's daughter.
** The film version largely does follow the general plot outline and story dynamic of the novel. It's portrayal of Dracula restores most of the UnbuiltTrope from the original book, and most importantly just like the novel, it doesn't fully give Dracula a single final form, allowing him to take multiple shapes, as well as travel in sunlight without withering like paper (a motif introduced by Murnau). Of course the film does avert it in one instance. The movie removes the ship massacre sequence that was an iconic part of the novel and a SignatureScene in Murnau's film, Coppola did this out of love for the Murnau film and a desire to not repeat or compete with it.

* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In the novel, Quincy Morris was the one who fatally stabbed Dracula. In the film, Mina is the one who stabs him after Johnathan slashes his throat. Then she decaptiates him.

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* AllForNothing: Dracula's FaithHeelTurn and consequent vampirism due to his sheer despair and rage over not only losing Elisabeta (to suicide), but also being (seemingly) unable to be TogetherInDeath with her (as his religious branch unfortunately declares that SuicideIsShameful). But as the ending shows, [[spoiler:she ended up in Heaven after all (thus disproving said declaration), and he's apparently invoked enough RedemptionEqualsDeath to be allowed to rejoin her. Meaning that all of his evil actions have been completely pointless.]]

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: The downright-LawfulStupid priest who abruptly says that Dracula's suicidal wife is damned.

%%* HemoErotic

* AdaptationalWimp:
** Renfield went down fighting Dracula in the book and came close to killing him (in his mist form no less) ''[[BadassNormal with his bare hands]]''.

* WhyDontYaJustShootHim: No reason is presented as to why Dracula leaves Jonathan Harker alive and imprisoned at his castle while he goes to London. Killing Harker after the purchase of Carfax abbey would have allowed Dracula to seduce Mina without interference, especially if Mina had received word of Jonathan's death in the Transylvanian wilderness.

* {{Dracula}}: What, did you think this trope page was going to be about Freddy Krueger?

* LooksLikeOrlock: At one point [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzyeGBdQmCM Dracula himself turns into a bat monster]] that has many Orlock-like characteristics, such as huge bat-like ears, claws and fangs.

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

* HollywoodCostuming: The ladies' outfits follow the basic tenets of [[TheGayNineties late-1890's]] fashion, but some details are just a bit off, like Lucy's unusually low neckline. However, Mina's decade-out-of-style bustle dress is actually an aversion, as it was intended to show that Mina couldn't afford the latest fashions, since she is "only a schoolmistress". Also, how 'bout that awesome-looking "skinned jackal" armor that Dracula wears in the prologue?

* HollywoodCostuming: The ladies' outfits follow the basic tenets of [[TheGayNineties late-1890's]] fashion, but some details are just a bit off, like Lucy's unusually low neckline. However, Mina's decade-out-of-style bustle dress is actually an aversion, as it was intended to show that Mina couldn't afford the latest fashions, since she is "only a schoolmistress".

* KukrisAreKool: Van Helsing uses one to [[spoiler:decapitate Dracula's brides]].

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Elisabeta kills herself by jumping from a precipice high enough that she falls through clouds/mist. Considering that she should have landed on her front and face, the only sign of the resulting damage is a dainty trickle of blood from her corpse's mouth. She is said to have "flung herself into the river", so there should be some water damage depending on how long it was before she was found.

* AdaptationalConsent: 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 PromotedToLoveInterest.

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Elisabeta kills herself by jumping from a precipice high enough that she falls through clouds/mist. Considering that she should have landed on her front and face, the only sign of the resulting damage is a dainty trickle of blood from her corpse's mouth.

%%* BloodFromTheMouthb: Plenty of it!

* DemotedToExtra: Seward, one of the most important characters and principal narrators in the original novel, is relegated to being part of [[ThoseTwoGuys Those Three Guys]] with Holmwood and Morris.

%%* FaithHeelTurn: "I renounce God!"

%%* GlamourFailure

%%* GothicHorror: More than most adaptions.

%%* HauntedCastle

%%* ImpossiblyLowNeckline: [[http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgg2vvntxu1qh1urno1_500.jpg Lucy's "snake dress"]].

%%* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Good Lord, where do we start?

* TheOphelia: Elisabeta. Coppola even referred to her as such on the set.

%%* VictorianLondon

%%* WorldOfHam

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Elisabeta kills herself by jumping from a precipice high enough that she falls through clouds/mist. The only sign of the resulting damage is a trail of blood from her corpse's mouth.

Flash forward to [[VictorianLondon England, 1897]]. A clerk named Renfield (Music/TomWaits) is gibbering in his [[BedlamHouse asylum cell]] while his replacement, Jonathan Harker (Creator/KeanuReeves), 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, as she looks ''remarkably'' like a certain lost love...

%%* BloodFromTheMouth: Plenty of it!

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

The 1992 movie adaption of [[Literature/{{Dracula}} the novel]] directed by Creator/FrancisFordCoppola from James V. Hart's script. Even though it follows the book much more closely than previous ''Dracula'' movies, one of its most obvious features is the romance plot that's not in the book.

The 1992 movie adaption of [[Literature/{{Dracula}} the novel]] directed by Creator/FrancisFordCoppola from James V. Hart's script.