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* AnachronismStew: Dracula's Castle was supposed to have been built [[TheLateMiddleAges no late than 15th century]]. As seen in the scenes of Harker's arrival and the decapitation of the Brides, the bridge leading to it has a steel truss structure set into either stone or concrete, something invented in the early 19th century and beyond any Medieval technology.
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** Subverted with Sadie Frost, who got lost of praise for her role as Lucy, and was nearly launched onto a Hollywood career. However she instead turned down the roles she was offered in favor of the smaller British film ''Shopping'', and later cut back on acting to focus on producing.
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** Subverted with Sadie Frost, who got lost lots of praise for her role as Lucy, and was nearly launched onto into a Hollywood career. However she instead turned down the roles she was offered in favor of the smaller British film ''Shopping'', and later cut back on acting to focus on producing.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: According to designer Barry Oursler, the game was originally intended to be a licensed ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' game.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: According to designer Barry Oursler, the game was originally intended to be a licensed ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' game.game.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Early magazine ads for the Sega CD game showed a stage that took place in a corridor with a sloped stairway, as well as Harker having different sprites that looked more relaxed than the final game's own.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Early magazine ads for the Sega CD game showed a stage that took place in a corridor with a sloped stairway, as well as Harker having different sprites that looked more relaxed than the final game's own.
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** When Mina is caught drinking Dracula's blood, Coppola was shouting "slut!" and "whore!" at her off camera to make her look guilty and ashamed.
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** When Mina is caught drinking Dracula's blood, Coppola was shouting "slut!" and "whore!" at her off camera to make her look guilty and ashamed. According to Ryder, Anthony Hopkins and Keanu Reeves both refused to join in Coppola's berating despite his demanding.
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** Creator/GaryOldman and Creator/WinonaRyder didn't get along well at all during filming. The rest of the cast was shocked because the two had been friendly during rehearsals, then came back from a break in the schedule seemingly hating each other, with no indication given (then or later) as to what had happened. It turned out that they had different acting styles - she needed an acting coach to help her evince the necessary emotions, while he was an intense method actor, whose approach unnerved her. Later in one of her interviews Ryder dismissed situation simply as "teenage drama" and said that she became friends with Oldman.
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** Creator/GaryOldman and Creator/WinonaRyder didn't get along well at all during filming. The rest of the cast was shocked because the two had been friendly during rehearsals, then came back from a break in the schedule seemingly hating each other, with no indication given (then or later) as to what had happened. It turned out that they had different acting styles - she needed an acting coach to help her evince the necessary emotions, while he was an intense method actor, whose approach unnerved her. Later in one of her interviews Ryder dismissed situation simply as "teenage drama" and said that she became friends with Oldman.Oldman (who admittedly was going through a divorce and dealing with alcoholism at the time).
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** Creator/FrancisFordCoppola wanted Creator/JohnnyDepp to play Jonathan Harker, but the studio wanted someone who was more of a heartthrob. Creator/CharlieSheen auditioned for the part.
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** Creator/FrancisFordCoppola wanted Creator/JohnnyDepp to play Jonathan Harker, but the studio wanted someone who was more of a heartthrob. Creator/WilliamBaldwin and Creator/CharlieSheen auditioned for the part.
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* AdaptationalContextChange: 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". Here in the film, the attacks are far more seductive, and the scenes come across as Lucy and Mina giving into their forbidden desires.
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* WTHCastingAgency: Keanu Revees is generally considered to be miscast in that movie by movie critics and cinephiles. Both his acting and English accent are constantly placed on "Worst Miscast Roles" or "Worst Movie Accents" lists.
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* CreatorBreakdown: Gary Oldman was going through a divorce and struggling with alcoholism while making the film.
* DawsonCasting: Lucy claims to be nineteen and is played by Sadie Frost at age twenty-seven.
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* CreatorBreakdown: CreatorBreakdown:
** Gary Oldman was going through a divorce and struggling with alcoholism while making the film.
** Sadie Frost was also struggling emotionally with being a new mother while she had to film the role, and the pressures that came with being surrounded by Hollywood stars. Not to mention her agent urging her to move to Los Angeles, away from her family.
* DawsonCasting: Lucy claims to be nineteenand is played by but Sadie Frost at age twenty-seven.was twenty-four when she filmed her part. Oddly enough, in her autobiography, she says she felt the character "needed to look older" than her actual age.
** Gary Oldman was going through a divorce and struggling with alcoholism while making the film.
** Sadie Frost was also struggling emotionally with being a new mother while she had to film the role, and the pressures that came with being surrounded by Hollywood stars. Not to mention her agent urging her to move to Los Angeles, away from her family.
* DawsonCasting: Lucy claims to be nineteen
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* FunnyCharacterBoringActor: Lucy is portrayed as a bubbly and vivacious flirt. In her autobiography, Sadie Frost talked about how unconvincing she felt she was to play such a character. At the time she filmed the role, she had a newborn baby and was HappilyMarried.
--> "I couldn't shake the feeling that I'd betrayed Francis and was just shy Sadie, the most unattractive girl in the world."
--> "I couldn't shake the feeling that I'd betrayed Francis and was just shy Sadie, the most unattractive girl in the world."
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* ActingForTwo: Creator/WinonaRyder plays both Elisabeta and Mina. More subtly and symbolically, the priest who informs Vlad of Elisabeta's damnation is played by Creator/AnthonyHopkins, who turns up later as Van Helsing; he also has a ''third'' role as the voiceover narrating the log of the doomed captain of the Demeter. Creator/GaryOldman also played the coach driver who takes Jonathan to the castle. This is likely a reference to the book, where Jonathan suspects that Dracula drove the coach too.
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* ActingForTwo: Creator/WinonaRyder plays both Elisabeta and Mina. More subtly and symbolically, the priest who informs Vlad of Elisabeta's damnation is played by Creator/AnthonyHopkins, who turns up later as Van Helsing; he also has a ''third'' role as the voiceover narrating the log of the doomed captain of the Demeter. Creator/GaryOldman also played plays the coach driver who takes Jonathan to the castle. [[MythologyGag This is likely a reference to the book, book]], where Jonathan suspects that Dracula drove the coach too.
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** Creator/GaryOldman and Creator/WinonaRyder didn't get along well at all during filming. The rest of the cast was shocked because the two had been friendly during rehearsals, then came back from a break in the schedule seemingly hating each other, with no indication given (then or later) as to what had happened. It turned out that they had different acting styles - she needed an acting coach to help her evince the necessary emotions, while he was an intense method actor, whose approach unnerved her. Later in one of her interviews Winona Ryder dismissed situation simply as "teenage drama" and said that she became friends with Oldman.
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* CreatorBreakdown: Gary Oldman was going through a divorce and struggling with alcoholism while making the film.
** Winona Ryder, Gary Oldman and Sadie Frost had to spend a weekend together in Coppola's home - where they stayed in character the whole time.
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* HostilityOnTheSet: Creator/GaryOldman and Creator/WinonaRyder didn't get along well at all during filming. The rest of the cast was shocked because the two had been friendly during rehearsals, then came back from a break in the schedule seemingly hating each other, with no indication given (then or later) as to what had happened. It turned out that they had different acting styles - she needed an acting coach to help her evince the necessary emotions, while he was an intense method actor, whose approach unnerved her. Later in one of her interviews Winona Ryder dismissed situation simply as "teenage drama" and said that she became friends with Oldman.
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* HostilityOnTheSet: GodNeverSaidThat: Francis Ford Coppola had to set the record straight in a 2015 interview, saying that he didn't regret casting Keanu Reeves as Jonathan - claiming that he worked harder on the English accent than most people realise.
--> “He tried so hard. That was the problem, actually — he wanted to do it perfectly and in trying to do it perfectly it came off as stilted. I tried to get him to just relax with it and not do it so fastidiously. So maybe I wasn’t as critical of him, but that’s because I like him personally so much. To this day he’s a prince in my eyes.”
* HostilityOnTheSet:
** Creator/GaryOldman and Creator/WinonaRyder didn't get along well at all during filming. The rest of the cast was shocked because the two had been friendly during rehearsals, then came back from a break in the schedule seemingly hating each other, with no indication given (then or later) as to what had happened. It turned out that they had different acting styles - she needed an acting coach to help her evince the necessary emotions, while he was an intense method actor, whose approach unnerved her. Later in one of her interviews Winona Ryder dismissed situation simply as "teenage drama" and said that she became friends with Oldman.
--> “He tried so hard. That was the problem, actually — he wanted to do it perfectly and in trying to do it perfectly it came off as stilted. I tried to get him to just relax with it and not do it so fastidiously. So maybe I wasn’t as critical of him, but that’s because I like him personally so much. To this day he’s a prince in my eyes.”
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** Creator/GaryOldman and Creator/WinonaRyder didn't get along well at all during filming. The rest of the cast was shocked because the two had been friendly during rehearsals, then came back from a break in the schedule seemingly hating each other, with no indication given (then or later) as to what had happened. It turned out that they had different acting styles - she needed an acting coach to help her evince the necessary emotions, while he was an intense method actor, whose approach unnerved her. Later in one of her interviews Winona Ryder dismissed situation simply as "teenage drama" and said that she became friends with Oldman.
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* StarMakingRole: This brought Creator/GaryOldman to the attention of mainstream American audiences, and had the effect of typecasting him as various villains in the 90s.
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** This brought Creator/GaryOldman to the attention of mainstream American audiences, and had the effect of typecasting him as various villains in the90s.90s.
** Subverted with Sadie Frost, who got lost of praise for her role as Lucy, and was nearly launched onto a Hollywood career. However she instead turned down the roles she was offered in favor of the smaller British film ''Shopping'', and later cut back on acting to focus on producing.
** This brought Creator/GaryOldman to the attention of mainstream American audiences, and had the effect of typecasting him as various villains in the
** Subverted with Sadie Frost, who got lost of praise for her role as Lucy, and was nearly launched onto a Hollywood career. However she instead turned down the roles she was offered in favor of the smaller British film ''Shopping'', and later cut back on acting to focus on producing.
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**Gary Oldman would become the only actor, who ever played Dracula in a movie or TV adaptation, to win later acting Oscar in his career. Both Winona Ryder (Mina) and Richard E.Grant (Dr.Seward) would score Oscar nominations post-this movie.
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* TheAuteur: the main reason Creator/GaryOldman said yes to the role was an opportunity to work with Coppola, who he considered one of the great American directors.
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* TheAuteur: the main reason Creator/GaryOldman said yes to the role was an opportunity to work with Coppola, who he considered one of the great American directors.
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* WTH,CastingAgency?: Keanu Revees is generally considered to be miscast in that movie by movie critics and cinephiles. Both his acting and English accent are constantly placed on "Worst Miscast Roles" or "Worst Movie Accents" lists.
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* WTH,CastingAgency?: WTHCastingAgency: Keanu Revees is generally considered to be miscast in that movie by movie critics and cinephiles. Both his acting and English accent are constantly placed on "Worst Miscast Roles" or "Worst Movie Accents" lists.
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* ParalyzingFearOfSexuality: Creator/WinonaRyder said that what attracted her to the script was the fact that it's a very emotional love story and commented on how Mina, like many women in the late 1800s, had a lot of repressed sexuality, because everything about women in that era, the way those corsets forced them to move, was indicative of repression and that to express passion was freakish back then.
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* CastTheRunnerUp: Creator/KeanuReeves was among those considered for Dracula.
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** Coppola's original list of possible actors to play Dracula included Creator/AlecBaldwin, Creator/GabrielByrne, Creator/NicolasCage, Creator/RupertEverett, Creator/ColinFirth, Creator/AndyGarcia, Creator/HughGrant, Creator/JeremyIrons, Creator/MichaelKeaton, Creator/DanielDayLewis, Creator/RayLiotta, Creator/KyleMacLachlan, Creator/ViggoMortensen, Creator/KeanuReeves, Creator/AlanRickman, Creator/ChristianSlater and Music/{{Sting}}.
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** Coppola's original list of possible actors to play Dracula included Creator/AlecBaldwin, Creator/GabrielByrne, Creator/NicolasCage, Creator/RupertEverett, Creator/ColinFirth, Creator/AndyGarcia, Creator/HughGrant, Creator/JeremyIrons, Creator/MichaelKeaton, Creator/DanielDayLewis, Creator/RayLiotta, Creator/KyleMacLachlan, Creator/ViggoMortensen, Creator/KeanuReeves, Creator/AlanRickman, Creator/ChristianSlater and Music/{{Sting}}.
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** Coppola's original list of possible actors to play Dracula included Creator/AlecBaldwin, Creator/GabrielByrne, Creator/NicolasCage, Creator/RupertEverett, Creator/ColinFirth, Creator/HughGrant, Creator/JeremyIrons, Creator/MichaelKeaton, Creator/DanielDayLewis, Creator/RayLiotta, Creator/KyleMacLachlan, Creator/ViggoMortensen, Creator/KeanuReeves, Creator/AlanRickman, Creator/ChristianSlater and Music/{{Sting}}.
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** Coppola's original list of possible actors to play Dracula included Creator/AlecBaldwin, Creator/GabrielByrne, Creator/NicolasCage, Creator/RupertEverett, Creator/ColinFirth, Creator/AndyGarcia, Creator/HughGrant, Creator/JeremyIrons, Creator/MichaelKeaton, Creator/DanielDayLewis, Creator/RayLiotta, Creator/KyleMacLachlan, Creator/ViggoMortensen, Creator/KeanuReeves, Creator/AlanRickman, Creator/ChristianSlater and Music/{{Sting}}.
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** Creator/LauraDern was considered for Lucy Westenra.
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** Coppola's original list of possible actors to play Dracula included Creator/AlecBaldwin, Creator/GabrielByrne, Creator/NicolasCage, Creator/RupertEverett, Creator/ColinFirth, Creator/HughGrant, Creator/JeremyIrons, Creator/MichaelKeaton, Creator/DanielDayLewis, Creator/RayLiotta, Creator/KyleMacLachlan, Creator/KeanuReeves, Creator/AlanRickman, Creator/ChristianSlater and Music/{{Sting}}.
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** Coppola's original list of possible actors to play Dracula included Creator/AlecBaldwin, Creator/GabrielByrne, Creator/NicolasCage, Creator/RupertEverett, Creator/ColinFirth, Creator/HughGrant, Creator/JeremyIrons, Creator/MichaelKeaton, Creator/DanielDayLewis, Creator/RayLiotta, Creator/KyleMacLachlan, Creator/ViggoMortensen, Creator/KeanuReeves, Creator/AlanRickman, Creator/ChristianSlater and Music/{{Sting}}.
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** Coppola's original list of possible actors to play Dracula included Creator/AlecBaldwin, Creator/GabrielByrne, Creator/NicolasCage, Creator/ColinFirth, Creator/HughGrant, Creator/JeremyIrons, Creator/MichaelKeaton, Creator/DanielDayLewis, Creator/RayLiotta, Creator/KyleMacLachlan, Creator/KeanuReeves, Creator/AlanRickman, Creator/ChristianSlater and Music/{{Sting}}.
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** Coppola's original list of possible actors to play Dracula included Creator/AlecBaldwin, Creator/GabrielByrne, Creator/NicolasCage, Creator/RupertEverett, Creator/ColinFirth, Creator/HughGrant, Creator/JeremyIrons, Creator/MichaelKeaton, Creator/DanielDayLewis, Creator/RayLiotta, Creator/KyleMacLachlan, Creator/KeanuReeves, Creator/AlanRickman, Creator/ChristianSlater and Music/{{Sting}}.
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* ActingForTwo: Creator/WinonaRyder plays both Elisabeta and Mina. More subtly and symbolically, the priest who informs Vlad of Elisabeta's damnation is played by Creator/AnthonyHopkins, who turns up later as Van Helsing. Creator/GaryOldman also played the coach driver who takes Jonathan to the castle. This is likely a reference to the book, where Jonathan suspects that Dracula drove the coach too.
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* ActingForTwo: Creator/WinonaRyder plays both Elisabeta and Mina. More subtly and symbolically, the priest who informs Vlad of Elisabeta's damnation is played by Creator/AnthonyHopkins, who turns up later as Van Helsing.Helsing; he also has a ''third'' role as the voiceover narrating the log of the doomed captain of the Demeter. Creator/GaryOldman also played the coach driver who takes Jonathan to the castle. This is likely a reference to the book, where Jonathan suspects that Dracula drove the coach too.
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* HostilityOnTheSet: Creator/GaryOldman and Creator/WinonaRyder didn't get along well at all during filming. The rest of the cast was shocked because the two had been friendly during rehearsals, then came back from a break in the schedule seemingly hating each other, with no indication given (then or later) as to what had happened. Later in one of her interviews Winona Ryder dismissed situation simply as "teenage drama" and said that she became friends with Oldman.
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* HostilityOnTheSet: Creator/GaryOldman and Creator/WinonaRyder didn't get along well at all during filming. The rest of the cast was shocked because the two had been friendly during rehearsals, then came back from a break in the schedule seemingly hating each other, with no indication given (then or later) as to what had happened. It turned out that they had different acting styles - she needed an acting coach to help her evince the necessary emotions, while he was an intense method actor, whose approach unnerved her. Later in one of her interviews Winona Ryder dismissed situation simply as "teenage drama" and said that she became friends with Oldman.Oldman.
** Oldman and Coppola sometimes publicly clashed with each other on the set over creative choices, e.g. the appearance of young Dracula in the film.
** Oldman and Coppola sometimes publicly clashed with each other on the set over creative choices, e.g. the appearance of young Dracula in the film.
* RomanceOnTheSet: In August 2018, Creator/WinonaRyder expressed concern that she might be legally married to Creator/KeanuReeves. Apparently Creator/FrancisFordCoppola wasn't happy with their wedding scenes in the movie, and to achieve greater authenticity, reshot the sequence with a real priest.
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** Coppola's original list of possible actors to play Dracula included Creator/AlecBaldwin, Creator/GabrielByrne, Creator/NicolasCage, Creator/ColinFirth, Creator/HughGrant, Creator/JeremyIrons, Creator/DanielDayLewis, Creator/RayLiotta, Creator/KyleMacLachlan, Creator/KeanuReeves, Creator/AlanRickman, Creator/ChristianSlater and Music/{{Sting}}.
** Creator/DrewBarrymore was considered for Mina Harker.
** Creator/DrewBarrymore was considered for Mina Harker.
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** Coppola's original list of possible actors to play Dracula included Creator/AlecBaldwin, Creator/GabrielByrne, Creator/NicolasCage, Creator/ColinFirth, Creator/HughGrant, Creator/JeremyIrons, Creator/MichaelKeaton, Creator/DanielDayLewis, Creator/RayLiotta, Creator/KyleMacLachlan, Creator/KeanuReeves, Creator/AlanRickman, Creator/ChristianSlater and Music/{{Sting}}.
** Creator/DrewBarrymorewas and Creator/JulietteLewis were considered for Mina Harker.
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** A storyboard for a scene that was never filmed exists - where Jack and Arthur would see hallucinations of Jonathan, Mina and Van Helsing impaled in Dracula's castle.
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** A storyboard for a scene that was never filmed exists - where Jack storyboarded, but not filmed, involved Seward and Arthur would see hallucinations Holmwood coming across the dead bodies of Jonathan, Mina Harker, Morris, and Van Helsing impaled in Dracula's castle.on posts before the climactic confrontation, and then realizing that this is simply a hallucination conjured by Dracula, using his powers of psychological persuasion.
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** Coppola's original list of possible actors to play Dracula included Creator/AlecBaldwin, Creator/GabrielByrne, Creator/NicolasCage, Creator/ColinFirth, Creator/HughGrant, Creator/DanielDayLewis, Creator/RayLiotta, Creator/KyleMacLachlan, Creator/KeanuReeves, Creator/AlanRickman, Creator/ChristianSlater and Music/{{Sting}}.
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** Coppola's original list of possible actors to play Dracula included Creator/AlecBaldwin, Creator/GabrielByrne, Creator/NicolasCage, Creator/ColinFirth, Creator/HughGrant, Creator/JeremyIrons, Creator/DanielDayLewis, Creator/RayLiotta, Creator/KyleMacLachlan, Creator/KeanuReeves, Creator/AlanRickman, Creator/ChristianSlater and Music/{{Sting}}.
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** Creator/SteveBuscemi was the first choice to play Renfield but turned it down. Music/IanDury auditioned for the part.
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** Creator/SteveBuscemi was the first choice to play Renfield but turned it down. Music/IanDury [[Music/IanDuryAndTheBlockheads Ian Dury]] auditioned for the part.
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* HostilityOnTheSet: Creator/GaryOldman and Creator/WinonaRyder didn't get along well at all during filming. The rest of the cast was shocked because the two had been friendly during rehearsals, then came back from a break in the schedule seemingly hating each other, with no indication given (then or later) as to what had happened. Later in one of her interviews Winona Ryder dismissed situation simply as "teenage drama" and said that they've become she became friends with Oldman.
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* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/KeanuReeves in an English period piece. At the time he was known for his comedy in ''Franchise/BillAndTed'' and was just emerging as an action star.
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* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/KeanuReeves in an English period piece. At the time he was known for his comedy in ''Franchise/BillAndTed'' ''Film/BillAndTed'' and was just emerging as an action star.
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** Coppola's original list of possible actors to play Dracula included Creator/AlecBaldwin, Creator/HartBochner, Creator/GabrielByrne, Creator/NicolasCage, Creator/NickCassavetes, Creator/RupertEverett, Creator/NicolasCage, Creator/ColinFirth, Creator/HughGrant, Creator/DanielDayLewis, Creator/RayLiotta, Creator/KyleMacLachlan, Creator/CostasMandylor, Creator/DermotMulroney, Creator/MichaelNouri, Creator/AdrianPasdar, Creator/JasonPatric, Creator/AidanQuinn, Creator/KeanuReeves, Creator/AlanRickman, Creator/ChristianSlater and Music/{{Sting}}.Music/{{Sting}}.
** Creator/DrewBarrymore was considered for Mina Harker.
** Creator/DrewBarrymore was considered for Mina Harker.
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* HostilityOnTheSet: Creator/GaryOldman and Creator/WinonaRyder didn't get along well at all during filming. The rest of the cast was shocked because the two had been friendly during rehearsals, then came back from a break in the schedule seemingly hating each other, with no indication given (then or later) as to what had happened. Later in one of her interviews Winona Ryder dismissed situation simply as "teenage drama" and said that they've become friends with Oldman.
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** Winona Ryder wasn't giving the right reaction to Mina seeing Dracula in London for the first time. So Gary Oldman grabbed a zucchini off a nearby cart when she wasn't looking - and flashed it in front of his groin.
** In order to get emotional for some of Dracula's sadder scenes, Gary Oldman had an album full of pictures of his son and looked at it before shooting.
** In order to get emotional for some of Dracula's sadder scenes, Gary Oldman had an album full of pictures of his son and looked at it before shooting.
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* AdaptationalContextChange: Dracula's biting Lucy and Mina in the original book parallels rape. Here in the film, the attacks are far more seductive, and the scenes come across as Lucy and Mina giving into their forbidden desires.
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* AdaptationalContextChange: Dracula's biting Lucy and Mina in the original book parallels rape.rape on account of Victorian London's fears about "swarthy decadent foreigners who want to steal our women". Here in the film, the attacks are far more seductive, and the scenes come across as Lucy and Mina giving into their forbidden desires.
