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* HeroesWantRedheads: Lucy is a redhead, and ''three'' heroes want her. (Four, if you're that sympathetic to the villain.)



** Lucy Westenra, a gorgeous [[HeroesWantRedHeads redhead]] who is [[TheTease dangling three suitors at once]] and who spends her time wearing revealing dresses, getting [[{{Brainwashed}} hypnotized by Dracula]] and even indulging in a little girl-on-girl teasing with her best friend Mina.

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** Lucy Westenra, a gorgeous [[HeroesWantRedHeads redhead]] redhead who is [[TheTease dangling three suitors at once]] and who spends her time wearing revealing dresses, getting [[{{Brainwashed}} hypnotized by Dracula]] and even indulging in a little girl-on-girl teasing with her best friend Mina.
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* DemonicVampires: This version of Dracula become a vampire by renouncing God upon coming home from the Turk wars and finding that his love had taken her own life (due to the enemy sending a letter lying that they had killed him) which mean she won't get into Heaven due to her suicide. He stabs a cross, which bleeds, and drinks the blood from it, apparently as a a DealWithTheDevil, which turns him into a vampire.

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* DemonicVampires: This version of Dracula become a vampire by renouncing God upon coming home from the Turk wars and finding that his love had taken her own life (due to the enemy sending a letter lying that they had killed him) which mean she won't get into Heaven due to her suicide. He stabs a cross, which bleeds, and drinks the blood from it, apparently as a a DealWithTheDevil, which turns him into a vampire.
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** Coppola was also alluding to the fact that UsefulNotes/VictorianBritain was the era when UsefulNotes/{{Psychology}} first became a major field. Lucy Westenra's condition and illness is directed in a manner similar to cases of hysteria in the Victorian age, and Van Helsing's weird attitude to sex and vampirism, (i.e. civilization and syphilization proceeds in parallel to each other) is a parody of the patriarchal nature of conventional Freudian psychology, with women's sexuality being controlled, policed and punished by men. Renfield is imprisoned in a BedlamHouse symbolizing the more inhumane ways mentally ill people were treated in that time and place. Mina repeatedly asks Jonathan and Van Helsing if they would chop her head of like Lucy, or treat her like a beast too. Likewise, the heavy focus in the film on blood-transmitted vampirism aludes to '90s fears and anxiety about sex in the post-AIDS world.

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** Coppola was also alluding to the fact that UsefulNotes/VictorianBritain was the era when UsefulNotes/{{Psychology}} first became a major field. Lucy Westenra's condition and illness is directed in a manner similar to cases of hysteria in the Victorian age, and Van Helsing's weird attitude to sex and vampirism, (i.e. civilization and syphilization proceeds in parallel to each other) is a parody of the patriarchal nature of conventional Freudian psychology, with women's sexuality being controlled, policed and punished by men. Renfield is imprisoned in a BedlamHouse symbolizing the more inhumane ways mentally ill people were treated in that time and place. Mina repeatedly asks Jonathan and Van Helsing if they would chop off her head of like Lucy, or treat her like a beast too. Likewise, the heavy focus in the film on blood-transmitted vampirism aludes to '90s fears and anxiety about sex in the post-AIDS world.



* DemonicVampires: This version of Dracula become a vampire by renouncing God upon coming home from the Turk wars and finding that his love had taken her own life (due to the enemy sending a letter lying that they had killed him) which mean she won't get into Heaven due to her suicide. He stabs a cross which bleeds (for some reason) and drinks the blood from it, apparently as a a DealWithTheDevil, which turns him into a vampire.

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* DemonicVampires: This version of Dracula become a vampire by renouncing God upon coming home from the Turk wars and finding that his love had taken her own life (due to the enemy sending a letter lying that they had killed him) which mean she won't get into Heaven due to her suicide. He stabs a cross cross, which bleeds (for some reason) bleeds, and drinks the blood from it, apparently as a a DealWithTheDevil, which turns him into a vampire.
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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Elisabeta kills herself by jumping from a precipice high enough that she falls through clouds/mist. Considering that she probably landed on her front and face, the only sign of the resulting damage is a dainty trickle of blood from her corpse's mouth. It's also mentioned that she "flung herself into the river", so there should also be some water damage, depending on how long it took to find and fish her out, yet she's dry as a bone.

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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Elisabeta kills herself by jumping from a precipice high enough that she falls through clouds/mist. Considering that she probably landed on her front and face, the only sign of the resulting damage is a dainty trickle of blood from her corpse's mouth. It's also mentioned that she "flung herself into the river", so there should also be some water damage, depending on how long it took to find and fish her out, yet she's dry as a bone. The novelization explicitly states that her limbs are broken in several places, and her gown and hair are dripping wet (her ladies-in-waiting had been attempting to entomb her without the priest's approval when he caught them, and knowing their time was limited, hadn't bothered to try and redress her).

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* AdaptationDyeJob:
** Lucy is said to be blonde in the book, but becomes a redhead.
** The brides in the book were two brunettes and a blonde. Here, the third bride is a redhead.
* AdaptationExpansion: Dracula's BackStory as a self-cursed vampire because his wife committed suicide is entirely absent from the original novel. From this BackStory comes Mina's resemblance to his wife, Dracula's pursuit of her because of it, and Mina falling in love with him to the point of nearly sabotaging the heroes' attempts to stop him from completely turning her.
* AdaptationExplanationExtrication:
** The book explains that Dracula or vampires in general can't enter a home without being invited first, or unless they've already drunk the blood of someone inside, which is why he gets Lucy while she's outside first. The film never explains this, and Dracula just decides to hypnotise Lucy into the garden one night. Also, the book clarifies that Lucy has a habit of sleepwalking, which is only implied in the film, when Mina says "you were walking in your sleep again".
** Van Helsing only knows that Lucy has come back as a vampire in the book because there are reports in the newspapers of children being attacked by a mysterious 'Bloofer Lady' and sporting similar neck wounds. Plus, he found her dying the morning after she was attacked, where she switched from vampiric personality to DyingAsYourself, making him even more suspicious. Here, he just seems to jump to assuming she'll be back as a vampire.
* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: In the book, Lucy is protected from Dracula feeding on her when Van Helsing and Jack place garlic flowers around her room and window. She only becomes a vampire when Mrs Westenra, who isn't told what's happening to her daughter out of concern for her weak heart, removes the flowers thinking she's helping, and Dracula is able to break in. In the film, Mrs Westenra is AdaptedOut, and Arthur is watching over Lucy on the night with presumably orders from Van Helsing on what to do. Dracula is inexplicably able to break through the protection, suggesting they either removed it for no apparent reason or it never worked in the first place.
* AdaptationOriginConnection:
** In the original book, Mina Harker was a major supporting character who became a victim to Dracula before joining the mission to destroy him, but had no connection to the Count's backstory. In this version, she's reimagined as the [[ReincarnationRomance reincarnation of Dracula's former wife]] who was [[LoveMakesYouEvil the cause for his turn to darkness]].
** Van Helsing likewise had no knowledge of vampires or Dracula in the book, only learning about them as he investigated into Lucy's illness. Here, he refers to Dracula as "the foe I have pursued all my life", and is implied to also be a reincarnation of the priest who put Dracula on the path to becoming a vampire by telling him his wife's soul was condemned.
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Lucy is an Ingenue in the books. This film portrays her as flirty and promiscuous, as well as slightly ditzy. Of course, given that the novel is an epistolary, and told via multiple characters writing the events in journals, letters and so on, it's possible to interpret some of the book's portrayal of Lucy as Victorian euphemism, especially given Mina's awareness of the InterclassFriendship between her and Lucy, which would prevent people of her generation and background (i.e. upwardly mobile middle-class educated working woman) from being entirely critical of her "social betters".


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* AdaptationDyeJob:
** Lucy is said to be blonde in the book, but becomes a redhead.
** The brides in the book were two brunettes and a blonde. Here, the third bride is a redhead.
* AdaptationExpansion: Dracula's BackStory as a self-cursed vampire because his wife committed suicide is entirely absent from the original novel. From this BackStory comes Mina's resemblance to his wife, Dracula's pursuit of her because of it, and Mina falling in love with him to the point of nearly sabotaging the heroes' attempts to stop him from completely turning her.
* AdaptationExplanationExtrication:
** The book explains that Dracula or vampires in general can't enter a home without being invited first, or unless they've already drunk the blood of someone inside, which is why he gets Lucy while she's outside first. The film never explains this, and Dracula just decides to hypnotise Lucy into the garden one night. Also, the book clarifies that Lucy has a habit of sleepwalking, which is only implied in the film, when Mina says "you were walking in your sleep again".
** Van Helsing only knows that Lucy has come back as a vampire in the book because there are reports in the newspapers of children being attacked by a mysterious 'Bloofer Lady' and sporting similar neck wounds. Plus, he found her dying the morning after she was attacked, where she switched from vampiric personality to DyingAsYourself, making him even more suspicious. Here, he just seems to jump to assuming she'll be back as a vampire.
* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: In the book, Lucy is protected from Dracula feeding on her when Van Helsing and Jack place garlic flowers around her room and window. She only becomes a vampire when Mrs Westenra, who isn't told what's happening to her daughter out of concern for her weak heart, removes the flowers thinking she's helping, and Dracula is able to break in. In the film, Mrs Westenra is AdaptedOut, and Arthur is watching over Lucy on the night with presumably orders from Van Helsing on what to do. Dracula is inexplicably able to break through the protection, suggesting they either removed it for no apparent reason or it never worked in the first place.
* AdaptationOriginConnection:
** In the original book, Mina Harker was a major supporting character who became a victim to Dracula before joining the mission to destroy him, but had no connection to the Count's backstory. In this version, she's reimagined as the [[ReincarnationRomance reincarnation of Dracula's former wife]] who was [[LoveMakesYouEvil the cause for his turn to darkness]].
** Van Helsing likewise had no knowledge of vampires or Dracula in the book, only learning about them as he investigated into Lucy's illness. Here, he refers to Dracula as "the foe I have pursued all my life", and is implied to also be a reincarnation of the priest who put Dracula on the path to becoming a vampire by telling him his wife's soul was condemned.
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Lucy is an Ingenue in the books. This film portrays her as flirty and promiscuous, as well as slightly ditzy. Of course, given that the novel is an epistolary, and told via multiple characters writing the events in journals, letters and so on, it's possible to interpret some of the book's portrayal of Lucy as Victorian euphemism, especially given Mina's awareness of the InterclassFriendship between her and Lucy, which would prevent people of her generation and background (i.e. upwardly mobile middle-class educated working woman) from being entirely critical of her "social betters".
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* MeaninglessVillainVctory: By the end of the second act, Dracula has Mina panting like a dog and begging him to turn her into a vampire, but he refuses. His centuries of planning comes to nothing by his own decision.

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* MeaninglessVillainVctory: MeaninglessVillainVictory: By the end of the second act, Dracula has Mina panting like a dog and begging him to turn her into a vampire, but he refuses. His centuries of planning comes to nothing by his own decision.
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* DemonicVampires: This version of Dracula become a vampire by renouncing God upon coming home from the Turk wars and finding that his love had taken her own life (due to the enemy sending a letter lying that they had killed him) which mean she won't get into Heaven due to her suicide. He stabs a cross which bleeds (for some reason) and drinks the blood from it, apparently as a a DealWithTheDevil, which turns him into a vampire.

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* AdaptationDyeJob:
** Lucy is said to be blonde in the book, but becomes a redhead.
** The brides in the book were two brunettes and a blonde. Here, the third bride is a redhead.



* AdaptationalHeroism: Dracula gets this treatment in the film. He becomes a vampire for renouncing God after his bride kills herself (and the Priest declares that her soul would be eternally damned as a result) and then falls in love with Mina because she is her reincarnation. This backstory comes from the fact that Dracula is [[NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed patterned]] on UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler who did oppose the Turks and wage a "Holy War" on behalf of God and protected Europe from Muslim influence. So from his perspective, he was punished for doing God's work when his wife died.
* AdaptationOriginConnection: In the original book, Mina Harker was a major supporting character who became a victim to Dracula before joining the mission to destroy him, but had no connection to the Count's backstory. In this version, she's reimagined as the [[ReincarnationRomance reincarnation of Dracula's former wife]] who was [[LoveMakesYouEvil the cause for his turn to darkness]].

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* AdaptationalHeroism: AdaptationExplanationExtrication:
** The book explains that
Dracula or vampires in general can't enter a home without being invited first, or unless they've already drunk the blood of someone inside, which is why he gets this treatment Lucy while she's outside first. The film never explains this, and Dracula just decides to hypnotise Lucy into the garden one night. Also, the book clarifies that Lucy has a habit of sleepwalking, which is only implied in the film. He film, when Mina says "you were walking in your sleep again".
** Van Helsing only knows that Lucy has come back as a vampire in the book because there are reports in the newspapers of children being attacked by a mysterious 'Bloofer Lady' and sporting similar neck wounds. Plus, he found her dying the morning after she was attacked, where she switched from vampiric personality to DyingAsYourself, making him even more suspicious. Here, he just seems to jump to assuming she'll be back as a vampire.
* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: In the book, Lucy is protected from Dracula feeding on her when Van Helsing and Jack place garlic flowers around her room and window. She only
becomes a vampire when Mrs Westenra, who isn't told what's happening to her daughter out of concern for renouncing God after his bride kills herself (and her weak heart, removes the Priest declares that her soul would be eternally damned as a result) flowers thinking she's helping, and then falls in love with Mina because she is her reincarnation. This backstory comes from the fact that Dracula is [[NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed patterned]] on UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler who did oppose able to break in. In the Turks film, Mrs Westenra is AdaptedOut, and wage a "Holy War" Arthur is watching over Lucy on behalf of God and protected Europe the night with presumably orders from Muslim influence. So from his perspective, he was punished Van Helsing on what to do. Dracula is inexplicably able to break through the protection, suggesting they either removed it for doing God's work when his wife died.
no apparent reason or it never worked in the first place.
* AdaptationOriginConnection: AdaptationOriginConnection:
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In the original book, Mina Harker was a major supporting character who became a victim to Dracula before joining the mission to destroy him, but had no connection to the Count's backstory. In this version, she's reimagined as the [[ReincarnationRomance reincarnation of Dracula's former wife]] who was [[LoveMakesYouEvil the cause for his turn to darkness]].darkness]].
** Van Helsing likewise had no knowledge of vampires or Dracula in the book, only learning about them as he investigated into Lucy's illness. Here, he refers to Dracula as "the foe I have pursued all my life", and is implied to also be a reincarnation of the priest who put Dracula on the path to becoming a vampire by telling him his wife's soul was condemned.



* AdaptationalHeroism: Dracula gets this treatment in the film. He becomes a vampire for renouncing God after his bride kills herself (and the Priest declares that her soul would be eternally damned as a result) and then falls in love with Mina because she is her reincarnation. This backstory comes from the fact that Dracula is [[NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed patterned]] on UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler who did oppose the Turks and wage a "Holy War" on behalf of God and protected Europe from Muslim influence. So from his perspective, he was punished for doing God's work when his wife died.
* AdaptationalLocationChange: Lucy's sleepwalking and first bite from Dracula take place at the Westenras summer home in Whitby, Yorkshire in the book. The film has everything take place at Hillingham, and Lucy sleepwalks through her garden rather than to the coast.



* AdaptationalUgliness: When Lucy becomes a vampire in the book, she is said to be more of a FemmeFatale, and able to lure children in because they're entranced by her beauty. Here, her vampire alter ego is a hideous monster with pale white skin that vomits blood all over Van Helsing.



** Whitby itself is adapted out - as Mina is visiting Lucy at Hillingham instead.



* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Although Vlad was in Transylvania in 1462, he was in fact the Prince of Wallachia/Romania. The ruler of Transylvania at the time was Mattias Corvinus, King of Hungary, who later captured Vlad to avoid getting into a war with th Ottomans.

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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: ArtisticLicenseHistory:
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Although Vlad was in Transylvania in 1462, he was in fact the Prince of Wallachia/Romania. The ruler of Transylvania at the time was Mattias Corvinus, King of Hungary, who later captured Vlad to avoid getting into a war with th Ottomans.the Ottomans.
** Dracula says he was married "once", referring to Elisabeta. Vlad Tepes actually had a second wife after the first's suicide, Ilona Szilágyi (sometimes called Justina instead). He was also having an affair at the time of his first wife's suicide. Both trysts bore him several children.


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* NamedByTheAdaptation: Vlad the Impaler's first wife is unnamed by most historical sources, though some say it was Anastasia Holszanska, niece of the Queen of Poland. Here she is named Elisabeta.
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* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Vamp!Mina delivers one to her husband Jonathan when he attempts to stake Dracula and she asks him if he will drive a stake through her heart like he is to Dracula. He doesn't say anything back.
--> '''Vamp!Mina:''' When my time comes, won't you do the same?

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* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Vamp!Mina Vampire Mina delivers one to her husband Jonathan when he attempts to stake Dracula and she asks him if he will drive a stake through her heart like he is to Dracula. He doesn't say anything back.
--> '''Vamp!Mina:''' '''Vampire Mina:''' When my time comes, won't you do the same?



** Vampire!Lucy vomits a stream of blood from her mouth when Van Helsing pulls a crucifix on her.

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** Vampire!Lucy Vampire Lucy vomits a stream of blood from her mouth when Van Helsing pulls a crucifix on her.



* HitlerCam: The scene in Lucy's Tomb [[NightmareRetardant was not going to be very scary]] if three big and strong men, all over 6ft, brandishing rifles and handguns, are reeling back from a small delicate woman as Sadie Frost is in RealLife. So Coppola employed the camera trick by always filming vampire!Lucy from the typical lower angle. While Creator/CaryElwes, Creator/RichardEGrant and Bill Campbell [[InvertedTrope are filmed from a slightly elevated angle, a bit sideways, and their silhouettes are part shadowed]].

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* HitlerCam: The scene in Lucy's Tomb [[NightmareRetardant was not going to be very scary]] if three big and strong men, all over 6ft, brandishing rifles and handguns, are reeling back from a small delicate woman as Sadie Frost is in RealLife. So Coppola employed the camera trick by always filming vampire!Lucy vampire Lucy from the typical lower angle. While Creator/CaryElwes, Creator/RichardEGrant and Bill Campbell [[InvertedTrope are filmed from a slightly elevated angle, a bit sideways, and their silhouettes are part shadowed]].



* InCameraEffects and PracticalEffects: ''Every special effect in the movie''. There was no CGI. That shot of the train moving across the horizon over a closeup of a diary was actually done with a model train and an over-sized book. Another simple trick that pays huge dividends is film reversal, used for such scenes as Dracula forcing the brides off of Jonathan and vampire!Lucy being forced back into her coffin.

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* InCameraEffects and PracticalEffects: ''Every special effect in the movie''. There was no CGI. That shot of the train moving across the horizon over a closeup of a diary was actually done with a model train and an over-sized book. Another simple trick that pays huge dividends is film reversal, used for such scenes as Dracula forcing the brides off of Jonathan and vampire!Lucy vampire Lucy being forced back into her coffin.



** The thrusting of a crucifix into the foreground (as Van Helsing faces down vampire!Lucy) is a direct reference to Hammer Films' ''Film/HorrorOfDracula''.

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** The thrusting of a crucifix into the foreground (as Van Helsing faces down vampire!Lucy) vampire Lucy) is a direct reference to Hammer Films' ''Film/HorrorOfDracula''.



* VampiresAreSexGods: The bloodsucking is played very erotically, Dracula's brides pleasuring Jonathan like a threesome. Lucy's death ends in a parallel to TheImmodestOrgasm, and vampire!Lucy tries to seduce Arthur.

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* VampiresAreSexGods: The bloodsucking is played very erotically, Dracula's brides pleasuring Jonathan like a threesome. Lucy's death ends in a parallel to TheImmodestOrgasm, and vampire!Lucy vampire Lucy tries to seduce Arthur.
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* ChaseScene: The climatic action scene where the {{Vampire Hunter}}s on horseback pursue the coach carrying Dracula's coffin as it races towards his castle, while engaging in a shootout with Dracula's gypsy {{mooks}}.

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* ChaseScene: The climatic climactic action scene where the {{Vampire Hunter}}s on horseback pursue the coach carrying Dracula's coffin as it races towards his castle, while engaging in a shootout with Dracula's gypsy {{mooks}}.
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* GodIsGood: His blessed objects and places like sanctified ground and holy wafers effective defense against vampires. Additionally, despite the priest in the prologue stating Elisabeta was damned for taking her own life [[spoiler:the fact Mina is her modern incarnation and the ending heavily implies Elisabeta and Vlad are welcomed into Heaven shows the priest was wrong.]]

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* GodIsGood: His blessed objects and places like sanctified ground and holy wafers effective defense against vampires. Additionally, despite the priest in the prologue stating Elisabeta was damned for taking her own life [[spoiler:the fact Mina is her modern incarnation incarnation, and the ending heavily implies impling Elisabeta and Vlad are welcomed into Heaven Heaven, shows the priest was wrong.]]

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* GlamourFailure: Jonathan can still recognise Dracula even in his younger form.

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* GlamourFailure: Jonathan can still recognise recognize Dracula even in his younger form. form.
* GodIsGood: His blessed objects and places like sanctified ground and holy wafers effective defense against vampires. Additionally, despite the priest in the prologue stating Elisabeta was damned for taking her own life [[spoiler:the fact Mina is her modern incarnation and the ending heavily implies Elisabeta and Vlad are welcomed into Heaven shows the priest was wrong.]]
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* WeatherOfWar: During the climax, Mina complicates things for Jonathan and his friends by creating a snowstorm that blows him off his horse, forcing Quincy to go back to help him.

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* AdaptationExpansion: Dracula's BackStory as a self-cursed vampire because his wife committed suicide is entirely absent from the original novel. From this BackStory comes Mina's resemblance to his wife, Dracula's pursuit of her because of it, and Mina falling in love with him to the point of nearly sabotaging the heroes' attempts to stop him from completely turning her.
* AdaptationalHeroism: Dracula gets this treatment in the film. He becomes a vampire for renouncing God after his bride kills herself (and the Priest declares that her soul would be eternally damned as a result) and then falls in love with Mina because she is her reincarnation. This backstory comes from the fact that Dracula is [[NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed patterned]] on UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler who did oppose the Turks and wage a "Holy War" on behalf of God and protected Europe from Muslim influence. So from his perspective, he was punished for doing God's work when his wife died.
* AdaptationOriginConnection: In the original book, Mina Harker was a major supporting character who became a victim to Dracula before joining the mission to destroy him, but had no connection to the Count's backstory. In this version, she's reimagined as the [[ReincarnationRomance reincarnation of Dracula's former wife]] who was [[LoveMakesYouEvil the cause for his turn to darkness]].
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Lucy is an Ingenue in the books. This film portrays her as flirty and promiscuous, as well as slightly ditzy. Of course, given that the novel is an epistolary, and told via multiple characters writing the events in journals, letters and so on, it's possible to interpret some of the book's portrayal of Lucy as Victorian euphemism, especially given Mina's awareness of the InterclassFriendship between her and Lucy, which would prevent people of her generation and background (i.e. upwardly mobile middle-class educated working woman) from being entirely critical of her "social betters".



* AdaptationExpansion: Dracula's BackStory as a self-cursed vampire because his wife committed suicide is entirely absent from the original novel. From this BackStory comes Mina's resemblance to his wife, Dracula's pursuit of her because of it, and Mina falling in love with him to the point of nearly sabotaging the heroes' attempts to stop him from completely turning her.
* AdaptationalHeroism: Dracula gets this treatment in the film. He becomes a vampire for renouncing God after his bride kills herself (and the Priest declares that her soul would be eternally damned as a result) and then falls in love with Mina because she is her reincarnation. This backstory comes from the fact that Dracula is [[NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed patterned]] on UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler who did oppose the Turks and wage a "Holy War" on behalf of God and protected Europe from Muslim influence. So from his perspective, he was punished for doing God's work when his wife died.
* AdaptationOriginConnection: In the original book, Mina Harker was a major supporting character who became a victim to Dracula before joining the mission to destroy him, but had no connection to the Count's backstory. In this version, she's reimagined as the [[ReincarnationRomance reincarnation of Dracula's former wife]] who was [[LoveMakesYouEvil the cause for his turn to darkness]].
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Lucy is an Ingenue in the books. This film portrays her as flirty and promiscuous, as well as slightly ditzy. Of course, given that the novel is an epistolary, and told via multiple characters writing the events in journals, letters and so on, it's possible to interpret some of the book's portrayal of Lucy as Victorian euphemism, especially given Mina's awareness of the InterclassFriendship between her and Lucy, which would prevent people of her generation and background (i.e. upwardly mobile middle-class educated working woman) from being entirely critical of her "social betters".

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* AdaptationExpansion: Dracula's BackStory as a self-cursed vampire because his wife committed suicide is entirely absent from the original novel. From this BackStory comes Mina's resemblance to his wife, Dracula's pursuit of her because of it, and Mina falling in love with him to the point of nearly sabotaging the heroes' attempts to stop him from completely turning her.
* AdaptationalHeroism: Dracula gets this treatment in the film. He becomes a vampire for renouncing God after his bride kills herself (and the Priest declares that her soul would be eternally damned as a result) and then falls in love with Mina because she is her reincarnation. This backstory comes from the fact that Dracula is [[NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed patterned]] on UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler who did oppose the Turks and wage a "Holy War" on behalf of God and protected Europe from Muslim influence. So from his perspective, he was punished for doing God's work when his wife died.
* AdaptationOriginConnection:
AdaptationalProtagonist: In the original book, Mina Harker was a major supporting character who became a victim to Dracula before joining ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'', following the mission to destroy him, but had no connection to first act --told from Jonathan's POV-- the Count's backstory. In this version, she's reimagined novel rotates between the protagonists (as well as some minor characters), as the [[ReincarnationRomance reincarnation of story is told primarily via letters, diary entries and so forth. Despite him being the primary antagonist, we never get Dracula's former wife]] who was [[LoveMakesYouEvil personal perspective. In the cause for his turn to darkness]].
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Lucy
1992 film, Dracula is an Ingenue in positioned as the books. This film portrays her as flirty and promiscuous, as well as slightly ditzy. Of course, given that the novel is an epistolary, and told via multiple characters writing the events in journals, letters and so on, it's possible to interpret some VillainProtagonist of the book's portrayal of Lucy as Victorian euphemism, especially story, with his [[PromotedToLoveInterest relationship with Mina]] getting particular prominence. As such, Mina is also given Mina's awareness of more focus compared to the InterclassFriendship between her and Lucy, which would prevent people of her generation and background (i.e. upwardly mobile middle-class educated working woman) from being entirely critical of her "social betters".other protagonists.
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* WeddingDeathJuxtaposition: Jonathan Harker escapes from Dracula's castle and the three brides of Dracula, taking refuge in a nuns' convent in Romania. Mina Murray, his fiancée, gets a letter informing of his whereabouts and goes to marry him in an Romanian Orthodox Church. Meanwhile, back in London, Dracula decides to make Lucy Westenra one of his vampiric brethren: he invades the Westenra household and drains Lucy of her blood. Scenes of Mina's wedding are juxtaposed with Lucy's blood draining. The next scene is Lucy inside a coffin, wearing what was supposed to be her wedding gown.

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* DeathBySex: Subverted. Lucy is very flirty and likes to make risque jokes. Yet she never actually has sex with anyone before Dracula comes and turns her into vampire. Mina, on the other hand, gets married, basically commits adultery with Dracula (thus breaking Victorian conventional norms), yet survives and doesn’t become a vampire in the end.


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* SexSignalsDeath: Subverted. Lucy is very flirty and likes to make risque jokes. Yet she never actually has sex with anyone before Dracula comes and turns her into vampire. Mina, on the other hand, gets married, basically commits adultery with Dracula (thus breaking Victorian conventional norms), yet survives and doesn’t become a vampire in the end.
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** Dracula's golden robe was based on the colors and patterning in Gustav Klimt's painting "The Kiss".

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** Dracula's golden robe was based on the colors and patterning patterns in Gustav Klimt's Creator/GustavKlimt's painting "The Kiss".''Art/{{The Kiss|Klimt}}''.
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* EldritchLocation: Dracula's castle, where the Count is at his most powerful and reality itself seems to bend to his will.
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* BerserkButton: When the brides kill his and Mina's horses, Van Helsing is so outraged that the next day he coldly walks into Dracula's castle while they're asleep, kills them, and tosses their heads into the river.



* FlowerMotifs: Mina and [[spoiler:Elisabeta's]] gowns have leaf designs embroidered on them, seemingly rosemary which were symbolic of love and faithfulness as well as mourning and death.



* GroinAttack: When Jonathan is seduced by Dracula's brides, he is actually bitten ''down there. Ouch''.



* KickTheDog: Despite Dracula's more sympathetic nature, he retains these moments from the books to remind the audience that he is the movie's villain.
** Feeding a baby to his brides.
** Locking up Jonathan and abandoning him to his Brides.
** The first thing he does upon reaching England is attacking and seducing Lucy.
** After learning that Mina had married Jonathan, he pays Mina back by tearing out Lucy's throat.
** He also kills Renfield in his cell for betraying him.



* ThePowerOfHate: How Vlad became Dracula, via a RageAgainstTheHeavens.

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* ThePowerOfHate: How Vlad became Dracula, via a RageAgainstTheHeavens. When he desecrates the chapel by stabbing the cross with his sword, blood starts flowing out of it, which Vlad proceeds to drink and become forever damned.



* RageAgainstTheHeavens: This Dracula somehow became a vampire with [[ThePowerOfHate nothing but his own hatred of God.]]

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* RageAgainstTheHeavens: This Dracula somehow became a vampire with [[ThePowerOfHate nothing but his own hatred of God.]]]] After hearing his wife is doomed to Hell for committing suicide, he lashes out against the God whom he fought for in defense of his homeland.


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* ReincarnationRomance: Mina is the reincarnation of Vlad's wife Elisabeta.

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* ClassyCane: Dracula has a gorgeous one in his youthful form.



* EatsBabies: Dracula's brides and the vampirized Lucy.

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* DyingAsYourself: Dracula reverts to his young self before dying.
* EatsBabies: Dracula's brides and the vampirized Lucy. Dracula brings the brides a baby for dinner, and Lucy is leading a terrified child into her tomb when the good guys intercept her.


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* MayflyDecemberRomance: With Mina. He's 400 years her senior and a vampire.

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* BestialityIsDepraved: Dracula is into a lot of weird things, like when he takes the form of a sort of monstrous bear thing when raping Lucy in the mansion's garden.

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* BestialityIsDepraved: Dracula is into a lot of weird things, like when he takes the form of a sort of monstrous bear thing when raping Lucy in the mansion's garden. He later becomes a wolf creature with Mina.


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* TheImmodestOrgasm: When Mina is licking Dracula's blood from a wound on his chest.

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* HemoErotic: This is probably the most sexualized depiction of Dracula since the Hammer Horror period.

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* HemoErotic: This is probably the most sexualized depiction of Dracula since the Hammer Horror period. In particular, the scene where Mina drinks Dracula's blood is very reminiscent of fellatio. Mina is well north of that area, drinking from a cut on Dracula's upper chest, but the way the actors move and Dracula's orgasmic shout at the end suggests that in all other respects.



* LicensedGame: Interesting in that the available versions [[ReformulatedGame barely resemble each other]]. The NES version plays like a horror-themed [[Franchise/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... along with 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.
* LicensedPinballTable: [[Pinball/BramStokersDracula Right here.]]



* LoveRedeems: In the ending [[spoiler:Mina's love softens Dracula's heart and he asks her to end his torment. The final shot of the movie implies that Dracula and Elisabeta have been reunited in heaven. The question of how Elisabeta can be both in heaven and at the same time reincarnated in Mina is never addressed.]]

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* LoveRedeems: In the ending [[spoiler:Mina's love softens Dracula's heart and he asks her to end his torment. The final shot of the movie implies that Dracula and Elisabeta have been reunited in heaven. The question of how Elisabeta can be both in heaven and at the same time reincarnated in Mina is never addressed.]]


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* SwarmOfRats: In one scene Dracula escapes from Van Helsing and his vampire-killing posse by transforming into a man-shaped pile of rats, which collapses to the ground with the rats escaping out the window.
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** Dracula's independent shadow and his rising from the coffin are taken from ''Film/{{Nosferatu}}'', while many famous quotes are included from [[{{Film/Dracula 1931}} the Lugosi version]]. Coppola also included a lot of [[ShoutOut Shout Outs]] to his old mentor, Creator/RogerCorman, with the film's style similar to Corman's Edgar Allan Poe films.

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** Dracula's independent shadow and his rising from the coffin are taken from ''Film/{{Nosferatu}}'', while many ''Film/{{Nosferatu}}''. Many famous quotes quotes, like "the children of the night... what sweet music they make," and "[[IDoNotDrinkWine I never drink... wine]]" are included from [[{{Film/Dracula 1931}} the 1931 Bela Lugosi version]]. Coppola also included a lot of [[ShoutOut Shout Outs]] to his old mentor, Creator/RogerCorman, with the film's style similar to Corman's Edgar Allan Poe films.



** "[[IDoNotDrinkWine I never drink... wine]]" is used verbatim in a shout out to Lugosi's ''Film/{{Dracula 1931}}''.

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