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Bram Stoker's Dracula is a 1992 horror film and romance film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the novel Dracula
by Bram Stoker. It starred Gary Oldman, Keanu Reeves, Anthony Hopkins and Winona Ryder. The original musical score was composed by Wojciech Kilar.

Tagline: Love never dies.

Plot summary

Jonathan Harker (Reeves), assistant real estate agent, travels to the mountains of Transylvania to arrange a real estate deal with a Count Dracula (Oldman), who lives in a castle. When the count sees a picture of Harker's fiancee Mina Murray (Ryder), he tells Harker to write to her, saying that he will stay on for a month longer. While Harker is locked up in the castle, the count travels to London to meet Mina, who is the reincarnation of his wife, a Romanian princess who committed suicide. He then imprisons Harker in his castle, where he is nearly killed by Dracula's insatiable, bloodthirsty brides.

Dracula travels to London and gradually works his spell on Mina, coming ever closer to seducing her. However, he meets opposition from Harker, who escapes, and Dr. Abraham Van Helsing (Hopkins), who knows Dracula is a vampire and also knows how to defeat him.

It is arguably the closest film adaptation of the novel made to date, but — despite the suggestion of the title — has a number of significant differences from Stoker's version, notably including a subplot in which it is suggested that Mina Harker truly is the reincarnation of Dracula's greatest love. Of course, the involvement of the Count with Mina is totally different from the way it happened in the novel: in Stoker's novel, he only saw or met her late in the story, after he killed Lucy Westenra and Harker managed to return to England, at which point Mina joined the vampire's enemies and came in contact with him; the reincarnation aspect is utterly absent from the novel. Also, it states that Dracula is none other than the notorious Vlad the Impaler, a Romanian prince legendary for his cruelty, given everlasting life by an unholy vow to avenge his bride (in the novel, there is no mention of how the Count became a vampire, but given that all victims become such too, there's no reason to believe anything special happened beside his becoming victim to another vampire and subsequently raising from the dead). (Stoker listed Tepes as an inspiration for the character, but the novel does not even imply that they are one and the same.) Finally, because of copyrighted title for "Dracula," Coppola had to opt for the alternative title Bram Stoker's Dracula.

The film went on to win three technical Academy Awards, including Best Costume Design, Best Makeup and Best Sound Effects Editing.

The film's closing theme song Love Song for a Vampire is written and performed by Annie Lennox.

Cast

Gary Oldman
(Dracula
)
Winona Ryder
(Mina Murray/Elisabeta)
Anthony Hopkins
(Professor Abraham Van Helsing; also Cesare the priest damning Elisabeta's soul, and voiceover of the captain of the Demeter)
Keanu Reeves
(Jonathan Harker)
Richard E. Grant
(Dr. Jack Seward)
Cary Elwes
(Lord Arthur Holmwood)
Billy Campbell
(Quincey P. Morris)
Sadie Frost
(Lucy Westenra)
Tom Waits
(R.M. Renfield)
Monica Bellucci
(Dracula's Bride)

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