rec.arts.movies.past-films

On Feb 18, 8:42=A0am, Sean O'Hara wrote:
> In the Year of the Earth Rat, the Great and Powerful Anim8rFSK declared:
>
> > In article <13rgle42f256...@>,
> > =A0"Clams Canino" wrote:
>
> >> Another adaptation that was very close to the book was Brahm Stokers Dr=
acula
> >> starring Gary Oldman. Aside from the (glaring?) fact that they wove a
> >> "reincarnation love story" into the plot, the actual events, action. an=
d
> >> even dialogue of the film *very* closely followed the written style of =
the
> >> book.
>
> > Uh . . . well, not really.
>
> > The publicity mill insisted on that, perhaps to justify the title, and
> > an enormous number of critics parroted it, but it's not really so.
>
> Still, it's the second best adaptation of the book. (The first is
> the 1930s Spanish-language production.)
>

To calibrate: have you seen the 1977 version with Louis Jourdan in the
tital role?

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I loathed the FF Coppola version.

-Moriarty