When I was growing up my parents had this on VHS and it was totally off-limits for me and my siblings to watch. Sometimes we would watch it in total secrecy just in complete awe. I was obsessed. I couldn’t get enough of it even as a youngster who was otherwise watching Disney tapes. I didn’t realize I was being so spoiled. There’s never been another movie that completely captivated me the way this one did. Its everything. Horrifying, historical, epic, romantic, adventure, mystery. It’s truly a once in a century type of motion picture that is not only ageless as a piece of cinematic art, but it also covers all bases in outside forms of media from its music, to many video games, books, toys, memorabilia. There’s nothing like it. A unique pop cultural entity impossible to recreate. To me, the greatest movie ever. People thought it was The Godfather but I truly think Dracula will be Coppola’s legacy.
Вы абсолютно правы! Я испытывал точно такие же чувства, когда ходил в кино несколько раз, мне было 7 или 8 лет. Я выходил на улицу и не мог понять, где я нахожусь. Казалось, снег из финальной сцены продолжает падать с вечернего неба на улицы моего города. Сейчас мне 37 лет, и я по-прежнему во власти этого волшебного фильма.
One of my favorite lines of the movie, but still, the best one is "I've crossed oceans of time to find you..." God forgive me, i would go to Dracula! Well, at least this version, of Gary Oldman's 😅😍
it's more than music...it's something else..that can never be expressed..slippery like mercury...as if a wall of emotions..if you want to come out, you reach out your hand but you know you can never come out..a suffocating corridor like a whirlpool..a pair of green glowing in the dark eye-catching….
My wife and I used this in our candle lighting ceremony at our wedding, both of our parents had to light a candle to signify our union. Twas a secular wedding, so we could do whatever we wanted and THIS was one of the highlights. It was in an old scottish inn in upstate NY, dim lighting, flickering candles and this hypnotic piece - PERFECT.
Gorgeous magical music. Instantly takes me back to watching the film during the 90s during Halloween and the colder months and I lived near the ocean then. I Would go all throughout the year like the winter, to walk and there was no one around...just the sound of the ocean and darkness and stars. Something comforting and eery about the darkness and the immense ocean and nothing else around. Listening to this while going to the market and being in a different world. Never know what everyone is listening to. A way to escape to another place and time and life.
I remember Winona saying something like this felt so much like an opera to her. Really, I have to agree. The depth and scope of it is nothing short of breath taking. His devotion to even the mere memory of his beloved wife is really the reason we all love a good love story so much. Devotion. Often we experience love in some form or another and it may even be a deep and abiding one. But rarely is love paired so closely in such a measure of devotion as to inspire a need for its telling and remembrance of.
Superb in the Cinema, 1993 release of Bram Stoker's Mythical tale of Love between count Dracula, and the young, beautiful Wilhemena, a Desire of Forbidden Affection, still drives them together, despite a forth right Search to eliminate the Wicked count forever......
“One day, whether you are 14, 28 or 65, you will stumble upon someone who will start a fire in you that cannot die. However, the saddest, most awful truth you will ever come to find-- is they are not always with whom we spend our lives” ― Beau Taplin, Hunting Season
C ‘est un instrument dans les mains d’un artiste exceptionnel c un instant qui bénît une lumière qui passe à travers les nuages… thank’s god if I CAN ??
C’est un message du temp c’est une expression existentielle, mais gentil seigneur sommes nous point le fruit de ton imagination pour ce faire avec une harmonie qui peut percevoir sans éteindre le regard des autres… et puis si le pardon existe c’est qu’il doit avoir une place…
For me, Dracula is a retelling of the struggle between Good and evil, the Sacred and the profane. The Count turned to evil when his love yielded to despair and was condemned by those who represented the Holy but who showed no mercy. I could not sympathize with the monster that he became, nor could l understand how Mina could love such a thing that brought suffering, terror, and death to so many innocent people. There was nothing romantic or erotic in this story for me except where Mina kills Dracula, it seems, to end his nightmare existence and free him from the horror that he had become. To me, she did this from love, and not from hatred or fear. To recap, this is a story which reveals how important is love and mercy. It reveals how evil must hide its true face and live a lie so that it can continue to hurt others and push them to despair. It also tell us that evil can not bear the sight of the Sacred, from which it recoils in fear and repulsion. It's quite a story and this movie is one of my favorites. Thank you.
Dracula's feeling for Mina were true though, and despite how vile, cruel, insensitive, hateful he had become, his soul, the soul of a great, powerful and deeply loving man, emerged from the darkness, and this moment of light towards the end when they kiss and she wants to join him and he's trying so hard to not let his demons win, he's trying so hard to preserve her, this moment to me is purely romantic
Mina and Dracula's romance was my favorite thing from the movie, specially when she licks his bloody chest, it's so sexy and lovable! Their erotism is romantic, unlike Lucy's and the Brides' creepy one. And yeah, i know they don't like each other in the novel and the "vampire curse" was an evil force controlling Dracula's mind and body (making him much more evil), but still, i prefer Francis Coppola's vision about the vampyr curse.
Hart’s screenplay is both enervatingly and emboldeningly romantic, a throwback to a myth of love a few still hold. I’m often a purist regarding such things but Hart’s romantic additions lift the story to indulgently satisfying heights, and I’m hardly ashamed to admit it’s one of my favorite and most personally affecting love stories of all time. You, Esmeralda, have articulated such far better than I. To know there are others who appreciate such things is eminently satisfying as well.
@@lubomireire Hi Judith. Thank you kindly for taking the time to reply to me. I have very much enjoyed your recommendations, especially Letters. I have one myself: Olafur Arnalds - Tree. I hope you enjoy it.
@matthew morely thanks for the recommendation, never heard him before really beautiful. More recommendations are there she is by Kevin smuts, my dream of you by solas, skyworld by two steps from hell, my wife with champagne shoulders by Mark Isham 😊
*Firelight* soundtrack by Christopher Gunning - particularly 'Loving by Firelight'. The whole score is beautiful and can be enjoyed even without having seen the film. Let me know if you can't find it, I might upload to share it:)
What do you guys think? Is the title an allusion to shakespeare's Sonnet 29 - verse 13? Or is it just coincidence that the title is like the words were framed in the poem?
I like this rendition but not the love story paper it's unnecessary dracula was pure evil maybe even homesexual look back at the part when Jonathan gets confronted by the three vampire women in the book
Dracula wasn't pure evil in the novel. He became a vampire because his family had deals with the devil, but as a human, he was a noble, intelligent and great warrior. Unlike the movie, where people's personality DON'T change when they become vampyr, the novel let it clear that every vampire is a slave and can't control its own actions/nature. Dracula is included. Of course, there is no Elisabeta and Mina doesn't have a romance with Dracula, but still, his human side exists. When Jonathan kills Dracula, everyone (himself, Jack, Quincey, Van Helsing and Mina) see that his dead face had a peaceful expression, his soul was free of the curse. The same way Dracula dies with an arc of redemption in the movie (but killed by Mina). Everytime they killed a vampire in the novel, their souls were free, because they were poor victims slaved by dark forces, and not evil humans. In the movie, Dracula didn't change his personality, neither Lucy or the Brides, the difference is that he is more redeeming and sympathetic (and loves Mina). As much as i LOVE the novel, i think i prefer this version of Dracula - a broken man who wanted his love back, and when he's ready to die, his lover is the one who ends the curse and God himself forgives and saves him (his soul WAS saved in the novel, though). And also, what do you mean homossexual? What the Brides scene has to do with homossexuality? In the novel, the scene is the same, and there is nothing to do with Dracula being homossexual. And again, it's ok if you dislike the romance/humanization of Dracula Francis Coppola added in the story, but the original Bram Stoker's Dracula wasn't unredeeming.
@@ThaSupaHeroReD in the novel, his backstory is quite different. The human Dracula (good) and the vampyr Dracula (evil) aren't the same. His soul was freed in the ending, though. But yes, i love this movie as a whole, Dracula is more redeeming (unlike the novel, his personality isn't controled by evil forces, although he's broken and mad) and the love story was so cute and erotic to me. Besides that i LOVED the whole Elisabeta's rebirth story.
