Three decades after its initial release, how does 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' hold up for a first-time viewer?
This weekend, Bram Stoker's Dracula celebrated its 30th anniversary. Having also been born in 1992, I felt like this was a perfect time to finally watch the seminal Dracula adaptation for the very first time. I can confidently say that I was wholly unprepared for what awaited me with this film – especially since my primary knowledge of it was that this was the film in which Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves accidentally got legally married.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY I haven't read Bram Stoker's original work, so I can't speak to how faithful Coppola's interpretation is. However, because this seems to be a hybrid of the source material and Coppola's experimental vision, the film definitely becomes difficult to follow at certain points.
Coppola's highly artistic visual style combined with Eiko Ishioka's Acadamy Award-winning costume design gives the film an overwhelming sense of gothic romance. While some performances in the film venture into over-acting at times, including the central trio, Ryder, Oldman, and Reeves also give the film a very anguished, almost Shakespearean level of tragic romantic tension. In Coppola and writer James V.
Sensual, bordering on outright horny, Bram Stoker's Dracula is also drenched in queer themes and at the same time, it upholds several outdated tropes present throughout the history of horror, most of which reflect societal fears of the time. Depending on how you look at it Dracula's relationship with Jonathan Harker is particularly dualistic as it is both combative and possessive.
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