Dracula (1979)

Dracula is an American horror/romantic movie from 1979, directed by John Badham. The film is based on the novel by Bram Stoker. However, the scenario is based on theDracula-play by Hamilton Deane and John l. Balderston.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == The film is set in Whitby, England, around the year 1920. Count Dracula with the ship Demeter one stormy night (Frank Langella) arrives from Transylvania. The ship runs aground off the coast of Whitby. The body of the count is on board the ship found by Mina van Helsing. Dracula praises Mina as his "Savior", and visits her and her friend Lucy that night at Lucy's House, where Lucy's father, Dr. Jack Seward has established for mental defectives. Dracula makes clear impression on Mina and Lucy with its appearance, to the displeasure of Lucy's fiancee, Jonathan Harker.
 * 2 Cast
 * Background 3
 * 3.1 Production
 * 3.2 deviations from the novel
 * 3.3 Comments
 * 4 awards and nominations
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Later that night, Dracula reveals his true nature; He is a vampire. He visits Mina and drink her blood. The next morning Lucy finds Mina awake in bed. Mina dies a short time later. Dr. Seward can not figure out the cause of death and therefore calls upon the help of Mina's father, Professor Abraham van Helsing. Van Helsing suspects that his daughter has become a victim of a vampire. They now fear the worst for Mina Van Helsing died by a vampire bite. His fear turns out to be well founded because Mina is itself a vampire. Van Helsing is forced to destroy her.

Meanwhile, Count Dracula's Lucy an invitation to visit him in his country home, Carfax Abbey. Lucy confesses to Dracula that she falls in love with him has become and offers itself voluntarily to as his bride. The two married in a surreal wedding ceremony. Dracula bites Lucy too. It is therefore also Lucy infected. Dr. Seward and Dr. Van Helsing can temporarily save Lucy with a blood transfusion, but know that they are so only postpone the inevitable.

Helped by the two doctors Jonathan make plans to destroy Dracula and thus to save Lucy. However, the trio when they wait him Dracula on come looking in Carfax Abbey.Despite that it is day, he is still too strong for the three men. Dracula escapes and takes Lucy on out of her house. He wants with her return to Transylvania.

Harker and Van Helsing succeed in just in time to climb on board the ship carrying. Below decks they find the coffin of the count. The count awakens and fight once again the two hunters. Van Helsing dies in the fight when he is impaled with the stake that was intended for Dracula. With his last forces save Van Helsing a hook, attached to a cable, in Dracula's back. Jonathan pulls the cable up and hoists the vampire as the hold out to the upper deck, where he is destroyed by the sunlight.

Lucy is now apparently showing himself and collapses in Harkers arms, but that points her love statements. Lucy looks at Dracula's cape which is still on the hook, and silently hopes that her beloved is not dead yet. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] == ==Background<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Production<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The film was shot on location in England: at Shepperton Studios and Black Park, Buckinghamshire. Cornwall served as the exterior scenes in Whitby. ===Deviations from the novel<span class="mw-editsection" len="345" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Comments<span class="mw-editsection" len="329" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">At the same time, three were released In 1979: Werner Herzog's Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht, John Badham's Dracula, and the comedy Love At First Bite. The success of this third film was due in part to mixed reviews on Badham's film.
 * The film is set in 1920.
 * The film takes place entirely in England. What has happened is not known in advance in Transylvania.
 * The characters Quincey Morris and Arthur Holmwood are absent.
 * Lucy is Dr. Meanwhile daughter and not his girlfriend.
 * Mina is Helsings's daughter.
 * Mina is a vampire instead of Lucy.
 * Dracula kills Van Helsing
 * In the book Lucy and Dracula have no relationship

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The film grossed $ 20,158,970 domestically, which was pretty good. Nevertheless, the studio was disappointed with the movie. The responses to the film were mixed. Some reviewers felt that the film contained not enough horror elements, especially compared to the series of Dracula films by Hammer Film Productions. Others, however, praised the film for the turn that the film gave to the story, the music and the scenery. ==Awards and nominations<span class="mw-editsection" len="342" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==