Other actors in the cast include Anthony Hopkins as Van Helsing, Richard E. A clerk named Renfield ( Tom Waits) is gibbering in his asylum cell while his replacement, Jonathan Harker ( Keanu Reeves), travels to Transylvania to complete the sale of various properties around London to a certain Count Dracula who is extremely intrigued when he sees a picture of Harker's bride-to-be, Mina Murray ( Winona Ryder), as she looks remarkably like a certain lost love. Enraged, Vlad renounces God and vows to drink the blood of men.įlash forward to England, 1897. Vlad's priests declare that, as her death was a suicide, she is now damned to Hell. In her despair, she throws herself from the castle's walls to her death. Prince Vlad III Draculea ( Gary Oldman) successfully defends Christian civilization from the Eastern threat, but the Turks take revenge by sending a false message of his death to his wife, Elisabeta ( Winona Ryder), whom he loves dearly.
The film opens in Transylvania (Romania), 1462, after Constantinople was captured by the Turks in 1453.
Even though it follows the book much more closely than previous Dracula movies as well as many later ones (among other things, it's the only film adaptation to this day to actually maintain the book version of the titular count's death), one of its most obvious features is a romance plot that's not in the book. The 1992 movie adaptation of the novel directed by Francis Ford Coppola from James V.
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