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- From: mgraham@nyx.cs.du.edu (Malcolm Graham)
- Subject: Re: Dracula
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.021358.1899@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 02:13:58 GMT
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- frazier@elf.etsu.edu (Jeff Frazier) writes:
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- >I also thing it was excellent. The only thing I didn't like was the
- >ending. Oldman and Hopkins were great!! They tried to make it much more
- >erotic than I expected. It does follow Stoker's book very well.
- >About the Texan, Quincy is in the book also. Also, if you watch the vers
- on
- >made by the BBC in 1977 that they show on PBS every once in awhile he is
- >in that also. The character isn't in that version or the book is the guy
- >that Lucy decided to marry. In the book she was to marry Quincy.
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- >I highly recommend this movie.
-
- >Jeff Frazier (frazier@elf.etsu.edu)
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-
- In the novel, Lucy is to marry Arthur Holmwood, not Quincey Morris or Dr.
- Seward though she has proposals from all three. Holmwood was played by
- Cary Elwes in Coppola's "Dracula." Fascinating novel, I just wrote a term
- paper on it.
-
- --Mgraham
-