{"id":14445,"date":"2021-09-06T22:00:16","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T02:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14445"},"modified":"2021-08-30T23:14:20","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T03:14:20","slug":"dracula-1992-francis-ford-coppola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14445","title":{"rendered":"Dracula (1992, Francis Ford Coppola)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Been a long time since we rocked with this movie, and I can&#8217;t trust my teenaged thoughts so I had no idea if it&#8217;d be good.  It&#8217;s very good, Coppola inspired by the birth of cinema in his 1897-set story, drenching his delirious movie in dramatic shadowplay and stylish crossfades.  Gary Oldman wins the day, appearing in six or eight different forms, and as in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14444\">The Book of Eli<\/a><\/em>, evil Oldman&#8217;s henchman is played by Tom Waits.  But Tom&#8217;s Renfield seems less pivotal here than I&#8217;d hoped &#8211; he&#8217;s in a few scenes but doesn&#8217;t even leave his asylum cell.  At least after playing calmly menacing in one movie and a cool gearhead in another, I get to witness him screaming mad in this one.<\/p>\n<p><em>Waits #1:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/coppodrac3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Reeves vs. Oldman vs. Oldman&#8217;s shadow:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/coppodrac1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The other actors are hit or miss.  You can plunk Winona Ryder into any costume and time period and she&#8217;ll thrive, but who had the idea to have Keanu Reeves play a Brit and Anthony Hopkins play a German?  Ryder gets a little fan club of diehard dudes in the second half: Richard E. Grant, Cary Elwes and cowboy Billy Campbell (The Rocketeer himself, a year prior), which leads to some good chase and adventure at the end.  Monica Bellucci was a nobody back then, playing one of D&#8217;s nameless hissing vampire brides.<\/p>\n<p><em>Waits #2 with Richard E. Grant:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/coppodrac2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Train #1:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/coppodrac4.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Train #3:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/coppodrac5.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been a long time since we rocked with this movie, and I can&#8217;t trust my teenaged thoughts so I had no idea if it&#8217;d be good. It&#8217;s very good, Coppola inspired by the birth of cinema in his 1897-set story, drenching his delirious movie in dramatic shadowplay and stylish crossfades. Gary Oldman wins the day, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[451,1252,394,2909,2485,1388,915,186,1390],"class_list":["post-14445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1990s","tag-anthony-hopkins","tag-francis-ford-coppola","tag-gary-oldman","tag-keanu-reeves","tag-richard-e-grant","tag-tom-waits","tag-vampires","tag-winona-ryder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14458,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14445\/revisions\/14458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}