DRACULA (only his hairdresser knows for sure)
Lynn Walker
the movie this past weekend. I liked it, especially the humour. Gary Oldman
was, once again, terrific.
My question--was there any consensus reached by netters regarding the frequent
hair-colour changes by Harker/Keanu Reeves? My guess is that the closer he
gets to Dracula, the greyer his hair gets, which further demonstrates Dracula's
power. Even if this was the case, it didn't make much sense to me to change it.
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Maria Douglas
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Well, he was REALLY REALLY close to him in the castle when Drac was
shaving him and his hair certainly didn't change color then. And it
didn't change color just after the "vampyre a trois" scene when the
vampire chicks devour the baby. He was horrified (as horrified as
Keanu Reeves can act), but didn't need any Grecian Formula yet.
I still contend that this is a continuity problem. There were others.
I went back to see the flick at a matinee with my husband, who was on
a business trip when it came out. I noticed yet another continuity
problem. Just before Mina meets Van Helsing, she is on her way to
see Lucy. She pauses at a hedge before entering the estate. At
that point, she mutters something about how Jonathan can never know
about her and her "sweet prince." She is holding the letter to Prince
Vladimir at that point. When she runs up the steps to Lucy's mansion,
she is greeted by Van Helsing: he takes her hands and dances with her.
The letter is gone. I didn't notice this the first time I saw it, but
now I'm VERY perturbed that this film had so many flaws. The letter
just TOTALLY disappeared. Nada.
I saw an interview with Coppola. Someone that Ryder knew wrote the
script and he accepted it as "the real thing" because Ryder told him
it was (meaning that it closely followed Bram Stoker's book). Goes
to show, it's not what you know, but who you know.
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Andrew Dabrowski
In 'Nosferatu' the Harker character ends up as Dracula's successor in
vampirism. I wonder if Coppola is hinting at this possibility with
the mysterious (un)graying hair. After all, we have only Harker's
own word that he didn't taste any of the female vamps' blood.
Andrew Dabrowski Indiana U Bloomington