Coming out in 1992, Francis Ford Coppola's adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula was touted to be the most faithful adaptation of the book yet, though even if it featured many details and even lines straight from the book, the film also took quite a lot of liberties with it source material, ... Read review
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Advantages: Great gothic score that is romantically very alluring Disadvantages: Annie Lennox song at the end is totally unnecessary
...Francis Ford Coppola's adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula was touted to be the most faithful adaptation of the book yet, though even if it featured many details and even lines straight from the book, the film also took quite a lot of liberties with it source material, not least in giving Dracula and Mina a real love story not found from the book. More that that the film was a visualistic extravaganza and contained perhaps more diverse filming ... ...the really sexually charged gothic horror drama that it is, it was only fitting that the music in the film would mirror this darkly gothic and romantic spirit.
The Polish classical composer Wojciech Kilar accomplished this in flying colours, creating a score that is at times darkly gothic and at others romantically melancholy. Beginning with the brutal and dark "Dracula: The Beginning" with its ominous theme for Dracula, we get some barbarically ...
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