4Dracula the true story 2Francis Ford Coppola's1 Bram Stoker's Dracula is a success of the year 1993. The film was not a big one, but there were very famous actors shown up and the director's name is speaking for himself. I have seen some reviews about the film, but I haven't seen the story of Dracula - the real vaivode. So I decided to write an article about this man, and about the legends of the vampires. Things used for this article: 6 videocassettes with 8 Dracula-films, a video-recorder, a TV, 3 books about legends, 1¼ l vodka, 3 l beer. I hope you will enjoy this!! It's just a little story of his life. 3 Vlad Tepes, alias Dracula (1432-1477)1 Vaivode in Transylvania three times. He was in prison from 1462 to 1474. He fighted against the turks, but he made some robberies in the cities of Transylvania too. He impaled lots of his enemies, ca. 40000 men (!). The name Tepes = stake. His father was a member of the 2Dragon Order1 (Draco (latin) = Dragon and Dracul (rumanian) = devil). He promised for the cadgers, that he will free them from all the suffering. He took them to the barn, and set it on fire. In his garden there was the impaled turks in order. The essence of his personality was the brutality. The book Dracula from Bram Stoker came out in 1897. Bram Stoker is the master of Dracula stories. The name 'Nosferatu' is equal with 'filled with hopes'. The first film about Dracula was directed by 2Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau,1 the title was Nosferatu. There is another Nosferatu which was out in 1978. In Murnau's Nosferatu, Dracula is evil, but in the 2nd Nosferatu Dracula is just a victim, and his end is not happy. There are ca. 50 Dracula-films. The classic Dracula was 2Bela Lugosi in 1931.1 The newest film is F.F.Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula. The costumer is Eiko Ishioka. Some of these costums were 315000-20000$!!!1 Eike Ishioka got a Tommy and a Grammy prize for these costums. 2But, did vampires exist or didn't?1 Yes, yes, these stories have a reality ground. Once upon a time there was rabies-epidemic in Transylvania. These people can't endure the light, and when they have a fit, they bite their victim. They can't endure the smells, so they can't endure the garlic. 2The evil vampires were just tragic fated people.1 @IPeyeC About the film: my first impression was that 3it could be a better porno than a vampire-film.1 The lead (Mina - the girl) kissed for example: 3 girls, a monster, a dead man (when Dracula died), etc. 85 % of the actresses were topless. There were not too much shocking parts (I said that there were not too much shocking parts for people over 10 years!!), so it's not a good psycho-horror. But the film is 2TOTALLY1 like the book. No changes! If you have read the Dracula by Bram Stoker, it's boring. But the book is really nice! So the film is cool too! The fx were nice too. I can say that it's a cheap film, which is better than other cheap films,'coz Coppola can direct enough good... If you haven't seen this film, go to the cinema! by Gato