The View From The Mountain

I first saw Bram Stoker’s Dracula when it was initially released in theaters in November of 1992, and I recall expecting to see a serious, solemn drama that was based on the classic horror novel that was written in the 19th century by Stoker. But I also remember being pleasantly surprised by the luscious, imaginative cinematic dark fairy tale that was weaved onscreen by Francis Ford Coppola, the visionary director of the Godfather trilogy, along with The Conversation , and Apocalypse Now (the latter being my all-time favorite Coppola film). Um, Coppola also gave us the lame Jack , with Robin Williams as a boy who pre-maturely grew into a man, but nobody's perfect. While Coppola presented the Dracula story with complete seriousness, he also seemed to have a great deal of fun with the subject matter, as well, presenting the movie as a lurid fever dream by using every in-camera movie trick in the book (even a few from the silent film era), with the lone ex