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Old 07-22-2017, 04:26 AM   #5841 (permalink)
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I don't know how much the book and the Francis Ford Coppola movie are alike, plot wise, but in the movie, Dracula comes to London because he wants to find Mina, who he believes to be a reincarnation of his dead lover from centuries past.
It's entirely possible that the whole love story angle was something a script writer came up with, but I think it works really well.
It was. There was always a sexual subtext, but he was very much the enemy of all good Christian women, and all those boorish men from the movie were the height of woman-saving Christian men. They were still idiots though.
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