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In the 1992 Francis Ford Coppola version of Bram Stoker's Dracula , Dracula dies when he is impaled by a bowie knife wielded by an improbable London-based cowboy.
In Bram Stoker's Dracula , by contrast, the new recruit must also drink the vampire's blood, but the transformation is far pokier, requiring weeks and weeks, and if the vampire happens to get stuck with a bowie knife before the process is completed, it immediately goes into reverse.
Occasionally, the identity of a dedicatee has remained a mystery for years, with speculation bandied back and forth endlessly in Notes and Queries . Evidently, Bram Stoker's dedication of Dracula (1897) was such a one:
Most pundits agree that Congress doesn't want the report until after the elections--Richard Ben-Veniste ( Meet the Press ) gets off the crack that Congress awaits a report as "Dracula awaits the sun."
A Hungarian (Sandor Szavost) who whirls Alice around on the dance floor while purring suave come-ons is like Dracula out of a Mel Brooks parody, and Kidman's giggly responses (she's supposed to be drunk) recall Melanie Griffith at her most airheaded.