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In the original Dracula novel, the hero notices Count Dracula's "peculiarly sharp white teeth" that "protruded over the lips" almost at once.
In his baroque homage to the book, Coppola apparently could not muster the will to portray the character with such a pronounced overbite, and so Dracula's fangs descend only periodically, amid so much gaping mouth movement that the count looks like he's coughing up a hairball.
In the 1931 Dracula , however, which like Nosferatu is based on Bram Stoker's novel, Bela Lugosi has to be impaled through the heart in his coffin, whereupon he emits a strange little disappointed groan that remains a benchmark of decorum when compared with the hissing and writhing deaths of modern screen vampires.
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."
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