He brought in a new team and stayed true to his vision, the payoff clearly visible in the beautiful dreamlike quality present throughout the entire film. The SFX team declared the task "impossible," so Coopola fired them. He showed this to his SFX team, showing them what he wanted his movie to look like, saying that he didn't want to use any modern day computer generated or aided effects. He doesn't usually follow storyboards for his pictures, but did so here, going so far as to animating them and editing in scenes from the 1946 French version of Beauty and the Beast. Francis Ford Coopola saw this film as a true period piece and felt that the special effects and editing techniques should match those of the era he was emulating. I read up on the process of making this movie, something I don't usually do, but I found certain elements of it too compelling not to investigate further. On the other hand, you have Keanu Reeves. You'd be hard pressed to find another film adaptation of the novel that follows its source material so closely. On the one hand you have some absolutely lush visuals, its positively drenched in atmosphere, and has stellar performances from Gary Oldman, Anthony Hopkins, and Tom Waits. Let's cut right to it, Bram Stoker's Dracula is a polarizing movie, and it's not hard to see why. We've all become God's madmen, all of us.
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