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Question about the curse

posted 4 years ago by MovieChatUser497 (18943)
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So do I have this correct: Because both Vlad and Elizabeta were damned (Elizabeta for committing suicide and Vlad for cursing God and stabbing a cross), Vlad was cursed to be a vampire and Elizabeta was cursed to continually be reincarnated and not go to heaven. It wasn't until they found each other and Vlad earned her love while being a vampire that God lifted the curse on Vlad. Then when Mina chopped his head off since Dracula was dead she is no longer a vampire and the part of her that was Elizabeta went up to Heaven along with Vlad?

One of my issues with this adaptation is that they gave way too much sympathy to Dracula, he's a villain and he did villainous things in this adaptation. Although aside from the romance subplot from what I remember it is pretty close to the book everywhere else which I do like.

[–] millsey72 (10911) 3 years ago

Yes, thats it

[–] lm362 (341) 3 years ago

That is one possible meaning of the movie. Another is that Dracula is cursed for renouncing God. The curse is lifted after his call out asking where is his god and why has he forsaken him, thereby indicating he knows Satan is nothing and God is the one he should have never been against.
I agree with you about how Dracula is portrayed as a love interest. Not only has he done villainous things but he was portrayed as a reanimated corpse. No woman in her right mind would love that and at the end, Mina is shown to have been in her right mind and even kisses him, no doubt remembering he has no heartbeat. This made no sense. Plus, if you really look in the novel Lucy is the one that Dracula thought of as his dead wife. It is very faint, to be sure but the idea is there. Coppola was very wrong to switch this, thinking it was not tragic enough since she dies early on, but it perfectly goes with the quickness of the death of Vlad's first wife. And even that was done wrong. There was no need to fabricate a story. The real story was so much more tragic than the one made up for the movie.