{"id":28539,"date":"2021-11-19T10:12:06","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T14:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=28539"},"modified":"2021-11-19T10:12:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T14:12:06","slug":"bram-stokers-dracula-surprising-trivia-you-may-not-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=28539","title":{"rendered":"“Bram Stoker’s Dracula” – Surprising Trivia You May Not Know!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Matthew Jackson, at Mental Floss, presents 20 Surprising Facts About Bram Stoker’s Dracula<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 Before you click over, here are three of my favorites…<\/p>\n

JOHNNY DEPP AND CHRISTIAN SLATER WERE ALMOST JONATHAN HARKER.<\/strong>\u00a0 (Although there are critics of Keanu Reeves as Jonathan Harker, I’m not one.\u00a0 I could see Johnny Depp in the role but I don’t think Christian Slater would have been right for it. – Craig)<\/p>\n

VIRTUALLY EVERY VISUAL EFFECT WAS DONE IN-CAMERA.<\/strong> Coppola wanted Bram Stoker’s Dracula to be full of classical cinema trickery, and not lean so heavily on the modern digital visual effects of the 1990s.\u00a0<\/strong> (I think the film is better for this decision. – Craig)<\/p>\n

THE FILM SAVED THE COPPOLA FAMILY’S HOME.\u00a0<\/strong> (You’d think that the creative force behind The Godfather<\/em> and The Godfather II<\/em> would be set for life, but Coppola has always taken creative risks and used his own money. – Craig)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Matthew Jackson, at Mental Floss, presents 20 Surprising Facts About Bram Stoker’s Dracula.\u00a0 Before you click over, here are three<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,17,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-celebs","category-movies","category-trivia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28540,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28539\/revisions\/28540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}