Something is very off about Jonathan's escape from Dracula's castle. He steps out of a window and onto a small ledge. For effect, he looks down at his feet and sees the cliff plunging down from his position. Jonathan then creeps sideways until he reaches a corner. As he rounds the corner, he appears to almost roll off it, as though it was a flat surface, and hits the water almost flat as well, rather than vertically. It seems that the crew used a standard set for the first few shots and then laid the set down for Keanu Reeves to creep along on his back for the later shots. [The scene is supposed to be a little "off". We have previously seen the strangeness of some odd gravitational effects (the oil/perfume dripping upwards) - this scene is supposed to show again how supernatural Castle Dracula is.]Dracula (1992) - 9 corrections
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Anthony Hopkins, Cary Elwes, Gary Oldman, Keanu Reeves, Richard E. Grant, Sadie Frost, Winona Ryder
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Something is very off about Jonathan's escape from Dracula's castle. He steps out of a window and onto a small ledge. For effect, he looks down at his feet and sees the cliff plunging down from his position. Jonathan then creeps sideways until he reaches a corner. As he rounds the corner, he appears to almost roll off it, as though it was a flat surface, and hits the water almost flat as well, rather than vertically. It seems that the crew used a standard set for the first few shots and then laid the set down for Keanu Reeves to creep along on his back for the later shots. [The scene is supposed to be a little "off". We have previously seen the strangeness of some odd gravitational effects (the oil/perfume dripping upwards) - this scene is supposed to show again how supernatural Castle Dracula is.] In the scene where Mina first meets Dracula, she asks Dracula if he knows her husband Jonathon. At this point in the movie Mina and Jonathon haven't yet gotten married. [No, but she wants to get away from this stranger who accosts her in the street and is bothering her. She lets him believe she has a protective husband nearby that will drive him off if necessary.] Corrected by Twotall Lucy gives Mina her engagement ring as an early wedding present but can be seen wearing the same ring when Dracula kills her later in the film after he's transformed himself into a wolf. [It might have just been similar-looking. We don't see it in detail during that scene.] Near the end of the movie,they say that Dracula's home is in Romania. Dracula lives in Transylvania,the time is the end of the 19th century (about 1890).Transylvania belonged to Hungary until 1917, not to Romania. [Actually, Dracula was only born in Transylvania, he lived in Targoviste, the royal court in Walachia, which is a part of what became part of Romania in the 1860s. Being that by birth Vlad Dracula is from Transylvania, there is no error, and we can assume he in fact merely went to the region of his birth. Transylvania is the setting of Stoker's book, and this production of Dracula attempted to combine the real history of Vlad Dracula with the Transylvanian fiction of the book.] Dracula's castle contains steel beams. Steel had at that time only been around for 23 years in England, which is rather short to have made it into a castle centuries old in the middle of nowhere. [Could it not have been iron?] Corrected by Grumpy Scot Jonathon stamps some legal papers as Dracula stands next to him. Dracula claps his hands together and on the wall behind him, his shadow then claps its hands together. The two are not in sync. Since Dracula's shadow is supposed to be a reflection of his true intentions and later is shown strangling Harker's shadow, it's possible this miscontinuity was done intentionally. [Right, this was done intentionally, not a mistake at all. It's so obvious that the hand clap isn't in sync, the movie makers are using it to tell us to keep an eye on the shadows, without being TOO obvious. I mean, Jonathan doesn't turn around and say 'Hey, your shadow is goofy...'] When Wynona Rider (as Dracula's wife) receives the fake message of her husband's death, she commits suicide by jumping off a cliff into a raging river below. When Dracula comes back from battle, she's laid out on the floor of the chapel, completely dry, holding a suicide note, and with only a trickle of blood coming out of her mouth. Wouldn't she be significantly injured from such a fall? And how exactly did she get to the chapel floor? [The priests got her out of the river and placed her on the floor infront of the cross to pray over her, and that is how Vlad found her.] When Madame Mina and that guy get married, they are married in an Eastern Orthodox Church, but the priests make the sign of the cross with their right hands. In the Eastern Orthodox Church, the sign of the cross is made with the left hand. [In the Eastern Orthodox Church the sign of the cross is made with the RIGHT hand never with the left.] When the carriage that brings Jonathan to the castle pulls away, you see the tracks of the wheels in the dust, but no horse hoofprints. [Because the horses are supernatural].You may also like: Bram Stoker's Dracula | Live Free or Die Hard | Dracula: Dead and Loving It | Dracula 2000 | Braveheart