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Question about one scene

posted 7 years ago by anaconda89
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So Mina walks into the garden and quite clearly sees Lucy having sex with Werewolf Dracula, yet when Dracula dissapears and Mina goes to check on Lucy we hear her say "you were dreaming" and "you were walking in your sleep." Yet we know that Mina saw the werewolf, she watched them for several seconds. Did she just assume she was imagining things? Or was this whole scene a dream sequence? I never found it very clear.

I have to admit I was very disappointed in seeing this for the first time after hearing the glowing reviews. This has some of the worst acting I have seen in a major film (including Oldman, great actor but I just wasn't feeling him in this one.) Not the worst one I've ever seen but heavily flawed.

[–] Chris-MK01 7 years ago

I don't exactly agree with your opinion of the movie. I thought it was great, with solid performances (except for Keanu Reeves... he was bad. What the hell hapened?)

[–] lotte1942 7 years ago

(except for Keanu Reeves... he was bad. What the hell hapened?)

Reeves's attempt at English accent still hurts my ears. But in other ways I thought that he was portraying good looking, generally nice guy, who was at the same way completely bland, sort of wooden bloke, who wasn't a jerk or bad person, but who was not particularly exciting human being and that was a concept for his character in the movie (or maybe the quality of his performance made it seem like a concept ). Still I don't think they ever intended to make Jonathan Harker a super interesting character in the movie in the first place, so I did't mind very much his bleakness.

[–] lotte1942 7 years ago

Yet we know that Mina saw the werewolf, she watched them for several seconds. Did she just assume she was imagining things? Or was this whole scene a dream sequence? I never found it very clear.

It was very clear in the movie, actually. Dracula (in werewolf form) notices Mina and says "No, do not see me" or something like this and then he vanishes. He obviously applied his vampire hypnotic powers to affect Mina's vision of this scene.

[–] Gary O. (997) 7 years ago

The acting wasn't bad, but the script was way off.