Count Dracula (1992 film)

"There is no life in this body. I am nothing, lifeless, soulless, hated and feared. I am dead to all the world. Hear me! I am the monster that breathing men would kill. I am Dracula!"

- Count Dracula declaring his power

Vlad III the Impaler aka Vlad Dracula, is the titular main antagonist of Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 romantic horror fantasy film Bram Stoker's Dracula. He is primarily based on the character of the same name and the real life Vlad Tepes III.

He was portrayed by the Academy Award winning actor Gary Oldman, who also portrayed Drexl Spivey in True Romance, Mason Verger in Hannibal, Norman Stansfield in The Professional, Egor Korshunov in Air Force One, Lord Shen in Kung Fu Panda 2, Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg in The Fifth Element, Carnegie in The Book of Eli and Vladislav Dukhovich in The Hitman's Bodyguard.

Origin
Vlad Dracula was a Romanian prince who married his childhood sweetheart, Elisabeta. When Vlad left to wage war against the Turks during the Crusades, he left his wife behind to await his return. Vlad led the Crusaders to victory, but at a terrible cost: Turkish spies spread false rumors of his death, and Elisabeta, believing them, committed suicide by jumping into the river near their castle. When a bishop told him that Elisabeta's soul was damned because she committed suicide, Vlad renounced God and pledged to spend eternity avenging her death.

Present Time
For years, Vlad sought his brides by turning women into vampires, but nothing could replace his beloved wife and visitors become insane after they visited his castle and become the sex slaves of his brides. When Jonathan Harker visited Dracula's Castle after he learned of his co-worker went to mental asylum for treatment  and met Court Dracula who is old-looking man who surprised to see photo of Jonathan's fiancee Mina who resembled his wife and believed that she is reincarnation by forced Johnathan to write more letters to Mina that he will stay for another man and he tricked Johnathan to sold to his wives and witness the baby's death and meanwhile Dracula visited Renfield, in insane asylum and sees Mina played with her friend Lucy (who getting married )for hide and seek and begun sleepwalked where Dracula raped her by turning as wolf and shocked to see Mina left Lucy begun ill mysterious. Dracula begun disguised as young dashingly dressed but mysterious man named Prince Vlad of Szekely and Mina become dawn for mysterious man as as though she knows him when he tried seduced her in the theater but it was imputed by large wolf appeared on Dracula which scared Mina and the audiences but Vlad is manged friendly with the wolf.

Jonathan was found but still has suffered a violent brain fever and Mina come to married him in Romania which left Vlad heartbroken after his beloved went to sail in Romania, tried takes Lucy as his bride as wolf but violent explosion of blood that kills Lucy. Soon Van Hellsing become sumptuous of Lucy's death and discovered that Dracula is behind the killings before Van Hellsing kills Lucy who become a vampire at the tomb and formed Jonathan, Quincey, Jack, and Arthur to kill Dracula. Mourning her friend's death, Mina was visited by Dracula only she learns that he responsible for Lucy's death. Intently anger on him, Mina allowed Dracula to take her blood by when suddenly Van Hellsing burst the room set to kill Dracula before he escaped.

Death
After he escaped from UK, the count sent mind contact with Mina as Hellsing watched it and the group went to Romania by train to kill the vampire. Mina and Van Hellsing are almost to the castle but decide to stop for the night and the group stay inside the castle until Dracula's brides comes to attacke them and kidnap Mina before Van Hellsing beheads them. They eventually meet up with Jonathan, Quincey, Jack and Arthur, who have been battling him and the gypsies. Eventually, Jonathan and Qunicey stab Dracula, but not before Dracula kills Quincey. Dying, Dracula immediately heads back inside the chapel. Mina eventually returns to him where the two share a kiss. She then proceeds to put him at rest by stabbing his heart, and decapitates him, releasing the curse from her. Dracula returns in the form of Vlad where he then ascends to the heaven, reunited with his wife, Elisabeta.

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Drakula (1992)