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Modern Masters Learn Value Of Understatement on Screen
From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19930926
Author:James Verniere
What do Bram Stoker's legendary vampire Count Dracula and Edith Wharton's conscience-stricken, love-tormented hero Newland Archer have in common? Almost everything, apparently.
It is undeniable that there are eerily unmistakable parallels between Francis Ford Coppola's Gothic thriller "Bram Stoker's Dracula" (1992) and "The Age of Innocence," Martin Scorsese's paean to a lost civilization.
Both are adaptations of acclaimed works of fiction set in a 19th century, end-of-an-era milieu. Both films feature British actors - Gary Oldman and Daniel Day-Lewis, respectively - as the protagonists ...
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