Хроники графов Дракула-Карди
Автор сценария Ольга Бойко
сценарий создан по мотивам романа Б.Олшеври «Вампиры»
Часть 1.
ИНТ. — ЗАМОК КАРДИ — ДЕНЬ, НАСТОЯЩЕЕ ВРЕМЯ
Идет музыкальная тема Гарри и Риты.
Сквозь просторные комнаты нежилого замка несется ветер. Ветер проносится к открытому фортепиано в гостиной замка, на клавишах фортепиано разбросаны лепестки алых роз, ветер шевелит их.
ГОЛОС РИТЫ
(шепчет за кадром)
Твоя любовь вернула мне жизнь… Твоя любовь вернула мне жизнь…
Ветер кружится, лепестки сыпятся на пол. Музыкальная тема заканчивается.
НАТ. — В ОКРЕСНЫХ ЛЕСАХ ЗАМКА КАРДИ — ЛЕТНИЙ ДЕНЬ, НАСТОЯЩЕЕ ВРЕМЯ
Охота в лесу: ГАРРИ (34 года), КАПИТАН РАЙТ (37 ЛЕТ), ДЖЕЙМС (35 ЛЕТ) и ЖОРЖ (20 ЛЕТ) несутся на лошадях через лес за кабаном. Всадники проносятся мимо Охотничьего дома. (Гарри в кадр попадает первым).
НАТ.- В НЕБЕ НАД ЗАМКОВЫМ ЛЕСОМ — ЛЕТНИЙ ДЕНЬ, НАСТОЯЩЕЕ ВРЕМЯ
Сверху летит орел и смотрит вниз: Внизу долина с озером. С одной стороны от долины возвышается мрачный средневековый замок Карди, а немного в стороне от долины в низине в лесу — Охотничий дом.
Орел снижается на большой скорости и кидается на белого голубя — это происходит в небе над поляной, где остановился в лесу Гарри.
НАТ.- ЛЕС В ОКРЕСТНОСТЯХ ЗАМКА КАРДИ — ЛЕТНИЙ ДЕНЬ, НАСТОЯЩЕЕ ВРЕМЯ
Гарри заблудился во время охоты. Его лошадь стоит на поляне в лесу. Гарри кажется, что сквозь деревья мелькает женское голубое платье и слышится женский смех.
(идет мелодия — тема Гарри и Риты)
Гарри отвлекается на орла и голубя — поднимает глаза в небо, он видит, как орёл нападает на голубя, это происходит у него над головой.
Гарри снова смотрит на деревья где только что мелькало голубое платье. Там нет ничего. Гарри осматривается вокруг. Ищет хозяйку платья.
(мелодия смолкает)
Лошадь ржет, топает копытами, срывается с места и несет Гарри дальше в лес.
ИНТ. — СТОЛОВАЯ В ДЕРЕВЕНСКОЙ ГОСТИНИЦЕ — ВЕЧЕР, НАСТОЯЩЕЕ ВРЕМЯ
Гарри, Джеймс, капитан Райт, Жорж и поверенный Гарри в делах, КАРЛ ИВАНОВИЧ (55 ЛЕТ) ужинают после охоты за деревянным столом.
Гарри выбирает руки салфеткой.
ГАРРИ
Кажется, я видел ее.
Карл Иванович перебирает на коленях какие-то записи.
КАРЛ ИВАНОВИЧ
(снимает очки)
Кого ее?
Гарри кладет салфетку в сторону И смотрит на всех.
ГАРРИ
Призрак из замка: голубое платье, темные волосы.
Жорж роняет вилку под стол.
Джеймс наливает себе вина в бокал.
Джеймс
С чего ты решил, что это она? Может кто-то из местных жителей тебя разыграл.
Гарри кладет на стол алую розу.
ГАРРИ
Нашел в лесу.
Капитан Райт сидит рядом с Гарри, он берет цветок.
КАПИАН РАЙТ
(рассматривает розу)
В лесу такие не растут.
Жорж
Я тоже видел ее, она красива, словно ангел, на голове рубины, а в глазах страсть.
Капитан Райт Отвлекается от розы и смотрит на Жоржа.
КАПИТАН РАЙТ
Ангел со страстью в глазах — это что-то новенькое.
Карл Иванович отвлекается от бумаг.
КАРЛ ИВАНОВИЧ
Истории про озерных женщин приобретает новые формы.
Гарри отпивает вино из своего бокала.
ГАРРИ
Говорю же вам, эта женщина из замка! Озерная дева со светлыми волосами, а красавица из леса темноволосая. Я это сам видел.
Капитан Райт раскуривает сигару.
КАПИТАН РАЙТ
Может она лесная фея? Я читал, что в лесу свои «русалки».
Все смеются. Гарри ставит свой бокал на стол.
ГАРРИ
Понял, вы мне не верите.
Капитан Райт бросает розу на стол, встает со своего места, отодвигает свой стул. В пепельнице дымится его сигара. Он берет ее, затягивается и смотрит на Гарри.
КАПИТАН РАЙТ
Отчего же верим.
НАТ.- ДОЛИНА ВЕДЬМ- ЛЕТНЯЯ НОЧЬ, НАСТОЯЩЕЕ ВРЕМЯ
(Идет мелодия-тема Долины Ведьм)
Над озером вьется туман, а белый ненюфар на поверхности воды раскрывает свои лепестки. Он уже не плавает беспомощно на воде, а а гордо качается на высоком стебле, да это уже не стебель, а стройное женское тело, а на месте цветка чудная женская головка. Это ОЗЕРНАЯ ДЕВА (она же графиня Мария, 26 лет).
У неё бледное лицо с большими печальными глазами чуть розовыми губами, а золотистые волосы падают красивыми волнами на грудь. Её фигура тихо качается и с каждым движением растёт и становится нормальной женщиной, только прозрачной, тело её словно соткано из серебряных нитей.
Воздух над озером словно наполняется неуловимыми звуками. Слышится женский смех. Озерная дева точно плывет по воздуху над водой и что-то шепчет губами. Белая метель из лепестков ненюфаров поднимается над озером вслед за ней.
(Мелодия заканчивается)
НАТ.- ОХОТНИЧИЙ ДОМ — ЛЕТНИЙ ДЕНЬ, НАСТОЯЩЕЕ ВРЕМЯ
Охотничий дом с садом утопает в цветах.
ИНТ. — ГОСТИНАЯ В ОХОТНИЧЕМ ДОМЕ — ДЕНЬ, НАСТОЯЩЕЕ ВРЕМЯ
Гарри, Джеймс, капитан Райт, Жорж, Карл Иванович расположились в гостиной в креслах. Молодые люди курят сигары.
Перед Карлом Ивановичем на столе лежит пачка старых пожелтевших записей, он надевает очки и просматривает их.
Карл иванович
Пишет один товарищ другому. Местоположение: Венеция, Италия.
Карл Иванович берет в руки верхний лист и читает…
КАРЛ ИВАНОВИЧ
(продолжает)
Милый Альф, ты не представляешь, как я счастлив! Я могу вернуться домой, где не был двадцать лет. До сих пор не пойму, почему меня отправили в ссылку.
НАТ.- ТЕРРАСА ЗАМКА КАРДИ 80 ЛЕТ НАЗАД — ЛЕТНИЙ ВЕЧЕР, ВОСПОМИНАНИЕ МАЛЕНЬКОГО КАРЛО ИЗ ПИСЕМ К АЛЬФУ
НАЧАЛО ВОСПОМИНАНИЯ МАЛЕНЬКОГО КАРЛО
ТИТР: 1832 год
Солнце еще не закатилось, сад благоухает ароматом цветов.
Все собрались на террасе: МАЛЕНЬКИЙ КАРЛО (7 ЛЕТ), ЛЮСИ (5 лет), ГРАФ ФРЕДЕРИК (43 года), ГРАФИНЯ МАРИЯ (26 лет), ПЕТРО (40 лет). Любимая борзая собака графини, НЕТТИ, лежит тут же.
Входит слуга СЕБАСТИАН (45 лет).
СЕБАСТИАН
Пожилой господин хочет говорить с графом.
ГРАФ ФРЕДЕРИК
Приведи его, Себастиан.
Себастиан уходит.
(фоном идет мелодия — тема американского дедушки)
На террасу является старый, седой господин лет 80, АМЕРИКАНСКИЙ СЛУГА. Одет он в длинное полумонашеское платье. У него красноватые глаза и пунцовые губы на бледном лице. Он кланяется графу и графине.
При его появлении Нетти, любимая собака графини, вскакивает, ощетинивается, и бросается на него. Старик отгоняет ее клюкой, которую держит в руках.
(мелодия смолкает)
ГРАФИНЯ МАРИЯ
Поразительно, что с Нетти!
ГРАФ ФРЕДЕРИК
Петро, выведи собаку.
Петро берет Нетти за ошейник и уводит с террасы.
Американский слуга с низким поклоном подает графу большой запечатанный конверт.
Граф открывает его. Читает несколько строк про себя, обращается к жене.
ГРАФ ФРЕДЕРИК
(продолжает)
В замок пребудет гроб с останками нашего американского родственника. Усопший пожелал чтобы его захоронили здесь.
Графиня Мария кивает молча.
ГрАФ ФРЕДЕРИК
(продолжает)
Вы, должно быть и есть тот самый слуга, о котором сообщается в письме?
Американский слуга кланяется утвердительно.
АМЕРИКАНСКИЙ СЛУГА
Когда же изволите привезти гроб?
ГРАФИНЯ МАРИЯ
Завтра, если хотите.
Американский слуга кланяется хозяевам и удаляется.
Графиня Мария обращается к Графу Фредерику.
ГРАФИНЯ МАРИЯ
(продолжает)
Кто этот родственник, дорогой?
КОНЕЦ ВОСПОМИНАНИЯ
НАТ. — ВЕНЕЦИАНСКИЙ КАНАЛ НА ЛИДО 60 ЛЕТ НАЗАД — ЛЕТНИЙ ВЕЧЕР, ВОСПОМИНАНИЕ ВЗРОСЛОГО КАРЛО ИЗ ПИСЕМ К АЛЬФУ
Начало воспоминания взрослого карло
ТИТР: 1852 год
(фоном идет мелодия — тема воспоминаний о доме)
Венецианский канал. Гондола тихо скользит по нему. Отблеск заходящего солнца отражается в воде. Кругом раздаются пение и музыка с соседних гондол.
КАРЛО (27 лет) смотрит в воду, он задумался.
ГОЛОС КАРЛО
(за кадром)
Моя мать умерла, когда я уже был в Нюрнберге. Как прекрасна она была и как быстро увяла. До сих пор я не знаю болезни, что свела ее в могилу.
КОНЕЦ ВОСПОМИНАНИЯ
ИНТ. — ЗАМОК КАРДИ 80 ЛЕТ НАЗАД — БОЛЬШАЯ ГОСТИНАЯ ЗАМКА НА 1 ЭТАЖЕ — ДЕНЬ, ВОСПОМИНАНИЕ МАЛЕНЬКОГО КАРЛО ИЗ ПИСЕМ К АЛЬФУ
НАЧАЛО ВОСПОМИНАНИЯ МАЛЕНЬКОГО КАРЛО
ТИТР: 1832 год
Маленький Карло и граф Фредерик разговаривают в гостиной замка. Карло стоит напротив графа и плачет.
ГРАФ ФРЕДЕРИК
Это желание твоей матери.
МАЛЕНЬКИЙ КАРЛО
Но почему, она больше не любит меня?
КОНЕЦ ВОСПОМИНАНИЯ
НАТ. — ВЕНЕЦИАНСКИЙ КАНАЛ НА ЛИДО 60 ЛЕТ НАЗАД — ЛЕТНИЙ ДЕНЬ, ВОСПОМИНАНИЕ ВЗРОСЛОГО КАРЛО ИЗ ПИСЕМ К АЛЬФУ
НАЧАЛО ВОСПОМИНАНИЯ Взрослого карло
ТИТР: 1852 год
Венецианский канал. Гондола плывет по волнам. Карло стоит в гондоле и перебирает волны веслом.
(идет мелодия — тема Воспоминание о доме)
ГОЛОС КАРЛО
(за кадром)
Я ясно представляю себе мою мать: высокая, стройная, с тяжелыми русыми косами.
В воде проступает лицо графини Марии с русыми косами.
ГОЛОС КАРЛО
(за кадром продолжает)
Голубые глаза любовно и нежно смотрят на меня. Я точно чувствую их, и что же, два глаза смотрят на меня, но это не голубые глаза матери, а жгучие, черные.
Картинка в воде меняется: голубые глаза матери темнеют и становятся черными глазами НЕЗНАКОМКИ (она же РИТА, 19 лет) в проплывающей мимо гондоле. Карло и Рита встречаются взглядами, Карло уже влюблен в нее.
Камера показывает только глаза Риты, всю Риту пока зритель не должен видеть.
ГОЛОС КАРЛО
(за кадром продолжает)
Я хочу еще раз ее увидеть!
НАТ. — ВЕНЕЦИЯ 60 ЛЕТ НАЗАД: НАБЕРЕЖНАЯ ЛИДО — ЛЕТНИЙ ВЕЧЕР, ВОСПОМИНАНИЕ ВЗРОСЛОГО КАРЛО ИЗ ПИСЕМ К АЛЬФУ
Рита гуляет по набережной (камера снимает Риту со спины, лица её зритель пока не видит), за ней везде следует ее кормилица ЦИЦИЛИЯ (48 лет).
Карло смотрит на них со стороны, он сидит недалеко, на скамейке, и пишет письмо Альфу.
(фоном идет мелодия — тема Риты)
ГОЛОС КАРЛО
(за кадром)
Я нашел ее, обладательницу черных глаз. Как она хороша! Возьми описание красавиц Венеции, но думай не о ней, а только о ее тени.
РИТА
(кричит)
Карло иди к нам!
КАРЛО
Сейчас.
ГОЛОС КАРЛО
(за кадром)
Я поеду домой не один. Рита едет со мной и я обручен!
(мелодия смолкает)
РИТА
(кричит)
Карло, Карло, мы заждались!
КАРЛО
Иду.
ГОЛОС КАРЛО
(за кадром продолжает)
Ты спрашиваешь, о каком гробе я писал тебе, да о гробе дедушки, что его слуга
привез из страны ацтеков.
Рита подходит (камера снимает её без лица, лица Риты зритель видеть пока не должен), берет Карло за руку и тянет его за собой. Карло послушно следует за ней.
РИТА
Ох, синьор, вас не дождешься!
КОНЕЦ ВОСПОМИНАНИЯ
ИНТ. — ГОСТИНАЯ В ОХОТНИЧЕМ ДОМЕ — ДЕНЬ, НАСТОЯЩЕЕ ВРЕМЯ
Гарри, Джеймс, капитан Райт, Жорж, Карл Иванович курят сигары в гостиной в своих креслах.
Перед Карлом Ивановичем на столе лежит пачка старых пожелтевших записей. Карл Иванович кладет лист на стол.
ГАРРИ
Я из страны ацтеков!
КАРЛ ИВАНОВИЧ
Может, это тот самый родственник, документов о погребении которого тебе недостает, чтобы унаследовать замок.
ГАРРИ
Читайте дальше.
НАТ.- У ВОРОТ ЗАМКА КАРДИ 80 ЛЕТ НАЗАД — ЛЕТНИЙ ДЕНЬ, ВОСПОМИНАНИЕ МАЛЕНЬКОГО КАРЛО ИЗ ПИСЕМ К АЛЬФУ
НАЧАЛО ВОСПОМИНАНИЯ МАЛЕНЬКОГО КАРЛО
ТИТР: 1832 год
Маленький Карло стоит перед огромным черным гробом. Гроб стоит в воротах замка.
(идет мелодия — тема американского дедушки)
ГОЛОС КАРЛО
(за кадром)
На другой день, после посещения американца, в ворота нашего замка въехал большой черный гроб.
инт.- в капелле ЗАМКА КАРДИ 80 ЛЕТ НАЗАД — ДЕНЬ, ВОСПОМИНАНИЕ МАЛЕНЬКОГО КАРЛО ИЗ ПИСЕМ К АЛЬФУ
Замковая капелла ярко освещена свечами и красиво убрана изнутри для похоронной службы.
НАТ. — ЗАМОК КАРДИ 80 ЛЕТ НАЗАД: У ВХОДА В КАПЕЛЛУ — ЛЕТНИЙ ДЕНЬ, ВОСПОМИНАНИЕ МАЛЕНЬКОГО КАРЛО ИЗ ПИСЕМ К АЛЬФУ
Американский слуга останавливается перед порогом капеллы, за его спиной большой черный гроб тут же держат слуги.
АМЕРИКАНСКИЙ СЛУГА
Этот гроб слишком большой, он не пройдет в дверь из капеллы в склеп. Не лучше ли открыть западные двери в саду?
Граф Фредерик выходит на порог капеллы изнутри и спрашивает американского слугу.
ГРАФ ФРЕДЕРИК
Откуда вы это знаете?
АМЕРИКАНСКИЙ СЛУГА
По рассказам моего умершего господина.
ГРАФ ФРЕДЕРИК
(слугам)
Придется отказаться от похоронной службы.
ГРАФИНЯ МАРИЯ
Как же без похоронной службы?
ГРАФ ФРЕДЕРИК
(слугам)
Откройте западные двери склепа.
ИНТ. — ЗАМОК КАРДИ 80 ЛЕТ НАЗАД: В СКЛЕПЕ ПОД КАПЕЛЛОЙ — ДЕНЬ, ВОСПОМИНАНИЕ МАЛЕНЬКОГО КАРЛО 80 ЛЕТ НАЗАД ИЗ ПИСЕМ К АЛЬФУ
Склеп вычищен и хорошо освещен факелами.
(идет мелодия — тема американского дедушки)
СЛУГИ с Петро опускают черный гроб в каменный саркофаг с высеченной на нем надписью «Привезен из Америки».
Граф и графиня наблюдают за происходящим тут же.
ГРАФ ФРЕДЕРИК
(управляющему)
Микаэль, замкнешь склеп на ключ.
МИКАЭЛЬ
(слугам)
У кого ключ от склепа?
Слуги топчутся у саркофага, пожимают плечами и мотают головой.
ПЕТРО
Крест подаренный самим папою не могут найти.
Микаэль осматривает слуг, ищет ключ. Начинается суматоха.
ГРАФ ФРЕДЕРИК
(слугам)
Кто держал ключ?
ПЕТРО
Говорю же, потеряли раззявы.
ГРАФИНЯ МАРИЯ
Как потеряли?
МИКАЭЛЬ
(графу)
Ваше сиятельство, может украли?
ГРАФИНЯ МАРИЯ
Бог с тобой, прикажи отыскать.
(мелодия обрывается)
Граф и графиня идут к раскрытым дверям склепа, за которыми виднеется сад. Американский слуга идет за ними.
АМЕРИКАНСКИЙ СЛУГА
Могу я просить у вас разрешения поселиться в сторожке, около капеллы?
ГРАФ ФРЕДЕРИК
Да ведь сторожка непригодна для жилья.
АМЕРИКАНСКИЙ СЛУГА
Все что мне осталось на свете, это посещать могилу моего господина.
ГРАФ ФРЕДЕРИК
В таком случае — хорошо.
Граф, графиня и американский слуга выходят через раскрытые западные двери склепа в сад.
© Ольга Бойко, 2016
ISBN 978-5-4483-5073-3
Создано в интеллектуальной издательской системе Ridero
НАТ. – ДОЛИНА ВЕДЬМ – ЛЕТНИЙ ВЕЧЕР, НАСТОЯЩЕЕ ВРЕМЯ: 1912 ГОД
МОЛОДОЙ ЧЕЛОВЕК, житель деревни, идет пошатываясь от озера в сторону деревни.
Проходит несколько шагов и падает мертвый. В руке его зажата роза-ненюфар. На рубашке капли крови.
НАТ. – ПОЛЯНА В ЛЕСУ ЗАМКА КАРДИ – ЛЕТНИЙ ДЕНЬ, НАСТОЯЩЕЕ ВРЕМЯ
Во время охоты СМИТ (40 лет), ГАРРИ (34 года), ДЖЕЙМС (35 лет), КАПИТАН РАЙТ (37 лет), КАРЛ ИВАНОВИЧ (55 лет) и ЖОРЖ К (25 лет) сделали привал на небольшой лесной поляне. Они едят и пьют вино. Рядом лежат охотничьи трофеи и ружья.
Оседланные лошади пасутся неподалеку.
СМИТ
Мистер Гарри, о вас тут рассказывают целые истории.
ГАРРИ
Ну и, какие же?
ДЖЕЙМС
Говорят у тебя целое королевство в Америке и ты потомок Монтесуммы.
КАПИТАН РАЙТ
Джемми, откуда ты это знаешь?
ДЖЕЙМС
Люди в деревне так говорят.
ГАРРИ
А ты уже был в деревне?
КАПИТАН РАЙТ
Мы с Джеймсом прогулялись туда днем.
СМИТ
Мистеру Гарри принадлежит здешний замок, вот о нем и говорят.
ГАРРИ
Это правда. Вот, Карл Иванович согласился помочь мне стать его хозяином.
КАРЛ ИВАНОВИЧ
Я пока не обнаружил недостающих нам документов в деревенском архиве, но зато нашел любопытные письма.
НАТ.– ДОЛИНА ВЕДЬМ – ЛЕТНИЙ ДЕНЬ, НАСТОЯЩЕЕ ВРЕМЯ
Из леса в сторону долины ведьм летит большая черная летучая мышь.
В Долине ведьм над озером клубится туман.
Мышь летит низко над водой в тумане.
Озеро сплошь покрыто белыми ненюфарами.
От озера мышь летит в сторону замка.
ИНТ.– КОМНАТА С КАМИНОМ В ДЕРЕВЕНСКОЙ ГОСТИНИЦЕ – ВЕЧЕР, НАСТОЯЩЕЕ ВРЕМЯ
Гарри, Джеймс, капитан Райт, Карл Иванович, Жорж К и ДЕРЕВЕНСКИЙ ДОКТОР (48 лет) расселись в комнате с камином.
Карл Иванович раскладывает перед собой какую-то тетрадь.
КАРЛ ИВАНОВИЧ
(надевает очки)
Я прочту вам Дневник учителя.
ДЖЕЙМС
Тише, господа, тише.
КАРЛ ИВАНОВИЧ
(читает Дневник учителя)
С этой ночи никто из жителей не видел его. Мое подозрение, что между «случайностями» есть что-то роковое, улеглось.
ИНТ. – КАБИНЕТ В ДЕРЕВЕНСКОМ ДОМЕ УЧИТЕЛЯ 60 ЛЕТ НАЗАД – ДЕНЬ, ВОСПОМИНАНИЕ ИЗ ДНЕВНИКА УЧИТЕЛЯ.
НАЧАЛО ВОСПОМИНАНИЯ
УЧИТЕЛЬ (32 года) сидит за столом в своем кабинете и пишет. Перо в его руке скользит по бумаге.
ГОЛОС УЧИТЕЛЯ
(за кадром)
Вчера мои сомнения вспыхнули вновь. Пропал Генрих-охотник.
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В доме учителя плачет сестра Генриха, МАРИЯ (28 лет). Учитель и его сестра МИНА (30 лет) утешают ее.
МАРИЯ
(вытирает слезы)
Брат пропал! В пятницу утром Генрих ушел на охоту, обещал вернуться к вечерней службе. Несчастье приключилось.
УЧИТЕЛЬ
Не плачь, Генриха мы найдем.
МАРИЯ
По деревне идет слух, что искать его надо не иначе, как в Долине ведьм.
Мина, сестра учителя крестится после слов Марии.
УЧИТЕЛЬ
Пойдем значит в долину. Хотя, что ему там делать.
МИНА
Если кузнец Михель и нашелся в Долине ведьм, так он был пьян.
УЧИТЕЛЬ
Это верно. Промысел его лежит по другую сторону, в горах.
МИНА
Брат прав, не найдут твоего Генриха в Долине.
Учитель укоризненно смотрит на сестру. Та понимает что говорит не то и замолкает. Мария снова плачет.
КОНЕЦ ВОСПОМИНАНИЯ
ИНТ. – КОМНАТА С КАМИНОМ В ДЕРЕВЕНСКОЙ ГОСТИНИЦЕ – ВЕЧЕР, НАСТОЯЩЕЕ ВРЕМЯ
Гарри и его гости расселись в комнате с камином и слушают.
Карл Иванович разложил перед собой какую-то тетрадь. Он продолжает…
ГАРРИ
Завтра вечером мы ночуем в Охотничьем доме. Он как раз недалеко от долины.
КАПИТАН РАЙТ
Пока я еще ничего не понимаю.
ГАРРИ
Поймешь, когда ведьма завладеет тобой.
КАПИТАН РАЙТ
И что это за долина?
ДЖЕЙМС
Я думал местное просвещение коснулось всех нас.
ГАРРИ
Долина ведьм лежит у подножия скалы, на которой стоит замок. На дне долины озеро. Там сплошные болота. И на закате солнца на озере клубится туман.
ДЖЕЙМС
Вот этот-то туман и подал, мысль к созданию местных легенд.
ГАРРИ
Туман при свете месяца принимает образы прекрасных молодых женщин.
КАПИТАН РАЙТ
Недурно.
ГАРРИ
Всякого, кто в полнолуние попадал в Долину ведьм, находили мертвым.
ДЖЕЙМС
Женщины с озера вместе с поцелуями выпивают жизнь человека.
ДЕРЕВЕНСКИЙ ДОКТОР
Еще бы не умереть, когда вода в озере стоячая и гнилая.
ГАРРИ
Вы поплатитесь за свое неверие.
ДЕРЕВЕНСКИЙ ДОКТОР
Если пьяный зайдет на болото, он или утонет или схватит лихорадку.
На первом этаже гостиницы хлопают входной дверью.
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За окном гостиницы темно. Поют сверчки.
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Гарри и его гости расселись в комнате с камином и слушают.
Карл Иванович разложил перед собой какую-то тетрадь. Он продолжает…
КАРЛ ИВАНОВИЧ
(поправляет очки и читает)
Только когда он пришел в себя, нам удалось разжать его пальцы. В них оказался образок Божьей Матери.
ГАРРИ
Кажется это мы что-то пропустили?
КАРЛ ИВАНОВИЧ
Да, тут перерыв в записях.
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ГЕНРИХ-охотник (25 лет) в Долине ведьм. Он сидит на выступе одной из скал рядом с кустом боярышника.
Луна ярко сияет. Внизу, на озере клубится туман.
Генрих наклоняется к кусту боярышника и вдыхает запах его цветов, зевает.
Внезапный порыв ветра качает куст, и ветка боярышника бьет Генриха в грудь, в ту же минуту он осыпан белыми цветами.
(Фоном идет мелодия – тема графини Марии)
Точно белое покрывало окружает Генриха.
Покрывало светится, и сквозь него ясно проступает прекрасное женское лицо, бледное и чудное, с большими зеленоватыми глазами и розовыми губами (лицо графини Марии). Оно приближается к нему.
Генрих не может от него оторвать глаз. Хватается за свой образок, но образка и шнурка не оказывается на шее.
ДЕВА С ОЗЕРА (она же графиня Мария, 26 лет) приближается к Генриху и целует его в губы.
В глазах Генриха все плывет. Он падает без сознания.
(мелодия смолкает)
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Учитель проходит мимо озера обратно в деревню. Он видит под ногами белый цветок ненюфара, останавливается, поднимает его с земли, рассматривает. Цветок немного увядший.
УЧИТЕЛЬ
Откуда он?
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Учитель сидит в своей спальне в своем доме на втором этаже. Он уже собирается ложиться спать.
Полураскрывшийся белый ненюфар стоит в стакане с водой. Учитель смотрит на него.
УЧИТЕЛЬ
(разговаривает с цветком)
Ты так прекрасен!
(фоном идет мелодия – тема графини Марии)
С цветком в стакане начинаются метаморфозы. Белый ненюфар как-будто движется, он раскрывает лепестки чуть больше.
На его лепестках искрятся капли воды. То ли это капли, то ли голубые глаза женщины.
УЧИТЕЛЬ
(принюхивается)
Что это, аромат?
Ненюфар уже не плавает беспомощно в стакане воды, а гордо качается на высоком стебле, да это уже не стебель, а стройное, женское тело, а на месте цветка чудная голова Девы с озера.
Бледное лицо с большими печальными глазами и чуть-чуть розовыми губами. Золотистые волосы падают красивыми волнами на грудь.
Фигура тихо качается и с каждым движением растет и становится нормальной женщиной, только тело ее прозрачно, точно соткано из серебряных нитей.
Вот она скользит от стола. Комната наполняется неуловимыми звуками. Фигура ее точно плывет в воздухе. Все ближе и ближе; она уже качается около кровати учителя, что-то шепчет губами. Она склоняется к нему. Протягивает руки. Как будто молит о чем-то.
УЧИТЕЛЬ
(отталкивает призрак руками)
Нет! Нет!
(мелодия обрывается)
В комнате раздается грохот и звон разбитого стекла.
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Полоса тумана удаляется от раскрытого окна спальни учителя в сторону долины ведьм. В свете луны она кажется волшебным свечением.
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На шум, посреди ночи в спальню учителя вбегает испуганная Мина. Учитель сидит на постели и смотрит на Мину.
На полу рядом с кроватью учителя валяется разбитый стеклянный графин с питьевой водой.
МИНА
(Ворчит)
Чего кричим, графин вон разбили!
Учитель недоверчиво смотрит на письменный стол: там беспомощно увядает ненюфар. Учитель медленно вытирает ладонью пот со лба.
УЧИТЕЛЬ
Только сон.
МИНА
(Ворчит)
Смешно тебе, а я перепугалась-то.
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Ненюфара в стакане на письменном столе нет. Учитель спросонья смотрит на пустой стакан.
УЧИТЕЛЬ
Не душа ли это самоубийцы, просящей молитвы за себя?
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Учитель входит в столовую на первом этаже.
Мина собирает завтрак на стол.
УЧИТЕЛЬ
Мина, ты не видела цветок в моей спальне?
МИНА
Тот, что завял? А, выбросила.
УЧИТЕЛЬ
Жаль, я привык к нему.
МИНА
Ты бледен с утра. Что с тобой?
УЧИТЕЛЬ
Голова болит, спрошу у аптекаря капель.
МИНА
Ты знаешь, а Генрих поступил в помощники к церковному сторожу.
УЧИТЕЛЬ
(садится за стол)
А-а…
МИНА
(ставит перед братом пироги)
Поешь, с утра напекла.
Садится напротив него, разливает чай.
УЧИТЕЛЬ
(откусывает пирожок)
Мои любимые. Спасибо, Мина.
МИНА
(разливает чай)
Мария рада, что Генрих нашелся. Правда странный он стал. Молчаливый. Старик-сторож его к себе и позвал. Чудной он сторож-то, чесноком весь сад церковный засадил.
Подает брату чашку чая.
УЧИТЕЛЬ
(ест)
Надо Генриха сходить навестить.
МИНА
Сходи-сходи. Худо-то не будет.
Откусывает пирожок.
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Учитель в Долине ведьм сидит на берегу озера.
(идет мелодия – тема Долины ведьм)
Над озером вьется туман, принимая различные очертания:
Вот белое облако принимает очертания девы с ненюфарами в волосах.
А вот ненюфары на поверхности воды раскрывают свои лепестки, над ними парят светлячки.
А вот растущие в округе цветущие деревья отдают свои белые лепестки ветру. Белая метель из лепестков кружит в воздухе над озером и головой учителя.
(мелодия смолкает)
УЧИТЕЛЬ
(всматривается в белый вихрь над озером)
А если правда, что говорят о долине? Если дева с озера придет и меня заберет?
Встает, лезет в озеро, тянется и срывает ненюфар. Весь мокрый выходит на берег с цветком в руке.
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Учитель идет через церковный двор и сад в деревенскую церковь. Сад засажен растением с белыми цветами.
Учитель проходит мимо посадок с цветами чеснока. Зажимает нос рукой.
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Учитель входит в деревенскую церковь.
Она разрисована крестами и увешана венками из чеснока над окнами и дверями.
ЦЕРКОВНЫЙ СТОРОЖ (он же Петро в старости, 60 лет) крепит венок из белых цветов чеснока над входными дверями изнутри.
ГЕНРИХ-охотник перебирает кресты из омелы.
УЧИТЕЛЬ
Как поживаешь Генрих?
ГЕНРИХ
Живем потихоньку.
УЧИТЕЛЬ
А что с шеей?
ГЕНРИХ
(трогает повязку на шее)
Оцарапал, заживает плохо.
ЦЕРКОВНЫЙ СТОРОЖ
И не заживет, пока она не укусит кого другого.
Учитель разворачивается в сторону входных дверей и указывает пальцем на венки из белых цветов.
УЧИТЕЛЬ
Что это?
ЦЕРКОВНЫЙ СТОРОЖ
Она не любит!
УЧИТЕЛЬ
Я, кажется, тоже.
Генрих косится на учителя.
УЧИТЕЛЬ
(продолжает)
Слышал я ваши истории. Разве мертвые встают из гробов?
ЦЕРКОВНЫЙ СТОРОЖ
Молод еще, поживи с мое.
УЧИТЕЛЬ
Генрих, не уж-то и ты в это веришь?
Генрих молча перебирает кресты.
ГЕНРИХ
(тихо)
Верю.
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Гостиная в доме учителя на первом этаже.
Мина шьет на стуле у окна.
Учитель сидит в кресле-качалке.
МИНА
Говорят, что этот старик знал лучшую жизнь. Он был дядькой одного из молодых графов Дракула и жил в замке. Потом семью постигло какое-то несчастье. Замок забросили. Говорят, у графов есть дальние родственники, где-то в Америке, но никто не знает, где они.
УЧИТЕЛЬ
Ты про нашего церковного сторожа, Мина?
МИНА
(вздыхает)
Про него. А то про кого-же.
КОНЕЦ ВОСПОМИНАНИЯ
ИНТ.– КОМНАТА С КАМИНОМ В ДЕРЕВЕНСКОЙ ГОСТИНИЦЕ – ВЕЧЕР, НАСТОЯЩЕЕ ВРЕМЯ
Гарри и его гости расселись в комнате с камином и слушают.
Карл Иванович разложил перед собой какую-то тетрадь. Он отрывается от чтения.
ЖОРЖ
Стойте, Гарри, учитель пишет о твоих родственниках?
ГАРРИ
Почему ты решил, что речь о здешнем замке?
КАПИТАН РАЙТ
Друзья, по последней сигаре.
Мужчины разбирают сигары.
ГАРРИ
Продолжайте, Карл Иванович.
КАРЛ ИВАНОВИЧ
(читает дневник учителя)
Сегодня зашел к нам церковный сторож, принес Мине в чистку какую-то утварь. Я его зазвал в кабинет и угостил чаем, куда успел влить ложки две рому. Старика живо развезло, и он начал рассказывать невероятные вещи: говорил о замке, о порядках в нем, о гончих, о прекрасной бедной графине.
КАПИТАН РАЙТ
О, это уже интереснее!
ИНТ. – РАБОЧИЙ КАБИНЕТ В ДОМЕ УЧИТЕЛЯ 60 ЛЕТ НАЗАД – ДЕНЬ, ВОСПОМИНАНИЕ ИЗ ДНЕВНИКА УЧИТЕЛЯ
НАЧАЛО ВОСПОМИНАНИЯ
Учитель и церковный сторож сидят в кабинете учителя за столом. Учитель поит церковного сторожа чаем с подноса.
ЦЕРКОВНЫЙ СТОРОЖ
(пьяненько)
А вот поди же ты, чуть она меня не загрызла!
УЧИТЕЛЬ
Кто, гончая сука?
ЦЕРКОВНЫЙ СТОРОЖ
Какая там сука, графиня! Умерла это она, а как полнолуние, так и пойдет ходить. Пристанет к кому – известно, погиб человек!
Ест пирожок, запивает чаем.
ЦЕРКОВНЫЙ СТОРОЖ
(продолжает)
А вот единожды идем это мы опушкой, а матерый-то волк и прысь на меня, повалил, а она-то, моя голубка Нетти, красавица, как разъярится, да ему, паскуде, в загривок впилась.
УЧИТЕЛЬ
Кто, графиня мертвая?
ЦЕРКОВНЫЙ СТОРОЖ
Ну тебя, путаешь все только! Гончая Нетти, я сам ее вынянчил; и ни за что пропала собака.
УЧИТЕЛЬ
Я уже не пойму о ком идет речь.
ЦЕРКОВНЫЙ СТОРОЖ
(окончательно опьянел)
Я ее утопил в старом колодце.
Встает из-за стола. Берет свою сумку на полу около стула.
ЦЕРКОВНЫЙ СТОРОЖ
(продолжает)
Ну, пора мне.
УЧИТЕЛЬ
(кивает)
Завтра Мина все почистит.
ЦЕРКОВНЫЙ СТОРОЖ
(подмигивает учителю)
Спишь хорошо?
ИНТ.– СПАЛЬНЯ В ДОМЕ УЧИТЕЛЯ 60 ЛЕТ НАЗАД – НОЧЬ, ВОСПОМИНАНИЕ ИЗ ДНЕВНИКА УЧИТЕЛЯ
Ненюфар в стакане с водой стоит на столе в спальне. Учитель стоит около него. Но цветок недвижим.
УЧИТЕЛЬ
Как тебя вернуть?
Меряет спальню шагами, нервничает. Задевает занавеску у окна: из-под нее что-то падает на пол – учитель поднимает гирлянду из засохших цветов и луковиц чеснока.
УЧИТЕЛЬ
(продолжает)
Так вот откуда противный запах в моей спальне.
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Учитель на церковном дворе разговаривает с церковным сторожем. Учитель держит небольшой сверток в руках. Церковный сторож красит лаком большой деревянный крест.
УЧИТЕЛЬ
Вот, Мина передала церковную утварь.
ЦЕРКОВНЫЙ СТОРОЖ
Положи туда.
Показывает рукой на скамью слева от себя.
УЧИТЕЛЬ
А что гончая Нетти? Та, что у графини была. Что с ней стало?
ЦЕРКОВНЫЙ СТОРОЖ
(хитро улыбается)
У графов, в замке была отличная стая гончих, а Нетти была любимицей самой графини и имела привилегию лежать у ее ног. Уж не иначе, как старый, американский дьявол уходил ее.
НАТ. – ЗАМОК КАРДИ 80 ЛЕТ НАЗАД – ЛЕТНИЙ ДЕНЬ, ВОСПОМИНАНИЕ ЦЕРКОВНОГО СТОРОЖА (ПЕТРО)
НАЧАЛО ВОСПОМИНАНИЯ
Панорамный вид: замковая терраса, в стороне от нее виднеется капелла.
ИНТ. – ЗАМОК КАРДИ 80 ЛЕТ НАЗАД: БОЛЬШОЙ БАЛКОН НА ПЕРВОМ ЭТАЖЕ ЗАМКА – ДЕНЬ, ВОСПОМИНАНИЕ ЦЕРКОВНОГО СТОРОЖА (ПЕТРО)
ПЕТРО (в молодости, 40 лет) входит на балкон в виде террасы, ему навстречу выходит АМЕРИКАНСКИЙ СЛУГА. Петро обменивается с ним взглядами.
НЕТТИ смотрит вслед американцу и трясется, шерсть на ней вся дыбом, изо рта пена, глаза дикие, зубы щелкают.
ГРАФИНЯ МАРИЯ полулежит бледная на кушетке. На лице испуг, глаза прикрыты.
ГРАФИНЯ МАРИЯ
(стонет)
Петрo…
Петро удивленно смотрит то на графиню, то на собаку, то на дверь, вслед ушедшему слуге.
НАТ. – САД ЗАМКА КАРДИ 80 ЛЕТ НАЗАД – ЛЕТНИЙ ДЕНЬ, ВОСПОМИНАНИЕ ЦЕРКОВНОГО СТОРОЖА (ПЕТРО)
(Фоном идет мелодия – тема американского дедушки)
Американский слуга удаляется в сторону капеллы.
Нетти, как сумасшедшая, бежит за ним по направлению старой капеллы и пропадает из виду.
КОНЕЦ ВОСПОМИНАНИЯ
НАТ.– ДЕРЕВЕНСКИЙ ЦЕРКОВНЫЙ ДВОР 60 ЛЕТ НАЗАД- ЛЕТНИЙ ДЕНЬ, ВОСПОМИНАНИЕ ИЗ ДНЕВНИКА УЧИТЕЛЯ
НАЧАЛО ВОСПОМИНАНИЯ
На церковном дворе разговаривают учитель и церковный сторож. Сторож красит крест. Учитель продолжает…
УЧИТЕЛЬ
Ты думаешь, что змея укусила Нетти?
ЦЕРКОВНЫЙ СТРОЖ
Нет, змея укусила графиню.
УЧИТЕЛЬ
Откуда же взялась змея в замке?
ЦЕРКОВНЫЙ СТОРОЖ
Из футляра, старый дьявол привез. На озеро не ходи.
УЧИТЕЛЬ
Кто тебе сказал, что я был на озере?
ЦЕРКОВНЫЙ СТОРОЖ
Да где же вы сапоги-то пачкаете, ведь все в тине, не ототрешь.
КОНЕЦ ВОСПОМИНАНИЯ
ИНТ.– КОМНАТА С КАМИНОМ В ДЕРЕВЕНСКОЙ ГОСТИНИЦЕ – ВЕЧЕР – НАСТОЯЩЕЕ ВРЕМЯ
Гарри и его гости расселись в комнате с камином и слушают.
Карл Иванович разложил перед собой какую-то тетрадь. Он продолжает…
КАРЛ ИВАНОВИЧ
(перебирает листы)
Здесь опять перерыв.
ГАРРИ
Пора спать, а то капитан Райт уже похрапывает.
Капитан Райт храпит в своем кресле.
ИНТ. – ЧАЙНАЯ КОМНАТА ДЕРЕВЕНСКОЙ ГОСТИНИЦЫ – УТРО – НАСТОЯЩЕЕ ВРЕМЯ
Гарри и компания собрались утром за завтраком.
ГАРРИ
Кого посетили ночью здешние девы? Неужели никого?
ДЖОРЖ К.
Меня.
ДЖЕЙМС
Рассказывайте!
ДЖОРЖ К.
(конфузится)
Она пришла и просила открыть дверь.
ГАРРИ
Какую дверь, где?
ДЖОРЖ К.
Она сказала «ищи».
КАПИТАН РАЙТ
(посмеивается)
Ну, конечно, она была с распущенными волосами и ненюфарами!
ДЖОРЖ К.
У нее темные волосы и большой черепаховый гребень украшает их.
КАПИТАН РАЙТ
(приподнимает брови)
Это что-то новое, господа.
В комнату входит СЛУГА.
СЛУГА
Лошади готовы.
ГАРРИ
(щелкает пальцами)
Охота, господа!
НАТ. – В ОКРЕСНЫХ ЛЕСАХ ЗАМКА – ЛЕТНИЙ ДЕНЬ – НАСТОЯЩЕЕ ВРЕМЯ
Гарри и компания несутся на лошадях через лес. Всадники проносятся мимо Охотничьего дома.
НАТ.– В НЕБЕ НАД ЗАМКОВЫМ ЛЕСОМ – ЛЕТНИЙ ДЕНЬ – НАСТОЯЩЕЕ ВРЕМЯ
Сверху летит орел и смотрит вниз: Внизу долина с озером. С одной стороны от долины возвышается мрачный средневековый замок, а немного в стороне от долины в низине в лесу – Охотничий дом.
Орел снижается на большой скорости и кидается на белого голубя – это происходит в небе над поляной, где остановился в лесу Гарри.
НАТ.– ЛЕС В ОКРЕСТНОСТЯХ ЗАМКА КАРДИ. – НАСТОЯЩЕЕ ВРЕМЯ
Гарри заблудился во время охоты. Его лошадь остановилась на поляне в лесу. Гарри кажется, что сквозь деревья мелькает женское голубое платье и слышится женский смех.
(идет мелодия – тема Гарри и Риты)
Гарри отвлекается на орла и голубя – поднимает глаза в небо. Он видит схватку двух птиц.
Снова смотрит на деревья где только что мелькало голубое платье. Там нет ничего. Гарри осматривается вокруг. Ищет ее…
(мелодия смолкает)
Лошадь ржет, топает копытами, срывается с места и несет Гарри в лес.
ИНТ. – СТОЛОВАЯ В ДЕРЕВЕНСКОЙ ГОСТИНИЦЕ – ВЕЧЕР – НАСТОЯЩЕЕ ВРЕМЯ
Гарри и компания собрались за обедом после охоты в столовой.
ГАРРИ
Не перейти ли нам к местному фольклеру?
ДЖЕЙМС
Карл Иванович, что новенького вы обнаружили в архивах сегодня?
КАРЛ ИВАНОВИЧ
Я могу прочесть письма, найденные сегодня в Охотничьем доме.
СМИТ
Мы готовим этот дом для вашего проживания.
КАРЛ ИВАНОВИЧ
Мне кажется, что письма имеют связь с Дневником учителя.
КАПИТАН РАЙТ
Конечно читайте.
КАРЛ ИВАНОВИЧ
Милый Альф! Я могу вернуться на родину, которую оставил семилетним мальчиком. До сих пор не знаю, почему я был отослан из родительского замка.
НАТ.– ТЕРРАСА ЗАМКА КАРДИ 80 ЛЕТ НАЗАД – ЛЕТНИЙ ВЕЧЕР, ВОСПОМИНАНИЕ МАЛЕНЬКОГО КАРЛО ИЗ ПИСЕМ К АЛЬФУ
НАЧАЛО ВОСПОМИНАНИЯ
Летний вечер, солнце еще не закатилось, сад весь в цветах.
Все собрались на террасе: КАРЛО, ЛЮСИ, ГРАФ ФРЕДЕРИК, графиня Мария. Любимая собака графини, НЕТТИ лежит тут же.
Входит слуга СЕБАСТИАН.
СЕБАСТЬЯН
Пожилой господин просит разрешения говорить с графом.
ГРАФ ФРЕДЕРИК
Приведи его, Себастиан.
(фоном идет мелодия – тема американского дедушки)
На террасу является старый АМЕРИКАНСКИЙ СЛУГА лет 80. Одет он в длинное полумонашеское платье. У него красноватые глаза и пунцовые губы на бледном лице. Он кланяется графу и графине.
При его появлении Нетти, любимая собака графини, вскакивает, ощетинивается, и бросается на него. Старик отгоняет ее клюкой, которую держит в руках.
(мелодия смолкает)
ГРАФИНЯ МАРИЯ
Поразительно, что с Нетти?
ГРАФ ФРЕДЕРИК
Петр, Выведем собаку.
Американский слуга с низким поклоном подает графу большой запечатанный конверт. Граф открывает его. Читает несколько строк про себя, обращается к жене.
ГРАФ ФРЕДЕРИК
(продолжает)
В замок пребудет гроб с останками нашего американского родственника. Усопший пожелал чтобы его захоронили здесь.
ГРАФ ФРЕДЕРИК
(продолжает)
Вы, должно быть и есть тот самый слуга, о котором сообщается в письме?
Американский слуга кланяется утвердительно.
АМЕРИКАНСКИЙ СЛУГА
Когда позволите привезти гроб?
ГРАФИНЯ МАРИЯ
Завтра, если хотите.
Американский слуга кланяется хозяевам и удаляется.
ГРАФИНЯ МАРИЯ
(продолжает)
Кто этот родственник, дорогой?
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(фоном идет мелодия – тема воспоминаний о доме)
Венецианский канал. Гондола тихо скользит по воде. Отблеск заходящего солнца отражается в воде. Кругом раздаются пение и музыка с соседних гондол.
КАРЛО (27 лет) смотрит в воду, он задумался.
ГОЛОС КАРЛО
(за кадром)
Моя мать умерла, когда я уже был в Нюрнберге. Как прекрасна она была и как быстро увяла.
(мелодия смолкает)
ИНТ. – ЗАМОК КАРДИ 80 ЛЕТ НАЗАД – БОЛЬШАЯ ГОСТИНАЯ ЗАМКА НА 1 ЭТАЖЕ – ДЕНЬ, ВОСПОМИНАНИЕ МАЛЕНЬКОГО КАРЛО ИЗ ПИСЕМ К АЛЬФУ
Карло и граф Фредерик разговаривают в гостиной замка. Карло стоит напротив графа и плачет.
ГРАФ ФРЕДЕРИК
Это желание твоей матери.
МАЛЕНЬКИЙ КАРЛО
(плачет)
Но почему? Она больше не любит меня?
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Венецианский канал. Гондола плывет по волнам. Карло стоит в гондоле и перебирает волны веслом.
(идет мелодия – тема Воспоминание о доме)
ГОЛОС КАРЛО
(за кадром)
Я ясно представляю себе мою мать: высокая, стройная, с тяжелыми русыми косами.
В воде проступает картинка: лицо графини Марии.
ГОЛОС КАРЛО
(продолжает)
Голубые глаза любовно и нежно смотрят на меня… Я точно чувствую их, и что же, два глаза смотрят на меня, но это не голубые глаза матери, а жгучие, черные.
Картинка в воде меняется: голубые глаза матери темнеют и становятся черными глазами НЕЗНАКОМКИ (она же РИТА) в проплывающей мимо гондоле. Карло смотрит ей вслед.
(мелодия смолкает)
ГОЛОС КАРЛО
(за кадром продолжает)
Они промелькнули и исчезли, а я не могу их забыть. Я должен еще раз ее увидеть!
КОНЕЦ ВОСПОМИНАНИЯ
НАТ. – ВЕНЕЦИЯ 60 ЛЕТ НАЗАД: НАБЕРЕЖНАЯ ЛИДО – ЛЕТНИЙ ВЕЧЕР, ВОСПОМИНАНИЕ ВЗРОСЛОГО КАРЛО ИЗ ПИСЕМ К АЛЬФУ
Карло гуляет с Ритой по набережной, за ними везде следует ее кормилица ЦИЦИЛИЯ.
(фоном идет мелодия – тема Риты)
ГОЛОС КАРЛО
(за кадром)
Я нашел ее, обладательницу тех черных глаз, что смотрели на меня на Лидо. Глаза эти, при свете солнца, еще прекраснее.
(пауза)
Ты спрашиваешь, о каком гробе я писал тебе, да о гробе дедушки, что его слуга привез из страны ацтеков.
КОНЕЦ ВОСПОМИНАНИЯ
ИНТ. – СТОЛОВАЯ ДЕРЕВЕНСКОЙ ГОСТИНИЦЫ – ВЕЧЕР – НАСТОЯЩЕЕ ВРЕМЯ
Гарри и компания собралась за обедом после охоты в столовой.
Карл Иванович прерывает свое чтение.
ГАРРИ
Как ацтеков? Ведь и я из страны ацтеков.
КАРЛ ИВАНОВИЧ
Быть может, это есть тот самый родственник, документов о погребении которого нам недостает?
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НАЧАЛО ВОСПОМИНАНИЯ
Карло стоит перед большим черным гробом. Гроб стоит в воротах замка. (идет мелодия – тема американского дедушки)
ГОЛОС КАРЛО
(за кадром)
На другой день, после посещения старика с красными глазами, в ворота нашего замка въехали дроги, а на них большой черный гроб.
(мелодия обрывается)
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Граф Фредерик, Петро и СВЯЩЕННИК проходят внутрь капеллы через открытую половинку двери.
Американский слуга останавливается на пороге капеллы, за его спиной большой черный гроб тут же держат слуги.
АМЕРИКАНСКИЙ СЛУГА
Этот гроб слишком большой. Он не пройдет в дверь из капеллы в склеп. Не лучше ли открыть западные двери в саду?
Граф выходит на порог капеллы.
ГРАФ ФРЕДЕРИК
Откуда вы можете все это знать?
АМЕРИКАНСКИЙ СЛУГА
По рассказам моего господина.
ГРАФ ФРЕДЕРИК
(присутствующим)
Придется отказаться от похоронной службы.
ГРАФИНЯ МАРИЯ
(подходит к графу)
Как же без похоронной службы?
ГРАФ ФРЕДЕРИК
(Слугам)
Откройте западные двери склепа.
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Склеп вычищен и хорошо освещен факелами.
(идет мелодия – тема американского дедушки)
Слуги торопливо опускают черный гроб в каменный саркофаг с высеченной на нем надписью «Привезен из Америки».
Граф и графиня тут же смотрят на происходящее со стороны.
ГРАФ ФРЕДЕРИК
(управляющему)
Микаэль, замкнешь склеп на ключ.
МИКАЭЛЬ
(громко слугам)
У кого ключ от склепа?
Слуги топчутся у саркофага, пожимают плечами и мотают головой.
ПЕТР
Потеряли, раззявы!
Начинается суматоха.
ГРАФ ФРЕДЕРИК
Кто держал ключ?
ПЕТР
Ни у кого нет ключа.
ГРАФИНЯ МАРИЯ
Прикажи отыскать.
(мелодия обрывается)
Граф и графиня идут к раскрытым дверям склепа. Американский слуга идет за ними.
АМЕРИКАНСКИЙ СЛУГА
(графу)
Могу я поселиться в сторожке около капеллы?
ГРАФ ФРЕДЕРИК
Да ведь сторожка непригодна для жилья.
АМЕРИКАНСКИЙ СЛУГА
Я ее поправлю. Я поклялся не бросать моего господина.
ГРАФ ФРЕДЕРИК
В таком случае – хорошо.
Граф, графиня и американский слуга выходят через раскрытые западные двери склепа в сад.
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Граф Фредерик, графиня Мария, американский слуга стоят в саду.
Американский слуга низко кланяется графу. Вынимает из кармана большой темный футляр и подносит его графине.
АМЕРИКАНСКИЙ СЛУГА
По приказанию моего господина, на память о нем.
(идет мелодия – тема богини Кале)
Графиня открывает футляр: на нежно-голубом бархате лежит чудное колье из жемчуга. Застежкой к нему служит голова змеи художественной работы, с двумя большими изумрудными глазами. Изумруды большой стоимости и как-то загадочно мерцают.
Графиня смотрит на графа, тот утвердительно кивает.
(мелодия обрывается)
КОНЕЦ ВОСПОМИНАНИЯ
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Гарри и компания собралась за обедом после охоты в столовой.
Карл Иванович прерывает свое чтение.
ГАРРИ
На груди у Вицли-Пуцли было такое же ожерелье. Ожерелье пропало, когда испанцы разорили храм Вицли-Пуцли.
ЖОРЖ К.
Кто такая эта Вицли-Пуцли?
КАПИТАН РАЙТ
Древний бог войны.
КАРЛ ИВАНОВИЧ
А вот еще письмо: Как я счастлив! «Она» и родина, что нужно еще человеку? Прощай. Бегу за розами. Д.
Он перекладывает письмо в стопке и что-то ищет в письмах.
ДЖЕЙМС
Это очевидно, Карло пишет про свою незнакомку.
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НАЧАЛО ВОСПОМИНАНИЯ
Пустой замковый коридор слабо освещен. Раздается крик графини Марии среди ночи в замке.
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(идет мелодия – тема американского дедушки)
Маленький Карло сидит в кровати в своей спальне в темноте. Он слышит как за дверью спальни хлопают двери и бегают встревоженные слуги.
МАЛЕНЬКИЙ КАРЛО
(испуганно)
Катерина, где ты?
Вскакивает с кровати и босиком, в одной рубашке выбегает из своей спальни.
(мелодия обрывается)
КОНЕЦ ВОСПОМИНАНИЯ
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В спальне графини Марии уже толпятся испуганные слуги.
Графиня лежит без чувств на высоко приподнятых подушках, бледная, как ее белые наволочки и ночная рубашка. На груди, на белом полотне, кровавые пятна.
Граф держит голову жены, а ДОКТОР ГРАФА ФРЕДЕРИКА вливает ей лекарство в рот. Через секунду она открывает глаза и испуганно осматривает комнату.
ГРАФИНЯ МАРИЯ
Фредди, ты прогнал его?
ГРАФ ФРЕДЕРИК
Кого его, моя дорогая?
ГРАФИНЯ МАРИЯ
Его, дедушку, не пускай его!
ГРАФ ФРЕДЕРИК
(берет ее за руку)
Никого нет, дедушка умер, а ты видела сон.
ГРАФИНЯ МАРИЯ
Сон, да, сон, но как ясно…
Делает паузу.
ГРАФИНЯ МАРИЯ
(продолжает)
Нет, это не сон.
(идет мелодия – тема американского дедушки)
ГРАФ ФРЕДЕРИК
(поглаживает ее по руке)
Полно тебе, это был сон.
ГРАФИНЯ МАРИЯ
Нет, слушай!
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Графиня Мария просыпается от холодного ветра, которые дует ей на лицо из открытого окна.
ДРАКУЛА (он же американский слуга) в спальне графини. Он подходит к ее кровати и наклоняется над ней. Графиня испугано смотрит на него в темноте.
ДРАКУЛА
Почему ты не носишь моего подарка?
В его руках жемчужное ожерелье с изумрудной головой змеи. Он надевает его на шею графини и целует ее в губы.
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Графиня лежит на высоко приподнятых подушках, бледная, как ее белые наволочки и ночная рубашка. На груди, на белом полотне, кровавые пятна.
Граф Фредерик сидит рядом, а доктор и слуги стоят тут же.
ГРАФИНЯ МАРИЯ
На моей шее висела змея, она меня укусила.
МАЛЕНЬКИЙ КАРЛО
Где же змея, мама?
Он протискивается из-за спин взрослых вперед. КАТЕРИНА тут же берет Карло за руку и быстро уводит его.
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Катерина укладывает Карло в постель. Карло садится на кровати и смотрит на Катерину. Его босые ноги торчат из-под одеяла.
КАТЕРИНА
Где это видано, бегать ночью босиком!
МАЛЕНЬКИЙ КАРЛО
Да где же змея, няня?
КАТЕРИНА
Какая там змея, барыня видела сон и закричала.
Катерина укрывает его одеялом. Карло ложится в постели.
КАТЕРИНА
Да спи ты, спи.
Карло натягивает одеяло на голову.
Его сестра Люси уже спит в свое кроватке по соседству.
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This script was transcribed by BJ Kuehl. Any corrections
should be sent to her at bj@csd.uwm.edu.
1992
BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA
(Directed by Francis Ford Coppola)
cast
Dracula..................................Gary Oldman
Mina Murray/Elisabeta...................Winona Ryder
Abraham Van Helsing..................Anthony Hopkins
Dr. Jack Seward.....................Richard E. Grant
Lord Arthur Holmwood......................Cary Elwes
Quincey P. Morris......................Bill Campbell
Lucy Westenra............................Sadie Frost
R.M. Renfield..............................Tom Waits
T R A N S Y L V A N I A
Prologue
Castle Dracula
The Year: 1462 A.D.
CONSTANTINOPLE HAD FALLEN. MUSLIM TURKS SWEPT INTO EUROPE WITH
A VAST, SUPERIOR FORCE, STRIKING AT ROMANIA, THREATENING ALL OF
CHRISTENDOM. FROM TRANSYLVANIA AROSE A ROMANIAN KNIGHT, OF THE
SACRED ORDER OF THE DRAGON, KNOWN AS DRACULEA. ON THE EVE OF
THE BATTLE, HIS BRIDE ELISABETA WHOM HE PRIZED ABOVE ALL THINGS
ON EARTH KNEW THAT HE MUST FACE AN INSURMOUNTABLE FORCE FROM
WHICH HE MIGHT NEVER RETURN.
Medieval Romanian Battlefield
Draculea kisses a crucifix
DRACULEA (translation): God be praised! I am victorious!
(Elisabeta's face comes into his mind) Elisabeta!
THE VENGEFUL TURKS SHOT AN ARROW INTO THE CASTLE CARRYING THE
FALSE NEWS OF DRACULEA'S DEATH. ELISABETA, BELIEVING HIM DEAD,
FLUNG HERSELF INTO THE RIVER.
Draculea returns to the castle
Elisabeta lies dead on the chapel floor
SUICIDE NOTE FROM ELISABETA (translation): My prince is dead.
All is lost without him. May God unite us in heaven.
BISHOP (translation): She has taken her own life. Her soul
cannot be saved. She is damned. It is God's Law.
DRACULEA (translation): Nooo! Is this my reward for defending
God's church?
BISHOP (translation): Sacrilege!
DRACULEA (translation): I renounce God! I shall rise from my
own death to avenge hers with all the powers of darkness!
Draculea stabs at the altar cross with his sword
Blood pours from the cross, from the eyes of statues,
and from candle flames
Draculea fills a chalice with the blood and drinks it
DRACULEA (translation): The blood is the life and it shall be
mine!
Blood covers the chapel floor
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1 8 9 7 A.D.
(Four centuries later)
E N G L A N D
LONDON
LATE EVENING
Carfax District Lunatic Asylum
Renfield's Cell
RENFIELD: I've done everything that you asked, Master. All the
preparations are in order. (He reaches for a fly on the
ceiling.) I await your command for I know that, when the
rewards are given, I will be one of those who benefits from your
generosity. (He eats the fly). Thank you.
THE NEXT MORNING
The Law Firm of Hawkins and Thompkins
Mr. Hawkins speaks with law clerk Jonathan Harker
HAWKINS: Gone mad. Renfield is deranged. He's lost his greedy
mind, poor chap. I want you to take over for his foreign
client, this rather eccentric Count Dracula. He's buying up
property around London.
HARKER: Of course, sir. I will tend to the Count. Thank you
for your confidence.
HAWKINS: This is a great opportunity for you, Harker, but you
will have to leave for Transylvania immediately. Opportunities
such as this come but once in a lifetime.
HARKER: Yes, of course, sir. If I may inquire, what in fact
happened to Mr. Renfield in Transylvania?
HAWKINS: Nothing, nothing. Personal problems. Close these
transactions and your future with this firm is assured.
HARKER: Yes, sir. I will give it my full attention.
KENT
THE NEXT MORNING
The Garden at Hillingham Estate (Faversham, Kent)
Harker speaks with fiancee Mina Murray
MINA: We've waited this long, haven't we?
HARKER: We can be married when I return.
MINA: Of course.
HARKER: I'll write.
MINA: Jonathan, Jonathan, I love you.
HARKER: I love you, Mina.
They kiss goodbye
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SEVERAL DAYS LATER
T R A N S Y L V A N I A
MIDDAY
On a Train
Harker writes in his journal
JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL, 25th May, Buda-Pesth: Left
Buda-Pesth early this morning. The impression I had was that we
were leaving the west and entering the east. The district I am
to enter is in the extreme east of the country, just on the
borders of three states--Transylvania, Moldavia and Bukovina, in
the midst of the Carpathian Mountains, one of the wildest and
least known portions of Europe.
He opens and reads a letter
LETTER FROM COUNT DRACULA TO JONATHAN HARKER: My friend.
Welcome to the Carpathians. I am anxiously expecting you. At
the Borgo Pass, my carriage will await you and bring you to me.
I trust your journey from London has been a happy one and that
you will enjoy your stay in my beautiful land. Your friend, D.
MINA MURRAY'S DIARY, 25th May: My dear Jonathan has been gone
almost a week and, although I was disappointed we could not
marry before his departure, I am happy that he got sent on this
important assignment. I am longing to hear all the news. It
must be so nice to see strange countries. I wonder if we, I
mean Jonathan and I, shall ever see them together?
NIGHTFALL
Borgo Pass
Jonathan Harker disembarks from a coach
HARKER: We're early, driver. No one is here.
A fellow passenger hands Harker a crucifix
GIRL (translation): For the dead travel fast.
The passenger coach speeds away as Dracula's coach approaches
The coachdriver bids Harker to enter and sit down
The coach speeds away, followed by wolves
HARKER: I say, is the castle far?
COACHDRIVER: (No answer)
The coach speeds up a narrow crag toward Dracula's castle
It passes through a circle of blue fire
Harker disembarks in the courtyard
As Harker approaches the castle doors, they swing open
An old man bearing a lantern enters the chamber
DRACULA: Welcome to my home. Enter freely of your own will and
leave some of the happiness you bring.
HARKER: Count Dracula?
DRACULA: I am Dracula, and I bid you welcome, Mr. Harker, to my
house. Come in.
Harker steps over the threshhold
Dracula leads him into the dining room
DRACULA: You will, I trust, excuse me that I do not join you
but I have already dined and I never drink...wine.
Harker begins to eat
He motions toward a portrait on the wall
HARKER: An ancestor? I see a resemblance.
DRACULA: The Order of the Dracul...the Dragon...an ancient
society pledging my forefathers to defend the church against all
enemies of Christ. That relationship was not entirely
successful.
HARKER (slightly snickering): Oh, yes.
Dracula angrily grabs a sword, swings it overhead
and points the tip at Harker
DRACULA: It is no laughing matter. We Draculs have a right to
be proud. What devil or witch was ever so great as Attila whose
blood flows in these veins? Blood is too precious a thing in
these times. The warlike days are over. The victories of my
great race are but a tale to be told. I am the last of my kind.
HARKER: I have offended you with my ignorance, Count. Forgive
me.
LATER
The Library at Castle Dracula
Dracula affixes his seal to the deed of purchase
DRACULA: I do so long to go through the crowded streets of your
mighty London, to be in the midst of the whirl and the rush of
humanity, to share its life, its changes, its deaths.
Harker affixes his signature to the deed
HARKER: There. You, Count, are the owner of Carfax Abbey in
Purfleet. Congratulations.
DRACULA: Your firm writes most highly of your talents. They
say you are a man of good taste and that you are a worthy
substitute to your predescessor, Mr. Renfield.
HARKER: You may rely on me, Count. Forgive my curiosity but
why 10 houses in such precise locations around London? Is it to
raise the market value?
Dracula picks up Harker's photograph of Mina
DRACULA: Do you believe in destiny, that even the powers of
time can be ordered to a single purpose? The luckiest man who
walks on this earth is the one who finds true love.
HARKER: You found Mina. I thought she was lost. We're to be
married as soon as I return. Are you married, Count?
DRACULA: (no answer)
HARKER: Sir, are you married?
DRACULA: I was married once...ages ago it seems. She died.
HARKER: Oh, I'm very sorry.
DRACULA: She was fortunate. My life at its best is a mystery.
She will no doubt make a devoted wife and you a faithful
husband. Come, write now, my friend, to your firm and to any
loved ones and say that it should please you to stay with me
until a month from now.
HARKER: A month? Do you wish me to stay so long?
DRACULA: I will take no refusal.
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FIVE DAYS LATER
E N G L A N D
KENT
MORNING
The Parlour at Hillingham Estate
Mina types her diary
MINA MURRAY'S DIARY, 30th May: I know that Jonathan does not
want me to stay here with Lucy while he is away. I thinks that
if I become accustomed to the wealth and privileges of the
Westenra family, I will not be content as the wife of a mere
clerk in a law firm. But Lucy and I have been friends since we
were children and she has never minded that I'm only a school
mistress.
She sneaks a peek at a drawing from Arabian Nights
MINA: How disgustingly awful!
Enter Lucy Westenra
LUCY: Mina! Mina! Oh, Mina, you're always working. Is your
ambitious Jon Harker forcing you to learn that ridiculous
machine when he could be forcing you to perform unspeakable acts
of desparate passion on the parlour floor?
MINA: Lucy, really! You shouldn't talk about my fiance in such
a way. There's more to marriage than carnal pleasure.
Mina stands up, knocking the book on the floor
LUCY: Oh, Mina, so I see--much, much more. Oh? Oh! That's...
Mina and Lucy page through the book
MINA: What? What is it, Lucy? I certainly don't understand
it. Can a man and a woman really do that?
LUCY: I did only last night.
MINA: Fibber, you did not.
LUCY: Yes, I did, well, in my dreams. Jonathan measures up,
doesn't he? You can tell Lucy.
MINA: We've kissed. That's all. He thinks he's too poor to
marry me. And it's all the worst now that I'm here visiting you
at Hillingham, my rich friend.
LUCY: Yes, but not even one marriage proposal. Here I am,
almost 20, practically a hag!
EARLY THAT EVENING
Lucy and Mina watch party guests arrive
BUTLER: Mr. Quincey P. Morris.
Enter Quincey P. Morris
MINA: Look. What is that?
LUCY: A Texan...Quincey P. Morris. He's so young and fresh,
like a wild stallion between my legs.
MINA: You're positively indecent!
LUCY: I just know what men desire. Watch.
Lucy approaches Morris
LUCY: Quincey, darling.
MORRIS: Miss Lucy. Why you're as fresh as the spring rain.
LUCY: Oh, thank you. (She runs her hands over Morris) Oh,
Quincey, please let me touch it. It's so big!
Lucy winks at Mina and pulls out Morris's Bowie knife
MORRIS: Little girl. Oh, my dear sweet little girl. I hold
your hand and you've kissed me...
BUTLER: Dr. Jack Seward.
Enter Dr. Jack Seward
Lucy runs to Seward
LUCY: Jack! Oceans of love!
Seward trips over a bearskin run
LUCY: Oh, Jack, my darling! Oh, poor little baby. Come over
here. Come over here and I'll kiss it better. My poor little
blossom. My poor little doctor. Really, doctor. What a
naughty bear. Let me feel...
BUTLER: Arthur Holmwood, Esquire.
Enter Lord Arthur Holmwood
Lucy runs to Holmwood
LUCY: Arthur! Oh, my darling. Oh, you look wonderful. Like
my dress? It's my snake dress.
Seward and Morris greet each other
and sit side-by-side on a couch
SEWARD: Quincey.
MORRIS: Jack.
Seward stands up and hands Morris his squashed hat
SEWARD: So sorry about your hat.
MINA MURRAY'S DIARY: Lucy is a pure and virtuous girl, but I
admit that her free way of speaking shocks me sometimes.
Jonathan says it's a defect of the aristocracy that they say
what they please. The truth is that I admire Lucy, and I'm not
surprised that men flock around her. I wish I were as pretty
and as adored as she.
Enter Dracula's shadow
LONDON
LATER THAT EVENING
Carfax District Lunatic Asylum
DR. SEWARD'S DIARY ON PHOTOGRAPH CYLINDER, 30th May: What
manner of man is this? R. M. Renfield, successful solicitor in
the firm of Hawkins and Thompkins, respected member of the Lord
Nugent's Wyndham Club. Returns from business abroad in
Transylvania. Promptly suffers a complete mental breakdown.
He's now obsessed with some bloodlust.
Seward enters Renfield's cell
SEWARD: George, wait here.
Renfield holds out a plate of grubs, flies, ants, beetles and
wireworms
RENFIELD: Would you care for an hors d'oeuvre, Dr. Seward, or a
canape?
SEWARD: No, thank you, Mr. Renfield. How are you feeling
tonight?
RENFIELD: Far better than you, my lovesick doctor.
SEWARD: Is my personal life of interest to you?
RENFIELD: Of course it is. All life interests me.
SEWARD: Your diet, Mr. Renfield, is disgusting!
RENFIELD: Actually, they're perfectly nutritious. You see,
each life that I ingest gives life to me.
SEWARD: The fly gives you life?
RENFIELD: Certainly. (Renfield turns away from Seward) But
you might as well ask a man to eat a molecule with a pair of
chopsticks than to interest me in lesser carnivora.
SEWARD: I shall have to invent a new classification of the
lunatic for you. What about spiders? Spiders eat the flies.
RENFIELD: Yes, spiders eat them.
SEWARD: What about sparrows?
RENFIELD: Oh, yes. Did you say sparrows?
SEWARD: Something larger perhaps?
RENFIELD: Oh, yes, a kitten, I beg you, a little, sleek...a
playful kitten...something I can teach, something I can feed.
No one would refuse me a kitten.
SEWARD: Wouldn't you prefer a cat?
RENFIELD: Oh, yes, a big cat! My salvation depends upon it!
SEWARD: Your salvation?
RENFIELD: I need lives. I need lives for the Master.
SEWARD: What Master?
RENFIELD: The Master will come, and he has promised to make me
immortal.
SEWARD: How?
Renfield suddenly attacks Dr. Seward
Guards rush in to subdue Renfield
RENFIELD: The blood is the life!
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MEANWHILE
T R A N S Y L V A N I A
Castle Dracula
Harker's Bedchamber
JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL, 3Oth May, Castle Dracula: I think
strange things which I dare not confess to my own soul. The
Count, the way he looked at Mina's picture fills me with dread
as if I have a part to play in a story that is not known to me.
Harker shaves while looking into a small mirror
Harker cuts himself with the razor
Enter Dracula
HARKER: I didn't hear you come in.
DRACULA: Take care how you cut yourself. It is more dangerous
than you think.
Dracula breaks the mirror
DRACULA: A foul bauble of man's vanity. Perhaps you should
grow a beard.
Dracula takes the razor, turns and licks off the blood
DRACULA: The letters I requested...have you finished them?
Harker hands Dracula three letters
DRACULA: Good.
Dracula shaves Harker
DRACULA: Should you leave these rooms, you will not by any
chance go to sleep in any other part of the castle. It is old
and has many bad memories. Be warned.
HARKER: I'm sure I understand.
Dracula sees a crucifix around Harker's neck
He snarls and pushes Harker away
DRACULA: Do not put your faith in such trinkets of deceit! We
are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways
are not your ways. And, to you, there shall be many strange
things.
HARKER: I've seen many strange things already...bloody wolves
chasing me through some blue inferno!
Harker peers out the window to see wolves in the courtyard
Wolf howl
DRACULA: Listen to them, the children of the night. What sweet
music they make.
HARKER: Music? Those animals?
Exit Dracula
Exit Dracula's shadow
Harker peers outside the window
to see Dracula crawling, like a reptile, up the castle wall
JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL: I did as Dracula instructed. I
wrote three letters--to the firm, to my family, and to my
beloved Mina. I said nothing of my fears as he will read them,
no doubt. I know now that I am a prisoner.
LATER THAT NIGHT
Harker wanders the castle
He finds an unused bedchamber
VAMPIRESS: Jonathan! Jonathan, come to me! Come! Lay down,
lay back into my arms. Lay back, Jonathan.
Three vampiresses seduce Harker
They bite and suck him
Enter Dracula
DRACULA (translation): How dare you touch him! He belongs to
me!
VAMPIRESS (translation): You yourself never loved!
DRACULA (translation): Yes, I too can love. And I shall love
again.
VAMPIRESS (translation): Are we to have nothing tonight?
Dracula gives the vampiresses a human baby
HARKER: Noooooo!
DRACULA: (Laughs)
SEVERAL DAYS LATER
In the crypt of Castle Dracula
Harker watches gypsies loading boxes of earth onto wagons
JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL: The letters I have written have
undoubtedly sealed my doom. The Count's gypsies, fearless
warriors who are loyal to the death to whatever nobleman they
serve, day and night they toil, filling boxes with decrepit
earth from the bowels of the castle. They are to be delivered
to his newly acquired Carfax Abbey in London. Why do they fill
these boxes with earth?
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WEEKS LATER
E N G L A N D
KENT
The Garden at Hillingham Estate
Mina reads a letter
LETTER FROM JONATHAN HARKER TO MINA MURRAY: Dearest Mina, all
is well here. The Count has insisted I remain for a month to
tutor him in English custom. I can say no more except I love
you. Ever faithful, Jonathan.
Enter Lucy
LUCY: I love him, I love him! Oh, Mina. It's so wonderful!
I've decided! I love him, and I've said yes.
MINA: Finally! Don't tell me. The Texan with the big knife?
LUCY: Oh, no, to my dear number three--Lord Arthur Holmwood.
Lord and Lady Holmwood. Would you want to be my maid of honor?
Say yes.
MINA: (No answer)
LUCY: Mina, what is it? This is the most exciting day of my
life. You don't seem to care.
MINA: It's just that I'm so terribly worried about Jonathan.
This letter I received is so cold. It's so unnatural. It's not
like him at all.
LUCY: Oh, Mina, don't worry.
A rainstorm suddenly hits
CAPTAIN'S LOG, THE DEMETER, 27th June: We picked up 50 boxes of
experimental earth bound for London, England. Set sail at noon
into a storm that seemed to come out of nowhere, carrying us out
to sea.
CAPTAIN'S LOG, THE DEMETER, 3rd July: Second mate is gone
missing. Nearing Gibraltar. Storm continues. Crew uneasy,
believes someone or something is aboard the ship with us.
LONDON
Carfax District Lunatic Asylum
A storm rages over London
The patients are in a frenzy
Dr. Seward in his office dictating
RENFIELD (screaming): The Master of all life is at hand!
Gather round! I am here to do your bidding, Master! I have
worshipped you long and far off! Now that you are near, Master,
I am your slave! I await your command!
SEWARD: The case of Renfield grows more interesting. Yet there
is method in his madness, with his flies and spiders. Had I the
secret of even one such brilliant mind, the key to the fantasy
of one lunatic. (He injects himself with morphine) Lucy! Lucy!
The Demeter approaches land
A wolf jumps to shore and runs down the street
KENT
LATE THAT NIGHT
Hillingham Estate
Lucy sleepwalks out her bedroom door into the garden
Mina attempts to follows her into the garden maze
MINA: Lucy! Lucy! Lucy! Lucy! Lucy!
Mina finds Lucy lying on bench near the family burial vault
being raped and bitten by Dracula in wolfman form
Dracula sees Mina
DRACULA: No! Do not see me!
Mina runs to Lucy
MINA: Lucy, Lucy!
LUCY: I couldn't control myself.
MINA: Lucy, you're dreaming. You're walking in your sleep
again.
LUCY (in extreme confusion and agitation): My soul seemed to
leave my body. There was this agonizing feeling and, when it
came back to me, I saw you shaking me.
MINA: You're all right, Lucy.
LUCY: I had to. It sort of pulled me and lured me and I had no
control. And those red eyes! I still have the taste of his
blood on my mouth.
LONDON
MORNING
Carfax Abbey
Large crates are delivered to the Abbey
Renfield peers out the window of Carfax Asylum
RENFIELD: Master, I am here to do your bidding. Master, I am
here. I have worshipped you!
CONTRARY TO SOME BELIEFS, THE VAMPIRE, LIKE ANY OTHER NIGHT
CREATURE, CAN MOVE ABOUT BY DAY THOUGH IT IS NOT HIS NATURAL
TIME AND HIS POWERS ARE WEAK.
A young-looking Dracula rises from a box of earth
HEADLINES FROM VARIOUS NEWSPAPERS:
dated July 7, 1897
The Pall Mall Gazette
WOLF ESCAPES FROM ZOO
The Times
STRANGEST STORM ON RECORD
The Standard
MYSTERY SCHOONER
Crew Missing
EVENING 8 PM
In the streets of London
Dracula walks along the sidewalk
CRIER: See the amazing cinematograph! A wonder of modern
civilization! An amazing sensation....
Enter Mina
Dracula sees Mina enter a pharmacist shop
DRACULA: See me. See me now.
NEWS HAWKER: Escaped wolf from zoo still at large! Paper, sir?
(Dracula buys a paper) Thank you, sir.
Mina exits the pharmacy
Dracula bumps into Mina
DRACULA: My humblest apologies. Forgive my ignorance. I have
recently arrived from abroad and I do not know your city. Is a
beautiful lady...
MINA: You may purchase a street atlas for six pence. Good day.
Mina turns away
DRACULA: I have offended you. I am only looking for the
cinematograph. I understand it is a wonder of the civilized
world.
MINA: If you seek culture, then visit a museum. London is
filled with them. Excuse me.
Mina walks away
She rounds a corner, and there stands Dracula
DRACULA: A woman so lovely and intelligent should not be
walking the streets of London without her gentleman.
MINA: Do I know you, sir? Are you acquainted with my husband?
Shall I call the police?
DRACULA: Husband? I shall bother you no more.
Dracula turns away
MINA: Sir, it is I who have been rude. If you are looking...
DRACULA: Please, permit me to introduce myself. I am Prince
Vlad of Szekely.
MINA: A prince, no less?
DRACULA: I am your servant.
MINA: Wilhelmina Murray.
DRACULA: I am honored, Madame Mina.
MINA: This way.
KENT
MEANWHILE
The Foyer at Hillingham Estate
The butler admits Dr. Seward
SEWARD: Hello. Mr. Holmwood asked me to stop by to see Miss
Lucy.
BUTLER: Yes, sir.
Butler leads Seward into parlour
where Lucy is being fitted in her wedding gown
BUTLER: Dr. Seward, Miss Lucy.
SEWARD: Thank you.
LUCY: Oh, Jack. Brilliant Jack. Do you like it? (She twirls
in the dress) Did Arthur put you up to this or did you want me
alone just once before I'm married?
SEWARD: Miss Lucy, you are embarrassing me. I am here as your
doctor. Your fiance is very worried about you, and I assure you
a doctor's confidence is sacred. I must have your complete
trust.
LUCY: Help me, Jack. I don't know what's happening to me. I'm
changing. I can feel it. I can hear everything. I hear the
servants at the other end of the house whispering. I hear mice
in the attic stomping like elephants. But I'm having horrible
nightmares, Jack. The eyes! Oh, Jack.
SEWARD: I'm here, Lucy. Nothing will harm you.
Seward injects Lucy with morphine
LUCY: Owww.
SEWARD: Let it work. Lucy.
LUCY: Oh, Jack. Kiss me.
Seward gives Lucy a peck on the lips
Outside, Morris and Holmwood ride up on horseback
MORRIS: And may I say Miss Lucy is hotter than a June bride
riding bareback buck-naked in the middle of the...
HOLMWOOD: I would watch my colonial tongue, if I were you.
They get off their horses
Dr. Seward exits from the front door
HOLMWOOD: Hello again. And how is our lovely patient today?
SEWARD: Well, frankly, Arthur, I'm confounded.
MORRIS: Oh, Jack, are you still brooding over Miss Lucy?
SEWARD: I can only conclude it must be something mental.
HOLMWOOD: How very drole. Did you hear that, Quince? Last
week he wants to marry her, and now he wants to have her
committed. Let's go have a look at her, shall we?
Holmwood, Seward and Morris enter the parlour
Lucy lies on the couch, wheezing
SEWARD: I'm at a loss, I admit. I've taken the liberty of
cabling Abraham Van Helsing, a metaphysician philosopher.
MORRIS: Sounds like a goddam witchdoctor to me, Jack.
SEWARD: Van Helsing knows more about obscure diseases than any
man in the world. He's my teacher and mentor.
HOLMWOOD: Do it, man. Bring him here. Spare no expense.
Exit Seward, Morris and Holmwood
LONDON
MEANWHILE
The London Cinematograph
Dracula and Mina watch a cinematomovie
DRACULA: Astounding! There are no limits to science.
MINA: How can you call this science? Do you think Madame
Currie would invite such comparisons? Really! I shouldn't have
come here. I must go.
Mina turns to leave
Dracula holds her by the arm
DRACULA: Do not fear me.
He steers her into a back room and makes her lie on a couch
He leans over her
MINA: Stop this! Stop this!
DRACULA: (speaks in Romanian)
MINA: God, who are you? I know you!
DRACULA: I have crossed oceans of time to find you.
Dracula's vampire teeth elongate but he resists biting
Enter white wolf
Cinematograph patrons scatter in fear
Wolf snarls at Mina
DRACULA: (Calls to wolf in Romanian) Come here, Mina.
Mina pets wolf
DRACULA: He likes you. There is much to be learned from beasts.
KENT
LATER THAT NIGHT
The Front Gate at Hillingham Estate
Dracula's carriage drives up
Mina exits carriage and reluctantly enters the gates
TELEGRAM FROM JACK SEWARD TO ABRAHAM VAN HELSING: ...do not
lose an hour. A dear friend near death. A disease of the blood
unknown to all medical theory. I am in desparate need. Jack
Seward.
LONDON
THE NEXT DAY
A classroom at a Medical College
Dr. Abraham Van Helsing displays a vampire bat to medical
students
HELSING: the vampire bat must consume 10 times its
own weight in fresh blood each day or its own blood cells will
die. Cute little vermin, Ja? Blood and the diseases of the
blood such as syphillis will concern us here. The very name
'venereal diseases', the 'diseases of Venus', imputes to them
divine origin. They are involved in that sex problem about
which the ethics and ideals of Christian civilization are
concerned. In fact, civilization and syphillization have
advanced together.
Enter Assistant
He hands an envelope to Van Helsing
HELSING: What is this?
ASSISTANT: It's from the telegraph, Professor.
Van Helsing reads the telegram
HELSING: Hmm, thank you. Gentlemen, thank you, that will be
all.
MEANWHILE
T R A N S Y L V A N I A
Castle Dracula
JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL: Dawn. These may be the last words I
write in this journal. Dracula has left me with these women,
these devils of the pit. They drain my blood to keep me weak,
barely alive so I cannot escape. I will try one last time today
to escape to the water. There must be passageway to the river
and then away from this cursed land where the devil and his
children still walk with earthly feet.
E N G L A N D
KENT
THAT EVENING
Hillingham Estate
Dracula arrives at the patio doors to Lucy's bedroom
Van Helsing arrives at the front door
FROM VAN HELSING'S NOTES: For the record, I do attest that at
this point I Abraham Van Helsing became personally involved with
these strange events.
In the foyer
Van Helsing is greeted by Jack Seward
SEWARD: Professor Van Helsing, how good of you to come!
HELSING: I always come to my friends in need when they call me.
So, Jack, tell me everything about your case.
SEWARD: She has all the usual physical anemic signs.
HELSING: Ja.
SEWARD: Her blood analyzes normal and yet it is not. She
manifests continued blood loss but I cannot trace the cause.
HELSING: Blood loss? How?
LUCY: (Screams)
Van Helsing and Seward run to Lucy's bedroom
Exit Dracula's shadow
HELSING: My God, close the door.
Seward closes the patio doors
Helsing examines Lucy
HELSING: My God, she's only a child. (He notices bites on
neck) Ja, my God. There's no time to be lost. There must be a
transfusion at once. Take off your coat. You remember how to
tie a tourniquet, don't you, or have you forgotten?
SEWARD: You've perfected a procedure?
HELSING: Perfected, no. I've only experimented .
Animals, goats, sheeps. If hemolysis occurs in the blood or the
serum, her red blood cells will explode. She will die. Here,
take this tube.
Arthur Holmwood bursts through the bedroom door
HOLMWOOD: What in God's name is going on up here?
SEWARD: This is Professor Van Helsing, Art.
HOLMWOOD: Well, what the hell is he doing to Lucy.?
SEWARD: He's trying to save her life.
HOLMWOOD: Good God.
HELSING: You're the fiance? Please, please, take off your
coat. This young lady is very ill, she's dying, she wants
blood, and blood she must have. Take off your coat.
SEWARD: Roll up your sleeve, Arthur.
ARTHUR: Oh, God.
HELSING: Roll it up!
SEWARD: This may hurt a little, Art.
Seward inserts a needle into a vein in Holmwood's arm
HOLMWOOD: OW! Forgive me, sir. My life is hers. I would give
my last drop of blood to save her.
HELSING: Your last drop? Thank you, you are very welcomed
here. I do not ask as much as that--not yet.
SEWARD: Hold her hand.
Seward inserts needle into a vein in Lucy's arm
LATER THAT EVENING
In the garden
Enter Seward, Holmwood and Morris
HOLMWOOD: But Jack, that poor creature has had the blood of two
men put into her already.
MORRIS: Man alive, her whole body couldn't hold that much
blood. What took it out?
Enter Van Helsing
HELSING: That's a good question, Mr. Morris.
SEWARD: Those marks on her throat. No disease, no trituration,
I'm sure the blood loss occurred there.
HELSING: Oh? Where did the blood go? You were once a careful
student, Jack. Use your brain. Where did the blood go, tell me.
SEWARD: The bed clothes would be covered in blood.
HELSING: Exactly. You do not let your eyes see nor your ears
hear that which you cannot account for.
SEWARD: Something just went up there, sucked it out of her, and
flew away, I suppose?
HELSING: Ja, why not?
ARTHUR: That's brilliant. That's absolutely brilliant. Will
one of you learned doctors, or whatever you are, kindly tell me
what is going on with my Lucy?
HELSING: Jack, you are a scientist. You do not think that
there are things in this universe which you cannot understand
and which are true--mesmerism, hypnotism...
SEWARD (turning away): You and Charcot have proved hypnotism!
HELSING (his voice
fading):...telekinesis...materialization...astral bodies...
SEWARD: Professor?
HOLMWOOD: Where the hell did he go?
HELSING: See?
SEWARD: I feel like a blundering novice.
HELSING: Gentlemen, we're not fighting some disease here.
Those marks on your dear Miss Lucy's neck were made by something
unspeakable out there, dead but not dead. It stalks us for some
dread purpose I do not yet comprehend. To live, it feeds on
Lucy's precious blood. It is a beast, a monster.
AFTERNOON
Lucy's bedroom
Lucy sleeps
Mina watches over her
MINA (to herself): What is happening to Lucy and to me? When I
was younger, my feelings were never troubled. I wish I were
myself again, the sensible Mina I've always depended on.
LONDON
EARLY EVENING
At a private table in a restaurant
Dracula pours a drink for Mina
DRACULA: Absinthe is the aphrodisiac of the soul. The green
fury who lives in the absinthe wants your soul. But you are
safe with me.
MINA: Tell me, Prince, tell me of your home.
DRACULA: The most beautiful place in all creation.
MINA: Yes, it must be. A land beyond a great, vast forest
surrounded by majestic mountains, lush vineyards, and flowers of
such frailty and beauty as to be found nowhere else.
DRACULA: You describe my home as if you had seen it firsthand.
MINA: It's your voice, perhaps. It's so familiar. It's like
a...it's like a voice in a dream I cannot place, and it comforts
me when I am alone. And what of the princess?
DRACULA: Princess?
MINA: There is always a princess with gowns flowing white. Her
face...her face is the river. The princess, she is the river
filled with tears and with sadness and with heartbreak.
DRACULA: There was a princess...Elisabeta. She was the most
radiant woman in all the empires of the world. Man's deceit
took her from her ancient prince. She leapt to her death into
the river that you spoke of. In my mother's tongue, it is
called "Artzeche (or Arges?)", River Princess.
MEANWHILE
T R A N S Y L V A N I A
Castle Dracula
Harker climbs out a window, moves along a ledge
and plunges into the river below
He follows the river upstream and comes upon a convent
SEVERAL DAYS LATER
E N G L A N D
KENT
Hillingham Estate
In the garden, Mina reads a letter
LETTER FROM SISTER AGATHA TO MINA MURRAY: Dear Madam, your
fiance is safe and in the care of the good sisters of the
blessed sacrement. Mr. Harker believes your life is in extreme
danger, and he desires with all urgency that you join him here
so that you may immediately be married. Yours with all
blessings, Sister Agatha.
MINA: My sweet Prince. Jonathan must never know of us.
Mina runs up the stairs to Lucy's bedroom door
MINA: Lucy! Lucy!
Van Helsing and Seward intercept Mina
HELSING: Abraham Van Helsing.
MINA: Dr. Van Helsing.
VAN HELSING: You are Madam Mina, dear friend to our Lucy, Ja?
MINA: How is she, doctor?
VAN HELSING: She is still very weak. She tells me of your
beloved Jonathan Harker and your worry for him. Well, I too
worry for all young lovers. (He holds her as if to dance) La
de da da. The darkness is not the Light, my child, and there
are Lights. You are one of the Lights, dear Mina, the Light of
all Light. Go now, see your friend.
Mina and Seward enter Lucy's room
Lucy lies in bed
LUCY: You look different, Mina, you look positively radiant.
You've heard from Jonathan, haven't you?
MINA: Yes. He's safe, Lucy. He's in a convent in Romania.
He's suffering from a violent brain fever. The good sisters are
caring for them. They wrote to me and they say he needs me but
I won't go. I'm not going to leave you.
LUCY: Mina, you've got to go to him. You've got to love him
and marry him right then and there. And I want you to take
this, my sister.
Lucy takes off a ring from her finger
and hands it to Mina
MINA: No.
LUCY: It's my wedding gift to you.
MINA: No, Lucy, no.
LUCY: Don't worry aout spoiled little Lucy. I'll be all right.
Tell Jonathan oceans of love.
Mina kisses Lucy
Enter Quincey Morris
MORRIS: How is she?
Mina places flowers on Lucy's bedtable
LUCY (begins to writhe and pull at garlic cloves tied around her
neck): Oh, oh. This is why I can't breathe!
HELSING (springs to Lucy's side): Lucy, Lucy. It's
medicinal...to help you sleep, Lucy. It's for the bad dreams.
LUCY: It's garlic! It's nothing but garlic.
SEWARD: Lucy, Quincey's here. Quincey's here to see you. (To
Mina) Tell Franz to get some brandy.
LUCY: Oh, Quincey.
MORRIS: Now, Miss Lucy, you just rest easy. Arthur sent me to
take care of you. He said if you don't get better right quick I
have to put you out of your misery like a lame horse.
LUCY: Quincey, you're such a beast. Will you kiss me, Quincey?
Kiss me.
Morris bends to kiss Lucy
She bites at his neck
Van Helsing pulls Morris away and holds Lucy down
MORRIS: You old coot!
LUCY: Get off me!
VAN HELSING: Lucy, listen to me. Sleep, sleep now, sleep.
There, there. (He looks at the fangs in her gums) Ja.
Nosferatu.
LONDON
LATER
Van Helsing's study
Van Helsing reads from the book Vampyre
HELSING: "Here occurs the shocking and frightening history of
the wild berserker, Prince Dracula, how he impaled people and
roasted them, boiled their heads in a kettle, how he skinned
them alive and hacked them to pieces and then drank their
blood." Ja, Dracul! Her blood is the life.
MEANWHILE
In the restaurant
Dracula awaits Mina's arrival
Enter Waitor
He hands a note to Dracula
NOTE FROM MINA TO PRINCE VLAD: My dearest Prince, forgive me.
I have received word from my fiance in Romania. I am en route
to join him. We are to be married. I will never see you again.
Mina.
DRACULA: (Cries)
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On a boat crossing the English Channel
Mina throws mementos into the ocean
MINA (to herself): It's odd but I feel almost that my strange
friend is with me. He speaks to me in my thoughts. With him, I
felt more alive than ever I had. And now, without him, soon to
be a bride, I feel confused and lost. Perhaps, though I try to
be good, I am bad. Perhaps I am a bad, inconstant woman.
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LONDON
MEANWHILE
In the restaurant
DRACULA (crying): Winds! Winds!
Van Helsing's Study
Winds blow out the candles
HELSING: It is the cause. It is the cause, my soul. It is
Dracula, the undead, the foe I have pursued all my life.
Helsing rushes to Hillingham Estate
HELSING: Dracula! Jack, hurry, I have much to tell you.
Quincey Morris comes out the front door
HELSING: Guard her well, Mr. Morris. Do not fail here tonight.
We are giving the forces beyond all human experience an
enormous power. So guard her well, otherwise your precious Lucy
will become a bitch of the devil, a whore of darkness.
MORRIS: Well you're a sick old buzzard!
HELSING: Hear me out, young man. Lucy is not a random victim
attacked by mere accident, do you understand? No, she is the
willing recruit, a breathless follower, a wanton follower, I
dare say, a devoted disciple and the devil's concubine, do you
understand me? Yet we may still save her precious soul but not
on an empty stomach. Jack?
SEWARD (from a carriage): Yes, sir.
HELSING: I starve. Feed me.
MORRIS: You old coot!
Van Helsing and Seward ride off in a carriage
THAT NIGHT
R O M A N I A / E N G L A N D
A Church in Romania/Lucy's Bedroom at Hillingham
Mina and Harker stand before the altar
Dracula stands before the patio doors to Lucy's bedroom
DRACULA: Your impotent men with their foolish spells cannot
protect you from my power. I condemn you to living death, to
eternal hunger for living blood!
Mina and Harker drink wine in marriage
Dracula drinks Lucy's blood in marriage
THE NEXT DAY
The Parlour at Hillingham Estate
Lucy lies in state
Relatives, friends, servants, Holmwood, Morris and Seward attend
Enter Van Helsing
HELSING: Psst, Jack. Jack, I know how deeply you loved her.
That is why you must trust me and believe.
SEWARD: Believe, how can I believe?
HELSING: I want you to bring me before nightfall a set of
postmortem knives.
SEWARD: To autopsy Lucy?
HELSING: No, no, not exactly. I just want to cut off her head
and take out her heart.
Seward off away in disgust
HELSING: Jack?
LONDON
SEVERAL WEEKS LATER
MINA MURRAY'S DIARY, 17th September: Poor Jonathan, still so
ill. He is cheered by the familiar streets of London. For me,
now that Lucy is dead, it is a sad homecoming. It's as if a
part of me is dead, too, except for the tiny hope that lives in
me that I will again see my Prince. Is he here? Now that I am
married, I begin to understand the nature of my feelings for my
strange friend who is always in my thoughts.
Mina and Harker enter a carriage
Harker stares out the window
MINA: Jonathan, what is it?
HARKER: It is the man himself! There, look! He's grown young!
Harker points to Dracula
but the carriage drives off before Mina can see him
KENT
LATE AT NIGHT
Lucy's Tomb
Enter Van Helsing, Morris, Holmwood and Seward
HOLMWOOD: Gentlemen, must we desecrate poor Lucy's grave? She
died horribly enough.
HELSING: If Miss Lucy is dead, no wrong can be done to her.
But if she's not dead, well...
HOLMWOOD: What are you saying, man? That she's been buried
alive?
HELSING: No. All I say is that she is undead.
HOLMWOOD: Undead? Oh, this is insane.
They hammer off the locks
HELSING: Gentlemen, shall we? 1..2...3!
They push the lid off the coffin
It is empty
HOLMWOOD: Where is she? Where is she! What have you done with
her?
HELSING: She lives beyond the grace of God, a wanderer in the
outer darkness. She is vampyre, Nosferatu. These creatures do
not die like the bee after the first sting but instead grow
strong and become immortal once infected by another Nosferatu.
So, my friends, we fight not one beast but legions that go on
age after age after age, feeding on the blood of the living.
Suddenly there is noise outside the tomb
They hear a child crying
HELSING: Quickely, hide! Hide, now!
Enter Lucy, carrying a toddler
HELSING: Lucy! Lucy!
Lucy sees Holmwood
LUCY: Come to me, Arthur. Leave these others and come to me.
I am so hungry for you, my darling. Kiss me and caress me, my
darling husband, please!
Van Helsing holds up a crucifix
Lucy recoils
HELSING: We're strong in the Lord and in the power of His
might! We're strong in the Lord and in the power of His might!
Our God is upon us. We're strong in the Lord and in the power
of His might! We're strong in the Lord and in the power of His
might!
Lucy backs into her coffin
HELSING: We're strong in the Lord and in the power of His
might! Ex umbre se lucia.
Lucy belches up a stream of blood
HELSING: I bring you from shadow into light. I cast you out,
the Prince of Darkness, into hell. (He hands stake to Holmwood)
A moment's courage and it is done. Take the stake in your left
hand, place the point on the heart, and in God's name strike.
Do it now!
Holmwood drives stake through Lucy's heart
Van Helsing cuts off her head
LONDON
THE NEXT EVENING
In a restaurant
Van Helsing, Mina and Harker dine together on roast beef
HELSING: Eat. Feast. You need your strength for the dark days
ahead. Mina.
MINA: Doctor?
HELSING: Ja?
MINA: How did Lucy die? Was she in great pain?
HELSING: Ja, she was in great pain. Then we cut off her head
and drove a stake through her heart and burned it and then she
found peace.
HARKER: Doctor! Please!
HELSING: So, Mr. Harker, I must now ask you as your doctor a
sensitive question. During your infidelity with those
creatures, those demonic women, did you for one instant taste of
their blood?
HARKER: No.
HELSING: No?
HARKER: No.
HELSING: Good! Then you have not infected your blood with the
terrible disease that destroyed poor Lucy.
Mina leans over and kisses Harker
HARKER: Doctor, you must understand. I doubted everything,
even my mind. I was impotent with fear.
HELSING: I know.
HARKER: But, sir, I know where the bastard sleeps. I brought
him there to Carfax Abbey.
HELSING: Vampires do exist, and this one we fight, this one we
face, has the strength of 20 or more people, and you can testify
to that, Mr. Harker.
SUNDOWN
Carfax Abbey
Van Helsing, Holmwood, Morris, Harker, Seward and dogs
prepare to enter
HELSING: ...But he can also control the meaner things of
life--the bat, the rodent, the wolf. He can appear as mist, as
vapor, as fog, and vanish at will. Now, all these things
Dracula can do but he is not free. He must rest in the sacred
dirt of his homeland to regain his evil power, and it is here
that you must find him and destroy him utterly. Jack...
MINA: I almost feel pity for anything so hunted as this count.
HARKER: How can you pity such a creature?
SEWARD: I'l take Mina to my quarters. You'll be safer there.
HELSING: Mr. Morris, your bullets will not harm him. He must
be beheaded. I suggest you use your big Bowie knife.
MORRIS: Well, I wasn't planning on getting that close, doc.
Renfield watches from his cell window
as the men enter Carfax Abbey
RENFIELD: Master! Master! Master!
Seward and Mina enter Carfax Asylum
RENFIELD: Dr. Jack, I've been promised eternal life!
MINA: Dr. Seward, who is that man?
SEWARD: Mr. Renfield. This is no place for you, Madam Mina.
MINA: Renfield. I must see him.
SEWARD: Mr. Renfield, behave yourself. This is Mrs. Harker.
RENFIELD: Good evening.
MINA: Good evening, Mr. Renfield.
RENFIELD: It seems that I've been rather naughty. I know you.
You're the bride my Master covets.
MINA: I have a husband. I am Mrs. Harker.
RENFIELD: My Master tells me about you.
MINA: What does he tell you?
RENFIELD: That he's coming, that he's coming for you. Oh,
please, don't stay here. Get away from these men. Please. I
pray to God I may never see your sweet face again. May the Lord
bless you and keep you.
Exit Mina
RENFIELD: Master! Master, you promised ME eternal life but you
give it to the pretty woman! Doctor Jack. I'm no lunatic man.
I'm a sane man fighting for his soul.
Seward opens the door to his quarters
He and Mina enter
SEWARD: My quarters are spare but I think you will find them
comfortable. Water and toiletries at your disposal. You'll be
completely safe here.
MEANWHILE
In Carfax Abbey
HELSING: Destroy every box. Sterilize the earth inside. Leave
him no refuge. Let the exorcism begin.
They break open the boxes
Exit Dracula in the form of a bat
MOMENTS LATER
Renfield's Cell at Carfax Asylum
Enter Dracula in the form of green mist
DRACULA: Renfield, you have betrayed me.
RENFIELD: No. No, Master. No, I serve you. I serve only you.
Dracula kills Renfield
MOMENTS LATER
Seward's Quarters at Carfax Asylum
Enter Dracula as green mist
He crawls under the bedcovers
Mina awakens
MINA: Yes, my love, you found me.
DRACULA: My most precious life.
MINA: I've wanted this to happen. I know that now. I want to
be with you always.
DRACULA: You cannot know what you are saying.
MINA: Yes, I do. I feared I would never feel your touch again.
I thought you were dead.
DRACULA: There is no life in this body.
MINA: But you live! You live! What are you? I must know!
You must tell me!
DRACULA: I am nothing, lifeless, soulless, hated and feared. I
am dead to all the world...hear me! I am the monster the
breathing men would kill. I am Dracula.
Mina beats at Dracula
MINA: No! You murdered Lucy! (She collapses in his arms) I
love you. Oh, God forgive me, I do. I want to be what you are,
see what you see, love what you love.
DRACULA: Mina, to walk with me, you must die to your breathing
life and be reborn to mine.
MINA: You are my love and my life always.
DRACULA: Then I give you life eternal, everlasting love, the
power over the storm and the beasts of the earth. Walk with me
to be my loving wife forever.
MINA: I will. Yes, yes.
Dracula drinks from Mina
He opens a vein in his chest
DRACULA: Mina! Mina, drink and join me in eternal life.
Mina drinks
Dracula suddenly pushes Mina away
DRACULA: No, I cannot let this be.
MINA: Please, I don't care. Make me yours.
DRACULA: You'll be cursed as I am and walk through the shadow
of death for all eternity. I love you too much to condemn you.
MINA: Then take me away from all this death!
Mina continues to drink
The door bursts open
Enter Harker, Van Helsing, Morris, Holmwood and Seward
HARKER: Mina!
Van Helsing holds up a crucifix and begins an exorcism
The crucifix catches fire and he drops it
DRACULA (in the form of a bat): You think you can destroy me
with your idols, I who served the cross, I who commanded nations
hundreds of years before you.
HELSING: Your armies were defeated. You tortured and impaled
thousands of people!
DRACULA: I was betrayed. Look what your God has done to me!
HELSING: No, your war with God is over. You must pay for your
crimes.
Van Helsing sprinkles Dracula with holy water
and continues the exorcism
HELSING: Christ compells you!
DRACULA: She is now mine!
HELSING: No!
Harker attempts to shoot Dracula but Mina grabs his arm
MINA: No!
Harker's shot hits Dracula in the chest
Dracula backs into a dark corner
HELSING: Lights, all lights!
Dracula transposes into hundreds of rats
which scurry across the floor
MINA: Unclean! Unclean!
HELSING: Get them. Get them. They must be found!
MINA: Unclean!
LATER THAT NIGHT
Carfax Abbey burns
Van Helsing speaks with Mina
HELSING: We have learned something much. Draculea fears us.
He fears time for, if not, why does he hurry so?
MINA: He is calm.
HELSING: How do you know?
MINA: He speaks to me.
HELSING: He has a strong mind connection to you. His heart was
strong enough to survive the grave.
MINA: You admire him.
HELSING: Ja. He was in life a most remarkable man. His mind
was great and powerful, but greater is the necessity to stamp
him out and destroy him utterly.
MINA: Doctor?
HELSING: Ja?
MINA: I know that I am becoming like him.
HELSING: Your salvation is his destruction. That is why I want
to hypnotize you. I want you to help me find him, Mina. Before
it is too late, please help me find him. Please. Look into
this light, the light of all light, into this flame. Your eyes
are heavy. You want to sleep. Sleep now. Sleep...
MINA: He calls to me.
HELSING: What do you hear? What do you hear, child? What do
you hear?
MINA: My Prince is calling me. He is traveling across icy seas
to his beloved home. There he will grow strong again. I am
coming to him to partake of his strength.
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SEVERAL DAYS LATER
T R A N S Y L V A N I A
On a Train
JONATHAN HARKER'S DIARY, 28th October: We left London by train
and crossed the English Channel that night in stormy seas, no
doubt from the passage of the Count's ship. He commands the
winds. But we still have the advantage. By train, we can reach
the Romanian port at Varna in three days. By ship, it will take
him at least a week. From Paris, we traveled through the Alps
to Buda-Pesth. The Count must sail around the rock of
Gibraltor, where we have posted a lookout, and then on to the
Black Sea port at Varna where we will meet his ship and burn it
into the sea.
Mina, breathing hard, lies prostrate in her train seat
HELSING: The vampire has baptized her with his own blood. Her
blood is dying, my friend. It's no use.
Harker sits next to Mina
HARKER: I will not let you go to the unknown alone.
Mina notices that Harker's hair has turned grey
MINA: Oh, what have I done to you!
HARKER: No, I have done this to both of us.
MINA: He's coming closer. He's calling me to him.
HARKER: Mina! Mina, stay with me, please.
MINA: I'm so cold.
ABRAHAM VAN HELSING'S JOURNAL: Holmwood received a wire from
his clerk at Lloyd's: "The Count's ship sailed past us in the
night fog to the northern port of Galatz." The black devil is
reading Mina's mind.
HOLMWOOD: How can we catch him now?
HARKER (looking at a map): Varna...Galatz. It's about 200
miles. I think that with the horses we can cut him off, reach
him before he reaches the castle. I would dispatch Van Helsing
straight to Borgo Pass. If we fail in our task, you will have
to finish him.
JONATHAN HARKER'S DIARY: From Varna, Mina and Van Helsing took
a carriage, but we continued on the train towards Galatz where
we still hope to intercept the Count before he reaches land. I
am fearful for Mina. She is now our decoy.
SEVERAL EVENINGS LATER
Borgo Pass
Enter Mina and Van Helsing in a carriage
MINA: I know this place.
HELSING: The end of the world
MINA: We must go on.
HELSING: It is late, child. We must rest here now.
MINA: No, we must go!
HELSING: Mina!
MINA: He needs me. We must go!
JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL: We are past Bistritza. Dracula has
outsmarted us again. We learned that his gypsies took charge of
the vampire's box at Galatz and are now on the Borgo Pass road.
NIGHT
Mina and Van Helsing camp outside the castle walls
HELSING: Here...you must eat.
MINA: I am not hungry.
HELSING: Mina!
Mina begins to writhe and scream
Three vampiresses call to Mina
Mina suddenly looks hungrily at Van Helsing
MINA: You've been so good to me, Professor. I know that Lucy
harbored secret desires for you. She told me. I too know what
men desire.
Mina and Van Helsing kiss
MINA: Will you cut off my head and drive a stake through my
heart as you did poor Lucy, you murdering bastard?
Mina attempts to bite Van Helsing
HELSING: No! Not while I live! I've sworn to protect you!
Van Helsing touches a consecrated host to Mina's forehead
It burns her forehead
The vampiresses continue to call to Mina
HELSING: No! We're safe within the circle. I lost Lucy, I
will not lose you to him. Whores of Satan, this is holy ground!
Leave this place now! Leave this ground. I command you, in
the name of Christ.
The vampiresses attack and kill the horses
HELSING: No! No! No! Damn you!
THE NEXT MORNING
The Crypt at Castle Dracula
Van Helsing finds the three vampiresses asleep on their coffins,
cuts off their heads and throws them in the river
SUNDOWN
The gypsy wagon approaches Castle Dracula
DRACULA (in his box of earth): Mina! You and me!
MINA: My love.
Harker, Holmwood, Morris and Seward
race behind the gypsy wagon
HELSING: They're racing against the sunset. It may be too
late, God help us!
DRACULA: Mina!
SEWARD: Charge!
As Seward, Harker, Morris and Holmwood charge the wagon,
Mina calls up the blue flame
The gypsy wagon and its followers enter the castle courtyard
The sun sinks lower
A gypsy stabs Morris in the back
Harker attempts to open Dracula's box
The sun sets
Dracula breaks out of his box
Harker slits Dracula's neck
HOLMWOOD: Quincey!
Morris leaps forward and stabs Dracula through the heart
MINA: No!
Holmwood and Harker race forward to finish Dracula
HELSING: No!
MINA: When my time comes, will you do the same to me? Will you?
HARKER: No.
Holmwood again advances on Dracula
HARKER: No, no wait. Let them go, let them go. Our work is
finished here. Hers is just begun.
Van Helsing turns to Morris
being tended to by Dr. Seward
HELSING: Quincey.
Morris dies
HELSING: We've all become God's madmen, all of us.
Harker's hair is black again
MEANWHILE
In the castle chapel
Dracula lies on the floor, dying
Mina kneels next to him
DRACULA: Where is my God? He has forsaken me. It is finished.
MINA: Oh, my love! (She kisses him) My love!
MINA HARKER'S DIARY: There, in the presence of God, I
understood at last how my love could release us all from the
powers of darkness. Our love is stronger than death.
DRACULA: Give me peace.
Mina pushes the sword through Dracula's heart
The burn on her forehead disappears
Dracula dies
Mina kisses him goodbye,
then cuts off his head
THE END
This script was transcribed by BJ Kuehl. Any corrections
should be sent to her at bj@csd.uwm.edu.
1992
BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA
(Directed by Francis Ford Coppola)
cast
Dracula..................................Gary Oldman
Mina Murray/Elisabeta...................Winona Ryder
Abraham Van Helsing..................Anthony Hopkins
Dr. Jack Seward.....................Richard E. Grant
Lord Arthur Holmwood......................Cary Elwes
Quincey P. Morris......................Bill Campbell
Lucy Westenra............................Sadie Frost
R.M. Renfield..............................Tom Waits
T R A N S Y L V A N I A
Prologue
Castle Dracula
The Year: 1462 A.D.
CONSTANTINOPLE HAD FALLEN. MUSLIM TURKS SWEPT INTO EUROPE WITH
A VAST, SUPERIOR FORCE, STRIKING AT ROMANIA, THREATENING ALL OF
CHRISTENDOM. FROM TRANSYLVANIA AROSE A ROMANIAN KNIGHT, OF THE
SACRED ORDER OF THE DRAGON, KNOWN AS DRACULEA. ON THE EVE OF
THE BATTLE, HIS BRIDE ELISABETA WHOM HE PRIZED ABOVE ALL THINGS
ON EARTH KNEW THAT HE MUST FACE AN INSURMOUNTABLE FORCE FROM
WHICH HE MIGHT NEVER RETURN.
Medieval Romanian Battlefield
Draculea kisses a crucifix
DRACULEA (translation): God be praised! I am victorious!
(Elisabeta's face comes into his mind) Elisabeta!
THE VENGEFUL TURKS SHOT AN ARROW INTO THE CASTLE CARRYING THE
FALSE NEWS OF DRACULEA'S DEATH. ELISABETA, BELIEVING HIM DEAD,
FLUNG HERSELF INTO THE RIVER.
Draculea returns to the castle
Elisabeta lies dead on the chapel floor
SUICIDE NOTE FROM ELISABETA (translation): My prince is dead.
All is lost without him. May God unite us in heaven.
BISHOP (translation): She has taken her own life. Her soul
cannot be saved. She is damned. It is God's Law.
DRACULEA (translation): Nooo! Is this my reward for defending
God's church?
BISHOP (translation): Sacrilege!
DRACULEA (translation): I renounce God! I shall rise from my
own death to avenge hers with all the powers of darkness!
Draculea stabs at the altar cross with his sword
Blood pours from the cross, from the eyes of statues,
and from candle flames
Draculea fills a chalice with the blood and drinks it
DRACULEA (translation): The blood is the life and it shall be
mine!
Blood covers the chapel floor
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1 8 9 7 A.D.
(Four centuries later)
E N G L A N D
LONDON
LATE EVENING
Carfax District Lunatic Asylum
Renfield's Cell
RENFIELD: I've done everything that you asked, Master. All the
preparations are in order. (He reaches for a fly on the
ceiling.) I await your command for I know that, when the
rewards are given, I will be one of those who benefits from your
generosity. (He eats the fly). Thank you.
THE NEXT MORNING
The Law Firm of Hawkins and Thompkins
Mr. Hawkins speaks with law clerk Jonathan Harker
HAWKINS: Gone mad. Renfield is deranged. He's lost his greedy
mind, poor chap. I want you to take over for his foreign
client, this rather eccentric Count Dracula. He's buying up
property around London.
HARKER: Of course, sir. I will tend to the Count. Thank you
for your confidence.
HAWKINS: This is a great opportunity for you, Harker, but you
will have to leave for Transylvania immediately. Opportunities
such as this come but once in a lifetime.
HARKER: Yes, of course, sir. If I may inquire, what in fact
happened to Mr. Renfield in Transylvania?
HAWKINS: Nothing, nothing. Personal problems. Close these
transactions and your future with this firm is assured.
HARKER: Yes, sir. I will give it my full attention.
KENT
THE NEXT MORNING
The Garden at Hillingham Estate (Faversham, Kent)
Harker speaks with fiancee Mina Murray
MINA: We've waited this long, haven't we?
HARKER: We can be married when I return.
MINA: Of course.
HARKER: I'll write.
MINA: Jonathan, Jonathan, I love you.
HARKER: I love you, Mina.
They kiss goodbye
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SEVERAL DAYS LATER
T R A N S Y L V A N I A
MIDDAY
On a Train
Harker writes in his journal
JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL, 25th May, Buda-Pesth: Left
Buda-Pesth early this morning. The impression I had was that we
were leaving the west and entering the east. The district I am
to enter is in the extreme east of the country, just on the
borders of three states--Transylvania, Moldavia and Bukovina, in
the midst of the Carpathian Mountains, one of the wildest and
least known portions of Europe.
He opens and reads a letter
LETTER FROM COUNT DRACULA TO JONATHAN HARKER: My friend.
Welcome to the Carpathians. I am anxiously expecting you. At
the Borgo Pass, my carriage will await you and bring you to me.
I trust your journey from London has been a happy one and that
you will enjoy your stay in my beautiful land. Your friend, D.
MINA MURRAY'S DIARY, 25th May: My dear Jonathan has been gone
almost a week and, although I was disappointed we could not
marry before his departure, I am happy that he got sent on this
important assignment. I am longing to hear all the news. It
must be so nice to see strange countries. I wonder if we, I
mean Jonathan and I, shall ever see them together?
NIGHTFALL
Borgo Pass
Jonathan Harker disembarks from a coach
HARKER: We're early, driver. No one is here.
A fellow passenger hands Harker a crucifix
GIRL (translation): For the dead travel fast.
The passenger coach speeds away as Dracula's coach approaches
The coachdriver bids Harker to enter and sit down
The coach speeds away, followed by wolves
HARKER: I say, is the castle far?
COACHDRIVER: (No answer)
The coach speeds up a narrow crag toward Dracula's castle
It passes through a circle of blue fire
Harker disembarks in the courtyard
As Harker approaches the castle doors, they swing open
An old man bearing a lantern enters the chamber
DRACULA: Welcome to my home. Enter freely of your own will and
leave some of the happiness you bring.
HARKER: Count Dracula?
DRACULA: I am Dracula, and I bid you welcome, Mr. Harker, to my
house. Come in.
Harker steps over the threshhold
Dracula leads him into the dining room
DRACULA: You will, I trust, excuse me that I do not join you
but I have already dined and I never drink...wine.
Harker begins to eat
He motions toward a portrait on the wall
HARKER: An ancestor? I see a resemblance.
DRACULA: The Order of the Dracul...the Dragon...an ancient
society pledging my forefathers to defend the church against all
enemies of Christ. That relationship was not entirely
successful.
HARKER (slightly snickering): Oh, yes.
Dracula angrily grabs a sword, swings it overhead
and points the tip at Harker
DRACULA: It is no laughing matter. We Draculs have a right to
be proud. What devil or witch was ever so great as Attila whose
blood flows in these veins? Blood is too precious a thing in
these times. The warlike days are over. The victories of my
great race are but a tale to be told. I am the last of my kind.
HARKER: I have offended you with my ignorance, Count. Forgive
me.
LATER
The Library at Castle Dracula
Dracula affixes his seal to the deed of purchase
DRACULA: I do so long to go through the crowded streets of your
mighty London, to be in the midst of the whirl and the rush of
humanity, to share its life, its changes, its deaths.
Harker affixes his signature to the deed
HARKER: There. You, Count, are the owner of Carfax Abbey in
Purfleet. Congratulations.
DRACULA: Your firm writes most highly of your talents. They
say you are a man of good taste and that you are a worthy
substitute to your predescessor, Mr. Renfield.
HARKER: You may rely on me, Count. Forgive my curiosity but
why 10 houses in such precise locations around London? Is it to
raise the market value?
Dracula picks up Harker's photograph of Mina
DRACULA: Do you believe in destiny, that even the powers of
time can be ordered to a single purpose? The luckiest man who
walks on this earth is the one who finds true love.
HARKER: You found Mina. I thought she was lost. We're to be
married as soon as I return. Are you married, Count?
DRACULA: (no answer)
HARKER: Sir, are you married?
DRACULA: I was married once...ages ago it seems. She died.
HARKER: Oh, I'm very sorry.
DRACULA: She was fortunate. My life at its best is a mystery.
She will no doubt make a devoted wife and you a faithful
husband. Come, write now, my friend, to your firm and to any
loved ones and say that it should please you to stay with me
until a month from now.
HARKER: A month? Do you wish me to stay so long?
DRACULA: I will take no refusal.
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FIVE DAYS LATER
E N G L A N D
KENT
MORNING
The Parlour at Hillingham Estate
Mina types her diary
MINA MURRAY'S DIARY, 30th May: I know that Jonathan does not
want me to stay here with Lucy while he is away. I thinks that
if I become accustomed to the wealth and privileges of the
Westenra family, I will not be content as the wife of a mere
clerk in a law firm. But Lucy and I have been friends since we
were children and she has never minded that I'm only a school
mistress.
She sneaks a peek at a drawing from Arabian Nights
MINA: How disgustingly awful!
Enter Lucy Westenra
LUCY: Mina! Mina! Oh, Mina, you're always working. Is your
ambitious Jon Harker forcing you to learn that ridiculous
machine when he could be forcing you to perform unspeakable acts
of desparate passion on the parlour floor?
MINA: Lucy, really! You shouldn't talk about my fiance in such
a way. There's more to marriage than carnal pleasure.
Mina stands up, knocking the book on the floor
LUCY: Oh, Mina, so I see--much, much more. Oh? Oh! That's...
Mina and Lucy page through the book
MINA: What? What is it, Lucy? I certainly don't understand
it. Can a man and a woman really do that?
LUCY: I did only last night.
MINA: Fibber, you did not.
LUCY: Yes, I did, well, in my dreams. Jonathan measures up,
doesn't he? You can tell Lucy.
MINA: We've kissed. That's all. He thinks he's too poor to
marry me. And it's all the worst now that I'm here visiting you
at Hillingham, my rich friend.
LUCY: Yes, but not even one marriage proposal. Here I am,
almost 20, practically a hag!
EARLY THAT EVENING
Lucy and Mina watch party guests arrive
BUTLER: Mr. Quincey P. Morris.
Enter Quincey P. Morris
MINA: Look. What is that?
LUCY: A Texan...Quincey P. Morris. He's so young and fresh,
like a wild stallion between my legs.
MINA: You're positively indecent!
LUCY: I just know what men desire. Watch.
Lucy approaches Morris
LUCY: Quincey, darling.
MORRIS: Miss Lucy. Why you're as fresh as the spring rain.
LUCY: Oh, thank you. (She runs her hands over Morris) Oh,
Quincey, please let me touch it. It's so big!
Lucy winks at Mina and pulls out Morris's Bowie knife
MORRIS: Little girl. Oh, my dear sweet little girl. I hold
your hand and you've kissed me...
BUTLER: Dr. Jack Seward.
Enter Dr. Jack Seward
Lucy runs to Seward
LUCY: Jack! Oceans of love!
Seward trips over a bearskin run
LUCY: Oh, Jack, my darling! Oh, poor little baby. Come over
here. Come over here and I'll kiss it better. My poor little
blossom. My poor little doctor. Really, doctor. What a
naughty bear. Let me feel...
BUTLER: Arthur Holmwood, Esquire.
Enter Lord Arthur Holmwood
Lucy runs to Holmwood
LUCY: Arthur! Oh, my darling. Oh, you look wonderful. Like
my dress? It's my snake dress.
Seward and Morris greet each other
and sit side-by-side on a couch
SEWARD: Quincey.
MORRIS: Jack.
Seward stands up and hands Morris his squashed hat
SEWARD: So sorry about your hat.
MINA MURRAY'S DIARY: Lucy is a pure and virtuous girl, but I
admit that her free way of speaking shocks me sometimes.
Jonathan says it's a defect of the aristocracy that they say
what they please. The truth is that I admire Lucy, and I'm not
surprised that men flock around her. I wish I were as pretty
and as adored as she.
Enter Dracula's shadow
LONDON
LATER THAT EVENING
Carfax District Lunatic Asylum
DR. SEWARD'S DIARY ON PHOTOGRAPH CYLINDER, 30th May: What
manner of man is this? R. M. Renfield, successful solicitor in
the firm of Hawkins and Thompkins, respected member of the Lord
Nugent's Wyndham Club. Returns from business abroad in
Transylvania. Promptly suffers a complete mental breakdown.
He's now obsessed with some bloodlust.
Seward enters Renfield's cell
SEWARD: George, wait here.
Renfield holds out a plate of grubs, flies, ants, beetles and
wireworms
RENFIELD: Would you care for an hors d'oeuvre, Dr. Seward, or a
canape?
SEWARD: No, thank you, Mr. Renfield. How are you feeling
tonight?
RENFIELD: Far better than you, my lovesick doctor.
SEWARD: Is my personal life of interest to you?
RENFIELD: Of course it is. All life interests me.
SEWARD: Your diet, Mr. Renfield, is disgusting!
RENFIELD: Actually, they're perfectly nutritious. You see,
each life that I ingest gives life to me.
SEWARD: The fly gives you life?
RENFIELD: Certainly. (Renfield turns away from Seward) But
you might as well ask a man to eat a molecule with a pair of
chopsticks than to interest me in lesser carnivora.
SEWARD: I shall have to invent a new classification of the
lunatic for you. What about spiders? Spiders eat the flies.
RENFIELD: Yes, spiders eat them.
SEWARD: What about sparrows?
RENFIELD: Oh, yes. Did you say sparrows?
SEWARD: Something larger perhaps?
RENFIELD: Oh, yes, a kitten, I beg you, a little, sleek...a
playful kitten...something I can teach, something I can feed.
No one would refuse me a kitten.
SEWARD: Wouldn't you prefer a cat?
RENFIELD: Oh, yes, a big cat! My salvation depends upon it!
SEWARD: Your salvation?
RENFIELD: I need lives. I need lives for the Master.
SEWARD: What Master?
RENFIELD: The Master will come, and he has promised to make me
immortal.
SEWARD: How?
Renfield suddenly attacks Dr. Seward
Guards rush in to subdue Renfield
RENFIELD: The blood is the life!
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MEANWHILE
T R A N S Y L V A N I A
Castle Dracula
Harker's Bedchamber
JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL, 3Oth May, Castle Dracula: I think
strange things which I dare not confess to my own soul. The
Count, the way he looked at Mina's picture fills me with dread
as if I have a part to play in a story that is not known to me.
Harker shaves while looking into a small mirror
Harker cuts himself with the razor
Enter Dracula
HARKER: I didn't hear you come in.
DRACULA: Take care how you cut yourself. It is more dangerous
than you think.
Dracula breaks the mirror
DRACULA: A foul bauble of man's vanity. Perhaps you should
grow a beard.
Dracula takes the razor, turns and licks off the blood
DRACULA: The letters I requested...have you finished them?
Harker hands Dracula three letters
DRACULA: Good.
Dracula shaves Harker
DRACULA: Should you leave these rooms, you will not by any
chance go to sleep in any other part of the castle. It is old
and has many bad memories. Be warned.
HARKER: I'm sure I understand.
Dracula sees a crucifix around Harker's neck
He snarls and pushes Harker away
DRACULA: Do not put your faith in such trinkets of deceit! We
are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways
are not your ways. And, to you, there shall be many strange
things.
HARKER: I've seen many strange things already...bloody wolves
chasing me through some blue inferno!
Harker peers out the window to see wolves in the courtyard
Wolf howl
DRACULA: Listen to them, the children of the night. What sweet
music they make.
HARKER: Music? Those animals?
Exit Dracula
Exit Dracula's shadow
Harker peers outside the window
to see Dracula crawling, like a reptile, up the castle wall
JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL: I did as Dracula instructed. I
wrote three letters--to the firm, to my family, and to my
beloved Mina. I said nothing of my fears as he will read them,
no doubt. I know now that I am a prisoner.
LATER THAT NIGHT
Harker wanders the castle
He finds an unused bedchamber
VAMPIRESS: Jonathan! Jonathan, come to me! Come! Lay down,
lay back into my arms. Lay back, Jonathan.
Three vampiresses seduce Harker
They bite and suck him
Enter Dracula
DRACULA (translation): How dare you touch him! He belongs to
me!
VAMPIRESS (translation): You yourself never loved!
DRACULA (translation): Yes, I too can love. And I shall love
again.
VAMPIRESS (translation): Are we to have nothing tonight?
Dracula gives the vampiresses a human baby
HARKER: Noooooo!
DRACULA: (Laughs)
SEVERAL DAYS LATER
In the crypt of Castle Dracula
Harker watches gypsies loading boxes of earth onto wagons
JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL: The letters I have written have
undoubtedly sealed my doom. The Count's gypsies, fearless
warriors who are loyal to the death to whatever nobleman they
serve, day and night they toil, filling boxes with decrepit
earth from the bowels of the castle. They are to be delivered
to his newly acquired Carfax Abbey in London. Why do they fill
these boxes with earth?
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WEEKS LATER
E N G L A N D
KENT
The Garden at Hillingham Estate
Mina reads a letter
LETTER FROM JONATHAN HARKER TO MINA MURRAY: Dearest Mina, all
is well here. The Count has insisted I remain for a month to
tutor him in English custom. I can say no more except I love
you. Ever faithful, Jonathan.
Enter Lucy
LUCY: I love him, I love him! Oh, Mina. It's so wonderful!
I've decided! I love him, and I've said yes.
MINA: Finally! Don't tell me. The Texan with the big knife?
LUCY: Oh, no, to my dear number three--Lord Arthur Holmwood.
Lord and Lady Holmwood. Would you want to be my maid of honor?
Say yes.
MINA: (No answer)
LUCY: Mina, what is it? This is the most exciting day of my
life. You don't seem to care.
MINA: It's just that I'm so terribly worried about Jonathan.
This letter I received is so cold. It's so unnatural. It's not
like him at all.
LUCY: Oh, Mina, don't worry.
A rainstorm suddenly hits
CAPTAIN'S LOG, THE DEMETER, 27th June: We picked up 50 boxes of
experimental earth bound for London, England. Set sail at noon
into a storm that seemed to come out of nowhere, carrying us out
to sea.
CAPTAIN'S LOG, THE DEMETER, 3rd July: Second mate is gone
missing. Nearing Gibraltar. Storm continues. Crew uneasy,
believes someone or something is aboard the ship with us.
LONDON
Carfax District Lunatic Asylum
A storm rages over London
The patients are in a frenzy
Dr. Seward in his office dictating
RENFIELD (screaming): The Master of all life is at hand!
Gather round! I am here to do your bidding, Master! I have
worshipped you long and far off! Now that you are near, Master,
I am your slave! I await your command!
SEWARD: The case of Renfield grows more interesting. Yet there
is method in his madness, with his flies and spiders. Had I the
secret of even one such brilliant mind, the key to the fantasy
of one lunatic. (He injects himself with morphine) Lucy! Lucy!
The Demeter approaches land
A wolf jumps to shore and runs down the street
KENT
LATE THAT NIGHT
Hillingham Estate
Lucy sleepwalks out her bedroom door into the garden
Mina attempts to follows her into the garden maze
MINA: Lucy! Lucy! Lucy! Lucy! Lucy!
Mina finds Lucy lying on bench near the family burial vault
being raped and bitten by Dracula in wolfman form
Dracula sees Mina
DRACULA: No! Do not see me!
Mina runs to Lucy
MINA: Lucy, Lucy!
LUCY: I couldn't control myself.
MINA: Lucy, you're dreaming. You're walking in your sleep
again.
LUCY (in extreme confusion and agitation): My soul seemed to
leave my body. There was this agonizing feeling and, when it
came back to me, I saw you shaking me.
MINA: You're all right, Lucy.
LUCY: I had to. It sort of pulled me and lured me and I had no
control. And those red eyes! I still have the taste of his
blood on my mouth.
LONDON
MORNING
Carfax Abbey
Large crates are delivered to the Abbey
Renfield peers out the window of Carfax Asylum
RENFIELD: Master, I am here to do your bidding. Master, I am
here. I have worshipped you!
CONTRARY TO SOME BELIEFS, THE VAMPIRE, LIKE ANY OTHER NIGHT
CREATURE, CAN MOVE ABOUT BY DAY THOUGH IT IS NOT HIS NATURAL
TIME AND HIS POWERS ARE WEAK.
A young-looking Dracula rises from a box of earth
HEADLINES FROM VARIOUS NEWSPAPERS:
dated July 7, 1897
The Pall Mall Gazette
WOLF ESCAPES FROM ZOO
The Times
STRANGEST STORM ON RECORD
The Standard
MYSTERY SCHOONER
Crew Missing
EVENING 8 PM
In the streets of London
Dracula walks along the sidewalk
CRIER: See the amazing cinematograph! A wonder of modern
civilization! An amazing sensation....
Enter Mina
Dracula sees Mina enter a pharmacist shop
DRACULA: See me. See me now.
NEWS HAWKER: Escaped wolf from zoo still at large! Paper, sir?
(Dracula buys a paper) Thank you, sir.
Mina exits the pharmacy
Dracula bumps into Mina
DRACULA: My humblest apologies. Forgive my ignorance. I have
recently arrived from abroad and I do not know your city. Is a
beautiful lady...
MINA: You may purchase a street atlas for six pence. Good day.
Mina turns away
DRACULA: I have offended you. I am only looking for the
cinematograph. I understand it is a wonder of the civilized
world.
MINA: If you seek culture, then visit a museum. London is
filled with them. Excuse me.
Mina walks away
She rounds a corner, and there stands Dracula
DRACULA: A woman so lovely and intelligent should not be
walking the streets of London without her gentleman.
MINA: Do I know you, sir? Are you acquainted with my husband?
Shall I call the police?
DRACULA: Husband? I shall bother you no more.
Dracula turns away
MINA: Sir, it is I who have been rude. If you are looking...
DRACULA: Please, permit me to introduce myself. I am Prince
Vlad of Szekely.
MINA: A prince, no less?
DRACULA: I am your servant.
MINA: Wilhelmina Murray.
DRACULA: I am honored, Madame Mina.
MINA: This way.
KENT
MEANWHILE
The Foyer at Hillingham Estate
The butler admits Dr. Seward
SEWARD: Hello. Mr. Holmwood asked me to stop by to see Miss
Lucy.
BUTLER: Yes, sir.
Butler leads Seward into parlour
where Lucy is being fitted in her wedding gown
BUTLER: Dr. Seward, Miss Lucy.
SEWARD: Thank you.
LUCY: Oh, Jack. Brilliant Jack. Do you like it? (She twirls
in the dress) Did Arthur put you up to this or did you want me
alone just once before I'm married?
SEWARD: Miss Lucy, you are embarrassing me. I am here as your
doctor. Your fiance is very worried about you, and I assure you
a doctor's confidence is sacred. I must have your complete
trust.
LUCY: Help me, Jack. I don't know what's happening to me. I'm
changing. I can feel it. I can hear everything. I hear the
servants at the other end of the house whispering. I hear mice
in the attic stomping like elephants. But I'm having horrible
nightmares, Jack. The eyes! Oh, Jack.
SEWARD: I'm here, Lucy. Nothing will harm you.
Seward injects Lucy with morphine
LUCY: Owww.
SEWARD: Let it work. Lucy.
LUCY: Oh, Jack. Kiss me.
Seward gives Lucy a peck on the lips
Outside, Morris and Holmwood ride up on horseback
MORRIS: And may I say Miss Lucy is hotter than a June bride
riding bareback buck-naked in the middle of the...
HOLMWOOD: I would watch my colonial tongue, if I were you.
They get off their horses
Dr. Seward exits from the front door
HOLMWOOD: Hello again. And how is our lovely patient today?
SEWARD: Well, frankly, Arthur, I'm confounded.
MORRIS: Oh, Jack, are you still brooding over Miss Lucy?
SEWARD: I can only conclude it must be something mental.
HOLMWOOD: How very drole. Did you hear that, Quince? Last
week he wants to marry her, and now he wants to have her
committed. Let's go have a look at her, shall we?
Holmwood, Seward and Morris enter the parlour
Lucy lies on the couch, wheezing
SEWARD: I'm at a loss, I admit. I've taken the liberty of
cabling Abraham Van Helsing, a metaphysician philosopher.
MORRIS: Sounds like a goddam witchdoctor to me, Jack.
SEWARD: Van Helsing knows more about obscure diseases than any
man in the world. He's my teacher and mentor.
HOLMWOOD: Do it, man. Bring him here. Spare no expense.
Exit Seward, Morris and Holmwood
LONDON
MEANWHILE
The London Cinematograph
Dracula and Mina watch a cinematomovie
DRACULA: Astounding! There are no limits to science.
MINA: How can you call this science? Do you think Madame
Currie would invite such comparisons? Really! I shouldn't have
come here. I must go.
Mina turns to leave
Dracula holds her by the arm
DRACULA: Do not fear me.
He steers her into a back room and makes her lie on a couch
He leans over her
MINA: Stop this! Stop this!
DRACULA: (speaks in Romanian)
MINA: God, who are you? I know you!
DRACULA: I have crossed oceans of time to find you.
Dracula's vampire teeth elongate but he resists biting
Enter white wolf
Cinematograph patrons scatter in fear
Wolf snarls at Mina
DRACULA: (Calls to wolf in Romanian) Come here, Mina.
Mina pets wolf
DRACULA: He likes you. There is much to be learned from beasts.
KENT
LATER THAT NIGHT
The Front Gate at Hillingham Estate
Dracula's carriage drives up
Mina exits carriage and reluctantly enters the gates
TELEGRAM FROM JACK SEWARD TO ABRAHAM VAN HELSING: ...do not
lose an hour. A dear friend near death. A disease of the blood
unknown to all medical theory. I am in desparate need. Jack
Seward.
LONDON
THE NEXT DAY
A classroom at a Medical College
Dr. Abraham Van Helsing displays a vampire bat to medical
students
HELSING: the vampire bat must consume 10 times its
own weight in fresh blood each day or its own blood cells will
die. Cute little vermin, Ja? Blood and the diseases of the
blood such as syphillis will concern us here. The very name
'venereal diseases', the 'diseases of Venus', imputes to them
divine origin. They are involved in that sex problem about
which the ethics and ideals of Christian civilization are
concerned. In fact, civilization and syphillization have
advanced together.
Enter Assistant
He hands an envelope to Van Helsing
HELSING: What is this?
ASSISTANT: It's from the telegraph, Professor.
Van Helsing reads the telegram
HELSING: Hmm, thank you. Gentlemen, thank you, that will be
all.
MEANWHILE
T R A N S Y L V A N I A
Castle Dracula
JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL: Dawn. These may be the last words I
write in this journal. Dracula has left me with these women,
these devils of the pit. They drain my blood to keep me weak,
barely alive so I cannot escape. I will try one last time today
to escape to the water. There must be passageway to the river
and then away from this cursed land where the devil and his
children still walk with earthly feet.
E N G L A N D
KENT
THAT EVENING
Hillingham Estate
Dracula arrives at the patio doors to Lucy's bedroom
Van Helsing arrives at the front door
FROM VAN HELSING'S NOTES: For the record, I do attest that at
this point I Abraham Van Helsing became personally involved with
these strange events.
In the foyer
Van Helsing is greeted by Jack Seward
SEWARD: Professor Van Helsing, how good of you to come!
HELSING: I always come to my friends in need when they call me.
So, Jack, tell me everything about your case.
SEWARD: She has all the usual physical anemic signs.
HELSING: Ja.
SEWARD: Her blood analyzes normal and yet it is not. She
manifests continued blood loss but I cannot trace the cause.
HELSING: Blood loss? How?
LUCY: (Screams)
Van Helsing and Seward run to Lucy's bedroom
Exit Dracula's shadow
HELSING: My God, close the door.
Seward closes the patio doors
Helsing examines Lucy
HELSING: My God, she's only a child. (He notices bites on
neck) Ja, my God. There's no time to be lost. There must be a
transfusion at once. Take off your coat. You remember how to
tie a tourniquet, don't you, or have you forgotten?
SEWARD: You've perfected a procedure?
HELSING: Perfected, no. I've only experimented .
Animals, goats, sheeps. If hemolysis occurs in the blood or the
serum, her red blood cells will explode. She will die. Here,
take this tube.
Arthur Holmwood bursts through the bedroom door
HOLMWOOD: What in God's name is going on up here?
SEWARD: This is Professor Van Helsing, Art.
HOLMWOOD: Well, what the hell is he doing to Lucy.?
SEWARD: He's trying to save her life.
HOLMWOOD: Good God.
HELSING: You're the fiance? Please, please, take off your
coat. This young lady is very ill, she's dying, she wants
blood, and blood she must have. Take off your coat.
SEWARD: Roll up your sleeve, Arthur.
ARTHUR: Oh, God.
HELSING: Roll it up!
SEWARD: This may hurt a little, Art.
Seward inserts a needle into a vein in Holmwood's arm
HOLMWOOD: OW! Forgive me, sir. My life is hers. I would give
my last drop of blood to save her.
HELSING: Your last drop? Thank you, you are very welcomed
here. I do not ask as much as that--not yet.
SEWARD: Hold her hand.
Seward inserts needle into a vein in Lucy's arm
LATER THAT EVENING
In the garden
Enter Seward, Holmwood and Morris
HOLMWOOD: But Jack, that poor creature has had the blood of two
men put into her already.
MORRIS: Man alive, her whole body couldn't hold that much
blood. What took it out?
Enter Van Helsing
HELSING: That's a good question, Mr. Morris.
SEWARD: Those marks on her throat. No disease, no trituration,
I'm sure the blood loss occurred there.
HELSING: Oh? Where did the blood go? You were once a careful
student, Jack. Use your brain. Where did the blood go, tell me.
SEWARD: The bed clothes would be covered in blood.
HELSING: Exactly. You do not let your eyes see nor your ears
hear that which you cannot account for.
SEWARD: Something just went up there, sucked it out of her, and
flew away, I suppose?
HELSING: Ja, why not?
ARTHUR: That's brilliant. That's absolutely brilliant. Will
one of you learned doctors, or whatever you are, kindly tell me
what is going on with my Lucy?
HELSING: Jack, you are a scientist. You do not think that
there are things in this universe which you cannot understand
and which are true--mesmerism, hypnotism...
SEWARD (turning away): You and Charcot have proved hypnotism!
HELSING (his voice
fading):...telekinesis...materialization...astral bodies...
SEWARD: Professor?
HOLMWOOD: Where the hell did he go?
HELSING: See?
SEWARD: I feel like a blundering novice.
HELSING: Gentlemen, we're not fighting some disease here.
Those marks on your dear Miss Lucy's neck were made by something
unspeakable out there, dead but not dead. It stalks us for some
dread purpose I do not yet comprehend. To live, it feeds on
Lucy's precious blood. It is a beast, a monster.
AFTERNOON
Lucy's bedroom
Lucy sleeps
Mina watches over her
MINA (to herself): What is happening to Lucy and to me? When I
was younger, my feelings were never troubled. I wish I were
myself again, the sensible Mina I've always depended on.
LONDON
EARLY EVENING
At a private table in a restaurant
Dracula pours a drink for Mina
DRACULA: Absinthe is the aphrodisiac of the soul. The green
fury who lives in the absinthe wants your soul. But you are
safe with me.
MINA: Tell me, Prince, tell me of your home.
DRACULA: The most beautiful place in all creation.
MINA: Yes, it must be. A land beyond a great, vast forest
surrounded by majestic mountains, lush vineyards, and flowers of
such frailty and beauty as to be found nowhere else.
DRACULA: You describe my home as if you had seen it firsthand.
MINA: It's your voice, perhaps. It's so familiar. It's like
a...it's like a voice in a dream I cannot place, and it comforts
me when I am alone. And what of the princess?
DRACULA: Princess?
MINA: There is always a princess with gowns flowing white. Her
face...her face is the river. The princess, she is the river
filled with tears and with sadness and with heartbreak.
DRACULA: There was a princess...Elisabeta. She was the most
radiant woman in all the empires of the world. Man's deceit
took her from her ancient prince. She leapt to her death into
the river that you spoke of. In my mother's tongue, it is
called "Artzeche (or Arges?)", River Princess.
MEANWHILE
T R A N S Y L V A N I A
Castle Dracula
Harker climbs out a window, moves along a ledge
and plunges into the river below
He follows the river upstream and comes upon a convent
SEVERAL DAYS LATER
E N G L A N D
KENT
Hillingham Estate
In the garden, Mina reads a letter
LETTER FROM SISTER AGATHA TO MINA MURRAY: Dear Madam, your
fiance is safe and in the care of the good sisters of the
blessed sacrement. Mr. Harker believes your life is in extreme
danger, and he desires with all urgency that you join him here
so that you may immediately be married. Yours with all
blessings, Sister Agatha.
MINA: My sweet Prince. Jonathan must never know of us.
Mina runs up the stairs to Lucy's bedroom door
MINA: Lucy! Lucy!
Van Helsing and Seward intercept Mina
HELSING: Abraham Van Helsing.
MINA: Dr. Van Helsing.
VAN HELSING: You are Madam Mina, dear friend to our Lucy, Ja?
MINA: How is she, doctor?
VAN HELSING: She is still very weak. She tells me of your
beloved Jonathan Harker and your worry for him. Well, I too
worry for all young lovers. (He holds her as if to dance) La
de da da. The darkness is not the Light, my child, and there
are Lights. You are one of the Lights, dear Mina, the Light of
all Light. Go now, see your friend.
Mina and Seward enter Lucy's room
Lucy lies in bed
LUCY: You look different, Mina, you look positively radiant.
You've heard from Jonathan, haven't you?
MINA: Yes. He's safe, Lucy. He's in a convent in Romania.
He's suffering from a violent brain fever. The good sisters are
caring for them. They wrote to me and they say he needs me but
I won't go. I'm not going to leave you.
LUCY: Mina, you've got to go to him. You've got to love him
and marry him right then and there. And I want you to take
this, my sister.
Lucy takes off a ring from her finger
and hands it to Mina
MINA: No.
LUCY: It's my wedding gift to you.
MINA: No, Lucy, no.
LUCY: Don't worry aout spoiled little Lucy. I'll be all right.
Tell Jonathan oceans of love.
Mina kisses Lucy
Enter Quincey Morris
MORRIS: How is she?
Mina places flowers on Lucy's bedtable
LUCY (begins to writhe and pull at garlic cloves tied around her
neck): Oh, oh. This is why I can't breathe!
HELSING (springs to Lucy's side): Lucy, Lucy. It's
medicinal...to help you sleep, Lucy. It's for the bad dreams.
LUCY: It's garlic! It's nothing but garlic.
SEWARD: Lucy, Quincey's here. Quincey's here to see you. (To
Mina) Tell Franz to get some brandy.
LUCY: Oh, Quincey.
MORRIS: Now, Miss Lucy, you just rest easy. Arthur sent me to
take care of you. He said if you don't get better right quick I
have to put you out of your misery like a lame horse.
LUCY: Quincey, you're such a beast. Will you kiss me, Quincey?
Kiss me.
Morris bends to kiss Lucy
She bites at his neck
Van Helsing pulls Morris away and holds Lucy down
MORRIS: You old coot!
LUCY: Get off me!
VAN HELSING: Lucy, listen to me. Sleep, sleep now, sleep.
There, there. (He looks at the fangs in her gums) Ja.
Nosferatu.
LONDON
LATER
Van Helsing's study
Van Helsing reads from the book Vampyre
HELSING: "Here occurs the shocking and frightening history of
the wild berserker, Prince Dracula, how he impaled people and
roasted them, boiled their heads in a kettle, how he skinned
them alive and hacked them to pieces and then drank their
blood." Ja, Dracul! Her blood is the life.
MEANWHILE
In the restaurant
Dracula awaits Mina's arrival
Enter Waitor
He hands a note to Dracula
NOTE FROM MINA TO PRINCE VLAD: My dearest Prince, forgive me.
I have received word from my fiance in Romania. I am en route
to join him. We are to be married. I will never see you again.
Mina.
DRACULA: (Cries)
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On a boat crossing the English Channel
Mina throws mementos into the ocean
MINA (to herself): It's odd but I feel almost that my strange
friend is with me. He speaks to me in my thoughts. With him, I
felt more alive than ever I had. And now, without him, soon to
be a bride, I feel confused and lost. Perhaps, though I try to
be good, I am bad. Perhaps I am a bad, inconstant woman.
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LONDON
MEANWHILE
In the restaurant
DRACULA (crying): Winds! Winds!
Van Helsing's Study
Winds blow out the candles
HELSING: It is the cause. It is the cause, my soul. It is
Dracula, the undead, the foe I have pursued all my life.
Helsing rushes to Hillingham Estate
HELSING: Dracula! Jack, hurry, I have much to tell you.
Quincey Morris comes out the front door
HELSING: Guard her well, Mr. Morris. Do not fail here tonight.
We are giving the forces beyond all human experience an
enormous power. So guard her well, otherwise your precious Lucy
will become a bitch of the devil, a whore of darkness.
MORRIS: Well you're a sick old buzzard!
HELSING: Hear me out, young man. Lucy is not a random victim
attacked by mere accident, do you understand? No, she is the
willing recruit, a breathless follower, a wanton follower, I
dare say, a devoted disciple and the devil's concubine, do you
understand me? Yet we may still save her precious soul but not
on an empty stomach. Jack?
SEWARD (from a carriage): Yes, sir.
HELSING: I starve. Feed me.
MORRIS: You old coot!
Van Helsing and Seward ride off in a carriage
THAT NIGHT
R O M A N I A / E N G L A N D
A Church in Romania/Lucy's Bedroom at Hillingham
Mina and Harker stand before the altar
Dracula stands before the patio doors to Lucy's bedroom
DRACULA: Your impotent men with their foolish spells cannot
protect you from my power. I condemn you to living death, to
eternal hunger for living blood!
Mina and Harker drink wine in marriage
Dracula drinks Lucy's blood in marriage
THE NEXT DAY
The Parlour at Hillingham Estate
Lucy lies in state
Relatives, friends, servants, Holmwood, Morris and Seward attend
Enter Van Helsing
HELSING: Psst, Jack. Jack, I know how deeply you loved her.
That is why you must trust me and believe.
SEWARD: Believe, how can I believe?
HELSING: I want you to bring me before nightfall a set of
postmortem knives.
SEWARD: To autopsy Lucy?
HELSING: No, no, not exactly. I just want to cut off her head
and take out her heart.
Seward off away in disgust
HELSING: Jack?
LONDON
SEVERAL WEEKS LATER
MINA MURRAY'S DIARY, 17th September: Poor Jonathan, still so
ill. He is cheered by the familiar streets of London. For me,
now that Lucy is dead, it is a sad homecoming. It's as if a
part of me is dead, too, except for the tiny hope that lives in
me that I will again see my Prince. Is he here? Now that I am
married, I begin to understand the nature of my feelings for my
strange friend who is always in my thoughts.
Mina and Harker enter a carriage
Harker stares out the window
MINA: Jonathan, what is it?
HARKER: It is the man himself! There, look! He's grown young!
Harker points to Dracula
but the carriage drives off before Mina can see him
KENT
LATE AT NIGHT
Lucy's Tomb
Enter Van Helsing, Morris, Holmwood and Seward
HOLMWOOD: Gentlemen, must we desecrate poor Lucy's grave? She
died horribly enough.
HELSING: If Miss Lucy is dead, no wrong can be done to her.
But if she's not dead, well...
HOLMWOOD: What are you saying, man? That she's been buried
alive?
HELSING: No. All I say is that she is undead.
HOLMWOOD: Undead? Oh, this is insane.
They hammer off the locks
HELSING: Gentlemen, shall we? 1..2...3!
They push the lid off the coffin
It is empty
HOLMWOOD: Where is she? Where is she! What have you done with
her?
HELSING: She lives beyond the grace of God, a wanderer in the
outer darkness. She is vampyre, Nosferatu. These creatures do
not die like the bee after the first sting but instead grow
strong and become immortal once infected by another Nosferatu.
So, my friends, we fight not one beast but legions that go on
age after age after age, feeding on the blood of the living.
Suddenly there is noise outside the tomb
They hear a child crying
HELSING: Quickely, hide! Hide, now!
Enter Lucy, carrying a toddler
HELSING: Lucy! Lucy!
Lucy sees Holmwood
LUCY: Come to me, Arthur. Leave these others and come to me.
I am so hungry for you, my darling. Kiss me and caress me, my
darling husband, please!
Van Helsing holds up a crucifix
Lucy recoils
HELSING: We're strong in the Lord and in the power of His
might! We're strong in the Lord and in the power of His might!
Our God is upon us. We're strong in the Lord and in the power
of His might! We're strong in the Lord and in the power of His
might!
Lucy backs into her coffin
HELSING: We're strong in the Lord and in the power of His
might! Ex umbre se lucia.
Lucy belches up a stream of blood
HELSING: I bring you from shadow into light. I cast you out,
the Prince of Darkness, into hell. (He hands stake to Holmwood)
A moment's courage and it is done. Take the stake in your left
hand, place the point on the heart, and in God's name strike.
Do it now!
Holmwood drives stake through Lucy's heart
Van Helsing cuts off her head
LONDON
THE NEXT EVENING
In a restaurant
Van Helsing, Mina and Harker dine together on roast beef
HELSING: Eat. Feast. You need your strength for the dark days
ahead. Mina.
MINA: Doctor?
HELSING: Ja?
MINA: How did Lucy die? Was she in great pain?
HELSING: Ja, she was in great pain. Then we cut off her head
and drove a stake through her heart and burned it and then she
found peace.
HARKER: Doctor! Please!
HELSING: So, Mr. Harker, I must now ask you as your doctor a
sensitive question. During your infidelity with those
creatures, those demonic women, did you for one instant taste of
their blood?
HARKER: No.
HELSING: No?
HARKER: No.
HELSING: Good! Then you have not infected your blood with the
terrible disease that destroyed poor Lucy.
Mina leans over and kisses Harker
HARKER: Doctor, you must understand. I doubted everything,
even my mind. I was impotent with fear.
HELSING: I know.
HARKER: But, sir, I know where the bastard sleeps. I brought
him there to Carfax Abbey.
HELSING: Vampires do exist, and this one we fight, this one we
face, has the strength of 20 or more people, and you can testify
to that, Mr. Harker.
SUNDOWN
Carfax Abbey
Van Helsing, Holmwood, Morris, Harker, Seward and dogs
prepare to enter
HELSING: ...But he can also control the meaner things of
life--the bat, the rodent, the wolf. He can appear as mist, as
vapor, as fog, and vanish at will. Now, all these things
Dracula can do but he is not free. He must rest in the sacred
dirt of his homeland to regain his evil power, and it is here
that you must find him and destroy him utterly. Jack...
MINA: I almost feel pity for anything so hunted as this count.
HARKER: How can you pity such a creature?
SEWARD: I'l take Mina to my quarters. You'll be safer there.
HELSING: Mr. Morris, your bullets will not harm him. He must
be beheaded. I suggest you use your big Bowie knife.
MORRIS: Well, I wasn't planning on getting that close, doc.
Renfield watches from his cell window
as the men enter Carfax Abbey
RENFIELD: Master! Master! Master!
Seward and Mina enter Carfax Asylum
RENFIELD: Dr. Jack, I've been promised eternal life!
MINA: Dr. Seward, who is that man?
SEWARD: Mr. Renfield. This is no place for you, Madam Mina.
MINA: Renfield. I must see him.
SEWARD: Mr. Renfield, behave yourself. This is Mrs. Harker.
RENFIELD: Good evening.
MINA: Good evening, Mr. Renfield.
RENFIELD: It seems that I've been rather naughty. I know you.
You're the bride my Master covets.
MINA: I have a husband. I am Mrs. Harker.
RENFIELD: My Master tells me about you.
MINA: What does he tell you?
RENFIELD: That he's coming, that he's coming for you. Oh,
please, don't stay here. Get away from these men. Please. I
pray to God I may never see your sweet face again. May the Lord
bless you and keep you.
Exit Mina
RENFIELD: Master! Master, you promised ME eternal life but you
give it to the pretty woman! Doctor Jack. I'm no lunatic man.
I'm a sane man fighting for his soul.
Seward opens the door to his quarters
He and Mina enter
SEWARD: My quarters are spare but I think you will find them
comfortable. Water and toiletries at your disposal. You'll be
completely safe here.
MEANWHILE
In Carfax Abbey
HELSING: Destroy every box. Sterilize the earth inside. Leave
him no refuge. Let the exorcism begin.
They break open the boxes
Exit Dracula in the form of a bat
MOMENTS LATER
Renfield's Cell at Carfax Asylum
Enter Dracula in the form of green mist
DRACULA: Renfield, you have betrayed me.
RENFIELD: No. No, Master. No, I serve you. I serve only you.
Dracula kills Renfield
MOMENTS LATER
Seward's Quarters at Carfax Asylum
Enter Dracula as green mist
He crawls under the bedcovers
Mina awakens
MINA: Yes, my love, you found me.
DRACULA: My most precious life.
MINA: I've wanted this to happen. I know that now. I want to
be with you always.
DRACULA: You cannot know what you are saying.
MINA: Yes, I do. I feared I would never feel your touch again.
I thought you were dead.
DRACULA: There is no life in this body.
MINA: But you live! You live! What are you? I must know!
You must tell me!
DRACULA: I am nothing, lifeless, soulless, hated and feared. I
am dead to all the world...hear me! I am the monster the
breathing men would kill. I am Dracula.
Mina beats at Dracula
MINA: No! You murdered Lucy! (She collapses in his arms) I
love you. Oh, God forgive me, I do. I want to be what you are,
see what you see, love what you love.
DRACULA: Mina, to walk with me, you must die to your breathing
life and be reborn to mine.
MINA: You are my love and my life always.
DRACULA: Then I give you life eternal, everlasting love, the
power over the storm and the beasts of the earth. Walk with me
to be my loving wife forever.
MINA: I will. Yes, yes.
Dracula drinks from Mina
He opens a vein in his chest
DRACULA: Mina! Mina, drink and join me in eternal life.
Mina drinks
Dracula suddenly pushes Mina away
DRACULA: No, I cannot let this be.
MINA: Please, I don't care. Make me yours.
DRACULA: You'll be cursed as I am and walk through the shadow
of death for all eternity. I love you too much to condemn you.
MINA: Then take me away from all this death!
Mina continues to drink
The door bursts open
Enter Harker, Van Helsing, Morris, Holmwood and Seward
HARKER: Mina!
Van Helsing holds up a crucifix and begins an exorcism
The crucifix catches fire and he drops it
DRACULA (in the form of a bat): You think you can destroy me
with your idols, I who served the cross, I who commanded nations
hundreds of years before you.
HELSING: Your armies were defeated. You tortured and impaled
thousands of people!
DRACULA: I was betrayed. Look what your God has done to me!
HELSING: No, your war with God is over. You must pay for your
crimes.
Van Helsing sprinkles Dracula with holy water
and continues the exorcism
HELSING: Christ compells you!
DRACULA: She is now mine!
HELSING: No!
Harker attempts to shoot Dracula but Mina grabs his arm
MINA: No!
Harker's shot hits Dracula in the chest
Dracula backs into a dark corner
HELSING: Lights, all lights!
Dracula transposes into hundreds of rats
which scurry across the floor
MINA: Unclean! Unclean!
HELSING: Get them. Get them. They must be found!
MINA: Unclean!
LATER THAT NIGHT
Carfax Abbey burns
Van Helsing speaks with Mina
HELSING: We have learned something much. Draculea fears us.
He fears time for, if not, why does he hurry so?
MINA: He is calm.
HELSING: How do you know?
MINA: He speaks to me.
HELSING: He has a strong mind connection to you. His heart was
strong enough to survive the grave.
MINA: You admire him.
HELSING: Ja. He was in life a most remarkable man. His mind
was great and powerful, but greater is the necessity to stamp
him out and destroy him utterly.
MINA: Doctor?
HELSING: Ja?
MINA: I know that I am becoming like him.
HELSING: Your salvation is his destruction. That is why I want
to hypnotize you. I want you to help me find him, Mina. Before
it is too late, please help me find him. Please. Look into
this light, the light of all light, into this flame. Your eyes
are heavy. You want to sleep. Sleep now. Sleep...
MINA: He calls to me.
HELSING: What do you hear? What do you hear, child? What do
you hear?
MINA: My Prince is calling me. He is traveling across icy seas
to his beloved home. There he will grow strong again. I am
coming to him to partake of his strength.
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SEVERAL DAYS LATER
T R A N S Y L V A N I A
On a Train
JONATHAN HARKER'S DIARY, 28th October: We left London by train
and crossed the English Channel that night in stormy seas, no
doubt from the passage of the Count's ship. He commands the
winds. But we still have the advantage. By train, we can reach
the Romanian port at Varna in three days. By ship, it will take
him at least a week. From Paris, we traveled through the Alps
to Buda-Pesth. The Count must sail around the rock of
Gibraltor, where we have posted a lookout, and then on to the
Black Sea port at Varna where we will meet his ship and burn it
into the sea.
Mina, breathing hard, lies prostrate in her train seat
HELSING: The vampire has baptized her with his own blood. Her
blood is dying, my friend. It's no use.
Harker sits next to Mina
HARKER: I will not let you go to the unknown alone.
Mina notices that Harker's hair has turned grey
MINA: Oh, what have I done to you!
HARKER: No, I have done this to both of us.
MINA: He's coming closer. He's calling me to him.
HARKER: Mina! Mina, stay with me, please.
MINA: I'm so cold.
ABRAHAM VAN HELSING'S JOURNAL: Holmwood received a wire from
his clerk at Lloyd's: "The Count's ship sailed past us in the
night fog to the northern port of Galatz." The black devil is
reading Mina's mind.
HOLMWOOD: How can we catch him now?
HARKER (looking at a map): Varna...Galatz. It's about 200
miles. I think that with the horses we can cut him off, reach
him before he reaches the castle. I would dispatch Van Helsing
straight to Borgo Pass. If we fail in our task, you will have
to finish him.
JONATHAN HARKER'S DIARY: From Varna, Mina and Van Helsing took
a carriage, but we continued on the train towards Galatz where
we still hope to intercept the Count before he reaches land. I
am fearful for Mina. She is now our decoy.
SEVERAL EVENINGS LATER
Borgo Pass
Enter Mina and Van Helsing in a carriage
MINA: I know this place.
HELSING: The end of the world
MINA: We must go on.
HELSING: It is late, child. We must rest here now.
MINA: No, we must go!
HELSING: Mina!
MINA: He needs me. We must go!
JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL: We are past Bistritza. Dracula has
outsmarted us again. We learned that his gypsies took charge of
the vampire's box at Galatz and are now on the Borgo Pass road.
NIGHT
Mina and Van Helsing camp outside the castle walls
HELSING: Here...you must eat.
MINA: I am not hungry.
HELSING: Mina!
Mina begins to writhe and scream
Three vampiresses call to Mina
Mina suddenly looks hungrily at Van Helsing
MINA: You've been so good to me, Professor. I know that Lucy
harbored secret desires for you. She told me. I too know what
men desire.
Mina and Van Helsing kiss
MINA: Will you cut off my head and drive a stake through my
heart as you did poor Lucy, you murdering bastard?
Mina attempts to bite Van Helsing
HELSING: No! Not while I live! I've sworn to protect you!
Van Helsing touches a consecrated host to Mina's forehead
It burns her forehead
The vampiresses continue to call to Mina
HELSING: No! We're safe within the circle. I lost Lucy, I
will not lose you to him. Whores of Satan, this is holy ground!
Leave this place now! Leave this ground. I command you, in
the name of Christ.
The vampiresses attack and kill the horses
HELSING: No! No! No! Damn you!
THE NEXT MORNING
The Crypt at Castle Dracula
Van Helsing finds the three vampiresses asleep on their coffins,
cuts off their heads and throws them in the river
SUNDOWN
The gypsy wagon approaches Castle Dracula
DRACULA (in his box of earth): Mina! You and me!
MINA: My love.
Harker, Holmwood, Morris and Seward
race behind the gypsy wagon
HELSING: They're racing against the sunset. It may be too
late, God help us!
DRACULA: Mina!
SEWARD: Charge!
As Seward, Harker, Morris and Holmwood charge the wagon,
Mina calls up the blue flame
The gypsy wagon and its followers enter the castle courtyard
The sun sinks lower
A gypsy stabs Morris in the back
Harker attempts to open Dracula's box
The sun sets
Dracula breaks out of his box
Harker slits Dracula's neck
HOLMWOOD: Quincey!
Morris leaps forward and stabs Dracula through the heart
MINA: No!
Holmwood and Harker race forward to finish Dracula
HELSING: No!
MINA: When my time comes, will you do the same to me? Will you?
HARKER: No.
Holmwood again advances on Dracula
HARKER: No, no wait. Let them go, let them go. Our work is
finished here. Hers is just begun.
Van Helsing turns to Morris
being tended to by Dr. Seward
HELSING: Quincey.
Morris dies
HELSING: We've all become God's madmen, all of us.
Harker's hair is black again
MEANWHILE
In the castle chapel
Dracula lies on the floor, dying
Mina kneels next to him
DRACULA: Where is my God? He has forsaken me. It is finished.
MINA: Oh, my love! (She kisses him) My love!
MINA HARKER'S DIARY: There, in the presence of God, I
understood at last how my love could release us all from the
powers of darkness. Our love is stronger than death.
DRACULA: Give me peace.
Mina pushes the sword through Dracula's heart
The burn on her forehead disappears
Dracula dies
Mina kisses him goodbye,
then cuts off his head
THE END