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Think of the monstrous ego of the vampire. He thinks himself so important that he is willing to live forever, even under the dreary conditions imposed by his vampirism. Avoiding the sun, sleeping in coffins, feared by all, he nurses his resentments. In “Bram Stoker’s Dracula,” the film by Francis Ford Coppola, the vampire shakes his fist at heaven and vows to wait forever for the return of the woman he loves. The film is inspired by the original Bram Stoker novel, “Dracula”. The novel gets right into the story and starts with Jonathon Harker already on his way to the Counts dwellings. Throughout his journey there is fear shown by peasants when the Counts name and home is mentioned and in the carriage ride to his castle Harker has many encounters with the supernatural. Even when he meets the Count, everything about him is strange and mysterious. The part when Harker arrives a