Mina Harker

Godalming insists that he shall keep the first watch.

God bless him for all his goodness to poor dear Mina and me.

Mina Harker's journal, 1 November.

All day long we have traveled and at a good speed.

The horses seem to know that they are being kindly treated for they go willingly with their full stage at best speed.

returned from the empty house.

Left Mina here at home.

Well, we've done our work at Carfax.

The place was filthy.

And over each one, the professor went through his same mysterious work.

It was dawn when we got back.

I found Mina asleep.

She looks paler than usual.

Here he did so well... that in three weeks he was completely recovered.

It was during this time that his wife, Mina Harker, brought to the attention of Dr.

Van Helsing and myself the journal that her husband had kept while a prisoner in the castle of a certain Count Dracula in Transylvania.

I have before me the record of a meeting that took place in my study in Perfleet transcribed by Mina Harker.

October 1st.

Meeting began soon after 8.

Two per second, 5

a.m. Just returned from the empty house.

Toby 2nd, 5 a.m. Just returned from the empty house.

Left Mina here at home.

Well, we've done our work at Carfax.

The place was filthy.

And over each one, the professor went through his same mysterious work.

It was dawn when we got back.

I found Mina asleep.

She looks paler than usual.

Well, they've got...

The characters in here are Mina Harker, Van Helsing, Lord... godelming or godelming not sure dr john seward obviously the count and this one introduces jonathan harker so and van

helsing being like the

vampire famous

vampires but i know it's wrong yeah

yeah yeah

awkward to say but um the theme of this one is eight years ago mina harker and her companions ended dracula's reign of terror then somehow he came back another he always does getting the band back together to try to

just like count cardboard okay always coming back always coming back

I mean, obviously, right? Let's begin with the premise.

What is Dracula about? Dracula is about a young British couple named Jonathan and Mina Harker.

Jonathan goes abroad to Central Europe because he is working in real estate and he has a mysterious new client who lives in a castle, who only comes out at night, who seems weirdly out of time.

It is, of course, Dracula.

The other thing I dislike about Dracula is that because it is a 19th century book written by a man, the female characters are somewhat limited.

There are basically two women in this story.

There's Mina, Jonathan's wife, and then there's Lucy, a young woman, a beautiful young woman who comes out a little later in the narrative.

Lucy basically only exists to be a victim.

There's a great supporting cast like Tom Waits as Renfield, you know, Richard E.

Grant as Dr. Seward, Winona Ryder as Mina Harker.

You look at this film and you can really tell that there is such care and design gone into every aspect of it.

And it really does kind of speak to, you know, the romantic element that was in the book.