| Lucy Westenra (Bram Stoker's Dracula) | |
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Media: |
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) |
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Sadie Frost |
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Undead, Deceased |
Lucy Westenra is the character in the novel Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker. This article is about the character in the movie adaptation Bram Stoker´s Dracula (1992).
Lucy Westenra is a flirty, but kind and with a good-heart, Victorian socialite turned to a vampire by Dracula and killed when she unsuccessfully attempts to attack a child. She was played by Sadie Frost.
Lucy (Sadie Frost, left) and her friend Mina Murray (Winona Ryder).
Appearance[]
Lucy is a young woman in her early twenties, with long red hair. Her clothes are opulent and don´t care about fashion : for example, she likes to show her shoulders at day. As a vampire she is dressed in a sumptuous wedding dress mixing Victorian and Elizabethan fashion to pure fantasy. Oddly unlike the usual vampires seen in the movie (save for Dracula himself in one of his forms), her skin is a complete shade of pallor to really emphasize that she is now the walking undead.
Personality[]
Unlike the virginal heroine of the novel, Lucy is much more eroticized and wild. She talks frankly and often about sex, especially with her friend Mina.
Despite this, Lucy is a kind and kind-hearted person, who always behaves politely, especially with men with whom she feels attracted. When she decides to get married she is very happy and focuses more on what she feels for her fiancé than on her sex. In her last moments of life, she was very happy for Mina when she told her that she herself was going to marry Jonathan. Lucy recommended that she promise that nothing was going to happen to herself, he even gave her his wedding ring.
As a vampire, little remains of her, only a savage, eroticized predator who delights in torturing the living.
Abilities and Powers[]
As a vampire Lucy has the usual strengths of a vampire, with a weakness to garlic and holy symbols. She also showcased she has hypnotic powers as she nearly manages to sway Arthur with her tone alone. As well as a teleportation abilities as she was able to leave her glass coffin that was sealed inside a tomb without even having to open it
Synopsis[]
When Dracula arrives in London, amid a fierce thunderstorm, he hypnotically seduces, then bites Lucy Westenra, with whom Mina is staying while Jonathan is in Transylvania. Lucy's deteriorating health and behavioural changes prompt her former suitors Quincey Morris and Dr. Seward, along with her fiancé Arthur Holmwood to summon Dr. Abraham Van Helsing who recognizes Lucy as the victim of a vampire whom he eventually realizes is Dracula. Dracula visits Lucy on nearly a daily night to take blood from Lucy and Van Helsing and her suitors do their best to protect her, providing her with daily blood transfusions. However, on the final night of Lucy's humanity, Dracula, heartbroken by the news of Mina marrying Jonathan, goes to claim her instead. With Helsing and Seward gone that night, Dracula easily knocks out Quincy. Sensing him coming, Lucy reacts lustfully to his presence, a sign she of her accepting her vampirism. Arthur notices this too late before Dracula uses an invisible force to send him flying into a wall, knocking him out. After all of Lucy's guards are incapacitated, Dracula utters to her...
"Your impotent men with their foolish spells cannot protect you from my power. I condemn you to living death, to an eternal hunger for living...blood!"
With that, Dracula changes into a wolf and smashes (his way) through the window, leaping onto Lucy's bed and proceeds to drain the rest of her blood. Lucy screams out in her final moments as she is killed and her blood spews all over the bedroom. Her body is shortly after discovered and soon after set for burial, with Lucy dressed in the wedding dress she was meant to for Arthur's and her's wedding. Helsing however knows with her death, things have only just began.
That night he leads the men to her crypt and has them open the coffin, only to find her body missing from the glass coffin. Arhtur holds Helsing at gunpoint demanding to know where Lucy is. Helsing explains of her transformation into a vampire and how she is now out searching for blood and, if not stopped, will turn more victims into vampires as well. They hear someone humming outside and hide as a figure in white descends down the stairs, the candles turn alight on their own as the figure hums softly, holding a crying child in her arms. Just as she reaches the coffin, Helsing calls out to her and the being turns to them promptly droppping the child who is instantly attended to by Seward. The men instantly recognize it to be Lucy only much more paler in skin colour and now sporting fangs.
She focuses on Arthur, talking in a rather hypnotic (as well as seducing) tone that seems to mesmerize him as she requests Arthur to come to her. Just as it seems he about to fall under her power. Helsing shove a cross in her view and Lucy instantly recoils, screeching inhumanly. Helsing forces her back toward the coffin and forces her to lay back into it. For a moment it seems she has went back into her dormant state. However she suddenly gets back up and spews blood all over him before receding in her coffin for good. With Lucy subdued, Helsing has Arthur drive a stake into her heart, killing her before Helsing cuts off Lucy's head. Her death is felt by a rejuvenated Dracula as he rests in one of his boxes of earth. The men say a prayer for her before Helsing stuffs Lucy's mouth with garlic to prevent Dracula from re-claiming her. Following this, after Mina and Jonathan return to London, they team up with Helsing and the others to stop Dracula with Helsing even telling Mina at one point during this mission after she is bitten by Dracula
"I've lost Lucy! I'll not lose you to him!"