With a silent sweeping gesture, he commands his wives to move off and they back up into the shadows.Dracula approaches and then crouches down at Renfield""s neck for a meal of blood, enveloping him in his cloak.You need this house.And the parties.And the cars and the clothes and the lies.I don""t.It""s the truth, Mother, face it.For once in your life, face it."Later that evening, while standing under an imposing portrait of Anne""s father (the late former governor) in the darkness, Jack is unclear regarding marriage o Anne because of his own indecisiveness, his ambivalence about his family and income, and his aim to prove himself:Jack: Anne, Burden""s Landing is a place on the moon.Real burn-out.On the ragged edge" - and he reacted with: "I""m too old for this s--t" (a phrase repeated many times in the film).Prolific black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux""s first film, the feature-lengthThe Homesteader (1919)(a lost film), andWithin Our Gates (1920)more effectively countered the message of Griffith""s film.Harry promised to destroy it if he knew its location - she reluctantly revealed that it was now hidden in the Room of Requirement ("in the castle, in the place where everything is hidden").