As the titles and credits play, carefully-selected images of the Old South are portrayed as backgrounds - a green pasture with horses grazing, a river at night, magnolias, a mill constructed from bricks, slaves working in the fields, peaceful Southern plantations, the city of Atlanta, and a sunset.When the trio approached Ape City, Aldo and his men scuffled with them, asking why they had visited the off-limits Forbidden City.The abbey is known for being dark and gloomy, needing extensive renovation and repair, but Dracula is comfortable in its familiar surroundings: "I shall do very little repair.He volunteered to be brought in, through a rendezvous with Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles), Treadstone""s operative in Paris two years earlier.