Dracula, novel VS movie
Bram Stoker's Dracula Novel, 1897 compared to Bram Stoker's Dracula, 1992Of the many appropriations of Dracula; Bram Stoker's Dracula, 1992 (movie directed by Frank Coppola) hasn't deviated as far from the book as many others do. The only main differences to the plot are the inclusion of the historical figure of Vlad Dracula the impaler, and the fabricated romance between Mina and Dracula.The character of Dracula is said to be inspired by a prince from the 1450's known as Vlad Dracula. He was a brutal warrior and some of techniques involved him ordering people to be skinned, boiled, decapitated, blinded, strangled, hanged, burned etc but his favourite method was impalement on stakes, he often enjoyed a meal amongst the dead bodies impaled on sticks.The novel was inspired by this character; however the movie actually included him, which gave the movie which is otherwise entirely faithful to the novel, and individual spin. It depicted Mina as looking exactly the same as his dead fiance who killed herself after hearing false news of his death. When Dracula found out that his fiance Elizabeta had killed herself over him, he renounced Christianity and became a vampire.Even though the novel was written in 1897, 95
It seems unclear about why they all go after Dracula in the movie. Forms of superstition in both the film and novel are the garlic, the holy wafer and the crucifix. It is the violation of Lucy's innocence, more than the imprisoning of Jonathan or even the killing of children, which gives the others the motivation to wage war on Dracula. However, in the movie this is not as obvious. This act casts not only Jonathan in a bad light, but also portrays the three women as stereotypical whores. years before Coppola's movie was made; the story still alluring to society. Top this with some awful acting on Keanu Reeves' behalf. He did this by including considerable violence, gore, sex and nudity, along with profanity and vulgarity and a scene that appears to have Dr. In the scene in the movie where Jonathan is involved in an orgy with the 'awful women' one sees the cross on his chest and dissolves it. When Coppola decided to film this adaptation he was faced with the task of engaging the attention and holding the interest of a very sophisticated cinema-going audience. The cross and crucifix are representative of Christianity, so as an ethic of Christianity, sex is purely for the reproduction of human beings, so as temptation approaches the characters, the crucifix is a reminder of their Christian ethics. However the story deals with many elements of society that are also still relevant today including religion and friendship. The topic of sexuality was in 1992 and now valued in a different way to how it was valued in 1897. Due to the different timeframes that the novel and the movie were released in, they have to appeal to different audiences.
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