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As a huge fan of Dracula, the book was phenomenal and Coppola’s movie is still good despite the changes made. Was a fan of the added Mina love story? No, not at all but I still found the movie to be very enjoyable and accurate for the most part

Coppola's movie adaptation was awful. While it definitely has its good points, it turns Drac into something that utterly ruins the true evil of the Drac in the book. And, he looks identical to Monty Burns from the Simpsons. He looks so grievously bizarre with that buttcrack-bra haircut that I'm 100% certain it was the idea of an employee that secretly hated Coppola.

there are 2 main differences between the book and Coppola's movie: restraint, and personal opinion. Coppola makes it clear through his movie that he has intense and hard opinions about characters, and has no restraint on imposing those opinions making the movie often have confusing motivations, deadpan humor that doesn't land, and flattens the characters into 1 dimensional tropes. Bram Stoker's writing however gives a lot of nuance to each character so their motivations are clear, the deadpan humor becomes needed respite to keep the protagonists optimistic, and every character has moments of heel-turns and empathy making them all just as flawed and cunning as real people.

U don't have to tell too much. I really liked the mina and jonathan couple in the book. I even saw me and my girlfriend when I've look at them. But after I've seen the movie ( I wish I haven't seen it) It was only disgusting to look at what they've made to that couple. They throw those beautiful couple into the thrash without hesitation. They made jonathan a complete looser and mina a whore. 👎🏻

Read the book and then watched the movie. The movie butchered the novel. Terrible. Too cartoonish and departs from the book on so many areas.

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IDK why you would wonder if people at the time thought the Dracula book was real when it was published, I mean it's clearly a novel just like Frankenstein, and the thing you're alluding to -War of the Worlds - was not a result of the book, but a radio broadcast of someone reading the book years after it was published.

One thing all adaptations have failed at is showing just how much all of the hunters care about each other. They basically come to love each other as family and would quite literally step into hell for each other due to a shared desire to avenge a woman they all loved and cared for who was metaphorically raped and defiled by a monster.

Sorry. If I want to watch DRACULA, I will watch the 1979 film with Frank Langella. ✝ If I want to see Gary Oldman, I will watch the 2005 BATMAN BEGINS .

fun fact, there is a kind of prequel that may have been just an excised first chapter to the book called "dracula's guest".

Bram Stoker's novel is epistolary (Told through a series of letters.) It means there is room for interpretation to fill in gaps -- gaps that a Victorian novel had to suggest because censorship.
Coppola took inspiration from what we know of the time period (less squeaky puritanical) and also theater productions and early vampire movies.

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It should be called Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula. Yes, it's the second closest adaptation in terms of faithfulness, but it also has an equal amount of big changes.

I love most of the adaptations and the original book. There's always going to be changes and I hope a future adaptation of the book will remain relatively faithful while also having unique take besides a Dracula & Mina or Lucy.

While Dracu compelled Mina to drink his blood Jonathan was sleeping as if under a spell beside them, He couldn't witness Mina getting contaminated first hand. The Movie is very much changed !

I only know the Nosferatu version, this is waaay more complicated. This movie feels like a fever dream.

That movie does not deserve to be called "Bram Stoker's Dracula." Horrible changes in concept and subtlety.

Love this film. Proper childhood fan favourite. So stylish and artistic. Sad that modern kids wouldn’t know about it.

The movie was not Bram Stoker's Dracula. It was Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula. I dislike that the movie was falsely advertised as a faithful adaptation of the novel, when it wasn't.

This isn’t actually the first Bram Stokers Dracula. The 1974 movie with Jack Palance. Some of the elements of this were taken from that movie too so 🤷🏻‍♂️

Apart from Dracula's backstory and his relation with Mina added to the movie, I still think this movie is a very faithful adaptation of the Novel. Dracula old appearance was also changed but honestly I really liked the old Dracula version of the movie.

The book is a good classic monster story but the movie is one of my fav movies of all time. Literally seen it dozens of times, no joke.

I hated this movie, a good example of passing attention to small details yet utterly losing the spirit of the book

What about Renfield!? He just shouts a couple of times on screen and his story doesn't really matter. Was he in the novel and was it the same if so?

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i love this movie, it was not entire true to the book but i have watched this many times

Movie= Eh.
Book= Awesome!

They did Mina Harker so dirty I'm physically sick

Amongst other things, the movie really did Van Helsing dirty, making him out to be creepy and untrustworthy. He was a lovable dork who stepped up to do a crazy job!

Do Robert de-niro's frankenstein now

THE ESSENCE OF THE FILM IS ABOUT HOW A VAMPIRE, WITH THE HELP OF MESMERISM AND HYPNOSIS, MADE A GOOD ILLUSION OF REAL LOVE!

wasnt going to watch the movie because when i think vampire i think of Underworld or Blade not harry palm historically correct dracula but after seeing keanu is in it im sold

Moral of the Book? Texan > Vampires.

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Quincey... fuckin'... Morris!!

The "Barbarian Horde" was the Ottoman empire of Sultan Mehmet I Fatih. Come on guys.

These discussions are all well and good but always deteriorate into a bunch of Jerks having a go at each other. Sounds like a group of idiots in a media class.

K dog should have John wick on his ass

God I hate movie Mina

Bram stokers Dracula Novel is not supposed to be a love story towards Mina and dracula NO!

i heard the audio book version featuring Tim Curry and honestly way more better than the movie why because Dracula was a monster ESPECIALY on the vampire babtism of Mina Harker's metaphor and from where i come after reading this book i fully understand now why rapists are called Dragons.
But the best thing was in the book her journal ends the final conflict and she was an insistive woman on joining the journey to end the monster, set peace to the Soul of Dracula and She with Van Hellsing holding off wolves with a revolver in that conflict.

At the end of it Christopher Lee was right the Book was all what people needed to make a picture not new scripts.

This Dracula film is truly a masterpiece! Also, Wynona Ryder was so beautiful in this film. Even after all these years she has aged very well. Interview with the Vampire is another masterpiece within this genre.

This narrative is making the movie look bad

Renfield?

The Orthodox church in the film is actually in Marin county; I know, because I sang there in a choir for a wedding, no less.

Something you guys missed with the film is in the final scene in the chapel dracula/vlad asks God why did he punish him and then rays of light beam into the church removing his vampire curse where then Mina is removed of dracula's mark on her head and then beheads him.

The conflict of the film seems to go deeper than just the love as it is also God punishing dracula and then finally forgiving him at the end that frees his soul.

Sucked so bad! (Thanks!)

of course uneducated people thought that Dracula could and did exist back when released!
Look how many idiots believe stuff now in the information age, for sure lots believed Dracula existed, hence why it's such a big genre today.

Found the movie lacking a better story.

Now do Frankenstein.

Despite the costume, I love the coppola's. The gothic horror he built was so scary.