The book has its moments but overall its very long and stretched out beyond need. The movie gets rid of most of the filler-fluff and gets to the good parts. I don't need pages and pages of how they booked into a hotel, had supper or stopped to have cigars and sherry.
Please forgive my ignorance, it was vital for me to learn of how a ships manifest and unloading a crate is central to the plot. I shall now close this topic and taint others no further.
For one thing it didn't shoehorn in a love story between Mina and Dracula.
It didn't make Van Helsing a crazy old pervert.
I was picturing Christopher Lee's Dracula while reading the book.
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Cool looking, well produced, scored, designed. But the "I love you Dracula" angle was shitty and annoying. And Dracula being redeemed and going to heaven after feeding infants to the vampire b***hes was moronic. Should've been closer to the novel.
For one thing it didn't shoehorn in a love story between Mina and Dracula.
It didn't make Van Helsing a crazy old pervert.
I was picturing Christopher Lee's Dracula while reading the book.
I think Coppola added the love scenario after Dracula tells them in the book that he's going to take all of their b***hes and make them his ho's.
Also the baby scene is in the book it doesn't outright say its a baby but you Jonathan hears it crying while Dracula looks on and laughs as they eat it.
And Van Helsing being so vague in the book is highly infuriating, he never fricking stops.
Okay, cool, but in the context of the movie Dracula captures babies and feeds them to his b***hes AND kills Lucy (who as a vampire has no redeeming qualities) and then Mina fawns over him and wants to be an unholy monster and then Dracula is redeemed through the power of love and goes to heaven despite the frequent baby murders. It's moronic. The sympathetic Dracula angle sucks. Heh, "sucks"
>than to say that he was just an alchemist.
What does that have to do with literally any other film version of Dracula? It feels more like some Anne Rice-inspired shit. I guess Carmilla a bit. Dracula isn't really romanticized in the novel. Him being a practicer of dark magic is like a side note in the novel. Vampires have all sorts of stupid powers in fiction.
Normally Cinemaphile gets it's opinions decently correct and I trust niche reccies I get here. But this movie, is one of the worst of all time, it's down there with the shittest things I've ever seen.
I don't know. I haven't read it all, but I like the format a lot.
If you like reading about people sitting around doing nothing while Van Helsing talks vaguely about things then it's a fantastic read in that regard.
I like that it was told in the form of diary entries and letters and what not.
The book has its moments but overall its very long and stretched out beyond need. The movie gets rid of most of the filler-fluff and gets to the good parts. I don't need pages and pages of how they booked into a hotel, had supper or stopped to have cigars and sherry.
How else are you to learn about Hungarian paprika or the attire of particular groups of people in the 19th century?
Please forgive my ignorance, it was vital for me to learn of how a ships manifest and unloading a crate is central to the plot. I shall now close this topic and taint others no further.
My literate bros, where are you currently at if not in this topic?
the book wasn't even popular when he was alive
nobody gave a frick until the movies happened.
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Same as Tupacs music.
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Explain to me what the book did better apart from bore you to sleep.
For one thing it didn't shoehorn in a love story between Mina and Dracula.
It didn't make Van Helsing a crazy old pervert.
I was picturing Christopher Lee's Dracula while reading the book.
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American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis. ...
It by Stephen King. ...
The Godfather by Mario Puzo. ...
The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris. ...
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. ...
The Shawshank Redemption by Stephen Kind. ...
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Cool looking, well produced, scored, designed. But the "I love you Dracula" angle was shitty and annoying. And Dracula being redeemed and going to heaven after feeding infants to the vampire b***hes was moronic. Should've been closer to the novel.
I think Coppola added the love scenario after Dracula tells them in the book that he's going to take all of their b***hes and make them his ho's.
Also the baby scene is in the book it doesn't outright say its a baby but you Jonathan hears it crying while Dracula looks on and laughs as they eat it.
And Van Helsing being so vague in the book is highly infuriating, he never fricking stops.
Okay, cool, but in the context of the movie Dracula captures babies and feeds them to his b***hes AND kills Lucy (who as a vampire has no redeeming qualities) and then Mina fawns over him and wants to be an unholy monster and then Dracula is redeemed through the power of love and goes to heaven despite the frequent baby murders. It's moronic. The sympathetic Dracula angle sucks. Heh, "sucks"
The love angle is probably easier to sell to an audience than to say that he was just an alchemist.
I also wonder where Hollywood got the idea of sunlight killing vampires from because in the book they can still move around albeit limited.
>than to say that he was just an alchemist.
What does that have to do with literally any other film version of Dracula? It feels more like some Anne Rice-inspired shit. I guess Carmilla a bit. Dracula isn't really romanticized in the novel. Him being a practicer of dark magic is like a side note in the novel. Vampires have all sorts of stupid powers in fiction.
I’m pretty sure nosferatu started the whole sunlight killing vampire cliche
Hellsing did it better.
Bladerunner.
Normally Cinemaphile gets it's opinions decently correct and I trust niche reccies I get here. But this movie, is one of the worst of all time, it's down there with the shittest things I've ever seen.
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