How To Compare Dracula Movie To The Book

The novel Dracula by Bram Stoker,1897 has been adapted into a film Bram Stoker’s Dracula, made in 1992. This film is an accurate and exceptionally well done adaptation of the novel. What made this adaptation so good was how it was put together; from the cast, to the added romance, to incorporating all important ideas from the novel into the film, without making it un-cinematic.
Francis Ford Coppola (the producer of the film) chose the right cast to depict the characters just as imagined in the reader's head. Throughout the novel Lucy is described as being praised for her youth, beauty and outgoing personality.
“Lucy was looking sweetly pretty in her white lawn frock. She has got a beautiful colour since she has been here.” (Stoker,chapter
6)
This type of beauty described is definitely shown in the movie through actress’ Sadie Frosts portrayal of Lucy, in turn, making it extremely similar to the novel. The decision for the film to include much more romance also plays a part in how well done the adaption of the novel is. Though the novel displays romance and sexuality in a discreet form, this film displays romance in a very pronounced way, making it cinematically captivating to the audience, ensuring the satisfaction of our present-day society. Francis Ford Coppola seems to have incorporated more romance into the film without straying too far off from the novel. In the scene with the three vampires involving Jonathan Harker, the novel focuses more on the vicious, mysterious side of things “The blue eyes transformed with fury, the white teeth champing with rage, and the fair cheeks blazing red with passion.” (Stoker,Chapter 3) While in the film this scene is illustrated in a hypnotizing and alluring way with Jonathan being seduced by all three vampire women and enjoying himself. This was most likely done by the producer to relate the story to the audience, in this society people are definitely exposed to more of this kind of thing, where as in the Victorian Society when the novel was written, it was very disclosed and was not spoken of, which explains why it was not openly written about and took some reading between the lines to interpret. What may be the most vital piece of reconstructing this book into a film is how well Francis Ford Coppola included every necessary detail from the novel into the film, knowing what to keep on the page in the novel and knowing what to put into the film to keep the audience on edge and satisfied while keeping the storyline in tact with the actual novel.
In many scenes of the movie the producer had the actors say exact lines and recreate scenes taken directly from the book.
“Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, He held in his hand an antique silver lamp, in which the flame burned without a chimney or globe of any kind, throwing long quivering shadows as it flickered in the draught of the open door. The old man motioned me in with his right hand with a courtly gesture, saying in excellent English, but with a strange intonation.” (Stoker, Chapter 2)
The scene in the film shows Dracula opening the door to Jonathan Harker, his skin is completely white and pale, has a long white mustache and is holding a silver antique lamp, he is old and speaks decent English. This scene was well done and very much alike in comparison to the novel, this is one of the many ways Francis Ford Coppola keeps the film connected to the
novel.