Comparing The Movie 'Dracula'

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Emma March
Course: ENG 4U1

Topic: Comparing the 1897 novel Dracula with the 1922 film "Nosferatu" and the 1992 movie "Dracula".

Sources:
Stoker, Bram. Dracula. United Kingdom: Archibald Constable, 1897. Print.

Nosferatu. Dir. F.W. Murnau. Perf. Max Schreck, Greta Schröder, Ruth Landshoff. Babelsberg, 1922. DVD.

Dracula. Dir. Francis F. Coppola. Perf. Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins. Columbia Pictures Corporation, 1992. DVD.

Notes:

-In all three Dracula stories, Dracula is an ancient vampire, centuries old, Transylvanian Count, Dracula resides in a decaying castle in the Carpathian Mountains. At first perceived to be filled with aristocratic charm, Dracula can't hide his evil nature.

-Dracula's appearance varies. In the novel, he is described …show more content…

However, in Nosferatu, Count Orlok closely resembles a rat. He is very pale with thick bushy eyebrows but no moustache.

In the 1992 movie adaptation, Dracula is less lanky and completely hairless with no eyelashes or eyebrows but white hair pulled tightly back in volumous arches. He also dons a red silk robe.

-Jonathon Harker (or Thomas Hutter) is a naive lawyer who travels to Count Dracula to sell him a home in England. In Nosferatu, the home is right across from Hutter's house. He quickly realizes that he is in fact a prisoner in Count Dracula's castle.

-Nosferatu dies differently than Count Dracula in the movie and Novel. In this film, he is entranced by Hutter's wife Ellen and becomes so engrossed drinking her blood he burns up in the sun when it rises.

-In the novel and movie, Dracula, Harker slices Dracula through the throat with a kukri while the mortally wounded Quincey stabs the Count in the heart with a Bowie knife.

-Unlike the ending in the novel, in the movie, Mina is found to be a reincarnation of Dracula's deceased wife from the 1500s and still loves him. Count Dracula dies in her

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