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Originally Posted by GoldenRivet
on the subject of Bram Stoker's Dracula... the film was very faithful to the novel i am told.
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You are told wrong. Major portions of the film are indeed faithful, and I particularly like the scene in which his is out-and-about in London in the middle of the day, wearing sunglasses and looking very pale.
On the other hand the sex scenes have nothing to do with the book I remember (though it has been awhile) and the love story is pure fantasy from the scriptwriters. In the book Mina Murray is not Vlad's reincarnated love, and she doesn't kill him at his own request. That is accomplished in Transylvania by two of the adventurers. His coffin falls off the wagon carrying it back to the castle and breaks open. As Vlad tries to worm his way into the increasing shadows of dusk, one of the men stabs him in the heart with a tulwar and the other uses his to cut off Vlad's head.
Parts of the movie ticked me, but for the most part it was trash.