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
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