What's the Difference between Dracula the Book and Bram Stoker's Dracula the Movie?
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In the Movie |
Jonathan Harker
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Jonathan Harker
Portrayed by: Keanu Reeves
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Mina Murray
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Mina Murray
Portrayed by: Winona Ryder
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Count Dracula
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Count Dracula
Portrayed by: Gary Oldman
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Abraham van Helsing
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Abraham van Helsing
Portrayed by: Anthony Hopkins
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Lucy Westenra
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Lucy Westenra
Portrayed by: Sadie Frost
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Renfield
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Renfield
Portrayed by: Tom Waits
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Bram Stoker's Dracula Book vs Movie
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In the Movie |
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Jonathan's employer, Peter Hawkins, is shown to be a good-hearted man particularly fond of him and Mina, and leaves them a chunk of his goods upon his death. |
Hawkins is shown as an unscrupulous man who has no problem sending Harker to Romania despite being aware of the danger it will pose for him. |
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Dracula as an old man bears some resemblance to Vlad the Impaler, but no clear parallels are drawn between them. |
Van Helsing believes that Dracula is Vlad the Impaler, and that he has lived for an impossibly long time after becoming a vampire.
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Van Helsing deduces that Dracula's three vampire brides were merely innocent village girls and Dracula's victims when he sees the peaceful expressions they make after he kills them. |
No inference is shown to be made by van Helsing when he kills the vampire brides. |
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Jonathan Harker escapes Dracula's castle just after Dracula departs for England, and is never directly attacked by the vampire brides. |
Jonathan Harker is kept captive in the castle for a long time after Dracula leaves for England, with the vampire brides periodically drinking his blood before he finally escapes.
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Lucy Westenra is shown to be a typically prim and proper young lady, even more innocent than Mina. |
Lucy is portrayed as a perverted, sexually voracious young woman. |