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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Van Helsing presses the wafer on Mina's head to bless her, not knowing it would burn her and Mina does not try to seduce and kill him. |
Mina tries to seduce and kill Van Helsing and he presses a communion wafer on her head to defend himself from the attack. |
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Dracula is not shown to particularly love Mina or any other woman from his past. |
Dracula falls in love with Mina because he believes she is a reincarnation of his dead sweetheart, Elisabeta.
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Jonathan Harker's hair turns gray at Seward's asylum after the Count places Harker in an trance and consumes Mina's blood. |
Harker returns from Transylvania with gray hair, apparently as consequence of having been bitten by the vampire brides
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The book ends when Jonathan Harker and Quincy Morris chase down Dracula's coffin, stab his heart and behead him before the sun sets. |
They are unable to reach his coffin before the sun sets, and so Dracula breaks free for one final struggle in the castle's chapel. |