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... To be bitten by Dracula is to become a slave to a kind of lust, abandoned to unlawful
hungers a projection of the beholder?s desire and dread? (v) This ...
Submitted by jacthegirl on November 19, 2005
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Lacking or amplified emotions in Bram Stoker’s novel play a significant role in Sir Francis Coppola’s film. Newly formed emotions in Coppola’s film Dracula lead to heightened levels of interaction in Stoker’s novel Dracula. Sir Francis Coppola’s film interpretation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula explores the hidden emotions between the characters, which creates new dimension to the text. The subtle desires between the characters in Stoker’s novel are thoroughly explored in Coppola’s film. The passion expressed in the novel is limited to brief descriptions hidden in-between the words. In the film the passion comes alive with each encounter of man to women or women to beast. Love in the sense that it is an intense feeling of tender affection and compassion (Kindersley 250) is meticulously described in the novel but it is not as in-depth in the film although it is in only one instance. The lustful vigor of the characters in the Dracula text is kept mainly to the beasts and expressed indirectly. The film almost explicitly illustrates the lust of all characters, not only the beasts. The film interpretation of Dracula examines the lightly set desires of each character enriching the dynamics in the text.
The passion in Bram Stoker’s novel is one of several different human emotions, that is ignored or amplified in Sir Francis Coppola’s film. The passion of life, hate and attraction is created among the characters. In the novel Van Helsing is passionate about the lives of others. He works hard to keep Lucy alive and safe from what is killing her; “I shall precaution take.” (Stoker 135). He protects her life as he does with Renfield. He rushes to help the almost lifeless lunatic and performs surgery to “…most quickly and perfectly remove the blood clot…” (Stoker 293). He is passionate about the lives of others and his interaction with other characters such as Arthur when he is preparing Lucy for the blood transfusion seems a little over the...
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