Just finished reading the book last night and rewatching the movie tonight. Movies and books complement each other. I find that after reading the book and then watching the movie, I can really understand many details that I hadn't discovered before, such as: what does the passenger say to Jonathan, "the dead walk fast"? What was the blue light that the carriage encountered on the way to the castle; what happened to Renfield in the mental hospital; what was the effect of hypnotizing Mina, etc.; and the movie also added some plots that were not written in the book, such as: the earl leaves After throwing Jonathan in the castle, what he experienced inside and how he escaped from the castle. The biggest difference between the movie and the book is the presence or absence of the love line of Dracula and Mina. There is absolutely no such love line in the book. Mina in the book loves Jonathan wholeheartedly from beginning to end. Mina was transformed into a vampire by Dracula because Dracula resented her for helping Van Helsing and the others organize their own information. Makes it easier to get caught by them. In the movie, Dracula went across the ocean to find her lover four hundred years ago, pestering Mina and helping Mina retrieve the memories of her past life little by little, so that she fell in love with the count again, and Mina became The vampire was also requested from Dracula herself. But with the addition of the love line of Dracula and Mina, I always feel that Mina is a bit scumbag. Is this a mental derailment? Her modern memory loves Jonathan, and she is married to Jonathan, but her past life memory loves the Earl deeply, and she is willing to give everything for the Earl, even becoming a vampire like her. So what happened to Jonathan? Jonathan is too pitiful... Just because he went to the castle for someone to do errands, the count saw the picture of his fiancee, and his fiancee was taken away? In the end, the scene where Mina took a gun at Jonathan for the Earl and asked Jonathan if he could do it to her was really scumbag. Knowing that he loves you deeply and can't do it, you treat him like this, take advantage of it like this Does he love you? The movie really embellished Dracula a lot more than the book. The Dracula in the book is a diabolical devil, selfish, cunning, ruthless, eccentric gentleman on the surface, in fact a sinister devil, coercing and enticing Jonathan to trap Jonathan in the castle and not let him out; put on Jonathan's clothes, Pretending to be Jonathan, he went out and snatched children from other people's homes. When the mother of the child chased after him, he summoned the wolves to tear the mother of the child and devour it. On the way to London, he drained the blood of all the crew members on the ship, and then threw the crew into the Haili; lured Lucy again and again, sucked Lucy's blood, and transformed her into a vampire; Mina helped everyone organize information because of Jonathan's experience and Lucy's death, and was directly caught by him to suck blood and transform her into a vampire; hire someone to help After he finished his work, out of fear of being exposed, he brutally tore up the man, devoured it, and threw it in the cemetery... He committed various crimes. In the movie, Dracula came to London to find her true love, Mina, unlike the book that came to London to open up a venue, expand the scope, and increase her kind; Lucy was voluntarily lured into a vampire, and so was Mina. Willing to become a vampire for love. The biggest point is the background introduction of Dracula's transformation into a vampire: he fought for God and returned triumphantly, but his wife threw herself into a river because of rumors of her death in battle from the former enemy Turkey. In Christianity, people who commit suicide die. After that, the soul cannot ascend to heaven. He feels injustice for his beloved wife, thinks that God has betrayed him, hates God, and becomes a vampire because of love and hatred. There are tragic plots in it, which make people feel more sympathetic and pity him, while ignoring his evil deeds. Since Lucy is not the protagonist in the movie, the part about her progressed relatively quickly, so I didn't have a deep impression on her when I watched it, I just remembered that she was Mina's good best friend. It's different in the book. The book spends a lot of time describing Lucy. She is so beautiful, charming, playful and cute. All men are fascinated by her, and centenarians are shocked by her beauty when they see her. The three suitors, Jack, Quincy, and Arthur who came to propose, were all very good men. Van Helsing saw that she was all beautiful, so he worked harder to save her. The pain of her transformation into a vampire is not shown very much in the movie. She turned into a vampire when she brushed it, and her head was chopped off when she brushed it. In the book, dozens of pages were spent writing about the pain of her transformation process. She was sucked blood by Dracula, her face was pale and her life was dying. Four men, Arthur, Jack, Van Helsing, and Quincy, gave her blood transfusions. It looked better, and there was blood on his face. That night, he was sucked blood by Dracula again, and the next day he was so pale that he was dying... The worst thing was that her mother had a bad heart. She was worried that she would come to accompany her that night, but she was scared to death by what Dracula did. It was warm and cold, but she couldn't move like she was cursed. Later, the servant was called, and the servant was also frightened. After the servant went downstairs, he drank the opium drunk by Dracula and didn't wake up. She was left alone to live awake, but she had to face a big demon like Dracula. How helpless and desperate she was... At that time, communication was not so developed, and news was mainly transmitted by telegrams or letters. Mina went to find Jonathan. Later, she was busy with her life and wrote a letter to Lucy. Lucy's mother was already dead. She wondered if it would be better to still greet her mother in the letter. Later, Mina sent another letter, and Lucy died before reading both letters... Lucy is really a very poor girl. She was going to get married soon, but she died. Such a painful death passed... In the book, it was originally the next day to chop Lucy's head during the day, but at night it was only Van Helsing who took everyone to check whether Lucy's body was in the coffin and how scary Lucy turned into a vampire, the movie In order to save time, I saw that she looked like a vampire that night, read the Bible directly, sealed her in the heart and chopped her head... In the book, Mina mainly reflects her bravery, and also mentions beauty, but in comparison, her beauty is not as good as revealing. West, but in the movie it's different, Mina cast Winona, she is beautiful, cute, pure and beautiful, and she beats Lucy every minute... Winona's smart and beautiful eyes in the movie are very in line with the book's vision of rice Na's description "those beautiful eyes". In the movie, Mina's shy and innocent feeling when she learned that Jonathan was going to take a business trip to talk to Jonathan before she got married, and Mina's nervous, shy and surprised expression when she watched Lucy and Quincy talk boldly beside them. , left a deep impression on me. Winona really has such a beautiful face and beautiful eyes. With those eyes, she can convey a variety of emotions at the same time, especially the expression of consternation. As for Dr. Jack, the movie also weakened her existence. There are many descriptions of him in the book, and when I read the book, I substituted Frankenstein from "Vulgar Story", a particularly handsome doctor, so I watched the movie. The actor's bushy beard didn't ease up a bit... Arthur is quite similar to the description in the book, and Quincy is okay... I almost didn't recognize the actor Dr. Van Helsing as Ford from "Westworld", after all Twenty or thirty years have passed... Van Helsing in the movie doesn't seem to have such deep feelings for Lucy... The exorcism is as powerful as ever! At the end of the book, the earl's head was cut off by Jonathan at the gate of the castle, and Quincy stabbed him in the heart and died on the spot. Because of the emotional connection between Mina and Dracula in the movie, they also slashed the earl's neck with a knife and pierced his heart. He didn't die, and the rest was left to Mina to deal with... I'm curious about the ending The Earl is dead, Mina is not dead, and has returned to being a human being. Is it possible for Mina to come back and live with Jonathan?
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