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How far do you consider Coppola's Dracula to be a reworking of Stoker's text through Murnau expressionistic influence?
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august How far do you consider Coppola's Dracula to be a reworking of Stoker's text through Murnau expressionistic influence? Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula follows a long line of cinematic adaptations of the 1897 Gothic novel written by Stoker. That there have been so many cinematic re-tellings of Stoker's original story of a Transylvanian Count and his vampirism suggests that Dracula has become a cultural icon, in a sense transcending its progenitor. Yet within the process of re-telling of the original there are always traces of tellers' own concepts and preoccupations, which, depending on talents of the re-makers and their views on particular parts of a novel, alter the original analogically. In this sense, Coppola's film positioned itself as a return to the original source in terms of both its publicity and design. It can be claimed that Bram Stoker's Dracula is one of the greatest stabs at theatrical modern...
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