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......
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