What is it with Dracula movies and romance? Coppola’s Dracula (called Bram Stoker’s Dracula in a fit of I-don’t-know-what) is almost entirely focused on a twisted romance between Dracula and Mina Murray, and Shadow of the Vampire, which I just finished watching, also implants a bizarre sort of love story into the plot. I can’t speak at the moment for Murnau’s original Nosferatu because I haven’t seen it yet. I can, however, say with certainty that Bram Stoker’s book has no Dracula romance in it. Not a drop.
Does Hollywood have some idea that Dracula just isn’t interesting enough without romance? Do directors have some kind of need to humanize Dracula by having him idolize some female, or is that just to keep the audience watching (in horror)?
Speaking of horror: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Words do not even begin to convey that horror.
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