vershy versh
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coppola's take on stoker's book is fascinating, it is so much sexier and evil than what you could imagine being sprung out of how the text was written.
Dracula becoming a vampire after renouncing God, desecrating the chapel, stabbing the cross and drinking the blood that pours from it is a great touch. Shades of Ahab raging against Nature in Moby-Dick. You don't get that same sweep and grandeur when your first encounter is Harker meeting him at the castle. The vampire response to the crucifix carries much more weight too.