Jimbo wrote:
No option for the Frank Langella version, 1979? I remember liking it, but haven't seen it in 35 years.
This is what my "other" vote was for. That, to me, is the most faithful adaptation of Stoker's novel - even down to using the original (unpublished) ending from Stoker's manuscript (where they finally confront Dracula aboard a boat at sea), and the scene (unpublished but also in the author's original manuscript) where Dracula is the thirteenth guest at dinner, and refuses to eat any food.
It doesn't include everything (most versions omit the aspect of Dracula ageing in reverse which is present in the novel, although Coppola's version had this in it), but what it does include it gets right, they re-introduce some of Stoker's 'deleted scenes', and it has such a great cast you can't go wrong.
I wrote my 10,000 word essay for my Honours Degree on Dracula back in 1995, so The Count is kind of a favourite topic of mine.
