The film opens up with a flashback to 1462, where Dracula’s story as a Romanian knight is told. This flashback actually connects back to the book where Jonathan Harker writes in his journal that Dracula tells him about his family’s history. This includes the Szekelys fight and defeat of the Turks. But the film’s flashback also adds in the love story motif between Dracula and Elisabeta that is not present in the novel. This romance travels throughout the entire of the film, where Mina turns into the resurrected soul of Dracula’s lost love. This reinterpretation is actually one of the major key points in the differences between the book and the movie. Indeed, In Stoker’s novel, Dracula is almost entirely a monster, in the sense that he has no
