Compare the movie Nosferatu to the novel, this far, and to any other cinematic adaptations of Dracula you are familiar with. What are the major changes or trends in these works? Please give specific details. Being a silent movie, Nosferatu requires the use of exaggerated expressions and music to create the mood for each scene. Watching the movie now, I don’t feel as frightened as a person who saw this movie in the past, and instead was confused on music choice for each part of the movie. Murnau’s Dracula is an exaggerated version of Stoker’s Dracula: “His face was a strong, a very strong, aquiline, with high bridge of the thin nose and peculiarly arched nostrils, with lofty domed forehead, and hair growing scantily round the temples but profusely elsewhere…his ears were pale, and at the tops extremely pointed. The chin was broad and strong, and the cheeks firm though thin. The general effect was one of extraordinary pallor. Hitherto I had noticed the backs of his hands as they lay on his knees in the firelight, and they had seemed rather white and fine… The nails were long and fine, and cut to a sharp point.” (Stoker, 37-38) Nosferatu almost seemed inhuman to a point, where the features are vastly different from the rest of the actors in the movie, so that viewers can easier distinguish him. In the 1992 version of Dracula by Francis Ford Coppola, Dracula had different appearances. In the beginning he looked extremely old and pale, but
