With reference to the opening sequence of Bram Stoker's Dracula, discuss Coppola's creation.

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"Francis Ford Coppola has reinvigorated the traditional vampire movie to make it appeal to a modern audience"

With reference to the opening sequence of Bram Stoker's Dracula, discuss Coppola's creation.

Francis Ford Coppola has reinvigorated the traditional vampire movie to make it more appeal to a modern audience. The movie is adapted from the Bram Stoker's novel called the 'Dracula'. He made changes in the story by adding a scene which exposes the audience to how and why Dracula turned evil. Coppola demonstrates this in the opening scene. The prologue sequence which was the added and the opening scene of the movie was used to appeal to a modern audience. My task is to analyse the prologue sequence of the movie and illustrate why Coppola succeeded in attracting the modern audience. He used the elements effectively to expose the Dracula story to the modern audience; he manipulated sound, cinematography, mise-en-scene and lightning. Coppola illustrates that the prologue is set in medieval times by the use of costumes and props. He builds up the vampire genre by using the medieval time period. He uses narrative devices to expose the background story on Dracula. I am going to discuss how