Everyone usually massacres Dracula in the same
Freudian way
Well, Bram Stoker _did_ have syphilis; so all those connections between sex, transmission of a condition by tainted blood, and death are probably not just modern interpretations.
I haven't seen the new Dracula. I just watched my DVD of the new Jane Eyre. I would classify it as modernized, in terms of much of the language and some of the actions, but emotionally true. Heavily romantic. Some characters have been changed; for example a peripheral young man, in the novel, has been changed into an amateur scientist.
As for costumes, I try not to watch films for them too much, it's just entertainment. But: In the novel Jane Eyre perennially wore black wool, black silk, or for the very best dove-gray silk in winter; and in the summer, she had at least one dress in, if I recall, lilac gingham. In the film she almost always wears a gray cotton dress that doesn't fit well in the bodice.
But, it's a good film. Worth making; though I still wish BBC would discover more 19th-century authors instead of perennially refilming Jane Austen, Dickens, and a handful of others. I'd love to see someone film Wharton's _The Custom of the Country_.
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