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This really should be a new thread, but anyway...
As far as plot, the Coppola DRACULA is about as far away from Stoker as one could imagine. Yes, it includes a great number of incidents from the novel, but so what?
The whole "reincarnation of lost love" plot has nothing to do with Stoker. It's borrowed from the Dan Curtis TV version of DRACULA, which in turn was recycling a plot from Curtis's soap opera DARK SHADOWS (wherein Maggie Evans was the reincarnation of Barnabas Collins' beloved Josette). Along the way BLACULA used the same idea, but if you really want to trace the idea to its filmic origin, you have to go back to the 1932 version of THE MUMMY.
In any case, inserting this plot into the middle of DRACULA makes nonsense of the story: the Count comes to England to reunite with his lost love Mina, but before he gets to her, he stops for a dalliance with Lucy! And yet we're supposed to buy into his great romantic love for Mina, but doesn't seem the least bit perturbed that her great romantic "lover" has been sharing bodily fluids with her best friend!
Absolutely idiotic, and clearly geared for dumb teenage audience that would enjoy treacly Harlequin romances.
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