Frank Copalla's Dracula

The difference in Van Helsing in the movie and the book is that the book wrote him as a serious man who would not joke around while in the movie, he was depicted as an eccentric man who is very strange around people even to his student, Jack Seward.
Also, Van Helsing, in the movie, has a particular mood change throughout the whole movie while in the book he was constantly being quite serious. At first, he was depicted quite seriously but towards the end he became quite strange.
The other character , Dracula, also had some difference in the movie. firstly, he was depicted not as a villain but a man that was forced to do evil while in the book, he was depicted as the protagonist.
Also, Dracula , in the movie, was chasing Mina Harker because he thought that she was his long gone wife. while in the book, he chased Mina to feed on her blood.
lastly, in the movie, Dracula was not scared of the crucifix, unlike in the book, instead he melted it, and he did not react the same as in the book, like wanting for Jonathan's blood when Dracula saw it.
i prefered the book to the movie because i felt that the movie was a bit unrealistic when Lucy was condemned by Dracula, suddenly blood literally exploded everywhere in the room. the book, though being quite boring in some parts of the story, was more realistic at that time and was not that supernatural and not very exaggerated till the extent where Mina Harker happened to be Dracula's long late lost wife.