'The Last Voyage of the Demeter': Differences Between the Book and Movie
The Big Picture For most people, The Last Voyage of the Demeter might just seem like a brand-new original vampire movie, when actually it's based on a book! A single chapter out of a book actually — in some versions of the book named "The Captain's Log" and "Cutting from the Dailygraph" in others but most widely known as Chapter 7 — from none other than Dracula! This short chunk of Bram Stoker's groundbreaking horror novel isn't just a little section of the...
This is where The Last Voyage of the Demeter comes into play. A straight adaptation of Chapter 7 feels like something that should have happened eons ago, but has only been a passing element in different Dracula movies. There's Nosferatu aboard a ship in, you guessed it, Nosferatu. It appears in the Francis Ford Coppola film Bram Stoker's Dracula, among many other Dracula adaptations. The Demeter has been around, but never as the primary location for an entire movie...
Instead of being told in the first person like its novelistic counterpart, Last Voyage is told like any other movie. It follows the entire crew of the Demeter, but most closely focuses on Clemens , a doctor who joins these folks on their journey. Clemens' backstory of being one of Cambridge's first graduated Black doctors ends up making for the movie's most compelling emotional moments and is one that was written specifically for Last Voyage.
Physically, Last Voyage's Dracula looks way more like a cross between Nosferatu and Kurt Barlow from Salem's Lot. He's hairless, bony, slimy, bald, has straggly sharp fangs, and moves around like a feral animal. Considering that this movie is actually trying to make Dracula scary again, this is great, but it's not exactly Dracula as we know him. Neither is he in the book though. In the book, when Dracula is aboard the Demeter, he's described as tall, thin, and ghastly pale.
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