References to non-Dracula movies include Dracula turning Mina's tears into diamonds, a reference to the Jean Cocteau movie Красуня і чудовисько (1946), Lucy's glass coffin, taken from the various versions of the "Snow White" story, and the window in Lucy's bedroom, taken from the Frank Capra movie The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1932). The lunatics in the asylum rioting to signal the coming of Dracula was used in Дракула (1979). The idea of Dracula's motivation for coming to England being to find his reincarnated lost love was first used in Dracula (1974). Dracula's line of dialogue, "I never drink.wine" has also been used in numerous previous Dracula movies, originating with Дракула (1931). The scene of Dracula rising from his coffin for the first time is also taken from Nosferatu (1922). Renfield being Harker's predecessor (the characters are completely unrelated in the novel) has been used in numerous previous Dracula movies, starting with Носферату, Симфонія жаху (1922). Several elements of this movie were taken from previous Dracula adaptations.
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