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Why change Lucy Westenra's name?

posted 14 years ago by andrewshor
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In the Dracula novel her name is Lucy Westenra. In the 1931 movie they changed it to Lucy Weston. In Dracula 2000 they changed it to Lucy Westerman. Why do they keep changing her name? Is there something wrong with the name Westenra?

Despite the century difference, Lucy Westenra and Lucy Westerman are clearly the same character. Most of the name is the same, they're both sluts, they're both friends of the girl that Dracula is after, they both become vampires and they both die.

[–] MikePaul854 11 years ago

Probably in an attempt to make her name sound more American than her literary counterpart.

[–] DylansFearFiles 10 years ago

The picture of Lucy as a so it is from the Coppola film, not from Stoker.

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[–] Tri0xin 8 years ago

Why change Lucy Westenra's name?

Because.... Westenra. It's fugging goofy.

[–] mariobros_91 7 years ago

Lucy's last name has been changed in several Dracula film adaptations in terms of relationship with other characters.

In Horror of Dracula (1958) she is named Lucy Holmwood and she is Arthur Holmwood's sister and Jonathan Harker's fiancé.

In the 1979 Dracula film, Lucy's last name is Seward and she is Dr. John Seward's daughter but in that adaptation, Mina and Lucy's roles were swapped from her novel depictions.

In Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (1979), Lucy's last name is Harker and she is Jonathan Harker's fiancé.

The Lucy Weston variation from the 1931 film was also used in the 1968 Dracula TV film starring Denholm Elliot as the Count.

[–] R_Kane (15828) 2 years ago

It’s not “goofy” in the slightest, though you sound like YOU are, so that’s why you went there. “Westenra” is an elegant, aristocratic name. Americans are uncomfortable with both elegance and aristocracy.

[–] GreenGoblinsOck8 (7395) 5 years ago

It doesn't bother me since she's barely even in it.