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Beautiful analysis of the film. I own this film on blu-ray because I love it so much. This film really touched upon many perspectives of different peoples' experiences of life. Whether it was heartbreak, longing, curiosity, regrets, etc. Also, when you started discussing Yang Yang it was so heart warming and made his character more adorable. I loved your conclusion at the end about what the film was all about. Thank you! Hope you can enjoy more movies!

In the Mood for Love might be one of the most perfect films ever created, absolutely amazing craft by all involved.

Your writing style is insanely good

I thought Apollo was a better and harder movie to make.

John Alcott (Stanley Kubrick's "lighting camera man"), knocked on my front door in 1985 and said: "I hear you work on these Polaroid cameras", he was holding a 1960's Polaroid model 110A. I said, yes I do, and invited him into my lab, and in the next 3-hours, I completely rebuilt his completely dilapidated 110A camera (see my UA-cam channel: "My inventions"). During this time while rebuilding his camera, I asked several questions about his work in various Kubrick directed movies, Barry Lyndon (he won an academy award; best cinematography), The Shining, and many others. He completely explained how he lit various scenes in these movies, both natural light, HMI, candle light and what equipment was utilized including lenses, camera support, and other instruments. In the Shining, he told me the Stedicam operator was placed in a wheelchair, and the Stedicam was rigged upside down, very low to the floor, and pushed behind Danny as he pedaled his "Big-Wheel" around the hotel. John Alcott was very forthcoming with every question that I asked him, this is quite typical with many, very talented people I've met in my career, only the "hack's" hold this information close to their vests! I've been an inventor, designer, and manufacturer of custom tools for professionals working in mechanics, electronics, and optics. David Riddle

I think the casual viewer does not appreciate the effort that went into analyzing, contrasting as well as comparing both movies. This is a gem in horror UA-cam & made me appreciate Eggers’ movies even more.

Some films need to be rewatched to be fully understood. I truly believe that when you give a film a second chance-especially if you didn't get it the first time or found it boring-you develop a deeper appreciation for it.

I think it is also representative of a tendancy for glutany and greed.

I don’t like horror but his films have an attractive mystique and I can’t look away

Because they're humans and humans eat food.

I miss Maggie Cheung so much ❤

This is a nice documentary ruined by a click-bait title, sadly.

a good essay

How do you know what the director was thinking? Maybe he didn’t even notice what you say … this is all bs

Simple. Because he paints evil as pure evil. No misunderstood good guy who turned bad, no sob story, no paradise is losing here bro. His evil is simply just evil. Also yeah, he makes them look pure evil as well, masterfully.

Excellent analysis. I too love horror as a genre yet find it almost always disappointing and the worst movies made and unsatisfying and frustrating to say the least, So when we get someone like Robert eggers I too am excited beyond words. Glad you’re able to elucidate it for me ❤

We had to watch 2001 in my elementary school . About 20 years later , a sequel was made that script wise was really good BUT the special effects weren't as special as Douglas Trumbells

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Does anything eventually happen in The Lighthouse?

Nosferatu was not great

Absolutely perfect. Actually working on my world building and your video and analysis gave me so much insights on the direction i would go.

Music drove me away…why oh why do you people feel so insecure that nothing you create can survive without this annoying, unnecessary, ridiculous accessory?

Damn!! What a banger analysis!! Great mixing as well! I would love to hear your take on the Thing and other more lovecraftian horrors, if you haven't already! Subscribing!

Excellent video, particularly interesting now that I've seen Nosferatu (SPOILER WARNING) What you said about the monster disrupting the status quo and the protagonists failing to re-establish it in the Witch and the Lighthouse because they are in IT'S territory doesn't really apply to Nosferatu or the original Dracula, where the vampire makes an attempt to leave it's unknowable wilderness and intrude onto human civilisation in search of prey, only to fail because the humans are not the weaklings it expected. Dracula gets flummoxed by the scientific approach of his enemies, and Orlok, while explicitly resisting the enlightened approach of the skeptics, is instead defeated by the ancient archetype of a good person performing an act of willing self-sacrifice. For all his mysterious powers, Satanic undertones and the devastating plague he causes by his mere presence, Orlok is actually TOO human to be invincible; he is obsessed, lustful and arrogant in the same way an ordinary human narcissist could be, and thus gets tricked into a COMPLETELY avoidable defeat. A truly inhuman entity with his level of power wouldn't make the same mistake, which is why he loses while Black Philip and the Light break those who try to tame them. You talk about how the Witch and the Mermaid act as extensions/servants for the greater dark force behind them, which may be another reason Orlok fails. While his powers come from a bargain with hell, he is acting entirely according to his own will; he's not an agent of Satan working to bring about the downfall of humanity as a whole, he's just an evil man who wants to be pettily sadistic to others and dominate a girl he's got a hard-on for, so when he makes a human mistake there's no inhuman intellect to tug on his leash and put him back on course. The use of light is also an interesting contrast, because while the Light atop the lighthouse blasts an unwise human mind with forbidden knowledge, in Nosferatu it exposes and scours the shadow-lurking predator. It's quite telling that Skarsgard's rotting-corpse prosthetics, while certainly DISGUSTING to look at, aren't actually that SCARY when he's seen naked in the bright light, while the massive form he projects with his bulky furs and cloak in the darkness is much more intimidating (which is all the trailers and posters let you see of him). You talk about the twist when Black Philip shows he actually CAN speak after being silent and inscrutable for most of the film, and the Light never communicates clearly at all. Orlok talks a LOT, and while he's got an impressively booming and raspy voice with an accent that makes you concentrate to understand him, and he's mostly giving imperious commands and making fearsome threats, that still gives you SOMETHING to work with. Humans are geared towards communication, and understanding is the antidote to fear, so as soon as Orlok opens his mouth he is immediately meeting you on a human level and becomes less frightening (related to that, I notice that the trailers for the film also didn't let you hear his voice). Orlok's also not even all that GOOD with words; he has none of the charm and charisma that most versions of Dracula have, and while he tricks Thomas with a contract written in his own language and then tells Ellen Thomas sold her for gold, it's a very unsophisticated kind of wordplay compared to what you would see from a true Faustian bargain with a demon or a deal with the Fair Folk. If those archetypal monstrous contracts represent humanity's fascination with words and their power to both explain and obfuscate, then the crudity of Orlok's use of that tool is another sign that he's nowhere near as smart as he thinks he is, and he's underestimating his prey. Notably, the humans beat him with knowledge they gained from von Franz actually listening to Ellen's answers to his questions and the written words in his books, and a combination of Ellen's truthful communication of her plan to von Franz and verbal manipulation of both Thomas and Orlok himself, who never considers the possibility that this slip of a girl might be able to deceive him. The difference in isolation is also massive. Orlok's castle is in the remote wilderness, surrounded by beasts under his control and infested with shadows that he can seemingly teleport through at will, but most of the action takes place in a city where the protagonists are surrounded by people. While the large numbers of people are no help and simply raise the body count as they fall to Orlok's plague, and the protagonists remain isolated by their knowledge of what they're facing compared to the civilians who think there's a rational explanation, there is still an undeniable comfort to being in a bustling herd rather than alone in the middle of nowhere. Even when Thomas IS in Orlok's territory and questioning his sanity, the knowledge that there's a sane world and beloved people he can go back to gives him a strength of will Orlok didn't anticipate, compared to the other two films where the victims know they're on their own. Forever. Anyway, thanks a lot for the video, and to anyone who's read through this entire comment, thanks for your time!

The Witch kinda ruined movies for me for a good long while... It's perfect. It's a perfect 10/10 film on every level. The channel Novum just put out a 7 HOUR deep dive on The Witch, and I watched the entire thing in 2 days, riveted. _That's_ how good The Witch is. A video _about_ the movie, that's 3 times as long as the movie, utterly holds my attention. Eggers' other movies are excellent, and Ari Aster, Denis Villeneuve, Jordan Peele, and many others ARE making incredible work. But The Witch is singular for me. I'm not sure it will ever be topped....or how that could even be done.

Thank you for this superb dual analysis which garners for you an automatic like and subscribe!

This is an amazing film essay! I was blown away by the intro; your use of sound and imagery really nailed the sense of the complexity tied up with these films. I'm pondering at the moment about the idea of setting up another channel from this current one where I can create some dark fairy tale ambiences that was perhaps based on Nosferatu etc. Definitely subscribing!

Can we start a petition to get Robert Eggers to remake Logan's Run?

Great video man

ONLY 30k subs??? You deserve WAY more holy shit bro 🔥

I love The Lighthouse! I caught a screening of Nosferatu and when it got to the Castle Orlok scene, I felt like I was transported to the doorsteps of Hell and meeting the devil known as Count Orlok. The amount of detail Eggers put into Nosferatu is just brilliance of the most otherworldly beauty. It's grotesque, hypnotic, beautiful and sirenic, like a siren sprung from the womb of the deepest Hell. And I loved every disturbing minute of it!

luckily communism saved them all.

“not necessarily evil”

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In Nosferatu, we see the scariest vampire ever put to film. Orlok simply is-an eternal, insatiable appetite ( Professor Albin Eberhart von Franz: "Its desire is to consume all life on earth". / "Count Orlok: I am an appetite, nothing more." ) without beginning or end-he transcends moral judgment or even villainy. He becomes a cosmic horror, a manifestation of entropy, decay, or the inevitability of death itself. His existence as a fact of the universe, rather than a result of choice, makes him feel omnipresent and inescapable. There’s no reasoning with him, no defeating him in any permanent sense, because he represents something that’s always been and always will be. This timeless, indifferent quality taps into existential dread. Orlok isn’t evil in the traditional sense; he’s horrifying because he doesn’t need to be. His hunger is as natural as gravity or time, and that makes his threat feel universal, not personal. It’s a subtle but profound choice that adds to his immortality as a concept, rather than just a character.

The lighthouse is one of my favorite horror movies ever, and I normally hate any somewhat modern movie.

Wow you caught the similarities in the 2 movies I didn’t even notice. She rose up to darkness and he was cast down from the light .

SPOILER WARNING PLEASE

your production value is insane! i was glued to the screen the entire time and so convinced this had hundreds of thousands views you deserve them fr. you've got a new subscriber for sure! agree with pretty much all of this. i really enjoy all of his references to folklore and mythology and there were even a few from the lighthouse you brought up that i had missed myself. though i loved the witch the lighthouse was one of my absolute favorite films and the lovecraftian horror aspect for me was genuinely unsettling. theres this claustrophic feeling of dread in all of egger's films that steadily builds and builds until culminating into a sort of euphoric almost orgasmic madness and terror as the minds of his characters break that is so eerie and disturbing to watch. very few horror films can unsettle me anymore but eggers' lands everytime. i can't wait to see his nosferatu film i know its gonna blow me out of the water and i look forward to seeing your take on it <3

Busted a little early not including Nosferatu

Amazing video

My favorite Egger film was the Witch; that one affected me on a much more primal level. The Lighthouse kind of falls flat for me though. Something about the creepy forest setting and the demonic black goat entity and a family hallucinating witches and demons as they slowly go mad and turn on one another was much more unsettling to me. The Lighthouse completely fails to elicit a fear response from me, though, but I guess someone does have a reaction to it or it never would have done as well as it did.

The quote at 0:48 is chills

this was honestly incredible, thank you

Fantastic video! I firmly believe Robert Eggers is and will continue to be one of the greatest directors of our time 👏🏻

Your comparison of the two films with Egger's bigger vision and influences is perfect - thank-you for putting it all together. Love the Lovecraft tie-in mentioned - always felt this was in there somewhere - the unknowable until it is known which breaks the mortal mind and leads to utter madness. Masterful director and can't wait for Nosferatu !!

The worst monsters are the ones you sleep next to. Don’t be afraid of things that are not real.

Amazing video!

Ageless ........A wonder ........pure art...... the film and the filmmaker who changed cinema..... gave a true taste of cinema........

I would love it if you cover Bela Tarr. There is no doubt Eggers took a lot from Tarr, both stylistically and thematically.