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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- Jake reviews Nosferatu (2024).
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Why are you raising your son instead of watching The Lighthouse right now?
Heck, why not both? This could be a formative experience for Child Carrying Thing! Or therapy fodder. Or, again, both.
@@thebigshep Because he doesn't want to spill his beans....
Say ya like my lobster right?
@Dartanyoogles I've had too much to drink. This cracked me up way too much 😂.
People are going to tell you to see the Witch and the Lighthouse and they’re right.
The Witch is amazing but The Lighthouse is his best film hands down
The Northman is also really good.
The Lighthouse throws everything at the wall. Plus Willem Dafoe is in it!
Why’d y’spill yer beans?
@@Whocares1987I feel like I’m the only person who didn’t care for the lighthouse
Robert always was a big fan of Nosferatu. He even made a play when he was only 17 years old. So answer to your question "Why now?" is basically "He just really wanted to".
He not only made a play of Nosferatu, but also played Count Orlok in it himself!
We also just passed the 100 year anniversary for the original film a couple years ago, and apparently it’s been a movie he’s wanted to do from the beginning. All roads led to here, it seems. I’m glad he got to do a labor of love.
Also that we’ve just been through a global pandemic. The original 1922 film was made right after a global pandemic too. Its not a coincidence
Yeah haha. Also i think that the question "whay now?" is meaningless when it comes to art, sure there is art that comes at the right time when it comes to the themes touches, but many times art comes from something deep within us that doesn't answer to schedules.
Also, he might now at a point of his career where he's able to get it financed. No way he could have made the same movie with the budget of the VVITCH
somewhat shocked that you've never seen the lighthouse or the northman
same
@@womancarryingman ur gonna love the lighthouse
@@womancarryingman ur gonna hate the northman
You're gonna love The Northman!
@@womancarryingman The Northman is really good
“Why do this now?”
Cuz Robert Eggers reaaaaaaally wanted to lmfao
He's been talking about it for 9 years and chasing it his whole life.
If dude bothered to watch one interview with the man, he would have learned that.
Dude did a Nosferatu play in school and then again when offered to do a larger production play. He watched the VHS of the original when he was 9. This has probably been brewing in his head for decades.
@@intense79nick Very clearly a love letter to the original film.
"I've abandoned my child" nice There Will Be Blood reference
A BASTARD FROM A BASKET
MY BOOOOOOOOOOY!
Man carrying milkshake
I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE
I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE. I DRINK IT UP.
The sound of Nosferatu gulping blood is one of the creepiest parts of the movie
I though it kinda sounded like he was taking big bong rips of blood out of them
Yeah that was so incredibly striking
100% it was fucking horrifying
It's interesting that you think Egger's style in this film was bland. I found it absolutely enrapturing and engrossing. Every frame of the movie is gorgeous and helped immerse me in the world.
BLAND!? Every frame of the movie is gorgeous and helped immerse me in the world.
BLAND!? Every frame of the movie is gorgeous and helped immerse me in the world.
Why is this a comment chain?
That’s the one thing I was missing in the movie. I wanted to feel immersed in it and I really didn’t. I love Eggers style too, but I wasn’t half as immersed here as I am with The Lighthouse.
Couldn't agree more, every frame of that movie was like a painting
When I first saw The Witch I was blown away by how flatly it refused to do a modern twist. No "what if the witch was good" or "what if the real witch was paranoia" but instead there's a lady in the woods, signed the devil's book, steals babies, flies on a broomstick.
I do hope you got a bit more out of that movie…
@@PauLtus_B Of course. I can rewatch focusing on the language, or the sibling relationship (that conversation about glass? love it), or how the Devil's offer compares to Thomasin's other path of working in someone's house... but that's all from me. It's not the movie overexplaining it to me.
@@jamesarthurkimbellreally enjoy this perspective thanks. One of my favorite movies. The simplicity of the tale is astounding
@@PauLtus_B for real it's kind of like there's a lady in the woods, signed the devil's book, steals babies, flies on a broomstick, and what if that was good. the devil? maybe not all that great if you're a baby, but man being a witch still beats the hell out of being a puritan settler
@@PauLtus_B shut up... sassy ass elipses
Having only watched the 1920's film and not this new one(yet), that part about entire scenes using only one color and minimalistic, camera work framing some admittedly pretty shots sounds like EXACTLY the reason this movie is called Nosferatu and not Dracula. Old Nosferatu would literally tint the entire film in one color since color film wasn't really a thing yet. It would hold on a static, symetrical shot just because it was beautiful and/or could be used to build dread. Can't say i remember any Dracula movie with that same approach to it's cinematography or presentation. It sounds from your description like Eggers *specifically* wanted to try his own hand at Nosferatu(1922)'s style of filmmaking.
Wow, I might have to go watch it again to pay attention to the colors! Holy shit!
But it is also kind of interesting, because Murnau in particular was kind of known for revolutionizing camera work, towards a more dynamic movement with his "entfesselte Kamera". He wanted to give his scenes either a more floating look or a perspective more similar the the view of the characters. So making the camera intentional static, could also be seen as kind of opposing Murnaus particular legacy as a director. I haven't seen the new version yet, so I cannot say If this is relevant, but I wanted to point iz out.
That is correct. The color language in this film is a direct homage to the color-coded tinting in the 1922 film
Basically I noticed with great joy when watching the film that there are so many elements that pay tribute or reference to not only the original 1922 Murnau film, but also the 1979 Herzog one, 2000 meta Shadow of the Vampire which operates under the pop cultural assumption Max Schreck was a vampire himself, in the light of his unsettling performance and lack of popularity overseas, even Coppola's Dracula, not to mention the Stoker novel and the eastern European folklore that spawned the story. I constantly see people mocking parts of the movie or declaring it plagiarizes X previous movie, and I'm like "it doesn't copy any of them, but uses all of them as building material", obvious emphasis in the original Nosferatu movie.
Adding to what you're saying, i was also confused before seeing it as to why this is a Nosferatu adaptation instead of a Dracula adaptation. I realized while watching it that if you're dealing with cinema as your medium, it's gotta be Nosferatu. There have been great Dracula films but Bram Stoker's gift to the world with Dracula was through the world of literature, where it grew and influenced many other literary works and movements that then grew into their own things. The same happened in the world of cinema thanks to the work of F.W. Murneau with Nosferatu; it is a film first and foremost, with film language as its main conduit for telling a story. Here Eggers is paying respects to the legacy of cinema spefically, and no so much the literature.
I mean it's no kraven
A new standard has been set.
I wish I had seen kraven instead.
@@k-nun Kraven is on my top 5 favorite films of 1996!!
Not may movies are
@@Dartanyoogles But you only saw 4 films in 1996?
I actually think there were some comedic moments in the movie i laughed a few times. Like when the count said "we will be neighbors" also when willem defoes character was first introduced. I also lauged when the counts follower bites the head off the pigeon and the doctor was like "now why would you do that sir?"
Me and my fiance were the only ones who laughed and I have been saying the we're neighbors line since Sunday night
Or when Ellen is having one of her fits of possession and the one blonde gal screams out "she needs her husband!"
@ it was so funny bookending the movie with the cat
The Isaac Newton line by Dafoe and the "I'm a ships man" line by Taylor-Johnson are so fkn funny it's insane.
Yes, Willem Dafoes jacket releasing a cloud of dust when the doctor hugs him made me chuckle. Also having seen the movie in Germany, the whole cinema laughed when Dafoes character offered "Schnapps" to everyone. So yeah definetly a bit of intentional humor. But there were also some scenes where i had to laugh because the acting of lily rose depp was a little over the top for me. Still a very good performance.
I disagree with the camera movement being uninteresting: It felt like watching an entrapping nightmare unfold at a trance-like pace. It feels like this unsettling dream until the end when the sun rises.
It was perfect, no unnecessary directorial flourishes. Classy, old-school and restrained.
I distinctly remember thinking "this film feels like being under the spell of a sleep paralysis demon"
"it's like if Wes Anderson made a horror movie"
I'm already sold on it man, you don't have to sell it more to me
The Lighthouse has a lot of Wes Anderson esque shots w the boxy aspect ratio
@tonywords6713 that movie is even better
Man carrying woman carrying man (man carrying love for his family)
The thing that I appreciated the most about this is that it feels so centered on making his PRESENCE felt. Every bit of the movie has this feeling almost like he's watching just outside the frame and his corruption is seeping into everything. That's a take on the Dracula concept that's fairly unique, like he himself is some puncture in the mortal realm for the dark forces beyond to leak out. You see this the most with the transportation of his coffin, it's like the Demon Core has been unshielded and is letting off radiation. His mere presence is death, decay, and madness. That is a feeling that I have never gotten from any other interpretation of Dracula.
I have a suspicion that the constant changing between the black, white and reddish orangish shots may be a reference to the alchemical purification process, which the film heavily dabbles in.
Heavily dabbles? I think alchemy is mentioned once in passing
@masonwelty8058 alchemy is intimately linked with the occult. It may only be explicitly mentioned by name once, but the entire film is about the occult and occult practices.
@@cleveyit’s rare we see a film that’s consciously about the occult that doesn’t come off as camp. Nosferatu doesn’t succeed in this. Ppl audibly laughed several times at scenes clearly not meant to be funny. I recommend The Brutalist for a more true sense of the occult irl without being specifically about the occult.
Maybe you are on to something, but I have to admit that every time i hear someone mention the alchemical subtext of a movie I roll my eyes a little. Most of the times is just "there are colors and shit"
@@thelivingmanpart2 The reason you are laughing is because the movie is SO preoccupied in being historically accurate that it's talking about the occult from a 19th century perspective, not to appeal to a modern aesthetic. If 80s movies about the occult often sound so silly and campy to you i recommend you read some of the stuff people published a century earlier.
My thoughts on the differences was always
Dracula - swave guy in a suit
Nosferatu - monster to the point of not even looking like a human
personally still waiting for nosferaone
You mean Dracula?
Sure, but I bet nosferathree is the one that's really going to blow up
Nice
Hot take: I think _Nosferausted_ will be better.
@@CorruptedDoggtranslate -> "good luck nosphere"
Cursed
'Why this, why now' - because Robert Eggers wanted to do his version of Nosferatu forever. He finally got to realize his dream project. There's some great interviews with him on what gave him a strong impression of Nosferatu and how he's been chasing trying to realize the character as an otherworldly embodiment of something cosmic and primal since then.
WOW !!!
That's exactly what I felt watching this movie !
Nosferatu as a force of nature, a horror out of reality only bound by something that also dabbles in the mysticism of this world (the Enchanteress)
It's so cool to see that this was his intention all along !
I really felt that watching the movie.
Nosferatu is, beyond being a very good movie, one of the best examples of how you can improve a movie by simply leaning a bit harder on the female perspective. Adding more agency to the trope of the innocent maiden, as well as adding depth and complexity to her relationship with Nosferatu elevates the material far beyond any of the past iterations. Just a fantastic piece of cinema all around.
Have you even seen "past iterations"...
@@joerileijdsman3279 yes this was more enjoyable
Which is why any other female in the movie is bland and one dimensional.
While Eggers made some odd choices here and there, I really did appreciate how he approached developing the main conflict of the story being Orlok's (Dracula) obsession and twisted love for Ellen (Mina). The stuff he brought to this adaptation really were refreshing and works well here. I absolutely feel this film lingers in my mind. And I can't wait to see this in IMAX again to ring in 2025.
I thought this film is female sexuality (along with bad relationships).
Disagree pretty strongly on the cinematography and framing points. J felt this was a perfect blend of Eggers own style of camera work mixed with just enough of that homage to black and white framing of the original. It really gripped me basically from that scene of Thomas standing in the road as the chariot comes to bring him up to that castle. From that point on word I was just wowed and completely engrossed.
I enjoy the conversation you're having with the film and while my experience was different, or at least my post film response is different, I can understand why you feel the way you do. One thing though, I think the question why now? is perhaps more central than most people think. Everything about Nosferatu (and the whole Eggers catalog) feels like a direct response to why so many films these days, regardless of genre or creator, feel low calorie. Eggers films are an experience you have rather than a product you consume and then move on to the next. If nothing else The Witch and The Lighthouse and now Nosferatu are reference points in my psyche in a way that very few films are.
My video bugged out and played an all black screen when I first booted up and I thought this was some clever meta commentary on the lighting of the film.
The reason they called it Nosferatu because it is a retelling of Nosferatu. The original German silent film goes way heavier on the plague-carrying aspects of the legend. FW Murnau was inspired by an alternative etymology of the word "Nosferatu" (nosophoros meaning disease-bearing in Greek), whereas in the Stoker's Dracula Nosferatu is just the local Romanian term for Vampyr. That is the major difference between Stoker's Dracula and Murnau's Nosferatu. Herzog leaned heavier into Stoker's Dracula with his 70s remake, while Eggers emphasised the aspects of the "original" Nosferatu by Murnau.
You clearly haven’t seen Herzogs Nosferatu then…
I honestly loved this nosferatu more than any other, for years I wanted to see a Dracula film that makes me feel like I did reading the book. This film does that completely and utterly, it finally brought the book’s story to life on film, even with the additions from the other 2 Nosferatu films.
@@diegovargasdiego have you seen “Bram Stoker‘s Dracula” from the 90s with Winona Ryder? That one definitely gives the feelings like reading the book at least for me.
They even kept Dracula's (well, Orlok's) spiffy moustache!
While I personally still have a particular love of the original german expressionist film, I understand why people would consider this the best adaptation.
@@bebop2523 sometimes it feels like the book, but then Dracula gets hot and is revealed to really be a tragic romantic instead of the horrible grimy r*$&ist he is in the book. In this Nosferatu, they explore how Dracula is like a plague, always eating and lusting without giving anything in return
@@diegovargasdiego I get that, but for me the supporting characters in Bram Stoker’s Dracula feel much more like the book, for example, Van Helsing and Lucy are portrayed much more accurately to the book in the 90s movie than in this one. I was really hoping in the mausoleum scene that Aaron Taylor Johnson would open the coffin to find that Emma Corin had become a vampire like Lucy in the book but then it just went nowhere. And even though I liked Willem Dafoe, I thought that the characterization of Van Helsing in this one was not great and that he was so much cooler in the book and in other movies.
When I left the theatre, I really liked the movie. But now after letting it sit with me for nearly a week, and after watching a lot of the behind-the-scenes videos and interviews with the cast, I love it - my appreciation for its craftsmanship and artistic excellence has only grown. I'm very much considering going back to see it a second time, which is something I usually never do.
I liked it way more the second time.
I loved this movie, gonna go see it again tonight
I like you.
Hell yeah same
Eggers is meticulous about historical accuracy in his movies because these stories all have deep historical resonance. The original Nosferatu also featured real occultist influence based on Murnau's own practices, and the historical setting is meant to illustrate the political and class dimensions of Germany in 1922, through the lens of 1838.
The true horror of Count Orlok is not his supernatural agency in the form of magic, but his political agency as an aristocrat with noble privilege and accounts. He has centuries of experience in ruling class refinement, expressed through the overpowering projection of superiority and demands for its recognition. He overpowers his victims primarily through intimidation because by the rules of the contracts which define his existence they must on some level consent to their exploitation. His later agency in which he mass murders the people of Wisborg, is most likely a power granted to him in the terms of his occult contracts with Thomas & Ellen. An intimidation method to guarantee their compliance.
"The original Nosferatu also featured real occultist influence based on Murnau's own practices"
Are you sure it was Murnau? Wasnt the producer of the film the occultist expert?
@@CalebCrazyVampire Murnau & Alvin were both occultists. Alvin got all the lore about vampires to make Orlok with from a Serbian farmer he met in the army. Prana Film was meant to produce nothing but occultist movies but they went bankrupt after Nosferatu because of all the complications with Stoker's estate & widow.
I found the camera work and overall cinematography captivating. You never knew what you were going to see next. I felt myself become more on edge any time the shot switched from color to black and white.
Wow! Literally EVERYTHING I thought about the film.
I was riveted throughout. It was a feast for the eyes. Of course, I often enjoy things other people claim to be boring or slow.
Find myself agreeing with a lot of your opinions here. I liked the movie but wanted to like it more. Kept waiting for it to really do something big and it doesnt really, but remains good throughout.
Same.
felt the same way. loved the lighthouse but this one was underwhelming. kinda funny i would have preferred this take to focus on the husband character more than the wife
Well, it's a re-imagining of the Nosferatu story and Eggers seems like the type of guy that doesn't like veering too far away from accuracy or the source material. Anyone expecting more than the story of Nosferatu is gonna be let down.
@@jari_428The wife is the central character of the story so it wouldn't really be Nosferatu if they focused more on the husband, ya know?
@Ganbarizer Well the original nosferatu was also like 30 minutes shorter so they obviously don't have a problem with changing things
3:22 who doesn't like Robert Eggers? 😭
i had that same thought. i dont think he's divisive as much as underexposed. however maybe in pretentious film circles its trendy to say you hate eggers, maybe because he is such a traditionalist.
Me. He is gaming the critic system by pitching mediocre dramas as horror, knowing full well that critics HATE the genre of horror. Therefore, they start softening up really fast to his passable dramas and give him much more credit than he is due.
@@frakismaximus3052are you calling critic’s dumb lol
@amellirizarry9503 you’d be surprised
"historical detail and accuracy" in a movie where all the Germans are British
It tripped up whenever it attempted to be a more traditional horror movie. Any scare was usually a standard jumpscare that you could see coming with little deviation. The horror was at it's best when the scenes were allowed to marinate in a performance and pull you into a scenario.
The thing about Dracula adaptations is that I wish more of them centered Mina Harker. She is a central character in the novel and a ripe opportunity for an adaptation to dig into story elements around gender now vs the Turn of the Century, but I have not encountered any adaptations that do. Honestly, the film that best hits the novel's tone and themes is "The Lair of the White Worm" which is based on an entirely different Stoker story.
#DRCL midnight children, a manga by shinichi sakamoto seems to be. Haven't got all the way caught up on it yet, but tis pretty solid!
This was the first film adaptation I've seen which treated her as a character with agency who defeats the Count in her own way, rather than being a helpless damsel or a sicko who wants to be turned. Honestly incredibly refreshing to see, and kind of weird that to date the most feminist depcition of the character has been... the original victorian novel, and not any of the revisionist interpretations made since.
His stories and characters are usually so much richer. Emotionally, thematically, and visually, it didn’t compel me like his others.
i think "okay, welp." was exactly what i said when the movie ended, lol.
I think if you're a fan of Ingmar Bergman, Herman Melville and enjoy Greek Mythology, you should definitely watch The Lighthouse. It was honestly my favorite of the 2010's.
I'll be checking Nosferatu out tonight!
Lovecraft is over them all, it's the butter to Lighthouse's toast.
Eggers said he avoided overly stylized formalism and shed the shackles of German Expressionism because his films are from the perspective of the subjects in its time period and German Expressionism was obviously not a thing back then. Thus the film is very rigid and stoic. It's rooted in the Victorian era
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@@piotrstolarz2089 I loved that book
I really liked how Lily-Rose Depp's character was connected to Orlok in this adaptation in comparison to other Dracula adaptations.
There's this really interesting connection being made with patriarchal societal norms and Orlok's curse; How they are both used to subdue and oppress women for male desire and ego. Once you understand the parallels and see how Ellen is able to destroy Nosferatu, it makes the ending all the more tragic.
eggers is my favorite director right now, and this is without a doubt his most reserved film in a lot of ways. he does always play with very precise camera work, which i like, but i do think it's employed much better in the lighthouse especially. the northman and the witch a slightly more "loose" as far as i remember. i think if you enjoyed the drama and plot of this movie you'd be a fan of his others, as his strong suit (imo) are his characters.
Honestly I get the feeling it’s because he didn’t want to disrespect the source material, because this is his biggest and most relatively well known story to date. I think that he felt more comfortable taking creative liberties in his other movies that had lesser known source material
Honestly I’m glad you Eggers fans are claiming him as the best… it’s easier to discern the ppl with pretentious film taste. I highly recommend you don’t watch The Brutalist. You’d probably find boring
The camera work suits the story, it doesn't put attention to itself. Only a pretentious cinephile would demand more overt camerawork, as if that would somehow make the storytelling better.
I really really agree with your take on the visual vocabulary and style on the film. It made me feel constantly like it was all totally fake and in a movie set
That was a pretty interesting review! I think you did a good job describing the issues with cinematography and lighting in this film. When I was watching I thought that a lot of the movie looked pretty nice, but for some reason I wasn't really grabbed or in love with the look of this film, and thinking about it now the repetitiveness of shot composition and monochrome color scheme which might've been why.
The symmetry was really nice to me. The aesthetics of i was incredibly pleasing and the contents were interesting enough that the camera didn't have to do a whole lot
I found the camera and lighting to be engaging because of how it added to the oppressive atmosphere and dread. By no means my favorite Eggars movie, but I still thoroughly enjoyed it. The Lighthouse is still my all time favorite of his
This channel is perfect because on the one hand I disagreed with nearly every point you made about the film, but on the other hand you talk about movies in such a serious, yet non-pretentious/judgmental way that I feel like you're someone I could talk about a movie with for hours. You share your passion for movies so well.
Thank you for this because I had essentially the same issues. The point you raised about it being so serious and so attentive to details, but then that being the point is where I've landed on it.
I think its a win to have something like this that is committed to a very straight laced no fluff depiction of a horror story, but I can't say that I connected to it. The performances are probably my favourite part because they imbue some humanity into an otherwise very cold story about a miserable time in these people's lives.
I put it at the bottom of my top ten and thought that it would've been higher but I found myself as you said, in admiration of it more than anything else.
Just saw it yesterday; still processing, but I’m not haunted by it and it seems soulless in retrospect. I’ll have to watch Herzog’s version.
Even though it's that same story the movie seem so different because of the director. I think it's definitely worth watching !!
It’s called nosferatu and not Dracula because it’s almost a scene for scene remake of the 1920’s German expressionist film nosferatu. So it would make sense that it’s called nosferatu and not Dracula, because it is literally a remake of nosferatu (uses nosferatu’s character names vs Dracula character names, follows the nosferatu plot the closest, etc.) its very true to that version of the story vs. the original Dracula.
It is not! LMAO
@ it…literally is? Sure there were plot changes but many, if not the vast majority of the scenes are straight out of the original. Hutter leaving Ellen outside of the house before his trip, Hutter arriving at the Transylvanian inn, Hutter being met by an unmanned carriage outside of Orlok’s castle, Hutter arriving at the castle and seeing Orlok for the first time, the scene by the fireplace where Orlok tells Hutter to eat, and then Hutter cuts his thumb, causing Orlok to attack and drink from him. Sure, Ellen has a more predominant role in the film, and scenes were added to explain her backstory and her role in defeating Orlok. Other characters were more prominent as well to flesh out the plot to destroy Orlok, but many of the key beats were the same, not to mention the ending.
You know the movie is good when Jake basically says "I didn't like this, but I want to watch it again."
Just another guy, in your comments, BEGGING you to see his other films. Good god, man. Get after it.
The whole time watching the movie I kept thinking about what “well…” would mean after I finished it and turned on your video.
I agree on the pacing issues, but I loved it otherwise. Your observations about the camerawork were super insightful though. I wouldn’t have thought to criticize it but I agree that your mileage may vary on that style.
Thanks for the thoughtful discussion!
Being Polish and seeing the monster design for this was absolutely wild! I could not treat him seriously at all. An equivalent for a Scottish person, for example, would be for Nosferatu to look like a man in a kilt who's playing the bagpipes 😅 Not very scary! This really is what Eastern European aristocrats looked like at the time, but it's also a look that's been endlessly reproduced and parodied in these cultures. And the original, meaning the novel, Dracula, is a form of British anti Eastern European propaganda, so... Uncritically reproducing that aspect of the novel WHILE adding historically accurate details, ummmm 😂 Somebody didn't think about any of that, and yet made a whole film, just saying.
Man carrying thing: " the lighting and cinematography... It insists upon itself."
Me yelling at my phone: "THAT'S BECAUSE IT HAS A POINT TO MAKE! IT'S INSISTENT!"
Soviet mustash zombie vs the girl from poor things
The fact that it takes itself so seriously is what took me out of the movie most of the time. Also, having the characters play out their emotions so intensely made me not feel anything at all, because they were feeling it for me. Does that make sense?
Masterpiece. On film it looks like oil paintings, absolutely breathtaking.
Elegant and needed to be made just for the conversation that surrounds it.
Watching it a second time, I felt the presentation to be dream/nightmare like with the camera transitions. Eggers creates period pieces. As others have said, they’re experiences that want you to feel like you’re there with the characters
The final shot of the film was so perfect. Beautful and grotesque at the same time. When it came on screen I was floored and in my head was like "you gotta end on this. you gotta end on this". cut to black. Perfection
Agreed with the Lighthouse recommendations. Solid film.
For folks who haven't read the book, Dracula, Count Dracula is described as having a moustache! So I thought that was a wonderful detail that hasn't really been included in other film adaptations. He really is an ancient, dessicated living corpse of an Eastern European warlord.
9:17 His cinematographer said they wanted a 19th Century romanticism painting aesthetic, I agree it wasnt there. I still think it looks absolutely amazing, so I'm not disappointed but I agree.
I loved how grim and terror filled it was. That level of foreboding aura the monster emanates was so cool.
Orlock looked goofy af but the movie was pretty great. He didnt seem as scary as the build up and tension around him made it seem. He should have looked creepier, talked less and been more in the shadows and vague with the way the movie portrayed the "terror" around him. He just seems like he would have benefitted from a more mysterious, fear of the unknown approach. Imo anyway.
I completely agree
I also thought is was a very flawed. It felt like the directors inherent biases left him unable to make a meaningful adaption that interprets the themes of the source material (xenophobia, sexual repression) through a modern lens. It felt kitsh at times. An expensive and well made themepark ride. Like the descission to use jumpscares which I found a cheap and lazy way of building suspense and it felt very much like a decision of a studio exec.
I really wanted to see more from the themes of sexuality and shame
Yeah I liked all the archaic medical shit (she doesn't have fucking melancholy she is possessed you dumbasses) but I don't think they explored the sexual aspects and taboo enough
THANK YOU! I thought I was the only one! What’s crazy is that all three of his previous films DO have more variety in their cinematography. This is his first miss IMO. Not a bad film, but it’s fatal flaw is that there are better versions of this story- be in Dracula or Nosferatu.
He loves his panning, sweeping confusing and annoying camera shots. I remember one scene particularly where the gypsy woman was dancing in front of the inn, and the camera moves over her as she bends down to the ground. All I could think about was the actress having to scramble away from the camera as it pushed in.
The witch, the lighthouse, and his two short films “Brothers” and “The Tell Tale Heart”
I know this movie is flames bc everyone's coming away from it with different takes
"When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself."
Might I suggest Frame Voyagers video on the films production/cinematography? Maybe the camera movements were a bit static, but the shots themselves took great inspiration from the artwork of the time. 🙂 My personal favorite was the one of the children praying by candlelight, pulling out from left to right. The lighting is so 19th century realism.
I can't believe you saw Nosferatu before seeing Nosferat-one
Man hopefully soon carrying a blu ray of the Lighthouse
Count Orlock looks like a shabby Borat.
Right???
I rewatched the first three Eggers features before Nosferatu. The one I liked the best was The Northman (maybe a controversial take). It's basically a revenge film where the protagonist's whole life is oriented towards revenge. The period accuracy also makes it way more gritty, the medieval world being filthy. Highly recommend The Northman, although it's probably his most divisive film
never seen one of your reviews and i do tend to disagree, but you engage so deeply with the movie! really love this review and makes me appreciate the movie even more :p
I think the point of his camera work is to not distract with flashy movements and transitions so we're focused more on the subjects in frame, especially when he's using natural lighting and things arent always clearly visible. So I dig it when we have time to really read the details of the set, lighting, costumes, and in this movie the shaaadows. I don't need creative camera work in his movies. Eggers isn't a film student trying to impress anyone by being intricate, instead he's being very deliberate. Watch his other movies and then come back to Nosferatu and maybe do an Eggers video touching on them all.
Hey jake! Great review! You share so much of my feelings on this movie that i haven't really seen elsewhere (especially the 'Wes Andersons Nosferatu' feelings). So that's cool! I liked it but i wanted to like it more...
I may be jaded from seeing so many movies, but I thought it was good but not great. If I hadn't seen 100 years' worth of interpretations of this story, I would have probably loved it.
I loved the movie, the movie was just pure dread from start to finish. The movie is just soaked in gloom and bleak, it makes you feel cold. I loved the folklore vampire take on the movie. I’ve seen it twice and I loved it both times, but I think this movie will only be more appreciated as time goes on. Eggers made something really special here.
Watched yesterday. Enjoyed it. Good to see a well made film. Very traditional for Eggers. Actual atmosphere. Not particularly scary but worth a watch. Knock best character. Eggers, like Nolan and Villeneuve, is a director I’ll watch.
“I didn’t love it.”
It’s okay, you can be wrong.
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@@Shimbot1323 Damn. So, it's actually that good?? I love Eggers, but can't see it until Monday.
You’re wrong
I said this to my 15 year old sons, and they cracked up and thought it was ridiculous: It’s not really one you enjoy while watching it, but it’s an amazing movie. As in, I watched it with a real sense of amazement. Can’t get much better than that, especially considering how familiar the story is.
Wes Anderson doing a horror film really describes Ari Aster
I also felt what you were describing of Eggers rigid camerawork watching The Northman. The visualization there made it a constantly frustrating experience. But I really struggled to verbalize the issue; thank you for expressing it so perfectly here!
I will say, I think divorced from all other influence, it does look incredible, but I feel as though we’ve (at least where I live, the UK) been so inundated with grey period dramas that look exactly like this, that I’m just sick of this washed out colour grading.
Robert Eggars was a big fan of the original film, he even made a stage play adaptation of Nosferatu when he was 17 years old
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3:11 WHATTT?!?!!??!
I got the idea that the similar feel the scenes had to one another was a stylistic choice. To me it felt like each scene was sort of laying down its own layer of dread and unease and that they were all building on one another. I enjoyed that. It's not every day you see a film that does that.
0:05 I’m not caught up on all of your vids and my heart sunk for a second here with the wording and tone lmao
Robert Eggers is one of my favorite modern directors. I've been looking forward to this movie ever since I headd that he was making it. I'm definitely going to watch it.
Seriously though, watch his other films. He may be divisive, but you could end up finding some of them really enjoyable. You'll never know unless you try.
The orange/blue monochromatic look is homaging the original nosferatu which wasn't black and white but sepia/orangish and blue (done to to differenciate day and night).
Also i think Eggers is the type who would have absolutely loved to shoot this on film with vintage lenses (he did it for The Lighthouse) but the studio was probably like hell no.
Anyways love you dude but this is your worst take yet.
don't let this turn you off of robert egger's other filmography, i am a big fan of everything he does, even so i was a bit disappointed and divided on nosferatu... i still generally liked it, but i consider all the three eggers' movies before this to be masterpieces in their own right
To me, the staid, not-fancy camera work added to the tension and immersion, particularly when the takes lasted for a minute or two. Not having the modern quick-cut, coverage-style of editing was a big plus for me.
I find Robert Eggers to be a fairly hit an miss director, an opinion I know is fairly unpopular. I really didn't care for The Witch and I found The Northman to be just alright, but I think I've watched The Lighthouse more than any other movie in the past decade as it's just so much fun. I say this to express how happy I am that Nosferatu is as great as it is.
I've seen the Lighthouse about 5 times since it came out, and it's my favorite Eggers film by far. With that being said, I still haven't seen Nosferatu(going on Monday,) but I am very nervous about it. Seems like it is a very divisive film, with some saying it's a huge disappointment, and a terrible film, and others saying it's a masterpiece, and some others just saying that it's alright. Hard to know who's opinion to trust.
@@Dartanyooglesif u have huge expectations like I did, u feel underwhelmed at first but the scenes end up sticking with u. I’ll say though the atmosphere wasn’t as suffocating as The Nor Th man or his first 2
@@Dartanyoogles trust your own opinion. i didn't really love it, but at least i can't say that i regret watching it. absolutely worth seeing for yourself
He's way more hit than miss. Witch isn't as strong as it could be but it's great, and the Northman is boring as all Valhalla, but that's still 3 for 4.
I absolutely loved this movie, but completely understand that isn't for everyone.
My gripes haven't been with people who didn't have a good time with it, it's been with people who didn't _get_ the movie.
There are lots of movies that are objectively great which I do not _enjoy_, but that I still _get_. They just weren't for me.
Nosferatu isn't for everyone, but I think folks can _get it_ even if it wasn't for them.
This was my least favorite of Eggers’ films so far. I love love love everything about The VVitch, the Northman, and The Lighthouse, but this one was disappointing to me. Imo the best part was the scenes in Transylvania between the carriage showing up and the escape from the monastery, the carriage scene is sooooo creepy and beautifully shot and the scenes in the castle where Nosferatu is introduced are so atmospheric and Bill Skarsgård’s performance is great and I love the way he’s shot out-of-focus to heighten our dread, and the monastery scene is well-done too but after Thomas leaves and went to back to Germany the movie never is as good again, at least for me. Nicholas Hoult is the outstanding performance in this movie for me and the best part of his performance were the scenes at the castle where he does one of the best acting portrayals of fear and dread that I’ve ever seen. I agree with your comment about the visuals, I felt like the only exception was the visuals in Transylvania specifically of the carriage scene and the castle escape scene, that was so cool and then we just never see anything like that again once the story moves back to Germany. Also hard agree that the movie severely underutilized Willem Dafoe, he only showed up halfway through and he should’ve had way more presence in the film and been there earlier so they could’ve leaned into the silly/campy side more, plus his character really got the plot moving, and I felt like it was kinda dragging in the part between Transylvania and the introduction of his character and could’ve been shorter if he had shown up sooner
Pretty much fully agree with you on this. It needed a little more grime, felt too polished and it took me out of the experience. This is the least “Eggers” film that he’s made yet, I highly recommend The Northman!