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I can completely understand why someone wouldn't like nosferatu, but I loved it. It was super uncomfortable in a bunch of scenes, but for a period piece, it was incredible and the cinematography was gorgeous. That being said, I've seen a bunch of other Robert Eggers movies like the lighthouse or the witch and didn't go into it expecting it to be a horror movie so much as an over-budget art house film, which is much more on brand for the director
I thought the Orlok voice did a pretty good job of conveying that he's an ancient corpse from a forgotten civilization. I think they took too long to get around to explaining the connection between him and sex, though. Traditionally, your Draculas are sexy because the subtext is about the fear that your womenfolk will be and maybe even want to be seduced by strangers which is why he's from Transylvania: there's a long history of strangers from that area who were treated with suspicion. It wouldn't make sense to go with that angle today because it's no longer cool to suggest that you have to keep your women away from Romani people because they'll get themselves "penetrated." In this movie the reason he has a connection to sex is because lust, like Death, is a desire to consume human beings. That's pretty clever, but it's not until the middle of the movie that you get all the information to piece that together, so for half the movie you have to accept that she just wants to bang a corpse because something, something magic. By the middle of the movie we know that he was a sorcerer who made a pact with Death to keep his body, specifically, alive forever, and in the weird sexually charged argument she has with him amid the plague he brought with him that's consuming everyone around them, she questions his humanity and he says "I am an appetite." That's the aha moment: from the alien cosmic perspective of eldritch demons, the lust and the plague are the same thing: an unthinking desire to consume human beings. Death is the consumer of human beings, and when Orlok became his servant he gained power over both death and lust because he is the embodiment of the consumption of human beings. That's why when he feeds he's naked and thrusting. When you see it you have to ask "Is he eating or having sex?" and the answer is they're the same thing. That's super cool, and way cooler than the original reason Dracula was associated with sex, but there's too much that happens in this movie before they establish it.
😂 love your reaction. I didn't love Nosferatu myself, but it was just because it is such a well-tread plot that has been adapted over and over, eg. Bram Stoker's Dracula. So I tried to focus on the acting, effects, and cinematography because the plot is so tired. Still one of the better films I've seen in 2024. 6.5/10.
I enjoyed Nosferatu went to go see it with a couple of friends and didn't realize it was gonna be that "sexual" I guess so aside from us making jokes while watching it was a nice time
I mean, I spent the entire film from the moment I saw the moustache thinking of Noel Fielding in that Kasabian video.
I can completely understand why someone wouldn't like nosferatu, but I loved it. It was super uncomfortable in a bunch of scenes, but for a period piece, it was incredible and the cinematography was gorgeous. That being said, I've seen a bunch of other Robert Eggers movies like the lighthouse or the witch and didn't go into it expecting it to be a horror movie so much as an over-budget art house film, which is much more on brand for the director
I thought the Orlok voice did a pretty good job of conveying that he's an ancient corpse from a forgotten civilization. I think they took too long to get around to explaining the connection between him and sex, though. Traditionally, your Draculas are sexy because the subtext is about the fear that your womenfolk will be and maybe even want to be seduced by strangers which is why he's from Transylvania: there's a long history of strangers from that area who were treated with suspicion. It wouldn't make sense to go with that angle today because it's no longer cool to suggest that you have to keep your women away from Romani people because they'll get themselves "penetrated." In this movie the reason he has a connection to sex is because lust, like Death, is a desire to consume human beings. That's pretty clever, but it's not until the middle of the movie that you get all the information to piece that together, so for half the movie you have to accept that she just wants to bang a corpse because something, something magic. By the middle of the movie we know that he was a sorcerer who made a pact with Death to keep his body, specifically, alive forever, and in the weird sexually charged argument she has with him amid the plague he brought with him that's consuming everyone around them, she questions his humanity and he says "I am an appetite." That's the aha moment: from the alien cosmic perspective of eldritch demons, the lust and the plague are the same thing: an unthinking desire to consume human beings. Death is the consumer of human beings, and when Orlok became his servant he gained power over both death and lust because he is the embodiment of the consumption of human beings. That's why when he feeds he's naked and thrusting. When you see it you have to ask "Is he eating or having sex?" and the answer is they're the same thing. That's super cool, and way cooler than the original reason Dracula was associated with sex, but there's too much that happens in this movie before they establish it.
😂 love your reaction. I didn't love Nosferatu myself, but it was just because it is such a well-tread plot that has been adapted over and over, eg. Bram Stoker's Dracula. So I tried to focus on the acting, effects, and cinematography because the plot is so tired. Still one of the better films I've seen in 2024. 6.5/10.
I enjoyed Nosferatu went to go see it with a couple of friends and didn't realize it was gonna be that "sexual" I guess so aside from us making jokes while watching it was a nice time
I always bring earplugs to movies in case of that
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Bob, you have saved me from watching this and I thank you.
Fun fact: Nosferatu is a sequel
To Nosferaone