tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7857882.post2133226399526124027..comments2023-11-17T11:08:31.857-06:00Comments on Michael May: 15 Favorite Horror Movies: Nosferatu (1922)Michael Mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12514945570212261283noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7857882.post-30015368362347643432020-10-08T18:58:27.440-05:002020-10-08T18:58:27.440-05:00Aaaah, excellent! Well my major notion r.e. the Ki... Aaaah, excellent! Well my major notion r.e. the Kinski NOSFERATU (other than the grumble mentioned above r.e. character names and that Ms. Adjani is RIDICULOUSLY attractive) is that the rather sad twist ending would make an excellent hook for a film in which an enigmatic aristocrat of Austro-Hungarian extraction shows up to make life more sinister for an unassuming provincial solicitor, his dear fiancee and the cosy nook of Germany in which they are currently mapping out their future.<br /><br /> The name of that lawyer is, of course, Hutter - the name of that aristocrat is Baron Vordenurg - and the whole story is quite obviously an inversion of DRACULA (in that it's the nebbish lawyer who is a vampire obsessing over a young woman who reminds him of his lost beloved and the rather eerie Mitteleuropean Aristo who is, in fact, our Fearless Vampire Hunter) quite as much as a sequel to the NOSFERATU of the 1970s.<br /><br /> Hopefully this would work first as a juicy subversion of expectations, then as a classic Vampire Horror in its own right!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7857882.post-50481758576884601242020-10-08T11:54:20.905-05:002020-10-08T11:54:20.905-05:00I love your thoughts on the messages of Dracula vs...I love your thoughts on the messages of <i>Dracula</i> vs <i>Nosferatu</i> and the implications for the Vampire Propaganda conspiracy. I'd love to hear your thoughts about the Kinski version, too. I've seen it.Michael Mayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12514945570212261283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7857882.post-7487906754583601042020-10-07T14:44:05.738-05:002020-10-07T14:44:05.738-05:00I'm always a little conflicted whenever someon... I'm always a little conflicted whenever someone described NOSFERATU as an adaptation of DRACULA - it's a bit like calling Marvel's Thor an adaptation of Superman, in that while there's a clear debt of inspiration the outcome is so fundamentally different that one honestly prefers to regard the derivative as a thing entire to itself.<br /><br /> On the other hand reading about Mrs Florence Stoker taking the war trail to hunt down ALMOST every copy of NOSFERATU did give me the mental image of Mr & Mrs Jonathan Harker teaming up with her to stamp out all the parties involved in this rampant Vampire Propaganda* during the course of some adventures in Weimar-era Germany, so perhaps NOSFERATU isn't quite as divorced from Mr Stoker's Magnum Opus in my imagination as one would like to think.<br /><br /> I do feel that the later remake made a pretty substantial mistake by using the DRACULA names without changing the setting (or very much of the plot) to more faithfully reflect the novel: I'd have rather it formalised the separation (although it's conclusion did give me the mental image of a rather fun inversion of the classic DRACULA dynamic that one would be happy to share with you, assuming you've already seen the Klaus Kinski version of the film). <br /><br /><br /> *Message of DRACULA by Bram Stoker - Vampires a JERKS and good at concealing the fact for just long enough to eat you, but if you're brave and sensible enough you can deal with them without losing your life or your soul; message of NOSFERATU, Vampires are terrifying and there's no way to stop them without getting killed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7857882.post-82983297187416651722020-10-02T12:02:38.027-05:002020-10-02T12:02:38.027-05:00This is such a great film the images are so haunti...This is such a great film the images are so haunting. Defiantly one to watch during the spooky season.Bob Johnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02218170399251710882noreply@blogger.com