Great review. Can't wait to check this out. Also, this bit -
"The Count abuses his power to make the much younger man do his bidding. He controls Thomas through supernatural means but also through money. In that respect, he’s like Tommy Wiseau in his early relationship with Greg Sestero, but less creepy."
- Gets funnier the more I think about it to the point that it started to feel like it was an intrusive brain worm. I had to sequester myself briefly so that my wife and kids didn't think i had lost my mind in a Joker-esque fashion due to the random uncontrollable giggling. I would briefly get a grip, then remember that commercial Wiseau made to get his SAG card, and my mind would be like, "In an act of sympathetic magik, not unlike Gull in 'From Hell', the vampire Wiseau cements control over Greg Sestero" and lose it again.
Sounds fantastic, I can't wait to see this. "Arguably the most revered, respected, and influential shameless rip-off in film history." Pointed, but fair! lol
(And a minor correction: The director was F.W. Murnau.)
OMG Noooooo - I saw this on New Years Eve with my sig other and we both thought it was the worst movie we’ve probably ever seen. The movie was awful, acting awful - everyone in it and involved in making it should be embarrassed.
One objection—I thought Aaron Taylor-Johnson did a really good job as Friedrich, a born-to-wealth "modern man" (in the Victorian sense) who cheerfully condescends to and patronizes the less fortunate Thomas and Ellen. As his world falls apart around him he shows his selfish, petty side, and finally when [spoiler] he [spoiler]—and you don't feel bad for him because he's already revealed himself to be a complete and utter tool. Your point about capitalism as one of the ominous engines that drive the movie run through him, too—it's clear he's used a thousand niggling little ways to remind Thomas he's LOANED him the money to get married, and expects to be paid back.
I think it's was a brilliant little twist to use Nicholas Hoult's ability to look a bit rabbit-like (a trick he also used in RENFIELD) to highlight just how out of his depth Thomas is when confronted with forces beyond his comprehension. Forces beyond his control? That he's sadly used to, and he made his accommodations with that already—or at least, he thinks he has.
Willem Dafoe is—he's not comic relief, but he's so entertaining as the eccentric Dr. Eberhart that you're delighted when he's on-camera, without ever forgetting just who he is and what he knows. I'm sure when Eggars first approached him he cried, "Not Orlock again! I already played him! I am not going to be your Bela Lugosi!"
NOSFERATU is absolutely worth seeing—it feels like Eggars saw BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA, and told Coppola "Hold My Beer" as he proceeded to outdo him in just about every way.
Great review. Can't wait to check this out. Also, this bit -
"The Count abuses his power to make the much younger man do his bidding. He controls Thomas through supernatural means but also through money. In that respect, he’s like Tommy Wiseau in his early relationship with Greg Sestero, but less creepy."
- Gets funnier the more I think about it to the point that it started to feel like it was an intrusive brain worm. I had to sequester myself briefly so that my wife and kids didn't think i had lost my mind in a Joker-esque fashion due to the random uncontrollable giggling. I would briefly get a grip, then remember that commercial Wiseau made to get his SAG card, and my mind would be like, "In an act of sympathetic magik, not unlike Gull in 'From Hell', the vampire Wiseau cements control over Greg Sestero" and lose it again.
The vampire should correctly be referred to as "Nosferatu's monster".
You asked for this, s*w*a*c*, so you have nobody to blame but yourself....
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My hilarity sucked the life force out of that percussive chimp!
Sounds fantastic, I can't wait to see this. "Arguably the most revered, respected, and influential shameless rip-off in film history." Pointed, but fair! lol
(And a minor correction: The director was F.W. Murnau.)
Well, no, you see, Johnny Socko, "D.W. Murnau" is the illegitimate son of D.W. Griffith and F.W. Murnau....
OMG Noooooo - I saw this on New Years Eve with my sig other and we both thought it was the worst movie we’ve probably ever seen. The movie was awful, acting awful - everyone in it and involved in making it should be embarrassed.
One objection—I thought Aaron Taylor-Johnson did a really good job as Friedrich, a born-to-wealth "modern man" (in the Victorian sense) who cheerfully condescends to and patronizes the less fortunate Thomas and Ellen. As his world falls apart around him he shows his selfish, petty side, and finally when [spoiler] he [spoiler]—and you don't feel bad for him because he's already revealed himself to be a complete and utter tool. Your point about capitalism as one of the ominous engines that drive the movie run through him, too—it's clear he's used a thousand niggling little ways to remind Thomas he's LOANED him the money to get married, and expects to be paid back.
I think it's was a brilliant little twist to use Nicholas Hoult's ability to look a bit rabbit-like (a trick he also used in RENFIELD) to highlight just how out of his depth Thomas is when confronted with forces beyond his comprehension. Forces beyond his control? That he's sadly used to, and he made his accommodations with that already—or at least, he thinks he has.
Willem Dafoe is—he's not comic relief, but he's so entertaining as the eccentric Dr. Eberhart that you're delighted when he's on-camera, without ever forgetting just who he is and what he knows. I'm sure when Eggars first approached him he cried, "Not Orlock again! I already played him! I am not going to be your Bela Lugosi!"
NOSFERATU is absolutely worth seeing—it feels like Eggars saw BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA, and told Coppola "Hold My Beer" as he proceeded to outdo him in just about every way.