strontiumtom wrote: Wed Jan 08, 2025 9:20 am
I'll see it, will probably like it, but right now - after Murnau and Herzog - I don't understand what the point of it is.
Passion project + previous success + IP recognisable from gifs/ memes?
Definitely a passion project. Eggers apparently staged a Nosferatu play in high school, and has been obsessed with the original since he first saw it at age 9.
Movie fucking rules. Loved everything about it. If *anything,* I would say the pacing felt a bit rushed until Thomas got to the castle and got munched on a bit. Then things started to settle in. But seriously. Performances were outstanding -- Depp and Dafoe were brilliant (I mean, of course Dafoe was brilliant). Sound design, cinematography, score, all excellent.
Was super interested in the difference in vibe between Eggers' Orlock and Herzog's. Kinski as Orlock was sort of more of a creepy incel - the way he would hover and awkwardly stare at the Thomas/Jonathan character in the '79 version before striking felt like an awkward, lonely bro who can't get laid, whereas the Bill Skarsgard version was much more malevolent and purposeful in being fucking evil. Both great, just very interesting differences in presentation.
All the stuff with 19th century medicine trying to treat Emma was really unnerving. We really haven't progressed as far as we'd like to think we have in dealing with women's mental health. Put a corset on her! I dunno, just lose weight! Same shit, different century.
NOT CRAP