I really loved Nosferatu, beautiful retelling of both the original and Dracula. I just have two superficial issues, maybe people here can help me make peace with them? (Very light spoilers) so I'll put them in 🧵 - ThreadSky

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dbakaba.bsky.social • 83 days ago

I really loved Nosferatu, beautiful retelling of both the original and Dracula. I just have two superficial issues, maybe people here can help me make peace with them?

(Very light spoilers) so I'll put them in 🧵

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dbakaba.bsky.social•83 days ago

1) Wisburg didn't feel much like Germany? Esthetically and thematically it was very hard not to see England (or Gristol? 😅). Feels like a missed opportunity for a more mainland European approach to this story/setting, no?

rosh0451.bsky.social•83 days ago

Knowing Eggers's approach to highly detailed and researched setting I think it's very likely he went for a more surrealistic approach purposely.

dbakaba.bsky.social•83 days ago

2) what was the itinerary of the ship from Romania to northern Germany? I get that traveling by land is dangerous for Orlock, but isn't a crazy detour? It made some sense in Dracula where he was traveling to London on the Demeter but here it is really an unnecessary detour/risk (insert ⛸️⛰️ joke).

dbakaba.bsky.social•83 days ago

Maybe these two items are intentionally surrealist, willfully and lovingly replicating both Bram Stoker's mood and plot points and that light incoherence from Murnau's "legally distinct" adaptation, but it gave me an uneasy feeling of mainland Europe being shown as a uniform blob/fake decor.

dbakaba.bsky.social•83 days ago

Other than these two nitpicks I really appreciated this version in many ways from esthetics and casting to the nuances to the myth(ology) and themes. And this is from someone for whom Coppola's Dracula is a top 10, maybe top 5 movie, so it was a hard sell going in 🧐🖤

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