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jaggedcliffs · 1 month ago

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I had been watching the original 1922 Nosferatu on youtube over the past week (with no intention of seeing the new one, I was just curious since I'd never seen it, only Shadow of the Vampire) when a friend texted me to see if I wanted to see Eggers' 2024 remake on Friday.

with the 1922 version fresh in my mind and having read/listened to Dracula about five times by now, I can confidently say that Eggers' version is half 1922 Nosferatu adaptation, half novel Dracula adaptation, with a splash of The Exorcist and firm rebuke against Coppola's shitty Drac/Mina's "romance."

and it is still by far the best Dracula adaptation out there

#dracula #nosferatu #jagged posts about dracula #I honestly wish eggers had done dracula instead of nosferatu #but I guess this is good enough #it'd be a long list to get into all the things that eggers drew from dracula instead of nosferatu directly #but there are so many good changes to the 1922 film drawn from the novel to bolster the 2024 film #like its versions of the 'unclean' scene and jonathan hitting dracula with a shovel #(not all the changes are from dracula - like harding's whole storyline is new - but a lot are)#(hell even lines like 'the blood is the life' instead of 'blood is life')#(although herr knock - the knock-off renfield - is worse off here than the 1922 one and certainly more than og renfield :/)

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