#nosferatu: death and the maiden

[see-arcane]

In which Thomas and Jonathan just want to sell some houses and go home.

[garlandedspirits]

Nosferatu (2024) dir. Robert Eggers

Death and Life (1894) by Edvard Munch

[madeleineengland]

Count Orlok x Ellen 🖤 (Nosferatu)

Repost with artist permission! Original by Niribaki3 on X.

[maggieannemillerart]

"yet I cannot be sated without you."

Work in progress: "Sated."

[snail-shell2335]

a take on ‘death and the maiden’ by egon schiele, originally titled ‘man and girl’ and ‘entwined people’ <3

[itsmeimcathy]

hannibal (2001) by ridley scott | nosferatu (2024) by robert eggers | vita nova, III (13th century) by dante alighieri | the song of despair by pablo neruda | the carnivorous lamb by agustìn gomez arcos | a mother, a daughter, a door by tathève simonyan

[jasondeansgothwife]

fucking love death and the maiden. i truly don’t know a better ship dynamic

[darklinaforever]

It's crazy how people can reject the very heart of the film Nosferatu 2024. Named the relationship between Ellen & Orlok.

Note that no one among the Orlok & Ellen fans denies that she loves Thomas, at least, I have never seen any fans of Orlok & Ellen claim otherwise.

Simply, we also integrate the fact that she has sexual desire for Orlok (because she is sexually frustrated with Thomas) and also a deeper connection than that with him on an aspect of her that only he can understand.

So why do I see people (more precisely fans of Ellen & Thomas ship) trying to deny any shared relationship between Ellen & Orlok, if not an abusive aspect of Orlok on Ellen (which exists, I don't deny it, and it's part of why we like this relationship, the toxicity, but it's not just that between the characters) ?

That she just hate him because she said to him ? As if in movies the dialogue and actions can't differ ? As if someone can't both hate and love someone ? You must be really boring not to understand that.

I can find tons of examples in fiction of characters who say they hate each other but love each other / have feelings for each other. Worse, saying it before a passionate kiss or even during sex. In cinema, it's mostly what happens on screen that matters, even if the dialogues have a certain importance and must be well done, they are not really the main attraction.

At the limit, people will recognize the erotic aspect between the vampire and the girl, but nothing more, refusing the aspect of connection that we are talking about.

And again, either some will accept that Ellen desires Orlok, but others will say that it is only a desire resulting from Orlok's manipulation thanks to his powers.

(Because apparently it's impossible to experience a sexual awakening with a monster in fiction ? Christine Daee had no problem experiencing her sexual awakening without magic involved thanks to Erik who nevertheless looked like a living corpse from what I remember...)

Some also try to say that the erotic aspect of the vampire exists but only between Orlok and Thomas. Seriously, wtf ?

(Even if yes, we can say that there is a form of tension between Orlok and Thomas but it is clearly not central to the story or very important)

And for some, Ellen would only be a form of Thomas by proxy for Orlok. Ridiculous.

(Especially since it would be the opposite logically, namely that Orlok has a tension with Thomas because he is linked to Ellen that Orlok wants)

And that Ellen on her side would have an ambiguity romantic and sexual with Anna only and not Orlok. Because I imagine that it is more tolerable that Ellen loves her husband and has ambiguous feelings for a woman rather than these two and the vampire that is Orlok in addition ?

People constantly try to belittle the Orlok & Ellen relationship.

While the film is very clear.

Not only is it a relationship based on eroticism but also on a deeper connection linked to the darkness in Ellen, an aspect of her that only Orlok can understand, and some romantic undertones between the two characters.

Seriously, in the interviews we talk about a love triangle. Of the vampire in love with Ellen. Of a sexual awakening (contradicting the idea that some fans have that Orlok forces this sexual desire in a "magical" way in Ellen) and of a love between a girl and a demon. Not to mention the take on inspiration from Death and the Maiden, the Beauty and the Beast and Wuthering Heights ! But yeah... nothing romantic between the girl and the monster at all here...

Anyway, it's always the same fucking story when there's a ship with a villain and a heroine... Just impressed by how quickly detractors of a fictional relationship can come forward. 🙄

[so-what-then]

When you've never watched nor read gothic horror ever:

[horror-thriller-brackets]

[see-arcane]

It's time.

Nosferatu: Death and the Maiden - "Act 1"

Harker - Chapter 4 - "Travel Fast"

Harker - Chapter 5 - "Welcome"

"The Lady at the Window"

If you want to support me or commission some art, my Ko-Fi is here.

[the-mechanica]

I loved Nosferatu because it nailed what I am so often looking for and can't find in media... Where the horror of the narrative lies in the dread that you are falling in love with Death and may be powerless against your own feelings regardless of how Death behaves

[gretch-villa]

"A visit from Death" part 2. The beginning of my series 'The Death of Bloody Mary'.

Presenting the incredible voice talents of:

Nathaniel W. as Death

Maya Clarke as Mary

[maggieannemillerart]

Filling in those light values 🩸🌞

[zombiemink]

My friend won tickets for an early screening of the Nosferatu remake so i had the chance to see it early last week and i loved it btw! It was pretty much what i expected from a version by Robert Eggers and i did like his previous movies so...

I will gladly rewatch it again and i especially cannot wait to look at the last shot more in details bc it looked really beautiful. It seriously made me wish that you could pause a theater screen lol

[snail-shell2335]

wip 🫶 (death and the maiden - egon schiele)