#romanticsm

[imaginebuddy]

Romanticism Art Style

Prompt: Romantic couple at night under moon light on sea, Romanticism, in the style of digital collage, letterboxing, light azure and gold, romantic depictions of historical events, atmospheric clouds, animated gifs, associated press photo --ar 4:3 --style raw

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[reanimationstation]

hello gamers, today i offer you Frankenstein art for the first time in a while, tomorrow who knows

i'm just toying with mildly revamped designs i'm not sure how i feel about them yet

[natashagraceart]

“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”

~ Jean de La Fontaine

[raamitsu]

[azotowanie]

my history teacher is so cute 🥺

[turnupswritessometimes]

Nosferatu (2024) - Style over Substance

Also available to read on my blog: https://sophieisabelturner.wixsite.com/hotchocandhorror/post/nosferatu-2024-style-over-substance

Robert Eggers' Nosferatu (2024) was top of my radar for horror to catch around the new year. The trailers showed a movie dripping with dark atmosphere and promising a tale of dangerous obsession. Whilst the film certainly delivers on atmosphere, the tale itself is somewhat lacking.

The premise of Nosferatu is based off the silent movie from 1922, following a handful of other remakes, taking heavy inspiration from the original Dracula story. Whilst a timeless classic, it unfortunately means that if you're familiar with the story, this is a familiar retread of the story beats. This could work, particularly with a star-studded cast, and especially if there was an interesting take on the story or characters.

But before diving into that, it is worth talking about the positives. This film is beautiful. The camera work compliments the elaborate sets, particularly Orlock's great, gothic castle, to build a twisting, unsettling feeling. It's a treat to get lost in the claustrophobia of Wisburg and the sprawling Transylvania mountains. The use of so many elaborate and practical sets is a breath of fresh air and brings the setting to life.

Eggers employs an almost monochrome colour palette to add to this; not quite an homage to the original's black and white, rather, because it's "romanticsm, not expressionism." (And, apparently, there wasn't the budget.) The desaturation does bring out the gothic mood, making what little colour there is, particularly the orange and reds of fire, pop.

The wardrobe has been given the same care and craft. The gowns and suits are gorgeous and period accurate; bringing the time period to life and creating the kind of striking images reminiscent of the novel.

So, yes, the movie looks wonderful and the detail is painstackingly historically accurate.

But is this really enough?

Because the plot is nothing new. In fact, it feels by-the-numbers. Hoult makes a good young-man-trapped-with-a-vampire (a role he's delivered on a few times), Dafoe a great, zany Van Helsing character, and Skarsgård a wonderfully creepy count. And yet, though everyone is clearly enjoying their roles, there is nothing particularly stand out in the take. In fact, what stands out most is why only the count has an eastern-european accent, whilst everyone else is speaking crisp RP British.

Since the original movie has since been discussed as anti-semetic, Eggers' take does little to counteract this. The design of the count has a moustache slapped on, but is otherwise not particularly changed. (I have nothing against the moustache, by the way, the moustache is interesting, at least.) The lack of fangs for sharpened teeth seen more rarely in vampire horror, but doesn't quite live up to the gnarliness of the bites akin to something like Raw (2016). It still feels like there was a lot further they could have gone, if they were aiming for living corpse.

However, I can understand this is an adaptation, and as such, there's a give and take in how recognisably Orlok they'd want their villain to be.

I'd actually probably have still enjoyed this as a solid vampire flick, if not for the elephant in the room: Lily-Rose Depp.

Whilst I'm sure the posession scenes were taxinga nd difficult to film, Depp's performance feels like the one person everyone said was "really good" in your school drama classes, because they can shout a lot and pretend to cry passably. Depp relies on melodrama for the character of Ellen, and unfortunately, it makes it hard to like this her. And no, female characters don't have to be likeable, but it's clear this film wants you to be on Ellen's side, yet does nothing to make you be - and the performance certainly doesn't help. As it stands, I don't buy her and Thomas' marriage, and don't hugely blame the Harding's for turning her out. This happens after at least twelve weeks (Thomas says the journey to the count's castle takes six weeks, and it presumably takes him longer to get back) of dealing with screaming and night terrors and posessions in return for what? Who is Ellen when she is not posessed? She doesn't seem a good friend to Anna (Emma Corin,whose performance is great), and doesn't seem to have any real character outside of delivering forboding lines.

Therefore, I don't think the problem lies solely with Depp. The script just hasn't given Ellen enough of a character to make her interesting. We don't have enough of her backstory to feel sympathy, we don't see enough of her outside of posession to want her free, we don't even have enough of her and Thomas' marriage to want to see them stay together. It feels like this is down to a reluctance to do anything too different from the original, leaving just a couple of nuggets of what could have been an interesting theme:

Nosferatu pokes its head into a theme of sexuality. Seen most obviously through Ellen's movements whilst posessed, though this isn't hugely explored. Other characters don't really acknowledge on it (aside from a period-typical hysteria reference), which seems like a missed oppportunity to explore the attitudes of the time. This is touched open in a later scene between Thomas and Ellen, but at a service level, "I'm not clean," as opposed to exploring anything with depth or challenging this.

If this is meant to be an exploration of desire, why does everything feel so desireless? I can see the grinding bodies, but I can't see the emotion. As Ellen shouts "show him our love," I'm wondering what love we're meant to be seeing?

To conclude, Nosferatu is a gorgeously shot classic vampire movie, but its focus on historical sets and accuracy is to the detriment of doing anything interesting or fresh with its set-up. It's wonderful it was such a passion project for the cast and crew, but if I'm recommending a subversive vampire horror starring Nicholas Hoult, it will be Renfield (2023).

[petitelepus]

May I have some type of thing where Blackarachnia targets a Fem!Autobot where she wants to use them to feed or something (like in a Vampiric way somehow?) But some how it's ends up super romantic?

I hope this makes sense because I love the romanticsm of Vampires but imagine with Tfa Blackarachnia.

Usually, you wouldn't let your guard down like this and get caught by a Decepticon, but this Con is absolutely gorgeous. Her beauty actually took you off-guard and you got caught by this Dinobot called Swoop that apparently served the Spider Con.

After a short flight, you found yourself on Dinobot Island which the femme Decepticon had apparently made into her base.

She had you tied up good with this harder-than-steel web of hers and no matter how much you struggled, you couldn't move even your servo.

"My my, what a foolish little Autobot you are," The Decepticon laughed as she looked at your helpless form, "Haven't you heard not to let your guard down around the enemy?"

"What are you going to do to me?" You asked and she shrugged, "Due to my situation, I need to consume once consumed oil."

"But how do you- Ooh!" A lightbulb lit above your helm, "You're going to suck oil from my cables? Like a vampire?"

"That is the human term, but yes."

"What's your name?" You asked and she grinned, "You can call me Blackarachnia."

"Alright. That's a good name, but maybe a little long?"

"Are you trying to annoy me?" She asked and you shook your head, "No, but I could come up with better names suited for someone like you."

"Oh?" She totally expected you to come up with insults at her, "Let's hear them then."

"Well, you are very pretty so how does Beauty sound?" You asked and she blinked, "What?"

"I could call you mine, but I have a feeling that you prefer it if I called myself yours?"

"Are you making fun of me!?" She hissed, but you weren't scared.

"How about my Queen?" You smiled, "Doesn't every bug have their queen?"

"You're thinking of bees, you simpleton!"

"Oh, my bad!" You chuckled, "I'm still new to Earth's biology. You could still be my Queen?"

"Don't you understand that you are in danger!?"

"I know I'm only in danger if you suck too much oil." You said, "I should be fine if you don't drink too much?"

"What makes you think I would hold myself back?" She asked, "I haven't eaten for a quite while now and you look very biteable right now"

"Well, you could suck me dry, but wouldn't it be nicer to have me around telling you how pretty you are?"

"Are you trying to mock me!?"

"Never, that didn't even cross my mind!" You shook your helm, "I just would like to get to know my Queen and maybe help you?"

"Oh, and how a little Autobot like you could help me?"

"Well, you do need to drink oil so why not just use me again and again?" You grinned, "Also, I think of me as your prisoner or forced servant?"

"Hmp!" Blackarachnia scoffed as she thought about your words, "I guess I could keep you around as my little oil bank."

"Anything for you." You smiled as you showed your intake to her, "Are you going to bite me now?"

"You appear to be enjoying this too much..." The Decepticon femme thought out loud and you chuckled, "Well, I do wanna help you!"

"You're a little freak, aren't you?"

"Yep!" You nodded eagerly, "I've heard it's charming!"

"Just shut up and let me bite you."

"Yes, my Queen!"

[arogoldpika123]

I learned today that Aloy has a lesbian romance with someone in the sequel Dissapointing Not because its lesbian, but because its a romance at all I was so headcanoning her as Aromanitc, and i feel like thats not true.

Techncially its just a make out thing, i dunno full context, but I doubt they'll make an effort to seperate romanticsm and the sexuality. Sad.

[orbissensualiumpictus]

The Backwater - Charles William Wyllie, RBA

[cigggwrld]

We’re connected although we’re miles apart

[gaaaalateia]

“The Unhoneymooners„

by Christina Lauren

[varshtat]

Homesick for the places you have never known

[natashagraceart]

“Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.”

~ John Keats

Blue Angel.

[mysteriousfaery]

I understand that this is the 21st century but I just want someone to write me poetry and secretly meet me on the pale moonlight

[goddessofcoquettes]

ʚ♡ɞ

𝕴 𝖌𝖔𝖙𝖙𝖆 𝖇𝖊 𝖆𝖉𝖔𝖗𝖊𝖉.

🏹☁️🏛☁️🏹

Stone Roses🎶🤍

[cassiopeiasstar]

Maybe I am motivated to do things for the aesthetic but at least I know Oscar Wilde would support that