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nosferatu? non. VOSferatu. c'est pas mon problème

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If I had a nickel for every time Nicholas Hoult had his life destroyed by an incarnation of Dracula I'd have two nickels...Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

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I’m in the midst of watching nosferatu right now and by god this might just be the first adaptation of Dracula I’ve seen where it’s so abundantly clear that they read the book and actually understood it

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saw nosferatu and it was a freaky good time! some non-spoiler thoughts:

robert eggers watching bram stoker's dracula (1994) and noticing the story has dracula look like a normal dude when interacting with mina: hm. cowardly. rotting corpse or nothing.

bill skarsgard is unrecognizable in extremely creepy prosthetics but i do actually think the scariest thing in this movie was lily-rose depp's tongue in that one scene. was unfamiliar with her before this movie but she was really giving it her all.

the sound design in this movie was absolutely IMPECCABLE, especially during the sequence when thomas hutter arrives at orlok's castle. the creeping sense of dread!

perfect way to spend christmas night is watching nicholas hoult, terrified, run around a vampire's castle.

also very happy that a large amount of this movie takes place at night and it's not only visible but also looks great, lots of blue and silver shades.

gonna be honest i did forget the name of two of the side characters and was just mentally referring to them as van helsing and seward because everyone in this movie lines up perfectly with the characters from dracula.

i really do see why there are so many articles about the number of rats on set in this movie because that was. a LOT of rats.

beautiful costumes, especially the dresses and hair.

not sure i've ever seen a character in a film roll their r's as much as count orlok in this one.

could have used more of the cat!

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Robert Eggers keeps proving he’s one of the best directors out there.

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just got back from nosferatu! i really enjoyed it! it was beautiful to look at, wonderfully acted, and definitely in the shape of dracula. now i have to track down the original 1920s german version to see what they adapted from it versus what came from the book

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if you’re ever in the position to choose between giving up and accepting defeat, and actually trying to fight the ancient unkillable god that is about to peel apart reality like a string cheese, remember this: scientifically speaking, you might as well give it a shot!

1.there were trees at the beginning of the world! there were trees so long ago that they predate bacteria that causes wood to decay. when a tree fell, it would lie there in stasis and there wasn’t any way of breaking down wood xylem on a molecular level in that way.

2. it seems obvious to say, but wood eating bacteria are literally incapable of comprehending what they’re breaking down. It’s just not information conciously available to a microorganism. they don’t know what they’re deconstructing, where it came from, bacteria have no way to even fathom the existence of a tree as a concept.

3. Regardless of the facts above, the world we live in today is a world where wood inevitably decomposes

it is worth fighting the unkillable god no matter how pointless it seems. it is worth taking the risk even though youre trying to accomplish something impossible. the reality in which you live was also once reality in which trees didn’t rot. You live in a reality that allows for existence before the possibility of destruction. you live in a reality where uncomprehending microbes break down matter that is so far beyond the scope of their comprehension that it feels comical to specify something so obvious. you live in a reality that occasionally allows unshakeable physical truths to be altered with no warning.

It is worth fighting the unkillable god because trees are so old they predate the source of their destruction, and it still did not spare them. It is worth fighting the unkillable god because bacteria rots unthinkingly, because there is room in our cosmos for destruction without comprehension on the part of the destroyer. It is worth fighting the unkillable god because now and then reality retracts the promise of immortality without fanfare, and when that happens there is no mercy for the ancient. the unmaking is not softer for the desecrators ignorance. for all things, existence is endless until the exact point where it ends.

so you might as well try to kill the unkillable god. it doesn’t seem likely, but at the beginning of the world, trees didn’t rot. so you never know! you never know

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just got tickets to nosferatu :)

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good evening to everyone deranged over a piece of vampire media

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Albin Grau (1884–1971) - Poster concept art for 'Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens'

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more like castle gayvenloft am i right

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surely summoning many ghouls would improve this situation

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a van richten without missing every attack is like an angel without wings

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I'm on some kind of gayass journey

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roommate and i are creating a dracula au that takes place in gilded age pittsburgh (inspired by the county courthouse that looks like a gothic castle) (we haven't done any research we're just from the area):

mina and lucy met at chatham university when it was a finishing school

jonathan graduated from the university of pittsburgh (i suppose then it was "western university of pennsylvania") law school

arthur holmwood is a heinz heir

jack seward works at the psychiatric hospital near the university

quincey is still from texas

van helsing is from boston and has degrees from every ivy league school

dracula is a former conquistador with his base in new orleans, and arrives in pittsburgh via the mississippi and ohio rivers

(but we put whitby = erie so we gotta get him to the lakes somehow)

not an incredible amount changes because it's the same time period (it was originally going to be a modern au) but this was the period when the city was at its peak and we figured there was mileage to be had in the american gilded age

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calling in sick to work with realising i've been dead for years