Nosferatu
| December 19, 2007 at 6:00 pm | Category: Movie Spotlight |
| by hollywoodjoker | |
Story :
Nosferatu is a 1922 silent German Expressionist film. German Expressionism in films was an artistic movement of using stylized,distorted and wildly exaggerated often cartoonish sets and symbolism for creating a particular mood or effect.
“The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” was another landmark famous example of a German Expressionist film. Although the meaning of “Nosferatu” is debated, it is similar to a vampire in that Nosferatu is a blood sucking living corpse, but the victims just die, they don’t turn into creatures as with vampires. Nosferatu is a blood sucking living corpse with rodent like grotesque features and long fingernails and is associated with rats and plague.
Thomas Hutter a German real estate employee is sent by his boss, Knock, to visit Count Orlok (played by Max Schreck) for finalizing a deal. On arriving at Count Orlok’s castle, many strange events convince Thomas that Count Orlok is a “Nosferatu”. Initially Orlok’s face is hidden from Thomas, so he cannot recognize him. After Thomas sees Orlok sleeping in the coffin, he tries to escape from his clutches and warn the town people about this. Thomas’s wife, Ellen also plays a very important role in this film.
Shadow of Count Orlok in Nosferatu
This film has been the inspiration for many vampire, dracula and other horror creature films. The use of shadow for achieving horror effect was very much appreciated.
Starring :
Max Schreck as Count Orlok
Gustav von Wangenheim as Thomas Hutter
Greta Schröder as Ellen Hutter
Movie Gossip :
Nosferatu saved : Bram Stoker’s (The creator of Dracula) ’s widow sued Prana-Film GmbH film company (makers of Nosferatu) for copyright infringement and won.This was their first and last film as the company declared bankruptcy. The court ordered destruction of all prints of Nosferatu, but by that time many film copies had already been widely distributed.
Shadow of the Vampire : The 2000 horror film,”Shadow of the Vampire”, told a fictional story of the making of Nosferatu, imagining that actor Max Schreck (played by Willem Dafoe) was himself a genuine vampire, and that director F. W. Murnau (played by John Malkovich) was complicit in hiring the creature for the purposes of realism.
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