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[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Where did you get this pic of Matt Miller?

[–] Kirbywithwhip1987@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He's the state department spokesperson who's been dubbed count smirkula

[–] Kirbywithwhip1987@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] TankieReplyBot@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 month ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Really want to watch this movie

[–] Kirbywithwhip1987@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 month ago

I think there are restored versions on YT.

[–] CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's a pretty funny movie if you watch it because in the original release it wasn't actually b&w. They dyed the film cells in sepia for the day scenes and in blue for the night scenes. But you can clearly tell the night scenes were filmed during the day.

The story is also a complete plagiarism of Dracula by Bram Stoker and his widow apparently sued and won the rights to the film, which she destroyed. Thankfully some copies survived and we can still enjoy it to this day.

Super low budget movie but it shows you don't need millions and tech to make a good movie. There's some good photography choices especially with the mirror in the beginning.

The vampire Nosferatu is iconic. I don't remember where I read it but someone said there's no glint of human in him, not like how Dracula is portrayed (as a suave charmer most of the time). I was actually surprised watching the movie though that Nosferatu is not mindless. From the pictures it doesn't seem like it but he's like Dracula in that regard, by which I mean he speaks, he writes, he's wealthy and buying a house in Germany (which is why the main character is going to visit him, just like in the Dracula novel). He just looks a bit different :) and of course he drinks people's blood.

[–] Kirbywithwhip1987@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's one of my favorite horror films, more than 100 years old by now and I watched it back in like 2015 for the first time. I'm goth from Serbia so I'm kinda obliged to explain stuff about vampires:

The main reason the movie was made in the first place is because the producer Albin Grau was in Serbia during WW1 and a villager told him a story about vampire, my best guess is that the vampire in question is Miloš from the village of Radojevo on the Romanian border(near the Carpathian mountains so it fits), he was one of the first officially recorded vampires(along with Sava Savanović) and there are still records about him in Vienna since the Austrian doctor Faredi Tamarski came to investigate the case and documented it. Miloš supposedly drained 11 people from the village in 1730s and had a tamed wolf while he was alive, which also fits in parts where Nosferatu controls animals, which Dracula also could do with wolves. So the Nosferatu is more or less a vampire from Serbia with Dracula story.

He is portrayed as the typical vampire around here before Dracula, they basically looked more like corpses with no signs of decay, pale skin and bat-like facial features rather than Bela Lugosi Dracula, Interview with the Vampire ones or Alcina.

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 month ago

this is how the average white anglo looks like

[–] Lemmykoopa@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Nos has such pretty eyes

[–] Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 month ago

He's so iconic

[–] Ocommie63@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 month ago
[–] geography082@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago