Nosferatu Original vs Remake Movie Review

[@AntiEstablishmentRhetorician]

I think the boy violinist in 'Nosferatu The Vampire' is meant to be immediately outside the confines of the castle. Your dress is so beautiful, again.

[@WhytheBookWins]

Ooh, I think you might be right about that, I'll need to watch that scene again and check! And thank you ☺️

[@RS-ry4lp]

Been binging your channel recently, very excited for your thoughts on the newest adaptation once it’s out!

[@WhytheBookWins]

@RS-ry4lp thank you! I have high hopes 🤞

[@IanFindly-iv1nl]

I guess the violin boy in N 79 is just some kind of symbolism. Consider that THAT one is FORIEGN so it's a tad arty (nothing wrong with that though). Yeaa, Kinski does have the distinction of playing both Renfield AND Drac. I particularly like when he utters the line "What a lovely throat!!".

[@Dunlop-hg2ql]

Good presentation and reviews here. Herzog's Nosferatu is probably MY fave out of this trio. It's classy, dreamlike, shocking, has an undertone of subtle dark humor, is that very rare kind of film that combines both grotesquerie and beauty, and is one of the VERY FEW remakes that I actually like. I'm, admitedly yet to see Shadow of the Vampire though.

[@WhytheBookWins]

Yeah that's the one I have the highest rating to initially. Though the more I think about Shadow of the Vampire the more I love it!

[@occasionalgoldfish]

Very excited for the Robert Eggers Nosferatu! Looks very spooky 🧛

[@WhytheBookWins]

Agreed!

[@Kaiyanwang82]

Adjani is almost as haunting as the vampires. Bruno Ganz is also Hitler in the Downfall (Der Untergang) - the one of the Hitler reacts to X memes, so to speak. Thank you for that last supper observation, I never thought about it in these terms. Great movie.

[@WhytheBookWins]

She's so great in this! And interesting, I'll look that up.

[@Kaiyanwang82]

@@WhytheBookWins Have you seen Obsession with Adjani (Sam Neil)? Not sure it can be useful for the channel tho.

[@WhytheBookWins]

@@Kaiyanwang82 No but I want to! I've heard great things.

[@geraldmartin7703]

Adjani is stunning in Possession (1977).

[@LucyLioness100]

The Muranu film is an undeniable classic that we nearly lost due to the Stokers, but thankfully they saved the film and we still study the film over a century after. “Shadow of the Vampire” is one of my favorite vampire films and is a fun “biopic” about how the film was made, but just with the “what if they did hire a real vampire” premise. I believe they even shot as much as they could at some of the same locations Murnau did outside of when you can tell it’s a set piece. Plus the performances from Willem Dafoe (totally robbed of an Oscar for his excellent work) & John Malkovich is the chef’s kiss of watching who can out-ham the other. As for Herzog’s remake, it’s a good re-adaptation of the Muranu film but allowed to be a bit more faithful to the original book. However he kept the names the same as he was redoing the Muranu film and not adapting the book itself. The performances are also really good & it’s dripping in atmosphere. I recommend them all & cannot wait for Robert Eggers’ version this Christmas

[@WhytheBookWins]

I agree!

[@tophtopherson8920]

Hell yes all around classics

[@WhytheBookWins]

🧛😃

[@halo2something]

klaus kinski played nosferatu 2 times, in his second attempt he was also co-director - "nosferatu a venezia" it's weird, very moody flick, shot in venice, which adds to atmosphere yeah, he is very famous for being difficult, you should watch amazing - "aguirre, the wrath of god" with him and making of of that movie, it's like total hysteric collapse amidst amazonian jungle, the movie is great

[@WhytheBookWins]

Oo yeah I'll need to watch that one.

[@adrianburchell1467]

Having read The Un-dead by Joel H Emerson, an expanded take on Dracula, keeping many of Bram Stoker's chapters, it has Harker taking photos of properties, meeting and talking with Renfield before Harker leaves for Transylvania, plus including four characters excluded from the book, Miss Kate Reed, a reporter/occultist, a detective and an artist, with the camera unable to capture a vampire's image and drawing/painting Dracula, it looks nothing like what people see.

[@seanmalloy0528]

I thought the Dracula book stated that Renfield was in Harker's line of work and was kind of doing the same job butwhen he got home had seemingly gone insane

[@WhytheBookWins]

Hmm I don't recall that... but maybe you're right and I just missed that detail while reading 🤔

[@ElizabethArmstrong-zn8np]

Thanks for this video! I got to see Nosferatu back in 1999 at a midnight movie. It was a big deal b/c it was really hard to find back then. The next week I got to see Shadow of the Vampire at the midnight movie.i love them both! Thank you!

[@WhytheBookWins]

That's so cool!

[@TinaBiebe]

Loved your video. I love the silent Nosferatu and Shadow of the Vampire (Willem Dafoe is amazing). I saw the Herzog movie but I don’t remember anything but that Klaus Kinski was in it and HIS daughter was in The Cat People remake. I can’t remember which movie it was - someone has probably mentioned it already - but Kinski was so hated the native tribes people who were extras, they offered to kill him. 😂 Someone I read joked the tribes people weren’t even going to charge for it. 🤣 Seriously I don’t know how Herzog worked with him so often, but I guess he could stand toe to toe and tell Kinski where to get off. I like that. I’m not really into the more modern day German cinema but have to admire Herzog for telling Kinski what he could go to himself. 😅 Anyway, this Dracula adaptation isn’t a favorite and I’ll likely even name Turkish Dracula (yes that exists - it was free on KZbin) before I will this one. I’m only remembering it now due to to your video and the new Eggers movie. Oh but I do love Brno Ganz. His Downfall is incredible. Oh! I think Turkish Dracula is the first version where we see fangs as it predates Christopher Lee! It’s not a good movie - it might even be so bad it’s good - but add that to your Dracula repertoire. I think Mina also breaks out into interpretative dance/strip trae for Dracula. Yeah you’ll never see THAT in Bran Stoker. 😁

[@WhytheBookWins]

Whoa, yeah he seems like a nightmare! And wow 😆 I'll need to look up the Turkish one!

[@FluffyBunniesOnFire]

It's funny to me how many actors have had the chance to play multiple Dracula characters. Willem Dafoe has played both Dracula/Orlok, and the vampire hunter. Klaus Kinski has played both Dracula/Orlok, and Renfield. Nicholas Hoult has played both Renfield and Harker/Hutter. You mentioned the Cary Elwes connection. You should also see Vampire in Venice (aka Nosferatu in Venice), a sort-of sequel where Kinski plays a sexier version of the vampire. The cinematography was great, but the production was troubled, largely by Kinski. Here Christopher Plummer plays a vampire hunter, and also Van Helsing in Dracula 2000.

[@WhytheBookWins]

Yeah I definitely want to watch Vampire in Venice! And I saw Dracula 2000 and remember liking it, but it has been a while. And yeah, Dracula has soooo many adaptations and variations so I guess it makes sense many actors have been in different versions.

[@editpopulation]

Worth noting that the 3-part BBC adaptation from a few years ago spends its entire first 90 minute episode centered around Harker's stay with Dracula.

[@WhytheBookWins]

Thanks for letting me know, I'll watch this one soon! The only BBC one one seen it the one with Louis Jordan.

[@DavidMacDowellBlue]

There is another NOSFERATU now on AppleTV starring Doug Jones ("The Shape of Water" "Hellboy" "Star Trek: Discovery").

[@WhytheBookWins]

Wow I had no idea! I'll look it up

[@JohnCastillo-t1c]

The scariest looking Dracula. You are right about the 1979 version, he's a vampire that really has a problem being immortal. Kinski gives a really good performance considering that he was an actor that was borderlined crazy. Shadow of the vampire is my favorite take on this story. It does make you think when you watch the 1922 version if the actor really was a vampire. Fun Fact: William Defoe who plays Max shrek in Shadow of the vampire is in the new Nosferatu as the van helsing type character.

[@WhytheBookWins]

Thanks for commenting! Yeah the more I think about Shadow of the Vampire the more I love it! And yeah so cool Dafoe is in the new one as well. I'm assuming they will be making his role larger as well because like I say on the video, the Van Helsing equivalent here doesn't do much and in the 79 movie he doesn't even beleive Lucy when she tries to tell him what's happening.

[@JohnCastillo-t1c]

@WhytheBookWins one part in the movie that i found intersting also is a scene where Shrek is seeing the sun on the reels on the camera. It shows also that though they don't say how long he's been alive, the fact that this could be the first time he sees the sun in a long time is really sad. It reminded of the scene in Interview the with the Vampire where Louis is able to watch the sun again thanks to the movies.

[@WhytheBookWins]

@JohnCastillo-t1c agreed! I say almost that exact same thing in this video lol.

[@lifewithlee6298]

Where can I make suggestions for your next read? I want to hear your thoughts sweatpea book 📕 1 vrs the show

[@WhytheBookWins]

Thanks, I'll look into it!

[@tibbiemcintyre2975]

your shirt is so fabulous. and also your videos are great :)

[@WhytheBookWins]

Thank you 😊🤗

[@creepycarlos5634]

Honestly, the BBC “Dracula” 3 part mini series on Netflix is a beautiful adaption of the Harper/count dynamic for the first episode! Highly recommend. Beware of part 3 ⚰️

[@WhytheBookWins]

I'll check it out!

[@frankducky6130]

I love your fashion!

[@WhytheBookWins]

Thanks! ☺️

[@davisbrowne1906]

I would love to hear what you think of the recent BBC three part Dracula with Dolly Weeks and Claes Bang! I loved it!

[@WhytheBookWins]

I'll have to check it out!

[@winslow-eh5kv]

Just wish Renfield and the very eerily beautiful music score in the 79 one had been remarked on here. Aside from that, well done and tasty.

[@WhytheBookWins]

I'm so bad at specifically noticing scores 🤦‍♀️ I know it makes such a difference and impacts the viewing experience but it's rarely something I'm consciously thinking about while watching a movie. And yeah, the actor who played Renfield in the 79 one was very good! His bursts of weird laughter was unsettling. Thanks for commenting and I'm glad you liked the video 😊

[@devontehuntley6274]

I LOATHED the 1979 for fifteen years because I never saw the purpose of them remaking the lovely 1922 movie. But I saw i finally last year and thought it was fine. I don't get why the 1979 version didn't keep the renames of the 1922 version as opposed to keeping the ones from the Dracula book since this is more-so following that movie than adapting the book. I thought that was an odd choice as much as them making Mina Harker into Lucy Harker. Some of the 1979 scenes fell flat to me, like the ship scenes were too short and came off very honky when mirroring the 1922 scenes like Klaus' Dracula walking past the camera trying to attack the captain was straight laughable. Not as effective as Schreck's Orlok doing so. Renfield's arc also just unresolved as he runs off out of the town and that's it. At least the 1922 version shows him seemingly dying when Orlok does. Also, Jonathan becomes a vampire at the end but somehow can ride off in broad daylight, the same daylight that kills Dracula? Yeah, this version had potential to be a good remake and sort of succeeds but some of the issues I note brings it down a bit. As far as the 2024 move goes, there was no need for it. One remake is enough, to make another seems lousy and pathetic. I noticed in the beginning you censor out the bit where you say Max Shreck's name when talking about the 2000 meta-movie. Why is that?

[@WhytheBookWins]

Yeah the ship scene was much better in the '22 movie! And I hadn't even considered the fact that the ending is in day but you're right that doesn't really make sense lol 🤔 And I did that partly to keep the intro spoiler free, but also in hopes it would grab people's attention and keep them watching the video longer!

[@devontehuntley6274]

​@@WhytheBookWins Yeah the ship scene they just brushed over pretty much in the remake and I found it to be very dark in terms of the picture. It needed more lighting and action. We should have seen the crew members dying and the captain getting an onscreen death to make up for not seeing so in the original, which is fine and plays it off effectively but by 1979 I think we could have seen the death happening. As for the spoiler free intro, that makes sense. Thanks for responding. :)

[@BradLad56]

Based on the copy of Dracula I see behind you, I'd say somebody's been buying from The Folio Society lol

[@WhytheBookWins]

I love Folio Society! The illustrations in their Dracula edition are so incredible!

[@josephnizolek3975]

I have always considered F W Murmau as on of greatest movie director in silent film era , a lot of ironic movie scenes with his movies 🎥,

[@WhytheBookWins]

I need to watch more of his movies! This is my first one.

[@josephnizolek3975]

Would recommend Faust , his last German film, before moving to America

[@BradLad56]

8:36 Ya know, for being an adaptation, they really couldn't help themselves when they included the sunlight trope in Demeter, even though it would have been more faithful to the book if the vampires were just weakened. I mean come on, for as crappy a movie as it is, even Blade Trinity got that right lol

[@WhytheBookWins]

I've never seen the Blade movies 🫢 But that's cool their vampires can be in the sun! It's funny how that lore has become so ingrained in us. I was so surprised when reading Dracula that he can be in sunlight!

[@BradLad56]

@WhytheBookWins Well it's not all vampires, just Dracula (or Drake as the film calls him), and I kinda wish that aspect was used more in modern vampire stories because it would make them more menacing because not even sunlight would be able to save people then.