Vampire Castle: Nosferatu w/ Leslie Lee III
Added 2025-02-24 19:00:14 +0000 UTCJamie is once again joined by her brother in darkness Leslie Lee III (@leslieleeiii) of Struggle Session (@strugglesession) to discuss Robert Eggers’ horny and polarizing Nosferatu (2024). Is it original enough to justify making yet another movie based on Bram Stoker’s 1897 gothic novel? How does it stack up to Francis Ford Coppola’s 1992 masterpiece? And when will men learn that having a goth girlfriend is a big responsibility?
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Respectfully, I do not think Feeld is where I’m going to find my baby daddy.
Everybody Loves Communism
2025-04-30 20:13:51 +0000 UTCI think there's merit in calling a movie Nosferatu when it intentionally tells a story contrary to the original novel. "Dracula" was defeated by modern, anglo intellectuals banding together. The men in this movie are helpless to fight Orlok, because he's an overwhelming force of carnal nature- and his equal opposite is subdued, infantilized, diagnosed, and blamed for his arrival throughout the movie. Emily and Orlok assert a dreamlike, emotional sense more than hard logic (I mean, he took a boat from Transylvania to Germany) and that's a world that everyone except Dafoe's character (and eventually her husband) are lost in. This movie had a bunch of stuff going on that surprised me tbh.
Lusca
2025-02-26 19:32:48 +0000 UTCSo many comments/questions: 1. It's two-ish hours that can be ultimately summed up as "He ain't hittin' that right, yo." 2. Did I misinterpret the fact that Thomas doesn't FINISH when he and Ellen finally get to the angry "I'll show you that I can satisfy you as well as Orlok" bone-down as he isn't actually up to the task? Dracula itself is an allegory for female sexual power and syphilis (check out a bio of Stoker, f'reals.) 3. I like the idea that it's got some allegory for chronic illness, etc. 4. Where's the actual class analysis? I see bits in there; the ATJ being an obvious capitalist shill and Thomas being primarily motivated by a desire to show his class and afford his marriage; Orlok being an aristocrat who literally sucks the life out of the middle class, etc. But whatever. 5. I don't see this as being as much a feminist critique of social structures as it could've been in comparison to say… the VVitch or the Lighthouse (his two best). It had wasted potential as I see it, and I'm curious if the Director's Cut will be more what I'd hoped for. It's not my LEAST favorite of Eggers' (which is the Northman), but it's a close second least. 6. You're not thinking imaginatively enough if you don't see potential in Werewolves for critique, bruh. Watch The Howling and let's catch up, holmes. 7. Also, it's about the Feeld, Jamie. Hinge ain't gonna do you right if you're really that Gothic — I've never met more basics in my life than on Hinge. Ask Lacey Spacecake, she knows.
Altar-Ego
2025-02-26 16:53:48 +0000 UTC
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