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Wednesday, December 9, 2009

"The loneliest part of the book comes... when the man accidentally sees Dracula setting his table."

[Referring to the novel, Dracula]
Max Schreck: It made me sad.
Albin: Why sad?
Max Schreck: Because Dracula had no servants.
Albin: I think you missed the point of the book, Count Orlock.
Max Schreck: Dracula hasn't had servants in 400 years and then a man comes to his ancestral home, and he must convince him that he... that he is like the man. He has to feed him, when he himself hasn't eaten food in centuries. Can he even remember how to buy bread? How to select cheese and wine? And then he remembers the rest of it. How to prepare a meal, how to make a bed. He remembers his first glory, his armies, his retainers, and what he is reduced to. The loneliest part of the book comes... when the man accidentally sees Dracula setting his table.

This movie is perfect. period. this is the kind of movie that you sit in front of the TV, totally dumbfounded, long after the credits roll. The movie in question is Shadow of the Vampire. It's about the filming of Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens. However, there's a twist; the director, Mernau (played by John Malkovich), hires an actual vampire (played by Willem Dafoe). My expectations were really high for this movie and it still blew me away. Everyone reading this has to go and humt down this movie immediately.


EDIT:
OK. apparently if I keep the videos short enough, Universal's lawyers don't care.


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