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This is Julio's Corner, my corner of the internet, where I talk about whatever is on my mind.

I'll mostly talk about stuff I've watched, read, or listened to, but sometimes I may ramble on about the news, or politics, or on society at large.

This episode is being recorded on Sunday, November 2nd, 2025.

And welcome back to the show.

Normally, I would give a spoiler alert when talking about a show or a movie, but the movie in question is Nosferatu.

The original came out in 1922.

The remake that came out in 2024 doesn't really steer away from the original plot.

So if you're upset that I might spoil a movie that's 20, 103 years old, 1922, we're in 2025, that's 103 years ago.

So yeah, if you're afraid of being spoiled about a century-old film, I don't know what to tell you.

Anyways, we're going to talk about Nosferatu.

Now, let me preface by saying you, as you know, if you listen to my show regularly, you know that in general, I load remakes.

I prefer to watch the original.

Again, in this case, the film in question, the remake, is a remake of a silent film that came out in 1922.

So I can make an exception to that rule of generally avoiding remakes.

So, ironically, after watching the Nosferatu remake that came out in 2024, I was compelled to watch the original so I can compare and contrast.

And let me go over a bit of history of Nosferatu.

For some of you that may not know this, Nosferatu is the first movie adaption of Bram Stoker's Dracula.

It's an illegal adaption of Bram Stoker's Dracula.

However, producer Albin Grau, back in 1916, wanted to make a vampire film, and he was trying to get the copyright to Stoker's Dracula.

But the Stoker estate refused him.

Unfortunately for him, he went and stubbornly went and made the film anyway.

So he figured, let me change up a couple of names, change the plot a little bit, and no one will be the wiser.

So instead of Count Dracula, you have Count Orlok.

Instead of making him look like the character depicted in the novel, he decided to make him look sort of rat-like with these very monstrous-looking hands, a very bald, skeletal-looking visage with rat-like teeth jutting from his mouth.

And of course, he changed the names of the other characters in the film.

However, of course, that was not enough to avoid lawsuits.

And so when the film came out in Europe, the Stoker estate went and filed against him.

And of course, it did not help that in earlier versions of the film, of this film, it does flat out say Dracula in it.

So naturally, the Stoker estate won the lawsuit, and Albert Albin Grau's fate was sealed.

His company went bankrupt, and he was ordered by the courts to destroy all copies of Nosferatu.

However, by some mere chance, a version of Nosferatu found its way into the US.

And in the US, because of a clerical error or copyright error, however you want to technically call it, by some error, the way Bram Stoker's Dracula was filed in the US, it was already in public domain by the time around this time period.

So the film of Nosferatu, somehow a copy of it made its way over shore, you know, off the offshore to the US, and it started receiving screening and it became very popular, and the Stoker estate could do nothing about it, because in the US Stoker's Dracula was already in public domain.

So that is how the film survived to this day.

Which is, you know, for movie buffs, it's a good thing, because a lot of vampire movies to this day are inspired by Nosferatu.

And it's considered by some to be one of the greatest Dracula movies ever made.

So getting into the characters of the film, let me break down some of the changes they made with the film.

So as I already mentioned, you have Captain Orlok, sorry, Count Orlok, instead of Count Dracula.

That's the first change.

Then you have Hutter, the main hero of the movie.

Hutter is basically Jonathan Harker.

So you can hear the similarity, right?

Hutter and Harker.

Hutter is happily married to his wife, Ellen, who represents Mina in the novel.

But of course, the difference being Mina, in the beginning of the novel, he's just Jonathan's fiancée.

She does later marry later on in the novel, but you first meet Mina as Jonathan Harker's fiancée.

So that's one change in the plot.

The names and their happenstance.

The other characters in the film, you have...

I'm just going over the IMDB list.

So you have Hutter's friends, Ruth and Harding, who are shipbuilders in the movie Nosferatu.

They are basically the characters that they represent in the original novel of Dracula would be Lucy with Stenra and Arthur Homewood.

Though the difference between the movie and the novel, of course, is that the Hardings are siblings.

I'm talking...

Now we're talking the silent film.

We're not talking about the remake.

So, because the remake also makes some changes, which I'll get into when I go into the remake.

So you have the Hardings, which are brother and sister, who are friends of Thomas Hutter, which are basically Lucy with Stenra, who's Meada's friend, and Arthur Homewood, who's Jonathan Harker's friend.

And of course, Van Helsing, the famous Van Helsing, he's represented by a professor of the occult and biologist.

His name, he has a different name between the silent and the remake.

Oddly enough, the remake is, which makes, in some ways, it makes sense, because when the silent film was made, they were trying to avoid lawsuits.

Whereas now, Bram Stoker's Dracula is public domain worldwide, so there is no longer any need to worry about lawsuits.

So you can definitely adapt a lot of the plot points of Dracula more accurately, without fear of copyright flags.

But as I was saying, let me go to my notes.

My notes are probably clearer in this case.

Yes, so Professor Bulwer, the professor in some university in the silent film, they don't really go into detail.

And he plays a really, really minor role in the film, just to talk about the occult, and give some credence to the possibility of vampires and whatnot.

And the way he was doing it was with exhibitions of Venus fly traps and some other type of plant life or cellular life, single cell creatures to just give credence that, if we have these type of beings in plants, it's not so far fetched to think that vampires exist, that kind of thing.

So he plays a really, really small minor role in the silent film, unlike of course the original Dracula, where Van Helsing is definitely more of a guide, guidance, a mentor, and help to kill off Dracula.

So you have those two, you have those four characters, plus Orlok, as I mentioned, who's Dracula.

And of course you have Renfield.

Their version of Renfield is Nock, the real estate agent, who becomes, who's apparently, he met Orlok at some point in time, and he became his, his servant, so to speak, which is what Renfield is in the novel.

So those are, those are some of the slight changes.

Now, what other, what other changes did they do?

In the, so another change is that Thomas Hutter is a real estate agent working for Nock, whereas Jonathan Harker was a legal counsel, and he went to Transylvania to help go over some legal matters with Dracula.

So in Nosferatu, you have Thomas Hutter going over to Transylvania.

They don't even change the name of the country he went to.

He flat out went to Transylvania, which is, if you're trying to avoid lawsuits, you can't use the same country that Dracula comes from.

But anyway, Count Orlach is from Transylvania.

So, Hutter goes over there, because he wants to buy land in their town in Germany.

But he seeks an actual person to show up to his place in Transylvania.

So he goes, and you know, the same similar things that happen in the Dracula novel happens to him.

He meets the town folk, and the town folk warn him, do not go to Count Orlok's castle, but he goes anyway.

He gets, he finds a horse and buggy to bring him a certain point to his destination, but when they get to like a bridge, they decide we're not going to go further than this, because anything beyond this path is too scary for us.

So he crosses over it and walks a little further before a horse and buggy appears out of nowhere.

And it's of course Count Orlok in disguise, bringing him to to the castle, to the isolated house.

So he goes there.

Oh, yes.

And so the reason why he goes there, like I said, he's a real estate agent.

He's going to sell him a property in their town in Germany.

I think it's called Weisberg, Weisberg, because W's sound like V's in Germany.

And he's going to buy, Nock tells him to sell him the deserted house right across from his own house.

You know, like, that's not suspicious.

But anyway, he does it.

When he gets to the, when he sleeps the night at the inn, before the part that I mentioned about the buggy, he finds this book at his night table called, it's about the seven deadly sins and about vampires and the occult.

And at first, he laughs about it.

He's like, oh, this is ridiculous.

Who believes in these superstitions?

But that plays a pivotal role later in the movie.

So anyway, he goes there.

He gets to the castle.

Count Orlok sees the locket of, of hudders, you know, displaying a portrait of his wife.

And he becomes obsessed with her.

And says, like, she has a lovely neck.

And, you know, he just acts all kinds of weird.

Of course, he, he accidentally cuts himself on his finger.

And that immediately makes Orlok advance to him to want to drink his blood.

He's terrified.

And he walks, he walks, you know, he backs away from him towards the fireplace.

And then, you know, the scene ends, and he wakes up passed out on the couch next to the fireplace, which is now, what's the word when it's no longer, when the fire's all, when the fire's gone.

And he wakes up, takes a walk around the estate, few notices the quote unquote, two mosquito bites on his neck.

Not thinking anything of it.

And eventually he escapes the castle, but not before Count Orlach's already left, leaving him locked in the castle to head on to their town in Germany to pursue his wife.

And John tries to escape out of the castle, but he falls off a cliff and hurts himself.

So he's hospitalized for a while.

But eventually he comes to and he arrives.

Now here's the part that's a little different from the Dracula book.

And I don't know if it's because of expediency as much as trying to avoid the lawsuit.

But apparently, having never met her, he already has Ellen bespelt because she starts sleepwalking at night.

And ever since he saw her portrait, so I guess his magic, just by knowing her visage, can transcend borders and whatnot to the person that he, I guess, is imagining in his head.

And he's trying to control her.

And so she starts sleepwalking at night.

And they try to, Mr.

Harding tries to prevent her from falling off the ledge and taking care of her.

But anyway, he arrives to their town.

And of course, oh yeah, before he escapes, right?

That very night after he signs all the documents that Hutter needed him to sign so he can head back home, he reads a passage from that Book of the Occult.

And the Book of the Occult explains to him that the Nosferatu, which is how they call the vampire Nosferatu in Transylvania, apparently.

So the book says that the Nosferatu, once it no longer feels its guess is useful, it will suck up their blood that night.

And so of course, reading this and him fearing for his life, thinking that this, that Nosferatu might, that Count Orlok might very well be a Nosferatu, looks out into the hallway of his bedroom and he sees Nosferatu staring at him in the darkness down the hall.

And then he's petrified and he just tries to crawl into his bed and cover himself with blankets.

Like how's that gonna protect you?

But he does that.

These are silent films, I guess they can't be more logical or whatever because they have to build the suspense.

So anyway, Nosferatu starts creeping into, slowly walking into his bedroom creepily.

And as he's praying over his body, his prone body, ready to suck his blood, Ellen, across the way, who seemed like she passed out from her sleepwalking spell and being taken care of by the doctors and by Harding.

She wakes up immediately and screams out, Hutter, her husband's name.

And somehow Nosferatu, Count Orlok, hears it and backs away.

So she somehow, with this, I guess, mystic connection saves her husband for that night.

So he only got bit in that first night that he accidentally cut himself for that first dinner.

So Nosferatu leaves and yeah, he leaves his bedroom and plans his trip to Weisberg the very next day.

So anyways, how is that different from the Dracula novel?

So in the Dracula novel, Parker of course does feel trapped in Count Dracula's Castle, but he manages to escape same way, out the window, off the cliff, hurts himself.

It's in a hospital in like Budapest somewhere, he's in a fevered state, but eventually he heals and he sends word to Mina, and Mina goes over to him and treats him, and they get married and they come back to wherever they live.

So at that point, Dracula doesn't know anything about Mina and is not obsessed with her.

But because he does attack Mina's friend Lucy and makes her into a vampire.

And so Jonathan Van Helsing Seward and Dr.

John...

What's his name?

John...

John Seward.

That's the other guy I forgot to mention.

So you have the doctor that was treating Ellen.

He basically is Dr.

John Seward from Dracula.

So anyways, those guys get together, share what they learned.

You know, Helsing with his occult knowledge, Harker with his experience in Transylvania.

And of course, Seward and Homewood, with what happened to Lucy, they decide to attack Dracula.

And because of that, Dracula decides, oh, you're gonna try to get at, you're gonna try to come at me.

Okay, well, then I'm gonna get back at you by taking Mina.

And then Mina becomes his next victim.

So that's the difference.

In Dracula, he only goes after Mina Harker as revenge to Jonathan Harker for going after him, for antagonizing him.

Whereas in Nosferatu, he becomes obsessed with Ellen and pursues her out of his own obsession.

So that's the other change in the plot of Nosferatu and Dracula.

So, where was I?

So anyway, Nosferatu shows up.

He tries to go after Ellen.

Well, actually, he doesn't go after her at first.

He's busy.

He's just staring at her from afar.

But she finds Thomas Hudders' book on the occult.

And the book shows you how you can kill a Nosferatu.

And the way you kill him is you have to have an unsuspecting...

You have to basically sacrifice a virgin maiden and let him be distracted with her to the point that he forgets the sun from coming up.

Because if he stays with the fair maiden until after the first cock crow, he won't be able to escape the sunrise and that'll kill him.

So her reading this and knowing what her husband went through and everything, she decides to sacrifice herself.

And that's how Nosferatu ends.

Whereas in Dracula, of course, Mina is infected by Dracula and is in fear of becoming a vampire.

And so the only way to prevent, to cure Mina is to kill Dracula.

So the men all go and they kill off Dracula, thereby healing Mina from her fate.

And then, of course, it concludes years later, Jonathan and Mina are happily married with children, somewhere in, you know, an off land and whatever.

So these are the other changes with Nosferatu from Dracula.

Do I need to go any further with the silent film?

No, I don't think so.

So as I mentioned, the Nosferatu character has very rat-like features, you know, rat ears, bald, these bulging white eyes, crazy looking eyebrows, not attractive in any way.

Not that Dracula was attractive either.

Dracula had like a unibrow, had this really thick bushy mustache.

He looked very Eastern European, so to speak, you know, because he's from that area of Romance and whatever, and Romania.

So that's where the remake takes further cues of the novel.

They give, in the remake of Nosferatu, they give him the mustache, and they make him look more human than he did in the black and white one.

But he still has the long, crazy looking arms, but he stays in the shadows, so you don't really see him too clearly.

Later in the movie, as you do see him, you start noticing his skin is actually very decomposed looking.

So in the remake, he's an amalgamation of the original, the classic Nosferatu film, and details of Dracula, which he's a rip-off of to begin with.

And of course, the other characters, because it's, you know, we're past the silent film days, it's a little more fleshed out.

So Ellen Harder, Ellen Hutter, she didn't have a first and last name in the black and white film.

She does in the remake.

So she's Ellen Hutter.

She is Thomas Hutter's wife, still, counter-lock, as I mentioned.

Doctor, what's his face?

He had a simpler name.

Professor, sorry, Professor Bulwer.

His name now in the remake is Professor Albin Eberhardt von Franz.

So Professor Albin Eberhardt von Franz, which definitely sounds a little closer to Van Helsing, because it has more of a German sound.

Not the real estate agent, still, as I mentioned, he's Renfield.

Friedrich Harding, he now has a first name on the black and white film.

Now he is, once again, like the original character of Dracula, Arthur Homewood, he is of nobility, but he also owns a shipholding company.

He is married.

He doesn't have a sister, which in the black and white film, her name was Ruth Harding.

In the new film, her name is now Anna Harding, and she is Friedrich's wife, and also Ellen Hudders' best friend, which is how it is in the novel.

In the novel, Lucy was Stenra and Mina Harker, or Mina Murray before she became Mina Harker, or best friends.

The difference is that Lucy in the novel is single.

She is courting three suitors.

She eventually becomes engaged to Arthur Homewood, but of course, that relationship doesn't come to pass because she becomes Dracula's first victim.

Dr.

Wilhelm Sievers is again the doctor, who is a representation of Dr.

John Seward from Sievers and Seward, very similar.

And so yeah, those characters are a little more fleshed out and a little more resembling of Dracula.

They do a callback in the new film, because there was a scene where, in like almost in the beginning, Thomas Hutter brought these flowers to Ellen, and she says, why did you kill the beautiful flowers?

And they don't really go into more details than that.

It just sounds very odd.

So in the sequel, sorry, the remake, she says it again in an argument, during an argument that she has with Thomas, because she's trying to prevent him from going to the Carpathian Mountains.

So in the movie, in the remake, they don't say Transylvania.

They say it's a desolate...

I think I wrote it down.

I guess I did.

I thought I wrote it down, but apparently I did not.

Oh yeah, I did.

He, in the modern film, in the remake, he has to go to a small country east of Bohemia, isolated in the Carpathian Alps.

Not Transylvania, like the originals called it, because they got lazy with the writing.

So to explain the sleepwalking spells in the remake versus the classic where it just came out of nowhere, out of the blue, they make Ellen Hudder a little more attuned to the mystic powers of the supernatural.

And also apparently, because she's so attuned to the mystic powers of the supernatural world, she actually met Professor Orlok early in her life when she was a young teenager.

And apparently she awoke this hunger in Professor Orlok and bespelt her, and they met in a forest at one point in her teen years.

And they made a union, so to speak, not to get too graphic.

But basically, she gave up her virginity to him and pledged an oath to him to be bound to her hymn in the future because she is not of the world of humans, according to Professor Orlok.

She belongs to his world.

And so she always had these fits, sleeping, sleepwalking, seeing things through Professor Orlok's, sorry, Count Orlok's eyes.

Like, so whenever he kills someone, she sees him doing it and feels it, and like somehow is absorbing the blood as well.

She's attuned to him because like of their union.

But then she met Thomas, and those spells seem to fade away, and now she's happily married to him.

And so, because of this, knowing where he's going and who she's going, he's going to, he already, because he can sense Orlok's machinations.

Because again, he can like, he's attuned to her, she's attuned to him.

So she keeps trying to tell him, do not go, this is not going to bode well for us.

Who cares about the commission you're going to make from this cell?

It's not worth our life.

Thomas dismisses it as just women being whimsical and superstitious.

You know, this is Victorian era England, or Victorian era Europe, 1800s.

So women are flights of fancy, they're fanciful creatures, they're not men of science and logic like he is.

So he doesn't take her warning seriously and heads off.

Before she leaves, before he leaves, she cuts a locket of her hair to put it in his little locket and go on to Count Orlok.

And of course, in this film, Count Orlok sees the locket on his belt, knows who it is, demands to see the locket.

As soon as Thomas gives it to him, he immediately like inhales it because he notices Ellen's hair in it, strand of hair, and so he starts inhaling it like the smell of lilacs, because that's how she smells apparently.

I guess she bathes in lilac flowers or whatever, and doesn't return the locket to him, to Thomas, unlike in the original, because he knows who Ellen is because they've met.

And on top of signing the real estate documents, he brings out this other document that's in the ancient writing of his forefathers, as he likes to say, and tells him to sign that as well, not realizing that per Nosferatu, this document is going to rescind Thomas' marriage to Ellen, to make it official for a bag of gold that he gives him, making it seem that to Thomas that the bag of gold is his commission for the property that he sells, when in reality Nosferatu is saying, you are selling your wife back to me for this bag of gold.

And then he uses that against him when he confronts Ellen later in the movie to tell her that, to tell her that your husband sold you back to me for a bag of gold.

He's just a greedy, selfish human.

He doesn't care about you.

He cares more about money.

He even signed you off to me in this document that I have for a bag of gold, which, you know, he didn't know what he was signing because he couldn't read the words on the paper.

So this movie tries to flesh out the plot of the original Nosferatu, make it make more sense than the original movie made to explain why she has these spells, so because they've met already.

And unlike the original film, Professor, what's his name again?

Professor Albin Eberhardt von Franz, played by Willem Dafoe.

He's a big study of the occult, to the point that he was no longer taking series in the academic fields, and he has since been banished from institutions of higher learning.

And so he keeps to himself in his domicile with cats and his books on the occult.

But he understands what's going on with Ellen, with her spells.

And so he helps Hutter, Friedrich Harding, and Dr.

Sievers to find out what's going on.

Because also, ever since Thomas Hutter left for Professor Orlach, his boss, Nock, disappeared.

And they go into his abandoned offices and they find this little hidden altar behind the cabinets, and also this book with these ancient writings, explaining all about Nosferatu's and whatnot.

And in that book, Professor Albin Eberhard von Frantz sees that the only way to kill this Nosferatu is the same plot of the original movie, which is, you need a fair maiden to entance, not enhance, to entrance, to entrance the Nosferatu and keep him from going to his sacred soil before the first cock crow.

And so, once again, that is what happens.

So, oh yeah, Orlak, you know, now that he moves to this town, he of course meets up with Ellen and warns her, I'm giving you three nights to finally give yourself back to me.

And if you don't, you are going to see everyone you love and care about die.

And he starts by killing off her best friend, Anna Harding.

Well, no, first he gets her, he makes her sick.

And of course, naturally her husband, who refuses to see the superstition, just thinks it's just a plague going on because she got bitten by rats.

Not realizing that that's Orlak's familiars.

He comes, wherever he goes, he sends his rats out to do to pass the, to spread the plague among the land that he's trying to dominate.

So yeah, Friedrich Harding refuses to see.

In this case, he doesn't think it's reason.

It's just your superstitious nonsense.

It's not science.

It's not logical.

But anyways, he warns Ellen and Ellen, of course, is like, No, I'm not going to go to you.

I am devoted to my husband.

So the next night, he then goes back to Friedrich's house, puts him to sleep with a spell, and then goes off and kills their kids.

In this film, they have kids.

So he kills off the kids first.

Anna Harding was able to startle away because he heard the screaming of her kids.

And when she by the time she reaches the bedroom, it's too late.

He went and killed them.

And then he kills her.

So now Friedrich is without family.

All his everything he loves is gone.

His kids and his wife are dead because he refused to believe that Orlach is the demon, so to speak, that's causing all this suffering in the land.

But anyways, Professor Albin Eberhard von Franz knows that Ellen is the answer.

And Ellen, of course, speaks to him in confidence.

So they concoct the plan.

While they go to his property to kill him off in the...

And so in the original, it's just you're going to get...

You're going to sell this deserted house across from you to Orlach.

In the remake, it's a ruin of a mansion called the Grunwald Manor, which is...

And it's further away.

It's further deep in town.

The only way to get to it is via a canal.

But of course, Orlach can fly, apparently, or transport from one place to another.

Sorry, teleport.

You don't actually see it happening.

It just does.

All of a sudden, he's at his castle.

Next minute, he's across the town.

He's across town trying to get Ellen to submit to him.

So anyway, as Dr.

Sievers, Thomas Harding, and Professor Albin Eberhart von Frantz head over to the Grunwald Manor.

Ellen opens her windows and says, Orlach, come to me.

I'm yours.

I finally submit.

So he shows up to her place.

She's wearing her wedding dress and submits.

And of course, he proceeds with the blood sucking.

And he's had his full, but he wants to...

And so as he's getting ready to leave, she clasps her hand on his scalp and says, No, more.

Drink more.

And holds him in a passionate embrace.

As he continues, you know, she's naked, she's topless, and he's having his way with her.

And continues to suck up the blood until the sun comes up, the first cock crows, sun comes up, and he dies on top of her, and she dies as well.

And that is how the remake ends.

So similar ending.

The difference, of course, is in the black and white film, he just completely disintegrates to dust, and she dies.

Whereas, in here, it's a little more graphic, cause she's naked, and you actually see him sucking the blood.

Back then, I guess they didn't have the technology to really showcase blood sucking.

They just had him in the dark over the actress that played Ellen in the black and white film, until the sun came out, and then he just disappears into dust.

And here, you see him burning up a little bit, and then laying on top of him with a very disintegrating corpse on top of her.

And that is how the new Nosferatu film ends.

So yeah, that's Nosferatu 2024, in comparison to the classic film of 1922.

And yeah, I mean, I thought it was great.

It was well done.

I immediately saw the similarities of Dracula and why the Stoker estate sued them.

I don't know why the Stoker estate didn't bother to give them the rights to make the movie.

I guess at the time, movies weren't taken as serious works of art, maybe.

And maybe the estate thought that a movie of it would cheapen the classic work that was Rand Stoker's Dracula.

But once Nosferatu came across the land and became a big hit, I guess they finally gave in and allowed Bela Lugosi's Dracula to come out, which came out in, what was it again?

I think it was 1932, 1931.

That's when it came out.

So nine years later, the Bela Lugosi version of Dracula was made.

So that's all I have to say about Nosferatu.

The one other thing that I found cool, which I mean, it's a ripoff of Dracula.

So naturally, it's going to mirror a lot of the symbolism and metaphors, though in Nosferatu's case, they really hit it hard.

And that is the symbolism of the plague, you know, because I'm sure around that time, there were a lot of plagues happening.

And of course, it's because hygiene was bad in those days and they didn't have a proper sewage system.

And especially in the poor parts of town, where you have, you know, horse droppings everywhere and just sewage water everywhere.

And again, no hygiene.

People didn't take baths on a regular basis.

And most, they took baths like once a year or some nonsense like that.

Hence the old, that old phrasing, don't throw the baby out with the bath water, because by the time the baby's getting cleaned, the water's black with grime from the previous people that took a bath before them.

So don't throw the bath, don't throw the baby out with the bath water, is a saying that comes from that time period, you know, the Middle Ages and the Victorian era.

So yeah, not having hygiene and having plagues happen because of it, Nosferatu definitely hits it hard because of all the rats that are all over the town when Nosferatu comes through and killing off everyone with the plague and so on.

So I like, I kind of like that metaphor of the plague being symbolized through Count Orlok.

And of course, it was the same with Dracula in the novel, on top of promiscuity and other symbol, other metaphors and things and themes that I'm not really going to get into because the main ones with Nosferatu was, well, lusting after someone's wife.

And of course, and the plague are the two big ones in Nosferatu.

But yeah, I enjoyed it very well.

It made me, it compelled me to watch the original, to see the differences, which I've hopefully properly showcased here in this, in my rambling manner.

And of course, give you a little bit of history as to how it's possible, how real close it was to, for this movie to cease to exist in the annals of history.

But because of one copy that made it across to the US, where Dracula was public domain, and therefore free to grow and prosper, we come to today where they were able to remake it.

And of course, ever since then make different, so many versions of Dracula, as well as other vampire films that were inspired by both Nosferatu and of course, the novel that is Dracula.

And that wraps up the show.

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