Max Schreck and his sinister figure left a unique and unforgettable imprint in the world of celluloid.His "Nosferatu" continues to terrify us today in an inexplicable way, surely for his spectral silhouette and for his expression halfway between the supernatural and the atavico.By those hands of bony fingers and, above all, by the mastery of a director: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau , which in 1922 brought us a unique cinematographic piece of German expressionism, which intermingles diverse and dark aspects that are worth remembering.
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«Nosferatu» the story of a unique shoot
« Nosferatu: Eine Simphonie des Grauens » was shot in 1922 under the wake of the supernatur al in many of its nuances.To begin with, it was produced by the occultist lodge "Fraternitas Saturni". Perhaps because of this and the shocking burden of its protagonist, it has remained so strongly throughout of time, serving as inspiration to several later films such as "The Shadow of the Vampire" by E.Elias Merhige (2000).In the latter he delved a little deeper into those strange details that built the legend of the Murfe Nosferatu and, especially , in that peculiar actor called Max Schreck.
The plot of the movie was simple but effective.In it we know Count Orlok, an inhuman and spectral being who brings plague and death wherever he goes.Especially to the city of Bremen, where the story takes place.The Count is a vampire.A vampire with rodent expression and claws on the hands, whose strength and impact manages to cross the screen.The script shared an obvious resemblance to the original story of Dracula de Bram Stocker : Thomas Hutter works at a real estate company in Germany.abandon his placid life and his wife to travel to the Carpathians and close the sale of a Wisborg property with the sinister Count Orlock.
Upon arriving at the town where the count lives, the young lawyer witnesses the dread of all the neighbors.Something that he checks in person when he has that creature before him, that sinister being who comes to suck the blood by cradling, casually, cuts a finger.In essence, the plot resembled in many ways the novel original Something that caused or serious legal problems and a lawsuit by the widow of Bram Stocker, who obviously won.
What was the result? The court ordered all the tapes of Nosferatu. to be destroyed.Fortunately, about five copies were stored that were distributed worldwide and kept until Stocker's widow died.the time more copies were made that were projected with poor quality, but that allowed the legend to grow and grow until in 1984, during the Berlin Festival , the most faithful version of ' Nosferatu, a symphony of horror '.
Who saw it for the first time, either during the 30s-with those hidden copies-or through the final assembly of In the 80s, he was immediately struck by the darkness of the tape, by the shadows and by these natural scenarios, which in some way moved away from the more classical German expressionism.
The Nosferatu de Murnau It was different: more vivid, more physical and with plans inspired by romantic paintings icas.Although the most notable was that vampire who simply seemed to leave the screen because of his realism.But...who was Max Schreck really?
Max Schreck, the authentic Nosferatu
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