#ellen from nosferatu..

[gabitzart]

Nice stache bro

[wulfhalls]

ok romance

[the-crooked-library]

i think i've mentioned it before in passing but it still fucks me up how Orlok is a physical manifestation of every "wrong and sinful" desire that Ellen tries to repress, as well as the panic that is associated with them.

the first sexual urges of her puberty (he claims her "ever-eternally"). the desire to dominate her husband (he dominates Thomas at the castle, demanding the subservience she never could). her queerness (he drinks from Anna, long and deep, and destroys Harding's family). the desperate longing for companionship, regardless of how dark and abnormal she believes herself to be (he answers her call from miles away, crosses an ocean for her, wants her, wants her, wants her - but she cannot imagine being wanted without repercussions, and so he brings the plague with him, a punishment for the sin of receiving what she craves).

Ellen is a mess of crushing guilt. she only ever sees ugliness in herself and i think it's so compelling to see her being desired above all else - not despite, but because of that ugliness, y'know?..

[borgialucrezia]

"I place my utter faith in you. I love you."

ELLEN HUTTER & THOMAS HUTTER NOSFERATU (2024) — written & directed by Robert Eggers

[alpacinosgf]

[itsmeimcathy]

hannibal (2001) by ridley scott | nosferatu (2024) by robert eggers | vita nova, III (13th century) by dante alighieri | the song of despair by pablo neruda | the carnivorous lamb by agustìn gomez arcos | a mother, a daughter, a door by tathève simonyan

[is-it-bussin-hannibal]

growing more powerful everyday

[avpol]

Ellen

[inogart]

Arun/Amadeo/Armand as Ellen in Nosferatu

[graciepasty]

Nosferatu. Dir. Robbert Eggers (2024).

[paiawon]

"looks at her longingly" "like a kitten" "god is with us" "watches her, yearning" oh okay! i'm normal!

[like-tears-in-rain-storms]

That scene in Nosferatu of them meeting in the flesh for the first time though......The absolute crisp tension of their dialogue, the perfect rhythm of their dialogue...Depp and Skarsgard killed it, they deserve the world for that scene alone. Him calling her "my affliction", her calling him "a villain to speak so", her asserting fearlessly he can't love and him admitting it without sugarcoating but asserting back that nothing can sate him but her.....her breathing "I abhor you" a breath away from his lips, him getting enraged and going full fairytale mode on her "THREE NIGHT I WILL COME TO YOU - TONIGHT WAS THE FIRST, TONIGHT YOU DENIED ME"........the gothic romance there is unreal. Perfection.

[garlandedspirits]

Nosferatu (2024) dir. Robert Eggers // Rosalie Julie von Bonar (1840) by Joseph Karl Stieler // Empress Elisabeth of Austria in Courtly Gala Dress with Diamond Stars (1865) by Franz Xaver Winterhalter

[the-crooked-library]

another Nosferatu detail that I personally consider delightful is that, toward the end of the movie, when Von Franz tells Ellen she could've been a great priestess in another age, the specific example he uses is a "priestess of Isis."

Isis, in Ancient Egyptian myth, is known for having reassembled her murdered husband Osiris from scattered body parts, reviving him (and making him the first mummy) as king of the afterlife.

Adding to that the lilacs, symbolizing rebirth, and a bright new dawn - I must admit, I struggle to understand the people who think that the finale is so simple as to exist within the limitations of single, tragic interpretation. It's not.

Death is also a beginning.

[suppenzeit]

ellen rescues a normal cat

[twoplayer-game]

he took her to his penthouse and he freaked it