#given that it's all in weirdly-colored frames and occasionally more impressionist painting than film-accurate
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nosferatu is a beautiful movie, amazing choices by everyone involved---except the main actors. they were terrible.
#I know uta hagen won't be around for another thirty years or so but stanislavski was doing good stuff in the early 1900s!#where was that naturalism!! come on!!!#instead I believed everybody was exactly who they said they were except hutter ellen and orlok#(though some of the supporting cast were treading dangerous territory too....)#apart from that...I cannot stress how unexpectedly beautiful the movie was. really.#given that it's all in weirdly-colored frames and occasionally more impressionist painting than film-accurate#it is strangely and devastatingly effective.#some of its imagery lingers even now. for example:#there's a whole section where you're flickering between the increasingly-desperate demeter; jonathon riding hell for leather#trying to beat dracula to england; mina wasting away; and renfield growing increasingly agitated in his cell#it's important to know: these flickering images are wordless. they are silent.#they are also incredibly effective and beautiful.#every shot of the ship at sea was lovely. the crowd scenes were lovely!#the actors were awful. the end.#a proscenium for our dreams
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