yr11_weimar_cinema_nosferatu

=Nosferatu=

Welcome to the cinema, ladies and gentlemen! It is about now that you should begin to start to feel a sense of dread as you walk through these huge, metal doors.....nosferatu

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As you are watching this film, keep this hidden meaning of //Nosferatu// stored safely in the back of your head: unintentionally, //Nosferatu// represents Count Orlok in a way that mirrors Nazi representations of Jews.

As you gob a mouthful of popcorn and slurp a glug of coca-cola, the thrilling, all-time classic "Nosferatu" will be shown right before your eyes. A word of advice: ensure that half of your tub of popcorn has been consumed, for the horrifying scenes are bound to make one jump!

 media type="youtube" key="sMl6hUZHBqY&hl=en&fs=1" height="344" width="425" //Nosferatu: A symphony of horror// was made by F.W Murnau and stars Max Schreck who plays the leading role – Count Orlok. The German Expressionist film was shot last year, in 1921 and was released only months ago. One could argue that the film is a copy of the all time classic “Dracula”. Nosferatu was nevertheless published seeing as character’s names and smaller insignificances had been changed (despite the plot remaining nearly identical). Bram Stocker's (the author of Dracula) widow, Florence Balcombe, spotted the similarity and therefore sued the filmmakers and in 1925 all prints were ordered to be destroyed. Thankfully the copy you are about to watch survived.

Hold on to your seats, as I give you a brief overview of the film's plot! :  Thomas Hutter is an employee at an estate firm in Wisborg, Germany and is happily living with his wife. One day, his employer, Knock, receives a mysterious letter written in strange symbols. Knock decides to send Hutter to visit Count Orlok in the Carpathian Mountains to finalize the sale of a house. Once Hutter has nearly reached his destination, he boards at an inn where locals become frightened at the mere mention of Orlok's name, and attempt to discourage him from visiting his castle. Hutter is left to finish his journey on foot after his driver refuses to cross the bridge to the castle. After being picked up by Count Orlok’s coach, he is welcomed by grotesque-faced Orlok whose features are hidden by a hat. At midnight a bell rings. Only seconds after, Hutter coincidently cuts his thumb. Count Orlok tries to suck the wound but is repelled by a cross hung on Hutter’s neck. After waking up having discovered fresh wounds (thought to have been caused by mosquitoes) on his neck, Hutter reads ‘the book of the vampires’ and senses that Orlok is Nosferatu. At midnight chimes, Orlok enters Hutter’s deliberately closed room. Hutter’s wife is found sleepwalking and in a comatose state, distracting Orlok from harming Hutter. As coffins are shipped down the river a pretrified Hutter attempts to flee the castle via the window, failing miserably as he falls to the ground and is knocked unconscious. Meanwhile Hutter’s employer, Knock has escaped from his confinement cell in a psychiatric ward after being admitted for biting his doctor and eating insects. Hutter warns his town against Count Orlok. He is too late as rat and soil-infested coffins arrive in Wisborg the following morning. As the ship is inspected a dead captain is found with wounds on his neck. Doctors discover that the town will soon be ridden with the plague and residents start to panic. Despite Hutter's forbidding, his wife reads a book on vampires. She learns how to kill a vampire: a woman pure in heart must make him forget the rooster's first crowing. The town is flooded with corpses and its people chase Knock, mistaking him for a vampire. Orlok stares at the sleeping Ellen. She opens her window to invite him in but faints. As Hutter leaves to get help, Orlok enters and drinks her blood, forgetting about the dawning day. A rooster crows and Orlok goes up in smoke as he tries to escape. The last image of the movie is Orlok's castle in the Carpathian Mountains.

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