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Nosferatu (Eggers 2024)
The film is gorgeous. It is well acted. Unfortunately, Eggers seems to be moving toward the strain of modern horror directors who are style without substance. And or sytle without ethical substance. Eggers appears to be willing to stray from Stoker’s book as well as from the 1922 classic version by Murnau. However, the changes he makes are at best socially stagnant. He arguably relegates women to foils for men characters, or arguably regressive, stripping away the queer coding of Murnau’s version. So while his attention to appearance, acting, and in this case language is impressive, it makes the lack of consideration of the messaging of the film even more disappointing.
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Nosferatu (Eggers 2024)
TOPIC INDEX – Nosferatu (Eggers 2024) (times are approximate)
0:30 – Introductions
2:45 – Film discussion begins
3:30 – overall thoughts on the film
9:00 – SPOILERS section begins
12:30 – opening scene
27:00 – an alternative film that isn’t regressive
29:00 – gendered nudity and sexuality
34:00 – sociology moment – Clover on gendered portrayal of possession
38:00 – queer uncoded
45:15 – 47:30 – SPOILERS for The Witch
49:00 – trend of anti-women, anti-science within the genre?
1:00:30 – comparison to X
1:05:00 – grading the film using the Collective Nightmares Evolving Rubric of Social Responsibility
1:11:00 – SPOILER for Werewolves (Miller 2024)
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