I have watched three vampire-related movies "Nosferatu", "Nosferatu: Ghosts of the Night", and "Four Hundred Years of Fright" all about the real estate staff being commissioned by the vampire earl to handle a business. The story produced by the earl’s castle. The plot inside is very similar. The hero's colleague is always driven by the earl into a mental asylum, and the hero's lover can always have emotional problems with the earl. The reason why the plots are similar is that they are all based on the original novel of "Dracula", but the earliest version, which was shot by Mornau in 1922, did not buy the copyright of the original. In order to have no copyright issue, the morality inside Gula is not called Dracula, and Van Helsing is not called Van Helsing. They changed their names. But these three versions are worthy of comparison. Of course, they are not the best version of Dracula, because the makeup of Dracula’s role is too much, and the effect of makeup is regarded as the actor’s acting skills. It is a layman's behavior, and the styles of the three movies are very different, and the requirements for the actors are also different, so the pros and cons of the performance are not discussed.
Murnau made works like "Nosferatu" in 1922, which is indeed amazing. The most influential thing is that the clip shows some strange creatures similar to the flytrap to connect with the supernatural. In such early horror films, you can already see some basic characteristics of horror films. This feature is that they are unnatural. Unnatural things are often horrible. Why is "The Shining" great because "The Shining" is in use Steadicam’s method of following unnatural camera movements like long shots creates a sense of horror. When filming the vampire lying on the window in this film, the window is a tic-tac-toe nine-square grid. This geometric shape is an unnatural feeling. In the remake of Herzog, the windows of the room where the hero lived in the castle are all broken, and the feeling of unnaturalness is quite strong. The more famous "Frightening Four Hundred Years" has little to do with horror. It is more of a love story. It uses a lot of dissolving to create a dreamy feeling, but I personally don't like "Frightening Four Hundred Years". Although there are big names like Gary Oldman, Winona Reid, Anthony Hopkins, Keanu Reeves, Coppola’s audiovisual language is not unsightly, but the love inside is a bit far-fetched. , The love between the vampire and the heroine is given by the hard setting that the heroine is the reincarnation of the vampire lover in the previous life, rather than the arc of the character that two people automatically fall in love with.
And my favorite is "Nosferatu: The Ghost of the Night", which is Herzog's remake of Murnau's "Nosferatu", which also includes Ajani and the young ones. "Head of State" Bruno Gantz, this remake is in line with my expectations. It is to give the story a sense of reality. What I am more impressed is that when the actor cuts his hands and bleeds, Dracula wants to lick the blood of the actor, and the actor Avoid, here the lens changes from a fixed lens to a handheld lens with the movement of the actor. From fixed to handheld, not only can the psychology of the character become flustered, but the handheld lens also enhances the sense of reality, which is conducive to the performance of horror. A great feature of "Nosferatu: Ghosts of the Night" is the use of long shots. The sense of realism and inescapability produced by the long shots greatly increases the atmosphere of horror. The characters are in the same position as Dracula. One lens, and the lens does not switch. The unknown brought by this long lens is very helpful to the sense of horror. Unlike the other two versions of the movie, the protagonist is still a normal person after leaving the castle. In this movie, the protagonist finally turns into a vampire. Another feature in the movie is that most people in the movie do not actually recognize the existence of vampires, but regard the disaster brought by Dracula as a plague, and when the "plague" is irreversible, people simply give up hope Carnival in the streets, this kind of apocalyptic creation is still very interesting.
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