Nosferatu

Nosferatu The film Nosferatu was made in 1921 by director F.W. Murnau in an era before recorded sound. With its simple and sparse language, and exaggerated characters, you could see the movie as being unwatchable, or even ridiculous. It seems as though its hundreds of years old, made by our ancient ancestors. But in fact, Nosferatu may have been ahead of its time. For example, the character Nina seemed deeper than most would interpret. On the surface she appears very melancholy and melodramatic, but perhaps she is just very wise. She finds pleasure in the simplest things: sewing, playing with a cat, but when she’s given a bouquet of flowers, she seems saddened by the fact that they will soon die. She wears black from the day her husband leaves, as if she is mourning a death she knows will come. Also, Nina walks on her toes, which would be an odd thing to see in a movie today. But in a film with very little dialogue, it may have been the director’s way of portraying her as an ungrounded person. When most directors might have settled for a typical film, Murnau managed to use nosferatu, very, time, film, made, neck, murnau, movie, little, fact, being, been, today, skin, seems, nina, makeup, itself, example, erotic, characters, bitten, 1921, years, wonderful, woman, without, wise, white, wears, wearing, way, washes, walks, wakes