Nosferatu
Warning : This article contains spoiler for Nosferatu ( 2024 )
Although some ofNosferatu ’s change to the original Dracula story come from its 1922 predecessor , some of director Robert Eggers ’ change figure out to strengthen the story of Lily - Rose Depp ’s eccentric Ellen . There are many differences between 2024’sNosferatuand 1922’sNosferatu : A Symphony of Horror , and even more differences between Bram Stoker ’s original novelDraculaand this late , liberal adaptation . The setting of the novel is updated to Germany , and manager Robert Eggers ’ 2024 remake substantially fleshes out the cast of type put in in the brusk , less complex plot ofNosferatu : A Symphony of Horror .
Horror maven Robert Eggers return with his twist on the Hellenic film , Nosferatu , and here are a ton of terrifying detail about the remaking .
However , not all ofNosferatu ’s changes serve to perplex the source tale . eggar ’ movie blends two case fromDracula , Mr. Hawkins and Renfield , into one to make the story flow smoother . Herr Knock is both the agonist ’s employer and the vampire scoundrel ’s devoted handmaiden , which makes him an altogether scarier and more cohesive character than the original Renfield . Similarly , Eggers changesCount Orlok ’s appearance inNosferatusince , as he noted in an interview withVariety , Transylvanian noblemen of his earned run average would never have been get wind without a mustache .
Nosferatu Turns Dracula’s Lucy Westenra Into Anna Harding
Emma Corrin’s Character Drops Much Of What Defined Lucy
These changes makeNosferatufeel more frozen in historical reality and make the tale run smoother , but some other change also improve the character electric arc of the movie ’s protagonists . Nosferatuturns Dracula ’s individual patronize character , Lucy Westenra , into Emma Corrin ’s married mother Anna Harding , thus changing the role of Lucy ’s three suitor who make up the novel ’s supporting cast . In this retelling , it is Lily - Rose Depp ’s Ellen who falls inauspicious and fight with her sanity after Count Orlok arrives in her state . In the novel , this fate bechance Lucy , and Ellen ’s counterpart , Mina Harker , is n’t bitten until much afterward .
These change basically alter the direction Ellen ’s agency is depicted in the text . InDracula , Lucy ’s playful flirt with a trio of suitors is punish horribly when she is slowly kill by Dracula , turned into an undead vampire , and eventually staked by her heartbroken fiancée . Nosferatu2024 changesDracula ’s storysubstantially , but perhaps the most notable revision is in the fates of Anna and Ellen . As Lucy’sNosferatuequivalent , Anna is killed off - screen by Count Orlok after he bewitch her husband so he wo n’t wake up and then mangle their baby .
Nosferatu Dropping Lucy Makes Ellen’s Role Clearer
Ellen’s Agency Over Her Sexuality Overlaps With Lucy’s Role
Anna ’s death is brutal , but it is n’t tied to her intimate agency in the same manner as Lucy ’s fate in the novel . likewise , when Mina is praised for holding on to her skunk and resisting Dracula ’s temptingness in the novel , Ellen eventually offer up herself to the vampire to economize her city . Ellen has more control over her sexual agency and a drear past than her book counterpart Mina , having first bump Count Orlok yr before she met her husband . Harding ’s traditional role as a doting female parent create an even gravid contrast between them .
Where Lucy ’s love life of male attention is clear punished in the novel by her visit from Dracula , Ellen ’s part inNosferatuis more complex .
Anna ’s husband kick about Ellen ’s headstrong conduct and free-spoken nature legion times , and he is distinctly uncomfortable with the scene she suffers as Orlok grows closer . However , where Lucy ’s dear of male tending is clearly penalise in the novel by her sojourn from Dracula , Ellen ’s theatrical role inNosferatuis more complex . Nosferatu ’s Ellenunderstands that there is some variety of link between her and Orlok and that he is somehow unspeakably bond to her nature , and her conclusion to finally allow him to take her lifetime so she can make unnecessary the urban center from his pest is a heroic forfeiture .
Nosferatu’s New Ending Riffs On Lucy Westenra’s Dracula Fate
Bram Stoker’s Novel Ends With Mina Alive And Lucy Dead
InNosferatu , Anna and Ellen both give-up the ghost , butEllen sacrifice herself to save the metropolis . While Lucy unknowingly invites Dracula to belt down her , Ellen intentionally does this to destroy him . The competition and late conciliation between Lucy ’s suitors in the novel and earlier adaptation is fishy and strangely moving , but losing this camraderie is a pocket-sized toll to pay for a plot alteration that makes Ellen a more ego - conduce protagonist and offers a more complex , compelling depiction of the narration ’s female characters .
Ellen chooses to die so that others can live .
In both2024’sNosferatuandDracula , major female characters are met with end as a event of their encounters with Count Orlok and Dracula respectively . However , Ellen chooses to cash in one’s chips so that others can live and ends up becoming something of a sainted figure in the movie ’s desolate ending . In contrast , Lucy is punished for her indirect request to harbour more than one suer and ends up becoming an early instance of sexually useable distaff character being suffer with last in horror media as a result of their attitudes . Thus , Nosferatu ’s changes to Lucy make the movie ’s narrative more complex .
Nosferatuis presently playing in theaters .
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