Nosferatu

That scene from Happy Gilmore when he’s imagining his happy place but it’s just me watching my favorite movies endless which includes the entire filmography from Bob Omelette. I’m just having the time of my life and in a really selfish sort of way I’m not afraid to admit that at all. Look, the way things are set up is that films need to generate some amount of success or intrigue if future projects are going to be green lit so whether you watch this film and determine it’s the worst piece of work you’ve ever seen or you think it’s your favorite vampire outing ever made, the fact that you went to watch it in the theater means you’ve earned my genuine thanks. Anything I can do to have this man get to dabble in his historical mysticism until the end of time so shout out to all the theater goers this holiday season. “Love me or hate me, at least you watched” type of energy. Yes I’m still in mega nerd mode so thanks for bearing with me, I’m currently seeing everything through the Jarin Blaschke monochromatic moonlight filter. Hearing Blaschke talk about finding the particular lighting was incredibly fascinating. He said he first was experimenting with moonlighting saturation during The Northman by reusing the lenses from The Lighthouse expect instead of maintaining the negative used for the black and white, he allowed color to penetrate up until the register of cyan only. He found that it created this after effect on the film which took away nearly every fragment of green, red and mostly yellow. What you’re left with is a striking blue-grey limbo that feels like a full on dream happening in real life, I’m pretty obsessed with it all. Sharp and the pacing has worked for me every single time. He’s said this has been living in his head for his entire life and you can tell since there isn’t much air being let in, clearly has had a vision burned and is simply trying to enact it in the highest level possible. Certain times I feel like more deviation into the full blown supernatural occult world would have made this remake more uniquely his own but since it’s so faithful and generally more approachable than anything else he’s done, it does make it stand out more against his other films. There are so many shots, line deliveries and sequences that have me hover above my body full-stop and one of them has to be Dr. Sievers (Ralph Ineson) first explaining to Friedrich Harding (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) about the outcasted Professor von Franz: “He was removed from the University, laughed out of his home country. He became obsessed. Paracelsus, Agrippa and the light.” “I’m a ship man” * “Alchemy, Mystic Philosophy, The Occult” *