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Nosferatu

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Nosferatu	comment	Nosferatu (rarely used full title: Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauensnote English: Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror) is a German silent horror film and the first known surviving vampire movie, released in 1922. Director F. W. Murnau cast Max Schreck as Count Orlok, with the veteran character actor wearing a costume that left him bald, with huge pointed ears and long sharp fangs... In short, one of the most frightening characters in film history. This movie is also notable for influencing the cinematic depiction of the idea that vampires can be killed by sunlight.Nosferatu was originally intended to be a direct adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, but Stoker's widow, who owned the copyright, refused permission. So Murnau and his team changed the characters' names, note Some later English-language prints "restore" the character names to their Dracula originals. simplified the plot, and tried to pass Nosferatu off as an original story â€“ though the original opening credits still acknowledge the story as being "freely adapted" from Stoker's novel.It didn't work. The production company was forced to declare bankruptcy to avoid paying royalties to Stoker's estate for copyright infringement. All copies were supposed to be destroyed, but a Keep Circulating the Tapes mentality among fans kept it from being lost. (Pre-digital film piracy? It's Older than You Think.) We, too, can see the greatness of Murnau's vision.The film entered the Public Domain in 2019; consequently, it may be viewed in its entirety on YouTube. A re-scored version with Progressive Rock music by Isaac Baranoff can be viewed online. In 2017, a version called Nosferatu: The Non Silent Film was created by Brazilian agency AlmapBBDO and Punch Audio, which not only re-scores the film but also layers on sound effects and voice clips from Getty Images' massive audio library (a trailer can be seen here).In 1979, Werner Herzog wrote and directed Nosferatu the Vampyre (German title: Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht), a re-adaptation of Dracula heavily influenced by Murnau's iconic visuals and streamlined plot. Klaus Kinski played the title role (now back to the name "Dracula"), and Herzog's film is considered by many to be as good as if not better than the original. Kinski would return for the 1988 sort-of-sequel Nosferatu in Venice.Another remake, directed by Robert Eggers, wrapped filming in 2023. Bill SkarsgÃ¥rd stars as Orlok, with an ensemble supporting cast that includes Nicholas Hoult, Lily-Rose Depp, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Ralph Ineson, Simon McBurney and Willem Dafoe.There are a number of myths about the film, and particularly its star. Firstly, it was Max Schreck in the title role, not an unknown or Alfred Abel under a pseudonym. It was also not Max Schreck's only role; he appeared in over 20 films and hundreds of stage productions, all in Germany. For that matter, it wasn't even Schreck's only role for Murnau, as the two collaborated again on Die Finanzen des Grossherzogs two years later. E. Elias Merhige utilized many of these myths to craft the 2000 film Shadow of the Vampire, which portrays Schreck (played by Willem Dafoe) as an actual vampire. It also takes inspiration for its depiction of the relationship of "Murnau" and "Schreck", not from the real Murnau and Schreck,note Schreck was no method actor and according to production accounts, was totally normal and friendly off-camera - which somehow made it even stranger, since he had to remain in his Orlok makeup! but from the famously insane and violent relationship between Herzog and Kinski.Nosferatu is also sometimes listed in reference books as The Twelfth Hour due to an unauthorized sound version released the early '30s; this was never an official title for Murnau's version (see Trivia page for details).
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Nosferatu / int_119ea1fd	type	Stop Motion
Nosferatu / int_119ea1fd	comment	Stop Motion: Used in a deliberately crude manner for scenes of Orlok's carriage ride and other shots in which Orlok is moving around. This results in a creepy, unnatural effect befitting a ghastly monster.
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Nosferatu / int_18729bf8	type	Swarm of Rats
Nosferatu / int_18729bf8	comment	Swarm of Rats: Orlok brings them with him aboard his ship. This is played up in the remake, where Orlok had a lot more rats.
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Nosferatu / int_1b122c5d	type	Scare Chord
Nosferatu / int_1b122c5d	comment	Most modern releases of the movie come with two soundtracks: A conventional period orchestra score, and an organ score. On paper, this sounds like a great idea, due to the instrument's association with vampires, and it fitting the theatrical nature of silent films. The problem lies with the fact that 75% of the soundtrack consists of extremely dissonant Scare Chords played at full volume, often times with Yes-esque baroque arpeggios. This works well in actually scary moments, when the music progression is natural and unexpected. However, when mundane or even happy moments are scored in the exact way, it not only leads to mood dissonance, but it actually nullifies the scare impact of the music, as most listeners will just grow fatigued of it.
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Nosferatu / int_1d5786ff	type	Looks Like Orlok
Nosferatu / int_1d5786ff	comment	Looks Like Orlok: Trope Namer. Quite a contrast to the suave, attractive vampires that make up so much of the rest of vampire fiction (and a bit of a diversion from the old cranky man that Dracula himself started out as).
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Nosferatu / int_1edfa2c7	type	Royals Who Actually Do Something
Nosferatu / int_1edfa2c7	comment	Royals Who Actually Do Something: Count Orlok is shown loading his coffins onto a horse-drawn wagon by himself (whereas Count Dracula had hired a caravan of Romani to do this this in the book and the 1992 film). He's even shown carrying his coffin to his new home later on. Of course, the absence of any noticeable servants at his residence should be some cause for concern on Hutter's part, if the innkeeper's warnings and the Count's appearance hadn't already been.
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Nosferatu / int_22793d67	type	Terrifying Pet Store Rat
Nosferatu / int_22793d67	comment	Terrifying Pet Store Rat: The Swarm of Rats includes several of the hooded (dark head, white body) variety, which is a domesticated strain of rat.
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Nosferatu / int_28114487	type	Bald of Evil
Nosferatu / int_28114487	comment	Bald of Evil: Orlok is completely bald except for tufts of hair directly over his ears. Combined with his huge eyebrows, pointy ears, hooked nose and bulging eyes, it makes for a singularly horrific and inhuman image.
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Nosferatu / int_2854b56d	type	Uncertain Doom
Nosferatu / int_2854b56d	comment	Uncertain Doom: The crew member who jumps overboard to escape Orlok. We don't know if he drowned or stayed afloat long enough to reach land or be rescued by another ship, though the first option seems more likely.
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Nosferatu / int_2ae7bc4b	type	Captain Oblivious
Nosferatu / int_2ae7bc4b	comment	Captain Oblivious: It takes Hutter entirely too long to figure out that the ghoulish figure with sharp talons and giant fangs who wants to suck the blood out of his finger might not exactly be the safest guy around.
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Nosferatu / int_2dc35926	type	Ghost Ship
Nosferatu / int_2dc35926	comment	Ghost Ship: The one Orlok takes to Germany becomes one of these when it pulls into port because of him whittling down the crew.
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Nosferatu / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
Nosferatu / int_33d5b7f2	comment	The film's equivalents of Van Helsing, Holmwood and Seward only appear in scenes that do not relate to the overall plot, and they never learn that Orlok is a vampire. However, they're better off than Quincy, who doesnâ€™t have a counterpart at all. Annie is often viewed as Lucy's counterpart. One English copy of the film even calls her as such.
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Nosferatu / int_3fb4b1cb	type	The Renfield
Nosferatu / int_3fb4b1cb	comment	The Renfield: Knock, who was already under Orlok's control before the start of the film.
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Nosferatu / int_40b98588	type	Adaptational Location Change
Nosferatu / int_40b98588	comment	Adaptational Location Change: The vampire chooses the German city of Wisborg for his new home base rather than London as in Stoker's novel.
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Nosferatu / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Nosferatu / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: While Ellen's plan to destroy Orlok works, as he forgets about the sunrise while attacking her, she ultimately dies stopping him.
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Nosferatu / int_434a6d40	type	Evil Sorcerer
Nosferatu / int_434a6d40	comment	Evil Sorcerer: Orlok apparently can become noncorporal at will to get through locked doors.
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Nosferatu / int_4560b6bb	type	Gag Nose
Nosferatu / int_4560b6bb	comment	Gag Nose: Orlok has a very long and beaked nose.
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Nosferatu / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
Nosferatu / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: In Dracula, Mina survives. In this film, Ellen sacrifices her life to destroy Orlok.
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Nosferatu / int_4f247a69	type	Adaptational Ugliness
Nosferatu / int_4f247a69	comment	Adaptational Ugliness: While Dracula wasn't all that attractive in the original novel, he at least looked relatively normal. Orlok, on the other hand, looks like the plague-bearing monster he really is.
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Nosferatu / int_5663a595	type	Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole
Nosferatu / int_5663a595	comment	Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole: In the book, Dracula travels from Romania to England by stowing away on a ship, where he gradually picks off the crew. The movie keeps this plot point, but changes Orlok's and the crew's route to instead be from Romania to Germany, raising the question of why they were travelling by sea in the first place.
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Nosferatu / int_56b8b4f1	type	Lean and Mean
Nosferatu / int_56b8b4f1	comment	Lean and Mean: Orlok is skeletally thin. And yes, he's a very completely evil blood-sucking monster.
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Nosferatu / int_5a40d6a	type	Adaptation Distillation
Nosferatu / int_5a40d6a	comment	Adaptation Distillation: Despite not being an official adaptation, it's a greatly simplified version of Dracula.
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Nosferatu / int_5a7b4065	type	Bedsheet Ladder
Nosferatu / int_5a7b4065	comment	Bedsheet Ladder: Used by Hutter to escape Orlok's castle.
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Nosferatu / int_5bf112dc	type	Vampire Bites Suck
Nosferatu / int_5bf112dc	comment	Vampire Bites Suck: Orlok's needle-like incisors leave two small pinprick-holes in the victim's throat. After Hutter is first bitten, he mistakes the wounds for mosquito bites.
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Nosferatu / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
Nosferatu / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Hutter tells his wife that he is heading to "the country of thieves and ghosts"—and he seems awfully excited about it too!
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Nosferatu / int_631c7c38	type	Silent Antagonist
Nosferatu / int_631c7c38	comment	Silent Antagonist: Being a Silent Movie Orlok has some unheard and written dialogues only in his scenes with Hutter. After leaving him at the castle he has no more lines.
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Nosferatu / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Nosferatu / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Ellen reads in the book that Hutter brought back from Transylvania that a vampire can be killed when "a sinless maiden makes the Vampire forget the first crow of the cock - if she was to give him her blood willingly." Thus, she deliberately lets Orlok feed on her to distract him until sunrise, and she dies soon after.
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Nosferatu / int_686c9ad7	type	Only the Pure of Heart
Nosferatu / int_686c9ad7	comment	Only the Pure of Heart: Only an innocent young woman's willing sacrifice of her blood to distract the vampire from the coming dawn can destroy him. The animated Swiss parody "Nosferatu Tango" drives a stake into this trope: The innocent young woman took Brand ZZZZZ sleeping pills, which also lay Nosferatu to (eternal) sleep when the morning comes.
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Nosferatu / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Nosferatu / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Hutter, don't you know to never cut towards yourself?
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Nosferatu / int_7289b368	type	Idiot Hero
Nosferatu / int_7289b368	comment	In the book, Jonathan Harker was an intelligent gentleman who showed no hesitation in risking death to protect his wife. His movie counterpart Thomas Hutter is an Idiot Hero and Dirty Coward. And unlike Harker with Dracula in the book, Hutter doesn't get to be the one to kill Orlok in the end.
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Nosferatu / int_736d791f	type	Adaptational Badass
Nosferatu / int_736d791f	comment	Adaptational Badass: In the book, Dracula has to visit each of his victims directly and personally bite them on the neck. Orlok, however, is a vampire of the post-WWI, post-1918 flu epidemic world, and simply by being in Wisborg he seems to be able to dish out sickness and death on an industrial scale.
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Nosferatu / int_7c0bfb83	type	Obviously Evil
Nosferatu / int_7c0bfb83	comment	Obviously Evil: Orlok is a skeleton-thin, hairless man with Creepy Long Fingers who acts very shady, but Hutter suspects nothing.
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Nosferatu / int_7c4f6612	type	Comic-Book Adaptation
Nosferatu / int_7c4f6612	comment	Comic-Book Adaptation: Two, the first being a straightforward adaptation from 1989, the second a modernized adaptation from 2010.
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Nosferatu / int_7e3cd89	type	Love Transcends Spacetime
Nosferatu / int_7e3cd89	comment	Love Transcends Spacetime: At the very moment when Orlok is readying himself to feed, fatally, on Hutter, Ellen has a sudden panic attack — which somehow makes the vampire back down and leave Hutter alive.
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Nosferatu / int_86ae1278	type	Adaptational Dumbass
Nosferatu / int_86ae1278	comment	Adaptational Dumbass: In the book, Jonathan Harker ignored some red flags while making the journey to Castle Dracula, but once he'd actually stayed in the castle, he quickly figured out that Dracula wasn't human and began trying to escape. Thomas Hutter, by contrast, completely fails to notice that there's anything off about Orlok until after Orlok has made his way to Germany.
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Nosferatu / int_8a7f47c7	type	Pivotal Wake-up
Nosferatu / int_8a7f47c7	comment	Pivotal Wake-up: Orlok rising from his coffin in this manner on the ship is the Trope Maker, and one of the creepiest moments in the movie.
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Nosferatu / int_8faea0c5	type	Comically Cross-Eyed
Nosferatu / int_8faea0c5	comment	Comically Cross-Eyed: One of the sailors gets crossed eyes when facing Nosferatu below the deck.
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Nosferatu / int_912b24c4	type	Art Shift
Nosferatu / int_912b24c4	comment	Art Shift: A striking one. As Hutter's coach approaches Orlok's castle, one shot of the coach on the road is shown in photographic negative, likely to symbolize Hutter's entrance into another world.
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Nosferatu / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
Nosferatu / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: Orlok is at first gentle and polite towards Hutter when he meets him. This trait totally vanishes after the ship massacre and it only gets worse from there.
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Nosferatu / int_96144372	type	Aristocrats Are Evil
Nosferatu / int_96144372	comment	Aristocrats Are Evil: Count Orlok (Graf Orlok in the original German). He's a count and a bloodthirsy (in all senses) vampire.
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Nosferatu / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Nosferatu / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Count Orlok, a vampire spreading a plague across a German village.
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Nosferatu / int_9a072432	type	Royal Decree
Nosferatu / int_9a072432	comment	Royal Decree: Plague victims are decreed to be kept out of the hospital to stop the spread of the disease.
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Nosferatu / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Nosferatu / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In the middle of the movie, Count Orlok sees Thomas' locket of Ellen and comments on how she has a "beautiful neck". By the end of the movie, he would enter into Ellen's bedroom and sink his teeth into her neck, which almost immediately leads to his downfall.
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Nosferatu / int_9d92f84b	type	Danger with a Deadline
Nosferatu / int_9d92f84b	comment	Danger with a Deadline: While vampires have historically been considered nocturnal, Count Orlok is the earliest example of a vampire actually being killed by sunlight.
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Nosferatu / int_9f63d4f1	type	Our Vampires Are Different
Nosferatu / int_9f63d4f1	comment	Our Vampires Are Different: As noted above, this film originated the idea that vampires burn in sunlight. Also, Schreck's vampire is rather uniquely portrayed as a rat-like monster and the personification of pestilence, as well as having a considerable resemblance to some kind of ghost. There are numerous scenes where Orlok seems to materialise or dematerialise at will (such as when carrying his coffin into his new lair), as well as the famous sequence where Orlok seems to sneak into Hutter's home as a disembodied shadow.
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Nosferatu / int_a6bd0685	type	Died in Your Arms Tonight
Nosferatu / int_a6bd0685	comment	Died in Your Arms Tonight: Ellen dies in her husband's arms after her Heroic Sacrifice kills Orlok.
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Nosferatu / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
Nosferatu / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: Some versions of the film feature a near-constant usage of a strange, cheerful little tune that sounds more like it would belong in an old Mickey Mouse cartoon than a classic horror movie. It becomes increasingly hard to get into the mood of the film when this song is in nearly every other scene, even in perfectly innocuous ones, such as the simple act of walking up stairs. Most modern releases of the movie come with two soundtracks: A conventional period orchestra score, and an organ score. On paper, this sounds like a great idea, due to the instrument's association with vampires, and it fitting the theatrical nature of silent films. The problem lies with the fact that 75% of the soundtrack consists of extremely dissonant Scare Chords played at full volume, often times with Yes-esque baroque arpeggios. This works well in actually scary moments, when the music progression is natural and unexpected. However, when mundane or even happy moments are scored in the exact way, it not only leads to mood dissonance, but it actually nullifies the scare impact of the music, as most listeners will just grow fatigued of it.
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Nosferatu / int_abfcd50d	type	Breaking and Bloodsucking
Nosferatu / int_abfcd50d	comment	Breaking and Bloodsucking: Ellen's plan to destroy Orlok is to wait for him to attack her in her bed and allow him to slowly feed to distract him from the lethal sunrise.
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Nosferatu / int_af4d6174	type	Setting Update
Nosferatu / int_af4d6174	comment	Setting Update: Inverted, with the action moved from 1890s England to 1830s Germany - what's called the Beidermeier period. At least one restoration of the film gives it a time stamp of 1838, approximately 60 years before Dracula was set and published. This does track with some of the visual details like Ellen's hair and dresses, as well as the less advanced science and technology in the narrative, most of which were overtly based on Beidermeier paintings.
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Nosferatu / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
Nosferatu / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: The film's equivalents of Van Helsing, Holmwood and Seward only appear in scenes that do not relate to the overall plot, and they never learn that Orlok is a vampire. However, they're better off than Quincy, who doesnâ€™t have a counterpart at all. Annie is often viewed as Lucy's counterpart. One English copy of the film even calls her as such. It is also worth mentioning that Annie, just as Lucy, is implied to be visited by Orlok, and in a deleted scene she would be lured by Orlok to the seaside and bitten. In the novel Dracula lures Lucy to a small seaside cemetery and bites her for the first time.
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Nosferatu / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
Nosferatu / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Hutter and Ellen are deeply in love. She pines for him the entire time he's gone, and is doing a needlework that reads "Ich liebe Dich"note "I love you" in German during the sequence where the townfolk are trying to catch Knock.
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Nosferatu / int_c181a846	type	Dies Differently in Adaptation
Nosferatu / int_c181a846	comment	Dies Differently in Adaptation: Dracula is killed with a Slashed Throat and a stab through the heart. Orlok is killed by sunlight when Ellen distracts him from the dawn by letting him feed on her.
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Nosferatu / int_c5821f0e	type	Ghostly Glide
Nosferatu / int_c5821f0e	comment	Ghostly Glide: Played with. Orlok is shown walking many times, but he has an unnaturally even gait that has little to no bounce, making him almost appear to scuttle instead of striding.
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Nosferatu / int_c960826	comment	Supporting Protagonist: Hutter. His wife Ellen's presence protects him from Orlok while he's in Transylvania, and it is only through her sacrifice that Orlok is killed.
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Nosferatu / int_ca6e3245	type	Picked Flowers Are Dead
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Nosferatu / int_ca81eae7	type	Hollywood Darkness
Nosferatu / int_ca81eae7	comment	Hollywood Darkness: All the exterior night scenes are given a blue tint to suggest darkness.
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Nosferatu / int_cde51255	comment	Antagonist Title: Also a One-Word Title, named after the supposed Romanian word for "vampire", that threatens the land.
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Nosferatu / int_cfb3edb2	type	Weather Saves the Day
Nosferatu / int_cfb3edb2	comment	Weather Saves the Day: Despite being a thinly veiled stealth-adaptation of Dracula, the film's Van Helsing equivalent, Bulwer, has a greatly diminished role. Count Orlok is instead anticlimactically killed by an unexpected sunrise rather than being slain by Hutter and a Quincey Morris equivalent.
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Nosferatu / int_d500b978	type	Adaptational Wimp
Nosferatu / int_d500b978	comment	Adaptational Wimp: Dracula in the original book was merely weakened by sunlight, while Orlok just straight up died from it. Prof. Bulwer is broadly analogous to the book's Van Helsing, but is much less effective against the vampire menace, to the point of being effectively Demoted to Extra. In the book, Jonathan Harker was an intelligent gentleman who showed no hesitation in risking death to protect his wife. His movie counterpart Thomas Hutter is an Idiot Hero and Dirty Coward. And unlike Harker with Dracula in the book, Hutter doesn't get to be the one to kill Orlok in the end.
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Nosferatu / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Nosferatu / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When the first mate goes into the cargo hold and sees Count Orlok rise from one of the coffins, he immediately freaks out, runs back atop the ship and jumps into the ocean, much to the confusion and horror of the captain.
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Nosferatu / int_dc057cf3	type	Adaptation Name Change
Nosferatu / int_dc057cf3	comment	Adaptation Name Change: Dracula becomes Orlok Jonathan Harker becomes Thomas Hutter Mina Harker becomes Ellen Hutter Renfield becomes Knock Van Helsing becomes Bulwer Seward becomes Sievers There is a print that reverts everyone's names, yet Mina becomes "Nina" and The Twelfth Hour changed everyone's name once again with Orlok becoming Prince Wolkoff, Knock becoming Karsten, Hutter becoming Kundberg, Ellen becoming Margitta and Annie becoming Maria.
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Nosferatu / int_dc9b1fe9	type	Cue the Sun
Nosferatu / int_dc9b1fe9	comment	Cue the Sun: The sunlight is gradually shown increasing over the rooftops the morning after Orlok attacks Ellen.
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Nosferatu / int_e2ccee25	comment	Animal Motifs: Orlok has a very subtle (yet obvious in hindsight) connection with rats and, through them, the plague. His fangs are rat-like incisors rather than the elongated canines usually used for vampires, his pointed nose and thin face give his facial features a rodent-like quality, and even his taloned hands are reminiscent of the grasping paws of a giant rat.
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Nosferatu / int_e3c20140	type	As Long as It Sounds Foreign
Nosferatu / int_e3c20140	comment	As Long as It Sounds Foreign: The etymology of the word "nosferatu" is unclear. This film isn't the first to use it (Stoker's novel referenced it first), but the usual origin (the Romanian word for "vampire") is false. The two most probable etymologies are a corruption of the Romanian "Necuratu," meaning "unclean spirit," or Greek "Nosophoros," meaning "bringer of plague."
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Nosferatu / int_e529d5c3	type	Torches and Pitchforks
Nosferatu / int_e529d5c3	comment	Torches and Pitchforks: One of the earliest instances on film, when the villagers organize a mob to hunt down Knock, mistakenly believing that he is the vampire. Unable to find him, they settle for tearing apart a scarecrow. Some film scholars have interpreted this scene as a comment on the atmosphere of misdirected, unproductive rage that was building in Germany at the time, and would eventually contribute to the rise of fascism.
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Nosferatu / int_e542d80a	type	Gonk
Nosferatu / int_e542d80a	comment	Gonk: Orlok has a grotesque, rat-like appearance, which is the first sign that he's far from a human being.
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Nosferatu / int_e6521611	type	Creepy Long Fingers
Nosferatu / int_e6521611	comment	Creepy Long Fingers: Orlok's fingers are already long with pointy nails to begin with, but as the film progresses his nails lengthen until they resemble a bird of prey's talons, enhancing the effect. Exaggerated when Orlok's shadow reaches out to open the door to Ellen's bedroom, the fingers stretching inhumanly as he does.
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Nosferatu / int_f1a77879	type	Plaguemaster
Nosferatu / int_f1a77879	comment	Plaguemaster: The most significant difference between Count Orlok and Count Dracula is that the former has the ability to bring pestilence all across Europe via rats in coffins full of dirt.
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Nosferatu / int_fa6bfde9	type	Have a Gay Old Time
Nosferatu / int_fa6bfde9	comment	Have a Gay Old Time: The soil in Orlok's coffins (that allows Orlok to travel away from his grave) is referred to as "goddamned soil" - as in, literally damned by God - in some prints.
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Nosferatu / int_fab3c1e1	type	Weakened by the Light
Nosferatu / int_fab3c1e1	comment	Weakened by the Light: Sunlight makes Orlok catch fire and disappear. (As noted above, this film is the Trope Maker.)
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