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Shadow of the Vampire
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Shadow of the Vampire is a 2000 film directed by E. Elias Merhige, starring John Malkovich and Willem Dafoe.Malkovich plays F. W. Murnau, the German director who sets out to make his most identifiable film, Nosferatu: Eine Symphonie des Grauens, in 1922. To make his somewhat lawyer-friendly take on Dracula, he hires the mysterious Max Schreck to play the vampire Count Orlock. As it turns out, Schreck is actually a real-life vampire, and Murnau hired him to ensure a real-life performance. But, he's really bitten off more than he can chew this time...Dafoe earned an Academy Award nomination for his role. | |
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Control Freak | |
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Control Freak: Murnau, full on. However, things eventually get way out of his control. | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: Everyone involved with filmmaking will recognize the film as one big metaphor for film production itself. Roger Ebert noticed this in his review: | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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All There in the Manual: When Albin Grau and Henrick Galeen ask Schreck how he became a vampire, Schreck will only say "It was a woman," and the film doesn't go into detail about it. The original script revealed that he was turned by his wife, a child bride who died while giving birth. He would only ever see her at night as she was slowly turning him into a vampire. She eventually left him, and over the centuries Schreck forgot what she even looked like. | |
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Looks Like Orlok | |
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Looks Like Orlok: Max actually plays Orlok. | |
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The Prima Donna | |
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The Prima Donna: Greta is introduced as one at first, but quickly gets surpassed by Murnau himself. | |
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Deal with the Devil | |
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Deal with the Devil: Murnau promises Schreck a meal of the leading lady in return for his performance. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: During the opening scene of the film, Albin reveals they gave the cat actor laudanum to make it less difficult to control under the hot lights. Murnau uses this again on Greta to make her more docile after she sees Schreck has no reflection, making her docile for "Orlock's" feeding scene and her eventual death. The plan is twofold here, as it also drugs her blood so that Schreck passes out after drinking from her. Seems like the shutter door mechanism Schreck finds will be one. Schreck sabotages it before his final scene, cutting the counterweight out of an excess of caution. However, when some of the crew open the shutter door manually, Schreck is exposed to the light and dies. | |
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Nice Character, Mean Actor | |
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Nice Character, Mean Actor: Greta. | |
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Bald of Evil | |
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Bald of Evil: The baldness really does reinforce Max's creepiness. | |
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Mad Artist | |
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Mad Artist: Murnau, Murnau, Murnau... | |
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Gratuitous German | |
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Gratuitous German: Herr Doktor, Herr Doktor, Herr Doktor, Ja... Eddie Izzard as Gustav. She basically uses the same German accent she uses for her stand up routine about the Heimlich Manoeuvre. | |
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The Fog of Ages | |
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The Fog of Ages: Max Schreck, the vampire actor, suffers from this; most of the memories of his early life and his sire have faded, and throughout the film he claims to have forgotten killing members of the film crew less than a few hours after doing so. However, it's implied that Schreck isn't a "complete" vampire, given that he has continued aging despite being immortal, and that he was never capable of siring vampires of his own. | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: When you live as long as Schreck (which is centuries), you don't remember your early life as well as you'd expect. It's like trying to remember one's infanthood. | |
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Pretty in Mink | |
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Pretty in Mink: Greta first shows up in a fur-trimmed coat. | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: "There is no Max Schreck." | |
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Artistic License – History | |
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Artistic License – History: The obvious one: the film's premise is that the urban myth that Max Schreck was a real vampire is not a myth. Any reputable source will attest to Schreck having been an accomplished stage actor for over a decade when he was cast as Orlok, and he continued to appear on the German stage and screen until he died of a heart attack in 1936. For that matter, neither was Schreck a method actor who remained constantly in character, though the elaborate make-up he wore as Orlok couldn't be removed during breaks in filming. The myth, however, makes for a much more entertaining story. (It didn't help Schreck was an eccentric, solitary man who delighted in being scary.) In 1921, shooting outdoors at night simply wasn't possible with the film stocks and cameras available, and in fact all of the night scenes in the actual Nosferatu were obviously shot day-for-night for this reason. However, it serves the "Max Schreck was a vampire" narrative better to pretend these scenes were shot at night. The film also implies that Murnau's camera can record sound, even though this is still the Silent Movie era and talkies were less than a decade away in 1921. (In fact, the real Murnau actually resisted shooting with sound when that become possible.) Sergei Eisenstein is cited as a great director. Nosferatu was filmed two years before Eisenstein directed his first movie. | |
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Sanity Slippage | |
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Sanity Slippage: Murnau. In the end, he's so consumed by his vision for the film that after Schreck kills Fritz and Grau, he actually offers direction to Grau's lifeless body. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: A rare Real Life example: Schreck is German for "fright". The real Max Schreck delighted in this coincidence. | |
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Warm Bloodbags Are Everywhere | |
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Warm Bloodbags Are Everywhere: Murnau has to keep his cast and crew from falling prey to Schreck's fangs. | |
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Herr Doktor | |
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Herr Doktor, Herr Doktor, Herr Doktor, Ja... | |
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German Expressionism | |
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F. W. Murnau's perfectionist tendencies are also played up for the film. While it's true that he, like other directors of German Expressionism, had strict control over his set, he certainly didn't allow his crew to be murdered in order to create a film masterpiece. | |
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Chronic Backstabbing Disorder | |
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Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Murnau. | |
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Bullying a Dragon | |
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Bullying a Dragon: Murnau constantly yells at Schreck for killing his crew. | |
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Establishing Character Moment | |
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Establishing Character Moment: The first appearance of Schreck. Few vampires have ever made a more frightening entrance - and it's exactly the same as it was in the actual Nosferatu. | |
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Large Ham | |
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Large Ham: Murnau. "Death of centuries! Moonchaser! Blasphemer! Monkey! Vase of prehistory. Finally to Earth, and finally born." | |
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Above Good and Evil | |
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Above Good and Evil: Murnau thinks of himself as this because he is an Artist with a capital "A". | |
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The Flapper | |
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The Flapper: Greta is depicted as the German equivalent. | |
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Fatal Method Acting | |
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Fatal Method Acting: Schreck is a real vampire In-Universe, thus disintegrates when his character is killed via sunlight. Happens to several members of the cast and production crew. | |
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Villainous Breakdown | |
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Villainous Breakdown: Murnau, after Schreck kills cinematographer Fritz Arno Wagner, and producer Albin Grau. He expresses his cracked sanity as he orders Schreck to be killed via sunlight. | |
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"Not So Different" Remark | |
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"Not So Different" Remark: Said verbatim, by Shreck, telling Murnau, "You and I... are not so different." | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: | |
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Continuity Nod | |
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Continuity Nod: The famous scene of Orlok's projected hand's shadow is reproduced several times. | |
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Our Vampires Are Different | |
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Our Vampires Are Different: They don't reflect in mirrors, but since they cast shadows, they can be caught on film. Schreck comments that he cannot make other vampires (whether he is physically limited himself or just doesn't know how to is unclear), drinks alcohol on more than one occasion (and gets drunk by it), can feed on animals, and while he refuses to board a ship he manages to reach an island by plane (thus passing over moving water). | |
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Making the Masterpiece | |
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Making the Masterpiece: A rather fictional example of this type of story. | |
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Troubled Production | |
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Troubled Production: In-universe. As one might expect, casting the role of the vampire with an actual vampire causes the production of Nosferatu to spin out of controlnote No, the shoot for the real Nosferatu wasn't nearly as troubled, with or without a real vampire: Almost immediately into the shoot, Schreck attacks his co-star, Gustav von Wangenheim, after he accidentally cuts his finger during the dinner scene and forces filming to wrap for the night. Soon after, Schreck feeds on the cinematographer, Wolfgang Muller, requiring Murnau to go to Berlin to find another cinematographer and calm the film's financiers. In his absence, Schreck kills another crewmember. Schreck's vampiric nature requires Murnau to make expensive accommodations that wouldn't be necessary with a normal actor, such as transporting Schreck to Heligoland by plane instead of boat (since vampires can't cross bodies of water). Shooting of the final scene quickly goes south and leads to Murnau losing his mind and to the deaths of Schreck, Greta, Grau and Fritz. It's probably safe to say that, had this happened in real life, the toxic buzz from the high body count on set would have killed the film's chances of release. | |
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Age Without Youth | |
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Age Without Youth: Schreck has lived centuries, and he looks it. | |
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No-Sell | |
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No-Sell: Fritz tries to shoot Schreck at the end. It doesn't work, with dust pouring from his injuries. | |
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Breaking and Bloodsucking | |
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Breaking and Bloodsucking: Played with. Schreck doesn't attack Greta in her room, it's a movie set, the bedroom from the climax of Nosferatu. Per the arrangement with Murnau, Schreck only receives his payment for playing "himself" in the movie in the scene were Orlok feeds on Ellen. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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Oh, Crap!: Greta during the climactic scene, when she happens to look in a mirror and sees Max is not reflected in the mirror. | |
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Writers Suck | |
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Writers Suck: After Schreck kills the cinematographer, he quips "I don't think we need the writer..." Murnau then dares him to, saying that Schreck would have to explain how his character gets to Bremen if he does so. | |
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Snuff Film | |
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Snuff Film: Nosferatu itself becomes one over the course of the film. | |
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Enforced Method Acting | |
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Enforced Method Acting: The end result of having to work with an actual bloodsucker In-Universe. In fact, Murnau doesn't let any of the actors interact with Shreck until the first scene with Gustav. Murnau even lampshades it: "Consider this a sacrifice for your art." The two crew members' reaction to Max plucking a bat out of the air and greedily eating it is: "What an actor!" | |
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Lie Back and Think of England | |
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Lie Back and Think of England: Or as Murnau tells Greta: "All you have to do is relax and, as they say, the vampire will do all the work." | |
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Hollywood Darkness | |
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In 1921, shooting outdoors at night simply wasn't possible with the film stocks and cameras available, and in fact all of the night scenes in the actual Nosferatu were obviously shot day-for-night for this reason. However, it serves the "Max Schreck was a vampire" narrative better to pretend these scenes were shot at night. | |
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Cry for the Devil | |
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Cry for the Devil: invokedSchreck's impressions of the novel, Dracula, as he describes it as a sad story about a Romanian Lord reduced to a lonely undead monster. | |
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All Part of the Show | |
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All Part of the Show: When Schreck grabs a bat and chomps down on it in front of two crewmembers, one of them says admiringly, "What an actor!" | |
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For Halloween, I Am Going as Myself | |
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For Halloween, I Am Going as Myself: "For this horror movie, I shall be playing a vampire." | |
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Historical Villain Upgrade | |
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Historical Villain Upgrade: Well, to begin with, Max Shreck probably wasn't a vampire... He was noted as being rather solitary by his contemporaries, but he certainly wasn't implicated in anything such as murder or bloodsucking. F. W. Murnau's perfectionist tendencies are also played up for the film. While it's true that he, like other directors of German Expressionism, had strict control over his set, he certainly didn't allow his crew to be murdered in order to create a film masterpiece. | |
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Very Loosely Based on a True Story | |
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Very Loosely Based on a True Story: Let's just say this film plays very loosely with the facts. | |
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Who Wants to Live Forever? | |
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Who Wants to Live Forever?: Schreck reads the book Dracula in order to study for his role, and is saddened by the scene where Dracula leaves a meal for Jonathan Harker, and remembers when he used to have servants to do such tasks for him, which reminds him of when he had a wife, family, estates, etc., and now he's just a lonely scavenger squatting in a ruined castle. | |
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Beethoven Was an Alien Spy | |
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Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: Max Schreck is portrayed as an actual vampire, so he's really not acting as Count Orlok. | |
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Bad "Bad Acting" | |
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Bad "Bad Acting": Schreck is hyped up as an insanely dedicated method actor who toured with a prestigious company. However, his actual performance is stilted line readings, dialog screwups and looking at the camera. Of course, it makes sense because he isn't really an actor and was cast for the overwhelming creepiness and legitimacy he brought to the role. Then again, in a silent film, only his movements count. Gustav von Wangenheim, the actor cast as the hero Thomas Hutter, can't even fake a yawn without looking hilariously over the top. Again, during the silent film period, since there was no dialog, actors exaggerated their physical actions. | |
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Cast the Expert | |
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Cast the Expert: invoked Satirized. Murnau decides there's no better person to play a vampire than a real one. This ends up causing havok for his production of Nosferatu when Max Shreck keeps killing other members of the crew. | |
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I Do Not Drink Wine | |
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Schreck comments that he cannot make other vampires (whether he is physically limited himself or just doesn't know how to is unclear), drinks alcohol on more than one occasion (and gets drunk by it), can feed on animals, and while he refuses to board a ship he manages to reach an island by plane (thus passing over moving water). | |
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