How the vampire character has evolved in the film industry over the years after the Nosferatu masterpiece, 1922.

Thesis statement

Nosferatu is considered to be a movie of quintessential German Expressionism and Murnau's creative breakthrough.

Background

The legendary vampire movie, over three quarters of a century old and still worth watching. Say that about yourself when seventy-seven you are, as Yoda would put it. It's furthermore hosted by David Carradine, he presents a short opening part which seems azure screened for some reason. One of the most foreboding and influential horror movies in the annals of movies, F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu (1922) was nearly kept from the computer display when the widow of Bram Stoker, Florence, sued the German producers for unauthorized use of her husband's innovative, Dracula. The lawsuit over Nosferatu has haunted the film's history. Wanting to distance themselves from the film, the manufacturers of Nosferatu traded it to Deutsche movie Produktion who revised the film without Murnau's consent. Murnau blurs the line between truth and fantasy with use of groundbreaking stylistic effects and his assistance to the grammar of movie are evident in movies today. Starting before the First World conflict, German Expressionist movies reached its peak in the 1920s and produced a number of acclaimed gothic horror movies such as The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920), by Robert Wiene. (Kenneth Anger Pp. 172)

Striking likenesses between Nosferatu and Bram Stoker's Dracula caused copyright infringement when the movie premiered in 1922, premier to the initial negatives being destroyed. Thankfully, Nosferatu has endured to this day and is critically acclaimed as the most frighteningly portrayal of the isolated vampire in his ramshackle castle and a masterpiece of Expressionist artwork.

The film was then changed farther for its 1929 American release, making the search for the "original," "uncut" Nosferatu a movie historian's obsession. Stoker's 1897 novel formed the base for an astounding body of movie and publications worried with the vampire. Atale of an undead "Count Dracula" with a flavour for body-fluid, Dracula mixed to the east European folktales with the real-life exploits of the 15th-century Prince Vlad the Impaler, who allegedly speared 100,000 of his citizens to death. For Nosferatu, screenwriter Henrik Galeen relocated Stoker's story from London to 1838 Bremen and altered his individual features' names in order to avoid copyright law.

At the center of F.W. Murnau's unauthorized adaptation of Stoker's seminal vampire article (the first movie adaptation) is the shocking figure of enumerate Orlok (Max Schreck), a nobleman who likes to buy a abandoned house in the Carpathian hills adjacent to that of Hutter (Gustav von Wangenheim). Hutter journeys to Transylvania to rendezvous with the mysterious Count where he is attacked by Orlok's nightcrawling, vampire alter ego. After glimpsing a picture of Hutter's wife, Orlok journeys via boat to Hutter's town of Wisborg to flavour the lovely, white neck of Nina (Greta Schroeder). Like Stoker's enumerate Dracula, whose implicit personal lust conveyed the repressed sexual yearns of the Victorian era, Murnau's Nosferatu also had a sexy constituent, in suggesting the only cure for ...