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Nosferatu (1922) - Patreon Version (Patreon)

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2025-02-16 13:00:06
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No Sync Required Version: https://cinebingers.ca/fMSkK7IOK5 - For Patreon tier "Bingers on The Wall" or higher.

movie runtime: 01:28:40

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Nosferatu (1922) - Patreon Version

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JediLounger

If you want to continue to explore these characters, I will again suggest you guys watch Shadow of the Vampire (2000). It is a riot, and you will love it.

beecroft adams

You should watch the Artist a modern day silent movie.

nigel Macbug

so Metropolis from 1927 for sci fi next?

Odd Thomas

Nosferatu was remade in the 70s and there was a fictional 'making of' film in the early noughties, Shadow of the Vampire, which coincidentally had Willem Dafoe as the vampire.

Brandon

The 1979 Nosferatu is another version worth looking into, if you're not all Nosferatu'd out at this point. The General (Buster Keaton), The Gold Rush (Chaplin) and Safety Last (Harold Lloyd) are all great silent comedies I'd love to see you guys react to. Maybe you'll start a silent film trend among other reactors. 😉 A lot of the jump cuts you see in shots have to do with missing frames or damaged frames. Old movies were not typically preserved very well. I forget the actual number, but the estimated percentage of films from the silent/early sound eras that are simply lost is pretty staggering... and depressing.

Michal Novotny

Can’t find the version you’re watching anywhere so gonna watch the movie by myself and just watch the YT cut for this one to hear your thoughts. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Ginger

Since this is public domain, could you post the link for this particular version? There are many different edits on Youtube, all with slightly different text lengths which makes it hard to keep in synch.

Justin James

I found this version of the film on the Internet Archive for anyone searching for it.

Vwlss Nvwls

I love this film. It is amazing what they did with it considering the year it was made. This was also my first ever silent movie watch, back when you could rent great stuff like this from Netflix.

Haye Zeus

Hopefully this means more silent films. Need to get on that Chaplin and Buster Keaton wagon. City Lights is one of my fav movies and that ending is so good. While Keaton’s stuff is amazing, he is basically the original Jackie Chan

REDR58
>>164904050

Unsurprisingly, there are different speeds which account for some of the changes in running times.

Justin James

This was a fun reaction! It’s also nice since you guys can speak a lot more freely over it than usual, and Simone’s narration was awesome too :) I hope you guys do some more silent films in the future. Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton would be amazing!

REDR58
>>164905800

There are at least four or five different versions/lengths I found on Internet archive and I’m still looking for one that seems close to the one George and Simone are watching.

Alexrandom

"No one else would have any fun" Nope! Love it ! I was actually sad when Simone didn't read the lines :p

REDR58

I’m so pleased you guys are doing the original and then the remake! Looking forward to watching this.

REDR58

I believe I found the correct version on YouTube. It’s 1 hour 28 minutes and 40 seconds search for this phrase: Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922) | Full Movie | James Bernard's score | HD The opening credits match what George and Simone are watching “Photoplay Productions presents”

Logan Kerlee

I big time enjoyed watching this classic horror with you both! I watched the new version earlier in the week - you both will love it, I'm sure. :)

REDR58

George the dialogue cards are probably separate to account for different local languages.

mky
>>164902574

Double feature with "Le voyage dans la lune" ("A Trip to the Moon"). ;)

Ginger
>>164920429

I'd delete the link to be safe but thanks for the title, that helped. :)

REDR58

So that was a lot of fun! Your spoken narrations only added to it. This is the oldest movie I have ever watched. It’s fascinating to compare the relative primitiveness of this movie from 1922 compared to the sophistication of movies made within the next 20 years, for example The Wizard of Oz from 1939, Citizen Kane 1941 and Casablanca 1942. I’m sure there are plenty of movies made after 1922 and before the 1930s that look more modern but these are all I’m familiar with. Looking forward to watching the new Nosferatu later. And do be sure to check out “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” (1992) directed by Francis Ford Coppola. A lot of elements thereare very much influenced by the 1922 Nosferatu. For anyone who has already seen “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” or does not care about spoilers, this is an interesting, if brief, analysis from this past January of all 3 movies: https://www.pajiba.com/film_reviews/the-parallels-between-nosferatu-and-bram-stokers-dracula.php

Ginger

I don't know if you're planning to do this again some day (which would be great), so some recommendations for really good silent films: - The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) - Metropolis (1927) - The Man Who Laughs (that one was the inspiration for the character of The Joker) (1928) - "Mel Brook's Silent Movie" (1976) - "The Artist" (2011) Some great non-silent older films: - "M" (1931) - "Dracula" (1931) - "The Malthese Falcon" (1941) - "Rope" by Alfred Hitchcock (1948) - "The Killing" (an underrated film by Stanley Kubrick) (1956)

D. T. Nelson

Dialog/Title cards were filmed, not written on the film itself (which would require precise and identical placement of the writing on around 120 frames for a 5 second card. The technology to put text directly on film did not exist at the time. The closest they could come would be double exposures, but then the images would have been seen through the text. They were experimenting with ways to create subtitles (even at the time this film was made), but the first instance of a realistic option came in the early 30s, and it didn't become truly feasable until the advancements made to the optical printer by Linwood Dunn in the 1940s.

Justin James
>>164931147

There was certainly a big jump in sophistication when they started making 'talkies' in the late 20s and early 30s. It completely changed the storytelling and pacing of movies, and there was a big boom in camera technology and film stock development that went along with it. Also, +1 for "Bram Stoker's Dracula" (1992), and while were on the topic of Coppola, "The Conversation" (1974) is great too!

Lou Gallucci

Simone narrating the original was the best part.

Max Krause

This was so much fun! I probably couldn't have sat through this on my own but your narration really jazzed it up! Everything until Orlok's arrival in Wisborg is pretty much taken straight from Dracula, after that the movie plot is its own thing entirely. I was wondering how they would end it when I noticed that two thirds of the movie were over and not-Dracula had only just arrived. :D Also Orlok didn't destroy his food source, it's actually the Plague that is causing all the deaths in the town. But the cause of the Plague are the rats Orlok brought with him, so it's his fault anyway. Edit after watching the remake: I'm glad that the remake made the point about the Plague more clear. I also like the addition of Willem Dafoe's character. A scholar learning how to destroy the beast works much better than Ellen just reading about it in a tiny obscure book that Hutter just...has for some reason? We never learned how he got it, did we?

FranciscoGios

Great!! Let’s go watch the 2024 version!!

simon brouillard

That was great, now I really want to rewatch Copollas Bram Stocker Dracula

JDV
>>164920429

thanks! There are so many versions of Nosferatu, and some run at different framerates, and some are recolored, and some have varying dialogue card runtimes, etc. I went through 4 different versions trying to find the one they watched.

PoopsInShoes

Please watch Shadow of the Vampire next

SpankTheMonk

I thought they had watched Bram Stokers Dracula, great follow up sooner than later since as you explained the legal reasons for the original Nosferatu. Named so since Francis Ford Coppola didn’t have the legal issues after many years. His version is very cool.

DinChild

Not providing the audience a clear view of Orlock speaks to the "less is more" mantra of storytelling. In this case, visual storytelling. Similar to Hitchcock, putting the evil out of frame, or obscuring in shadows, is a way to convey foreboding, fear, and gives the imagination more to work with. At the end of the day, it's subjective for the viewer. This is how I took it. I suppose I prefer the bits we were given over the course of the movie.

Mike FromOz

I really enjoyed this reaction! I'd never seen the movie before, so it was great to watch it with you both. The reason for the people making the sign of the cross back to front wasn't because they flipped the film, it's because Eastern Orthodox adherents sign from the opposite side to Catholics. I really loved Simone's ad-libs. You both could do your own version of a RiffTrax movie! *Graf Orlock's Diary* - "Three month's aboard ship, and nothing to eat but seamen." Thought: Does Nosferatu suggest the existence of a Nosferawun?

Piep

Now you have to watch "What We Do in the Shadows" a Vampire Horror Comedy from Taika Waititi. He co-write and direct the movie. I think it was the movie that made him famous all over the world

Sumner Hayes

Awesome, I was planning a Nosferatu/Shadow of the Vampire/Nosferatu (2024) triple feature so now I've got watch-alongs for a couple of them.

Mike FromOz
>>165019037

Hey, I just met you And this is crazy But here's my number So call me Maybeferatu

Jay Davis
>>165038352

I can't heart this enough times... or Plus it or Thumbs Up it or whatever dern kids say.

Gary Fixler

When they said they were really excited about some people in the new movie, which I didn't even know existed, let alone had any knowledge about, the first thing I thought was "Let me guess... Skarsgård?" Lol, just looked it up.

Gary Fixler
>>164903819

That's probably right. I figured it was because of the camera used. It was hand cranked, and only held 6 minutes worth at a time. I figure they would fit what they could to the end, and if it ran out in the middle of a shot, they'd say "freeze!" and load more film, and pick up where it left off. I can't imagine wasting tons of film not filming right to the end of every reel. I imagine it was very expensive at the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parvo_(camera) ... and I learned which camera was used from this page: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0013442/technical/ ... which also lists a bunch of different runtimes by country.

Gary Fixler

I wonder if hospitals back then had hysteria wings. Like "Dr. Howser, you're needed in hysterics."

Gary Fixler

When they first encounter the professor (Dafoe), he's rambling, and he mentions the "Mysteriorum Libri Quinque" ("The Five Books of Mysteries"), which are real: “These secret writings were discovered long after John Dee’s death (c. 1609); they had been tucked away in a hidden compartment of an old wooden chest and were remarkably spared from destruction—uncovered only a few years before the Great Fire of London in 1666. In these five secret treatises, John Dee, one of the most renowned scholars of the Elizabethan era, records in minute detail his research into the occult.” They're now housed in the British Library. https://www.amazon.com/Mysteriorum-Libri-Quinque-Mysteries-Editions/dp/1578638224

Ian Tellam

Another silent movie that would be worth checking out some time is Metropolis from 1927. Hugely influential on the science fiction genre.

Prof. Writhms
>>164948467

I agree! The mustache made Orlock seem more human-- less of a supernatural creature. Just some creepy dude. lol

HipsterImposter

I think you guys would have a lot of fun with Salems Lot

Jeb Manning

I'd also be down for watching reactions to the classic older Universal Monster movies: -Dracula (1931) -Frankenstein (1931) -The Mummy (1932) -The Invisible Man (1933) -Bride of Frankenstein (1935) -Son of Frankenstein (1939) -The Wolf Man (1941) -Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)

James Melton

Really happy that you took time to watch this. I think it hasn't been remade because it's such a classic. It almost feels like trying to remake Casablanca. I haven't yet seen the remake, but I think I may watch along with you. There are some other fantastic silent films you could consider. "The General", "City Lights", and "Sunrise" come to mind. BTW, between reading "Dracula" and "Frankenstein" I found the latter to be a much better novel.