Oh I love that book!
insurgentrat
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I am willing to lie to her as long as I wont spend 50 years making up for it.
Like everyone, she's wrong about her preferences. If something is good enough she'll find it satisfying.
I love stalker but I don't make the rules. She likes to keep it upbeat, needs happy ending etc etc.
Hexbearians outing themselves as uncultured swine. Truly nothing can compare to the smell of crushed thyme wafting up as you sail o'er the rolling hills of France.
It is defs campy. Campy purple pros is essential to Gothic horror, it's part of what I love haha.
"Nature, I call unto thee, increase thy thunders . . . And hasten me upon the wings of thy barbarous winds.
You just can't get that shit anywhere else. I'm a big fan of the supererogatory phrase
It's literally magic. Her calling out resurrected him, from being "buried in darkness". He isn't like a vampire like idk lestat from Anne Rice's novels, he is more like a force of nature, devourance, plague, death made by Satan from a fell sorcerer to go do evil shit.
It's like fairy rules, he was killed before by a maiden's sacrifice, a maiden called out and awoke him again, they are magically bound and her sacrifice puts him down again. Presumably until some new sensitive person awakens him.
He doesn't have a choice in his desire for her.
He doesn't lose track of time. They are spelled together. He looks to the rising sun and she pulls him back to her breast.
They explain that 4 times in the film. Once Orlok says they can't resist each other and she will be his, once diagnosis? demon! doctor reads it in the big book, he mentions that to her when explaining he will keep her hubby at bay with a false hunt (and she has already figured out she must die which is why she asks to walk him to his door), and then at the end diagnosis demons explains it to the hubby after they watch her die.
Bro skipped leg day so hard, no wonder he has no rizz
It's you! The person that modern films have characters constantly turn to the camera and explain their thoughts and emotions for :p
I jest, the end does play pretty fast but she has spent 3 days coming to terms with the fact that she's going to die and either many others do too or not.
Basically she has a connection to the spirit realm, in the intro you see her call out to anything listening angel or demon. Well a demon answers, and they get freaky in spirit dream space. There's a metaphor of female sexual development being considered a dirty thing that must be repressed, and she conceives of orlok as a punishment she deserves for the crime of being horny. But while he overs mindless carnal indulgence he cannot love, she loves her hubby and that love warded off orlok for a bit.
Orlok awoken must have his bride because demon reasons. So he sets out to profane their marriage and force her to accept him via murder. But orlok can't resist her, so she uses her sexuality to trap him with her till morning and he goes pop.
There's this angle of repressed sexuality summoned a demon, and by her claiming it she can put the demon down. However she also dies, rip.
You are a Philistine but that's ok. Plot is just one element of storytelling, it is not the be all and end all.
Vampires, at least the Gothic tradition, have always been about depraved sexuality and the struggle in the conception of the repressed animal and the rational human as a model of a proper person. The disgusting stuff, it's just vibes. Exploring the grotesque in a safe and fun context.
The world takes all sorts, I'd rather use a staple gun on my face than watch an action flick or see another manly man grapples with manly urges while having to moderate them to avoid driving away the feminine object of his protection story. Maybe gross blood and fucking with maggots just isn't your thing haha.
I mean it's obviously in England but they're just calling it Germany. Nosferatu was always just a very legally dubious Dracula.
I think I could get her to watch all of them! Thanks for your suggestions.