A Vampyre Story Bruno
Eerily beautiful and remarkable in many respects (not least for the acting – notably the expressionist performances of Kinski and Isabelle Adjani, but also that of Bruno Ganz), Nosferatu the Vampyre is at once a tribute to Murnau’s original and the golden age of German filmmaking and a musing on the vampire myth and the gothic tradition.
A fog-enshrouded Transylvania. A castle raised high in the sky in all of its menace and grandeur. A pale and ghastly vampire looming in the shadows. We’ve seen these images before. We know what we’re going to see and what’s going to happen.German auteur Werner Herzog crafts an excellent variation on the Dracula story in his film “Nosferatu the Vampyre,” an atmospheric, creepy and spellbinding version that stands as one of the best horror movies ever made.The 1979 film will be playing Tuesday to Thursday at The Cinefamily on Fairfax Avenue. Interestingly, the movie was shot simultaneously in both English and German so that it could be distributed more widely.
The version being screened will be the German one, marking the first time it will be screened theatrically in the United States.Like earlier versions of the Dracula story, “Nosferatu the Vampyre” has the same basic plot. Jonathan Harker (Bruno Ganz) arrives in 19th century Transylvania. His aim is simple: to find Count Dracula (Klaus Kinski) so he can sell the mysterious man’s property in Wismar, Germany. Upon meeting the reclusive count, however, Jonathan is taken aback by the his behavior and even odder vampire-like features. Soon this sneaking suspicion is proven true and terror ensues.But the story isn’t why we watch “Nosferatu the Vampyre.” The reason this film is worth watching, the reason it succeeds, is because of Kinski. The actor brings life to his long-dead titular character. Kinski was one of cinema’s great wild cards.
Often, his acting abilities were overshadowed by his extreme temper, arrogance and unexpected outbursts, yet it is hard to deny just how great he really was as a performer.In films such as “Aguirre, the Wrath of God,” “Nosferatu the Vampyre” and the supremely underrated masterpiece “That Most Important Thing: Love,” Kinski forces you to watch him. He makes you sit up and pay attention, to bask in his talents and get sucked into his vortex of madness. He is, in my opinion, one of the greatest actors the world has ever known.“Nosferatu the Vampyre” was made when Herzog was one of the darlings of New German Cinema – equaled only by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Wim Wenders – and this serves as an anomaly in his body of work simply because it is a remake of F.W.
Murnau’s famous 1922 Dracula movie “Nosferatu.”Remakes are rarely decent – and I mean rarely – and very few are exceptional. This film in particular fits into the latter category.
The problem with remakes tends to be that they are made solely to reap monetary rewards from classic films. They copy a successful formula and hope it will attract the earlier film’s fans as well as newer ones.However, Herzog’s intentions appear to be different. “Nosferatu the Vampyre” seems to be a tribute to Murnau’s “Nosferatu.” It is as though Herzog is raising his glass to another genius of German filmmaking, tipping his hat to Murnau’s masterpiece and humbly wanting to breathe new life into it. Herzog’s desire to shoot in many of the same locations as Murnau did – although he was unable to get permission to do so – only confirms his love for the earlier movie.Murnau’s “Nosferatu” is still considered an iconic work in world cinema. It has become essential viewing in film classes and can be seen regularly on late-night television around Halloween. Herzog’s remake, however, has not fared as well. This is a shame, because it’s a fantastic movie, a beautiful variation on the Dracula story that deserves a spot near the top of the horror movie canon.
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1895 (or maybe 1897), Draxylvania. Mona de Lafitte, a young, up-and-coming Parisian opera singer, is in dire straits — specifically, the disgustingly-clingy arms of one. The vampire Baron of Castle Warg, he has kidnapped Mona and placed her under a curse which is curiously identical to vampirism, but not, Mona adamantly maintains, actually vampirism. But one night, while Shrowdy is out collecting Mona's 'wine' ('a salty-tasting merlot with an iron aftertaste,' remarks her pet bat Froderick), a pair of vampire hunters happen across the greasy little turd and give Mona the light of hope. Now she has to use her wits (hopelessly inadequate), Froderick's help (if he can stop cracking wise), and her environment (now we're getting somewhere) to escape Draxylvania and return to Paris.
A Vampyre Story (yes, the 'y' is correct) is a point-and-click adventure game released at the end of 2008, starring Mona, an opera singer and new vampire, and Froderick, a small bat she pals around with, plus a creative cast of supernatural supporting characters (and a curious abundance of cops). Ultimate naruto. Many of the employees of Autumn Moon Entertainment, the developers, used to work for Lucasarts, and some of the design sensibilities came along for the ride. Most obvious is the action coin interface-in addition to Curse of Monkey Island's Look-Talk-Touch, Mona has the option to transform into a bat to further use and abuse her environment. You can also 'use' your sidekick Froderick, in the vein of a Lucasarts-era adventure gaming icon (hint: think long ears). This game has examples of:.: You have to check under your bed for an item in order to proceed.
No one prompts you.:. The Baron is tricked and staked by a wandering monk as he leaves Warg Castle looking for fresh prey, and from what we saw of him he had it coming. Too bad his death didn't stick. The Baroness used to gather knowledge on the dark arts imprisoning and torturing information out of priests, scholars, wizards, witches and wisemen before killing them. She was eventually tricked by a golem and apparently fell in a trap set up by a Stranger and his Cabal.
Rufus the Gargoyle gets crushed by a statue and is humiliated, insulted, abused and turned into a golem against his will, but he's such a contemptious and arrogant jerk it's hard to feel sorry for him. Bruno Stocker is drained and scared shitless by Mona, but he's a drunkard and an abusive husband.: The Lake Monster greedily devours people and objects who gets in the lake. Froderick mentions that he once ate a boat full of Venetian tourists.: The Baroness.: The Lake Monster Inky is a living, vaguely-humanoid mass of black junk who swims across the lake and eats anything and everything trying to cross the lake without proper protection.: The library is equipped with one.: Rufus the gargoyle.
A good rule of thumb is that if you're ever stuck, you're not pissing Rufus off enough.: Mona persists in thinking of Pyewacket, the Baroness' old familiar, as a cute, harmless little kitten. The local rats think of her as twenty pounds of furry death. When you finally meet her, she's not actually hostile, but she's considerably less fluffy than Mona would like to believe.: Over the course of the story, Mona gradually comes to accept her vampire nature, rather than be in denial.: Well, bird in this case. Edgar the raven reads the newspaper and does laundry.: The Vampire Hunters make sure to pack their boat with every possible vampire-repelling tool before sailing to Warg Castle.: Mona's.: In order to find out which one of the three bridge gargoyles has the key inside his mouth, Mona has to pick up a mace and smash them all until the real one, Rufus, dodges. When Shrowdy removes the black cloth from the graveyard to leave Mona stuck there with the wagon of dirt, she simply pushes the wagon down the hill and out of the cemetery (with Froderick steering it) while she turns into a bat and flies above the crosses, to her safety.: Invoked, the forces of evil got stuck with the color black because the forces of good got to choose first, and so black clothing are used in dark arts to counter holy magic.: Rufus the Gargoyle, being an, tends to snark a lot towards Mona.: Mona. So much.: Rufus was once the Baroness' trusted companion and loyal servant but one day he lost his cool after young Shrowdy tried to use him as a dress-up doll and yelled at him, scaring the young vampire. Punished Rufus by confining him to the bridge and forcing him to act as the keykeeper for her son.: There are secret passageways connecting the kitchen to the dungeon and the secret laboratory to the Theater.
Unfortunately, Mona finds out about them only after finding the key to the main keep, angrily wishing she had found them earlier.: Bruno Stoker.: As Mona and Froderick go back to Madame Strigoi to say goodbye after gathering all the required items for the journey to Paris, she's killed and possessed by Shrowdy, who then urges Mona to seek the help of doctor Rigor Mortis, who can help her turn back to human. Mona buys this and we last see Mona and Froderick ditch their ship out of Draxylvania as Shrowdy gloats about the terrible things the doctor has in stock for her. Possibly subverted, as that was chapter 2 of the story.: Shrowdy's spectral form in part 3.
As he appears twice in the graveyard to trap Mona.: Mona's goal is to escape from Castle Warg and from her obsessive kidnapper, the Baron von Kiefer.: Mona comes to the conclusion that the Baroness was one, rather than a Vampire.: Mona gets a 'Vampirism For Dummkopfs' book late in the game, detailing her abilities and limitations as a vampire. Froderick summarizes each page, as Mona has neither the attention span nor the intellectual capacity to read it herself, but there is actual text there and you can (with difficulty-it's a fancy ) read what it has to say on your own, which is often quite amusing.: The ingredients for the golem activation potion, including literal eye of newt.
But it's the middle of winter so there are no newts to be found. Fortunately, lateral thinking prevails, and the eye from a picture of a newt in a coloring book makes an adequate substitute.: As the Vampire Hunters prepare to set sail to Castle Warg to face Mona, said vampire girl just rows by them on a coffin, asking for directions, which he hastily gives without even looking. For bonus point, this was that the undead just don't rows towards you asking politely for directions.: Draxylvania. The opening scene of the game even lampshades this, typing a few letters from the word 'Transylvania', then erasing that and typing Draxylvania instead.: Inky, the lake monster. Although it's unclear if 'Inky' is the monster's actual name or just a descriptive and slightly derogatory epithet given by Froderick and later adopted by Mona as well.: Mona isn't above uttering now and then.: Madame Strigoi, who's willing to help Mona. The ending though implies she was in cahoots with the Cabal.: The heroine Mona de Lafitte lets out a huge belch when, late in the game, she drinks blood from the fat slovenly drunkard Bruno Stoker.
She's mortified by the noise she makes, and hastily attributes it to the sheer quantity of booze in Bruno's blood. Must be all the beer he drank.: Invoked and averted, after Mona comments that the hinges need more lubricant to work, she asks if Froderick has something to say, to which he answers that he thought of something that probably wouldn't make it past the censors, causing her to giggle.: Although unkept and decaying, Mona's tower still bears the mark of luxury. She has her own personal room and even her very own theatre. Froderick's is a more literal version. When he tries to play it up like he's done time on the inside, Mona takes the wind out of his sails by pointing out that he's only allowed to have street cred if the cage is unpleasant, and further opines that between the comfortable sleeping arrangements and all the fruit and nuts he wants, the fact that it's shiny and attractive is just icing on the poser cake.: A clay one was used to trick the Baroness into running in a trap and later beheaded by Shrowdy. In the second act, you have to revive the golem to force Shade!Shrowdy to let go of the improvised cross he's holding in front of the boat.: Several characters, mostly male ones, have grotesque and cartoonish looks. Iris, the fall into downrigth.: Buttercup, the horse Mona has to procure, was originally called 'Il Cavallo Senza Valore' (lit, The Worthless Horse).
Unfortunately, doubles as.: Shrowdy has a special device in his torture chamber specifically designed for this purpose. Mona ends up using it to crush a different kind of nuts, though. It doesn't stop Froderick from being utterly horrified by the mere existence of the device.: The monks who stake Shrowdy technically are antagonists, as they plan to kill Mona too believing her to be a dangerous vampire like Shrowdy, but after all they do kill monsters. They're later revealed to be part of the same Cabal who tricked the Baroness.: Mona and Froderick enjoy one at the expense of Rufus after he's been reduced to a head. All he can do is groan in frustration.: Baron Shrowdy used them to mesmerize Mona before biting her, as well as using them to keep Inky at bay.: Mona would make jealous. by Rufus when he calls her a hussy and Mona takes offense. Proportions say otherwise.: If you believe Mona, wine is all she drinks.
Also, choosing the mouth-interaction with a couple of items gets a direct shoutout to the line.,: Shrowdy turned Mona into a vampire out of love, a fact for which Mona hates him. In a twist, Mona is in complete denial that she's a vampire.
Calling it 'love' is a bit of a stretch.