let nasu which is the latest film from Robert Edgars and is a adaptation of the 1922 silent German expressionist vampire film from FW mour which starred Max Shrek as count orlock now I will tell you this is not a beat byb adaptation of that said movie this very much so takes it into a different direction but it does have the core element of it you do have a real estate agent and you do have a count who becomes obsessed with real estate agent's wife and things escalate from there so this film is a long time
coming from Edgar he's been wanting to make this for so many years now and he's finally been able to release it now on Christmas Day this is a Christmas movie I will tell you that this is set in the 1800s and it follows real estate salesman Thomas hutter played by Nicholas H hold who his task with finding a new residence for a wealthy Transylvanian count named count orlock played by Bill Skarsgard while trying to fulfill his task hutter learns that orlock is a vampire and is also infatuated with his wife Ellen huter played by Lily
Ros and things are about to just go insane so in this film you follow Lily Rose's character of Ellen hutter who is the central focus of the film something that Edgars wanteded this to be like and he also talks about this sort of fascination with weathering Heights by saying it was always clear to me that no ratu is a Demon Lover story and one of the great Demon Lover stories of all time is weathering Heights which I returned to a lot while writing the script as a character hecliff is an absolute bastard towards Kathy in
the novel and you're always questioning whether he really loves her or if he just wants to possess and Destroy her which was something interesting you find out in the movie is that the count is very much infatuated with Ellen up until the point that he just wants to be with her and has him do some careless things I would believe as well but in this film Lily Rose Depp is a young woman who has this sort of Clairvoyance to her she's able to tap into the spiritual realm she's able to really transcend herself somewhere else
and at the beginning of the film we see her calling out for a spirit for a guardian angel for somebody to just hear her she talks about being a lonely child being a feeling of ostra that she doesn't have anybody around her that she can really connect with and so this is where she just starts tapping into whatever can hear her since she has this like connection to she doesn't know that this is not a guardian angel that has heard her is actually the count orlock so more like a demon of sorts and he has
become infatuated with her throughout the years now wanting her needing her and he finally realizes that she is within his grasp and that's why he's trying to move closer to her and has this whole like deal he's about to do with her husband unbeknownst to the husband so one day many years after she has made this connection with the count we see that she is now married to Thomas hutter and he is about to embark on an expedition to try and go find count orlock a new home he's sent by his boss her knock to
do this now we quickly realized that this was all just a setup Thomas hutter was set up by her knock to go to count orlock and pretty much give away his wife Ellen hutter is left with Frederick Harding and Anna Harding who are friends of the couple these are the characters played by Aaron Taylor Johnson and Emma Corin kind of like you know trying to deal with everything happening to Ellen because she sort of falls into a state of delusion so they call in a doctor who was played by Ralph Inon called Dr Williams severs
who's supposed to help her with all of is but to him it just doesn't seem that there's anything he can do and so he starts to realize that maybe they need to call in another expert who's more into the occult and that is controversial scientist Professor Alvin abant Von France who is played by William defo so brilliantly I tell you that in the review I made I said that once Li def steps in the movie just becomes something else while they're trying to figure out what's going on with Ellen as she's having convulsions and she's
speaking in these different languages and just having these very outrageous moments back to Thomas hutter's Expedition he goes through a village and in this Village he sees that they do these rituals of sorts to a vampire to something that is dead and they carry this woman through a horse and she's naked and it's kind of like they're giving her up to whatever said Force this is or they're setting up a trap I wasn't too entirely sure what they were doing right and at first he thought he was just dreaming but he quickly realizes he wasn't
this was in fact actually happening so he sets out to leave and then he comes and encounters a carriage that takes him to count orlok's castle at the castle the count says that he will address him as his Lord and then we see that he has him signed some papers and these papers unbeknownst to Thomas hutter are not just to buy a house they are in fact to give up his wife to the count and we see that then Thomas hutter is being slowly drained of his blood by the count during the night and so
he just has to make an escape which he does and goes on to find his wife as he realizes that the count wants his wife now the count is on his way already to the town as well as he makes his way on this Expedition which was a part of the book of course from Dracula the last Voyage of the demer chapter and we've already seen a movie that was just based on this so he's on this boat and at the same time he is bringing a plague with him with all of the rats he's
also feasting on all of the crew members so there's a lot going on here right now as they're trying to find out what's going on with Ellen the count is on his way with the plague and we see Thomas hutter on his way to try and warn Ellen of what's going on now right before Thomas sets out to go back to find his wife he is taken into like a monastery of sorts where they tell him that he is free of the demon and all this but that he needs to stay here because he is
still kind of weak but he says he can't he has to go find Ellen and warn her which he eventually does arrive to the town but at the same time the count arrives to the town as well now while all this is happening herd knock was already in custody due to him being like insane he has completely lost it and he is saying that his count is on his way and that he is going to serve him evil attachment to the count to do his bidding and we see him Escape once the count arrives to
the town after killing everybody on board of the ship that he was on as well as releasing a ton of rodents that are just infected with the plague onto the town that same night Thomas hutter arrives into town to war an Ellen as well but it's pretty much to late as we see that Anna Harding then becomes the next victim of the count and we see her start to go insane which pisses off Frederick Harding as he feels all of this is just happening because of Ellen hutter's Insanity he doesn't believe in Professor uh France
talking about a vampire we see that things really escalate when we see the count then kill on a Harding and also his children that he had and then they just have to bury them the next day now the count has already told Ellen she has three nights to choose what she's going to do and that she better make the right choice or he's just going to kill everybody because he wants her and we see that Professor Ain ever France realizes that this may be the only way to stop the vampire they realize that the vampire
needs to sleep in his own tomb in order to be able to live further on Before Sunrise comes out and so the plan plan that Thomas hutter and Professor V France as well as Dr cus has is is to go into the vampire's tomb right before the sun comes out that morning and then just kill him in there so he's not able to escape and then he pretty much dies from the sunlight now the thing is that Bon France says that this might not exactly work and him and Ellen hutter talk about her sort of
like luring the vampire in having the window shades open in order for the sun to come out and thus the vampire sort of gets stuck there with her and ultimately dies they don't say this to Thomas hutter or Dr sers however so they lay out the plan Thomas hutter Dr sers and Von France as well as with Frederick are going to go out and they're going to go to the castle and impel the vampire into his tomb and not let it close so the vampire can then die but Ellen huter and Von France have their
own plan while the four men go do this that be luring the vampire to come to her residence and then keep him there until the sun comes out so Bon France tricks hutter into thinking that he will be the one to destroy the vampire but doesn't tell them the plan he already made with his wife right before they head out they tried to figure out what's going on with Frederick who hasn't showed up and they quickly realize that he himself is dying from the plague now as he goes to the graveyards of his wife as
well as his children to ultimately die there with them and we see the men find him there dead and they bir the body so that the play cannot sort of spread they then go to the Count's castle where they open the coffin owning to find her knock in there and not count orlock anymore they kill her knock and then they burn everything the whole thing so the count does not have anywhere to reside anymore huter and sers get pissed off that they've been deceived by Von France and they realized that Tim and Ellen had made
another plan which was for Ellen to keep the vampire with her until he dies when the sun comes out we see at Ellen's residence as the vampire approaches her and begins to suck her blood for the vampire to stay with her as we see the sun come up and the vampire still stays there eventually dying once the Sun's Up Ellen as well dying because of the amount of blood that has been taken Thomas hutter as well as Professor a everon France and Dr sers arrive to find Ellen as well as count orlock now dead and
the film just ends right there so very poetic ending okay so let's get through some of these things first right the count why does the count look the way they do well Robert Edgar says that he wanted to base the bampire on how it's described and really old folklore he says that he does appreciate what Nas veratu 1922 did and other vampire films but that they're described as Rotting Flesh and I think that that look was well executed by Robert Edgars in this film I really did dig it a lot honestly I do think that
that is definitely the way to do it and he also wanted the vampire to really rely on hypnosis and things like that which is something I think we don't really see a lot with vampires uh nowadays which has always been a fascinating thing for me now in terms of the story in itself we can assume that count orlock got to her knock at some point and hypnotized her knock to become his Minion or dog as he calls him at a point and he knew that Thomas hutter was married to Ellen at this point and wanted
to sort of infiltrate them now he couldn't just get up and move around right he is this very old vampire and he does need some help moving around so he did have to sort of establish this fake thing that he wanted a castle in another area now of course it wasn't just like I just want a new home and that way I can get a real estate agent to come here he needed to be close to Ellen so I think as the years went by when Ellen and the count first made this connection he sort
of started to realize where Ellen was and that's how he was going to infiltrate everything and just take over now the village of course where Thomas ended up first in the movie I think was a village that had been like taken over by the count and they were doing his bidding for him giving him these like these sacrifices as well throughout time in order for them to be safe we've seen this in other folklore of vampires when they talk about it as well as in Dracula that the vampire pretty much has control over the village
and the village has to to relinquish a sacrifice every so often in order for the vampire to not just kill everybody and so I think Thomas experienced that that night and I think that that was an interesting way to really showcase what count was trying to do in the place where Thomas and Ellen lived and so I thought it was such a fascinating way to really explore this tale of the vampire Obsession which can be interpreted in many ways and just a beautiful story that Edgar really did hear for sure about how they wanted ly
Rose Deb's character of Ellen to sort of be the central focus of everything happening around here and we heard uh her talk about this on the red carpet saying Ellen's perspective is one that we've never gotten to see in such a central way as this one and Rob made the deliberate choice to make Ellen's perspective the central one and we see this story really unfold through her eyes which I think was such a beautiful thing and it was an honor for me to play and it's very exciting because I think while of course this is
a story we are familiar with this is really a fresh take that is very different from any other iteration the character I found so incredibly empowering I feel like there's so much strength to her she has so much agency also in the story without giving anything away she kind of calls the shots in a very cool way and I found her incredibly empowering and inspiring I love playing her Edgars also talks about sort of choosing this different perspective to the story by saying in the 10 years of trying to make the film from that first
draft to now hasn't changed a lot but I think that has the most appealed to me now with the version of the story is that it centers around Lily roast Deep's character it's the female protagonist Story the mno film which I love dearly becomes Ellen's Story by the Final Act she becomes the heroine but this is with her from the very beginning which I was hopeful would create a more emotional and psychological death maybe it does you tell me he also talks about the way that he wanted this version of Ellen to feel like a
woman who despite understanding things on a very deep level doesn't have the language to articulate her experiences and he wanted to sort of emphasize in this story how men's misogynistic preconceptions of women are kind of a monster in and of themselves he goes on to say that Ellen's husbands loves her but he can't understand these hysteric and melancholic feelings she's experiencing and he's dismissive of her the only person she really finds a connection with is this monster and that love triangle is so compelling to me partially because of how tragic it is and I think
that's something I think Ellen realizes at some points that she's never really had this Psy a connection with anybody else except for the count although she does say Thomas was a big part of what helped her get out of this Melancholy or feelings it still is the count who has always been in her mind Skarsgard also talks about the portrayal of his character and talks about NOS Fatu and count orlock by saying Robert has been marinating the story ever since he was a little boy I read the script the first time 10 years ago and
the script didn't change at all that much so he was very particular with the stuff that he wanted but in terms of creative Freedom when you have a director that is that specific he goes I want you to work within this Frame it's liberating to an extent because you go here's my parameters and then what can I do with those parameters but the look of the character Robert had made a digital drawing of the character that I saw years before we started to shoot that looked like the guy so I think with the ending of
this film NOS Fatu I think one of the clear things here is that I think Professor Von France made it clear from the beginning that he had no clue how the vampire exactly work work and one of the things that he just assumed was that vampire had to be back in his own sarcophagus of sorts coffin whatever you want to call it before the sun had risen and so the plan of Thomas hutter was just to stake the vampire so it' be stuck to its coffin and would just stay there and wouldn't be able to
come out I think Professor Von France as well as Ellen hutter kind of saw this as it was kind of risky it may not work and eventually if it didn't work then that would mean that Thomas hutter and the rest of the team there would just die and the vampire would still be loose causing more chaos throughout the years I think Ellen hutter and Professor Ron France knew that the vampire was so infatuated with Ellen that it would just be with Ellen throughout this time there was this psychic connection they both had that the vampire
found so alluring to want to venture out and come to Ellen himself there was already kind of like the vampire was like in a way so transfixed on her that it was just going to not really think that straight I think in my opinion and I think a lot of the parallels between Ellen as well wanting to have something more and her husband dismissing her and all of these feelings are things that Robert agis has talked about when making the film he wanted to make that perspective of a woman during this time who didn't feel
like she was being heard and she was just being dismissed all the time we saw it with her husband at the beginning as well and also with Frederick and Anna who were just sort of saying I think he just missed your husband that was it you aren't really going through anything even though the doctor and also Professor Von France knew that something else was up with her I think also the whole thing with the lilacs being purple and all of that really signify a lot with the character as well because it talks about the lilacs
being a representation of Love spirituality emotions of love and just Purity and things like that and I think that was one of the things that this sort of represented for the C with Ellen and so I think with the ending of the film it is totally in such a poetic way as well because it is something that Von France finds out about through a book that the only way to really relinquish this vampire is through the heroin the woman has to be the one that sort of is the hero of the story here because that
is how it's told through the book that Bon France reads now of course there could have been other ways to really handle this but you have to put it into your perspective that these people had never encountered such a thing even Von France says he's only read about them and never really seen one in person so could there have been another way possibly but it was too risky especially with the plague already in the town and things like that and I think Ellen and Von France just knew this was the only way to really do
all of this I think Ellen also felt some type of way about her being the one that invoked such a creature all of these years now so it could possibly be tied to that but I think it really showcases just how much love Ellen and Thomas had for one another that Ellen was prepared to risk her life in order for Thomas to be able to live because she says that all her life she had never really felt love or felt that she was wanted by anybody until Thomas came into her life and I think that
that was the reason she felt so compelled to keep Thomas safe and to keep him alive and I think it really switches up the roles what we normally see in movies with the male is the one that takes sort of the I would say sacrifice in order to have the woman be the one to go forward right and it showed a lot of courage and a lot of love from Ellen to really take that leap and say you know what I think this is the only way I have to lure this very evil creature to
me keep him here until he's dead and even if that means my life is taken at least I know that I did good for everybody else around me especially for the one man who has always loved and cared for me and I think it truly just makes it that much more of a tragic romance than a horror film and it really does hit harder now that I'm thinking about it for sure I don't know I really like the film I think it is such a poetic and Gothic horror film and truly about romance at its
core and it does have this very um arousing feeling to it especially with the count sort of trying to psychologically manipulate both Thomas Ellen and everybody else here in order to achieve what he wants but at its core we still see that love still kind of rings through and Purity and all of that and it is such a beautifully told film from Robert Edgar I'm excited to talk more about it with y' and analyze it even more I got to watch it again and really get through it but these are just my initial thoughts on
a first go around at the ending I think that Ellen sacrificed herself due to love she wanted the uh count to be gone and she knew that this was the most safe proof way to do it especially with Von France and Ellen realizing that the demon and her had this very close psychic connection so it would be something that was going to be hard for the count himself to even break that as well and we saw it as the end we saw that the count kept feeding on her even though he knew that the sun
was coming up that this would be the end that's just how strong of a connection he felt to Ellen that he didn't really care about his own life being taken just as long as he could have Ellen for one time and I think that that definitely even more exites the point of obsession and love and all of that throughout the film so it's it's a very interesting film one I'm sure we'll talk about more and more throughout the ages and I'm excited to do that so let me know what you think about the ending if
you have another suggestion on the ending and all of that do love how Edris does incorporate more of the older um lore to vampires and what we've seen recently and really takes it much more medeval I guess you could say something I do want to talk about when I talk about all three NOS Fatu films and that's going to be a video I'll probably do next week so stay tuned for that but tomorrow is the holidays and hope all of you have a great holiday we will talk about baby girl tomorrow in the video so
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