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The absence of the Behind the Scenes Pic of the Day is the most abject pain.
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today’s Behind the Scenes pic!
You know, I’ve never seen Werner Herzog’s remake of Nosferatu. I suppose it’d make a great addition to my A Movie A Day column. Maybe next October, yeah?
I mean, I love Herzog, I love the original Nosferatu and the idea of Klaus Kinski playing Count Dracula is very appealing to me. I’m just not a massive, massive fan of the Dracula tale, truth be told. With all due credit to Bela Lugosi’s mesmerizing performance and Tod Browning’s brilliant gothic atmosphere, Dracula is my least favorite of the Universal Monster movies.
So, I suppose that’s the reason I haven’t jumped immediately into this film, but I love the iconic image of Max Schrek’s vampire. He is not a romantic, he’s a fucking monster.
And below you’ll see Mr. Kinski in the make-up, a young Werner Herzog and a whole lot of atmosphere. I love how the darkness is almost a character in this photo. I hope you enjoy it (and click for the bigger version)!
If you have a pic you think should be included email me. I’m looking for the iconic, the rare or the just plain cool behind the scenes shots to feature here.
Tomorrow’s Behind the Scenes Pic is like this one, but older.
-Quint
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Previous Behind the Scenes pics:
- Alien
- Big Trouble In Little China
- Clash of the Titans
- Dr. Strangelove
- Sesame Street
- The Birds
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- Batman (1989)
- Batman: The TV Series
- Stephen King’s IT
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- Superman
- The French Connection
- Tron
- The Road Warrior
- Ghostbusters
- King Kong (’33)
- The Empire Strikes Back (Luke with Slate)
- Rebel Without A Cause
- Taxi Driver
- Metropolis
- The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
- Tommy Chong Meets The Blues Brothers
- The Empire Strikes Back (Filming the Crawl)
- John Carpenter’s The Thing
- Jaws
- Die Hard
- Aliens
- Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man
- The Howling
- Revenge of the Creature
- The Empire Strikes Back (Vader & Luke Duel)
- The Godfather
- Rambo III
- Vertigo
- Planet of the Apes
- Pan’s Labyrinth
- Labyrinth
- RoboCop
- The Adventures of Robin Hood
- Marathon Man
- Young Frankenstein
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- The Empire Strikes Back (Han driving a snow cat)
- Rio Bravo
- Giant
- Back to the Future
- The Time Machine
- War of the Worlds (1953)
- Alien (Chestburster)
- On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
- Dr. No
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- Once Upon A Time In The West
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Star Trek: The Original Series
- The Empire Strikes Back (Luke in Wampa Cave)
- Edward Scissorhands
- The Warriors
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Fantastic Mr. Fox
- Requiem for a Dream
- The Princess Bride
- Hard Boiled
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
- They Live
- The Empire Strikes Back (Tippet with Wampa)
- Dirty Harry
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
- Blade Runner
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (Periscope Ride)
- 1941
- The Godfather (Coppola & Brando)
- The Lady Eve
- 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
- Godzilla
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- Mary Poppins
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- The Trouble With Harry
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- The Shining
- Thriller
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- The Gate
- The Fly (1958)
- Halloween
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- Frankenstein
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- Psycho
- John Carpenter’s The Thing (Bottin)
- Creature From the Black Lagoon
- Friday the 13th (1980)
- A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)
- Creepshow
- Night of the Living Dead (’68)
- Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man
- Silence of the Lambs- The Exorcist
- Alien (crouching alien)
- Alfred Hitchcock being awesome
- Son of Frankenstein
- The Mummy (1932)
- Re-Animator
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Interesting movie
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watched it for the FIRST time.
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That Herzogs film is really about the loneliness of vampirism... It wouldn't really be this romantic cornball adventure like Ann Rice or Twilight. It would be horrible. Cuz you'd still be a human in your heart but have become a monster to survive. An unwilling cannibal doesn't really sound too romantic to me.
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So many things about it appealed to me.
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were as true to the original concept as this one, they'd probably never be considered "sexy"
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Oh boy was she gorgeous!!!!
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Herzog's remake is superior to the original.
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...version is top-notch. It's the best scripted Dracula movie I've ever seen.
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Seeing him complain about the food and going on a complete tirade in that makeup would be both amusing and terrifying.
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was pretty influential (maybe in a bad way!) with it's bat creature and werewolf demon having sex with women... It's also got some dense lush sound design. I need to check out the remake of Nosferatu again.
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here's a motivational poster you should take into consideration when you are going out to watch a vampire movie:<br /> <p>http://bit.ly/bA2QUU
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Really??? What the fuck is up with that?
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and atmospherically similar with Herzog's Nosferatu.
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Judging Dracula from the Browning movie is like judging Star Wars from an episode of Droids. You may as well say you don't like Dracula because Count Chocula is your least favorite cereal, for Christ's sake.
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..and Kinski. Dripping with atmosphere this one, and the rat's scene is great.
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Its like saying you havnt seen the shinning because the book is your least favourite of Kings, or he is the least of your favourite horror writers... although i love Dracula...
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Not my favorite vampire film or Herzog flick, but I like Herzog's NOSFERATU. Definitely has that rough-around-the-edges 70s atmosphere, and it's always worth checking out a Herzog/Kinski collaboration. <br> <br> After you see it once, try listening to the commentary track - Herzog comes off as cool as ever with some good stories about the production. However, he's paired up with some sycophant douche who seems to have a Wikipedia-depth understanding of Herzog and his films - it's actually kind of astonishing that they let him into a recording studio with Herzog.
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On the movie, and the commentary, Herzog sound's like he enjoy's correcting him. I think he's the same guy on the Cobra Verde and Aguirre one's too, thankfully Herzogs voice is soothing enough.
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The one version of Dracula that's really worked with me is, funnily enough, Bram Stoker's.
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A really fun take on Nosferatu with Willem Dafoe playing Schreck and John Malkovich playing [the director of the original] Murnau.
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Luminous, mesmerisingly beautiful... Ever seen Queen Margot? This is a fantastic film.
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It doesn't really work on a lot of levels, and doesn't capitalize on every avenue that the tremendous concept offers... but Dafoe's performance as a vampiric Shreck is brilliant, and its definitely worth a watch.
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With all the gazzillion versions of Dracula on film - I find it astonishing that the only thing that has never been done (apart from the kinda/sorta Spanish version) is a really true to the book version. Most are based on the Early 20thC stage play and have elements from that. You could say the same about other great characters also - like Tarzan.
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It's Florian Fricke/Popol Vuh again. He worked with Herzog throughout the '70s and '80s, but for my money Nosferatu's some of his most affecting stuff since Aguirre.
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I never cared for the Kinski version and even though the '22 Nosferatu has some wtf moments, that makeup job on Max is still a masterpiece
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I've never seen any before but I'm sure they exhist.
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..in "Shadow of the Vampire" is priceless! one of the best scenes in the film
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The image of either Schreck's or Kinski's bald white face haunted my childhood more than any other movie monster. It was the white face that I always knew would pop into view if I looked too long at the black square of a window at night.<br> <br> I had to dare myself to see this once I was an adult, and of course by then my sensibilities had me well-prepared for it. What surprised me most were the absolutely chilling images of the Mummies of Guanajuato used during the opening credits. They aren't mentioned in the film afterward, but one could image them representing the Count's hoards of victims, stowed away in the bowels of his castle. Cree-py.
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It's pretty obvious that Quint hasn't seen the movie, because this isn't a behind the scenes picture. It's an image from the movie pasted next to an unrelated picture of Herzog. The picture doesn't even make sense, if I'm going to accept that it's actually a set photo. Where are they all standing? Why aren't they looking at each other? Why is the entire background bathed in an artificial black?
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Well what about The Monster Squad? He "Is" the main villian. Maybe it's the Monster that did it for you. He was a very affective asshole character in that film. None of the other monsters could have done it as a leader like he did with such panache. For me Dracula has been told right yet, still to this very day. Too much romanticizing. He's a fucking conqueror of men and a sadist of the highest order.
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damn typo
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To be charitable, I'm going to assume that none of you have seen the BFI release of Nosferatu, with a soundtrack by James Bernard (who composed for Hammer, Dracula included). If you HAD seen that version you wouldn't make the peculiar claim that the remake is superior. Or maybe you're just uber Herzog fans? I tried to watch the Herzog film. It was awful. The acting, the dialogue....it was Cheese on a stick! Murnau's pic had atmosphere, class. For God's sake, the makeup is some of the best you'll see and it's 90 years old. Only a Herzog die hard could compare the two and claim the remake is 'superior'.
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The film has some nice dreamy moments. Great use of Wagner.
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There would be hilarious behind the scenes footage of Kinski screaming at Spielberg and Harrison Ford.
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This is officially my favorite picture so far. Perfect. Thanks.
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i agree that the guy on the Herzog DVD commentaries is a douche. For the record, he's a douche by the name of Crispin Glover (McFly in Back to the Future). despite being a fan of early Herzog, this one never totally worked for me. in theme, the "loneliness" of the vampire idea was novel and succeeded for me, but the rest of it never really came together. i don't believe any director or actor's work is sacrosanct. and i find it really doubtful that so many Aint-it-coolers really loved this movie. it's more likely that people love that "crazy" combo of Herzog and Kinski so much that they are willing to love this film too, by extension. The Murnau film is superior. I say that as a fan of 70s Herzog.
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It was actually a guy named Norman Hill: http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/dvdcompare/nosferatu.htm (I found this info at several sources but this reads the best) <br> <br> I looked it up because I knew there was no way it was a dude as out there as Crispin Glover, who would have actually been a great choice to sit in there with Herzog and really bring the dementia.
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Don't let the thought of people having differing opinions than your own send you into cardiac.....
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