[kj] (OT) Spooky events

[Darren A. Peace]

Decent cast? I can't think of a single thing Langella's been better than
embarrassing in prior to the shock of Frost/Nixon. And this was right in the
middle of Olivier's cash cow period (see also Marathon Man, which I really
like, but Olivier was ludicrous in that too).

 

Darren

Hungerford, UK

 

From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On
Behalf Of Jim Harper
Sent: 10 April 2009 15:09
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: Re: [kj] (OT) Spooky events

 


I wouldn't necessarily describe it as *better* than Murnau's original,
although it's definitely one of the few remakes of a bona fide classic that
I consider to be as worthwhile or important as the original.

 

Remaking classics is always tricky. For me, Herzog's achievement with
Nosferatu is underlined by John Badham's utterly awful Dracula, another
classic remake released the same year as Nosferatu. A by-the-numbers remake
of Tod Browning's 1931 Dracula, Badham's film has a decent cast (Frank
Langella, Donald Pleasence, Laurence Olivier) but screws up every other
aspect of the film. With a total lack of scares or tension, the story
becomes a tepid romance built around Langella's smarmy cliched Latino lover
Dracula. His vampire doesn't have any teeth and his performance is also
utterly toothless. Compared to this, Herzog's Nosferatu is a divine
achievement.

 

Rant over- apologies!

 

Jim.

--- On Fri, 10/4/09, Bo Krogsgaard <bo.krogsgaard at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Bo Krogsgaard <bo.krogsgaard at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [kj] (OT) Spooky events
To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)"
<gathering at misera.net>
Date: Friday, 10 April, 2009, 12:02 PM

Don't know if i'd claim Herzog made a better Nosferatu than Murnau did, but
Herzog's would be the one i'd watch next.


b


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