Vampires have porn-staches ? Does he trim it before he goes to bed? Does it even grow? It seemed out of place and I couldn't take him seriously after seeing it.
I thought the movie was pretty good. Very cinematic, dark and dreadful. The ending sucked, tho.
As far as evil people in movies go...I always wonder about them taking a shit! Like Nosferatu, does he use toilet paper? Which brand does he prefer? Does he ever come out of the bathroom and go "Whew...do NOT go in there, for another 25 to 35 minutes!"?!
The logistics of it all are very interesting to me for some reason! :)
In Bram Stoker's novel Dracula does indeed have a mustache. Christopher in Count Dracula also palyed the Count with a handlebar mustache. However, Bela Lugosi's 1931 portrayal of Dracula (which he also played onstage before the film was made) proved to be so iconic that most Dracula films have had the Count clean-shaven.
shareI watched the Lee/Franco Count Dracula a few weeks ago for the the first time in years. The tache still takes some getting used to!
shareLee could certainly rock a handlebar mustache like few others. That's not what sunk the movie, though. Jess Franco's inept direction and cheap production values did that.
shareIt's a real shame what happened. It was a talented cast. Soledad Miranda and Maria Rohm were both gorgeous. Parts of it worked. It was just so uneven. I read that money was thrown about whilst Lee was filming, but as soon as he'd finished and left the producers pulled the purse strings.
shareEnnio Morricone's close associate Bruno Nicolai did a very fine musical score for the film, utilizing a Hungarian cimbalom. The cast seemed like it couldn't miss, either (Herbert Lom as Van Helsing, Christopher Lee as Dracula, Klaus Kinski as Renfield), yet miss it did.
shareI watched the Lee/Franco The Bloody Judge last night. Nicolai did a very nice score for that too.
shareI did not know this. Thanks for the info.
shareDespite being a Nosferatu remake, Eggers decided to incorporate aspects from the official Dracula and the mustache is one of those (And some Vlad Tepes for good measure as well).
I'm 50/50 on it. I don't have a problem with it in a general sense but I do think it alters/hides Orlok's rat-like design and said design was the most iconic thing about Nosferatu. At least he knew not to alter the hands.
It makes perfect sense to me. Eggers included it for the same reason Bram Stoker did. Count Orlok/Dracula is based on Vlad Tepes, and Vlad had a long mustache. He was a fifteenth century Wallachian nobleman, and mustaches were very common among that class. Eggers also costumed Orlok in fifteenth century Wallachian attire. Orlok is the reanimated corpse of a Transylvanian ruler who died in 1476, and apart from the decay, he appears exactly as Vlad would have appeared in life, including clothing and hairstyle.
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' Does he trim it before he goes to bed? Does it even grow?'
Interesting point!