F.W. Murnau and Tod Browning‚ were two great directors who both set out to make a movie based on Bram Stoker’s classic horror novel Dracula. Both of these two films‚ Nosferatu by Murnau and Dracula by Browning share similarities and differences. today I will comparing and contrasting the similarities and differences of the two films. When it comes to directors F.W. Murnau is certainly one name that is prominent. Because he is one of the three great German expressionist filmmakers of the silent
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her relationship with her father. In this poem‚ Plath uses the symbol of a vampire to describe her father’s personality. At the end of the poem Plath shifts the depiction of her father from a living Nazi to a dead vampire. “The vampire who said he was you / And Drank my blood for years” (lines 32-33). Here Plath bluntly calls her father a vampire who has sucked her blood for years. The metaphor of a blood sucking vampire is used to help paint a vivid image of the pain in
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and attitude. Although she is a significant film star and made more than 40 silent films‚ she is forgotten because about 90% of her films were destroyed in a fire. While few of her films survive today‚ her public image and career as playing as a vampire and Cleopatra helped to develop the celebrity image and culture that stands a century later. As Ronald Genini’s Theda Bara: a Biography of the Silent Screen Vamp‚ with a Filmography and Eve Golden’s Vamp: The Rise and Fall of Theda Bara serves as
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using negative words such as no one and not. (Rice 141). The quote also proves that his life is hopeless by using a metaphor that means that there is light‚ meaning hope‚ but there is actually no light‚ showing that vampires basically has no hope. Rice also characterizes the vampires’ lives as “a silver clock ticking in a void” which means that time is endlessly going‚ but
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Stoker’s‚ Dracula‚ Lucy and the three seductive vampires serve as women who step out of their Victorian role and are in turn punished for their actions. From the beginning of the novel‚ Lucy had already started to secretly think and step away from the boundaries set for Victorian women. In a private letter to Mina‚ Lucy wrote “Why can’t they let a girl marry three men‚ or as many as want her‚ and save all the
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People say Paris is The City of Love‚ but one event changed everything. After many centuries of being forbidden‚ the love between Vampires and Werewolves had risen again. Paris is known for its population of both Vampires and Werewolves‚ now announced that two mass murderers are on the run after assassinating 5 people in Paris. It was confirmed that two young teenagers had established a forbidden relationship which is called the WEREPIRE in Paris; The City of Love. Some residents fled the
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level of anxiety and object of terror are different‚ the fascination to reveal them has inspired Gothic authors such as Mary Shelley‚ Edgar Allan Poe‚ Stephen King‚ and Stephenie Meyer for three centuries. Subjects of these classic tales include vampires‚ reanimation of the dead‚ ghosts‚ murder‚ witches‚ and love. These stories and poems can terrify audiences because they can encompass reality of things people cherish with a twist of the impossible. Gothic writers use terror‚ mystery‚ and excitement
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clever metaphors that work well within the show. In the very first episode of BtVS entitled “Welcome to the Hellmouth” this struggle unfolds “as Buffy struggles to deny her Slayer heritage in the face of obvious vampire activity‚ and as Buffy’s new friends struggle with the reality that vampires and the Hellmouth are real” (Little 289). The second episode entitled “The Witch” addressed two problems which teens go through - the need to belong and parents trying to live the children’s lives. In this
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Both Johnny Depp (guitarist for The Hollywood Vampires)‚ and Alice Cooper worked with him in the Dark Shadows film they did together back in 2012. One of my all time favorite movie actors. His work alone with Hammer Studios is just simply outstanding. Who else but he could take the role of Dracula made famous by Bela Lugosi‚ and profitably make it his own? Next we get one of two original songs on the Hollywood Vampires album‚ called; Raise The Dead. Helps set the tone for everything
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together by encompassing what we think we know about vampires and adding a new dimension to it. With the latest cinematography and the new technology they made every scene believable and kept the audience wanting more. It showed us a new vampire and werewolves. II. Body paragraph # 1- Topic Sentence #1 Throughout the movie the audience was kept enthralled by sequence of event and the ever changing relationships between the wolves’‚ vampires‚ and Bella. A. Supporting Evidence Each scene in
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