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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Hi, my name is Robert Lamb and this is the

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Speaker 2: Monster Fact, a short form series from Stuff to Blow

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Speaker 2: Your Mind, focusing on mythical creatures, ideas and monsters. In

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Speaker 2: time at last, I can speak to you of the

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Speaker 2: most recent cinematic treatment of Count Or Locke, the off

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Speaker 2: brand Dracula from nineteen twenty two's Nosferatu, a symphony of horror,

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Speaker 2: who went on to become a horror icon in his

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Speaker 2: own right. We have to remember that in nineteen twenty

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Speaker 2: two Bram Stoker's novel Dracula was only thirty five years old.

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Speaker 2: In fact, F. W. Murnow's unauthorized adaptation drew the ire

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Speaker 2: of Stoker's widow, whose legal actions threatened to see all

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Speaker 2: copies of the now legendary silent film destroyed. Luckily, of course,

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Speaker 2: Murnow's masterpiece survived, as horror film historian David J. Skahl

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Speaker 2: points out in his book Vias for Vampire, The a

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Speaker 2: to Z guide Do Everything Undead. The German expressionist picture

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Speaker 2: can largely be seen as a quote metaphor of the

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Speaker 2: plaguelike destruction of Germany in World War one. He also

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Speaker 2: points out that in its initial release, it was far

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Speaker 2: from the silent, black and white nightmare that we think

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Speaker 2: of today, and was actually elaborately colored, tinted, and accompanied

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Speaker 2: by a modernist orchestra score. The film influenced not only

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Speaker 2: subsequent Dracula adaptations, but horror cinema as a whole. While

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Speaker 2: Dracula deservingly enjoys the greater following and has seen countless

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Speaker 2: screen and TV incarnations, count Orlock has enjoyed his own

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Speaker 2: cinematic legacy as something of a deeper cut. Klaus Kinsky

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Speaker 2: famously played the bald, cadaverous vampire in Werner Herzod's Nosferatu

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Speaker 2: Fantom der Nacht and then once more sort of and

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Speaker 2: with a full head of hair, in nineteen eighty the

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Speaker 2: Yates Vampire in Venice. Versions of the character were subsequently

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Speaker 2: played by the likes of Willem Dafoe, Doug Jones, and

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Speaker 2: on SpongeBob SquarePants Alexander Ward. The originator, however, was German

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Speaker 2: actor Max Schreck, who lived eighteen seventy nine to nineteen

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Speaker 2: thirty six, a man whose gaunt features and expressive eyes

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Speaker 2: works so well with the makeup to summon the specter

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Speaker 2: of a hideous corpse like vampire, one more in keeping

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Speaker 2: with Stoker's original vision for Dracula, but somewhat distant from

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Speaker 2: the mainstream cinematic visions popularized by the likes of Bela Lagosi,

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Speaker 2: Christopher Lee, and Gary Oldman. Robert Egger's twenty twenty four

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Speaker 2: remake cast Bill Skarsgard as the bloodthirsty count, this time

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Speaker 2: with a full regal mustache. As pointed out by Jazz

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Speaker 2: Tenke in the twenty twenty five Variety article Creep Show,

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Speaker 2: the Nosferatu makeup artists worked magic to create the King

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Speaker 2: of the Undead. David White's makeup effects for Orla included

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Speaker 2: sixty two prosthetic pieces, including both a penis and a

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Speaker 2: tongue soak to cover everything but the souls of Scarsguard's

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Speaker 2: feet and of course, his expressive eyes, though even those

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Speaker 2: benefited from contacts. Quoted in the Variety article, Eggers pointed

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Speaker 2: out that the prosthetic penis was necessary, especially as Orlock

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Speaker 2: rises from his coffin naked quote that in itself is

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Speaker 2: a bit of a phallic act, as is most of

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Speaker 2: everything that Orlock does in the movie. If you've seen

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty four's Nosferatu. You're well aware that the entire film,

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Speaker 2: and especially its villain, walks a line between eroticism and repulsion.

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Speaker 2: In this, the filmmakers explore a common realm of inquiry

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Speaker 2: in vampire media, the mingling of sex and death. When

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Speaker 2: we see Orlock feed in the film, he feeds naked

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Speaker 2: and writhing, his whole body seeming to function as a

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Speaker 2: blood pump in a most alarming fashion. Now, of course,

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Speaker 2: one can go much deeper than this in analyzing the

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Speaker 2: sexual nature of vampires in general. Skall, for instance, in

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Speaker 2: his book, references Freudian interpretations in which a vampire's sexual

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Speaker 2: energy is displaced into oral feeding, the fluids of living

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Speaker 2: reproduction and deathly predation confused and or substituted in death

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Speaker 2: denied sex, they feed, spawning undeath, not life, in the

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Speaker 2: bodies of their victims. As for the word nosferatu, cited

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Speaker 2: in the film and indeed in Stoker's original novel as

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Speaker 2: a Romanian word for vampire, it apparently means nothing at all.

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Speaker 2: Askall points out the word is likely a corruption of

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Speaker 2: the Romanian adjective nesuferite, which means not to suffer. As

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Speaker 2: in vampires are insufferable. The error appeared in Emily D.

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Speaker 2: Lazawaska Gerrard's eighteen eighty five essay Transylvanian Superstition, which Stoker

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Speaker 2: consulted in writing Dracula. Tune in for additional episodes of

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Speaker 2: The Monster, Fact, The Artifact, or Animalius Dupendium each week.

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