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Gladiator II 2024
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"That will not be my destiny, but I will see your end." – someone really put in the effort for these dialogues.
Sharks in the Colosseum during a Naumachia, rhino-riding gladiators, senators reading newspapers and drinking coffee (sadly, no Cassius Dio – but then again, incorporating the main historical source from the Severan period while completely rewriting history might have been a bit tricky). Caracalla and Geta are absolutely insane, Macrinus gets heroically defeated by Paul Mescal – this is peak Hollywood. And yet, the film was mind-numbingly boring.
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Nosferatu 1922
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Murnau was unable to acquire the film rights to Bram Stoker's novel Dracula (1897) and moved the plot from England to Germany without further ado - Dracula became Nosferatu. However, the book was an expression of the fears of Jewish migrants from Eastern Europe, who increasingly came to the West after the pogroms in the Russian Empire in the 1880s. They are the ‘threatening strangers’ who possess unknown riches. The character is therefore highly anti-Semitic: starting with his physiognomy, which…
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Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979
At the end of the 70s, one could and should have been aware of the strongly anti-semitic aspects of the nosferatu figure.
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