Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Foreign.
[00:00:06] Speaker B: Film Finder brought to you by Pioneer Library System.
[00:00:14] Speaker A: Hello, and welcome to another episode of five Minute Film Finder brought to you by Pioneer Library System. My name is Darren and I'm here with Samuel today. Let's welcome Samuel back to the podcast.
[00:00:25] Speaker B: Thanks.
[00:00:25] Speaker A: How you doing?
[00:00:26] Speaker B: Doing pretty well.
[00:00:27] Speaker A: Great. Great. We're so excited to have you back.
[00:00:29] Speaker B: Happy to be back.
[00:00:30] Speaker A: Excellent. We got. We got a couple of vampire movies for you today.
[00:00:34] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
[00:00:35] Speaker A: Like original OG Vampire movie. Right. So we're going to. We're going to talk about Nosferatu from 1922.
[00:00:42] Speaker B: Yes. Yeah.
[00:00:43] Speaker A: And also we have chosen A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which is from 2014. So, you know, a little. A little newer.
[00:00:52] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. With, you know, within this century right now.
[00:00:55] Speaker A: Had you seen either one of these movies?
[00:00:58] Speaker B: I had seen Nosferatu about a year ago. This is my first time with a girl walks home alone at night.
[00:01:03] Speaker A: Okay. We could. Are you gonna mess that up? I'm gonna mess it up.
[00:01:06] Speaker B: I will probably mess it up a couple times. So please.
[00:01:09] Speaker A: I had seen. Also had seen Nosferatu a long time ago, much more than a year, and this was also my first time watch. Walking. Watching a girl Walks home alone at night. So I'm pretty excited to talk about these. Why don't we just jump right in? We'll get a timer going. We're going to start with Nosferatu. We're going to get Wilhelm set up and we'll get started.
[00:01:31] Speaker B: Awesome.
Yeah. So Nosferatu was kind of my choice for the podcast. For today's podcast, I have some inspiration behind it. I've recently been slowly working through Dracula by Bram Stoker. And so this is sort of the unofficial adaptation. So don't come into it looking for Count Dracula. You're going to get Count Warlock.
[00:01:52] Speaker A: Right?
[00:01:53] Speaker B: Right. This is. It's. It's a. It's German. German.
[00:01:56] Speaker A: German.
[00:01:59] Speaker B: From. From. From the. From the novel. So different. Different plot beats a bit than the novel. So. But. But it's fascinating because I would never have considered myself much of a vampire person.
You know, it was not. It was not a particular genre or even monster movies in general or my. Were my.
Didn't always align with my taste. But reading the novel and then now watching the movie, it's very fascinating to see, you know, how the, how the monster, how the vampire kind of functions within the story because in the movie he's often associated with, you know, the plague. It feels like, you know, rats kind of play and have an emphasis within the movie. And so there's this maybe connection between the vampire coming to this kind of German town and the, the arrival of this sort of, you know, of the, you know, the plague.
[00:02:57] Speaker A: Right. Yeah. It's much more interested in the plague part, you know, versus Bram Stoker's, you know, like, like you said, the, the German part of that really plays through there with the. The way the town is and stuff with that with people and the way when the plague comes and. Yeah, it's interesting.
[00:03:12] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. Because I think in the novel there's a sense of. It almost feels more like a commentary on just Victorian norms, social norms and things like that. And so there's a sense that Dracula is causing a stir in a different way, say, than Orlok and Nosferatu.
[00:03:31] Speaker A: Yeah. Interesting. The Orlok character. Hideous.
[00:03:35] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:03:37] Speaker A: Never seen in any form that isn't hideous.
[00:03:40] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:03:41] Speaker A: Which you get a little depending on your Dracula. You get a little bit of both, you know, And I thought some of the similarities between the Nosferatu and the book were interesting. You know, the bit about the boat was very close. Right. Like the stuff that happened on the boat is very, very close to the novel. Yeah.
It's kind of a short movie.
[00:04:01] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:04:01] Speaker A: Only 80 minutes longer or something like that. It feels to me it felt much longer because I don't do silent movies. A little rough. I had to watch it on fast forward a little bit. Yeah, it helped. But. Yeah. I don't know, what did you think? Are you a fan?
[00:04:18] Speaker B: I think so, yeah. Yeah. I mean, the guy who plays Orlok, last name Shrek, so should be easy to remember.
I think he does a great job. The way he moves in the scenes is very unnerving, unsettling, which is nice.
Watching a movie from the 1920s is always interesting because it's never going to be as maybe gripping as, say, a film with sound and dialogue, but. But you got kind of get to see people at the. At the beginning of the art form kind of doing.
[00:04:52] Speaker A: It was, you know, it was interesting. Like they did a lot more with facial stuff. The. The dude's eyebrows. What was his name?
[00:04:59] Speaker B: Knock is.
[00:05:00] Speaker A: Yes. Eyebrows were ridiculous. Just waving in the air the whole movie. And the way they really had to like show their faces on what they were, you know, like trying to give you those feelings that we would just do with dialogue now. Yeah, it was interesting.
[00:05:17] Speaker B: Yeah. Another fascinating thing is, is text, right. Because in modern movies, because we. We are so text based with maybe communication. Right. Phones. How do you. How do you convey someone reading a text message in a modern movie? And Then back then you have books, right. And so you, you're seeing, you're seeing them like, you know, they're, they're. They're whole clips of. And it's on their phone.
[00:05:42] Speaker A: Like he writes the letters, you see him and then she receives the letters and you see him again. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:05:47] Speaker B: Pages, right. Explaining how vampires.
[00:05:49] Speaker A: Yeah, the vampire book that popped up a couple of times.
[00:05:51] Speaker B: Yeah. And it's, it's very fascinating to see us maybe come full circle, whereas maybe 20 years ago things would have been on like a phone call and so you would still use sound rather than the visuals. So. No, it's really cool. And then you see the, the scene, the shot of Orlok on the ship as he's. He's making his way. There's that. They overlay the, the shot so he has a kind of a transparent. You get a sense that he is a phantom, you know.
[00:06:19] Speaker A: Yeah. It was interesting the way they did that, some of that stuff with him, his vampire abilities. Right. Like the way they had to do to shoot that in the 20s to get him, you know, to be supernatural and stuff like that. Carrying the coffin was super goofy, though. Like he's just walking through the street. Oh, and. And there's Wilhelm talking about Orlok walking through the streets carrying his coffin. Just like. It's just, you know, just got bundle under his arm. It's pretty good. All right. Yeah. So that's, that's it for Nosferatu. Any final thoughts? Good movie. You're gonna recommend it to people who are interested in vampires or.
[00:06:52] Speaker B: I think, I think if you've read Dracula, I think you should watch the movie.
[00:06:56] Speaker A: Sure.
[00:06:56] Speaker B: It's. It's different, but it's. It's. The differences are, are interesting and thought provoking.
[00:07:01] Speaker A: Cool.
[00:07:01] Speaker B: So.
[00:07:01] Speaker A: All right. All right, we'll take a little break and we'll come back with our next movie.
Okay. Welcome back. We're going to talk about our next movie. We are going to talk about a girl walks home alone at night. This came out in 2014.
It is described as the first Iranian vampire spaghetti western.
[00:07:28] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:07:29] Speaker A: If you look at the, the Wikipedia pages. Yeah, so I see it. Yeah. The, the western influences and stuff were interesting. Yeah, that's what. Let's get a timer going. Five minutes on the timer. We got Wilhelm set up and. Yeah, we have a girl walks home alone at night. First off, I think this is a great movie. Let me start off from there. I think I loved it.
It was, it was weird.
[00:07:52] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:07:52] Speaker A: And the pacing was oddly similar to Nosferatu like some of the long. Just like looking at a person standing there and the way the very little dialogue, lots of music giving you, you know, what was going on in the scenes and stuff like that. So, like I said, this is my first time watching it. Your first time watching. What do you think? Did you enjoy.
[00:08:18] Speaker B: I mean, it has a similar pacing to Nosferatu in the sense of you have those, like, kind of long shots at the vampire and other aspects. It was. It was fascinating because I felt, unlike with, like, Nosferatu, I had no, like, Touchstone. Like, I had no entry into. Into the film. And you reading off the first Iranian vampire spaghetti Western, it's like. Oh, a lot of things just start clicking now as I think about it.
[00:08:50] Speaker A: Yeah. So it's interesting. It starts off with the introduction of the main human character. I guess he's looking for his cat. And the cat is a major feature throughout the movie, has an important role in the plot. And I thought that was kind of interesting. I didn't expect the cat. The cat was surprising as a way to kind of humanize that guy in the beginning of his journey.
[00:09:19] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:09:20] Speaker A: Him caring for that cat and stuff. Yeah. And then eventually you meet the skateboarding vampire chick. Yeah, that's super interesting. Like, her first scene is just her dancing.
[00:09:33] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:09:33] Speaker A: Alone in her apartment. And like I said, they really use the music kind of in an interesting way in this movie as well, to, like, introduce these characters and long. Those, like I said, those long, slow scenes. The scene in the apartment with the drug dealer guy. Yeah. Did you catch the Nintendo? The light gun?
[00:09:49] Speaker B: No, he had a.
[00:09:50] Speaker A: He had a light gun on his table. Oh, yeah. Like, it was. It was sitting there. Yeah. It was totally an any light gun. It was great. But. Yeah, so the scary drug dealer guy at the beginning was, you know, is this going to be her first vampire kill in the movie? And it kind of introduces this. This vampire character in an interesting way. She's. She's silent. She's just kind of standing there. Very little dialogue from her at all. The entire movie. Yeah. Lots of her just kind of being in a scene.
[00:10:20] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:10:20] Speaker A: And doing weird stuff.
I think it's. I think it's a good movie.
[00:10:28] Speaker B: What do you. What do you think about the. The use of. Because it's in black and white, which I'm.
[00:10:35] Speaker A: I think it's interesting watching these two movies together, especially. I didn't. I didn't even know that, like, when I chose it, I didn't know that it was a black and white movie. I kind of Went in blind as well. And the, the way they still used shadow like in a black and white movie was really interesting. Yeah.
Especially with the vampire specifically. I don't know. What did you think? Did you like the black and white effect on the movie?
[00:11:03] Speaker B: I don't. Maybe I was almost. And maybe this is the thing with expectations is it can. It can affect your viewing experience and some. When I saw the movie poster for it, I think that it made me think that there would be maybe some select use of color.
[00:11:21] Speaker A: Oh, sure. So the Right. Movie poster, right?
[00:11:23] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. And so as I was watching the film, I was, I was just kind of waiting for it and after a while you'll kind of give up on the idea. But, but so I think that if I would kind of almost want to rewatch it without the expectations. Without the expectations and see, because you weren't really.
[00:11:40] Speaker A: You were watching for the color, like, hey, when's this color going to happen? Rather. Yeah, I'm looking at the black and white.
[00:11:46] Speaker B: Yeah, it was, it was silly of me, but, but, but, you know. Yeah, yeah.
[00:11:49] Speaker A: Well, yeah. So just be warned, for those of you watching the movie, it is a black and white just like, just like Nosferatu.
[00:11:55] Speaker B: So yeah, if you're into, if you're into kind of really, you know, rich color palettes. These are not, not maybe the movies.
[00:12:02] Speaker A: Not in the movies for, you know.
Did you. I thought the techno music was interesting. Like the, the. Some of the beats that they used amping up like the, the scenes. Especially the, like I said, that first scene in the drug dealer's apartment. The way they use the music when he was doing the weird little dance. Yeah, yeah, it was pretty good.
[00:12:23] Speaker B: Yeah. No, it's. And it's interesting kind of watch the.
She's a very different vampire from Orlok. Right. She. In many ways there's some ambiguity. Right. She. She feels bad, but also she's.
[00:12:36] Speaker A: Yeah, there's. There's much more emotion. Right. Like, you know, Orlok is, is very much a. Oh, there's, there's, there's Wilhelm where we have to be done. Any final thoughts on either of these two interesting vampire movies we watched?
[00:12:49] Speaker B: Great to watch together.
[00:12:51] Speaker A: Yeah, I think that's a great idea. If you, if you have the. Would take you about two and a half hours or so to watch these two movies. They're both pretty short. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Give it a try. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, anyway, thanks for coming.
[00:13:03] Speaker B: Yeah, thanks.
[00:13:04] Speaker A: It's nice to have you on again, Samuel. And I hope everybody enjoys and have a good one.
[00:13:08] Speaker B: Yeah. And these can be found on Canopy. Oh, yeah, that's already.
[00:13:12] Speaker A: Don't forget Canopy. And I don't know if they were on hoopla at all, but Canopy for sure for both of these movies.
