DBWI: Nosferatu survives

So I was surfing the web today, when I stumbled across an interesting story. Way back in the old days (when all we had was silent films where no one talked, and by Jim, we liked it that way! *waves cane*) of 1922, director Friedrich W. Murnau attempted to make a film adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, but Stoker's widow Florence refused copyright. In an attempt to get around this, he changed the characters' names and simplified the plot. Obviously, this didn't work, and all copies of the film were destroyed as a result. But what if some film scavenger had managed to save a few copies, and shown Nosferatu to the world?

IMHO, I don't think it would have been very good. The story I mentioned also said that Dracula/"Orlok" is killed by, of all things, sunlight. Really? Yes, sunlight and Dracula weren't best pals in Stoker's novel, but he could still go out and survive. That just strikes me as a blatant copout, which doesn't bode well for poor Nosferatu.
 
I thought by the title you might be referring to a species or creature, not a film...
 

Pkmatrix

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I heard about this movie. This is the one with the ugly Dracula, isn't it? I read a little blurb about it in a film history book once. Sounds like a really bizarre way to take the character. I guess that was their way of trying to avoid anyone noticing the copyright infringement.

If the film had survived, I suppose Hollywood might've at least looked to it for inspiration when they got around to making the first legitimate adaptation. That's an odd thought: Dracula with visuals inspired by German cinematography?
 
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