Nosferatu

The lights are dimmed, there’re dark shadows on the wall, it is about midnight and the Count Nosferatu is hungry. The dinner scene in the film Nosferatu is simply the best. No one but the Count Nosferatu and Jonathon the real-estate agent are sitting at the dinner table. According to the Count Nosferatu, the help had retired for the night. The funny part about this scene is how Jonathon is eating dinner alone as the Count watches him do so with anticipation. I wish they would have shown Nosfeartu’s mouth or at least him showing his teeth and licking his lips that would have been hilarious. Nosferatu pretends to be reading the evening paper put he really is not; he watches Jonathon’s every move. All we can see is Nosfeartu’s eyes with big black circles around them. Facial expressions were crucial in the movie so that the viewer could get a feel of what was going on. The Count looked like he was up to something and Jonathon looked as if he did not care. Had Nosferatu not had that creepy look on his face we would have not gotten the same feel.

Jonathan does not seem afraid at all while he eats his food. The camera zooms in on the bread and the knife. Jonathon has this nervous look on his face and he decides he wants a slice of bread. However he becomes frightened when he heard the granddaddy clock go off when it struck midnight. There was a shadow around the clock and nothing else is visible and this is how we know something is about to happen. Jonathon’s eyes are fixed on the clock. I believe it was because that is when the vampire Nosferatu usually attacks his prey. While Jonathon is cutting the bread he accidentally cuts himself and blood appears. Nosferatu slowly gets up from the table and is drawn like a moth to a flame to Jonathon’s cut finger. When Jonathon decides to wipe the blood away the count puts up his big hands with his bony fingers to stop him. Nosferatu really starts to act strange even though he had been strange when he and Jonathon first me. The Count becomes even more excited than he had been earlier in the scene when he was watching Jonathon eat. Nosferatu begins to walk towards Jonathon and begins to say “Blood, your precious blood.” Nosferatu then grabs Jonathon’s finger and Jonathon quickly pulls it away from him. Jonathon looks terrified and does not say anything. Jonathon realizes that something is wrong and he gets up from the table and begins to slowly back up. If you notice when Jonathon gets up the Count is huge and overpowering. Jonathon is so afraid that when he begins to back up he trips on the chair and on the stair. He even sits down when the Count bows for him to do so and Jonathon does not blink at all but his eyes are fixed on Nosferatu.