Robert Eggers already made Nosferatu (as a teen!): An Obsession with the Past, "narrated" by himself
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 มิ.ย. 2022
- For all the Eggheads out there (of which I'm one): his first two films were fascinating, so I wanted to understand what made him tick. I believe I found the answer. Let me know if you agree or disagree with him.
It's too bad he'll probably never make a futuristic/sci-fi movie, because I'd love to see it, even if it derived from past classics.
#roberteggers #thewitch #thelighthouse #thenorthman #nosferatu
SOURCES
Audio only:
The Witch DVD commentary, May 17, 2016
A24 podcast, July 17, 2019
Director’s Cut DGA podcast, Oct 20, 2019
Landmark Theaters Q&A, Oct 27, 2019
Curzon podcast, Jan 31, 2020
Q&A with Gregory Crewdson, May 6, 2020
Team Deakins podcast, Oct 17, 2021
BBC History Extra podcast, Apr 15, 2022
WTF with Marc Maron podcast, Apr 18, 2022
Total Film - Last Picture Show podcast, Apr 19, 2022
Reddit Talk for The Northman, Apr 22, 2022
Writer’s Panel podcast, May 3, 2022
Video and/or audio:
The Witch: Salem panel Q&A
The Witch behind the scenes
Robert Eggers talks The Witch
Robert Eggers wanted The Witch to feel like a nightmare from the past
Robert Eggers and Anya Taylor-Joy talk The Witch
Robert Eggers on making The Lighthouse, full screenwriter’s lecture
Robert Eggers on The Lighthouse and how he creates memories
Robert Eggers talks The Lighthouse and his next film
Robert Eggers on The Lighthouse
Robert Eggers shares his Lighthouse design book
Robert Eggers on preparing Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe for The Lighthouse
The Lighthouse: A dark & stormy tale
The Northman: An ageless epic
The Northman: After the movie
The Northman stays true to ancient Nordic mythology
The Northman: berserker raid breakdown
The Northman: behind the scenes of Alex Skarsgård's Viking epic
The Northman: behind the scenes
Colonial Williamsburg orientation
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When he's done with Nosferatu... I would love to see Eggers tackle Lovecraft head on, not just bits and pieces. Just full on 19th century cosmic horror with the Eggers obsession on details.
Fcking hell yeah.
It is good that there is legit not a single good lovecraft movie. Cosmic Horror can not be caputered (like LotR a hundred years ago). If somebody can pull that off, it is him.
Shadow Over Innsmouth would be perfect Starting point. It's never gotten a serious treatment. It is my favorite Lovecraft story. It's encapsulated enough that it would be perfect for a movie but it sets up the pick for the Cthulhu Mythos in general. And the rotting North Shore town is perfect for eggers, I'm from Boston and I know what he means about the new England thing. I feel connected to the past in a way that maybe people from elsewhere don't.
He could really kick ass with a horror anthology series or something in that
I'd love to see a shadow over innsmouth he's perfect for it because he's from New England. I would transfer the town of Innsmouth to Maine instead though.. not to screw with the classic story but I feel like you have a little more leeway geographically if you put it in Maine because the North shore of Boston is very small it's hard to mentally jam it in there if you're from around here but if they came up with the device where it was actually in Maine there's so many little coves and inlets nooks and crannies on that coastline
He doesn't come across as an arrogant ,douchey director he comes across as someone I would like.. Although I used to see Eli Roth at raves , and I liked him. We weren't friends or anything but we were both ravers ( and no I never wore the big stupid pants you can't dance in those things)in the early nineties in Boston and we were friendly with the same groups of people so I bumped into him a couple times and I remember him saying he was going to make movies and I'm like "oh that's great" and im thinking" yeah that will never happen" I want to be a ninja but that ain't happening either but lo and behold, few years later hostel comes out.
This man would make such a perfect Blood Meridian adaptation.
It would undoubtedly be very decent, but I still think the Coens would be better suited, since they already perfectly adapted McCarthy.
There's a more obscure John Fowls novel called A Maggot I think Eggers would be more ideal for.
i think id rather him make almost anything else but your right that would be good.
@@NolanWilliams69 who are you responding to? Me or OP?
@@nl3064 other dude coen bros would be sick tho
Chuck berserk on there too
Making films in a time period instead of concessions for a contemporary audience. This statement is refreshing & I wish that more directors would follow his directorial example
We who love cinema are very fortunate to have Eggers. He's fucking brilliant.
Eggers should direct a Western. I bet he would deliver something incredible.
Okay, Lovecraft first, THEN a Western. The Western could be the "palate cleanser" if you will.
Wow, now that is something I have never thought until now - a folk-horror film based in a western setting
@@dolph131 right? I bet it would be really cool.
Ideally, the Hillcoat adaptation of _Blood Meridian_ will be canceled and Eggars can pick it up. I think he's the only one who can do it justice.
I like his style of storytelling. I like the themes he addresses in his movies.
My favorite painting periods are the Baroque and Romanticism. To me, he captures the aura of those styles.
Absolutely magnificent.
Goddamn this was a great insight essay. I definitely had Eggers pegged wrong, but he somehow became more awesome when I learned what he was really about. I still have no clue how he managed to get the creative control and production design that only Kubrick, Leigh, and Fincher have been able to get, especially in this day and age.
That's the reason why his movies aren't ruined by woke agenda.
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I kind of love the moment where he straight up says The Witch was more telling a story from a certain point of view rather than having any hidden meaning. Yet everyone will continue to look for and argue over its intended meaning
Robert is one of the only filmmakers his age that I follow very closely. He’s leagues above his peers.
This video is amazing man. Please make a full length documentary about Eggers. I'd totally watch that shit
Thank you! Maybe I will one day after he's made a few more movies.
You might enjoy my other Eggers video explaining what I think The Lighthouse is ultimately about.👍
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@@WayTooClose Yeah I watched a few of your newest vids. Will take a look at that one thanks :)
Would love to see him tackle native american mythological horror
If Eggers ever considers doing a TV-series, I hope he does an adaptation of Alan Moores From Hell. The combination of the horror and occult ideas along with a historical setting would be perfect.
That’s a good idea.
I saw his version of Nosferatu at the Edwin Booth Theater in Dover NH, EVERY week it ran (my friends and I went every weekend because it was so good). I am so excited for this movie!
That's really cool!
Man you're hyping my hype
I feel like a paradise lost adaptation by him would be insane
oooooo yeah! I'd watch that
This was eye opening. Eggers has a clear sense of himself which translates beautifully into his work.
I could listen to him talk all day. What a cool guy.
No matter how much time passes and how much we learn, we're still humans. Don't forget that.
Robert does great director’s commentaries, he’s the only director I like to turn the commentaries on for the majority of viewings
Having seen The Witch multiple times, I've begun thinking about the beginning as I watch: What is the event that has the family banished from their religious colony? And I think more about religious freedom and its slow start on these shores and the ebb and flow all kinds of maniacal practices in our history.
My brother married into a very large Italian family. The Pope sent the couple a signed picture for the marriage (a "special dispensation" presented by a bishop during the ceremony). But more interesting to me was finding out, years later, that a stem of the family were contributors in the rise of spiritualism in a small town in PA. He was "taken back in time," hypnotized by his wife's great aunt and made to talk. They never kept a record of what came out. How these two very strong belief systems were practiced so earnestly in one extended family drives me wild with wonder. I'd like to see a film dealing revivalism and those who believe in table tipping and their earnest followers, although my own question will never be answered. XOXO
Great edit Travis. Makes me want to rewatch all Eggers' films.
Thanks! I feel like I know him now (or at least the working facet of his personality).
This video is really well made! I honestly have no watched Eggers films yet but i have SUCH a fascination with them. Someday i want to become a director and after this vid it motivates me a lot to do so. He has an interesting way of making movies and it’s great from the stuff i’ve researched about him
That's awesome. Yes, he's intense when it comes to historical accuracy.
IMO, the Witch and the Lighthouse are among the best movies of the century so far. So I'm very much looking forward to his upcoming Nosferatu.
@@WayTooClose yeah it seems like it'll be really interesting! I want to watch his stuff beforehand but man, I am so interested in his stuff even without seeing his movies. I feel like The Lighthouse will be one of my favorites but who knows 🤷♂
@@MaMaaannnn it's definitely worth checking them out. 👍
I can't wait until he decides to shoot the Gilgamesh epic.
May he always take the liberty to follow his muse!
Awesome!
Why is everybody in here wishing he'd adapt this or that? Just let the man cook
There's a John Fowles novel I read recently called A Maggot, and watching this video, I think Eggers would hypothetically be ideal for bringing it to the screen.
What about Kafka's _Metamorphosis_ ?
@Theomite that's a choice, and not a bad choice... but I personally found the Metamorphosis really boring (it's been more than 10 years since I read it, but I remember it being dull). Conceptually, I can totally picture Kafka being right up his alley, but in execution, it might be...again, boring. Maybe him doing Arthur Machen or William Hope Hodgeson would be a far more interesting pairing.
Joris-Karl Huysmans, Peter Paul Rubens, David Lynch, Jean Delville, John Everett Millais, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Andrei Tarkovsky, Bruno Schulz, Thomas Ligotti, Cormac McCarthy, Walter de la Mare, Alfred Kubin, Hieronymus Bosch, William Butler Yeats, Arthur Machen, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Ensor, Lionel Johnson, John Dee, Robin Williamson, Arthur Rackham, Lars von Trier, Edgar Allan Poe, Gustave Flaubert, Harry Clarke, Jaromil Jireš, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Terrence Gilliam, Francisco José de Goya, Ingmar Bergman, F. W. Murnau, Albrecht Dürer, Aleister Crowley, Gustave Moreau, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Montague Summers, Odilon Redon,… Robert Eggers…
Fantastic! Thanks
Thank you for putting the sources of all the commentary.
also, great video. i never watched his interviews, now im really interested in them.
@@yidavv he's a super interesting guy. Very cerebral.
@@WayTooClose what books would you reccomend to read about him?
@@yidavv I'm not sure. I haven't read any books on him. It's still early in his career, but I found these two on Amazon that look good:
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@@WayTooClose my mistake. I asked this question while watching a kubrick video of yours, i meant if you had any books about kubrick. 😅
Really cool of him. I am obsessed with films & history also. 😂
loved the witches and the northman, alas the lighthouse was hard to swallow.....
He should have done the exorcist hes a visionary genius witch and northman are masterpieces with little cgi
I feel very at one with all of these comments!
This was awesome.
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Fantastic video
Thanks. I can't wait for his Nosferatu!
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@@WayTooClose I’m extremely excited! I just found your video because I was looking for more videos of him talking about it.
can bro pls do something with H.P Lovecraft
That was deep
Judging from the description, I'm guessing you weren't a huge The Northman fan? I admit to not loving it as much as his first two, but I still really like it. I'm hoping Nosferatu is on the level of his first two
You are correct sir!
But I think his first two features are among the best films of this century, so he set the bar for himself really high. IMO The Northman is good, but not great. I have high hopes for Nosferatu.🧛♂️ 🦇
@@WayTooClose Yeah, I'm hoping Nosferatu will be among his best since he's been wanting to do it forever. I wonder if The Northman is lesser because he didn't have final cut; it pains me to consider there may have been a better cut the studio didn't let him release. If only the same fanaticism that existed for other directors existed for Eggers. Hopefully one day the mainstream audience recognizes him as the great artist he is
@@gregorydavidson2744 yeah, I think the Northman suffered from a few issues, like you said with him not having final cut, and also the biggest budget, and therefore the most pressure, he ever faced. There were also some pandemic restrictions that caused problems (not of his making, but they're there).
Interestingly enough, The Northman is the movie he said he got to be the most intentional with. He said in an interview that he'd notice glaring mistakes he made in The Witch and Lighthouse, but Northman was closest to how he imagined it to be.
Personally, I'm also not the biggest fan of The Northman.
Eggers for Shadow of the Torturer
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Underrated. Misunderstood. I thought it was brilliant and I wish we got the follow up.
It’s one of the better vampire films.
I hope he keeps going with the archetypal monsters. Nosferatu is gonna be the freshest vampire film in a loooooong time. They’ll be scary again. I hope he gets a chance to do the same with with wear wolves, Frankenstein etc.
I think he will only ever do movies that he becomes obsessive about the subject matter. He will always direct movies based on something that exists within a time period or traceable. We will never see a sci-fi movie from Eggers unless it is based on researchable content.
@@user-qi9sw6fm3t why not? Sci-fi could be something like Frankenstein. It could be set in the 18th century like the book.
@@Bat_Dad_116yes!! I’m glad you said that. He would have a lot of area to work with but I don’t think Frankenstein was ever considered a sci-fi. It’s always a horror. I’m saying I don’t see him directing something true sci fi, like alien.
@@user-qi9sw6fm3t I think by sci-fi you mean something futuristic or even modern. I would agree there, but sci-fi doesn’t have to be modern or new. I think Frankenstein is definitely sci-fi. Some outer/other worldly things would be great too. Maybe adapt some H.P. Lovecraft stories or make his own story like that.
Alright two things I want him to tackle after Nosferatu. The story of Beowulf. He's already made a Viking movie, he should be able to make another. The second one is stories set in the Medieval Era.
I hope he doesn’t do Beowulf. It will probably get him in trouble
@@ThomasWake1 how?
We've already had 2 Beowulf movies: EATERS OF THE DEAD and Zemeckis' BEOWULF. I think it'd be great for him to do it as his swan song, but for now, he's better off going into Lovecraft, Western, or some fantasy direction. I do wonder if he could do Antiquity as well as he could do Medieval, but there's very few more up to the task than him.
@@Theomite Yeah true. A western made by him would be cool, but he grew up in New England so that’s where he mainly gets his inspiration.
@@RianFender1958 He might have been the perfect director to adapt _Blood Meridian._
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13:53 Is she wearing braces on her teeth?
It's hard to see but if you zoom in on a still image you can see they're horizontal lines carved into the teeth.
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I usually cant stand hearing people talk about their art but i really like him
Well he doesn't use metaphors or weird artist-speak. He can actually articulate his reasoning and thought processes in academic ways that can be clearly understood. I can't tell you how many interviews with artists where they go into great detail about their work and I don't understand a fucking thing they've said.
Lazy
Francis cord Coppola alreadyy made Nosferatu (in the 90s!) I don’t see any need for this remake at all he could of atlesst made it a silent movie
Err no, big differences between nosferatu and Dracula. One was an unauthorized adaptation of stokers novel that changed up a lot but kept the basic meat and potatoes of the story and Francis ford Coppolas, despite some changes was a pretty faithful adaptation with a pinch of historical fact.
Don’t be that pretentious dude and if you are gonna be at least try harder.
Yeah, the trailer made me think it's another Dracula adaptation rather than a remake of NOSFERATU. NOSFERATU became it's own thing in it's own way so doing straight-up Dracula doesn't seem to be a good idea. But for me, he's earned the benefit of a doubt.
@@cicolasnage5684 nosferatu was ordered by a judge to have all copies destroyed after the director was sued by brams wife or daughter idk, the only reason we know who nosferatu is is because a clip from SpongeBob we all saw as a kid. I rewatched the og and it’s literally just a worse version of Dracula which was done perfectly in the 90s
@@FromMagic lmao. The only reason YOU know about it is SpongeBob. Don’t project your experience onto the whole population.
It's heartbreaking that this guy is so incredibly informed yet his stuff is trash. It makes all his references read like masturbation because apparently he gets off on thinking about and talking about it, but it doesn't translate into films that work.
Eggers is desperate to become the Veit Harlan of American moviemaking. He wants the job so bad he can taste it.
Who?
Don’t worry about it dummy. Doesn’t concern you.
Don’t worry about it dummy. Doesn’t concern you.
Don’t worry about it dummy. Doesn’t concern you.
Don’t worry about it dummy. Doesn’t concern you.