#ellok

Already answer here:

Alysmond is War Prize. It's literally written in the book. And War Prize = Rape. There can be no consent in this dynamic.

Furthermore, Orlok & Ellen is a gothic romance set within a gothic tale horror story. It’s a completely different thing.

Thanks for proving your ignorance.

@ellensferatu

@kittenfangirl20

Damn, I love this person. She knows what she's talking about.

OMG YES! YES! THANK YOU! FINALLY SOMEONE WITH LOGIC ON X! THANK YOU!

No, the script doesn't do that. Please stop making things up just to validate your shitty interpretation. Ellen loves Orlok. It's a love triangle. It's a demon lover story. And indeed, Orlok cannot love while trapped in his current prison of flesh; yet he is literally a *strigoi*—a creature specifically designed to go and haunt the former lover embodied by Ellen. Just stop believing that love is supposed to be healthy. Especially in fucking fothic horror work. Nosferatu is a gothic horror movie with a gothic romance at its heart, notably inspired by *Wuthering Heights*. Who do you think the gothic romance is between? Ellen & Thomas?! Instead of Ellen & Orlok?! For God's sake, shut your mouths when you know nothing about the genre the film represents or all its inspirations. You look like morons.

@ellensferatu

@nosferatu-roberteggers

YES!

Oh my God...

"Robert Eggers does not have the final word on what defines consent. He might have been going for a gothic marriage/gothic romance, but what he was going for between Orlok and Ellen was not what he achieved. He was just a torturer to her. I understand the movie. Eggers did not accomplish what he was trying to. The fact is, the true lovers in that movie are Ellen and her husband, much like the true lovers in Dracula are Jonathan and Mina. Ellen does not want anything from the count except to be left alone. Her real partner is her husband! She wants nothing from the account except for him to leave her alone! He tramples the line of consent of both her body and mind."

The bad takes about Nosferatu (2024) never stop...

I admire the confidence it takes to claim you "understood the film" while spouting things that actually prove the exact opposite. But it also makes me sad to see people so incapable of grasping a gothic romance as straightforward as the one between Ellen and Orlok—especially when a friend of mine who knows absolutely nothing about the genre understood the film perfectly!

And yes, this person managed to give me that reply after I said this:

Once again, the sheer nerve it took for that person to spout such utter nonsense.

@ellensferatu