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Dissecting "Nosferatu" (2024) [Part 6]: Thomas Lost in Nosferatu Shadow (3/3)

In Robert Eggers' " Nosferatu ", Thomas Hutter has some  encounters with Count Orlok's wolves , unlike the previous adaptations, where they were briefly present (1922) or merely overheard (1979). In Werner Herzog, the wolves are ever present while Jonathan is at the castle with the Count, which delivers one of the most iconic Dracula lines:  " Listen to them, the children of the night.   What music they make! " Seeing, I suppose, some expression in my face strange to him, he added, "Ah, sir, you dwellers in the city cannot enter into the feelings of the hunter."  "Listen. Listen. The children of the night make their music." Robert Eggers did not adapt this particular line, but heavily associated his Count Orlok with wolves , not merely the animal itself in his castle and chasing after the carriage as Thomas Hutter is on his way, but his sarcogaphus is decorated with wolf heads and Dacian Dracos (a wolf-headed serpent), and he has a Daci...
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