Eggers' passion for Nosferatu began at nine when he saw a picture of Max Schreck, leading to a decade-long dedication to reimagining the classic.
Eggers ultimately believed it would be 'ugly and blasphemous' for a filmmaker of his status to remake Nosferatu right after his second film.
Eggers reintroduced Nosferatu to cinema by blending elements of Murnau's original film with the themes of seductive foreignness from Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Eggers emphasizes that Murnau's adaptation simplified Dracula into a fairy tale, which has influenced cinema more profoundly than the original novel itself.
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