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The Melodrama of Robert Eggers
The Nosferatu director doesn’t want to represent a modern point of view in his horror-adjacent movies.
He studied directing and design at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, where he also made short films, channeling a childhood interest in horror and fantasy into a career focused on phantasmagorical dramas — ones that sparked arguments about what genres, if any, his work fits into. Despite a seemingly uncommercial script full of ambiguous menace that constantly intimated and never confirmed that supernatural forces were in play, The Witch earned more than ten times its $4 million budget. Eggers’s third film, the psychedelic-infused Viking adventure The Northman, was a massively scaled, $150 million retelling of the legend of Amleth that inspired William Shakespeare to write Hamlet, but with heavy-metal album-cover visuals, superlong tracking shots, and a sardonic, at times cruel sense of humor that made its brawny hero (Alexander Skarsgård) the butt of jokes.
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