Robert Eggers

Adam praises his research and historical accuracy, saying he does not mess around, and notes that birds recur in all three of his films. Adam compares his aesthetic to Werner Herzog's and recommends his Nosferatu to fans of Eggers or vampire films. Chris likes that Eggers tends to leave things open to a non-supernatural explanation, though Adam found Nosferatu fairly explicit.

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• Adam But. Yeah, I mean, what do you what do you think, Chris? I mean we're cuz obviously this is part it's Robert Eggers who did The Witch and The Lighthouse and The Northman. So it's something that it's someone that we have enjoyed all their stuff so far.

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• Chris Well, so based on what I've said so far and based on what I've said in the past, you may not be too shocked that I'm going to say The Witch by Robert Eggers.

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• Adam Just just just checking my notes, which have, I'll tell you what, this is the one thing though, is. I could have fucking researched this for the next 10 years of my life. Robert Eggers is just he doesn't mess around so good at. That you know, of cuz I mean that was the thing with the witch. And the witch was kind of like a lot of it was stuff I knew or stuff that I was aware of.

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• Adam Robert Eggers was like, oh, no, we need to have the. So he had historical advisors in. And you know, just to make sure that everything was correct, so they were built exactly as a Viking long boat would be built.

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• Adam Obviously like in the witch you've got the transformations of the witch and stuff like that. But with but it's all birds are very key in all three of Robert Eggers's movies.

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• Adam I mean, certainly obviously, but in that documentary, someone said, oh, like Werner Herzog's early films, they were saying, oh, it's like, it's like you're watching a documentary of these extraordinary events or something like that. It's like you've, you know, they were sort of saying, we don't know how he did it with the budget, but it looked like you've just traveled in time to, you know, South America when the conquistadors are rampaging through and stuff like that. And I think Robert Eggers has a very similar aesthetic. He's like you're watching and with this, the one thing I thought was really interesting is because it's in color, but feels still feel like black and white.

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• Chris Which was that's what made me think of the original Nosferatu again, it seemed like, yeah, very stylistic in that sense and just giving you an impression of something and letting you fill in the gaps. I mean, I don't know how much detail I want to go into, but I I liked again what I think Robert Eggers tends to do is leaves it open for potentially being explained as not supernatural at all if you so wish.

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• Adam Well, I thought I thought it was fairly explicit.

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• Adam Yes, yeah, cuz I don't want to you don't want to spoil it for people. I would say I would say go and see it definitely. You know, if you're a fan of if you're a fan of Robert Eggers, definitely, if you're a fan of vampire movies, definitely, and if you and you are not going to feel it's you know what I mean. I mean it's it's not the very original, like the original black and white one, but that is so alien to filmmaking now that it couldn't possibly be anyway.

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