Our battle, our struggle, is to create art. Our weapon is the moving picture. Because we...
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F.W. Murnau:
Our battle, our struggle, is to create art. Our weapon is the moving picture. Because we have the moving picture, our paintings will grow and recede; our poetry will be shadows that lengthen and conceal; our light will play across living faces that laugh and agonize; and our music will linger and finally overwhelm, because it will have a context as certain as the grave. We are scientists engaged in the creation of memory... but our memory will neither blur nor fade
Our battle, our struggle, is to create art. Our weapon is the moving picture. Because we have the moving picture, our paintings will grow and recede; our poetry will be shadows that lengthen and conceal; our light will play across living faces that laugh and agonize; and our music will linger and finally overwhelm, because it will have a context as certain as the grave. We are scientists engaged in the creation of memory... but our memory will neither blur nor fade
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Murnau Our battle our struggle is to create art
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Our weapon is the moving picture
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Because we have the moving picture
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our paintings will grow and recede
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Our poetry will be shadows that lengthen and conceal
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Our light will play across living faces
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that laugh and agonize
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And our music will linger and finally overwhelm
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because it will have a context
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as certain as the grave
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We are scientists engaged in the creation of memory
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But our memory will neither blur nor fade
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Movie Summary
The filming of Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922) is hampered by the fact that its star Max Schreck is taking the role of a vampire far more seriously than seems humanly possible.
